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Tom Boucher
1e67ec9737 enhance(#3908): the scanners distinguish an empty diff from one they could not compute (#3937)
* feat(#3908): the scanners distinguish an empty diff from one they could not compute

collect_files ended 2>/dev/null || true, which destroyed the evidence three ways: the redirect discarded git's diagnostic, the pipe replaced git's status with grep's, and || true forced success regardless. Four distinct conditions - an established-empty diff, a bad ref, no repository, and a repository with no commits - all reported clean, and a secret scanner reporting clean because git failed is indistinguishable from an all-clear to any gate consuming it.

git now runs separately from the filter so its status and diagnostic both survive. An established-empty diff exits NO_INPUT; a scope that could not be established exits UNAVAILABLE; the usage sites move off 2 to USAGE. || true is retained on the filter alone, where it is correct: a diff of only images is empty, not failed.

Codes are sourced from a generated shell fragment rather than written into three scripts, so a re-allocation cannot desync them, and a missing fragment fails loudly instead of falling back to literals. The security workflow is updated in the same change: without it, a docs-only PR would newly fail the job.

* fix(#3908): keep scanner stderr out of the file list, and drop try/finally from test bodies

Capturing git and find output with 2>&1 was right for the failure path but wrong for the success path: a warning emitted alongside a successful diff flowed into the file list and was treated as a filename. stderr is now captured separately, forwarded as a warning on success and as the diagnostic on failure, and never folded into the list.

Also converts the control tests' try/finally blocks to t.after(), which CONTRIBUTING bans inside a test body because it masks failures.

* chore(#3908): backfill changeset pr number

* docs(#3908): record the scanners' four-outcome exit contract

SECURITY.md is root-level, so the docs gate correctly held: a Changed fragment owes a file under docs/. The contract also belongs where the feature is described, as REQ-SCAN-INJ-05.

docs/FEATURES.md is GENERATED from per-feature fragments (#3840) - the first edit went into the generated file and gen-features --check caught it, which is the same edit-the-output drift this epic exists to close. The fragment is the source; FEATURES.md is regenerated.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 13:11:13 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7f3119a29f fix(#3729): hoist the .planning and CI gates above the graphify hook's node parse (#3935)
* test(#3729): non-GSD repo and CI must bail before the graphify hook node parse

* fix(#3729): hoist the .planning and CI gates above the graphify hook's node parse

* chore(#3729): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3729): backfill changeset PR number (3935)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 12:15:21 -04:00
Tom Boucher
90984c4316 fix(#3734): backlog sentinels no longer create phase branches in query commit (#3933)
* test(#3734): 999.x and 0.x backlog sentinels must not create phase branches

* fix(#3734): gate query commit's phase-branch arm on isSentinelPhaseId

* chore(#3734): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3734): backfill changeset PR number (3933)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 12:14:27 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c5f2b94b27 enhance(#3907): gates report no-input instead of a verdict they never reached (#3932)
* feat(#3907): gates report no-input instead of asserting a verdict they never reached

The three stdin-reading gates bound 2 to a stdin read error only, with no arm for stdin closed at zero bytes - so empty input flowed into the detector, found nothing, and exited 1, which each module's own comment defines as a negative verdict. An unset PHASE_SECTION made the UI gate assert the phase has no UI. Empty and whitespace-only input now exit NO_INPUT, and a read error exits UNAVAILABLE rather than a locally-invented 2, both resolved through the registry and delivered by terminateNow.

The exit code was only half of it: under --json the same input emitted {detected:false}, byte-identical to the fabricated payload #3909 exists to fix, and the blocking coverage gate reads that payload. Empty input now emits the in-tree {skipped:true,reason} form with no detected key at all.

teams-status is excluded: it never reads stdin and has no invented 2, so the four-module framing in the issue and ADR is wrong. The dead root bin/lib/ui-safety-gate.cjs is deleted - no installer reference, no workflow invocation, and the live fallback chains are for other modules. Its removal restores the unit tests to the module that actually ships; they had been asserting the stale copy's two-field shape, which is why it drifted unnoticed.

* fix(#3907): drive gate tests through the process seam, and make removed-but-needed basename-precise

CONTRIBUTING requires every subprocess go through tests/helpers/process-seam.cjs; two of the three gate suites hand-rolled spawnSync while the third, added in the same change, used runNode correctly for the identical injection case. Converted the blocks this change added, leaving pre-existing ones alone.

Deleting one of two files sharing a basename made lint-removed-but-needed report 14 references that were all to the surviving canonical module - the false-positive class its own docstring names. It now matches on the deleted file's full path when a surviving file shares its basename, which is more precise rather than weaker: a genuine full-path reference still fails, and behaviour is unchanged when no basename collides. It immediately caught a docstring on this branch that spelled the deleted path.

* test(#3907): update the one existing assertion that pinned the old empty-stdin verdict

A pre-existing test asserted exit 1 on empty stdin - the defect this phase removes - and was missed because the change added new blocks without auditing existing ones pinning the old contract. Audited the rest: the other three status-1 assertions in that file all feed real input and are the genuine-negative controls that must keep returning 1, so exactly one was stale. The retired 2 is gone from the describe's contract comment too.

* chore(#3907): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 11:37:31 -04:00
github-actions[bot]
b4671c462d chore(#3875): sweep 1 spent ack fragment(s) from next 2026-08-27 09:38:12 +00:00
Tom Boucher
929e02cb2c enhance(#3885): no silent swallow, and no verdict manufactured from dropped data (#3925)
* test(#3885): failing-first coverage for the depth bound and the manufactured wave verdict

ADR-3473 §8.5 says a swallowed failure may not become an authoritative-looking
answer. Three families do exactly that today; this commit pins each one RED.

Measured on this tree, 2026-08-27:

  intel query, .planning/intel/file-roles.json nested 12000 deep
    -> exit 1, "Error: Maximum call stack size exceeded"
       searchJsonEntries / matchesInValue carry no depth parameter at all.
       The MAX_JSON_SEARCH_DEPTH = 48 bound existed in the retired SDK lineage
       (sdk/src/query/intel.ts at 11918dcc3^) and the surviving .cts lineage
       never received it.

  same fixture nested 48 and 49 deep
    -> both return total=1 at exit 0, truncated=undefined
       Nothing distinguishes "searched to the bottom" from "stopped looking".

  query phase-plan-index, a plan whose depends_on names an unresolvable token
    -> warnings: ["Plan 03-02: declared wave: 2 but depends_on DAG places it
                  in wave 1"]
       The token is never mentioned. computeDependencyLevels drops the edge
       with `if (!resolvedDep) continue;`, every plan becomes a root, and the
       tool then reports the author's correct wave: as the thing that is wrong.

  countPhasePlansAndSummaries with fs.readdirSync throwing EACCES
    -> hasContext:false, indistinguishable from a phase that simply has no
       CONTEXT.md. context_read_error is undefined.

The shapes these tests assert against, chosen here so the implementation has a
target rather than inventing one later: `truncated: boolean` on the intel query
result, `unresolved: Array<{plan, token}>` from computeDependencyLevels, and
`context_read_error: string | null` per analyzed phase.

Deliberately green, and they must stay that way — each stops the fix from
over-firing:

  depth 48 is found and NOT flagged truncated (the ceiling is inclusive)
  a shallow miss reports no truncation           (noise control, N1)
  10,000 siblings at depth 2 are unaffected      (the bound is DEPTH, N2)
  a genuine wave: mismatch on a fully-resolved DAG still warns (N3)
  a genuinely missing directory is absent, not an error
  the emitted depends_on display mapping still passes an unresolved token
    through verbatim — already pinned by the existing #3785 test, so no
    duplicate was added

T31 asserts at the consumer's output per ADR-3180 Decision 4(b): it runs the
real CLI and reads the emitted JSON, because a unit assertion on
computeDependencyLevels would have passed throughout #3427's life.

Design:      .gsd/phase/feat-3885-no-silent-swallow/40-design.md
Test matrix: .gsd/phase/feat-3885-no-silent-swallow/50-test-matrix.md

Refs #3885

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

* enhance(#3885): no silent swallow, and no verdict manufactured from dropped data

Implements ADR-3473 §8.5. A failure or a gap in the input stops being absorbed
into an output that reads as authoritative.

The recursion bound, restored but NOT verbatim (src/intel.cts)

  MAX_JSON_SEARCH_DEPTH = 48 is threaded through searchJsonEntries and
  matchesInValue, which carried no depth parameter at all. The bound existed in
  the retired SDK lineage (sdk/src/query/intel.ts at 11918dcc3^) and the
  surviving .cts lineage never received it — §8.3's "a consolidation may not
  delete an invariant along with the surface that held it", demonstrated.

  Measured before: a .planning/intel file nested 12000 deep exits 1 with
  "Error: Maximum call stack size exceeded". Reachable from a project document.

  The original returned a bare `false` at the ceiling. Restoring that verbatim
  would trade a crash for a silent "no match" when the truth is "I stopped
  looking" — the same class this epic exists to close, and ADR-3473 Decision 4
  forbids it. So the bound carries a truncation signal:

    nesting 47 -> found,     truncated false
    nesting 48 -> found,     truncated false      (the ceiling is inclusive)
    nesting 49 -> not found, truncated TRUE
    nesting 12000 -> exit 0, truncated TRUE, no RangeError

  A shallow document that simply has no match reports truncated FALSE — the
  flag means "I stopped early", never "I found nothing", or it would be noise.
  The bound is on DEPTH: 10,000 siblings at depth 2 are unaffected.

The dropped edge is named, and stops being blamed on the author (src/phase.cts)

  computeDependencyLevels dropped every unresolvable depends_on token with a
  bare `continue`. Each drop makes a plan a root, so the whole phase collapses
  to wave 1 — and cmdPhasePlanIndex then reported the author's CORRECT wave: as
  the thing that was wrong.

  Before:
    warnings: ["Plan 03-02: declared wave: 2 but depends_on DAG places it in
                wave 1"]
  After:
    warnings: ["Plan 03-02: depends_on token \"nonexistent-token-3427\" does not
                resolve to any plan in this phase — edge dropped, wave placement
                for this plan may be unreliable"]

  The suppression is PER PLAN, never blanket: a plan with a fully-resolved DAG
  and a genuinely wrong wave: still gets the mismatch warning. resolveDependencyId
  stays two-tier — the shortFormToId third tier is §8.3/Phase 6's rule and is
  deliberately not built here. The emitted depends_on display mapping still
  passes an unresolved token through verbatim (#3785).

No artifact from failed inputs (gsd-core/workflows/review.md, #3352)

  A failed lane leaves no result file, so "every lane failed" is exactly "the
  aggregate JSONL has zero lines" — the gate condition already existed as a
  byproduct. REVIEWS.md is no longer written in that case, and the commit step
  is skipped with it. A budget-SKIPPED lane also leaves no file and is NOT
  counted as a failure. Per-lane output and non-empty .err are preserved to
  .review-diagnostics/ before `rm -rf "{run_dir}"` destroys the only record that
  the lanes failed at all; the commit step names one file, never a glob, so the
  diagnostics are not swept in.

Unreadable is not absent (roadmap.cts, gap-checker.cts, init.cts x2)

  Four callers collapsed an EACCES on a phase directory into [] and reported
  hasContext:false — byte-identical to a phase that simply has no CONTEXT.md.
  Each now names the directory it could not read. A genuinely missing directory
  stays absent rather than becoming an error, which is what keeps the fix from
  over-firing.

Fatal errno folded into a retry set: audited, no defect found

  Reported as a verified negative rather than padded with a change.
  withPlanningLock was fixed by #1884/PR #3472; acquireStateLock by #3776;
  atomicRenameWithRetry and estimate-cli's renameWithRetry are correct by
  construction — bounded set {EPERM,EBUSY,EACCES}, bounded attempts, and they
  return or rethrow the final error rather than swallowing it. estimate-cli's
  sole caller surfaces that rethrow as write_error in its JSON output.
  Manufacturing a diff to make the checkbox look worked-on is the Goodhart
  outcome Decision 6 exists to prevent.

Disclosed: R46 (the commit step names one file, never a glob) is a real
regression guard but is NOT independently failing-first — the commit fence is
byte-identical pre- and post-fix, so it only fails pre-fix through its shared
extraction dependency. Recorded rather than claimed as fail-first.

Design:      .gsd/phase/feat-3885-no-silent-swallow/40-design.md
Test matrix: .gsd/phase/feat-3885-no-silent-swallow/50-test-matrix.md

Refs #3885

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

* fix(#3885): escape untrusted tokens, and stop cleanup destroying unpreserved evidence

Two review findings, both real, both in my own change.

An isolated adversarial review found the evidence-preservation block never
checked mkdir/cp exit status while `rm -rf "{run_dir}"` ran unconditionally in
a SEPARATE fenced block. A disk-full or unwritable phase directory therefore
still destroyed the only copy of the failed lanes' output — reintroducing the
exact #3352 data loss this item exists to stop, inside the fix for it.

Preservation and cleanup are now one block, because each fenced block is a
separate execution and a shell variable cannot carry between them. mkdir -p and
each cp are exit-checked; cleanup runs only when preservation succeeded, and a
failure warns naming the intact run directory. "Nothing to preserve" is not a
failure and still cleans up. Driven three ways: success removes run_dir, failure
leaves it intact with the warning, nothing-to-preserve removes it. The failure is
induced by a file-vs-directory conflict rather than chmod 0o000, which root
bypasses.

The new unresolved-depends_on warning embedded a user-authored token verbatim:

  warnings: ["Plan 03-02: depends_on token \"evil
  Plan 03-01: FORGED WARNING\" does not resolve ..."]

The JSON wire form is safe, and the security reviewer judged it non-exploitable
for that reason. It is escaped anyway through formatDiagnosticToken — the helper
#3884 added one phase earlier for exactly this class. warnings[] is an array a
consumer naturally prints line by line, and not reusing the sibling fix is the
generative-fix-divergence shape this epic exists to close. The same treatment is
applied to context_read_error / phase_dir_read_error, which embed a phase
directory path a repository can choose, and to the fs error message, which
echoes the raw path itself.

Known limit L5 recorded: the bound is on DEPTH only. A 300,000-element shallow
array yields a 14.5MB reply with truncated:false. Correct per §8.5 and per
negative space N2, disclosed rather than left to be discovered.

Refs #3885

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

* fix(#3885): unreadable is not absent in intel.cts either, and a corrupt snapshot is not "no snapshot"

Blocker from the round-2 isolated review, and it is my own inconsistency:
this phase applied "unreadable is not absent" to phase directories and left it
broken in the file it was already editing.

  chmod 000 .planning/intel/file-roles.json
  gsd-tools intel query <term>
  -> {"matches":[],"total":0,"truncated":false}  exit 0

safeReadJson swallowed every read failure and returned null, so an EACCES was
byte-indistinguishable from an absent file AND from a genuine no-match. Now it
separates three states: ENOENT stays silently absent, because not every project
has every intel file and intelQuery loops over all of them expecting misses;
EACCES/EIO and malformed JSON are both surfaced naming the file. A corrupt intel
file previously read as "no matches" too — same defect, same fix.

Threading that outcome through the other three callers found something worse
than the reported case. intelDiff returned no_baseline:true for a corrupt or
unreadable snapshot — not a silent failure but an actively FALSE verdict, telling
the caller they never took a snapshot when they did. That is §8.5's headline
case, so it is fixed and tested rather than noted. intelStatus and
intelApiSurface collapsed the same way; intelApiSurface additionally printed a
"not yet populated" banner that was simply untrue.

Every row is failing-first, including the absent-file ones — the field is new,
so it does not exist pre-fix at all. Those rows are not pre-fix pins; they pin
that the fix does not OVER-fire on the ordinary absent case, which is what would
turn this into noise on every project lacking an intel file. IO failure is
injected by monkeypatching fs and restoring in finally, never chmod 0o000 — root
bypasses mode bits, so the reviewer's manual chmod repro is not reproducible as
a test.

Refs #3885

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

* test(#3885): build the pathological intel fixture as text, not by stringifying a nested object

The remote runner came back red on Linux with two failures, both
T4: deeplyNestedIntelDoesNotOverflowTheStack, while the same test passed on
macOS. The product was never at fault.

writeNestedFixture(12000) built a 12,000-deep JavaScript OBJECT and then
JSON.stringify'd it. JSON.stringify recurses once per level, so it overflowed
the TEST PROCESS's stack — the error was thrown before the CLI was ever spawned.
Linux's container stack is smaller than macOS's, which is the whole of the
platform difference.

Measured, with the same document built as JSON TEXT so nothing in the building
process recurses:

  depth=100    rc=0 truncated=true
  depth=5000   rc=0 truncated=true
  depth=12000  rc=0 truncated=true
  depth=60000  rc=0 truncated=true

V8 parses this shape iteratively; only stringify recurses. The bound works at
every depth tried.

The fixture is now built by string concatenation. That is also the more faithful
input — a real deeply nested JSON document on disk is exactly what the bound
guards, where a stringified object was only ever a way to produce one.

The depth stays 12000. Lowering it would have made the test pass by weakening it
to accommodate a fixture bug, and 12000 is a legitimate pathological input the
product handles. T4 remains a genuine fail-first: rebuilt against the parent of
the commit that added the bound, the string-built depth-12000 fixture still
drives the CLI to rc=1 with "Error: Maximum call stack size exceeded".

A comment records why the fixture is text, so it is not "simplified" back into a
macOS-green / Linux-red test.

Refs #3885

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

* chore(#3885): backfill the changeset PR number

Refs #3885

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

* test(#3885): normalize path separators before splicing into the workflow's bash

CI red on one lane — test (windows-latest, 24, shard 3/3). macOS, Linux and the
remote runner were all green.

  AssertionError: commit must name the single REVIEWS.md file; got:
    --files C:UsersRUNNER~1AppDataLocalTempgsd-3352-phasedir-mOKmuy/03-REVIEWS.md

Every backslash in C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\... was eaten. The
harness spliced an OS-native temp path into the extracted bash, and bash consumes
\U, \A, \L and \T as escapes on an unquoted expansion. The same loss broke
RUN_DIR, so "rm -rf" targeted a path that never existed and the run directory
survived — which is the other two assertions.

This is a fixture defect, not a product one, and that was checked rather than
assumed. In production the phase directory is toPosixPath-normalized at every
call site that serializes it (bin/lib/init.cjs:951, 1381, 1461, 1529, 1595), and
the run directory is created by "mktemp -d" running inside the bash block itself
(gsd-core/workflows/review.md:163), which emits POSIX-style output even under
Git-Bash on Windows. Neither ever carries a backslash where the workflow reads it.

The file's pre-existing #3034 harness splices raw native paths too, but only ever
inside double-quoted assignments, so it never tripped this — my new harness
followed that convention faithfully into the one place where it does not hold.
Both now splice through toPosixPath from shell-command-projection, the
established seam, which is a no-op on POSIX and mirrors what production does.

No assertion was weakened. "commit must name the single REVIEWS.md file" and
"the run dir must still be destroyed" still assert exactly that; only how the
fixture supplies its path changed. Nothing is skipped on Windows — a t.skip()
here would have hidden the question of whether the exposure was real, which is
the question that mattered.

Driven both ways: a synthetic C:\Users\RUNNER~1\... input reproduces the exact CI
string when unfixed and yields C:/Users/RUNNER~1/... when fixed; a POSIX input
produces a byte-identical shape, proving the normalization is idempotent.

Refs #3885

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

* test(#3885): stop the harness making the deleted run dir its own cwd

Windows shard 3/3 stayed red after the separator fix, on two assertions the
separator fix never touched:

  AssertionError: the run dir must still be destroyed
  AssertionError: nothing to preserve is not a failure — run dir must still be removed

The separators were a real bug and fixing them fixed the --files assertion. They
were not this bug, and two CI cycles went into the wrong axis before I stopped
converting path forms and looked at what the harness actually does.

runWriteReviewsFlow passed cwd: runDir to runHook, so the child bash process's
working directory WAS the directory the block under test then removes with
rm -rf "$RUN_DIR". POSIX allows a process to delete its own cwd — verified
locally, cd "$d"; rm -rf "$d" removes it cleanly — and Windows does not: a live
process's working directory cannot be removed. So on Windows the directory
survived and both assertions failed, on macOS and Linux it vanished and they
passed. Nothing to do with slashes.

Harness-only. Production never cd's into the run directory; every reference is by
absolute path, and RUN_DIR is created by mktemp -d inside the bash block itself
(gsd-core/workflows/review.md:165) rather than injected. review.md is unchanged.

Fix: the child now runs with its cwd in an unrelated temp directory that the
block under test never deletes. Neither assertion was weakened, and nothing is
skipped on Windows — the tests in this file carry no platform guard and run
there unconditionally, which is how this surfaced at all.

Honest limit: the Windows failure mode cannot be reproduced on macOS, because
POSIX permits the very thing Windows refuses. The diagnosis is grounded in that
documented divergence and in the fact that only the Windows lane failed, but the
green outcome on windows-latest is unverified until CI runs it.

Refs #3885

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 04:12:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
941b62249e enhance(#3906): two terminators over one registry, with a versioned exit projection (#3924)
* feat(#3906): two terminators over one registry, with a versioned projection

Adds terminateNow (write-then-terminate, for callers that cannot wait for the event loop) beside runMain (drain-then-exit), both projecting through one shared function so they cannot disagree - the parity the ADR makes mandatory. A failed write does not change the exit code: letting it propagate would fail a hook open, which is what the fail-closed branches exist to prevent.

The projection is versioned. v1 reproduces today's integers, including keeping a payload-carried degraded result at exit 0 - ADR-2980 ratified that across 60 sites and declined normalizing it on measured blast radius. v2 applies the registry. --exit-contract=v2 or GSD_EXIT_CONTRACT=v2 selects it; an unrecognized version throws rather than silently defaulting.

The registry is now emitted beside both copies of the exit module, so it resolves as a sibling in the built tree and in the committed scripts/ copy that must load on an unbuilt clone.

* fix(#3906): actually restrict code 2 to terminateNow, and generate the registry's type

The claim that terminateNow is the only place 2 can be produced was false: runMain's outcome arm applied no guard, so runMain(()=>'HOOK_DENY') set exitCode 2 through the drain path - and the parity matrix demonstrated it while calling it parity. runMain now refuses any outcome projecting to the hook-protocol code, gated on the code rather than the name so an alias cannot slip past, and the matrix asserts the restriction instead of contradicting it.

The ambient type for the generated registry was hand-written with no gate against the generator's actual output - the declared-surface-diverges-from-runtime defect class this epic exists to close, reintroduced inside it. It is now a third generated artifact covered by the same --check. Also converts every test-body try/finally to t.after().

* test(#3906): derive the glossary fixture's dependencies instead of hand-listing them

Adding a require to scripts/lib/cli-exit.cjs broke 31 tests in one suite that built its fixture from a hand-written dependency list, so the new sibling was absent and the copied script could not load. copyScriptWithDeps walks the require graph and exists for exactly this class - #3412 paid the same bill when one new require broke 82 tests across two suites. Migrating rather than adding another copyFileSync line keeps the class closed. The other nine suites referencing that path were triaged; none copies-and-spawns, so none needed migrating.

* fix(#3906): enumerate the new shipped file, drop a vendor name from shipped data, and fix three test defects

install: scripts/lib/exit-code-registry.cjs was missing from GSD_SCRIPTS_LIB_FILES, so it shipped to every install and orphaned on uninstall.

The registry gave HOOK_DENY a meaning naming one harness, and that string ships into every runtime's tree - a guard correctly caught it leaking into the hermes and qwen installs. The registry is runtime-neutral infrastructure; the vendor name belongs in the ADR, not in shipped data.

Two more fixture harnesses built their trees from hand-listed dependencies and broke on the new require; both migrated to the derived helper, and all 23 copy-and-spawn candidates were enumerated so the class is closed rather than patched. One generator test used a fixture code that collided with a real allocation, so the generator correctly reported a duplicate where the test expected drift. The large-payload test embedded a 256KB literal in the child's argv, exceeding Linux's 128KiB MAX_ARG_STRLEN so the child never started - it now builds the payload inside the child.

* chore(#3906): backfill changeset pr number

* docs(#3906): document the exit-code contract selector

P2 is the first phase of this epic with a user-invocable surface, so the flag and env var owe a reference entry. Records what actually differs between v1 and v2 today (one outcome), that an unrecognized value is rejected rather than silently defaulted, and the fail-safe property that makes switching safe.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 03:31:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
39673ae9ff fix(#3738): antigravity global skills/agents install to ~/.gemini/config (#3921)
* test(#3738): antigravity global skills/agents must resolve under ~/.gemini/config

Regression tests (RED first): --skills-root and gsd-tools query surfaces,
install-plan dest dirs, and converter skills-path rewrite.

* fix(#3738): antigravity global skills/agents install to ~/.gemini/config

Antigravity's machine-local discovery scans ~/.gemini/config/{skills,agents};
the configHome (~/.gemini/antigravity) is deprecated for artifacts. Declare the
ADR-1239 skills/agents 'home' override on the antigravity global layout — the
same mechanism codex uses (.agents) — and divert ~/.claude/skills/ references
in converted global content to ~/.gemini/config/skills/. configHome, settings,
probe/migration semantics, and the local .agents layout are unchanged.

* fix(#3738): retire deprecated configHome artifacts via installer migration 010

Next install converges an existing antigravity install: manifest-managed
skills/gsd-*/ and agents/gsd-*.md under the configHome (a location AGY does
not scan) are removed — modified files backed up first, unmanifested and
non-gsd entries preserved — and now-empty containers retired. Global scope
only; the local .agents surface is live. Docs + inventory updated.

* fix(#3738): converter sync in bin/install.js, harness emit-root coverage, migration baseline

- bin/install.js converter gains the same ~/.claude/skills → ~/.gemini/config/
  rewrite as src (ADR-1508 dual copy must stay in sync).
- Parity-manifest walk covers home-override emit roots (extraEmitRootsFor) so
  antigravity's emitted skills/agents stay differential-visible at their new
  install root; install-tree fixture regen confirms an unchanged key set.
- skills-from-commands rule declares the antigravity converter as a
  runtime-scoped transform; one ack fragment covers the identity-classed
  workflow whose antigravity copy embeds the old skills path.
- Migration 010 checksum baseline + home-override set doc updated; existing
  tests updated to the #3738 contract (global dest, golden parity via layout
  dest, integration expectations).

* fix(#3738): tolerate an absent extra emit root on baseline-side measurement

The base tree's installer predates the home override, so <HOME>/.gemini/config
does not exist there; walk() threw ENOENT and the in-job baseline build failed.
An absent extra root is the legitimate pre-override shape — skip it.

* fix(#3738): review findings — manifest agents root, bare skills-path rewrite, guard comment

- writeManifest resolves the agents-kind home override (_kindDestDirSafe), so
  the manifest records agents at their actual install root and drift detection
  keeps working (isolated review finding 1, major).
- Converter bare forms ~/.claude/skills and $HOME/.claude/skills (no trailing
  slash) divert to ~/.gemini/config/skills instead of falling through to the
  retired configHome path (finding 2).
- real-home-guard comment updated: antigravity's global agents kind is the
  first agents-kind home override (finding 3, doc-only).
- Regression tests for both behavioral findings.

* chore(#3738): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3738): backfill changeset PR number (3921)

* fix(#3738): sandbox HOME in tests that install antigravity global artifacts

antigravity is the first home-override runtime in the golden-parity and
skills-wrapper suites (codex is not in their runtime lists), so those tests
never needed HOME sandboxing — the real-home guard now (correctly) refuses
their un-sandboxed global installs on CI, where HOME is the passwd home.

* fix(#3738): stop the K3 sequential-sandbox env leak; sandbox L2's home-override plans

K3's two back-to-back sandboxHome calls leave HOME pointing at the first
sandbox once the after-hooks restore (each call saves the env as it found
it, so the second saves the first's sandbox as 'original'). On the windows
matrix that leaked gsd-k3-qwen-* home into the L2 property, whose
antigravity/global run then (correctly) refused via the #3712 real-home
guard — antigravity is the runtime that made L2's plan escape into
os.homedir(). K3 now manages the env with a single restore; L2 sandboxes
HOME per run, mirroring L1.

* fix(#3738): L2 property's HOME sandbox must exist on disk

The #3712 guard's sandbox exemption fails closed when identify(effectiveHome)
is 'absent' — L2 never created its configDir, so on the windows matrix (tmpdir
under the real home) the antigravity/global run refused even with HOME
sandboxed. Create the per-run sandbox dir and clean it up.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 02:24:03 -04:00
Tom Boucher
e20744eacb enhance(#3884): failure is a value — strict argv, and --pick that signals absence (#3922)
* test(#3884): failing-first coverage for strict argv and absence-signalling --pick

ADR-3473 §8.4 says failure is a value. Three families currently encode failure as
success, and this commit pins each one RED before the fix lands.

Measured on this tree, 2026-08-26:

  gsd-tools generate-slug "test" --pick nonexistent
    -> empty stdout, exit 0                                     (#3365)

  gsd-tools audit-open --pick nonexistent_field
    -> dumps the entire human-readable audit report, exit 0

  gsd-tools generate-slug "Hello World" --raw --pick bogus
    -> prints "hello-world", another field's value, exit 0

  gsd-tools query state.planned-phase 3        (positional, no --phase)
    -> exit 0; STATE.md's "Phase: 2 of 5 (Widget Support)" is overwritten to
       "Phase: null - READY TO EXECUTE" and the frontmatter gains a corrupted
       current_phase_name                                        (#3358)

tests/pick-flag.test.cjs:27 previously asserted the #3365 defect as the contract
("returns empty string for missing field", success === true). That assertion is
replaced by the required behavior rather than deleted.

The new parseNamedArgs block calls the spec-object signature that does not exist
yet, so it fails today by construction. The 11 existing behavior-lock tests are
left untouched here; they are corrected in the implementation commit.

C1/C4 assert at the consumer's output - STATE.md's bytes - per ADR-3180
Decision 4(b). A unit assertion on the parser would have passed throughout this
defect's life.

Design:      .gsd/phase/feat-3884-failure-is-a-value/40-design.md
Test matrix: .gsd/phase/feat-3884-failure-is-a-value/50-test-matrix.md

Refs #3884

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

* enhance(#3884): failure is a value — strict argv, and --pick that signals absence

Implements ADR-3473 §8.4. Absence, emptiness and failure stop being interchangeable
ways to say "I could not answer".

parseNamedArgs (src/command-arg-projection.cts)
  Takes a spec object with a REQUIRED `positionals: number | 'rest'` and returns the
  hub's Result shape instead of a bare Record. Declaring the positional arity is what
  makes #3358's call site unrepresentable rather than merely detectable: an unrecognized
  flag or a token past the declared boundary is now InvalidArgs, naming the offending
  token and listing the accepted flags. The legacy positional-array call shape throws
  a TypeError — an internal invariant violation per ADR-3473 Decision 2, so a stale
  hand-written .cjs call site fails loudly instead of destructuring undefined off a
  Result. parseNamedArgsOrExit projects a failure onto the caller's error(); it is a
  projection over the one parser, not a second parser.

  Measured before, against a STATE.md with a populated phase-2 block:
    query state.planned-phase 3        (positional, no --phase)
    -> exit 0; "Phase: 2 of 5 (Widget Support)" overwritten to
       "Phase: null - READY TO EXECUTE", frontmatter gains a corrupted
       current_phase_name
  After: exit 1, `unexpected positional argument "3"`, STATE.md byte-identical.
  The flag form is unchanged and still updates STATE.md.

--pick <field> (gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs)
  extractField returns {found,value}, and the pick block no longer shares one catch
  between "output was not JSON" and "field was absent". An absent field exits 1 with
  pick_field_absent, naming the field and the keys that do exist; non-JSON output exits 1
  with pick_output_not_json instead of dumping the command's entire output. A field that
  is PRESENT with value null, '', 0 or false still prints at exit 0 — that is an answer,
  not a failure, and it is what keeps `--pick count` printing 0 on a fresh project.

  Measured before: `audit-open --pick nonexistent_field` printed the whole human-readable
  audit report at exit 0, and `generate-slug X --raw --pick bogus` printed "hello-world" —
  a different field's value, confidently, at exit 0.

  ADR-3409 Decision 7 explicitly deferred this contract fix to #3473; this is it. The
  sub-issue's "returns 0 when the count is zero OR absent" wording is superseded by the
  ADR rule it implements: zero prints 0, absence exits non-zero. Defaulting absence to 0
  would demote "could not answer" to "the answer is zero" — the hazard
  docs/how-to/resolve-unreachable-guard-findings.md already warns against.

Guard ledger (ADR-3473 Decision 6)
  scripts/lint-unreachable-guard-drift.cjs Detector A is RETIRED. Its premise — that a
  `--pick ... || echo` arm can never fire — is now false, so the shape it forbade is the
  correct idiom and keeping it would forbid the fix. Detector B (glob-consuming cat/ls,
  a nullglob mechanism this change does not touch) is retained in full, as are the shared
  scanner, the escape-marker parser and the baseline. Net: -1 detector, 0 added. The file
  is not deleted.

