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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#4040): add changeset fragment

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3990): backfill changeset pr number

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-03 09:47:22 -04:00
Tom Boucher
3639ab0431 fix(#3968): measure commit claims at all three surfaces — ledger, verifier BLOCKER, porcelain HANDOFF (#4230)
* test(#3968): commit claims must be measured against git, never narrated

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3968): backfill changeset pr number

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3730): backfill changeset pr number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-03 01:32:41 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2f64e6230a feat(#3676): quick-batch command, workflow, and isolation integration (#4212)
* test(#3676): add failing tests for quick-batch dispatch core

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Security review pass findings, both confirmed real:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Standards review pass findings — both HARD:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 22:38:31 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7c52344284 fix(#4003): anchor the safe-resume gate's plan-scope greps to the milestone (#4194)
* test(#4003): safe_resume_gate must grep an anchored padding-tolerant scope

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#4003): backfill changeset pr number

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

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

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

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

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

Closes #3661

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3995): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 06:03:17 -04:00
Tom Boucher
647365faf1 fix(#4011): key the TDD runtime gate on TDD_MODE alone (#4180)
* test(#4011): TDD gate keys on TDD_MODE alone, not the MVP intersection

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#4011): backfill changeset pr number

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3962): backfill changeset pr number

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3959): backfill changeset pr number

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* docs(#3653): backfill changeset pr number

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

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 21:40:20 -04:00
Tom Boucher
bf4485ada2 enhance(#3717): make the edge probe's shape cues language-aware via an optional text_en field (#4156)
* test(#3717): add failing-first coverage for text_en language-aware classification

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3717): backfill changeset PR number

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 21:39:37 -04:00
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
b848b23861 feat(#3778): dispatch plan:pre planner contributions before quick planning (#3934)
* feat(#3778): dispatch plan:pre planner contributions in quick.md

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* feat(#3778): add changeset fragment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* fix(#3778): tighten Quick contribution contract

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

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

* docs(#3778): describe targeted auxiliary coverage

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

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

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

* chore(#3899): add the changelog fragment

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

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

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

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

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

* fix(#3899): address required review feedback

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3936): backfill changeset pr number

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

* chore: backfill changeset PR number for #4125

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 00:55:44 -04:00
Cody Anderson
8c9265d4e5 fix(#3724): warning-only Dimension 3b findings no longer force the revision loop (#3758)
* fix(#3724): stop advisory Dimension 3b findings from forcing the revision loop

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

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

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

Closes #3724

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The four regexes are exported for the parity test only.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Round-review continuation 3:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3740

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

Round 3, Blocker 2 and Minors 6 and 9.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

Closes #4099

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

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

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

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-31 11:08:22 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6eea00b707 enhance(#3301): tell reviewers the plan ids and total count, grade coverage (#4084)
* test(#3301): add failing-first plan coverage manifest tests

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* docs(#3301): add changeset fragment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 14:25:24 -04:00
Dennis Kim
8487f0ed42 enhance(#3552): warn on additional protected branches beyond the resolved base branch (#3648)
* test(01-01): add failing protected-branch warning coverage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* docs: add changeset fragment for #3648

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Also from the review:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* docs(#3648): document git query contracts

* fix(#3648): expose protected branch default

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-29 17:00:52 -04:00
0xdhx
472f585f7c fix(#3726)!: require --confirm before milestone complete mutates (#3774)
* fix(#3726): require --confirm before milestone complete mutates

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

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

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

Fixes #3726

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-29 09:41:00 -04:00
Tom Boucher
51ca9f39ba fix(#3801): register inline_plan_threshold in the defaults manifest and correct the docs (#4019)
* fix(#3801): register inline_plan_threshold in the defaults manifest (default 2) and correct settings-advanced

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 23:48:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
004c7532b6 fix(#3796): write the audit report to the single-version filename every reader expects (#4007)
* test(#3796): the audit report writer and readers must agree on the filename

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 13:50:37 -04:00
Tom Boucher
dd4f179672 feat(#3970): per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam (#4000)
* feat(#3970): per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam

Implements ADR-3646 (Phase 1, #3970): a `<task tracker-id="...">` attribute
plus a new optional `taskContentResolver` capability-manifest field let a
capability resolve a task's action/verify/acceptance-criteria/read_first/done
content from an external issue tracker instead of PLAN.md's inline body.