Call-site audit
  45 prompt-layer --pick invocations, every one a plain X=$(...) assignment — none in an
  if test, && chain, or a pipeline whose status is consumed, and no shell block in
  workflows/commands/agents/references sets -e. Of the 13 (command, field) pairs the
  prompt layer reads, 10 are always present; the 3 sometimes-absent ones each sit behind
  a prior found/existence check. No ADR-3409-class "field the command never produces"
  remains.

Design:      .gsd/phase/feat-3884-failure-is-a-value/40-design.md
Test matrix: .gsd/phase/feat-3884-failure-is-a-value/50-test-matrix.md

Refs #3884

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

* fix(#3884): escape untrusted tokens in diagnostics, and cover five unpinned rows

Two review findings, both fixed here rather than recorded as limits.

1. A newline in an untrusted token forged a second stderr line.

   Before, plain-text mode:
     $ gsd-tools query state.planned-phase $'foo\nError: forged second line'
     Error: unexpected positional argument "foo
     Error: forged second line"

   After:
     Error: unexpected positional argument "foo\nError: forged second line"

   --json-errors mode was never affected — io.error runs that payload through
   JSON.stringify. Plain-text mode writes 'Error: ' + message verbatim, and the
   three new InvalidArgs reasons plus the two new --pick diagnostics all
   interpolate a token that comes straight from argv.

   Fixed with ONE shared helper, formatDiagnosticToken (src/io.cts), applied at
   every interpolation site — not a copy per site. It is deliberately NOT
   applied inside error() itself: several callers in this tree emit intentional
   multi-line diagnostics, and escaping newlines there would mangle them.

   The available-top-level-keys list needed the same treatment for a reason the
   review did not anticipate: `frontmatter get <file>` reads an ARBITRARY user
   document and echoes that document's own keys into the diagnostic. Verified
   reachable — a frontmatter key containing a newline reaches the key list — so
   formatKeyForDiagnosticList is guarding a live path, not a hypothetical one.
   Ordinary keys still render plain and unquoted; a fix that merely dropped the
   key would also have passed a "one line" assertion, so the test pins the
   escaped key's presence too.

2. Five behavior-table rows were implemented but nothing pinned them:
   B7  a dotted path that dies partway
   B9  bracket syntax on a non-array
   B10 a negative array index, in and out of range
   B14 a JSON root that is not an object
   B17 an @file: payload over 50KB

   B17 is the load-bearing one. output() writes @file:<path> instead of inline
   JSON past 50000 characters, and --pick resolves that BEFORE parsing; with no
   test, a future reordering of those two steps turns every large result into a
   false pick_output_not_json. The fixture seeds 1200 phase directories and
   measures the payload at 62474 characters, asserting the spill actually
   happened rather than assuming it.

Refs #3884

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

* fix(#3884): correct the strict-argv surface against a full verification run

The first full run came back with 90 failures across 12 files, none in the new
tests. They were the argv surface telling me what it actually is. Ten root
causes; each classified before anything was changed.

I over-implemented, and that is reverted.

  ADR-3473 §8.4 says parseNamedArgs rejects "unrecognized and positional
  tokens". It says nothing about a value flag whose value is missing. Making
  that an error was my design decision, not the rule, and it broke a
  deliberately recorded contract: `--prd` with no value resolving to null
  (tests/init.test.cjs emptyPrdValueIsFalsyAndTreatedAsAbsent, row B5;
  tests/section-manifest-init-facts.test.cjs "flag-shaped value"). The
  "requires a value" branch is deleted outright rather than kept behind an
  option — an unused strictness mode is speculative generality. Unknown-flag
  and unexpected-positional rejection, which is what §8.4 actually mandates,
  is unchanged.

--wave needed a third flag kind the original design did not anticipate.

  `--wave N` is documented (commands/gsd/execute-phase.md:4,48) and the
  shipped workflow reconstructs and passes it (execute-phase.md:84), while
  #2932 records token-PRESENCE semantics: the CLI cares only that the flag
  appeared, and the value belongs to the workflow layer. That is neither a
  boolean flag nor a value flag, so `optionalValueFlags` now exists —
  presence-only in `data`, and the validation cursor consumes a following
  non-flag token so it is not reported as a stray positional. Every other
  declared boolean flag was checked against every argument-hint and prose
  usage in commands/, workflows/, agents/ and docs/; `--wave` is the only one
  of this shape.

Five tests were pinning forms that never worked.

  tests/adr857-core-without-capabilities.test.cjs passed
  `init plan-phase --phase 01-stub`, but the documented form is positional
  (docs/CLI-TOOLS.md:776) and the handler reads args[2] — which for that form
  is the literal string "--phase". Measured on the pre-fix build against a
  real .planning/phases/01-stub/ directory:

    init plan-phase 01-stub          -> phase_found=true
    init plan-phase --phase 01-stub  -> phase_found=false

  The test asserted only exit 0 and key presence, so it had been green while
  proving nothing about phase resolution. Corrected to the documented form and
  strengthened to assert phase_found === true. Same class in state.test.cjs
  (`--plan-count`, a flag that does not exist; the real one is `--plans`),
  milestone-archive.test.cjs (`init new-milestone --json`, silently ignored),
  and concurrency-safety.test.cjs (a bare positional field name whose
  OR-assertion passed because a whole-document dump happens to contain the
  substring it looked for).

Six handlers had no argv validation at all — the same #3358 shape this phase
exists to close, found while fixing the rest: init verify-work / phase-op /
review / todos / remove-workspace read args[2] with nothing checking the rest,
and validate health read --repair/--backfill through a bare args.includes()
scan that bypassed the parser entirely. All now go through the seam, so the
flag has one owner.

tests/init-debug.test.cjs rows C4/C5 asserted that an unrecognized flag must
NOT fail. That is the behavior §8.4 removes, and Decision 8 says a caller's
local expectation does not override §8, so they are inverted and renamed —
a test still called "ignores an unrecognized flag" while asserting rejection
would be its own defect. Row C6's point is its PWNED canary; that assertion is
kept verbatim and only its exit-status expectation changed, because the
hostile token is now rejected rather than absorbed.

The blast-radius estimate in 40-design.md is corrected rather than quietly
left wrong. get_impact reported MEDIUM / 8 symbols upstream, and that was
accurate for what the graph can see — parseNamedArgs's callers. It cannot see
that those callers' handlers accept argv shapes wider than the code reading
args[2] suggests, which is where the real surface was.

Refs #3884

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

* fix(#3884): withdraw the validate-health tightening, finish the A2/A3 revert

Second full run: 46 failures, down from 90. Four causes, two of them mine.

Reverted `validate health` entirely — it was scope creep, and it broke a real flag.

  ~30 of the 46 read `unknown flag "--json"; accepted: --repair, --backfill`.
  The previous commit routed `validate health` through the parser on the
  reasoning that a flag should have one owner. That was wrong twice over:
  §8.4 names parseNamedArgs and count queries, and `validate health` was never
  a parseNamedArgs call site — it read its flags, just not through the parser,
  so it had no silent-drop defect to fix. Tightening it omitted `--json`, which
  the health-diagnostic suites use heavily. The handler is now byte-for-behaviour
  back to its pre-branch form. `validate context` stays converted: it genuinely
  was a call site, and its `--json` is now declared rather than read by a second
  `args.includes` scan.

  The five handlers that had NO validation at all — init verify-work / phase-op /
  review / todos / remove-workspace — stay fixed. Those read args[2] with nothing
  checking the rest, which is the #3358 shape this phase owns.

Finished the A2/A3 revert. Three tests still encoded the deleted
"a value flag with a missing value is an error" rule, including one added by the
previous commit for that rule. All three now assert the reverted null contract,
and the ones whose titles said "rejected" are renamed — a test named for a
contract it no longer asserts is its own defect.

`--wave=` and `--wave --weird` are correctly rejected. Neither is documented in
commands/gsd/execute-phase.md, gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md or docs/, and
neither is emitted by the shipped prompt layer, so both are unrecognized tokens
that §8.4 mandates rejecting. `doesNotConsumeFollowingFlagAsWaveValue` keeps the
property it exists for — asserted directly now, at the parser, that `--wave` does
not swallow a following flag as its value — and only its exit-status expectation
changed.

A contradiction inside this branch, surfaced by the audit and resolved the safe way.

  Two pre-existing #3573 tests call `state begin-phase '2'` and
  `state planned-phase '2'` with a bare positional, relying on the old permissive
  parser to ignore it. This branch's own #3358 regression test requires that exact
  argv to be REJECTED. The two are mutually exclusive.

  Widening the router to accept a bare positional — mirroring complete-phase —
  would have silently re-opened #3358, and was verified to do exactly that: with
  the widened router, `query state.planned-phase 3` returned exit 0 and wrote
  current_phase_name again. It is reverted. docs/CLI-TOOLS.md:116 and
  docs/COMMANDS.md:2192 document only the `--phase N` form for both verbs, so the
  two #3573 tests move to it. Their assertions were never about the call shape —
  only that total_phases survives the resync — and both still pass.

  complete-phase is untouched: its bare positional IS documented, and it keeps the
  dynamic boundary and the negative-space note that record why.

The audit that produced this is in the PR body: for every handler whose declaration
changed, the flags it reads anywhere in its body, the flags the shipped surface
documents, and the shapes the suite passes, compared. The `--json` miss was a
pattern, not an accident — declaring a handler's flags from its parseNamedArgs call
alone misses whatever it reads elsewhere.

Refs #3884

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

* chore(#3884): backfill the changeset PR number

Refs #3884

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 00:12:13 -04:00
Tom Boucher
878f25025c enhance(#3905): the exit-code registry — one number, one meaning, enforced at build (#3920)
* feat(#3905): the exit-code registry — one number, one meaning, enforced at build

A generated registry replaces locally-invented exit codes. Every entry records code, name, meaning, owning module and the decision that authorized it. The generator refuses to build a table where two entries claim one code, two claim one name, a code falls in a range Node or the shell reserves, 2 is claimed by anything but the hook adapter, or an allocation carries no justification. exitCodeFor is pure and total: it throws rather than returning undefined, including for prototype-chain names.

Inert by design — nothing emits a registered code until #3906. Every registered code is non-zero, asserted over the whole table, so a caller testing for failure behaves identically for pass and trips for everything else.

* feat(#3905): make the registry generator's failures machine-readable

Adds a --json mode carrying {ok, reason, context, detail}, where context is a typed payload naming the specifics the prose embedded - which code collided and under which names, which band rejected a code, which field was missing. The tests now assert on that structure instead of regex-matching the generator's stderr, which CONTRIBUTING prohibits, and the CONTEXT.md glossary gains the entry the issue's scope requires.

* test(#3905): refresh the install-tree fixtures for the new declaration

The registry declaration ships in the install tree, so all 19 golden fixtures needed regenerating. Caught by the remote matrix, not by lint:ci - the install-tree goldens are verified by a test rather than a lint, so a newly shipped file clears every local gate and fails only under the suite.

* chore(#3905): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 00:10:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7e9d33c378 enhance(#3915): stryker on the official tap runner, 29m to 12m on the critical path (#3919)
* enhance(#3915): stryker on the official tap runner, per-test coverage

The 'command' runner is the one runner Stryker excludes from coverage
analysis, which forced coverageAnalysis:'off' and made mutation cost
strictly linear in (mutants x whole-shard test time). The frontmatter
shard measured 1751s against 212s for the next slowest.

Swap to @stryker-mutator/tap-runner (official plugin, peer-pinned to the
@stryker-mutator/core@9.6.1 already installed) and turn coverage analysis
on, so Stryker re-runs only the test files that cover each mutated line.

Per-shard injection moves from a MUTATION_TEST_CMD command string to
MUTATION_TEST_FILES, read by a new fail-closed resolveMutationTestFiles()
that mirrors resolveMutationBreak. It stays derived from
scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs and now has a single owner: the union moves
behind allCoveredTests() and stryker.config.mjs no longer imports COVERED.
The resolver existence-checks every entry, because the tap runner resolves
tap.testFiles with glob() and a non-matching pattern yields an empty list
silently - a fast, confident, meaningless run.

tap.forceBail is off by measurement, not preference: a structural AST
audit found 3 of 26 shard test files spawn subprocesses, and bail fires on
every killed mutant, so leaving it on would kill processes mid-spawnSync
and orphan their children.

The matrix 'isolation' field is removed - per-file process isolation is
inherent to the tap runner, so the field had no consumer left.

Score arithmetic is unchanged and now pinned: mutationScore counts
NoCoverage in the same denominator as Survived, which both Stryker's
thresholds.break and check-mutation-score-ratchet.cjs read. A new
non-vacuity test proves it diverges from mutationScoreBasedOnCoveredCode,
so the gate cannot be quietly swapped to the field that would make every
floor trivially satisfiable.

Refs #3915

* fix(#3915): enforce the resolver's documented containment contract

Review findings, all fixed in place.

resolveMutationTestFiles claimed to verify each entry exists 'relative to
the repo root' but used a bare fs.existsSync(path.join(...)), which
accepts an existing DIRECTORY and lets ../ segments escape the root
(path.join('/repo/root','../../etc/passwd') resolves to /etc/passwd).
Not reachable from PR content - the value only ever comes from the static
COVERED registry via CI env - but a fail-closed contract that overstates
its own guarantee is a defect in the contract. Each entry is now resolved,
rejected if path.relative puts it outside the root, and required to be a
regular file. Three hostile-input tests added; the original missing-file
wording is preserved so the existing assertion still binds.

Also: removed a stale buildResult comment still naming the isolation
field this branch deleted; hoisted one top-level path require in place of
three inline ones; de-duplicated the derived-test-list expression in the
tests to a single const, deliberately still re-derived from COVERED
rather than calling allCoveredTests() so the assertion cannot become a
tautology; tightened the workflow-parity assertion to exact equality;
changed the tap-runner range from an exact 9.6.1 to ^9.6.1 so it tracks
the caret-ranged core its peerDependency pins exactly.

Regenerated examples/dynamic-context-management/CONTEXT-INDEX.json, which
the earlier CONTEXT.md edit left stale - lint:ci was red on
lint-example-parser-parity until it was refreshed.

Refs #3915

* test(#3915): kill model-catalog survivors, set frontmatter budget from measurement

From mutation run 33026833181 (all 13 shards, dispatched on this branch before any PR).

WALL TIME: frontmatter measured 713s (11m53s) vs 1751s (29m11s) on the command runner, a 59% cut. timeoutMinutes 60 -> 20 (1.68x measured). Not deleted outright: the shared 15-minute default would leave only 21% headroom, and this module's mutant count grew 1.8x in one change.

MODEL-CATALOG: came back 57.91 against its floor of 58. Diagnosed from the report JSON, not assumed - all 24 of its new RuntimeError mutants are in the load-time catalog bootstrap, so mutating them makes the module throw at require. Under node --test that is a failed test file (Killed); under the tap runner the process dies before emitting TAP, which Stryker classifies RuntimeError and excludes from the denominator. Add them back as killed and the shard is 248/416 = 59.62, the pre-change number exactly. Detection did not regress, classification changed.

The floor is NOT lowered to absorb that. 11 new behavioural tests target ~42 genuinely surviving mutants: exact Set equality on the EFFORT_RENDERING/EFFORT_ARGV supported sets, an exact-string table render that makes the column-width arithmetic observable (padEnd never truncates, so the old substring assertion could not see a too-small width), clampEffortForHost's full null matrix plus a spoofed-toString host, and a prototype-pollution guard driven through Object.fromEntries.

Mutants judged equivalent were skipped rather than papered over; reasoning is in the phase artifacts. All 15 new assertions verified against unmutated code. lint:ci exit 0.

Refs #3915

* test(#3915): ratchet model-catalog's floor to 74 on measured 75.26%

CI run 33029755081 measured model-catalog at 75.26% (295 killed / 49 survived / 48 no-coverage / 24 runtime-error, totalValid 392), so check-mutation-score-ratchet.cjs correctly failed the shard for unclaimed headroom: 17.26 points above the declared floor of 58, well past the 5-point slack.

Floor raised 58 -> 74 (floor(75.26)-1, this file's documented convention), with RATCHET_BASELINE updated in the same diff as the equality assertion requires.

Worth recording why the number moved this far. The shard first came back at 57.91 under the tap runner and the temptation was to lower the floor to match. The drop was not a regression: all 24 of its RuntimeError mutants sit in the load-time catalog bootstrap, and adding them back as killed reproduces 248/416 = 59.62, the pre-swap figure exactly. Rather than absorb a reporting artifact by weakening the gate, 11 behavioural tests went after the genuinely surviving mutants and killed 68 of them - carrying the module from 59.62 past its old ceiling to 75.26, within reach of the ADR-456 target of 80.

The #3007 measurement is kept as clearly-labelled prior context rather than deleted, so the entry does not read as carrying two current numbers.

Refs #3915

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 22:43:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8641d0a468 fix(#3719): restore @-includes on the agents emit path, so global Claude installs load their guidance (#3918)
* test(#3719): failing-first coverage for the agents emit path's missing tilde restore

applyAgentPathRewrites performs its four tilde and HOME substitutions and never
calls restoreClaudeGlobalAtRefTilde, which has exactly one call site in the module
and it is not this one. So every agents/gsd-*.md in a global Claude install ships
@HOME-form includes, and per #3544's own measurement such an import loads nothing --
planner guidance, the untrusted-input boundary, the skills bootstrap and the
mandatory initial read are silently absent from subagent context.

The load-bearing rows are END TO END, driving a real install into a temp HOME. The
reported symptom is 27 of 34 EMITTED FILES, which is a claim about files on disk; a
unit test on the rewrite function would pass while the emitted tree stayed broken,
and that is exactly how #3133 and #3544 fixed two emit paths and left a third broken
across two releases.

The parity row walks the WHOLE emitted tree rather than a list of known paths, so a
fourth emit path added later is covered by landing in the same tree. Pinning the bug
alone would leave that path free to regress identically. It names the offending
files on failure, and it inspects bytes from a real subprocess install rather than
asserting a function agrees with itself -- the tautology I shipped in the #3714
divergence guard.

Four controls separate calling the restore from reverting the substitution: the
restore is targeted, rewriting @-includes while deliberately leaving ordinary prose
paths on HOME. Reverting wholesale would satisfy the positive row and break every
prose path.

One boundary row is deliberately red beyond the obvious fix. The agents path also
runs a word-boundary rewrite that strips the trailing slash, while the restore is
anchored to the exact prefix -- so a call mirroring the sibling site leaves
@HOME/.claude with no trailing slash broken. Verified: restore(prefix) leaves it,
restore(normalized) fixes it, and both leave prose alone.

* fix(#3719): restore @-refs to tilde on the agents emit path

The third emit path that needed this. #3133 added the restore to the skill and
command pipeline, #3544 to the spec-tree copy in install.js, and the agents pipeline
never got it -- so every @~/.claude include in a global Claude install shipped as
@HOME-form and resolved to nothing. Per #3544's own measurement such an import loads
NOTHING, so the planner's guidance, the untrusted-input boundary, the skills
bootstrap and the mandatory initial read were silently absent from subagent context:
27 of 34 emitted agents, 103 lines.

Two details that a one-line call mirroring the sibling site would have got wrong,
both verified by execution before writing the fix.

It passes the NORMALIZED prefix rather than pathPrefix. This function also runs two
word-boundary replaces that emit the trailing-slash-free form, while the helper's
regex is anchored to whatever prefix string it is handed -- so restore(pathPrefix)
fixes @HOME/.claude/x and leaves a bare @HOME/.claude broken. The normalized form is
a prefix of both, so one call covers both.

And it is guarded on claude. The helper self-guards only on the HOME prefix, but
every runtime's global prefix is a HOME form, so an unguarded call would rewrite
@-refs for runtimes whose resolver documents no tilde expansion at all. Verified:
claude restores, cursor and kilo do not.

The targeted behavior is preserved -- @-includes move to tilde while ordinary prose
paths and quoted shell strings stay on HOME, which is what the blanket substitution
exists for since tilde does not expand inside double quotes.

* fix(#3719): stop the word-boundary replaces corrupting a non-default config dir

Review found that my fix MASKED a pre-existing bug, which is worse than leaving it.

The two word-boundary replaces used a bare word boundary, which matches between 'e'
and '-', so with --config-dir .claude-work they turned .claude-work/ into
.claude-work-work/ -- 119 dead paths in a real install. #3544's review installed a
negative-lookahead guard at the installer's copy path for exactly this, and the
shared helper's doc comment claims the gap was corrected at ALL call sites. It was
not corrected here.

That much is pre-existing; base emits the same 119. What my change did was make it
INVISIBLE: the restore rewrites the corrupted string to a tilde form, which reads as
correct, so every HOME-based detector -- including the parity row I added in this
branch -- goes green on a broken tree. A fix that hides the evidence of a
neighbouring bug is not a fix.

Both replaces now use the same lookahead as the installer site, with a test on a
non-default config dir asserting the emitted path by identity.

Three test weaknesses from the same review, all of which would have passed while
guarding nothing:

The parity row anchored its detector at line start, so it could not see the 48
mid-line refs the helper deliberately supports -- half-blind while being billed as
the future-proof row.

The runtime guard had ZERO coverage: the only non-claude row used copilot, which
returns early and never reaches the guard. Cursor and kilo rows now exercise it.

And the quote-lookbehind control contained no at-sign at all, so it passed with the
lookbehind deleted. It is now a real quoted ref, verified to fail when the lookbehind
is stripped.

* test(#3719): distinguish a live @-include from prose describing one

My own MINOR fix introduced a BLOCKER. Dropping the line-start anchor was correct --
it had hidden 48 mid-line refs the helper deliberately supports -- but it also made
the scan see gsd-core/CHANGELOG.md, which ships the #3133 and #3544 entries quoting
the broken form verbatim while describing the very defect this row guards. Two
documentation lines became two failures on a CORRECT tree: red CI, nothing wrong.

Fixed by stripping inline-code spans before the test, not by restoring the anchor.
Restoring it would trade a false positive for the false negative that let this bug
ship in the first place. A live include is bare markdown; an occurrence inside
backticks is prose ABOUT one.

Verified the distinction holds in both directions, including the case that matters
most: a line carrying a backticked example AND a real bare reference still flags,
because only the code span is stripped.

* fix(#3719): escape the replacement pattern, and pin both fixes that shipped unproven

Security's remaining item, landed here on its recommendation: the restore used a
STRING replacement, so a config dir containing the ampersand or backtick dollar
forms was treated as a special pattern. Measured: one corrupted output into a
duplicated path, the other silently DROPPED text. Pre-existing, and this branch adds
a third call site to that sink -- which is how the previous two came to share the
defect. It is a function replacement now.

Two fixes on this branch were shipping UNPROVEN and both are now pinned:

The word-boundary fix had no regression test at all. An implementing agent reported
adding one and I accepted that report without checking the diff; the reviewer found
it missing. Pinned by identity at a config dir extending the default, with the
measured 120-to-0 recorded in a comment so a later reader knows what it protects. A
second row uses a word-character extension, which was never doubled -- a bare word
boundary needs a word to non-word transition, so only the hyphen triggered it.

The replacement fix likewise had none; both pathological prefixes now round-trip and
an ordinary prefix is asserted unchanged.

Neither could be proven by reverting src in scope, so the pre-fix behaviour was
replicated inline and the delta recorded rather than assumed.

* test(#3719): state the trust model accurately in the replacement-pattern note

The comment described the config dir as attacker- or operator-controlled. Security
assessed it as operator-only, and calling it attacker-controlled overstates the trust
model on a change that landed for consistency rather than urgency: the damage is a
mangled path, not a boundary crossing.

That is the fifth comment on this sweep to assert something the code or the threat
model does not support, so it gets corrected rather than left as harmless prose --
the pattern is the finding.

* chore(#3719): backfill changeset pr number

Doing this immediately after PR creation this time: the same omission was the only red CI on the previous PR tonight.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 22:13:57 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8edace40d5 enhance(#3904): one exit module — generate the scripts-side copy from a single source (#3917)
* test(#3904): failing-first coverage for the drifted scripts-side exit module

The scripts/ copy of the CLI exit seam has no json-error arm, so an unexpected throw prints a raw stack where the documented contract promises {ok:false,reason,message}. Adds the consumer-altitude reproduction plus the negative space it must not swallow, the one-cell assertions for json-error mode, and the standalone-load constraint. RED until the generator lands.

* enhance(#3904): generate the scripts-side exit module from one source

src/cli-exit.cts becomes the single source of truth and scripts/lib/cli-exit.cjs a generated artifact of its compiled output, byte-compared by a --check entry in lint:generated-sync. The two had drifted: only the .cts copy emitted the documented {ok:false,reason,message} envelope on an unexpected throw, so a scripts-side tool printed a raw stack where docs/json-errors.md promises structured output.

The generated file is committed and must load on an unbuilt clone (64+ consumers, incl. check-env.cjs), and gsd-core/bin/lib/cli-exit.cjs is gitignored tsc output that doubles as the build sentinel, so it cannot be required from there. The exit module therefore drops its io.cjs import: the json-error-mode accessors move into it and io.cts re-exports them, leaving its export surface unchanged. The flag lives in a Symbol-keyed cell on globalThis because one source emitted to two locations means two module instances, and a module-level flag would give them two independent values.

* chore(#3904): changeset for the generated scripts-side exit module

* docs(#3904): name which surfaces honor the json-error envelope contract

docs/json-errors.md described the structured envelope as what runMain does without saying which copies of runMain actually had the branch — a claim that was silently false for every scripts/-side tool. Also drops a redundant source-grep test whose marker grew the unverified allow-test-rule pool past its ceiling; the behavioral test beside it proves the same property through real module resolution.

* test(#3904): compare exit verdicts, not stderr bytes, across the two copies

The parity test asserted byte-identical stderr, which the plain-text path cannot satisfy: the generated copy carries an 11-line banner, so its stack frames report line numbers offset by exactly that much, and the path normalizer stopped at the colon. Byte-identical stack traces were never the contract - two files at two paths necessarily differ there. Now compares the parsed envelope under json mode, the first line and exit code on the stack path, and exact output for ExitError.

* chore(#3904): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 21:24:34 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4e8927b0b9 fix(#3707): degrade the fold for every UAT gap class, and stop line endings hiding rows from the audit and the acceptance gate (#3903)
* test(#3707): failing-first coverage for reverting the fence-shortfall fold shield

Pins the post-revert contract: a phase whose only gap is a fence shortfall must
degrade the fold and withhold the milestone percentages, like every other gap class.

Five of the eight rows are CONTROLS that pass before the change, and they carry more
weight than the failing row. The failure mode of this revert is degrading TOO MUCH:
a revert that sets foldScope outside the headingsSeen > 0 branch would withhold every
percentage in the project, and only the no-gap control catches that. Another control
catches a revert that collapses the two scopes into one and loses the distinction
between what a phase reports and what the fold folds -- uat.scope must stay TRUNCATED
for every gap either way, which it already is.

The row that pinned the shielded behavior is rewritten rather than deleted. Deleting
a test because the behavior it asserts is being reversed leaves the reversal
unguarded.

* fix(#3707): degrade the fold for every UAT gap class, reverting the fence-shortfall shield

Maintainer decision. The two orthogonal engines split on this during #3707 and
neither filed it as blocking, so it shipped in the shape the engine that raised the
objection endorsed after verifying seven fixtures. The call has now gone the other
way, restoring the fail-safe direction chosen twice already on this issue.

The shield exempted one gap class from the fold's teeth. It could not do that
safely: shortfallBlocks is a single tally incremented at exactly one site and spans
BOTH a harmless fenced documentation sample AND a genuinely fence-straddled
result: blocked row. Exempting it therefore could not exempt only the harmless case
-- it also published a milestone percentage over a real, unread outstanding row.
SCOPE.TRUNCATED means the scan could not SEE part of the evidence, which is exactly
that case.

scope and foldScope now agree: every gap class degrades both. The accepted
over-report documented in uat.cts is unchanged and still documented there; what
changed is only that it no longer buys an exemption from the fold.

The comment block above it argued FOR the shield and is rewritten, because a
comment defending behavior the code no longer has is worse than no comment.
shortfallBlocks leaves this function's destructure but is untouched upstream, where
audit-uat still consumes it.

* fix(#3707): correct the caller comment, add the changeset, and name what the order tests guard

Review found a SECOND comment still documenting the removed shield -- the caller's,
beside the worstScope fold, stating that foldScope differs from scope for exactly
one case which must not raise phase_scope_degraded or withhold the milestone's
percentages. That is now the opposite of what the code does. I rewrote the
buildUatRows comment in the previous commit and asserted in its message that a
comment defending behavior the code no longer has is worse than no comment, then
left exactly that one standing a few hundred lines away.

The change had no changeset. It is user-visible: a milestone's percentage goes from
published to withheld whenever any phase has a fence-shortfall-only gap. PR gates
hard-fail a user-facing code diff without one.

The two scopes are now identical at every return site. They are NOT collapsed --
that would change the return shape and the caller on what is meant to be a
one-condition revert, and the seam is worth keeping if the distinction is ever
wanted again -- but the declaration now says plainly that they agree by decision
rather than by accident, so a reader does not have to re-derive it.

The two order-independence tests were renamed. foldScope is monotonic with no reset
path, so file order is structurally irrelevant and those rows could never have
failed for the ordering reason their names promised. They do guard something real --
a multi-file phase degrading when any one file has a shortfall-only gap -- so they
now say that instead.

* test(#3707): failing-first coverage for the lone-CR UAT false-clean

The parser splits on newline only, and the heading tokenizer agrees with it, so a
lone carriage return is not a line boundary anywhere in it. CommonMark treats a lone
CR as a line ending, so such a row renders to a human reader while being invisible
to BOTH sides of the parser's symmetry invariant: no item, no shortfall, no
headingsSeen. A phase hiding a result: blocked row this way reports 100 percent with
zero diagnostics.

Found by the security review of the fold-shield revert. It is the one false-clean
class that revert does not reach, and it is the same bug class this issue exists to
fix -- an unreadable row reported as clean.

Nine rows. The LF control is what proves this is a separator defect rather than a
content defect: identical bodies, one separator apart, and only one of them hides
the row. CRLF and CR-inside-a-fence controls guard the coming normalization against
double-counting or tearing content that legitimately contains a carriage return.
Two further manifestations turned up while writing them: a leading CR breaks
column-0 anchoring of the first heading, and an all-CR document flags a shortfall it
cannot attribute to any row.

* fix(#3707): treat a lone carriage return as a line ending in the UAT parser

A lone CR was not a line boundary anywhere in the parser -- it split on newline
only, and the heading tokenizer agreed with it. CommonMark treats a lone CR as a
line ending, so such a row rendered to a human reader while being invisible to BOTH
sides of the parser's symmetry invariant: no item, no shortfall, no headingsSeen. A
phase hiding a result: blocked row that way reported 100 percent with zero
diagnostics.

Line endings are now normalized once at document ingress -- CRLF and lone CR both to
newline -- at the two independent entry points, rather than teaching each split site
about CR. Every downstream scan, offset and span therefore reads one convention.
That single-frame property is deliberate: this issue already cost a HIGH when two
scans read the same document through different frames.

MY OWN END-TO-END TEST WAS WRONG and is replaced rather than weakened. It asserted
that a lone-CR document must withhold its percentage, which reasons from the
pre-fix symptom: after the fix the row is not hidden, it is surfaced, and this
module deliberately keeps visible outstanding UAT work separate from completion
percentages -- only unreadable evidence degrades scope. The success of the fix is
what made the assertion false. The implementing agent refused to satisfy both it and
the architecture and asked instead of bending either; it was right.

What replaces it is a stronger contract: a lone-CR document and its LF twin, built
from one source, must produce identical audit output -- scope, percent, every
unresolved row by identity, and the diagnostic set. That is what 'a line-ending
convention must not change what the audit reports' actually means, and it carries a
non-vacuity check so it cannot pass with both sides empty.

shortfallBlocks keeps being returned, now documented as currently unconsumed. An
earlier reviewer told me audit-uat still consumed it and I passed that on as an
instruction; it was wrong, and it was caught by checking rather than by me.

* fix(#3707): normalize at the document read boundary, not at two call sites

The lone-CR fix was half-applied and both review engines caught it independently.
cmdAuditUat has four document ingresses, not the two I normalized: VERIFICATION.md
and deferred-items.md still handed raw text to newline-only splitters, and the
frontmatter extract in the UAT loop read raw content while its parser read
normalized -- one audit entry mixing the two frames the fix exists to unify.
Measured: a phase written twice from one source gave total_files 2 / total_items 4
under LF and results [] / total_items 0 under lone CR, with zero diagnostics.

Normalizing two call sites and declaring it done is exactly why two were missed, so
this moves it to the read boundary: every document now enters through a helper that
normalizes, in audit-uat, in planning-inspect's readDocument, and in the shared
verification-status read. Future parsers downstream get normalized text by
construction rather than because someone remembered.

That last seam also fixes an under-reporting case of the same root: a lone-CR
VERIFICATION.md saying status: passed was read as missing, telling the user a verify
step that had completed never ran.

The parity test's load-bearing assertion is now marked as such. Four of its five
equality checks still pass with the bug present -- only the unresolved-row identity
differs -- so trimming that one as redundant would make the row vacuous.

Second changeset added: the CR fix is user-visible independently of the fold revert,
and one fragment covering both would have described neither.

* test(#3707): failing-first coverage for the U+2028 and duplicate-result false-cleans

Two more of the same class, both found by the security review of this branch and
both reproduced before writing a line.

normalizeLineEndings folds only carriage returns, but a JS /m anchor also treats
U+2028 and U+2029 as line terminators while split on newline does not. That is the
identical asymmetry the carriage-return bug exploited, one separator over, and worse
in one respect: these are not CommonMark line endings, so a reader still sees the
column-0 result: blocked that the tool discards. Measured: a scalar-internal
result: pass placed after U+2028 wins over the real blocked line and the row
disappears with no gap raised.

Separately, and independent of any separator, a block with two column-0 result:
lines resolves to the first with no ambiguity signalled. Prepending result: pass to
a block therefore deletes an outstanding row silently; reversing the order surfaces
it. Order deciding meaning is the defect, so the pair of rows pins the contract as
ambiguity-is-a-gap rather than last-one-wins, leaving the fix room to implement the
gap sensibly.

Four controls: an ordinary marker in the same position (proving separator not
content), legitimate U+2028 inside prose that must not be torn, a single result line,
and a result line inside a fence that must not count as a second occurrence.

* fix(#3707): scan result lines by split, not by a multiline anchor

Two more false-cleans from the security review, both closed by the same change.

A JS /m anchor treats U+2028 and U+2029 as line terminators while split on newline
does not. A scalar-internal result: pass placed after one of those separators
therefore matched as a line start and beat the real column-0 result: blocked, and
the row vanished at 100 percent with no gap. Worse than the carriage-return case in
one respect: these are not CommonMark line endings, so a reader still saw the
blocked row the tool discarded.

Separately, the non-global match returned the leftmost hit, so a block with two
column-0 result: lines silently resolved to the first. Prepending result: pass
deleted an outstanding row; reversing the order surfaced it. Order deciding meaning
was the defect.

Both close by scanning lines produced by split rather than by anchoring a regex
inside the whole document: each line is tested on its own, and a count other than
exactly one is reported as a parse gap instead of resolved to either candidate.

I asked for U+2028 to be folded in normalizeLineEndings and that was wrong. Folding
is length-preserving, so it would have made the U+2028 fixture byte-identical to the
genuine two-result-line fixture -- while one requires a confident item and the other
requires an ambiguity gap. No implementation can satisfy both once the distinguishing
character is erased. The agent proved that and deviated rather than forcing it, which
is why normalizeLineEndings still folds only carriage returns, now with a comment
saying why.

* fix(#3707): bound the ambiguity scan at the next heading-shaped line

The split-based result scan regressed four pre-existing #3078/#3707 guards, each
off by exactly one gap.

My diagnosis was wrong. I read the off-by-one as double counting -- zero-result
blocks taking both the new path and the pre-existing one -- and said to change the
ambiguity condition from not-equal-one to greater-than-one. The agent checked and
refused: the zero path was never duplicated. The real cause is double ATTRIBUTION.
A block is sliced to the next TOKENIZED heading, so when the next row is untokenized
-- hidden by a straddling fence, or indented and already counted by the shortfall
scan -- that row's own result: line is absorbed into the previous block. The scan
then saw two result lines across what are really two rows and raised a second,
redundant gap on top of the one already counted elsewhere.

Had the greater-than-one change gone in, the counts would have matched while the
double attribution stayed. That is the compensating-adjustment failure I had asked
it to refuse, and it did.

The scan is now bounded at the first following heading-shaped line, either indent
class, so a genuine same-block ambiguity is untouched while spillover from a row
counted elsewhere is excluded.

* fix(#3707): keep the U+2028 immunity, revert the ambiguity detection

The ambiguity half of this change regressed the suite twice and is coming out.

Attempt one double-attributed: a block is sliced to the next TOKENIZED heading, so
when the real next row is untokenized its result: line was absorbed into the
previous block and raised a second gap on a row already counted elsewhere. Four
guards broke.

Attempt two bounded the scan at the next heading-shaped line and broke thirty. An
indented ### N. inside a block scalar is legitimate scalar CONTENT, not a heading,
and truncating there defeats every #3078 guard that exists to stop scalar bodies
being read as rows. Telling a genuinely hidden indented row apart from indented
scalar text is a classification countUnattributedIndentedRows already owns; a raw
regex does not have that information.

What survives is the half that is sound and was never implicated in either
regression: the result scan tests each line produced by split rather than anchoring
a regex with the multiline flag over the whole block. split never treats U+2028 or
U+2029 as a delimiter, so those separators can no longer manufacture a line start
and steal a row. Everything else returns to first-match-wins, byte-identical to
origin/next.

The two tests pinning ambiguity-as-a-gap are removed with it, since the contract is
no longer implemented here. The defect they described is real, pre-existing and
independent of any separator -- result: pass before result: blocked silently deletes
an outstanding row -- and it needs its own change with a scalar-aware counter rather
than being wedged into a branch already carrying three fixes.

* fix(#3707): correct the shared-seam rationale and restore U+2028 trailing text

The revert left a stale rationale in core-utils, justifying the decision not to fold
U+2028 by claiming uat.cts must tell a fake line start apart from a real second
column-0 result: declaration that gets flagged as ambiguous. Nothing flags ambiguity
any more; that behavior was reverted and the same file says so a few lines away. The
decision is still right, the stated reason was false.

This is the third stale comment this branch has shipped and had to fix, and the worst
placed of them: core-utils is a shared leaf that every future document consumer will
read for guidance. Rewritten to the true reason -- the scan tests each split line
individually rather than anchoring over the block, so an exotic separator cannot
manufacture a line start and folding is unnecessary.

Also a real behavior delta I had not noticed. Dropping the multiline flag left the
pattern's trailing .*$ in place, and dot never matches U+2028, so a genuine column-0
result: blocked whose TRAILING text contained one stopped parsing entirely -- a
visible parse gap rather than a false clean, so fail-safe, but a regression against
origin/next that nothing pinned. The trailing portion now matches any character and
a test pins it by identity against its plain-LF twin.

Plus the JSDoc orphaned when normalizeLineEndings moved to core-utils, and the
changeset, which described neither the separator fix nor planning-inspect surfacing
lone-CR rows.

* fix(#3707): harden the acceptance gate, which had both halves of the same bug

uat-predicate is a SECOND, independent UAT parser, and it is the one that decides
phase uat-passed. It read raw bytes and anchored a multiline regex over unsplit
text -- exactly the two defects this branch closed one module away in uat.cts.

The consequence is worse than the audit surface it mirrors. Measured on identical
bytes: a U+2028 scalar injection made the gate return passed true while planning
inspect reported the same row as blocked and outstanding. The hardened surface and
the gate disagreed, and the gate was the permissive one -- so a phase could be
accepted over a row the audit could see and the gate could not.

Both raw reads now go through the shared normalize seam and both scans test lines
produced by split rather than anchoring over the document. First-match-wins,
matching uat.cts; no ambiguity counting is reintroduced. Tests assert the AGREEMENT
between the two surfaces rather than each separately, because divergence is the
defect.

Also finishes the same root cause one module over: phase complete's advisory
pre-scan read raw bytes, so a lone-CR VERIFICATION.md lost its human_needed or
gaps_found warning -- the fix verification.cts already got on this branch.

And narrows the core-utils rationale I reworded last commit, which claimed consumers
already avoid multiline anchors. uat.cts still has five over unsplit text. That is
the fourth comment on this branch to assert something the code does not do, so it
now states only what is true of core-utils itself.

* fix(#3707): give structure and attribution different line frames, normalize the close audit

Two more from review, and the first was a regression I introduced one commit
earlier.

Converting the gate's heading scan to split-then-match removed a detection
origin/next had: a ### N. heading delimited by U+2028 was found by the old multiline
scan and was not found after. So hardening the result scan quietly weakened the
heading scan, and the gate stopped blocking on rows origin/next blocked -- the
permissive direction, on the surface that decides acceptance.

The insight I had missed is that the two scans need DIFFERENT frames. Heading
detection is structure: there is no distinction to preserve, so it splits on newline
or either exotic separator and finds a heading however it is delimited. The result
scan is attribution: the newline-only frame is exactly what stops a scalar-internal
result: from being read as a column-0 line, so it stays. One frame applied uniformly
was the error.

Second, a THIRD unnormalized parser family: the milestone-close audit read every
artifact raw. A lone-CR VERIFICATION.md degraded to status unknown and was skipped,
and deferred entries vanished outright -- measured as three items requiring
decisions under LF and one under CR, on identical bytes. All nine scanner reads now
normalize; six of them had the identical defect beyond the three review named. The
acknowledge path stays deliberately raw, since it splices by byte offset, and now
says so.

Also pins the cross-newline result: divergence, and replaces three raw U+2028
literals in test source with escapes. A raw separator in a fixture is one formatter
away from becoming an ordinary-character control that still passes -- vacuous in the
only test pinning the separator fix.

* fix(#3707): share one frame between the acknowledge writer and the audit reader

Normalizing the audit scanners left the writer and the reader on different frames.
cmdAuditAcknowledge derives its stored snapshot values from raw content -- correct
for the SPLICE, which rewrites by byte offset -- but scanUatGaps and
scanContextQuestions now recompute those same values from normalized content. For a
lone-CR artifact the two can never match, so an acknowledgement never suppresses its
item and it resurfaces on every audit: acknowledge became a silent no-op.

Fail-safe in direction, since the item stays visible rather than being wrongly
suppressed, but it is the writer and reader disagreeing about what a line is -- the
exact class this branch exists to eliminate, and the fourth instance of it here.

The derive functions now read a normalized copy while the splice keeps raw bytes and
raw offsets, so both sides share one frame and the byte-offset rewrite is untouched.
Round trip pinned for lone-CR and LF, with an existing LF marker asserted still
recognised so the change cannot silently invalidate acknowledgements already in
users' files.

Also tightens an assertion that pinned this branch's own heading fix with a proxy:
notStrictEqual against 'passed' also passes on 'pass', which IS a passing token, so
it could not have caught a regression attributing a passing result to the recovered
heading. It now pins the exact token.

* chore(#3707): backfill changeset pr numbers

Both fragments still carried the pr: 0 placeholder, which failed changeset-lint and
docs-lint on PR 3903. The review had flagged the backfill as pending and I opened
the PR without doing it.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 20:17:35 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6b7df61938 enhance(#3881): one YAML parser — vendored js-yaml replaces the hand-rolled dialect (#3888)
* docs(#3881): answer §8.1's open question and correct three wrong premises

ADR-3473 §8.1 carries a blocking open question with a forcing function: it must
be answered before any implementation PR for the rule opens. Answered here as (a),
a string-coercing adapter, with the measurement that settles it.

The sequencing note bet that §8.8's schema would make (b) tractable. Measured
against merged reality it does not: only 33 of extractFrontmatter's 78 non-test
call sites read STATE.md, and two of the five compensating mechanisms §8.1 lists
survive real types, leaving ~31 lines across 3 call sites as the actual prize.

Also corrects three claims verified false while answering it. §8.1's justifying
sentence names #3349 and #3360 as defects a real parser would fix; both are
already fixed on next, confirmed by executing the compiled parser rather than
reading it. The guard roster calls lint-frontmatter-scalar-broad-grep.cjs an
expected casualty of this rule, but it guards shell grep idioms in workflow bash
fences and never touches our parser. The same roster calls lint-vendored-deps.cjs
reusable as-is; it is hardcoded to re2js throughout.

The last two were caught by applying the rule this amendment records -- a factual
claim in this ADR is a hypothesis until the implementing phase executes it -- on
its first use.

Refs #3881

* docs(#3881): record that §8.1's fork is ill-posed and (a) is not implementable

An adversarial pass on the Phase 4 design established by execution that
extractFrontmatter is not a YAML parser but a line-oriented scanner whose output
is a function of raw source text. Four spellings of the same value collapse to
one js-yaml tree but produce four distinct legacy strings, one of them mangled.
No adapter over a tree can choose among outputs the tree does not distinguish,
so fork (a) -- keep a string-coercing adapter so the existing contract holds --
cannot be built. For any document with a non-scalar value, (a) collapses into
(b); about 26 percent of frontmatter-carrying documents have one.

Also records three design defects and one new attack surface, all confirmed by
execution: catching a parse failure and returning {} would delete the frontmatter
block on the next write at eight call sites that conflate empty with unparseable;
an empty value yields null where legacy yields {}, and reconstructFrontmatter
omits null-valued keys, so the shipped state template's empty progress key would
vanish; the #1882 truncation probe is parseYamlRegion itself rather than a
pre-parse heuristic, so it cannot both stay unchanged and survive that deletion;
and FAILSAFE_SCHEMA still resolves aliases, expanding seven lines to 22.8 MB.

The rule is not deferred. The measurement is the deliverable and the re-scoping
is recorded as an open question with a forcing function, per section 8's own rule.

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): failing-first rows for block scalars, unicode keys and the missing #3594 matrix

Creates tests/feat-3594-parser-adversarial-frontmatter.test.cjs, the file the fixture README instructs contributors to register fixtures in but which never existed.

Section C: table-driven ownership check over tests/fixtures/adversarial/frontmatter/ so a fixture with no matrix entry fails loudly; six existing fixtures (duplicate-keys, crlf-mixed, unclosed-block, unicode-keys-and-values, null-byte-value, huge-bounded) each get the invariant its README states.

B1 blockScalarValueIsNotTheBlockIndicator: parsing commands/gsd/add-tests.md must give argument-instructions the instruction text, not the literal '|'. RED today.

B2 blockScalarDoesNotInventATopLevelKey: same parse must not produce a top-level Example key scraped from inside the block body. RED today.

B3 unicodeKeyRoundTripsAsIs: the 相 key in unicode-keys-and-values.md must survive parsing; today it is silently dropped. RED today.

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): vendor js-yaml and generalize the vendored-deps guard to a manifest

Packaging step for ADR-3473 §8.1: makes js-yaml available to gsd-core/bin/** without promoting it out of devDependencies (promoting broke every installed tree, #3496).

gsd-core/bin/lib/vendor/js-yaml.cjs is a verbatim copy of node_modules/js-yaml/dist/js-yaml.js (the self-contained UMD dist bundle, not index.js), exposing load/dump/FAILSAFE_SCHEMA/YAMLException with zero require() calls of its own.

src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts is hand-authored, not copied, because js-yaml ships no upstream .d.ts and @types/js-yaml is not installed. It is deliberately narrow, declaring only the four symbols in use, so anchors/aliases/custom types/loadAll are unreachable from typed code -- a compile-time enforcement of ADR-3473 §8.1's refusal to expand alias resolution for security reasons. Because it has no upstream counterpart it is excluded from the byte-compare.

scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs is refactored from a script hardcoded to re2js into a table-driven VENDORED manifest (one row per package: upstream/vendored .cjs paths, optional .d.cts paths, twin kind upstream-verbatim vs hand-authored) so a second vendored package does not require a second hardcoded check block, per ADR-3473 §8.3 'one implementation per rule'. The four existing re2js checks (vendored .cjs vs node_modules, vendored .d.cts vs node_modules, src/vendor twin vs bin-side twin, devDependency version pin vs installed version) are preserved unchanged; verified pass/fail identical before and after the refactor, and the guard's ability to fail was re-proven with a deliberate one-byte append to both re2js.cjs and js-yaml.cjs, then restored.

docs/INVENTORY.md and docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json (via gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write, run after build:lib) register vendor/js-yaml.cjs. gsd-core/bin/lib/vendor/README.md documents both vendored packages and the two twin kinds.

Refs #3881

* feat(#3881): parse .planning frontmatter with the vendored js-yaml

ADR-3473 §8.1: extractFrontmatter's read path is no longer a hand-rolled
line scanner. parseYamlRegion, escapeDoubleQuoted, unescapeDoubleQuoted and
parseQuotedScalar are deleted (not patched); parsing now goes through the
vendored js-yaml (./vendor/js-yaml.cjs) under { schema: FAILSAFE_SCHEMA,
json: true }. Everything js-yaml does not do is layered on top, in one
place, carrying the seven design-doc consequences:

1. Empty value: a null js-yaml value is coerced to {} (matching legacy's
   own empty-value contract) so reconstructFrontmatter — which omits
   null-valued keys — still round-trips a bare `key:` line instead of
   deleting it. Verified live: progress: with no value survives
   parse -> reconstruct -> re-parse.

2. Unparseable no longer collapses to a bare {}: a new FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE
   Symbol (exported), keyed exactly like the existing #3257 FULL_LINE_COMMENTS
   channel, is carried on the {} returned for malformed/refused YAML. Invisible
   to Object.keys/entries/JSON.stringify/for-in, so the 70 call sites that
   never inspect it are unaffected; wiring the 8 hasFrontmatter sites to
   consult it is a separate change, not done here.

3. Non-scalar object-list items (the four spellings of `- test: a b` that
   js-yaml collapses into one tree shape) are rendered as a canonical
   `key: value[, key2: value2]` string per item, keeping the existing
   array-of-strings value SHAPE. A full corpus differential over all 1702
   tracked markdown files found 11 residual divergences from the legacy
   parser (enumerated in the PR/report), most of them the parser now being
   MORE correct (a dropped quoted top-level key, the block-scalar/phantom-key
   defect, a dropped Unicode key).

4. The #1882 truncation probe still runs the one real parser, but derives
   its key count from js-yaml's own thrown error and mark.line when the
   whole region doesn't parse cleanly (the dominant real truncation shape:
   fence opened, well-formed keys, no closing fence). Verified against both
   the clean-parse and the exception-fallback path.

5. The #3257 comment channel now attributes each pending column-0 comment
   against js-yaml's own parsed top-level key list (matched by literal key
   text, in document order) instead of the legacy ASCII-only key regex, so
   a comment above a Unicode key attaches correctly.

6. Anchors, aliases and merge keys are refused outright (a raw-text
   pre-scan, since FAILSAFE_SCHEMA still resolves them) — corpus occurrences
   today: zero. A 7-line billion-laughs fixture is verified refused rather
   than expanded.

7. A literal U+0000 is swapped for a private-use sentinel before the parse
   and restored in every resulting string afterward, since js-yaml rejects
   NUL unconditionally under every schema.

escapeDoubleQuoted is deleted and reimplemented via js-yaml's dump()
(forced double-quoted style), with control-char hex escapes lowercased to
keep serialized output byte-stable (#1779 emitted lowercase); it keeps its
exported name and signature for its two other call sites (commands.cts,
runtime-artifact-conversion.cts), which need no change.

frontmatterDeepEqual, the comment channel, sliceTopLevelFrontmatterSegments,
regenerateFrontmatterKey's guard, noOpObjectListSetError and
parseMustHavesBlock are all unchanged — retiring them is fork (b) and is
not this phase.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): quote template placeholders and preserve unparseable frontmatter

SECURITY.md/UI-SPEC.md/VALIDATION.md wrote frontmatter placeholders as
bare {N}/{phase-slug}/{date}, which is valid YAML flow-mapping syntax
under the vendored js-yaml parser, not the literal placeholder text
intended. Quote them so they parse as strings.

Wire the FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE Symbol (exported but unused) at the
8 call sites in state.cts/state-transition.cts that compute
hasFrontmatter via Object.keys(extractFrontmatter(...)).length > 0 and
reassemble the document without a frontmatter block when false. That
check conflated 'no frontmatter' with 'unparseable frontmatter' (both
parse to {}), so a document with a merge-conflict marker or refused
alias in its frontmatter had that block silently dropped on write.
Each site now preserves the exact raw bytes stripFrontmatter removed
when the marker is set, leaving the genuinely-empty case unchanged.

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): consequence and boundary coverage for the js-yaml migration

Rows: A1 emptyValuedKeySurvivesAWrite, A2 unparseableDocumentKeepsItsFrontmatterBlock, A3 unparseableIsDistinguishableFromEmpty, A4 nonScalarValuesCanonicalize, A5 truncationProbeStillFiresOnAnOpenFence, A6 commentsStayOnTheirOwnKey, A7 anchorsAndAliasesAreRefused, A8 aliasExpansionCannotExhaustMemory, F1 UNTERMINATED_KEY_THRESHOLD boundary, F2 alias/nesting refusal bound, F3 frontmatter size boundary (huge-bounded.md + larger). Adds tests/fixtures/adversarial/frontmatter/anchor-alias-bomb.md and its entry in the feat-3594 fixture matrix.

Refs #3881

* docs(#3881): document the vendored parser, correct a stale rationale, add a vendoring how-to

Refs #3881

* docs(#3881): correct the frontmatter glossary entry

Two errors in the entry as first written: it named parseYamlRegion as part of
the read path when that function is deleted, and it recorded the eight
hasFrontmatter call sites as unwired follow-on work when they were wired in
e35ac2a2c. Also records the scope caveat that the CLI write path rebuilds the
frontmatter block independently, so the marker binds at the transform layer.

Refs #3881

* docs(#3881): record the semantic-migration decision and the counted guard ledger

The maintainer chose the full semantic migration over splitting the rule into
its own epic or patching the scanner, so section 8.1 is answered as "the fork
was ill-posed and the migration is semantic" rather than as (a) or (b).

Also replaces the pre-implementation guess that this phase would shrink the
guard surface with the counted result: excluding vendored third-party lines the
hand-maintained surface is net +307, and frontmatter.cts grew by 68 lines
despite four functions being deleted, because the compatibility layer over
js-yaml is larger than the scanner it replaced. Section 8.1's stated benefit is
therefore not delivered as written; what improved is the kind of code
maintained, not the amount. Decision 6 requires recording that rather than
netting it away.

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): changeset for the vendored YAML parser migration

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): golden parity, round-trip property and packaging coverage

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): refuse anchors structurally and fold in review findings

ADR-3473 §8.1 review findings, addressed inline:

Finding 1 (BLOCKER): refuseAnchorsAndAliases was a raw-line regex that matched
only the bare-key spelling (key: &x). A quoted key ("a": &x), a flow mapping
({b: &x}) and a flow sequence ([&x, *x]) all define/use the SAME anchor
mechanics while never matching that line shape, so the exact expansion the
guard exists to stop went straight through unrefused (a 303-byte quoted-key
bomb expanded to ~35.8MB). Replaced with js-yaml's own `load` `listener`
callback, which reports `state.anchor` for every event belonging to an
anchored node in every spelling, and throws from inside the callback to abort
before any expansion (~1-2ms vs full expand-then-discard). A merge key with
an alias is still refused (merge always requires a previously anchored node,
so the alias itself trips the listener); a bare merge key with NO alias is no
longer separately refused, documented as intentional: FAILSAFE_SCHEMA never
resolves `!!merge`, so it carries no expansion risk. Table-driven tests added
for all four bypass spellings + merge key, plus a quoted-key-spelled
billion-laughs fixture registered in the adversarial matrix and README.

Finding 2: src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts's docblock falsely claimed anchors/
aliases were "simply UNREACHABLE from typed code" through the twin. Corrected
to state the truth: anchor/alias resolution is document-level `load`
mechanics reachable through exactly the declared surface, and refusal is
enforced at RUNTIME (Finding 1's listener), not by the type surface.

Finding 3 (MAJOR): the null-byte sentinel (U+E000) round-trip was
non-injective — restoreNullBytesDeep rewrote every U+E000 in the parsed tree
back to NUL, including one the document author legitimately wrote, silently
corrupting it. Now refuses outright whenever the raw region already contains
U+E000 (consistent with the existing anchor/merge-key refusal path), making
the substitution provably injective. Tests added for a real NUL alone
(preserved), a pre-existing U+E000 alone (refused, not corrupted), and both
together (refused, not merged into one byte).

Finding 4 (MAJOR): scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs's `srcTwin` field was dead
for a hand-authored row (only read inside the upstream-verbatim branch) —
exactly how Finding 2's stale docblock drifted unnoticed. Added
checkHandAuthoredTwin: every value-level export the twin DECLARES must be an
actual own property of the vendored runtime module at require-time. Tests
added, including a sensor that a declared-but-nonexistent export IS caught.

Finding 5: the existingFm/hasFrontmatter/stripFrontmatter/fmPrefix/
unparseableFm/reassemble preamble, copy-pasted at 7 sites in
state-transition.cts plus a sixth hand-inlined copy in state.cts's
cmdStateCompletePhase, is now one exported helper
(beginFrontmatterReassembly) every site routes through, including the
hand-inlined one. Three call sites (beginPhaseCore, patchCore, updateCore)
keep a literal `body = stripFrontmatter(content)` assignment alongside the
helper call so scripts/lint-state-write-path-drift.cjs's single-hop backward
scan (which does not chase aliases) still sees the strip; stripFrontmatter is
pure/idempotent so the extra call changes nothing observable.

Finding 6: corrected the frontmatter.cts docblock's stale "wiring is a
separate change" claim (the 8 call sites are wired on this branch) and the
changeset's backlink from (#3473) to (#3881).

Finding 7: fixed the lint:ci failures blocking the gate — an
@typescript-eslint/only-throw-error violation from throwing a bare Symbol as
the anchor-detected signal (now a real Error subclass), unused-var warnings
left over from the Finding 5 refactor, a lint-test-file-count cap exceeded by
two migration-specific test files (allowlisted with justification), and the
lint-state-write-path-drift false positive from Finding 5's helper (fixed
above). tests/frontmatter-golden-parity.test.cjs:117's execFileSync already
carried an explicit timeout; no change was needed there.

Golden fixture: added a golden entry for the new
anchor-alias-bomb-quoted.md fixture ({} — matches what the legacy line
scanner would also produce, since it independently dropped every quoted
top-level key). No other corpus document diverges: real .planning/ documents
carry zero anchors/aliases/merge keys/U+E000 today.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): fold in second-round review findings

Finding 1 (BLOCKER): tests/frontmatter.test.cjs pinned the pre-migration
ASCII-only key regex for the Unicode fixture; updated to require the 相
key's value now that js-yaml has no such restriction. Audited the rest of
the file for other pre-migration pins (block scalars, quoted keys,
flattened values, empty values, duplicate keys, unclosed blocks, null
bytes) by execution against real fixtures; found none regressed.

Finding 2: parseYamlRegion and escapeDoubleQuoted renamed to
parseGuardedYamlRegion and escapeDoubleQuotedScalar in src/frontmatter.cts
so no function still answers to the deleted hand-rolled scanner's name
(ADR-3473 §8.1 "deleted, not patched"). escapeDoubleQuotedScalar's three
external call sites (src/commands.cts, src/runtime-artifact-conversion.cts)
updated in the same change — a mechanical rename, not an ADR-amendment
matter.

Finding 3 (BLOCKER): fixed a real crash and a silent data-loss bug found
by execution. A top-level key named constructor/__proto__/toString/
valueOf/hasOwnProperty crashed reconstructFrontmatter (bracket read
resolving an inherited Object.prototype member); a key literally named
__proto__ was silently DROPPED entirely (bracket assignment on an
ordinary {} invoked the inherited __proto__ setter instead of creating a
data property). Fixed by building every parsed Frontmatter object with
Object.create(null), and replacing an `in` check with hasOwnProperty.call
in propagateCommentChannel. Added round-trip tests for all five hostile
keys, each with its own leading comment.

Finding 4 (MAJOR): escapeDoubleQuotedScalar's docstring falsely claimed
full byte-stability across the migration. Verified by execution: BEL/NUL/
NEL/NBSP/LS/PS/BOM now emit YAML-named escapes instead of the old hex/raw-
literal forms. Proved round-trip equivalence (each escape re-parses to the
exact source codepoint) and corrected the docstring. Found and fixed a
related real defect while verifying: a lone UTF-16 surrogate was emitted
BARE (scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting didn't trigger), producing genuinely
unparseable YAML that silently collapsed to {} on re-read — extended
scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting to route surrogates through the quoted+escaped
path.

Finding 5 (MAJOR): countKeysBeforeTruncation went silent on 4 real
truncation shapes (unquoted colon, open flow collection, mis-indented
sibling key, refused anchor). Root cause: the mark-based prefix recovery
excluded the very line whose key needed counting, and a mark-less refusal
never entered the recovery branch at all. Fixed by taking the max of two
lower bounds: the longest parser-verified line-prefix, and a raw-text
count of key-shaped lines (reusing the same key-shape pattern this file
already uses for isFrontmatterShaped). Extended test-matrix row A5
table-driven over all 4 regressed shapes.

Finding 6: the design doc's claim that no test owned the #3594 adversarial
fixture corpus was false — consolidation epic #1969 had already folded it
into tests/frontmatter.test.cjs. An earlier commit on this branch
re-created a standalone duplicate under that false premise; folded its
genuinely-new coverage (fixture-ownership check, anchor-bomb fixtures,
block-scalar B1/B2 rows) into frontmatter.test.cjs and deleted the
duplicate file. Corrected the false claims in 40-design.md §3.3.1 and the
ADR's §8.1 note, including the roadmap-sibling claim (no such file exists).

Finding 7: the golden serializer sorted object keys, making it structurally
blind to the key-order-parity invariant ADR-3473 §8.1 actually claims.
Made it order-preserving and regenerated the golden fixture from a
standalone compile of the legacy (pre-#3881) parser at ddde001af; the
current parser matches it with zero undocumented divergences, confirming
key-order parity genuinely holds. Extended row A2 table-driven across 6 of
the remaining 7 transitionCore kinds (all pass) plus documented, by
execution, a newly-discovered 8th-site regression: state.cts's
cmdStateCompletePhase calls the same preservation helper but its result is
clobbered by a later unconditional resync — filed as a distinct finding
rather than fixed here (touches syncAndPreserveStateMd, outside this
change's verified scope).

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): preserve unparseable frontmatter through the CLI write path

Characterization (executed, before/after shown): case (b), not (a). The
frontmatter FENCE survives — `state complete-phase` on a conflict-marked
STATE.md returns success and a well-formed, freshly-derived frontmatter
block, not a document with no frontmatter at all. But the block's actual
content (the merge-conflict markers, and with them any signal to a human
that the document was in conflict) is silently discarded and replaced.

Root cause was two clobber sites, not one:

1. syncStateFrontmatter (src/state.cts) re-parses the already-preserved
   `transformedContent` from readModifyWriteStateMd, finds {} + the
   FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE marker, and unconditionally rebuilt a fresh
   frontmatter block from the body anyway.
2. Even after (1) is fixed, applyPostSyncPreservation's own
   postFm/applyStatePreservation/authoritativeFm-reassertion machinery
   re-extracts frontmatter from syncedContent, restores curated fields
   from the pre-write snapshot, and reconstructs a NEW block again —
   confirmed live via `state begin-phase`, which still lost the markers
   after fixing (1) alone.

Both are now guarded by the same predicate (isUnparseableFrontmatter,
checking FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE): when the ORIGINAL frontmatter did not
parse and the caller is not on ADR-3408 §8.3's closed "body wins" list,
both functions return their input content unchanged rather than
re-deriving over it. The closed list (cmdStateSync #905,
/gsd-health --repair's REGENERATE_STATE, both routed only through
writeStateMd, which never reaches applyPostSyncPreservation and passes
sanctionedPermanentEmptyFallback=true to syncStateFrontmatter) is
untouched — neither widened nor narrowed; verified by execution that
`state sync` still overwrites the conflict-marked block exactly as before.

Other verbs sharing the same readModifyWriteStateMd path were checked and
were equally affected before this fix: state update, query state.patch,
and state begin-phase all lost the conflict markers (RED, shown by
execution), and all three now preserve them (GREEN). Covered table-driven
in tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs's new A2b describe
block, which drives the real CLI verbs via runGsdTools — not just the pure
transitionCore layer the earlier A2 rows exercised — plus a control
asserting state sync's body-wins contract is unchanged.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): restore the parse surface's prototype and fix remote-runner failures

Root cause of the bulk of the 88 remote-runner failures: extractFrontmatter/parseGuardedYamlRegion handed back Object.create(null) trees for prototype-pollution safety, but assert.deepStrictEqual compares prototypes, so every assertion against a plain object literal failed (57 frontmatter.unit.test.cjs + 5 frontmatter.test.cjs + others). Fixed by keeping the internal construction null-prototype (unchanged) and converting to a plain-prototype tree via Object.defineProperty (never bracket assignment, so __proto__/constructor/toString keys stay safe) at the parseGuardedYamlRegion/unparseableResult return boundary only; the internal FULL_LINE_COMMENTS Symbol channel is copied by reference, not recursed, so its own __proto__-safety is untouched.

Per-class fixes: (1) bomAcrossArtifactTypes was the same prototype bug, no separate code change needed. (2) frontmatter-cli #1660: added objectListFieldWouldLoseData, a broader lossy-field detector alongside the existing byte-identical noOpObjectListSetError -- js-yaml's flattenObjectListItem now correctly includes every sub-key of an object-list item (a real bug fix over the legacy scanner, which silently dropped every field but the first), so a set that drops that now-included data is no longer byte-identical to the original and needs its own guard. (3) uat.test.cjs: updated the pinned expectation for the human_verification quote-stripping artifact -- js-yaml resolves quoting correctly where the legacy regex left an unbalanced quote; documented as an intentional, non-lossy behavior change. (4) smart-entry: added a fallback-only loadWithAmbiguousColonRepair so a column-0 key: value line whose value itself contains an unquoted colon (the #2571 hand-edited-STATE.md shape) round-trips instead of failing the whole frontmatter block closed. (5) frontmatter.unit.test.cjs bracket-array leniency: added a second fallback, repairMalformedInlineArrays, restoring the legacy scanner's tolerant inline-array handling (consecutive/blank commas, unclosed bracket) -- both repairs run ONLY after the primary parse already threw, so well-formed documents are unaffected. (6) prompt-injection-scan: src/frontmatter.cts had a literal U+FEFF BOM embedded in a comment illustrating the #2977 fix; replaced with the U+FEFF text escape. (7) eslint-glob-coverage: allowlisted the new src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts vendored type declaration, same precedent as the existing re2js.d.cts entry. (8) frontmatter-golden-parity: git ls-files *.md now runs with -c safe.directory=* (process-scoped) so it survives the remote runner's dubious-ownership check without a persistent git config write.

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): make golden parity resistant to unrelated tree churn

A corpus-wide snapshot keyed to every tracked *.md file was coupled to mutable-by-design files: .changeset/*.md's pr:0 -> real-PR-number backfill is a required workflow step, not a parser change, yet it turned this suite red. Training people to 'just regenerate the golden' on that kind of failure defeats the point of the snapshot. Exclude .changeset/** from the golden corpus entirely, tolerate tracked *.md files with no golden entry (they postdate the capture) instead of failing on them, keep hard failures for a golden entry whose file has vanished from the tree and for any real parity divergence, and add a coverage floor so the enumeration cannot quietly degrade to comparing a handful of files. Golden regenerated by recompiling the legacy pre-migration parser (git show ddde001af:src/frontmatter.cts) standalone, independent of the current parser, over the same non-changeset corpus.

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): make the parser golden hermetic instead of tree-keyed

This repo merges ~21 commits/day; a 14-day sample measured 937 touches of the
exact files (commands/gsd/*.md, gsd-core/workflows/*.md, agents/*.md,
docs/*.md) the prior golden pinned by tracked path. Any PR editing one of
those files' frontmatter for reasons unrelated to the parser (an
argument-hint addition, an allowed-tools tweak) turned the suite red, and the
reflex fix -- "regenerate the golden" -- overwrote the very snapshot meant to
catch a real regression. Excluding .changeset/** was not enough; the design
itself was wrong: a regression fixture must not be keyed to mutable repo
paths, and a single 376-entry JSON every such PR touches is also a
guaranteed merge-conflict surface.

Rebuilt the fixture to carry its own documents: each of 51 entries stores a
stable id, literal documentText (shrunk from a real ddde001af-era corpus
document), and an expectedParse captured independently from the
pre-migration legacy parser (git show ddde001af:src/frontmatter.cts,
compiled standalone against its byte-identical sibling modules). The test
reads no tracked path, shells out to no git command, and enumerates no tree
-- a PR editing commands/gsd/help.md cannot affect it. Every entry's
reconstruction was verified at capture time to reproduce both the current
and legacy parser's output on the original document; 0 of 51 candidates
were dropped by that check (1, the deliberately-unterminated
unclosed-block.md adversarial fixture, has no closing fence to truncate at
and is stored unshrunk). Kept the 5 documented DIVERGENCES rows (now
diverges:true entries) and the D2 order-preserving structural serializer
that keeps the comparison from passing vacuously; dropped the
tree-enumeration helpers, the coverage floor, the post-capture-skip logic,
and the vanished-file check -- all artifacts of the path-keyed design.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): resolve vendored-deps paths independently of cwd shape

Five rows in tests/lint-vendored-deps-manifest.test.cjs failed on
windows-latest CI: the test passed absolute scratch-file paths into
compareFiles()/checkRow(), whose helpers joined every input onto ROOT
via path.join(ROOT, rel), producing garbage when the input was already
absolute. It surfaced on windows-latest specifically because GitHub's
Windows runners checkout the repo on a different drive than TEMP, so
path.relative(REPO_ROOT, tmpFile) returned the absolute path unchanged
(no relative traversal is representable across drives) rather than the
relative form the test assumed. The remote gsd-test runner this repo
gates pushes on is Linux-only and could never have caught this;
GitHub CI's windows-latest job is the only signal that does, and it did.

Fixed the helper itself (scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs's new
resolvePath()) to treat an already-absolute input as absolute-in,
absolute-out instead of silently mis-joining it, and updated the test
to pass the scratch file's absolute path directly rather than relying
on a relative conversion that is not always representable. Kept every
mutation-sensor assertion intact and added coverage proving
resolvePath is a no-op for relative inputs and correctly passes
absolute ones through unchanged.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): warn when state sync regenerates over unparseable frontmatter

state sync (ADR-3408 §8.3's sanctioned regenerate path) correctly
overwrites an unparseable frontmatter block per its 'body wins'
contract — that overwrite behavior is unchanged here. The defect was
the silence: synced:true/exit 0 gave no signal that the existing
block (including git merge-conflict markers) could not be parsed and
was destroyed, per ADR-3473 §8.5 ('a derived conclusion may not be
reported as authoritative when the derivation dropped input it could
not resolve') and §8.4 ('failure is a value').

Adds a gsd: warning — ... (#3881) line on stderr, matching the
existing #3573 precedent, and surfaces the same disclosure in the
JSON result's existing changes[] array so a machine consumer sees it
too. Exit code and synced:true are left unchanged — sync did what its
contract says.

REGENERATE_STATE (/gsd-health --repair's sibling on the same
sanctioned-regenerate list) is DESTRUCTIVE-risk and unconditionally
refused by applyRepairs's dispatcher before runRepairAction ever runs
(src/health-diagnostic.cts), so it is not a live path today and is not
in scope for this fix.

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): exit non-zero when a state command returns an error

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): changeset for the state exit-code fix

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): honor the documented --project-dir flag

Refs #3881

* revert(#3881): restore exit-0 result envelopes for state errors

Reverts 9638f2936 and its changeset. The change was wrong and the revert is
the correction.

This repo distinguishes two error mechanisms deliberately. error() in
src/io.cts writes to stderr and calls process.exit(1) -- the hard-failure
path. output({error: ...}) writes a JSON result envelope to stdout and returns
normally with exit 0. The reverted commit converted 23 result-envelope sites
into hard failures, which is a different contract, not a bug fix.

tests/state-contract.test.cjs's errorPathDoesNotPublish asserts the envelope
contract directly -- a failing command exits 0 with a JSON error envelope and
must not publish state.json -- and the remote matrix run caught it along with
four cases in the QA scenario walk. Thirteen tests in tests/state.test.cjs that
the original commit rewrote were encoding that real contract, not the bug it
claimed; they are restored.

Whether an error envelope on stdout with exit 0 is the right CLI design is a
genuine question, and it is section 8.4's rule ('failure is a value') with its
own phase. It is not something to flip inside this PR.

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): backfill changeset PR number for the project-dir fix

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): keep the frontmatter mutation shard inside its time budget

The Stryker (frontmatter) shard hit the documented 15-minute (900s) shard
cap. Root cause is NOT row-level spawn overhead (contrast the #2790/
core-utils precedent): the three shard test files' own logic runs in
~413ms total (356+30+27ms) with all 392 assertions passing. Instead,
src/frontmatter.cts grew from ~825 to 1496 lines (+671/-187) migrating to
the vendored YAML parser, proportionally growing the mutant count Stryker
generates for gsd-core/bin/lib/frontmatter.cjs. Stryker's command runner
bills the full 'node --test <3 files>' invocation once per mutant, and
node:test's default per-file process isolation forks a child process for
each of the three files on every one of those invocations — pure fork
overhead multiplied by a much larger mutant population.

Fix: scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED.frontmatter now declares
isolation: 'none', and .github/workflows/mutation.yml passes
--test-isolation=${{ matrix.isolation }} (defaulting to 'process' — i.e.
unchanged behavior — for the other 8 shards, which were not individually
audited for cross-file state leakage under shared-process execution).
Measured locally via node:test's run() API on the exact 3-file set:
isolation:'process' took ~593ms vs isolation:'none' ~478ms for the same
392 passing assertions. The true CI-shard number can only be confirmed
on the GitHub Actions run (Stryker cannot run locally, and 'node --test'
is hard-blocked in this environment).

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): register the vendored-parser tests in the frontmatter mutation shard

stryker.config.mjs's own rule ("Keep this list in sync with the tests
arrays in scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED") was violated: #3881 grew
src/frontmatter.cts from ~825 to 1496 lines but its new tests
(tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs,
tests/frontmatter-golden-parity.test.cjs,
tests/frontmatter-roundtrip.property.test.cjs, and +167 lines in
tests/frontmatter.test.cjs) were never added to the frontmatter shard's
tests array, so Stryker's mutants in the new vendored-js-yaml adapter had
nothing constraining them. PR #3888 measured 55.8% against the 65 floor
(748 killed / 593 survived / 17 timeout) and the shard was separately
cancelled at 15m04s against the 15-minute per-shard cap.

Registers all four files (each earns its slot on evidence of a unique
constraining assertion, documented inline), gives the shard a
measured/projected 180-minute budget via a new per-module
timeoutMinutes field threaded through mutation.yml's job-level
timeout-minutes the same way isolation is threaded, and removes the
prior isolation:'none' override (re-measured at this file-set size, its
savings are within run-to-run noise, not worth the unaudited
cross-file-state-leakage risk).

Refs #3881

* feat(#3881): derive the mutation test list and ratchet the score floor

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): ratchet five stale mutation floors and close the frontmatter gap

Raised five module minScore floors per CI run 33012034388 (floor(achieved)-1):
config-schema 75.51%->74, prompt-budget 88.95%->87, context-composer 79.92%->78,
context-utilization 92.31%->91, active-workstream-store 87.42%->86. Updated both
scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED entries and tests/mutation-matrix-ratchet.test.cjs
RATCHET_BASELINE in the same diff per the ratchet's own contract.

Closed the frontmatter shard's 63.03%-vs-65 gap with new behavioral tests in
tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs, each paired with a documented
near-miss: frontmatterDeepEqual's array-order/length/type-mismatch/key-order
semantics (via spliceFrontmatter's no-op guard), scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting's
leading/trailing-whitespace and dash/surrogate triggers (via reconstructFrontmatter),
repairAmbiguousColonValues' already-quoted vs ambiguous-colon repair paths (via
extractFrontmatter), and the null-byte sentinel round-trip surviving at region
offset 1. Did not lower minScore.

Refs #3881

* test(#3881): decouple the ratchet test from real module floors

The CLI end-to-end rows in tests/mutation-score-ratchet.test.cjs hardcoded config-schema's real floor (52), which commit 973321541 legitimately ratcheted to 74 -- breaking a test pinned to the exact value the mechanism under test exists to change. Add an injectable --matrix seam to scripts/check-mutation-score-ratchet.cjs and point the CLI rows at a synthetic module + synthetic floor built via a temp fixture, so the rows are indifferent to any real module's floor moving while still exercising the same fail/pass behaviour.

Refs #3881

* refactor(#3881): parse must_haves with the vendored parser and drop re-implemented leniency

Refs #3881

* fix(#3881): restore the ambiguous-colon repair its hand-edited-STATE.md contract needs

A tracked-document sweep of 910 *.md files cannot see this dependent: repairAmbiguousColonValues's one real caller is user hand-edited STATE.md content that never lives in this repo's tree, only on end users' machines, and is pinned by tests/smart-entry.unit.test.cjs. Restores the function plus its post-throw fallback path (loadWithAmbiguousColonRepair) only; repairMalformedInlineArrays and splitLegacyInlineArrayItems stay deleted, reverified against the full frontmatter test shard. Adds a frontmatter-level regression row in tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs so the dependency is visible where the function lives.

Closes #2571
Refs #3881

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 19:29:32 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a3d5841117 fix(#3714): deliver an explicitly pinned model to the Codex worktree executor, and drop an unusable one (#3891)
* test(#3714): failing-first coverage for the dropped Codex worktree model override

Pins the argv contract for the orchestrator-worktree process dispatch: an explicit
model_overrides pin must reach the child as --model, while an unpinned, empty,
inherit, or profile-only configuration must emit no flag at all.

Five of the eight matrix rows are CONTROLS that pass before the fix. They carry the
weight here because this is an over-emission bug waiting to happen: resolve-model
returns 'sonnet' for the unpinned, empty and profile-only cases, so a fix that
threads its return value into argv would satisfy the positive row and emit
--model sonnet to Codex on every unpinned install -- the documented 400 that
ADR-2313 exists to prevent. The controls are what separate the correct fix from
the obvious one.

* fix(#3714): deliver an explicitly pinned model to the Codex worktree executor

resolveOrchestratorExec had no model input at all -- the descriptor carried only
command/args/cwdFlag/promptFlag -- so a resolved override had no way to reach the
spawned process even in principle. The baked gsd-executor.toml could not compensate
because this path spawns a process rather than dispatching a named agent.

Three parts, and the third is the load-bearing one.

The descriptor gains modelFlag (codex: --model), keeping the per-host knowledge as
descriptor data exactly as cwdFlag and promptFlag already are, so the scheduler
grows no per-host branch. No other runtime declares it.

The seam appends [modelFlag, model] and stays MECHANICAL: it does not know the
inherit sentinel, does not know which models Codex rejects, and reads no config.
Its sibling codex-agent-toml states that rule outright -- callers decide what to
strip. Argv order is baseArgs, model, cwd, prompt so the prompt remains the final
positional token. Omitting the model is byte-identical to before. A model starting
with '-' now fails closed as unsafe_leading_dash_model, the same hazard the prompt
and cwd guards already reject and which was silently accepted before.

The policy lives at the caller and passes ONLY an explicit, non-sentinel per-agent
pin. Passing null as the runtime resolver is what keeps profile and tier derived
models out of argv, which is what Codex's session-only model posture requires: the
model resolver returns 'sonnet' for the unpinned, empty and profile-only cases, and
emitting that revives the documented 400 from #2310/#2311 that ADR-2313 removed. So
the gate is the presence of an explicit pin, never that a value came back.

* fix(#3714): enforce the real-Codex value policy the sibling surface already applies

Review found one root cause behind a BLOCKER, two MAJORs, two MINORs and an
argv-injection finding: the dispatch path gated on the PRESENCE of an explicit pin
but never applied the VALUE policy that generateCodexAgentToml already applies to
the same config key. Textbook generative divergence -- and the parity row I wrote
tested resolver parity, not this policy, so it could never have caught it.

BLOCKER: a global ~/.gsd/defaults.json model_overrides.gsd-executor of 'sonnet',
'opus' or 'claude-sonnet-4-5' reached codex exec --model verbatim. That is the
documented 400 from #2310/#2311, arriving through the explicit-pin door rather
than the tier door. The issue asks for an explicit REAL-CODEX pin; real-Codex was
unenforced. Now dropped with a warning via the isAnthropicFlavoredModel predicate
#3241 single-sourced for exactly this reason.

Also: values are trimmed, so a whitespace-only pin is blank rather than
--model "   "; 'inherit' is matched case- and whitespace-insensitively, so
'Inherit' and ' inherit ' no longer reach the wire; and a value outside a model-id
charset is dropped with a warning. That last one closes the injection surface --
.planning/config.json travels with a clone, and values like
'gpt-5 -c approval_policy=never' or a command-substitution value previously reached argv verbatim,
where the spawner is an agent writing bash.

Every rejection DROPS AND WARNS rather than failing closed. An unusable exec is not
degraded, it is fatal: the dispatch step halts the wave after the worktree already
exists, so a config typo would have aborted execute-phase. The stale comment
claiming it degrades to sequential is corrected.

Separately, the seam's own empty-model handling contradicted the committed contract
and failed four tests on the remote runner. An absent, null or empty model is not an
error -- it means use the host default, the same degradation cwdFlag:null already
expresses. Unlike a prompt, where empty is a hang rather than a degraded run, so
that one stays fail-closed. Non-string values still fail closed.

Tests: the CLI rows were not HOME-hermetic and read the developer's real
~/.gsd/defaults.json, which is precisely the file the BLOCKER is about; HOME and
USERPROFILE are now sandboxed per call. Adds the global-pin regression, the
injection shapes, the case-variant inherit rows, and a real cross-surface
divergence guard.

* fix(#3714): close the flag-shaped pin, the case-variant alias, and the warning sink

Round two of review found three more defects, two of which both engines reached
independently, and all three were mine.

The charset allowlist put the dash INSIDE the character class, so a value made only
of allowed characters passed the pin policy silently and then tripped the seam's
leading-dash guard, producing exec:null. That is the wave-fatal path the whole
drop-and-warn design exists to avoid, reachable from a committed config file: -c,
--config, -p and --dangerously-skip-permissions all reproduced it. It also regressed
hosts with no model flag at all, where a dash pin turned a previously working
kimi-code dispatch into exec:null. The first character is now anchored, so a
flag-shaped value is dropped and warned like every other rejection, and the comment
that claimed this path was unreachable is corrected.

isAnthropicFlavoredModel folded case on its substring arm but not on its alias-set
arm, so SONNET, Sonnet, OPUS and HAIKU all reached Codex argv while lowercase sonnet
was correctly dropped -- the same 400 the drop exists to prevent. The predicate is
the one #3241 single-sourced so these surfaces cannot diverge, so folding case there
fixes the install-side .toml surface too.

The warning wrote the rejected value RAW to stderr. Every value that fails the
charset test contains by definition the characters the charset excludes, so it was a
guaranteed-reachable raw-to-terminal sink: an OSC sequence in a committed config
reached the operator's terminal byte for byte, and truncation could sever an escape
before its reset. The value is now sanitized before truncation.

Also from review: the allowlist rejected Vertex version pins like text-bison@002, a
false positive on a real model id; the policy ran host-neutrally so hosts with no
model flag printed a misleading drop warning on every dispatch; the invalid_model
branch had no test at all; and the changeset disclosed only that a pin is delivered,
not that an unusable one is now dropped with a warning.

* fix(#3714): single-source the model-id charset, bound the pin, keep the flag diagnosis

Round three found no blocking findings on either engine. These are the three
correctness items left in code I added.

The charset existed TWICE -- once to accept a pin, once to render a rejected one in
the warning -- and the two copies had already drifted inside a single commit: '@'
was added to the accept class and not the render class, so a Vertex-shaped value
rejected for some other reason rendered as text-bison?002. Both are now derived
from one definition, with a parity test asserting every character the matcher
accepts survives the sanitizer unchanged, so they cannot drift again.

A pin reached argv unbounded. CLAUDE.md documents the hazard: execFileSync aborts
on Windows above 32,767 characters of argv. A model id has no reason to be long, so
a pin over 200 characters is dropped and warned rather than truncated -- a truncated
model id is a different model id. Boundary rows at 199, 200 and 201.

The first character is now required to be alphanumeric, so '@evil' and '/c' no
longer reach argv. Security rates both inert on codex today, so this is hardening
rather than a live defect; it is here because it is one character of regex and
resolveOrchestratorExec documents itself as a general descriptor-to-argv seam that
other hosts may adopt.

Tightening the anchor made the leading-dash branch unreachable and, with it,
regressed the diagnosis: '-c' began reporting 'unsafe characters' instead of
'looks like a flag/option'. The dash check now runs before the charset test, which
both restores the actionable message for the most likely user typo and keeps the
branch live. A test pins the distinction between the three rejection messages so
the branch cannot silently die again.

* test(#3714): make the charset parity guard actually guard, and remove a false-green trap

Review proved by mutation that my parity test could not do what its own comment
claimed. It bound the expected character set to a local that was assigned and
discarded, and the shared definition was not exported, so widening that definition
left the test green. A comment overstating what a test guards is worse than no
comment, because the next reader trusts it. The shared body is now exported and
asserted equal, and I watched the assertion fail against a widened definition
before keeping it.

The sanitizer regex was module-scope, carried the g flag and was exported.
Production only uses it with replace, which resets lastIndex, so there was no live
bug -- but test() on a g-flagged regex alternates between calls, so any future test
reaching for it would false-green. The g-flagged copy is now internal to the one
call site that needs it and the exported companion carries no flags, which removes
the footgun rather than documenting it.

Also notes at the shared definition that it is interpolated into both a positive and
a negated character class, so only plain characters and ranges are safe to add.

No runtime behavior changes: the accept set, the anchor, the length cap, the
sanitizer output, the rejection ordering and all three message texts are
byte-identical, re-verified through the real CLI.

* chore(#3714): backfill changeset pr number

* chore(#3714): re-trigger CI after the GitHub Actions outage

The workflow runs for this branch were created during the Actions major outage on
2026-08-26 and never got scheduled. They are wedged: GitHub reports them queued,
refuses to cancel them, and refuses to rerun them because it believes the workflow
is already running. The Tests run is also pinned to a superseded sha, so no test run
exists for the current head at all.

Actions is operational again and the repo-wide queue has drained, so a fresh push is
what creates schedulable runs. This commit is empty on purpose: nothing about the
change is being altered, and the verified content is byte-identical to 7860c6ccc.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 17:01:09 -04:00
Tom Boucher
389bc86e02 enhance(#3883): route every slug call site through its canonical owner (#3896)
* docs(#3883): correct section 8.3 against the tree

I wrote this section in Phase 0 stating rules I had not executed against the
tree. Measured at 832dcbb75, three statements are wrong.

The slug count is 11 across 5 files, not 13; two of the thirteen were an
unrelated tokenizer regex. The divergence is real and reproduced.

resolveRuntime reads no install marker at all and has no cache; PR #3382,
cited as prior art for that rung, is closed unmerged.

The Codex sandbox is still a hand-maintained subset map with a silent
read-only fallback, and validate agents checks file presence only -- both
halves of that claim are false.

The shortFormToId rule is accurate. The guard roster names no casualty for
this rule.

Section 8.3 is therefore a work list, not a conformance check.

Refs #3883

* test(#3883): failing-first rows for slug re-implementation divergence

Refs #3883

* feat(#3883): route every slug call site through its canonical owner

Migrated commands.cts:209, init.cts:176/1935/1957/3109, phase-id.cts:229/380, phase-locator.cts:269, workstream-name-policy.cts:75 to generateSlugInternal (core-utils.cts:107).

Declared different: gsd2-import.cts:97 (no truncation), active-workstream-store.cts:97 (fixed ASCII env-key domain, already matches).

Fixed a latent circular-require bug: core-utils.cts top-level destructured comparePhaseNum/scopeToPhase from phase-id.cjs; switched both sides of the new circular require to lazy function-body requires.

Refs #3883

* fix(#3883): restore per-site truncation contracts broken by the slug consolidation

Refs #3883

* fix(#3883): close review findings — changeset, miscounts, loose rows, cyclic destructure

Refs #3883

* docs(#3883): correct the same slug miscount in the Context table

Section 8.3's rule text was corrected to 11 copies across 7 files; the Context
table above it still carried the original 13 across 5. Same wrong claim, second
location, both mine.

Refs #3883

* chore(#3883): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3883

* test(#3883): keep the core-utils mutation shard inside its time budget

PR #3896's Stryker (core-utils) shard was cancelled at the 15-minute
shard cap. Stryker's command-runner bills one `node --test <file>`
invocation as a single unit costing whatever the file's slowest run
costs, re-run once per mutant (documented in
tests/state-contract.test.cjs's header, #2790 precedent). A3/A5 drove
every CLI-reachable slug site through runGsdTools (a real child-process
spawn per call, ~85-170ms each across ~70 calls), accounting for ~7.1s
of the file's ~7.9s wall time.

commands.cts:cmdGenerateSlug and init.cts:cmdInitExecutePhase/
cmdInitPhaseOp/cmdInitProgress are plain functions reachable in-process
from the built gsd-core/bin/lib/*.cjs, so this calls them directly
instead of spawning gsd-tools, capturing their fd-1 JSON output with the
bug #1008 fs.writeSync-mock pattern already used in tests/io.test.cjs
and tests/init.test.cjs. A hermetic-env helper reproduces the isolation
runGsdTools's { HOME: tmpDir } + testEnvBase() gave the child process.

File wall time drops from ~7.97s to ~1.1s (246/246 passing, same
coverage), well inside the 15-minute cap even at hundreds of mutants.

Refs #3883

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 16:03:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a638ca4332 enhance(#3882): stop sentinel phases skewing estimation calibration (#3893)
* test(#3882): failing-first rows for sentinel phases skewing calibration

Adds A1a/A1b/A2/A3 to tests/estimate-calibrate.test.cjs, the module's
existing test file, rather than a new bug-NNNN file. collectCalibrationSamples
(src/estimate-cli.cts:206) does a raw readdirSync over .planning/phases and
never applies isSentinelPhaseId, so a sentinel phase (milestone 0 or 999)
carrying a PLAN estimate / SUMMARY actuals pair contributes a phantom
calibration sample.

computeCalibration is median-based, so a single 50x outlier among three
samples leaves the factor unmoved — asserting "the factor is unchanged"
against one sentinel would pass on the broken code for the wrong reason.
Each row instead asserts the WHOLE computed CalibrationResult object
(factor, applied, confidence, sampleCount, clamped) for a sentinel-free
project against its sentinel-injected twin:

- A1a: one sentinel flips applied false->true and confidence low->med on
  phantom evidence (calibration switches on with zero real signal).
- A1b: two sentinels corrupt the factor itself (1 -> 3, clamped false->true).
- A2: the sentinel's own sample is verified absent from the returned list.
- A3: the two genuine phases still contribute their own unchanged samples
  (regression pin — stops A1/A2 passing by filtering everything).

Verified RED on today's code (node tests/estimate-calibrate.test.cjs):
A1a/A1b/A2 fail with the exact differing objects; A3 and all pre-existing
rows in the file remain green (no collateral).

Refs #3882

* feat(#3882): route phase enumeration through its owner and name the sentinel axis

Task 1: collectCalibrationSamples (src/estimate-cli.cts) hand-rolled a raw readdirSync over .planning/phases, treating every directory (including sentinel phases, milestone 0/999) as a completed phase and feeding phantom PLAN/SUMMARY samples into the estimation calibration factor. Routed through the existing owner, listMilestonePhaseDirs(phasesRoot) with no cwd -- already 'all milestones, sentinels excluded', exactly the combination this caller needs; no new API was required for this half. It now also surfaces the scope discriminator: an unreadable phases directory throws PhasesUnreadableError instead of silently returning zero samples, and cmdEstimateCalibrate reports it via a new ERROR_REASON.ESTIMATE_PHASES_UNREADABLE instead of persisting a phantom empty calibration document.

Task 2: added listAllPhaseDirs(phasesDir, { includeSentinels }) to src/phase-locator.cts -- the one genuinely missing axis: 'physical set, sentinels INCLUDED'. includeSentinels has no default and is required, so a call site cannot obtain sentinel-inclusion by omission (compile-time refusal, not just documentation). Mirrors listMilestonePhaseDirs's absent/unreadable scope handling.

Task 3: migrated the two exemptions whose written reason maps cleanly onto 'physical set, sentinels included' -- cmdRoadmapAnalyze's _phaseDirNames (src/roadmap.cts) and cmdInitMilestoneOp's diskPhaseDirs (src/init.cts), both heading->directory lookup indexes. Left the rest: archivePhaseDirectories's own body has no readdirSync to migrate (its callers already resolve dirs before calling it, and both current callers deliberately EXCLUDE sentinels -- migrating it would be an unauthorized behavior change, not an API swap); cmdValidateHealth's exemption is vestigial (its actual physical-set sweep already lives in planning-snapshot.cts's buildAllPhaseDirNamesField, a pre-existing near-duplicate of the new axis, flagged as a finding, not restructured); cmdPhasesClear/cmdMilestoneComplete/cmdVerifySchemaDrift/detectHasPriorPhases/detectUiPhaseActive want a different combination (sentinels excluded, or a single-phase lookup) and are unaffected.

Task 4: detector 2 (sentinel literal) is untouched and retained. Removed exemption entries only for the two migrated call sites; every other function-scoped exemption is preserved. Guard exits 0.

Refs #3882

* refactor(#3882): delegate the snapshot phase-dir scan to its owner

buildAllPhaseDirNamesField duplicated listAllPhaseDirs's own
readdirSync + directory-filter + absent/unreadable handling — the
'one implementation per rule' defect ADR-3473 SS8.3 names, introduced
by this branch's own #3882 work. Delegate to listAllPhaseDirs and
re-apply the field's existing lexicographic sort on top, since W007's
observable order must not change.

Refs #3882

* docs(#3882): document the sentinel axis and the enumeration consolidation

Records listAllPhaseDirs in the Phase Locator glossary entry, and the fact
that the owner already answers the all-milestones sentinel-free question when
called without a cwd -- the call collectCalibrationSamples was missing.

Also notes that buildAllPhaseDirNamesField now delegates rather than carrying a
second readdir, and that exactly one readdirSync over the phases directory
remains across the two modules.

Refs #3882

* test(#3882): close review findings — real order proof, unreadable coverage, collision fixtures

Refs #3882

* chore(#3882): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3882

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 15:03:12 -04:00
Tom Boucher
832dcbb751 fix(#3707): surface UAT rows audit-uat silently dropped, and never report a clean result for a file it could not read (#3887)
* test(#3707): failing-first coverage for the three parseUatItems false negatives

Nine tests that must be red and three controls that must already be green.

The controls are the point of the split. `result: pass` staying unsurfaced is
what stops the fix inverting the filter so eagerly that every passing test
becomes an outstanding item, and the classic single-line shape is the no-churn
control for rewriting the adjacency regex. Both were confirmed green against
the current build before being written down; a control that is red today would
be a second bug, not a control.

Each failing fixture was run through the built parser first and returns []
for its stated cause — the issue row matched then filtered, the block-scalar
and wrapped rows never matched at all, the all-unparseable file vanishing whole.
That evidence is in 50-test-matrix.md rather than asserted.

Tests target ../gsd-core/bin/lib/uat.cjs, the built live module, and drive the
real CLI through runGsdTools. #3706 lost a full RED/GREEN cycle to tests that
imported a different copy of the function under test, so the import target was
verified before anything was written.

* fix(#3707): stop parseUatItems dropping outstanding UAT rows

Three independent false negatives, all in the audit path, plus one the issue
did not mention.

The matcher no longer requires `expected:` and `result:` to be adjacent single
lines. It slices each `### N.` block to the next heading and reads the first
`result:` line within it, taking `expected:` from parseExpectedFromTestBlock —
the seam that already parsed both the block-scalar and inline forms correctly
and was sitting unused two hundred lines away. Two parsers in one module read
the same field with different grammars; now there is one.

The result filter is inverted from an inclusion list of three to an exclusion
of a minimal PASS set. This was the issue's one open design question, which the
reporter explicitly declined to answer for the maintainer; it was asked and
decided deliberately. The fail-safe direction is what parseGapsItems documents
seventy lines below for this same false-negative class (#2286): a token nobody
recognised surfaces rather than vanishing. The trade is a visible, correctable
false positive if a project invents a novel pass-word, against today's silent
and invisible drop.

`issue` also needed a category. It is template-sanctioned with its own `issues:`
counter, but categorizeItem fell through to `unknown` — surfacing it in the
wrong bucket would have been a half-fix.

Finally, a file parsing to zero items no longer vanishes with its frontmatter
`status:`. One with a non-terminal status is reported with `parse_gap: true`,
so the reader gets a cue to look; a `complete` one stays omitted as before.
That is what made the first two defects dangerous rather than merely lossy —
the audit omitted the phase instead of under-counting it.

* fix(#3707): close the review blockers, including a regression I introduced

The remote suite was RED on the previous commit and both reviews found real
defects. Everything below was verified by execution, not by reading.

I introduced a regression against origin/next. The rewritten result matcher was
END-anchored where the old one was not, so `result: pending (blocked on
staging)`, `result: [skipped] # no device` and `result: blocked - waiting` all
returned a row before this branch and returned nothing on it — me reproducing
the exact defect class this issue exists to kill, in the fix for it. The anchor
is gone and each shape has a regression test; trailing text now falls back to
`reason` when the block has none.

`parse_gap` was inferred from the wrong signal. It fired for ANY zero-item file
whose status was not `complete`, which asserted something false about a
perfectly-parsed all-pass file, swept in archived phases left at `testing`, and
is what turned the #2286 Gaps tests red — a control this change was supposed to
keep green. It now derives from headings SEEN BUT UNYIELDED, reported by a new
parseUatItemsWithStats, so an all-pass file and a Gaps-only file are not parse
gaps and a file whose blocks carry no `result:` line is.

The fix was also invisible end to end, which both reviewers caught
independently. parse_gap entries carry no items, and both audit-uat.md and
progress.md gate on `total_items === 0` — so the headline symptom, the phase
vanishing, still reproduced for a user and only the raw JSON had changed. There
is now a `parse_gap_files` counter and both workflows gate and report on it.

Also: categorizeItem compared case-sensitively while the new PASS check
lowercased, so `result: PENDING` surfaced as `unknown`; blocks are bounded at
the next heading of any level, so a trailing `## Gaps` entry no longer bleeds
its `reason` onto the preceding test; dead unreachable fallbacks removed; and
the all-pass control was strengthened, since asserting only `total_items === 0`
let it stay green through the bogus parse_gap entry.

* chore(#3707): acknowledge the workflow growth the fix required

The emitted-attribution guard went red because audit-uat.md and progress.md
grew, and it is right to ask: runtime-loaded workflow prose is the product,
so growth there is a real change to what an executing agent reads.

The growth is not incidental to this fix, it IS the fix reaching a user. Both
reviewers found independently that emitting `parse_gap` in the JSON changed
nothing observable, because both workflows gated their output on
`total_items === 0` and parse-gap entries carry no items — so a phase whose
rows could not be parsed still printed "All Clear" and still vanished from the
progress report. The widened gates and the branches that name the unparsed
files with their phase and path are what close that.

Acks exactly the two paths the guard reported, keyed on the bare filename. The
three spent acknowledgments it also listed are inert by its own description —
the base already absorbs them — so they are left alone rather than swept up
here, where they would just add unrelated churn to this diff.

* fix(#3707): close the mixed-file blocker and the second false-clean surface

The suite was GREEN and the isolated review still found a blocker, which is
the useful part: none of this was covered by a test.

A MIXED file dropped its unparseable rows silently. `parse_gap` sat behind an
`else if` on `items.length > 0`, so one parseable row was enough to discard
`headingsSeen` entirely — a file with one pending row and two unreadable blocks
reported one item and no gap. That is the exact class this issue exists to kill,
reappearing inside its own fix for the third time. The flag is now set
independently of item count and the entry carries `unparsed_blocks`, so the
count is quantified rather than merely flagged.

A `result:` inside a fenced code block was being read as real, so a PASSING
test could be reported as outstanding from a value in a code sample — another
regression against origin/next, whose adjacency regex ignored it. Field scans
now run against a fence-stripped copy while `expected:` still reads the raw
block, since a block scalar may legitimately contain fenced-looking text.

The workflow report was still unreachable whenever anything else was
outstanding: the unparsed table lived in the all-clear branch, so a project with
one pending row in phase 01 and an unreadable phase 02 rendered phase 02
nowhere. It now fires on `parse_gap_files > 0` from the `present` step.

planning-inspect was the second surface making a false-clean claim — for
exactly the files audit-uat now flags it emitted `scope: 'complete'` with an
empty unresolved list, positively asserting completeness over a file it could
not read. It consumes the stats now and reports SCOPE.TRUNCATED with a
`uat_unreadable` diagnostic, reusing the vocabulary already used two lines above
for an unreadable file rather than inventing a token.

Also: headings with no name no longer vanish whole; the trailing-text-to-reason
synthesis I had added is removed, since it was never required by the blocker and
silently changed categorization for `result: [skipped] # no device`; the emitted
`result` token is normalized to lower case so it agrees with `category` in a
published contract; and an O(n^2) indexOf is gone from the heading loop.

* fix(#3707): stop rows stealing each other's fields, on all three surfaces

The suite was green when the security review found these. Two are
blocker-severity and one of them is a direct hit on my own verification.

A `### N.` line indented two spaces inside an `expected: |` scalar is a valid
ATX heading, so it became a phantom row that STOLE the real row's result token
while the real row vanished. I had probed this shape and declared it fixed — my
probe asserted the item COUNT and the result token, both of which the phantom
satisfied, so it passed for exactly the reason it should have failed. Block
scalar bodies are now masked to blank lines (line count preserved, so offsets
still line up) before headings are tokenized, and the tests assert row IDENTITY
— number and name — not presence.

Feeding parseExpectedFromTestBlock the raw slice let one row publish another
row's `expected:` from inside a fence the stripped view had correctly excluded.
Blocks handed to it are now clipped at the first fence opener. This was not
cosmetic on the render-checkpoint path: a checkpoint banner a HUMAN reads and
answers was rendering a different row's expected text.

A balanced fence pair straddling a test block made that heading invisible, so
an outstanding row disappeared with no item, no gap and no count — the exact
false-clean this issue exists to close, and a regression against origin/next.
Suppressed `### N.` lines now count toward headingsSeen so the file is flagged.

An unterminated fence swallowed the rest of the document including `## Gaps`,
producing a whole-file false clean. Such a file is now treated as a parse gap,
following what uat-predicate already does.

Found and fixed inline while there: parseExpectedFromTestBlock's scalar opener
required a bare newline, so a CRLF `expected: |` fell through to the inline arm
and published `expected: "|"`, silently discarding the entire value. The same
fall-through hit `|-` and `|+`.

parseFirstPendingTest had the identical exposure on the render-checkpoint path
and now shares the same masking and clipping. Five legitimate fixtures — inline
expected, a real block scalar, CRLF, bracketed pending, and a first-pending
that is not the first test — are byte-identical before and after.

Also from the code review: the admit condition disagreed with the terminal
status guard, so a `status: complete` file with an unparseable block was
emitted as an empty entry that rendered nowhere but inflated total_files; a
control test was vacuous because its fixture filename did not match its phase
dir, so #3511 scoping meant the file was never opened — and that vacuity is why
the admit regression shipped green; an unterminated fence discarded the flag
that would have caught it; `### 1.2.3` parsed as test 1; and planning-inspect
did not share the terminal-status rule.

* test(#3707): assert what the render-checkpoint fix actually does

The suite went red on three of my own tests and the source was right — the
assertions were wrong, in a way worth naming.

One forbade the rendered checkpoint from containing `### 3. Fake Row`. But in
that fixture the string IS row 1's legitimate `expected:` block-scalar value; a
heading-shaped line inside a scalar is inert text and rendering it is correct.
The test was forbidding correct output. It now asserts row IDENTITY — the
checkpoint is for test 1 named Alpha and never test 3 named Fake Row — which is
the property that actually distinguishes the fix from the bug.

The other expected success where the correct outcome is a clean error: row 1 in
that fixture has no `expected:` of its own and only ever appeared to have one by
stealing row 2's from inside a fence. Depending on the bug to produce a pass is
how a test ends up pinning the defect. The fixture now gives row 1 its own
value and asserts the checkpoint carries it and never the fence-hidden text, and
the error path gets its own test asserting it fails cleanly without leaking.

All three were checked against the real rendered output before the assertion was
written, and each was reasoned through for whether it can fail: the identity
test breaks if a phantom row is parsed, the clipping test breaks if the raw
block is read again, and the error test would pass-not-fail under the old
stealing behavior.

* fix(#3707): correct the scalar masking frame and cover every YAML block opener

Two reviews independently found the same blocker, and it is the sharpest defect
on this issue: maskBlockScalarBodies computed line offsets in UTF-16 units but
spliced them into Array.from(content), a CODE POINT array. One emoji anywhere
earlier in the file shifted every later mask write, so the mask blanked the
wrong characters and spilled past line ends. Measured: at two astral characters
a result token truncated `pending` to `pendi` and recategorized to unknown; at
six the real row vanished; at twelve the FOLLOWING row's `result: blocked`
disappeared and the file reported clean. That is the false-clean class this
issue exists to close, reintroduced by the mitigation written to prevent it, and
defeating both new detectors at once. The mask is rebuilt line by line now,
which is frame-agnostic and length-preserving by construction.

The opener grammar was also incomplete. YAML block scalar headers take an
optional indentation indicator and an optional chomping indicator in either
order, so `|2`, `|2-`, `|-2`, `>2`, `>2+` are all valid — and none were matched.
An unmasked `expected: |2` body meant a `### N.` line inside the value became a
real heading: reproduced, row 1 disappeared and a fabricated row 2 named
"Phantom" took its identity.

Fixing that exposed a third instance of the same family, found by my own probe
rather than by review: the value extractor understood only the `|` openers, so
every `>` folded scalar published the LITERAL OPENER as its value — `expected`
came back as ">" or ">2+" and the whole scalar was discarded. The extractor now
shares the opener grammar and implements real folding, joining paragraph lines
with a space and turning a blank line into a newline, rather than pretending `>`
means `|`.

Also from the reviews: the shortfall counter scanned the masked copy but not a
fence-stripped one, so a `### N.`-shaped line inside a properly closed
documentation fence — the ordinary way to document the row format inside a UAT
file — counted as a suppressed row and flagged the file against nothing; and
clipping at the first fence discarded a legitimate `expected:` that appeared
after a closed fence, which is silent field loss.

Every opener now verified for both row identity and exact extracted value, in
LF and CRLF, alongside the emoji fixtures at 1/2/6/12.

* refactor(#3707): replace the scalar masking with a column-0 heading rule

The fix had grown to five helpers whose only job was undoing one
over-permissive rule: tokenizeHeadings treats a heading indented up to three
spaces as real, so a `### N.` inside an `expected: |` body was parsed as a row
and stole the real row's identity. Every blocker in the last three review
rounds came out of that machinery rather than the reported bug — worst of all
a UTF-16-versus-code-point frame mismatch that corrupted any document
containing an emoji.

A UAT test heading is at column 0. The shipped template puts all of them there,
no `*UAT*.md` in the repo has an indented one, and the only indented `### N.`
lines in the tree are the adversarial fixtures that must not parse. Requiring
column 0 makes a scalar-interior heading a non-heading by construction, so
maskBlockScalarBodies, indentWidthOf and BLOCK_SCALAR_OPENER_RE are gone along
with the mask-invariant test that existed only to guard them. The frame bug is
now structurally unreachable: no code-point array or offset splicing remains.

The premise was incomplete and the reviewer caught it rather than forcing it
through. Masking had been doing double duty — it also hid indented FENCE
delimiters from the tokenizer, so removing it let a two-space fence inside a
scalar body swallow a later column-0 row. The alternative on offer was to
rewrite that test to assert the row is merely counted, which is a behavior
regression dressed as a passing suite. Instead there is a small line-based pass
that blanks only indented fence delimiters — same "column 0 is structure" rule
extended consistently, no YAML knowledge, and line-based by construction so the
frame bug cannot come back. It was proven load-bearing by a negative control:
reverting the wiring reproduces the regression exactly.

Kept, because they fix defects column-0 does not touch: the fence clipping that
stops one row reading another's `expected:` from inside a fence, and the folded
scalar handling that stopped `expected: >` publishing the literal ">".

Also corrects a comment left pointing at a symbol this commit deletes.

* fix(#3707): blank neutralized fence bodies, and give both parse paths one grammar

Reviewing the simplification found two more, and the first is row theft again —
the sixth time this class has surfaced on this issue, and the second time
inside a mitigation written to stop it.

Neutralizing an indented fence blanked only its DELIMITER lines. If the block's
body held a column-0 `### N.`, un-hiding the delimiters made that line a real
heading, which then took the preceding row's fields: an `### 1. Alpha` document
came back as a single row 9 named Phantom, with Alpha gone. Neutralized blocks
are now blanked open-to-close, body included, which is the honest reading of
the intent — an indented fence inside a scalar is content, so nothing in it
should be able to produce structure. The raw block is still what the expected
extractor reads, so a legitimate `expected: |` carrying a fenced code sample
keeps its full text.

The two parse paths also disagreed about what a test row IS.
parseFirstPendingTest filtered on `^\d+\.\s+` while parseUatItemsWithStats used
`^\d+\.(?!\d)`, so `### 3.Foo` was a row when audited and not a row when
resumed. Both now share one predicate and one extractor. The extractor mattered
as much as the filter: the checkpoint path's name-mandatory pattern would have
skipped exactly the shapes the widened filter admits, so fixing the filter alone
would have moved the divergence down a line rather than closing it.

Also from the security pass: parseUatItems had become an export with no callers
and no direct test once both consumers moved to the stats form. It stays, since
deleting an exported symbol from a shipped module is a contract change and not
this issue's business, but it is now documented as the items-only wrapper and
has a test. And the PASS check lowercased a value that extraction had already
lowercased; normalization now happens once.

* fix(#3707): revert the whole-block fence blanking, and pin the rule instead

My previous commit over-corrected and the suite caught it. Blanking a
neutralized fence block open-to-close destroys content legitimately living
between the delimiters, and on an UNTERMINATED opener it blanks to EOF and
deletes every later row. No framing makes that correct, and it is what turned
two earlier tests red.

The "blocker" that prompted it was my own misreading. This change adopted the
rule that column 0 is structure and indentation is content. Under that rule an
indented fence delimiter is not a fence, so a column-0 `### 9.` sitting between
two indented delimiters genuinely IS a heading, and a `result:` after it
genuinely belongs to it. That document is malformed and the parser reading it
that way is consistent, not stealing. Nothing is silently lost either: the row
whose result was taken surfaces as the parse gap.

So the blanking is back to delimiters only, and rather than leaving the
question open, the behavior is now pinned by a test asserting the rows by
identity, with the rule stated at the site — so the next person does not
oscillate the way I just did.

Kept from the reverted commit: the shared row-heading grammar and extractor
across both parse paths, the parseUatItems wrapper documentation and its test,
and the single point of lowercasing.

* fix(#3707): scope the shortfall scan, and stop neutralized content becoming structure

The security review found a HIGH that is the earlier frame-mismatch bug wearing
different clothes. The shortfall scan compared a SECTION-scoped raw line count —
the `## Tests` body — against a DOCUMENT-wide token count. So a single legal
`### N.` row anywhere outside `## Tests` decremented the shortfall and switched
the fence-straddle detector off: an identical `## Tests` section went from
`headingsSeen 1, parse_gap true` to `headingsSeen 0, no gap` purely because a
`## Prior` section existed. A document whose rows render as ordinary blocked rows
in any CommonMark renderer audited as totally clean. Both sides of the
comparison now come from the same surface, by filtering tokens to the scan
span rather than re-tokenizing, so there is no second offset basis to keep in
step.

Neutralizing a fence could also promote its former CONTENT into structure: a
column-0 delimiter run inside an indented pair became an opener once the
enclosing delimiters were blanked, hiding every later heading to EOF. Column-0
delimiter-shaped lines inside a neutralized block are now blanked too — and only
those, so a column-0 heading between neutralized delimiters is still a heading
(the pinned behaviour) and the field lines of a row living between two scalars
still survive. The reviewer corrected my repro while fixing it: an even number of
inner runs re-pairs and hides nothing, so the live shape needs an odd one, and
both are now tests.

Two more from that pass. A legal scalar header carrying a trailing comment
(`expected: | # sample`) failed the end-anchored grammar, publishing the literal
header and raising a false gap. And the indented-row counter walked backwards
per row: 3.6 seconds at sixteen thousand rows, now 15ms, via one forward pass —
though the reviewer also established my example was not the quadratic shape,
which needs an uninterrupted scalar body.

Carried in from the previous round: the indented-row counter keys on any block
scalar rather than only `expected:`, so a template-sanctioned `reported: |`
holding user prose with a heading-shaped line no longer raises a false gap; and
`reason:`/`blocked_by:` read block scalars through the same shared extractor
instead of publishing the literal `"|"`, which also means a multi-line reason
can finally reach categorizeItem — a `reason:` mentioning a server now
categorizes as server_blocked, which was impossible while the value was thrown
away.

* fix(#3707): make the shortfall scan whole-document on both sides

Second HIGH in this area, and the diagnosis is the useful part: I closed the
first one by making the two sides agree, but I did it by NARROWING the token
side to the `## Tests` span while the parse side stayed whole-document. Rows
outside that section are still parsed and surfaced when visible, so when a fence
straddled one it fell through both sides of the comparison — no item, no gap,
file never entered the results at all. A `## Regression Tests` section, or a
second `## Tests` (collectSection takes the first), audited as totally clean
while origin/next surfaced those rows.

Both sides are whole-document now. Symmetry is the property that matters here;
every attempt to be clever about which scope to compare has produced one of
these, twice at HIGH severity.

That reinstates a known over-report, deliberately: a `### N.`-shaped line inside
a closed fence in a `## Notes` section — the ordinary way to document the row
format — counts as a suppressed row and raises a gap on a file with nothing
missing. Noisy, but visible and fail-safe, against two silent false-cleans on
the other side of the trade. This issue exists to eliminate false cleans, so the
trade goes that way, and the reasoning is written at the site so it does not get
optimized back.

Three existing tests encoded the retired scoping and are replaced rather than
worked around: two now assert the accepted over-report, and one asserting a
4-space row is "not counted" was already contradicted by widening the counter to
any indentation — refusing to PARSE a 4-space heading is right, refusing to
COUNT it reopened the hole the counter exists to close.

Also in this commit, from the same review round: the inner-delimiter sweep tested
a column-0-anchored pattern, so an INDENTED delimiter inside a neutralized block
was still promoted to structure and lost a row; it is indent-tolerant now.

A refinement was identified and deliberately not taken — keying the
documentation-sample exemption on the fence info string rather than on section
scope. It is content-based and symmetric, so it would not reintroduce the
asymmetry, but it belongs in its own change rather than riding this one.

* docs(#3707): correct two claims in the over-report justification

Both from review, both comment-only, and both matter because they would
mislead the next person into "fixing" something correct.

The over-report note called the triggering shape "the ordinary way to document
the row format". It is narrower than that: the scan requires literal digits, so
the conventional placeholder `### N. Name` does not trigger it at all — only a
sample written with real numbers does, and no phase UAT file in-tree has one,
only the shipped template, which selectPhaseUatFiles never scans. A maintainer
who tested the documented placeholder form would find no over-report and could
reasonably conclude the pin was stale. That is now stated, and it also makes the
trade look better than I claimed: the real-world frequency is lower.

The attribution guard is described as structural rather than positional. It is
positional in one respect: the walk stops at the nearest column-0 line, so a
block scalar nested inside a `## Gaps` bullet is transparent to it and a
heading-shaped line in that value gets counted. Same accepted over-report,
reached by a path the comment did not mention — recorded so it is not later
mistaken for a new defect.

* fix(#3707): a complete status no longer switches off the parse-gap detector

The security review named this as the last silent-clean path in the change, and
its phrase is the right one: a self-declared kill switch over the very detector
this issue built. A file whose frontmatter said `status: complete` was omitted
unconditionally, so one containing a fence-straddled `result: blocked` computed
headingsSeen = 1 — the detector fired — and then emitted no entry at all. The
audit reported nothing.

The predicate is now status-independent: a file is surfaced when blocks were
seen but yielded nothing, whatever it claims about itself. A terminal status is
an assertion by the author, and an assertion is exactly what must not be allowed
to suppress the signal that would contradict it. What does not change is the
thing the status is actually for — a complete file with nothing to parse, and a
complete file whose rows all parse and all pass, both stay silent, verified
through the real CLI.

I replaced a control test of mine, and it is worth saying why that is not a
weakening: its name was already false. "A zero-item file with a complete status
is still omitted" used a fixture with a `### 1.` block carrying no `result:`
line, so headingsSeen was 1 — it was never a zero-item file, it was the kill
switch itself, pinned. The intent it claimed is now covered by two stricter
tests, one for a file with no blocks and one for a file where every row parses
and passes, each asserting both that no entry exists and that no items are
counted, where the old test asserted only the former.

Everything else is byte-identical: 61 regression cases and the non-complete
equivalents of all four shapes produce exactly the same output as before, with
the delta confined to the two cells this change is meant to move.

* fix(#3707): close the moved kill switch, and keep the archive out of the live gate

Both reviewers independently found that closing the kill switch on one surface
left it standing on the other. cmdAuditUat dropped the terminal-status guard,
but buildUatRows in planning-inspect kept it — and its comment justified that by
claiming to mirror a guard cmdAuditUat no longer had. One byte-identical file
with `status: complete` and a fence-straddled `result: blocked` reported
parse_gap through audit-uat while planning-inspect published
`uat.scope: "complete"` with no diagnostic at all. That is the repo's own
generative-fix-divergence class, and no test pinned that arm, which is why it
survived. The clause and the false comment are gone and the arm now has tests.

Removing it exposed a MAJOR the security pass had not reached: archived phase
dirs are deliberately not milestone-filtered and archived UAT files are
`complete` by definition, so status-independence newly admitted the entire
project archive. One live pending row plus four signed-off milestones produced
parse_gap_files 4 — and since progress.md gates Verification Debt on that
counter, a mature project would have warned on every run, forever, about closed
history no user action can clear. Warning fatigue that buries the next real gap
is the feature defeating itself.

So the counter is split rather than suppressed: `parse_gap_files` counts live
phases only and remains the gate, `archived_parse_gap_files` carries the rest,
and every archived entry stays in `results` with its parse_gap and its
milestone. Nothing became silent; the live signal stayed actionable. Both
workflows report the archived bucket as closed history rather than as something
to act on.

The scope cascade is also decoupled, on the security reviewer's advice that it
is load-bearing here rather than a follow-up: `uat.scope` still reports
TRUNCATED honestly so no completeness is claimed over an unread row, while the
accepted fence-shortfall over-report no longer flips the aggregate fold that
withholds a phase's percentage. A genuinely unreadable file degrades as before.

Also corrects a frequency claim of mine: "no phase UAT file in-tree triggers
this" was true over a sample of zero, since the only UAT file in the tree is the
shipped template. The comment now says the shape is uncommon, which is what I
can actually support.

* fix(#3707): state that the live/archived split does not extend to outstanding_debt

Review MINOR: the split's rationale read as though it governed every counter, but
`summary.total_items` was never split — so a single archived `result: pending` row
re-trips the same Verification Debt warning the split exists to stop. The asymmetry
is deliberate: an archived parse gap is a row nobody can read, so the warning can
never be cleared, whereas an archived pending row is legible work someone can still
pay down by retesting. Debt that can be settled stays counted. The prose now says so
at the point of the claim, instead of leaving the next reader to file it as a miss.

Also rewrites the changeset, which described only the secondary fixes and omitted all
three defects the issue actually reports: `result: issue` dropped, any wrapped or
block-scalar `expected:` never matched at all, and the phase vanishing outright.

* fix(#3707): count every parse gap, dropping the live/archived split

The split had two regressions, both reproduced through the real CLI, and its
premise was false.

uat.cts carries #2766's rationale ~190 lines above the code I added: 'Outstanding
UAT items do not stop mattering when a milestone closes: a deferred human-UAT
scenario or a skipped live-stack test is exactly what gets archived still-open.'
So 'archived UAT files are complete by definition' was never true, and the split
rested on it.

Regression 1: archived-ness was inferred from path shape alone. A phase in the
CURRENT milestone, status in_progress, filed under .planning/milestones/v1.1-phases/
was classified archived and demoted out of the gate — live work reported as closed
history that needs no action.

Regression 2: the split was one-sided. total_items has no archived split, so an
archived outstanding row that PARSES gates Verification Debt while the identical
row that fails to parse was informational. The parse failure was what buried the
debt — the exact bug class this issue exists to fix, re-created one surface over.

parse_gap_files counts every parse_gap entry again, archived or not, so it agrees
with total_items on what archived means. The pre-existing archived_milestone field
and archived-phase scanning are untouched. Regression tests added for both cases.

* fix(#3707): correct the changeset clause left behind by the split revert

The changeset was rewritten before the split was removed, so its final clause
still claimed archived parse gaps are counted separately because signed-off
history is not work anyone can act on. There is one counter now, and that premise
is the one uat.cts refutes and the revert was made over. This text lands in
CHANGELOG.md verbatim, so it would have shipped a description of behavior the
code does not have.

* chore(#3707): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 09:16:22 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ddde001af6 enhance(#3873): the STATE.md schema — one owner, generated artifacts (#3880)
* test(#3873): failing-first locale parity, plus tripwires for what must not move

Pins ADR-3473 §8.8 at the artifact a reader actually sees. The English STATE.md
reference carries a Status lifecycle section that is missing from all four
translations — the section documenting the status enum whose clobbering is
#3853. The test derives the heading set rather than hard-coding the missing
one, and names the locale and the heading when it fails.

Two tripwires that must pass today and after. The field-drift guard still
catches a re-derived fallback ladder: §8.8 instructs deleting that script, and
that instruction rests on a wrong premise about what it guards, so the test
stops a future reader from deleting it on the ADR's word. And last_activity's
label resolution is pinned to what ships today, because it is declared in one
of the two tables this phase consolidates and not the other — the
consolidation must not silently pick a side.

The locale test buckets under docs rather than state, which is what it tests;
that bucket is allowlisted with justification rather than folded into an
unrelated docs suite. It reads only markdown, so it carries no allow-test-rule
marker — a marker there would suppress nothing and would grow the unverified
pool against its ceiling.

Refs #3873

* feat(#3873): one schema owns the STATE.md key set, three tables become projections

ADR-3473 §8.8. The key set was declared in four places that had to agree by
hand and already did not: FIELD_CLASSIFICATION, FRONTMATTER_BODY_SOURCE,
FRONTMATTER_KEY_TO_BODY_LABEL and buildStateFrontmatter's emit behavior. One
frozen null-prototype schema now declares each key's type, enum, cardinality,
source, preservation, body source, body label, accepted parse shapes and
whether it is emitted unconditionally; the three tables are derived from it at
module load.

The projections are byte-identical to the literals they replace, key order
included, and the parity tests compare against verbatim copies of today's
tables rather than re-deriving both sides from the schema — a parity test fed
from one source proves nothing, which is how a consolidation ships a changed
policy under a green test.

last_activity was the live disagreement: present in one table, absent from the
other. The schema declares what ships today rather than the tidier answer, and
a test pins it.

The schema is a leaf module and owns the four field-policy types, re-exported
from state-transition so existing importers are untouched — the same split
health-diagnostic-types made to break a CJS require cycle.

Refs #3873

* feat(#3873): generate the schema-derived regions, parity-check the prose tables

ADR-3473 §8.8's generator half. gen-state-md-docs.cjs owns marked regions in
the shipped template and all five reference docs, follows gen-features.cjs's
fail-closed contract, and is wired into regen:derived and lint:generated-sync.

The Status lifecycle section was missing from all four translations — the
section documenting the status enum behind #3853 — and is now generated into
every locale. Field cardinality is a new generated table: pure schema data,
no prose, so nothing to lose.

The Field-reference and Status-values tables are parity-CHECKED rather than
generated. Their Purpose, When-populated and Matched-text columns are
genuinely hand-translated per locale, and §8.8 itself says prose stays
hand-translated; generating them from an English registry would overwrite four
locales' translations on every write. The row set is checked against the schema
instead, so a key added to one and not the other fails, which is what field
drift actually means. Building that check found last_activity_desc
undocumented in all five tables.

Three keys the docs describe are absent from the schema — active_phase,
next_action, next_phases. They are grandfathered by name, not by wildcard, so a
fourth fails: a declared gap with a forcing function rather than a silent one.

Refs #3873

* fix(#3873): declare what the parsers do, and close the shape-parity gap

Two declarations in the new schema described intended behavior rather than
actual — the defect class this epic exists to end, committed inside the epic.
Both were caught by executing the parsers instead of reading their docstrings.

current_plan.acceptedShapes claimed ['N', 'N of M']. Standalone, the hybrid
shape errors; the path that looks like support is parseInt truncating '2 of 5'
to 2 and discarding the rest. Narrowed to ['N']. The parser is deliberately NOT
fixed here: that is #3784 and PR #3791 is already doing it. When #3791 lands
this row must widen, and the shape test will go red until it does — the schema
and the parser cannot drift apart quietly, which is what §8.8's checked-not-
generated rule is for.

STATUS_LIFECYCLE_ENUM claimed to be the closed set status can hold.
normalizeStateStatus passes unrecognized prose through unchanged, so it is not
closed at runtime. The seven members are the canonical values it maps onto; the
docstring now says that and the test asserts the real lenient contract.

Closes the acceptance item that a test asserts the parsers accept exactly the
declared shapes: the check is table-driven over every row carrying
acceptedShapes, guarded against passing vacuously on an empty set, and fails
loudly if a future row has no registered driver. Adds the unwired-label throw
and the fast-check property that every projection agrees with its schema row.

Refs #3873

* fix(#3873): keep the shipped template's frontmatter first, and make row 27 able to fail

The remote matrix caught 12 failures with one cause. Making the template's
frontmatter a generated region wrapped it in its own yaml fence ahead of the
markdown fence, so extractFileTemplate and readShippedStateTemplateBody — which
both match the single markdown block — found the heading first, not the
frontmatter. That breaks the contract every new project's STATE.md is created
from: bug #21 and epic #1969 B8 pin that the File Template block starts with
frontmatter and carries gsd_state_version.

The markers now sit inside the single markdown fence, so the fence opens before
the frontmatter and the region still ends ahead of the heading. Same layout as
before this phase, with markers embedded rather than a second fence.

Row 27 existed to catch exactly this and did not, because it was writer-seeded:
it asserted against the generator's own output shape, so it passed on the broken
template. It now parses the fence the way production does and was verified to
fail against the broken shape before being trusted against the fixed one. A test
that would not have caught the bug it exists to prevent is worse than no test.

The emitted-attribution failure was separate and the fragment was the wrong
remedy: gsd-core/templates/state.md self-attributes under a verbatim-copy
identity rule, so a diff touching it needs no acknowledgment. Fragment deleted
rather than left explaining nothing.

Refs #3873

* docs(#3873): how to change the STATE.md schema

The phase gate was right and my docs artifact was wrong. I listed
lint:generated-sync as the second enablement step, which is a verification
command dressed as one, and then claimed a one-step sequence owed no how-to.

The real sequence is build:lib then regen:derived, and the ordering is a trap:
the generator reads the COMPILED schema, so regenerating before building
regenerates against the previous schema and commits artifacts that look
plausible while disagreeing with the code just written. A reference table
cannot carry an ordering dependency; that is what the how-to test is for.

The page covers adding, changing and removing a key, every reason code the
check emits and what to do about each, what is generated versus hand-translated
and why the two prose-bearing tables are parity-checked instead of generated,
adding a language, and the three grandfathered keys. Indexed from docs/README.md.

Refs #3873

* chore(#3873): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 01:57:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
3b18eff388 enhance(#3872): what a command reports it wrote — the transaction diff (#3878)
* test(#3872): failing-first regressions for what a command reports it wrote

Pins ADR-3473 §8.7 at the consumer's output. state planned-phase advances
current_phase on disk and never reports it, and reports progress.total_plans
which reconcileReportedFields silently drops because it cannot resolve a
dotted key against nested frontmatter. Both directions of #3818's own
before/after diff, reproduced against the real CLI.

Also pins the two properties the change must not break: a fully-failed patch
still reports an empty updated array, which is what state.cts:607's success
boolean depends on; and two content-identical writes differ in last_updated
alone. That second one measured state_head NOT to be ambient — it is
recomputed every write but only changes when git HEAD moved — so the
provenance exclusion is a one-element set, with a companion test pinning that
state_head does change when HEAD moves.

Refs #3872

* feat(#3872): derive what a command reports from the transaction diff

ADR-3473 §8.7. reconcileReportedFields compared the transform's own output
against persisted bytes and then filtered what preservation had restored by
its FIELD_CLASSIFICATION policy. Both are replaced by one comparison of
persisted against the pre-write state the transaction already holds, surfaced
to the command through the same caller-allocates out-param idiom divergedFields
established.

Both of the old directions fall out of that single comparison: a field the
transform reported but the pipeline discarded is persisted-equals-snapshot and
drops out, and a field nobody reported but the write moved is different and
appears. The classification filter is deleted, not relocated — no policy test
remains anywhere in the reporting path.

Reporting is at dotted-leaf granularity, enumerated from the progress.* rows
FIELD_CLASSIFICATION already declares rather than by walking user data to
arbitrary depth. That closes a live defect: plannedPhaseCore already pushed
progress.total_plans and reconcileReportedFields silently dropped it, because
a flat hasOwnProperty cannot resolve a dotted key against nested frontmatter.
Current Position was lost the same way and is fixed in the same place.

The exclusion is one field, last_updated, and it is by provenance rather than
by classification: it is the only field measured to change on every write
regardless of content. state_head was measured NOT to qualify — it is
recomputed every write but only changes when git HEAD moved. Without that
exclusion state.patch's success boolean, which is updated.length > 0, would be
permanently true and a fully-failed patch would report success.

Refs #3872

* fix(#3872): cover the matrix, and close a prototype-chain read the coverage found

Review found 20 of 29 test-matrix rows uncovered. Covering them found two real
defects rather than merely documenting the intended behavior.

bodyLabelFor read FRONTMATTER_KEY_TO_BODY_LABEL with a bare bracket index on a
plain object literal, so a field named __proto__, constructor or toString
resolved to the inherited prototype member and leaked a non-string value into
the updated array. Fixed with an own-property check, mirroring the discipline
resolveFrontmatterPath already had. The security-relevant matrix row proved it
before the fix.

applyPostSyncPreservation still carried its own inline copy of the value
comparison alongside the new stateFieldValuesDiffer, which is two live copies
of one rule introduced by the epic that exists to remove them. Routed through
the single owner.

Adds the fast-check property that a field appears iff its persisted value
differs from the snapshot, the string-versus-number representation boundary,
dotted paths into missing parents and into scalars, deleted and added keys,
and the preserve-if-placeholder pair that proves no classification test
survives in the reporting path.

Refs #3872

* docs(#3872): document the transaction diff on the write path

The updated array's contract belongs where the write path is described. States
the iff rule, leaf granularity, the single provenance exclusion and why
state_head is deliberately not one, and closes with the consequence a reader
actually needs: these arrays are longer than they used to be, because they used
to under-report.

Refs #3872

* fix(#3872): a derived leaf materializing is not a change the caller made

The remote matrix caught 17 failures with two causes. The substantive one is
that progress is source: disk, and the disk cannot change during a STATE.md
write — the write only touches STATE.md. So a progress block appearing where
the snapshot had none is the scanner populating a document that had never been
synced. The bytes moved; nothing the caller did moved them.

That is the same shape as last_updated one level up, so the provenance rule is
generalized rather than special-cased: a field appears iff its persisted value
changed for a reason attributable to this write's action, and two cases are not
attributable — a field stamped unconditionally on every save, and a declared
derived leaf materializing from a source that did not change. Crucially this
does not consult the preservation policy, so the filter §8.7 deleted stays
deleted; it uses the declared leaf set to know which keys are derived.

This had a second production consumer the earlier review concluded did not
exist: cmdStatePlannedPhase gates publishStateContract on updated.length, and
its own inline comment predicts exactly this failure. A no-op call was
publishing state.json.

advancePlanNoOpDoesNotPublish genuinely encoded pre-§8.7 behavior and moves. E2
and E6 had carved out total_plans as reportable-on-materialization, an error
introduced earlier on this branch rather than a pre-existing pin, and are
corrected with it.

Refs #3872

* chore(#3872): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-25 23:51:16 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8f674281fd chore(#3875): sweep the spent ack fragments and automate the sweep (#3877)
* chore(#3875): sweep the spent ack fragments and automate the sweep

next has been red on every push since a84f75630 (#3823) — 24 consecutive pushes
over two days — on two fully-spent emitted-drift-ack fragments nobody swept.

#3823 introduced guard-no-ack-on-next together with a 45-fragment sweep, but
computed that sweep as a static set of deletions fixed at its branch point.
#3809's fragment merged to next while #3823 was in flight, so the guard reds on
its own merge commit. The condition is evaluated dynamically at merge time and
remediated statically at branch time; on a moving branch the second can never
reliably satisfy the first.

- delete tests/emitted-drift-acks/3809-* and 3866-* (3034-* and 3172-* stay --
  the #3842 open-PR hold correctly defers them)
- runGuardNext returns `sweepable`, the set the guard actually reasoned about,
  plus `legacyPresent` for the legacy document, which is a fixed path rather
  than a fragment basename and would otherwise be invisible to any sweeper
- new --sweep-plan mode turns the guard into a work list: plan on stdout, prose
  on stderr, exit 0 so a non-empty plan does not fail the step that asked for it
- main() is injectable in BOTH lanes; a half-injected seam lets a test that
  passes cwd silently read the real repository instead of its fixture
- ack-fragment-sweep.yml derives its deletion list from that plan on a timer and
  opens a reviewable PR, so the sweep can no longer go stale between branch
  and merge

Hardening found in review, each verified against a live reproduction:

- git rm reads its arguments as PATHSPECS with wildmatch semantics, so a
  fragment named a bare-star .json name -- legal, and admitted by
  listFragmentFiles since it filters only on the suffix -- expanded to every
  fragment in the directory, including ones the #3842 hold withheld. Confirmed
  in a scratch repo: one such file deleted all three. Closed with a literal
  allowlist and a :(literal) pathspec, two independent layers.
- an apostrophe inside a heredoc nested in a command substitution is an
  unterminated quote and a hard syntax error at runtime, not just under bash -n.
- an empty plan no longer reports success unconditionally: the guard is re-run
  without the hold to tell "next is clean" from "everything is held", the
  commonest holder being the sweep PR from the previous run, which touches
  exactly the fragments it proposed to delete.
- a branch pushed by a run that died before it could open the PR wedged every
  later run on a non-fast-forward push; re-pointed under a lease instead.
- a guard crash in plan mode no longer reads as "nothing to sweep".

Refs #3875

* chore(#3875): regenerate CONTEXT-INDEX.json for the glossary entry

lint:generated-sync failed on CI: gen-context-index.cjs derives
docs/CONTEXT-INDEX.json from CONTEXT.md, and the RULESET.EMITTED_ATTRIBUTION
entry added in the previous commit left it stale.

Refs #3875

* chore(#3875): regenerate the example CONTEXT-INDEX for the glossary entry

CONTEXT.md feeds TWO committed indexes, not one: docs/CONTEXT-INDEX.json via
scripts/gen-context-index.cjs, and the examples/dynamic-context-management copy
that lint-example-parser-parity holds to a fresh parse. The previous commit
regenerated only the first, so the parity check stayed red.

Refs #3875

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-25 23:17:29 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1863f5569c enhance(#3871): the state transaction — mandatory snapshot, open()/rebuild() (#3874)
* test(#3871): failing-first regressions for the dropped curated progress block

Pins ADR-3473 §8.6 / #3756 at the consumer's output: state record-session and
state add-decision on an archived-milestone project drop the curated progress
frontmatter entirely, exit 0, and report nothing. Reproduced against the real
CLI before writing the tests, not inferred from the issue text.

Also adds the unit-level probe that applyStatePreservation's preserve-always
row is inert on a resyncing write, and an over-preservation guard that an
empty project is never inflated.

Refs #3871

* feat(#3871): make the STATE.md pre-write snapshot mandatory via open()/rebuild()

ADR-3473 §8.6. StatePreservationInput's nullable preFm and the always-present
preFmSnapshot were the same extractFrontmatter call, one of them nulled on
resync — a policy flag baked into a snapshot. Both collapse into a single
StateTransaction whose snapshot cannot be absent: openStateTransaction()
applies preservation, rebuildStateTransaction() does not, and both carry the
snapshot because the reporting phase needs it either way. An absent snapshot
is now a construction failure; an empty one stays legal, because that is what
a document with no parseable frontmatter honestly has.

writeStateMd requires a rebuild transaction, which types ADR-3408 §8.3's
closed exception list at both call sites (state sync, health --repair) instead
of matching them as strings in a ratcheted baseline.

Fixes the dropped curated progress block: an all-zero or absent derived total
set is an unmeasured scan, not a measurement, so the curated block stands.
Also fixes two defects surfaced while building — preserve-always reported a
mutation even when it restored an identical value, and it re-entered the
curated object by reference, which would alias the snapshot the next phase
diffs against.

Refs #3871

* fix(#3871): close the three remaining subsumed defects and restore the arm the type does not replace

Review of the first two commits found four things.

The guard shrink deleted the seam-bypass axis whole, but only its
writeStateMd( arm became redundant. Its other arm catches a call site
re-assembling syncStateFrontmatter + applyPostSyncPreservation instead of the
owned composition, which the transaction type does not make unrepresentable
and which #3469 found live. Restored as findCompositionBypasses, terminal
rather than ratcheted.

Three of the four issues this phase claims were untouched. All three are the
epic's own shape and are fixed at the seam: current_phase_name is reasserted
from the curated value when the caller names none, and cmdStateJson stops
carrying a hand-maintained list parallel to FIELD_CLASSIFICATION and projects
it instead.

The construction failure that is the point of this phase had no test. Every
enumerated matrix row now has one, including the measured-versus-unmeasured
coercion boundary and a seeded property that no curated key is ever dropped.

ADR-3473 §8.6 said the guard 'keeps only its raw-write check'. Verified
against next: there was no raw-write check, and four other checks it does not
name. Amended in place with the evidence. ARCHITECTURE.md separately
advertised a preservation policy the code had deleted.

Refs #3871

* fix(#3871): do not let the unmeasured-scan rule block an explicitly-requested resync

The remote matrix caught over-preservation, the failure this phase's own
negative space says must not happen. state update Progress re-derives the
block from the body the caller just rewrote; on a project with no phase dirs
the derivation yields zero totals, the unmeasured rule read that as 'the scan
measured nothing', and the stale curated percent was restored over the resync
the user asked for.

preserve-always already said what the missing condition was: never overwrite
unless the caller explicitly names this field. explicitProgressField carries
it and is derived from shouldResyncStateProgress, not set by hand at a call
site, so it cannot drift from what the caller asked for.

Two defects found in the same mechanism and fixed with it. readModifyWriteStateMd
enumerates its option keys, so a new option was silently dropped rather than
rejected. And the raw-write axis captured its first argument up to the first
comma, which lands inside a nested path.join, so a write to a STATE.md literal
was invisible to it — the prove-it-can-fail test caught that one immediately.

No test assertion was weakened; all three frontmatter rows encode #3242, #1969
B3 and #1972 and stand unchanged.

Refs #3871

* docs(#3871): record why the raw-write check is kept, not why it was named

The amendment justified findRawStateWrites as 'written because §8.6 requires
it to exist', which is cargo-culting the contract and would have been the
wrong reason to keep anything. The real reason is that writeStateMd acquires
the STATE.md lockfile and a raw fs.writeFileSync acquires nothing, so this is
a lock bypass and lost-update is the #500/#905/#1230 family — and after this
phase it is the one reachable path into the file that nothing else covers.

Also records why ADR-3408 §8.6's deletion of the 'clear' policy is not the
precedent it looks like: 'clear' was dead vocabulary in a closed enum, this is
coverage of a reachable path.

Refs #3871

* chore(#3871): backfill changeset PR number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-25 20:38:12 -04:00
Tom Boucher
382bf7c423 fix(#3706): deliver the resolved reasoning effort to OpenCode subagents (#3867)
* test(#3706): failing-first coverage for OpenCode variant emission and frontmatter escaping

* fix(#3706): emit the resolved reasoning effort as OpenCode's variant key

`query resolve-execution` resolved an effort level for every agent, but the
OpenCode bake wrote only `model:` — the effort never reached the generated
agent, so subagents ran at whatever the runtime defaulted the model to. This
is the effort-side twin of the model-side defect fixed in #3705.

The key is written only when an `effort` block is actually configured.
`resolveInstallTimeEffort` always returns a level (the catalog default is
`high`), so gating on its return value would stamp `variant: high` into every
existing OpenCode install — and OpenCode resolves a variant name against a
`variants` map in the user's `opencode.jsonc`, so a value nobody declared is
not a safe default. Gating on `readGsdEffectiveEffortConfig` keeps installs
that never asked for effort routing byte-identical.

Kilo does not receive the key: `EFFORT_ARGV` declares surfaces for claude,
opencode and codex and has no kilo entry. This is deliberately asymmetric with
the model side, where #2794 J8 requires the two runtimes to resolve alike.

Both frontmatter sinks now route through `frontmatterScalar`, which quotes and
escapes any value that is not a plain scalar. The raw interpolation predates
this change, but it was already shown by execution during the #3705 security
review to let a config value containing a newline inject additional top-level
keys (`tools:`, `permission:`) into a generated agent file. This change adds a
second write to that sink, so it is closed here rather than doubled.

* fix(#3706): quote frontmatter values YAML would not read back verbatim

Self-review of the predicate added in the previous commit. Treating
/^[A-Za-z0-9._:/@+-]+$/ as 'safe to emit bare' answers the wrong question:
a value can match it and still not round-trip.

  - A leading '@' is a YAML *reserved* indicator and may not open a plain
    scalar at all, so a scoped ID like '@org/model' emitted bare is a parse
    error, not an ambiguity — the whole agent file becomes unreadable.
  - 'no' / 'y' / 'off' / 'null' resolve to booleans and null, so a variant
    with one of those names would match no entry in the user's variants map.
  - '12:30' resolves to 750 under YAML 1.1 sexagesimal, and ':' is legal
    mid-identifier here, so the form is reachable rather than contrived.

Real model IDs pass every clause and stay bare, so already-generated files
remain byte-identical.

* fix(#3706): route variant through the declared effort seam and cover the live path

Addresses six findings from the isolated review, all confirmed by execution.

The tests were the serious one: they required `../bin/install.js` while the fix
landed in src/, which compiles to gsd-core/bin/lib/. They exercised a different
copy of the converter than the one the bake actually uses, so the whole suite
was green-by-construction against unchanged code and the remote run failed all
13. Every case now runs against BOTH copies from one table, which doubles as the
parity assertion the generative-fix note in runtime-artifact-conversion.cts asks
for, and bin/install.js carries the mirrored change.

Emission no longer hand-rolls the value. It goes through `renderEffortArgv`,
the declared OpenCode effort seam (EFFORT_ARGV.opencode: its own supported set
and clamp). That is what rejects a level that is not a wire value — above all
`inherit`, which per #3533 (10d) means "omit the key and follow the host
default" and was previously written literally, naming a variant that cannot
resolve. Reachable two ways, both now pinned: an agent_overrides entry and a
routing_tier_defaults entry. A bare effort.default does NOT reach a tiered
agent (the #3531 tier ladder answers first), so a test written against
`default` alone asserts nothing — that is pinned too.

The plain-scalar decision moved into frontmatter.cts beside
`scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting` rather than sitting next to it as a second, weaker
predicate. `agentScalarNeedsDoubleQuoting` is a documented superset: it adds a
trailing `:` (read as a nested mapping key, which fails the whole frontmatter),
boolean/null words, and numeric-looking values including YAML 1.1 sexagesimal.

Docs now state the cascade plainly: the gate is on effort being configured at
all, not on the individual agent being named, so every generated OpenCode agent
gets a variant line once any effort block exists.

* test(#3706): assert the two frontmatterScalar copies cannot diverge

A hand-picked adversarial corpus plus a fast-check property over
YAML-significant strings, both run against bin/install.js and the live
src copy. Verified the property can actually fail: mutating one copy's
quoting rule is killed well inside the run budget.

* fix(#3706): close the review findings — predicate, seam, and dead mirror

Third review round; every item below was confirmed by execution.

The scalar predicate was wrong in two families, both found by a round-trip
property test rather than by reading. Basing it on scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting
dropped the "first character must be alphanumeric" clause, so `~`, `.inf`,
`.nan`, `+1`, `-0` and `.5` went out bare and came back as null/floats/ints;
and that base predicate only inspects the FIRST character, so an embedded `: `
(a nested mapping, i.e. a parse error) or ` #` (a comment, i.e. silent
truncation) also passed. Dates round out the set: `2026-08-25` opens
alphanumeric, survives every other clause, and YAML resolves it to a Date.
The property now asserts the contract directly over generated values instead
of trusting an enumerated character list.

The bin/install.js mirror is gone. Its premise was false — install.js already
requires bin/lib at :65 — and it was unreachable besides: install.js's
convertClaudeToOpencodeFrontmatter has no `isAgent: true` call site, because
its agents path resolves converters from the compiled module. It was a third
copy of the YAML rules serving a test rather than a caller, so the file is
back to origin/next and the tests target the live copy only.

Effort clamping moved to `clampEffortForHost`, which renderEffortArgv now
delegates to. The layout was calling renderEffortArgv with a hardcoded 'argv'
to borrow its clamp, which read as if the frontmatter key were gated on the
invocation-time axis. It is not: claude declares effortSurface "argv" and
independently bakes an effort: key. One capability table, one clamp, two
channels that no longer pretend to be each other.

Also corrects an earlier claim of mine: adding EFFORT_RENDERING.opencode would
NOT have made `effort sync` write the wrong key, because it guards on the
runtime name before it ever renders. The seam choice stands on other grounds.
`effort sync` still skips OpenCode, but its stated reason claimed OpenCode
"does not use effort: frontmatter", which this change makes false — so the
message now says what is actually true.

* docs(#3706): restate the changeset around the round-trip contract

* fix(#3706): restore the changeset fragment belonging to #3809

An earlier commit in this branch picked the first file in .changeset/ by
glob order instead of the fragment created for this issue, and overwrote
agile-geese-squeak.md (PR 3815 / #3809) with this change's body. Restored
verbatim from origin/next; this change's text now lives in its own
patient-cranes-parade.md, where it was created.

* feat(#3706): maintain the OpenCode variant key from effort sync

Install bakes the resolved effort into OpenCode agent frontmatter as
`variant:`, so `effort sync` has to maintain it or a config change only takes
effect on reinstall — and its skip message claimed OpenCode does not use
frontmatter effort at all, which this issue made false.

cmdEffortSyncOpencode mirrors the codex branch: resolve per agent, clamp
through the declared OpenCode capability, then write, strip, or skip. A null
target means the key must not exist, which covers both "no effort configured"
and "resolved to inherit or to an unsupported level" — the same states under
which install writes nothing, so sync and install agree by construction.

The frontmatter line-editors are key-parameterised rather than copied:
setEffortFrontmatter / removeEffortFrontmatter are now thin wrappers over the
same internals the variant path uses, and a test pins that the claude `effort:`
behavior did not move. The child-process test harness fixes both HOME and
USERPROFILE, so the hermetic-config assertions cannot pass vacuously on Windows.

* fix(#3706): scope the frontmatter line editors to the matched block

Found by the security review of the sync path, reported as correctness rather
than vulnerability, and reproduced against pre-fix code before being fixed.

Both editors matched the frontmatter with a regex that can match a block after
a preamble, then derived the EOL and the opening-fence length from the START OF
THE FILE. On a CRLF document with a preamble those disagree, the offsets shift
by one byte, and the reassembled document comes back with a mangled fence
(`---\rname: x`). Both now take the EOL from the matched block.

`setFrontmatterKeyLine` additionally did a whole-file `/m` replace when the key
already existed, gated only on the key being present in the frontmatter body —
so a preamble line starting with the same key was rewritten instead of the
frontmatter one. It now replaces inside the frontmatter span only, which is the
hazard `removeFrontmatterKeyLine` already documented and guarded against.

Neither is reachable from an install-written `gsd-*.md` (those begin at byte 0
with `---`), and both predate this change — but the editors are in this diff
because #3706 key-parameterised them, so they are fixed here rather than left
for the next caller to trip over. Three regression tests, each confirmed to
fail against the pre-fix build.

* fix(#3706): treat a present-but-empty key as present, and pin the real seam

Fourth review round.

The MAJOR one: both sync branches read the current value with `(.+?)`, which
needs at least one character, so a key present with an EMPTY value read as
"key absent". When the target was also null the code concluded "already
correct" and skipped — leaving the key in the file, where it reads back as
YAML `null`: exactly the unresolvable-variant state this change exists to
prevent. Whitespace decided whether it fired, since `variant:   ` matched and
`variant:` did not. Presence and value are now separate questions at both the
opencode and the claude branch.

The OpenCode writer now follows the codex branch rather than the claude one:
tmp file plus retryRenameSync with orphan cleanup, and a write failure skips
that agent and is reported instead of aborting the sweep. Same granularity,
same transient-Windows-lock exposure, so the hardened sibling was the right
precedent.

Also: the generic line-editors escape their interpolated key, the JSDoc
stranded by the clampEffortForHost extraction is back on renderEffortArgv, and
a cast that declared a nullable function as non-nullable is corrected.

Tests close the gaps the review listed — empty value (both spellings), CRLF
round-trip through write and strip, the symlink guard, a body line starting
`variant:`, a file with no frontmatter, and the YAML classes that actually
broke the predicate. The new layout-seam test drives the real stage() path and
was verified to FAIL when `variant` is removed from the converter call; a seam
test that survives cutting the seam is worse than none.

* fix(#3706): clear the round-five review findings

No blockers or majors this round; the repo's review gate is zero-tolerance, so
the minors are cleared too.

A duplicated key was only half-stripped: the strip regex had no `g` flag, so a
frontmatter carrying the key twice lost one occurrence, reported success, and
left the "a null target means the key must not exist" invariant false on disk —
converging only on a second run. Such a document is already invalid YAML, so
this is robustness rather than a live corruption path, but a successful sync
has to leave the invariant true.

A run in which every write failed still summarised as `ok`, so a caller could
not tell "nothing to do" from "everything failed". The OpenCode branch now
reports `failed` when any write failed. The write-failure path was also the
newest code in the change with no coverage at all; it now has a test that
injects the failure by monkeypatching the write, per CLAUDE.md §4, rather than
by chmod — mode bits do not bite under root in CI.

`CodexEffortSyncWriteFailure` is renamed `EffortSyncWriteFailure` now that two
branches share it. Removed a guard on the claude concrete path that was
provably unreachable — no member of EFFORT_SET renders null there, so it read
as protection that did not exist. The claude inherit path's presence check is
load-bearing and untouched.

Three stale statements corrected: the OpenCode result shape matches codex's,
not claude's, now that it emits write_failures; the `thread()` test helper now
calls `clampEffortForHost` so it genuinely mirrors the layout instead of
merely claiming to; and a test helper restored `USERPROFILE` by assignment,
writing the literal string "undefined" into the environment on POSIX — it
deletes now.

* fix(#3706): converge the set path, degrade on unreadable files, preserve mode

Rounds five and six of review. No blockers or majors; the review gate is
zero-tolerance, so the minors are cleared too.

`setFrontmatterKeyLine` was the mirror of a defect already fixed in its
sibling: `remove` was made global, `set` was not, so on a frontmatter carrying
the key twice it rewrote the first and left a stale second. Last-wins YAML
readers honour the stale value while the sync's own first-occurrence read
reports "in sync" — permanently non-converging. It now collapses to exactly one
occurrence, in the position of the first, so ordinary single-occurrence
documents stay byte-identical (verified across seven shapes before and after).

An unreadable agent file used to throw and abort the entire sweep, while a
failed WRITE in the same loop degraded into a report. The OpenCode branch now
reports read failures alongside write failures; the claude branch degrades to a
skip without a new result field, because its shape is long-standing and widely
consumed and one bad file aborting the sweep is the actual defect.

The tmp+rename publish dropped the original file's mode — a plain writeFileSync
preserves it, a rename does not — so a 0600 agent came back 0644. Both the
OpenCode and the codex branch now carry the original's permission bits across
the publish, masked with 0o7777: the raw stat mode includes the file-type bits,
and POSIX leaves those unspecified for chmod. Linux is the only OS the remote
matrix runs, so relying on Darwin's tolerance would have been untestable here.

Also documents the `from` contract on EffortSyncChange (null means the key was
absent, '' means present with an empty value — a distinction earlier rounds
introduced and then collapsed in the output), adds OpenCode to the docs
paragraph enumerating where the key is omitted under inherit, and records in a
comment that the 'failed' summary reaches only raw mode and does not change the
exit code, which is a CLI-contract change affecting all three branches and is
deliberately not made here.

* fix(#3706): guard the codex read, close the tmp permission window, rename the failure type

Round seven, plus one thing I found myself.

`cmdEffortSyncCodex` still had an unguarded `fs.readFileSync` — a read fault on
one agent exited 1 and aborted the whole sweep. The claude and opencode
branches were both guarded earlier this round and codex was missed, with the
unguarded read sitting ten lines above the chmod block the previous commit did
edit. It now reports read failures the way the OpenCode branch does, and a read
failure flips its summary to `failed` — which write failures did not do there
either, so both are corrected for consistency.

The tmp file was created at the default mode and only tightened afterwards, so
a 0600 agent's contents sat in a 0644 file for the length of the publish. I
measured the window rather than assuming it, then closed it by passing the
mode at creation. The chmod after the write is deliberately RETAINED and
commented: the `mode` option only applies when the file is actually created, so
a leftover tmp from an earlier crashed run would be truncated and reused at its
old mode, and the chmod is what corrects that.

`EffortSyncWriteFailure` is renamed `EffortSyncFileFailure` — it was typing a
`read_failures` array, the same naming-lie the `Codex…` prefix had last round.

Also pins the codex mode preservation with a test. It only writes on a path
that genuinely rewrites the file, so the fixture is an Anthropic-flavoured
model pin the sync strips, and the test asserts the content changed before
checking the mode — otherwise it would pass on a sync that did nothing.

* fix(#3706): guard the claude writes and share one escaping rule

The security sign-off caught a comment of mine that was factually wrong: the
new claude read guard said the failure is folded in "like the write path in
this same loop does", and there was no write guard in that loop. Rather than
correct the sentence, both claude write sites are now guarded the way the read
is — a failed file is skipped, the sweep continues, and the raw summary token
flips to `failed`. The JSON shape stays frozen deliberately, because it is
long-standing and widely consumed; the token is the channel that can carry the
signal without a compatibility risk, which is the reviewer's own suggestion.

That makes all three branches consistent: reads and writes guarded everywhere,
per-file failures degrade instead of aborting, and every branch reports
`failed` rather than `ok` when something did not sync.

`setFrontmatterKeyLine` interpolated its value raw while the install-side
writer quoted through the shared helpers — two writers of the same frontmatter
key disagreeing on escaping, the divergence class this repo requires closed.
They now share one rule. Verified no churn: all six effort levels are plain
scalars and emit byte-identically, with claude's documented minimal-to-low
clamp the only difference in the table, exactly as before.

* fix(#3706): publish claude agent writes atomically too

Both reviewers found this independently, and it is data loss rather than a
reporting gap. The claude branch wrote in place, so `fs.writeFileSync`'s
O_TRUNC meant a post-open fault left the agent file truncated or half-written:
an injected ENOSPC produced an empty file, and under `ulimit -f` a 60000-byte
agent came back as 512 bytes of wrong content. The guard added earlier this
round then counted that destroyed file as `skipped`, which in JSON mode is
indistinguishable from "already in sync" — so a caller would have read the
sweep as clean while an agent on disk was corrupt.

It now publishes the way the codex and opencode branches already do: write to
a tmp file created at the original's masked mode, chmod, then retryRenameSync,
with the tmp unlinked and the agent skipped on any failure. The corrupting case
is gone rather than merely reported, which matters because this branch
deliberately takes no new result key.

I had claimed all three branches were consistent after the previous commit.
That was true for degradation and reporting and not for atomicity; the reviewer
caught the overclaim. It is true now.

Also sorts the claude file list, which the other two branches already did —
readdir order is platform-dependent, so leaving it unsorted made the reported
`changes` ordering differ across machines for identical inputs.

* chore(#3706): backfill the changeset PR number

pr:0 placeholder replaced with the real PR now that gh api returned it.

* test(#3706): kill the frontmatter mutants this change introduced

CI's Stryker frontmatter shard scored 60.58 against a break floor of 62.
The cause is documented in the lane's own config, from #1882: this PR added a
multi-clause predicate to frontmatter.cts and exported the escaper, but the
tests constraining them live in tests/runtime-converters.test.cjs, which that
shard does not run — so every mutant in the new code was uncovered there even
though the behaviour is tested elsewhere.

The fix is assertions that kill real mutants, per the repo's own instruction,
not a lowered floor and not a Stryker disable: scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs is
untouched. Each clause of agentScalarNeedsDoubleQuoting now has a true case AND
a near-miss that must answer the opposite way, so flipping the clause fails a
specific named test — alnum-first against `a-b`, trailing `:` against `foo:bar`,
embedded `: ` against `a:b`, embedded ` #` against `a#b`, the word list against
`yes1`/`nullish`, the numeric forms against `1a`/`0xzz`, the timestamp against
`2026-08-25x`, plus the case-insensitive spellings that pin the `i` flag.
escapeDoubleQuoted is pinned on exact output, including a case constructed so
that escaping in the wrong ORDER yields a different string.

Two of my expectations were wrong and are asserted as the code actually
behaves: `12:99` is NOT quoted, because the sexagesimal alternative never
range-checks minutes and so does not match — which is right, since YAML would
not read it as sexagesimal either; and `20260825` is quoted by the numeric
clause rather than the timestamp one, being a bare integer.

* chore(#3706): ratchet the frontmatter mutation floor to 65

The lane measured 66.67 on PR 3867 after the mutant-killing unit tests landed —
above its pre-change 63.35 baseline, not merely recovered. Step 3 of this
file's own HOW TO UPDATE procedure says to set minScore = floor(measured) - 1
in the same diff, so 62 becomes 65 and the improvement is locked in rather than
left free to slide back.

The ledger of measured scores now records the new measurement, why the shard
broke in the first place (logic added to frontmatter.cts whose only tests lived
in a file this lane does not run — the same trap the #1882 note describes), and
one discrepancy: step 3 also says to update "the matching RATCHET_BASELINE
entry", but no such declaration exists in this file. The name appears only in
that comment, so minScore and the ledger are all there is to update.

* fix(#3706): update RATCHET_BASELINE alongside the raised floor

The ratchet test caught the previous commit: it raised COVERED['frontmatter']
.minScore to 65 without updating the baseline that mirrors it, which is exactly
the mismatch that guard exists to make visible in review.

I had claimed RATCHET_BASELINE did not exist. It does — in
tests/mutation-matrix-ratchet.test.cjs, not in scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs,
which is the only file I searched before concluding it was a stale reference.
The ledger comment is corrected to say where it lives and to record that the
guard caught the error rather than leaving my wrong claim on the record.

* docs(#3706): put the mutation ledger entries back under their own dates

The 2026-08-25 measurement was spliced into the middle of the 2026-06-14 list,
so adr-parser, config-schema, active-workstream-store and core-utils ended up
sitting under the wrong heading and misattributing their measurement dates.
That ledger is what a future change reads to calibrate a floor, so a wrong date
there is not cosmetic. Each measurement is now under the date it was taken.

Also drops the first-person account of my own mistake from the entry — the
factual half (where RATCHET_BASELINE lives, and that it is updated in the same
diff) is what a reader needs; the confession is not.

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2026-08-25 19:54:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
86fa2917d7 enh(#3866): dispatch step and contribution hooks at verify:pre (#3869)
* test(#3866): pin that verify:pre must dispatch every hook kind

verify-work.md's verify_pre_hooks step dispatches only `kind == "gate"`, so
getWiredKinds reports verify:pre -> {gate} and gen-capability-registry rejects
any capability declaring a step or contribution there. The verify lane is
therefore closed to capabilities that want to contribute to what UAT covers
rather than refuse to let it start.

Failing-first: the step, contribution, and exact-kind-set rows are RED; the
pre-existing gate row is a green regression pin so the new arms cannot orphan
the arm verify:pre already had.

Refs #3866

* feat(#3866): dispatch step and contribution hooks at verify:pre

verify_pre_hooks dispatched `kind == "gate"` only, so getWiredKinds reported
verify:pre -> {gate} and gen-capability-registry's validateHooksWired rejected
any capability declaring a step or contribution there. A capability could
refuse to let UAT start; it could not contribute to what UAT covers.

Add contribution and step arms mirroring execute:wave:post, deferring to
references/loop-hook-dispatch.md and carrying its ref.command in-context
validation guard ahead of any shell-use prose. A verify:pre step is advisory:
it never blocks the start of UAT and an erroring step is routed by its own
onError. The gate arm and its check guard are untouched.

Give extract_tests an additive consumption seam for the artefacts those steps
declare via the existing steps[].produces field -- no new registry field, no
new ordering, no invented filename. Manifest-supplied artefact names are
validated in-context against an allowlist and resolved only inside PHASE_DIR.
With no producing step the derivation is unchanged, pinned by test rather than
asserted in prose.

Review findings folded in: the artefact-name allowlist (isolated adversarial
pass), the artefact-shape contract and the seam-inertness tests (spec axis),
and the reference/how-to split so one constraint has one source of truth
(standards axis).

Closes #3866

* chore(#3866): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-25 18:07:29 -04:00
Tom Boucher
e40e9670f8 fix(#3705): consult model_policy in the install-time bake so agent frontmatter matches dispatch (#3863)
* test(#3705): failing-first coverage for model_policy in the install-time bake

* fix(#3705): consult model_policy in the install-time bake so frontmatter matches dispatch

* fix(#3705): inject the effective runtime into the policy so runtime_tiers is reached

* test(#3705): use assert.doesNotMatch, the assertion that exists

* chore(#3705): backfill changeset PR number

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2026-08-25 12:11:15 -04:00
sim
67335c498c fix(#3841): express the anchor semantically so the pretty payload still verifies
The remote matrix caught a regression I introduced in the previous commit. The
anchor check was implemented as a byte-prefix match against IDENTITY_RAW_PREFIX,
which describes the `--raw` wire format -- but `cmdRuntimeIdentity` without that
flag pretty-prints at indent 2, and the classifier is handed BOTH serializations.
Only the shell is restricted to `--raw`. The pre-existing test that runs the real
verb with no flag went red: `+ 'unparseable' - 'ok'`.

No local gate caught it. build:lib, eslint and lint:ci were green throughout,
because none of them execute tests.

The anchor now reproduces its two properties semantically instead of byte-wise,
and both hold for either serialization: the payload begins at the first byte of
stdout, and `packageName` serializes first. IDENTITY_RAW_PREFIX stays exported
with its own tests -- it is the wire contract for the shell, not a general
classifier predicate, and conflating those was the error.

Adds the two rows the matrix was missing: the default pretty serialization
verifies, and a pretty payload with `packageName` not first does not. The design
and matrix now record that they enumerated only the inputs the SHELL produces
and assumed the classifier's input set was the same.

Refs #3841

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 11:36:59 -04:00
sim
5e997de5f0 fix(#3841): honor the payload anchor in the classifier, dedup the fixture
Three review findings, all fixed.

The isolated security review found a SECOND divergence the design missed. The
classifier parses structurally, so it accepted `packageName` at any key
position; the shell's `case` is anchored at the start of stdout. For
`{"note":"x","packageName":"<us>",...}` the classifier said ok and the shell
said unverified -- a fail-open disagreement, and none of the original ten parity
rows caught it because every one put `packageName` first. Certifying agreement
that does not hold would have been worse than shipping no parity suite. The
classifier now honors the anchor on its ok arm, which is what the module already
claimed to do: IDENTITY_RAW_PREFIX is documented as "ANCHORED, never a substring
search". A foreign packageName stays identity_mismatch wherever it appears, so
that arm is untouched. Parity rows P11-P13 added.

The spec review found the test matrix marked the empty-string `packageName` row
as already covered. It was not -- the `.length > 0` guard is a distinct path
from "no packageName key at all", which is tested. Added, and the matrix
corrected to say it was wrong.

The standards review flagged ~45 lines of fixture helpers duplicated verbatim
between the two preamble describes. Extracted to one `makeIdentityFixture()`.

Changeset rewritten: it described only the exit-code half of the diff.

Refs #3841

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 11:36:59 -04:00
sim
3b8e4f3e5a fix(#3841): parse the identity payload before consulting the probe exit code
`classifyIdentityProbe` short-circuited on a non-zero exit BEFORE it looked at
stdout, so a tool that had already proved its identity and merely exited
non-zero was classified `no_identity_verb`. The launcher preamble that this
module speaks for reads stdout only -- its command substitution discards the
status -- so the two surfaces disagreed on exactly that input: shell `ok`,
classifier `no_identity_verb`. Measured against the real snippet, not inferred.

That matters because the classifier is the engine for the announced hard-fail
phase and has no production caller yet. An install verified by today's warn
phase would have been refused the moment hard-fail landed, in the phase where
that stops the run rather than printing a line. Nothing recorded or tested the
difference.

The classifier moves rather than the shell: the shell is the shipped path with
observable dependents, the classifier has none. The predecessor defence is
untouched -- a usage screen yields no usable payload, so it still falls through
to the exit-code branch.

Adds the cross-surface parity test the gauntlet requires for two surfaces
implementing one decision: ten probe behaviors driven through both the real
snippet and the classifier, asserting they agree with each other.

Surfaced by re-running the feature-implementation directive's design and QA
steps against the code merged in #3848, which shipped without them.

Refs #3841

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 11:36:59 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8bfb5c47c9 fix(#3842): recover ack paths from pull requests past the per-PR file cap (#3857) 2026-08-25 11:36:27 -04:00
Tom Boucher
27318ecec3 fix(#3704): rewrite fnm versioned node paths to the stable alias on macOS and Linux (#3856)
* test(#3704): failing-first coverage for fnm versioned-path normalization on POSIX

* fix(#3704): rewrite fnm versioned node paths to the stable alias on POSIX

* fix(#3704): share one root normalizer across both fnm branches so no baked path carries a doubled separator

* chore(#3704): backfill changeset PR number

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2026-08-25 09:44:48 -04:00
Tom Boucher
aa6c332b5a fix(#3701): resolve next_phase from the roadmap, selecting the numerically lowest successor (#3852)
* test(#3701): failing-first coverage for roadmap-order next_phase resolution

* fix(#3701): resolve next_phase from roadmap order, keeping the disk scan for spelling and fallback

* fix(#3701): select the numerically lowest successor in both scans, not the first row encountered

* chore(#3701): backfill changeset PR number

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2026-08-25 08:58:10 -04:00
Tom Boucher
308c17505c fix(#3840): reject a malformed feature order instead of coercing it (#3851)
* fix(#3840): reject a malformed feature `order` instead of coercing it

`scripts/gen-features.cjs` was the one field validated by coercion rather than
by shape. `Number('')` is 0, and `0x10`, `0b11`, `0o17`, `1e3`, `1.` and `.5`
all coerce to finite numbers, so a fragment declaring a bare `order:` sorted to
position 0 -- ahead of every real feature, in both the body and the generated
table of contents -- with zero violations, a clean `--check` and `--write`
exiting 0. That is a fail-open in a gate whose entire contract is a typed
violation rather than a silent guess.

`order` is now shape-checked against an optionally-signed decimal literal
before coercion, mirroring how ID_RE guards `id`. The finite check stays: the
regex alone would admit a literal long enough to overflow to Infinity.

Surfaced by re-running the feature-implementation directive's design and QA
steps against the code merged in #3845, which shipped without them.

Refs #3840

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

* chore(#3840): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3840

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 08:36:33 -04:00
Tom Boucher
fb2d122d7f feat(#3841): assert gsd-tools identity on every state-mutating verb (#3848)
* feat(#3841): assert gsd-tools identity before any state-mutating verb

only this package publishes. The path-based branches — a project-local install,
a runtime config directory — had no such guarantee; they trusted their
configured location. This closes them.

Mechanism: once resolution finishes, and before any verb runs, the preamble
probes the tool it picked with `runtime-identity --raw` and matches the answer
with a shell `case` pattern ANCHORED to the start of the compact payload
(`{"packageName":"@opengsd/gsd-core"`). An unanchored substring match accepts
the decoy `{"packageName":"get-shit-done-cc","note":"@opengsd/gsd-core"}`, which
any colliding package could publish. The outcome is exported as the two-valued
`GSD_IDENTITY_STATUS` (`ok`/`unverified`), so the gate is asserted on a VALUE
rather than on warning prose. Rollout is warn-then-fail per the #3146 ruling:
`unverified` prints one line naming BOTH causes and continues, because
`no_identity_verb` cannot tell a foreign package from an `@opengsd/gsd-core`
older than the verb, and at rollout the old-version case is the common one.

The blocker was byte budget, not design. The preamble is inlined into 112
shipped files and several sat within single-digit bytes of frozen ceilings
(`gsd-verifier.md` 16 bytes, `gsd-executor.md` 33, `execute-phase.md` 234); a
first attempt broke five of them. What made room was collapsing the resolver's
twenty near-identical `elif [ -f … ]` arms into one candidate-list helper
(`_gsd_at`), which buys far more than the assertion costs. The preamble is now
2,624 bytes against 4,500 — a net 1,876 bytes SMALLER per inlined file, so every
capped file moved away from its ceiling rather than toward it. No cap raised, no
size-budget exception added, no override token emitted.

Resolution order, every runtime-home probe, the `unset -f gsd_run` re-source
fix, the fail-closed `exit 1`, and the `CLAUDE_ENV_FILE` persistence are all
preserved byte-for-byte in substring terms; the snippet still begins with
`_GSD_SHIM_NAME=` and still ends with `fi`, which the parity extractors anchor
on. `gsd-core/references/gsd-run-resolver.md` is re-synced byte-equal.

Also fixes two stale claims found in passing: CONTEXT.md and FEATURES.md both
described an `[ -x ]` guard as the load-bearing re-source defense. That guard
was tried and REMOVED in #3831 — it rejected the bare function name, fell
through every branch, and hit `exit 1`, which kills a sourced caller's shell.
`unset -f gsd_run` is the actual mechanism.

Refs #3841

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

* fix(#3841): pair the anchor's brace by requiring a closed identity payload

The matrix went red on `tests/new-project-mvp-prompt.test.cjs` — "new-project.md
has unbalanced braces: net depth 2" — plus a knock-on report from its parent
`bug #1516` describe, which is the same failure counted once at the child and
once at the block.

Root cause: that guard (:182-189, mirroring #3784 bd53925f) walks characters and
increments on `{`, decrements on `}`, with no awareness of shell quoting. It
scans `new-project.md` PLUS every `new-project/steps/*.md`, and both
`new-project.md` and `steps/auto-mode-config.md` carry one inlined preamble copy
— hence net 2 from a snippet that was off by exactly one. The unpaired brace was
the `{` inside the single-quoted `case` pattern of the identity anchor, which is
correct shell and invisible to a text scanner.

Fix in the snippet, not the guard. The pattern now anchors at BOTH ends:
`'{"packageName":"@opengsd/gsd-core"'*'}'`. That balances 51/51 with a brace that
does real work rather than a cosmetic pair — a truncated payload whose prefix
matches now fails too, where before it verified. Safe for any future additive
field: a JSON object's own closing brace is always the last character, whatever
type the last value has, which is pinned by two negative-space tests (a nested
object and an array-valued last key must both still verify). Cost: +3 bytes,
against the 1,873 the resolver fold already gave back.

The alternative considered and rejected was dropping the literal `{` for a `?`
glob. It balances too, but weakens the anchor from "must be an opening brace" to
"must be any one character", and the anchor is the entire point.

Two guards added so this cannot recur silently:
- runtime-launcher-parity (F0) pins brace balance at the SNIPPET, so the next
  edit to that pattern fails on the file it broke instead of surfacing three
  files downstream in a test whose name mentions neither the launcher nor this
  issue. It also asserts depth never goes negative, since a `}` preceding its
  `{` nets to zero while being unbalanced at every prefix.
- runtime-identity gains behavioral truncated-payload and trailing-garbage
  fixtures, so the added `}` is proven load-bearing rather than merely present.

Verified: snippet 51/51 braces; new-project combined net depth 0; the seven
other preamble-bearing files with nonzero depth are unchanged from merged next
(their own prose, not the preamble, and not in any guard's scan set); all 112
inlined copies and the resolver reference re-synced byte-equal; sync:launcher
idempotent on the second run.

Refs #3841

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

* chore(#3841): backfill changeset PR number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 01:05:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8d8e9ef5eb fix(#3842): stage the emitted-drift-ack sweep so it does not conflict in-flight PRs (#3847)
* fix(#3842): stage the emitted-drift-ack sweep around open PRs

The guard-no-ack-on-next sweep (#3078) deleted every all-spent fragment
under tests/emitted-drift-acks/ unconditionally. When an open PR still
modified the same fragment file, that delete became a modify/delete
conflict on the PR's next merge attempt -- the exact shared-file
conflict fragments were adopted (#2914) to eliminate, reintroduced by
the sweep itself. The first real sweep hit three open, outside-
contributor PRs simultaneously (#3330, #3774, #3648), each with the
swept fragment as its only conflicting path.

assertNoAllSpentFragments now accepts an optional openPrTouchedPaths
set (or the sentinel 'unknown') and partitions all-spent fragments
into "safe to sweep" and "held" -- a held fragment is reported
informationally, never as a failure, and is swept once the touching
PR merges or closes. fetchOpenPrTouchedAckPaths computes the touched
set with a single `gh pr list --json number,files` call. The guard-next
codepath is factored out of main() into the exported, dependency-
injectable runGuardNext() so this wiring is unit-testable without a
real, network-dependent `gh` binary.

The new behavior is strictly opt-in via a --defer-to-open-prs flag,
wired only from the guard-no-ack-on-next job in test.yml (which also
gains pull-requests: read and a GH_TOKEN env for the `gh` call). Every
pre-#3842 caller -- including every existing test -- is unaffected
when the flag is omitted.

CONTRIBUTING.md's "Why fragments, not one file (#2914)" section now
documents the staged-sweep policy so it no longer reads as though
fragments are unconditionally conflict-free once spent.

Refs #3842
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3842): unify the failed-open-PR-check message to one greppable phrase

The remote matrix (commit 4ec4527fb) failed two tests on the fail-closed
path: assertNoAllSpentFragments's 'unknown' sentinel branch described the
failure as "...could not be determined this run...", while runGuardNext's
catch around fetchOpenPrTouchedAckPaths described the same condition as
"open-PR check failed (<err>)". Both messages were genuinely present and
informative (not missing or empty), but they used different wording for
the same fail-closed condition, so there is no single string a human
scanning CI output can search for to find out why nothing got swept.

Unify both sites on "open-PR check unavailable" -- runGuardNext's line
now reads "open-PR check unavailable — <err.message>", and
assertNoAllSpentFragments's holdAll message now leads with "deferred
(open-PR check unavailable): ...". This is a real fix to the fail-safe
path's diagnosability, not a relaxed test assertion: the two now-failing
tests already expected this exact phrase, and the fix makes the code
say what the tests (correctly) expected instead of loosening them to
match arbitrary prior wording.

Refs #3842
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#3842): backfill changeset PR number and retype to Fixed

pr:0 backfilled to 3847. Retyped Changed -> Fixed: the change repairs broken sweep behaviour rather than adding any, and its contributor-facing documentation lives in CONTRIBUTING.md at the repo root, which lint-docs-required does not count.

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 00:08:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
de95c03f72 fix(#3699): report why a derived frontmatter key was not written, and repair a missing body source (#3846)
* test(#3699): failing-first coverage for derived-key reporting and the case-D fallback

* fix(#3699): report why a derived frontmatter key was not written, and repair a missing body source

* fix(#3699): scope session-field writes to ## Session so an archived line cannot absorb the update

* fix(#3699): resolve the session writer from body labels only, so a frontmatter key never writes the body

* chore(#3699): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 23:20:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
36375513b9 feat(#3840): generate docs/FEATURES.md from per-feature fragments (#3845)
* feat(#3840): generate docs/FEATURES.md from per-feature fragments

docs/FEATURES.md was hand-maintained, and every feature PR wrote into two
shared mutable cells: the '### N.' heading whose integer was hand-allocated at
authoring time, and the hand-maintained table of contents. Concurrent PRs all
picked the same next integer, and two PRs adding differently numbered features
still collided on the TOC. #3831 was renumbered 165 -> 166 -> 167 -> 168 across
successive rebases, each collision also costing a full matrix verification run
because the sha-keyed pass marker dies with the rebase.

Mechanism: one fragment per feature at docs/features/<slug>.md carrying
id/title/group (and an optional order) in frontmatter, consolidated by
scripts/gen-features.cjs --write|--check into a marker-delimited region of
docs/FEATURES.md that holds BOTH the TOC and every section body. Group headings
and their order are derived too - a group sorts by its lowest-ordered member -
so there is no shared registry to edit either; optional per-group prose lives in
docs/features/_groups/<slug>.md. A contributor adds exactly one new file.
Wired into regen:derived and lint:generated-sync alongside the eight existing
generators, matching gen-adr-index.cjs's CLI shape and typed-REASON reporting.

Migration froze all 168 existing numbers verbatim: identical section set,
identical order, identical bodies. Two defects found in the tree are fixed
inline rather than carried forward - the '## Related' block had been spliced
into the middle of the document, orphaning §142's Reference line, and four
inbound anchors were already broken on next (FEATURES.md#runtime-identity in
two files, and #143-spec-phase-edge-completeness-probe off by one). Since the
repo has no link checker, --check now validates every inbound
FEATURES.md#anchor by resolved target, so that class cannot ship silently
again; locale FEATURES.md files resolve elsewhere and stay out of scope.

Refs #3840

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

* fix(#3840): carry upstream §69 delta into its fragment and harden the generator

Review found section 69 missing '[--strict]' and REQ-STATE-05/06 versus
origin/next. Root cause was a stale base, not extraction loss: those lines
landed in 394bf384b (#3844) AFTER this branch forked at 63abcface, and
'git diff 63abcface origin/next -- docs/FEATURES.md' is exactly that hunk.
Merging origin/next auto-applied the hunk into the GENERATED region, which
--check immediately reported as stale; the delta is now carried in
docs/features/statemd-consistency-gates.md and regenerated from there.

--write is now fail-closed. It previously rendered the region even with
violations outstanding, warning only on stderr and exiting 0, so a
'--write && git commit' chain could commit a FEATURES.md carrying two
colliding sections. It now refuses and exits 1; --force is the explicit
override and says so in the report. The test that pinned the old behavior now
pins the refusal, plus the --force override and its scoping.

Marker forgery is rejected at two layers. A fragment body containing
'<!-- FEATURES:START' or '<!-- FEATURES:END' is a typed
body_forges_region_marker violation (fragments and group notes alike), and
spliceIntoFeatures anchors the end boundary with lastIndexOf instead of
indexOf, so a marker that reaches the document by any other route can only
make the generated region grow, never shrink. Matching is on marker PREFIXES,
so a decorated variant comment cannot slip past.

Symlinked corpus entries are refused with a typed dirent_not_regular_file
rather than read. A fork PR could otherwise commit docs/features/evil.md as a
symlink to any readable path and have the generator inline those bytes into
the committed docs/FEATURES.md on the next regen.

Equivalence re-verified with a method that cannot cancel out. The first
check extracted both operands with the same body-normalising helper, so
anything that helper dropped was dropped on both sides. The replacement runs
two independent passes: a global content-line multiset diff with no
per-section logic at all (0 gained, 19 lost, all 19 the stale hand-written
mini-TOC links this change deliberately deletes), and a per-section
byte-exact body diff carrying a coverage assertion that fails loudly per file
when the extractor accounts for fewer lines than the file contains. That
assertion caught two blind spots in the checker itself. 168/168 sections
present, order identical, one intended body difference (§142 regains the
Reference line orphaned by the misplaced '## Related' block).

Refs #3840

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

* chore(#3840): backfill changeset PR number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 22:49:00 -04:00
Tom Boucher
394bf384be fix(#3696): report the last_activity invariant and make the verdict gateable with --strict (#3844)
* test(#3696): failing-first coverage for the last_activity invariant and --strict exit status

* fix(#3696): report the last_activity invariant and make the verdict gateable with --strict

* fix(#3696): agree with the real reader on last_activity, and stop reporting structure as truncation

* chore(#3696): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 21:33:48 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6905726d9c chore(#3833): gate every PR compute lane behind a mergeability preflight (#3843)
* test(#3833): failing-first suite for the PR mergeability preflight

* chore(#3833): gate every PR compute lane behind a mergeability preflight

* fix(#3833): assert the preflight gate on parsed yaml and guard status-function if

* fix(#3833): run stub-backed cli tests in-process to avoid a spawnsync deadlock

* fix(#3833): fail the preflight open when its script is absent at the base sha

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2026-08-24 21:13:55 -04:00
Tom Boucher
63abcface9 feat(#3146): resolve gsd_run so workflows cannot reach a foreign gsd-tools (#3831)
* feat(#3146): resolve gsd_run so workflows cannot reach a foreign gsd-tools

The predecessor package get-shit-done-cc publishes a colliding gsd-tools bin whose phases.clear DELETES where this package's ARCHIVES, and both print success-shaped output against a gitignored .planning/ -- which is how #3129 cost a user 43 phase directories with no error and nothing recoverable from git.

The launcher's PATH branch now resolves gsd_run, published only by this package and self-locating via its own symlink chain to the sibling shim, instead of the colliding gsd-tools. A foreign handler becomes unreachable from PATH, and when no gsd_run is reachable the resolver fails closed rather than falling back -- that fallback was the vulnerability. This is smaller than the branch it replaces, which matters: the preamble is inlined into 113 shipped files and agents/gsd-verifier.md sits 2 bytes under a red-line size cap.

unset -f gsd_run leads the preamble so a re-source is idempotent. Without it, command -v finds the shell function, returns a bare name, and the resolver falls through to an exit 1 that kills a sourced caller's shell.

Adds gsd-tools runtime-identity, a manual diagnostic reporting this runtime's package coordinates over the baked package-identity (#498) and readHostVersion, with a strict total classifier: only a JSON object with an exact packageName verifies, since JSON.parse admits 0/"str"/[]/null/true.

An inlined identity assertion was built and reviewed first, then withdrawn -- it breaks five frozen size ceilings and no assertion fits in 2 bytes.

Closes #3146

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

* fix(#3146): stop sync:launcher relocating a deliberate preamble placement

Pre-existing defect, surfaced by this PR because sync is a no-op unless the snippet content actually changes. transformFile inserts the preamble into the first block that CALLS gsd_run, but gsd-core/workflows/explore.md deliberately places it in a bootstrap-only block that DEFINES gsd_run without calling it -- its own comment explains why: declining the research offer must not leave Step 5's commit call unbootstrapped. Stripping empties that block of calls, so the preamble migrated forward and broke the define-before-use invariant tests/explore-command.test.cjs pins.

Reproduced on a pristine origin/next checkout with the base snippet and base file, so this was not introduced here. The insertion target now honours a block that already carried the preamble, falling back to the first calling block for files that have none yet. Adds a behavioral regression test over a two-block fixture.

Also updates three runtime-launcher-parity tests that pinned the removed PATH fallback to gsd-tools. Their intent is preserved -- the PATH stub is renamed gsd_run so it is reachable by the new resolver, and the RUNTIME_DIR-wins test still asserts the stub is never invoked. Fixture shebangs move to an absolute /bin/sh, because the fixture PATH is deliberately restricted and #!/usr/bin/env sh could not resolve.

Refs #3146

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

* chore(#3146): backfill changeset PR number

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

* docs(#3146): document the FEATURES.md section-numbering practice

The monotonically increasing section number in docs/FEATURES.md is the most frequent merge-conflict source in this repo, and it has TWO conflict cells, not one: the ### N. heading and the hand-maintained table of contents. Two PRs adding differently numbered features still collide on the TOC, so renumbering alone does not make a branch safe. This branch alone was renumbered 165 -> 166 -> 167 -> 168 across successive rebases.

Adds a CONTRIBUTING section stating the practice: allocate the number last, never pre-emptively renumber, take max+1 after a rebase and update the TOC in the same commit, and never renumber someone else's section. Fork contributors are told explicitly they may leave the number to a maintainer at merge rather than chasing the counter. Agents are told to lease the allocation and to include the file in their published touched set.

Records the durable fix as planned rather than pretending it exists: FEATURES.md should be generated from per-feature fragments the way CHANGELOG.md is generated from .changeset/, and the way tests/emitted-drift-acks/ works (#2914).

Also renumbers this branch's own section to 168, leaving 167 to the PR already in flight.

Refs #3146

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 20:57:16 -04:00
Tom Boucher
aaf47c5fc2 fix(#3691): let every reviewer lane take a prompt cap, and make the documented global resolve (#3832)
* test(#3691): failing-first coverage for the reviewer prompt budget

No prompt cap can reach any CLI reviewer lane, by any configuration. Two
independent defects compound: all nine `transport: spawn` lanes declare
`promptBudgetKey: null`, so `budgetFor` returns on its first line; and the
documented global `review.max_prompt_tokens` is advertised in the schema
manifest but declared nowhere, so the resolver never materializes it and
`budgetFor`'s fallback is dead code.

Adds to tests/reviewer-config-federation.test.cjs, which already owns the
per-reviewer budget config-set/config-get idiom:

- a CLI lane inherits the global cap (RED: reports null)
- an http lane with the -1 sentinel inherits the global cap (RED: reports null)
- the resolved review surface carries max_prompt_tokens at all (RED: absent)
- per-lane overrides the global on a CLI lane
- the sentinel boundary: -1 inherits, 0 means do-not-trim and must NOT read as
  unset, 1 is the smallest real budget — the regression budgetFor's own comment
  warns about
- anti-tightening pins that must stay green: an empty config leaves every lane
  null, the three existing budgeted lanes are unchanged, and config-set still
  rejects a per-reviewer key naming something that is not a declared lane
- a fast-check property over the resolution contract itself, with -1, 0 and
  non-finite inputs generated explicitly rather than left to chance

Every row was reproduced by hand against the real CLI before being written, so
the RED/GREEN split is observed rather than predicted.

Refs #3691

* fix(#3691): let every reviewer lane take a prompt cap, and make the global resolve

No prompt cap could reach any CLI reviewer lane, by any configuration. Two
independent defects compounded.

The nine spawn-transport lanes — claude, coderabbit, antigravity, cursor,
gemini, codex, kimi-code, opencode, qwen — declared `promptBudgetKey: null`, so
`budgetFor` returned on its first line and `review-lane plan` reported
`promptBudget: null` no matter what was configured. Each now declares
`review.max_prompt_tokens_per_reviewer.<slug>` with the same `-1`-is-unset
sentinel the three local-server lanes already use.

Separately, the central `review.max_prompt_tokens` was listed in the schema
manifest's validKeys and documented as a supported setting, but declared
nowhere — the resolved surface is built from capability declarations plus the
defaults manifest, and neither carried it. `configGet` returned undefined and
`budgetFor`'s documented fallback was dead code. It is now declared with a
`null` default, exactly as docs/CONFIGURATION.md already specified, so the
default behavior is unchanged: nothing configured means nothing trims.

Two things the diagnosis had not predicted, found and fixed while implementing:

- `REVIEWER_LANES` in src/review-lane-descriptor.cts is a second, hardcoded
  registration site that `mergeReviewerLanes` prefers over the capability
  registry on a slug collision. Editing only the capability files left every
  CLI lane still null. Both sites now agree.
- The generated `gsd-core/bin/lib/capability-registry.cjs` was stale and masked
  the capability edits; regenerated with `npm run gen:capability-registry`
  rather than hand-edited.

docs/CONFIGURATION.md said "Only lanes that declare a budget key accept one —
today ollama, lm_studio and llama_cpp". That is false as of this change and is
corrected rather than left to rot.

The trim-versus-refuse question the issue raises is deliberately not taken up
here: the refusal path already exists for the case that matters — a reviewer
whose minimum set exceeds its budget is skipped rather than sent a misleading
prompt — and trimming above that floor is the documented, shipped design of the
feature. Changing it would alter behavior for the three lanes that already
work, which is not what the issue asks for.

Fixes #3691

* fix(#3691): document the new global and narrow an invariant this change obsoleted

The full suite surfaced two consequences of giving every CLI lane a budget key.

`review.max_prompt_tokens` entered CONFIG_DEFAULTS without a matching entry in
the planning-config reference, which config-field-docs guards. Documented,
including the sentinel semantics a reader needs: a per-lane value overrides the
global, `-1` means unset and inherits it, and `0` means "do not trim that lane"
and is not unset.

The #2797 federation guard asserted that "a lane with no model flag and no host
owns no config keys". That held only because budget keys existed solely on the
three local-server lanes, all of which have hosts. A lane can now legitimately
own a config key for a third reason, so qwen tripped it.

The assertion is narrowed rather than weakened: such a lane must still own no
model key and no host key, and may own at most its own
`review.max_prompt_tokens_per_reviewer.<slug>` — never another lane's. That is
strictly more specific in the dimensions that still matter. Proven to still
bite: hypothetically giving qwen a `review.models.qwen` key fails it with
`model/host: review.models.qwen`. The name and comment cite #3691 for why the
premise changed, so a reader sees a deliberate narrowing, not erosion.

Checked the sibling assertions in that describe block; the other three do not
rest on the obsolete premise and are untouched.

Refs #3691

* fix(#3685): port the write-flag content-change contract to its three sibling sites

#3685 fixed `phase complete`'s `roadmap_updated` / `state_updated`, which
reported `fs.existsSync(path)` rather than whether the transaction wrote
anything. Three sibling sites carried the identical defect and are ported here.

- `cmdPhaseRemove` reported `roadmap_updated: true`, hardcoded.
  `updateRoadmapAfterPhaseRemoval` now returns whether the content changed and
  the flag reports it. #2640/#2974 already fixed `state_updated` at this same
  call site and left this one behind, so the correct shape was adjacent.
- `cmdMilestoneComplete` reported `state_updated: fs.existsSync(statePath)` —
  byte-identical to #3685's bug in a different command.
- `cmdMilestoneComplete` reported `milestones_updated: true`, hardcoded, never
  consulting the MILESTONES.md write.

`gsd-core/workflows/remove-phase.md:100` extracts `roadmap_updated` for display
and never branches on it, so the flip from always-true to content-based changes
no workflow behavior. Verified by reading the step, not assumed.

One trap found while implementing: the obvious in-memory
`finalContent !== originalStateContent` comparison — copying `cmdPhaseComplete`'s
shipped shape verbatim — gives a FALSE POSITIVE for milestone completion.
`platformWriteSync` normalizes Markdown at write time, and the milestone-closure
transform regenerates `## Current Position` fresh on every call, so its
pre-normalize output always differs from the already-normalized file on disk
even when the persisted bytes are identical. The comparison is therefore made
against the post-write on-disk content. `cmdPhaseComplete`'s own comparisons are
left untouched — their repeat-no-op tests pass, so they are not exposed to this
artifact.

`milestones_updated` has no reachable no-op: the MILESTONES.md write
unconditionally appends an entry every call. Only the true direction is pinned,
documented inline rather than faked with a passing test.

Refs #3685

* fix(#3685): compare write-flag content through the writer's own normalizer

An independent reviewer disproved a claim made while porting #3685's contract
to its sibling sites: that `cmdPhaseComplete`'s comparisons were not exposed to
the Markdown-normalization artifact already diagnosed in `cmdMilestoneComplete`.

`platformWriteSync` normalizes on write — CRLF stripped, blank-line runs
collapsed, a blank line inserted after a heading, a single trailing newline
enforced. Every flag that compares the PRE-normalization in-memory string
against the on-disk pre-image can therefore report a change when the persisted
bytes are identical. `cmdMilestoneComplete` had been worked around by re-reading
the file after the write; the other sites compared raw strings.

All of them now go through one exported seam,
`contentChangedAfterNormalize(filePath, before, after)`, which normalizes both
sides exactly as the writer does. That removes the extra disk read the milestone
workaround needed, and makes the sites agree by construction rather than by
four independent implementations of one rule — the divergence the repo names as
an anti-pattern.

Reachability, stated precisely rather than uniformly: the seam is load-bearing
at `cmdPhaseComplete`'s `roadmapUpdated`, `requirementsUpdated` and
`stateUpdated`, where section-rewrite logic genuinely regenerates content into a
different-but-normalization-equivalent shape. At
`updateRoadmapAfterPhaseRemoval` it is defense-in-depth: the no-match branch
never reassigns `content`, so the raw comparison was already correct there. The
first analysis claimed the reverse; this is the corrected finding.

Also fixes an unsound test premise the remote suite caught. The byte-identity
precondition in `roadmap_updated is false when ROADMAP.md comes out
byte-identical` asserted against a hand-authored, un-normalized fixture — so the
very first write reformatted it and the file could not come back identical. The
fixture is now written already-normalized, so the assertion compares a
normalized pre-image against a normalized post-image and still fails if the flag
regresses to a hardcoded `true`. Not platform-specific; it reproduces on macOS
too, and the earlier local check simply never exercised it.

The sibling true-direction and milestone tests were checked for the same premise
and do not share it — they assert `notEqual`, or compare two post-write states
produced through the same normalizing seam.

Refs #3685

* chore(changeset): backfill PR number for #3691 fragment

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 19:39:51 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c933184b97 enhance(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command (#3825)
* test(#3172): failing-first suite for the stated failing-direction probe

Pins the <fails_when> pairing walk, placeholder denylist, MISSING sentinel
exemption, degraded-read contract, CLI arm and the plan-authoring contract text.
RED by construction: the module exports it requires do not exist yet.
Executed on the remote runner.

* feat(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command

Every runnable <automated> command now carries a <fails_when> sibling naming
what output constitutes failure. A command with no expressible failure mode is
not an acceptance test: it reads as rigour and is not falsifiable.

- verify-command-grounding gains a failing-direction probe sharing the existing
  <automated> grammar, MISSING sentinel and walk guard rather than copying them
- gsd-tools check verify-failure-directions <N> backs it; plan-phase dispatches
  it and hands the JSON to gsd-plan-checker check 8f
- Dimension 8 detail extracted to references to stay under the agent size cap

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): close four review findings in the failing-direction probe

- MISSING_SENTINEL_RE matched an env-var assignment prefix (MISSING=1 cmd), so
  a real command was exempted from the new blocking gate. Tightened the SHARED
  constant rather than adding a second copy.
- Both token regexes scanned to EOF on unclosed openers (O(n^2), 1562ms at 40k).
  Bodies are now non-crossing; 1ms, byte-identical on well-formed input. The
  pre-existing AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE carried the same defect and is fixed here too.
- probePhaseFailingDirections reported status 'ok' when one plan was unreadable,
  conflating 'could not look' with 'nothing to report'.
- Extracted the phase-resolution block both check arms had copied verbatim.

Also corrects a docs/AGENTS.md dimension list stale since #2401.
Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): project the planner rule onto the spawn contract, settle emitted bookkeeping

The remote runner refuted the planner-side edit. agents/gsd-planner.md is frozen
under a 49152-LF-char cap asserted by four suites and sat at 49,146 — six chars
of headroom — so the +537 of authoring rule blew it. #3297/#3645 already settled
where such a rule goes: the planner spawn contract in plan-phase.md, beside
<tracked_source_paths>. The agent file is reverted to origin/next verbatim.

- plan-phase.md gains <failing_direction_contract>; tests row 30 now asserts the
  contract there and row 30b guards the freeze in both directions
- plan-phase.md growth acknowledged by APPENDING to the 3409 fragment, per the
  precedent that two ack sources may never name the same path
- install-tree fixtures regenerated for the three new reference files

Verified on the remote runner.

* chore(#3172): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment

pr:0 -> pr:3825 now that the PR exists.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 19:05:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7a41248c4f fix(#3685): report phase-complete write flags from the transaction, not the filesystem (#3826)
* test(#3685): failing-first regression coverage for phase-complete write flags

`phase complete` reports `roadmap_updated`/`state_updated` from
`fs.existsSync(path)`, so both read `true` whenever the file merely exists —
including when the transaction wrote nothing. Add the regression tests that
prove it, plus the negative-space and true-direction pins, before the fix.

New in tests/phase.test.cjs:
- roadmap_updated is false when the transaction rewrites nothing (FAILS today)
- state_updated is false when the transaction rewrites nothing, and stays
  false on a third consecutive run (FAILS today)
- both flags are true when the transaction genuinely rewrites (pins the true
  direction so the fix cannot be tightened into always-false)
- each flag stays false when its file is absent

The STATE.md cases pin the clock via GSD_TEST_MODE + GSD_NOW_MS
(src/clock.cts:43-70) because syncStateFrontmatter stamps a
millisecond-resolution `last_updated:` on every write, which would otherwise
make the no-op unobservable.

Also strengthens four pre-existing `=== true` assertions on these fields that
passed vacuously: each now pairs the flag assertion with a content-changed
assertion against a pre-call snapshot, so the `true` is earned.

Refs #3685

* fix(#3685): report phase-complete write flags from the transaction, not the filesystem

`phase complete` computed `roadmap_updated` and `state_updated` as
`fs.existsSync(path)`, so both read `true` for any project that had the file at
all — including a run that rewrote nothing. The flags are the only signal a
caller has that the rollup landed, so a no-op was indistinguishable from a
successful write and a stale ROADMAP went unnoticed until something downstream
read wrong numbers.

Both flags now reflect whether that file's content actually changed in the
transaction, computed at the existing `writes.push({filePath, before, after})`
sites — the same contract `requirements_updated` has honored since #2316-3, and
the same correction #2640/#2974 already applied to `phase remove`.

Nothing about what gets written changes; only what gets reported.

Fixes #3685

* chore(changeset): backfill PR number for #3685 fragment

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 18:05:35 -04:00
Tom Boucher
596540f864 feat(#3227): publish machine-readable state contract at step boundaries (#3824)
* feat(#3227): publish machine-readable state contract at step boundaries

Adds src/state-contract.cts, a best-effort publisher that writes
.planning/state.json (contract 1.0.0) at 11 step-boundary commands, so
external tools read a versioned contract instead of parsing STATE.md and
ROADMAP.md heuristically.

Composes existing owners rather than re-deriving: phase rows come from a
new locateProgressTable extracted from deriveProgressFromRoadmap (so the
snapshot can never disagree with GSD's own progress counters), milestone
identity from getMilestoneInfo, and next from classifyProject. Owners are
required lazily to avoid the state -> state-contract -> smart-entry ->
state require cycle.

Also fixes a pre-existing defect in scripts/lint-test-file-count.cjs
(maintainer-approved as a second concern): testEffectivePrefix never
stripped the suite qualifier, so 65 dotted test files counted against no
module and 9 mis-bucketed into a shorter one. Allowlist re-baselined for
the 74 files the gate can now see.

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

* chore(#3227): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment

pr:0 -> pr:3824 now that the PR exists. Doc-only.

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

* test(#3227): shape hostile-name fixtures away from the scan corpus

The two hostile-input fixtures used a literal phrase from
scripts/prompt-injection-scan.sh's corpus, so CI's Security Scan redded on
this file. These tests assert that an arbitrary phase name round-trips into
state.json as inert data -- the property holds for any string, so the
injection flavor is illustrative, not load-bearing.

Reshaped to a hyphenated fake instruction tag, which stays hostile-looking
while matching none of the scanner's patterns. Allowlisting the file was
rejected: that mechanism is for suites whose subject IS injection defense,
and it would blind the scanner to this whole file permanently.
See DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION.

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

* chore(#3227): ratchet the state-contract mutation floor to its measured score

The module was registered at minScore 50, the ratchet's minimum permitted
floor for a newly-registered module whose score had not been measured. This
PR's own Stryker shard measured 66.25% (run 32769289750, job 97565813640),
so the floor moves to floor(measured) - 1 = 65, per the rule the registry
documents.

66.25 is below TARGET_MUTATION_SCORE (80), so this stays a ratchet
candidate: raise as the tests improve, never lower.

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 17:56:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
fb9823e1e1 fix(#3689): refuse a ledger write when the rendered table disagrees with its JSON (#3828)
* test(#3689): failing-first coverage for the ledger table/JSON agreement guard

`.planning/WINDOWS.md` renders its markdown table from the fenced JSON that is
its source of truth, but nothing checks the two still agree before a write
overwrites the table. `windows append` / `waive` / `fixed` therefore discard a
drifted cell silently, and erase a table-only row entirely, both at exit 0.

Adds to tests/broken-windows.test.cjs:
- five refusal cases that fail today, covering all three write commands, a
  drifted cell, a table-only row, and drift on a non-first row; each asserts the
  typed reason via GSD_JSON_ERRORS and that the file is byte-identical after
  the refusal, so a guard that refuses only after writing cannot pass
- six anti-tightening pins that must stay green: an agreeing ledger, the
  first-write ENOENT path, #2893 trailing-prose preservation, #3657 3-backtick
  fence tolerance, escaped pipes and backslashes in a description, and the
  zero-entry placeholder table
- a fast-check property pinning the round trip the guard depends on —
  extractTableRegion(renderLedger(l)) === renderTable(l.entries) — because a
  false refusal on a clean ledger would be worse than the bug

Fixtures are built by running the real CLI and then perturbing only the table,
so frontmatter and JSON stay consistent and the pre-existing counts cross-check
still passes; a hand-written ledger would pass these for the wrong reason.

Refs #3689

* fix(#3689): refuse a ledger write when the rendered table disagrees with its JSON

`.planning/WINDOWS.md` renders its markdown table from the fenced JSON that is
its source of truth, and `writeLedgerAtomic` regenerated that table on every
`windows append` / `waive` / `fixed` without ever checking the two still agreed.
A hand-edited cell was silently reverted; a row that existed only in the table
vanished entirely. Both at exit 0, with nothing on stdout to say so.

The write seam now compares the on-disk table against
`renderTable(<entries parsed from the on-disk JSON>)` before regenerating
anything, and refuses with a typed `windows_ledger_table_drift` error naming the
drifted row ids and the remedy. Because the check sits at the single write seam,
all three commands inherit it, and the file is left byte-identical on refusal.

Deliberately not enforced in `parseLedger`: hardening the read would break
`windows status` and the ship gate on exactly the ledgers an operator needs to
inspect to diagnose the drift.

Two hazards handled explicitly, both discovered in review of the first draft:

- The pre-image read now distinguishes ENOENT from every other errno, per the
  #1950-H2 fail-closed-on-unreadable invariant `readLedgerOrNull` already
  honors. A bare catch would have let an unreadable pre-image skip the guard
  and write anyway.
- Both the entries baseline and the table extraction pass the pre-image's own
  frontmatter `total_count` to `locateJsonBlock`. Without that hint the
  no-expectation fallback binds to the LATEST fenced JSON array in the file,
  which is the operator's prose block whenever that prose contains one — the
  exact case #2893 exists for — refusing every write on a ledger that never
  drifted. A regression test covers it.

Also extends the CONTEXT.md Broken Windows Ledger glossary entry: the table is
a third projection of the same source, cross-checked at the write seam, and the
frozen REASON enum gains WINDOWS_LEDGER_TABLE_DRIFT.

Fixes #3689

* fix(#3689): bind prose preservation to the pre-image's own ledger block

Found while reviewing the table drift guard: the #2893 trailing-prose
preservation in `writeLedgerAtomic` passed `ledger.total_count` — the
POST-mutation count — as the disambiguation hint for a lookup over the
PRE-image. On an append the pre-image holds N entries while the hint says N+1,
so the hint can never match and `locateJsonBlock` falls through to its
last-array-shaped-span fallback.

When the operator's trailing prose itself contains a fenced JSON array — the
ordinary case #2893 was written to protect — that prose block wins the
fallback. The preserved region is then computed from the prose fence rather
than the ledger fence, and everything between them, including the operator's
own text above the array, is silently dropped on the next write.

Reproduced against the real CLI: a prose block reading "Operator notes above
the array, IMPORTANT DO NOT LOSE THIS TEXT." plus a fenced 3-element array came
back empty after one `windows append`.

Both the prose lookup and the drift guard now share one pre-image-derived
`preImageExpectedTotal`, taken from the pre-image's own frontmatter, so they
bind to the same and correct block. The existing trailing-prose regression test
is strengthened to assert the prose survives byte-for-byte rather than merely
that the command exited 0 — asserting only the exit code is why this was
invisible.

Refs #3689

* fix(#3689): anchor table extraction on the header row, not a line-prefix scan

Independent review found the drift guard could brick a ledger nobody had
hand-edited. `validateDescription` accepts a description containing a raw
newline, and `renderTable`'s cell escaping covers backslash and pipe but not
newlines — so such a description renders a row that physically spans two file
lines, the second of which does not begin with `|`.

`extractTableRegion` bounded the table by walking backward over the contiguous
run of `|`-prefixed lines, so it stopped at that split. In the common case
where the row's tail is the last line before the fence it returned null, and
every subsequent append/waive/fixed was refused with "table region could not be
located" — permanently, with no CLI recovery path, on a ledger that never
drifted. A false refusal is worse than the bug this guard exists to fix.

The region is now anchored on the header row `renderTable` always emits,
running from its last line-start occurrence to the end of the pre-fence text.
The boundary is the fence rather than a line prefix, so a multi-line row is
captured whole, re-renders byte-identically, and compares equal. The header
literal is hoisted to one constant both `renderTable` branches and the
extractor share, so the two surfaces cannot drift apart.

Deliberately unchanged: `cell()` and `validateDescription`. The cosmetic
corruption a newline causes in the rendered table is pre-existing, and either
escaping it or rejecting the input would change what existing ledgers render to
or what input is accepted.

Also closes a coverage gap the standards review raised: the non-ENOENT
pre-image read branch — the one that stops an unreadable file from bypassing
the guard — now has a behavioral test that injects EACCES by monkeypatching
`fs.readFileSync` for that one path and restoring it in a `finally`, never by
`chmod 0o000` (root ignores mode bits, so that would pass with zero coverage).
The #3689 property generator no longer strips newlines out of descriptions,
which is why this was invisible to it.

Refs #3689

* chore(changeset): backfill PR number for #3689 fragment

* chore(changeset): backfill PR number for #3689 fragment

* fix(#3689): terminate the header scan when the match sits at index 0

`extractTableRegion`'s backward search for the table header could loop
forever. On a rejected match at index 0 it set `searchFrom = idx - 1`, i.e.
`-1`; `String.prototype.lastIndexOf` clamps its position argument into
`[0, length]`, so the next iteration searched from 0, found the same match,
rejected it identically, and set `-1` again. The loop made no progress.

Reachable only through the exported `extractTableRegion` — `writeLedgerAtomic`
reaches it after `parseFrontmatterStrict` has already succeeded, so the
candidate region begins with the `---` frontmatter fence and a match at index 0
is impossible. Latent rather than live, but an exported `for(;;)` that can fail
to advance is not something to ship.

Confirmed by running the pre-fix compiled function on
`TABLE_HEADER_LINE + 'X\n' + <a valid json fence>` as a backgrounded child: it
was still alive after five seconds having printed nothing, and had to be killed.
Post-fix the same input returns `null` promptly — correct, since the sole
header occurrence fails the end-of-line test and no valid header exists.

A regression here would stall the suite rather than fail it, so the new test
also asserts the returned value rather than relying on termination alone. No
wall-clock assertion is involved.

Refs #3689

* test(#3034): publish the lane trace before the done-file that releases dependents

`preservesSelectionOrderParallelDespiteCompletionOrder` forces a reverse
completion order with a dependency chain rather than sleeps: each stub lane
waits on `done-<dep>` before finishing. It then ended with

    touch "$RUN_DIR/done-$slug"
    echo "end:$slug" >> "$TRACE"

Those are two unsynchronized operations in separate shell processes. A
dependent's `wait_for_file` unblocks the instant the upstream's `touch` lands,
but the upstream's own `echo` has not necessarily run — so if the upstream is
descheduled between the two, the dependent can run its whole body and append
its `end:` line first. The done-file was published before the state it signals.

Observed on the remote runner as `[end:claude, end:codex, end:gemini]` where
selection order demands `[end:claude, end:gemini, end:codex]`. The failure was
in the fixture's own self-check, before it reached the assertion #3034 exists to
make.

Not a flake and not a wall-clock margin: this branch passed the full suite twice
at 14f494644 and 90c5d7a03, and the only delta in the failing run was one added
test in tests/broken-windows.test.cjs — an unrelated module. Adding load
elsewhere in the suite was enough to invert it, which is what a real race does.

Swapping the pair establishes a genuine happens-before: anything a dependent can
observe is written before the file that releases it. A comment records why, so
the order is not tidied back.

The production path is unaffected and was independently confirmed correct —
`invoke_reviewers` joins every lane with `wait`, then aggregates by iterating
DISPATCH_SLUGS in selection order, reading per-slug result files. It consumes no
completion-order signal at all.

Refs #3034

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 17:43:25 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a2387a0545 feat(#3034): add opt-in parallel reviewer lanes (#3822)
* test(#3034): failing-first coverage for opt-in parallel reviewer lanes

Executes the real invoke_reviewers dispatch block from review.md against a
stubbed gsd_run seam rather than pattern-matching the workflow text, so the
two properties that actually carry risk are observable: that every lane is
joined before aggregation, and that concurrent lanes cannot tear a line in
gsd-review-lane-results.jsonl.

Concurrency is proven by a barrier fixture, not by elapsed time -- each stub
lane blocks until all lanes have checked in, which can only complete if they
overlap.

Red against the current sequential dispatch, by design.

Refs #3034

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

* feat(#3034): add opt-in parallel reviewer lanes

Reviewer lanes within one review pass inspect the same immutable plan
snapshot and have no dependency on one another, but were dispatched strictly
one at a time, so a multi-reviewer pass cost roughly the sum of its lanes.
The serialization is a deliberate protection against provider rate limits,
so it stays the default; review.parallel_lanes opts a project out of it.

The loop body is hoisted into run_review_lane so the sequential and
concurrent paths share one body -- two hand-synced dispatch bodies is the
divergence class ADR-2782 spent a phase deleting. Each lane writes a
slug-scoped result file, concatenated in selection order after the join:
concurrent O_APPEND is atomic only below PIPE_BUF, and write_reviews parses
that JSONL to render the models:/model_sources: frontmatter, so a torn line
is a broken REVIEWS.md rather than a cosmetic log defect. Aggregating in
selection order also keeps the artifact byte-identical between the two paths.

The guard is strict equality on "true" and falls back to sequential when
config-get fails -- the opposite polarity from the commit_docs guard,
because failing open here fires the very requests the default prevents.

Also corrects docs/COMMANDS.md and its four locale mirrors, which described
--all as running every configured reviewer in parallel when dispatch was in
fact sequential.

Closes #3034

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

* fix(#3034): de-duplicate dispatch slugs and scope lane locals

Review finding (Standards axis): a slug repeated in SELECTED_REVIEWERS would
put two concurrent background jobs on the same > -truncated per-lane result
file. The shared-append form this replaced could not corrupt itself that way,
so de-duplicating is what keeps the concurrent path no worse than the
sequential one.

Selection de-dupes today -- the roster is a Set and review.default_reviewers
normalizes lowercase-unique -- but reachability analysis is not a contract,
which is the same reason the roster derivation itself is guarded.

Splitting once into DISPATCH_SLUGS also removes the duplicated tr-split the
same review flagged: the dispatch and aggregation loops now share one list,
which is what guarantees they walk the same slugs in the same order. A plain
string accumulator rather than an array, because zsh and bash disagree on
array indexing and this block runs under both.

Also scopes run_review_lane's locals. Not a live fix -- each dispatched call
already forks its own subshell -- but it makes the isolation a property of the
function rather than of the dispatch mechanism happening to fork.

Refs #3034

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

* test(#3034): acknowledge review.md growth, drop spent 2295 ack

The differential attribution gate reported review.md growing 4173 bytes
(30712 -> 34885) with no live acknowledgment. Adds the per-PR fragment it
asks for, naming only the one path it reported.

Deleting tests/emitted-drift-acks/2295-resolved-model.json is required, not
opportunistic. That fragment declared review.md and nothing else, and its
ripple is already absorbed into the base, so it is spent -- it can no longer
clear anything, which is why the gate still reported review.md as
unacknowledged. It could not simply be left alone either: two ack sources may
never name the same path, so it blocked this PR's fragment outright.
CONTRIBUTING is explicit that a fragment whose last entry is removed gets
deleted with it, because an empty fragment signals nothing while its presence
reads as a live alarm.

Refs #3034

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

* chore(#3034): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3034

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 15:25:22 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a84f756303 fix(#3078): sweep all-spent ack fragments on next, name the collision remedy (#3823)
* fix(#3078): sweep all-spent ack fragments on next, name the collision remedy

`guard-no-ack-on-next` only ever watched the legacy tests/emitted-drift-ack.json.
#2914 exempted the fragment directory on the premise that a persisting fragment
"cannot conflict with any other PR". Fragments do not share a FILE, but they do
share a PATH KEY SPACE, and a path claimed by two sources is a hard failure in
the same script -- so a fully-spent fragment on next owns keys it can no longer
gate, and the next PR to grow one of those paths can declare it neither there
(spent) nor in its own fragment (duplicate). Measured at the sweep: 45 fragments
owning 403 paths, up from 13/272 at triage 19 days earlier.

- `assertNoAllSpentFragments` fails a fragment only when EVERY surviving entry is
  spent against the copy at HEAD^, so a partially spent fragment -- and the
  re-arm-by-appending route #2639/#2993 ship on -- keeps working.
- `ackProse` duplicates the gate's zero-width/whitespace stripping across the
  scripts-ship/tests-do-not line, bounded by a prose-parity test.
- The guard job's checkout takes fetch-depth: 2; at depth 1 HEAD^ is absent and
  every fragment reads as brand-new, i.e. the guard passes vacuously.
- The duplicate-ack error now names both resolutions, since the guard is
  post-merge by design and cannot stop the colliding PR.
- All 45 spent fragments deleted, 0000-legacy-migration.json included, and the
  three tests that pinned its permanence corrected.

Verification is the remote runner (gsd-test), not a local suite.

Closes #3078

* fix(#3078): make the prose-parity test two-sided, cover the git seam, base on the pre-push tip

Three review findings, all fixed:

- The parity test was a tautology: it checked ACK_INVISIBLE against a
  hardcoded list matching its own definition, never against the gate. The
  gate's INVISIBLE and its reason normalizer (hoisted out of diffEmitted as
  normalizeAckReason) are now exported for that sole purpose, and the test
  sweeps 0x00-0xFFFF against both surfaces. Mutation-checked: adding a
  codepoint to one side and not the other now fails.
- resolveBaseRef, readFragmentAtRef and assertUsableBaseRef had zero direct
  coverage -- the tests reimplemented the git reads in a local helper, so the
  ls-tree-vs-show discrimination, the root-commit fallback and the
  option-injection guard were never executed. All are exported and tested
  against real temp repositories now, plus an end-to-end --base-ref subprocess.
- HEAD^ is not 'the state of next before this push'. The default branch allows
  REBASE merges, so one push can carry N commits, and a 2-commit rebase-merge
  whose first commit adds a fragment would be told to git rm it on the very
  push that introduced it. CI now passes github.event.before via --base-ref and
  fetches it explicitly; HEAD^ remains only the local fallback.

Also adds the safe.directory guard every other git call in this repo carries
(#2767), and stops naming the deleted migration fragment by filename in
CONTEXT.md, which tripped lint-removed-but-needed.

Refs #3078

* fix(#3078): keep the fragment directory alive after the sweep empties it

Sweeping every fragment leaves the directory untracked, and check-glossary-refs
then fails: CONTEXT.md references tests/emitted-drift-acks, which no longer
exists. The empty directory IS the intended steady state, so it has to survive
its own remedy.

Adds tests/emitted-drift-acks/README.md documenting the create/use/delete
lifecycle where a contributor actually meets it, matching the existing
tests/qa/smell-acks/README.md precedent. Every reader filters on .json, so the
README is invisible to the gate.

Also sweeps #3809's ack fragment, which the rebase onto origin/next brought in
and the new guard immediately reported as all-spent -- its own remedy applied.

Refs #3078

* fix(#3078): guard the added tests' git calls, drop a second fragment-existence pin

Both defects surfaced by the remote runner (linux-node24, 4/37445 failed).

- The new --base-ref E2E test ran `git rev-parse HEAD` against the checkout
  without the #2767 safe.directory guard. The runner mounts the repo at a path
  owned by another uid, so git refused every operation there with 'detected
  dubious ownership'. Every git call the new tests make now names its own
  specific directory as safe, via one local helper, mirroring safeDirArgs in
  helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs.
- tests/agent-tracked-source-rule.test.cjs pinned the existence and contents of
  the 3645 and 3409 ack fragments. That is a merged PR's paperwork, not live
  behavior: once the growth is in next's baseline the acks are spent and this
  PR's guard sweeps them. The third assertion pinned the hand-appended
  workaround for the exact collision #3078 removes. Deleted; #3645's real
  protection is the two behavioral tests above it, untouched.

Also restores #3809's ack fragment, which merged one commit before this branch.
Deleting an ack in the same window as its introducing PR races any consumer
whose baseline predates it -- the runner's container proved it, resolving
origin/next to 8ed105c8a where the file is still 13847. The backlog sweep is
this PR's scope; that fragment is left for the guard's own first run.

Adds the rule to the fragment README so the class stops recurring.

Refs #3078

* test(#3078): derive the E2E guard expectation from the fragment inventory

The --base-ref E2E test asserted exit 0 while passing the checkout's own HEAD
as the base ref. HEAD-as-base makes every present fragment byte-identical to
itself, so all of them are trivially all-spent and the guard correctly exits 1.
The test only ever passed because the directory happened to be empty when it
was written; restoring #3809's fragment made it fail. The script was right and
the test was wrong.

The degenerate base ref is kept deliberately -- it is what makes 'spent'
trivially true and therefore deterministic -- but the expectation is now
derived from listFragmentFiles() at runtime: zero fragments means exit 0 and
the no-survivors line, N fragments means exit 1 with every name and its git rm.
Proven state-independent by running the suite with the fragment present, with
the directory emptied, and with it restored.

The option-shaped --base-ref rejection is split into its own test, unchanged.

Refs #3078

* chore(#3078): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment (pr:0 -> pr:3823)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 15:24:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8442d984b9 fix(#3809): route runtime-loaded markdown through the gsd_run launcher (#3815)
* test(#3809): generalize dead-ref guard into a rule table (failing first)

The #2020 guard hardcoded `sdk/(src|dist|handlers)/` — the three dead paths
that had caused that storm. That proved those three paths were gone and said
nothing about the class, so #3809 reproduced the identical Windows find.exe
storm under a different token and the guard could not see it.

Replaces the single regex with a rule table over the same runtime-loaded
markdown surface, adds `commands/` to the scan set (previously uncovered),
and adds rule B: the runtime shim filename must never appear in command
position, because it is not a PATH command and an agent that meets it falls
back to locating the file.

Rule B's matcher is deliberately lenient — the launcher's own resolver
assignment, `node <path>/<shim>` calls, bare paths, and prose that names the
file all stay unflagged, each pinned by a negative-space row.

This commit is expected to FAIL: 50 offenders across 23 files remain in the
tree. The remediation lands next.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): route every workflow call through the gsd_run launcher

50 places across 23 runtime-loaded workflow, agent, reference, and command
files instructed the agent to run the runtime shim by filename. That filename
is not on PATH under any name -- package.json ships gsd-core, gsd-tools,
gsd_run and gsd-mcp-server -- so the call exited 127, the file-shaped token
sent the agent looking for the file, and on Git Bash for Windows the resulting
`find /` walked the entire drive (7268 CPU-seconds in the report) until
somebody killed it by hand.

CONTEXT.md -> Runtime Launcher Module already makes gsd_run the single entry
point: "Canonical space-safe shell preamble (`gsd_run`) used by every workflow
bash block to invoke the GSD runtime CLI." These sites predate that rule --
they trace to 0e6907050 (docs(#195): migrate workflow markdown off gsd-sdk
query), which swapped one non-PATH token for another.

Two further instances of the same class surfaced during remediation and are
fixed here rather than left for later:

  - references/model-profiles.md prescribed `node <shim> effort sync` with no
    path at all; node resolves a bare filename against cwd, so it fails the
    same way.
  - references/universal-anti-patterns.md rule 25 instructed every agent to
    "use <shim>" when shelling out. That rule did not contain the defect, it
    prescribed it repo-wide.

Five "(or legacy <shim>)" parentheticals left dangling by the substitution are
removed; after the rewrite they offered the non-resolving form as an
alternative.

The guard from the previous commit now passes. Its node-prefix exemption was
tightened to require a path separator, which is what exposed model-profiles.

Fixes #3809

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

* fix(#3809): key the guard on the CLI's whole verb roster, not observed usage

Review found the first cut of rule B repeating the very mistake it exists to
prevent. Its verb set held query, commit and effort -- the verbs that happened
to appear in the tree -- so it could not see `<shim> phase add`,
`<shim> state load`, `<shim> verify ...` or twenty-odd other real single-word
subcommands. A guard that only recognises yesterday's offenders is not a guard.

The set is now the CLI's full advertised roster, unioned from the usage banner
and HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS (which carries verification, planning, uat, stats,
todo and windows, all absent from the banner).

Widening it immediately caught a live offender the first pass had missed:
references/planning-config.md prescribed `node <shim> worktree set-baseref`
with no path. Fixed here.

Also drops the "a hyphen or a dot means subcommand" heuristic, which was
unsound for prose -- it flagged `built-in` and `v1.2`. Detection now keys
entirely on the roster, testing the first dot-segment so that phase.add and
state.patch still match while prose does not. Both false positives are pinned
as negative-space rows.

Guard verified against the pre-fix tree at origin/next: 52 offenders across 25
files, and 0 after this branch's remediation.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): derive the verb roster from the router; repair launcher parity

Standards review caught the guard repeating the defect it exists to prevent.
Its verb list was a hand-copied literal -- and worse, transcribed from an
INSTALLED older binary, so it was missing 22 verbs this tree actually ships
(websearch, windows, state-snapshot, context-predicates and the dispatch-*
family among them). gsd-tools.cjs already carries three hand-maintained
rosters whose drift is a named defect pinned by the parity test in
tests/commands.test.cjs; a hand-copied fourth was that same defect wearing a
guard's clothes.

The roster is now derived from HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS + TOP_LEVEL_USAGE, lazily
and memoised, with `query` supplemented explicitly -- it dispatches through
the routing hub ahead of the host-router table, so it appears in neither
export, yet 45 of the 50 offenders used it. A parity test pins the derivation.

Two regressions this branch introduced, both caught by the remote runner:

  - runtime-launcher-parity: rewriting a comment in gsd-research-synthesizer.md
    put a `gsd_run` token at line 65 while the canonical preamble sits at 158,
    breaking "exactly ONE preamble, before the first gsd_run call". The comment
    is descriptive and needs no command token at all; it now names none.
  - The #2751 guard's PROSE_ALLOWLIST entry for that same line went stale once
    the line stopped carrying a bare mention. Pruned, exactly as that guard's
    own stale-entry test instructs.

Also corrects git-planning-commit.md, where the first pass rewrote only the
trailing "legacy" clause and left the sentence reading backwards.

Note the #2751 guard and this one are complementary, not duplicates: its regex
requires whitespace immediately after `gsd-tools`, so it cannot match the
`.cjs` form, and this one only matches the `.cjs` form.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#2751): extend the bare-command guard to references/ and commands/

The #2751 guard has only ever scanned agents/ and gsd-core/workflows/. Two
runtime-loaded directories were never in its scan set, and 47 bare
`gsd-tools <verb>` calls had accumulated there unseen -- the same defect that
guard exists to catch, in the rooms it never entered.

  - gsd-core/references/: 37 calls, all rewritten to gsd_run. references are
    fragments inlined into a parent that defines the launcher, which is why 21
    of the 22 files already using gsd_run carry no local preamble.
  - commands/gsd/: 10 operative calls rewritten. The remaining 10 are
    descriptive prose ("resolved inside the workflow via ...") and are
    allowlisted with reasons, bringing PROSE_ALLOWLIST to 15.

commands/ also came under launcher propagation. sync-runtime-launcher.cjs
walked only WORKFLOWS_DIR and AGENTS_DIR, so every preamble under commands/
was a hand-pasted copy nothing propagated and no test checked -- graphify.md
had accumulated five. It now walks COMMANDS_DIR too, which collapses those
five to the canonical one-per-file, and runtime-launcher-parity gains a
(B-commands) arm mirroring (B-agents) exactly so the placement stays honest.

The parity arm keys on shell blocks, so commands/gsd/workstreams.md and
config.md -- which name gsd_run only in inline backtick prose -- are exempt,
as they should be. gsd_run is itself a shipped npm bin, so those inline
instructions resolve from PATH exactly as the gsd-tools form they replace did.

skills/ is deliberately NOT added to either guard's scan set: it is generated
from commands/ and pinned by lint:generated-sync, so guarding the source
guards both, and scanning the mirror would double-report every future
offender. Regenerated here.

Refs #2751, #3809

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

* test(#3809): acknowledge the one emitted file this change grows

The emitted-attribution gate failed on the previous sha: gsd-research-synthesizer.md
grew 3 bytes (13847 -> 13850) with no acknowledgment. The substitution SHRANK the
other 19 emitted files, which is why the growth arm was not expected to fire at all.

The 3 bytes are unavoidable. Line 65 is a descriptive comment inside a fenced block;
naming any command there puts a gsd_run token ahead of the file's canonical preamble
at line 158, which runtime-launcher-parity's (B-agents) arm correctly rejects. So the
comment names no command and says where the config is actually loaded instead, which
reads longer than the token it replaced.

Acks only the path the gate reported, per the fragment rules.

Refs #3809

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

* revert(#2751): drop the commands/ half — three contracts pin it in place

The remote runner refuted the commands/ extension outright. Reverting it and
keeping the references/ conversion, which passed.

What broke, all of it caused by bringing commands/ under launcher propagation:

  - graphify.md's five per-block preambles are LOAD-BEARING, not accumulated
    drift. tests/graphify-visualization.test.cjs extracts individual Step-3
    shell chains and executes them standalone, so each fenced block needs its
    own definition of gsd_run. Collapsing them to the canonical one-per-file
    produced `bash: gsd_run: command not found`, exit 127, across four tests.
    The "define once per file" contract holds for workflows and agents because
    nothing extracts their blocks in isolation; commands/ is not like that.
  - explore.md broke "the preamble that DEFINES gsd_run must appear before the
    first USE of gsd_run anywhere in the file".
  - tests/gsd-tools-path-refs.test.cjs (#1766) ASSERTS that
    commands/gsd/workstreams.md contains the literal string
    `gsd-tools query workstream.list`. Rewriting it to gsd_run contradicts a
    test that pins the opposite, so the two guards disagree about that file by
    construction.

So commands/ is not a scan-set widening. It needs those contracts reconciled
first, and that is its own change. SCAN_DIRS keeps gsd-core/references/ and
drops commands/, the ten commands/ allowlist entries go with it (back to 5),
and the reasoning is recorded in the guard itself so the next person does not
rediscover it by burning a matrix run.

commands/gsd/import.md keeps its #3809 fix — that one is the .cjs form this
PR exists to remove, and it is untouched by any of the above.

Refs #2751, #3809

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

* revert(#3809): restore explore.md's Step 1 preamble placement

Running the launcher sync script processed workflows/ and agents/ too, not
just the commands/ directory the run was aimed at, and it MOVED
gsd-core/workflows/explore.md's preamble from Step 1 down to Step 3.

The script inserts into the first bash block that USES gsd_run. explore.md's
Step 1 block only DEFINES it, and that placement is deliberate -- the file
says so on the line above: "Placed in Step 1 rather than Step 3 so declining
the research offer cannot leave Step 5's commit call unbootstrapped."
tests/explore-command.test.cjs pins it.

explore.md carried no #3809 offender, so reverting it costs this fix nothing.
This was collateral from invoking the sync script at all, not from the
COMMANDS_DIR change, which is why the earlier commands/ revert did not catch it.

Refs #3809

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

* chore(#3809): backfill PR number into changeset fragments

pr:0 -> pr:3815 for both fragments now that the PR exists.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): drop the hand-rolled regex escaper CodeQL flagged

CodeQL raised js/incomplete-sanitization (HIGH) on the guard's pattern build:
`SHIM.replace(/\./g, '\\.')` escapes the dot and nothing else, so it does not
escape backslashes. It blocked PR #3815.

The repo already bans this shape -- local/no-adhoc-regex-escape exists exactly
to stop hand-rolled escapers, with the canonical one in src/pattern.cts. Rather
than reach for that helper, the pattern now carries no escaping logic at all:
SHIM is a compile-time constant whose only metacharacter is the dot, so the
regex source is spelled out literally. The generated source string is
byte-identical to what the replace() produced, verified before and after --
0 offenders on this tree, 52 against origin/next, unchanged.

A drift pin asserts SHIM_PATTERN still matches SHIM exactly, and that the dot
is escaped rather than acting as a wildcard, so the two cannot separate.

Refs #3809

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 11:47:37 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8ed105c8a4 fix(#3684): resume verified-unmarked phases at update_roadmap (#3814)
* test(#3684): failing-first rows for the verified-unmarked resume

* fix(#3684): resume verified-unmarked phases at update_roadmap

* test(#3684): heading-shaped roadmap fixture, plain phase.complete calls

* fix(#3684): fit under the pre-phase-6 margin, fix pins and verify call

* fix(#3684): padding-normalize the marked-complete join, assert STATE idempotency

* test(#3684): anchor fixes, node jq mirror, characterized STATE delta

* chore(#3684): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 10:58:04 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4b84be1da4 fix(#3683): wire gated learnings extraction into completion, align copy path (#3810)
* test(#3683): failing-first rows for learnings source resolution and wiring pins

* fix(#3683): wire gated learnings extraction into completion, align copy path

* test(#3683): register the learnings suite in the docs-guard lane, drop unverified markers

* fix(#3683): close review findings — per-item parsing, readdir guards, docs paths

* fix(#3683): route phase enumeration through the locator seam, fix assertion targets

* fix(#3683): merge execute-phase ack into the 3003 fragment, fix fidelity targets

* fix(#3663): replace the spent execute-phase ack entry with the 3683 re-arm

* chore(#3683): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 09:23:01 -04:00