- src/plan-document.cts: parses the `tracker-id` attribute into `PlanTask.trackerId`
- src/task-content-resolution.cts: new leaf module — split/find/build/resolve,
  with a hard-halt (throw) contract on ambiguous/failed/timeout/malformed
  resolution, never a silent fallback to possibly-stale inline text
- src/task-command-router.cts: new `task resolve-content --plan --task-id --raw`
  CLI verb wiring the module into a real process exit code
- gsd-core/bin/lib/capability-validator.cjs: validates the new
  `taskContentResolver` manifest field (feature-role only, cross-capability
  trackerPrefix uniqueness)
- gsd-core/workflows/execute-plan.md, gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md,
  docs/reference/capability-manifest.md: wire the seam into the per-task loop
  and document it as a new `execute:task` point outside the existing
  contribution/step/gate vocabulary (unconditional in autonomous mode)

Closes #3970

* fix(#3970): gate checkpoint tasks out of content resolution, close trackerPrefix grammar parity gap, cover path-traversal guard

Standards/Spec code-review pass on the task-content-resolution seam (ADR-3646
Phase 1) found three defects:

1. execute-plan.md's task-content-resolution bullet fired on any
   tracker-id-bearing task with no check that it wasn't type="checkpoint:*",
   contradicting ADR-3646 Decision 1 (a checkpoint task must never enter
   resolve-content). plan-document.cts already parses trackerId: null
   unconditionally for checkpoint tasks; only the workflow prose needed the
   fix, so the bullet now explicitly excludes checkpoint tasks.

2. task-content-resolution.cts's parseResolverDeclaration accepted any
   non-empty trackerPrefix with no grammar check, while capability-
   validator.cjs's KEBAB_RE enforces kebab-case at install time — a
   Generative Fix Divergence gap. Added the same grammar (as a literal
   regex, documented as intentionally not shared across the .cts/.cjs build
   boundary) plus a parity test asserting the two surfaces agree across a
   valid/invalid trackerPrefix table.

3. task-command-router.cts's routeResolveContent path-traversal guard on
   --plan had zero test coverage. Added a test exercising a
   ../../../etc/passwit-shaped path and asserting the USAGE rejection names
   the offending path.

* fix(#3970): sanitize resolver diagnostics and cap resolver timeoutMs

Two findings caught by an isolated security-review pass on the task
content resolution seam:

- ResolverFailedError/ResolverMalformedOutputError embedded raw,
  unsanitized subprocess stderr/stdout (attacker/model-influenced via
  the tracker-id argv token) into .message. A hostile or buggy resolver
  could smuggle a newline plus a forged "Error: " line, or terminal
  escape sequences, into a diagnostic io.cjs's error() writes verbatim
  to stderr. Fixed at the constructor (task-content-resolution.cts) via
  io.cjs's existing formatDiagnosticToken(), so every caller of
  resolveTaskContent gets a safe .message by construction.

- capability-validator.cjs's validateTaskContentResolverFields had no
  upper bound on taskContentResolver.invoke.timeoutMs, letting a
  manifest declare an effectively unbounded value and defeat the
  "bounded subprocess" design intent. Added a 120000ms ceiling specific
  to this field, without touching the shared isPositiveIntegerMs()
  helper (still used unbounded by the reviewer lane's timeoutFloorMs
  and probe timeoutMs).

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

* fix(#3970): fix gsd-test failures — stale prose allowlist line and stderr-vs-message assertion

gsd-test (remote dockerized matrix) came back red with 5 failures on this
PR; all five are real defects, fixed here.

- tests/no-bare-gsd-tools-command-position.test.cjs: PROSE_ALLOWLIST's
  execute-plan.md entry pointed at line 415, which ffc190df4's
  checkpoint-exclusion caveat (added near line 221) shifted down by one
  line. The actual "validated downstream by gsd-tools uat
  classify-coverage" descriptive mention now sits at line 416. Updated
  the allowlist entry's line number to match.

- tests/task-command-router-resolve-content.test.cjs: the path-traversal
  test asserted the outside-project-scope diagnostic against the thrown
  ExitError's own .message. io.cts's error() (ADR-3889) writes its
  human-readable message to fd 2 via writeAllSync and then throws a bare
  `new ExitError(1)` with no message argument — by design, so the
  exception carries no duplicate text and the thrown ExitError's message
  defaults to "process exit 1" (cli-exit.cts's ExitError constructor).
  Root cause was the test, not the source: task-command-router.cjs's
  outside-project-scope rejection already calls error() correctly and the
  diagnostic text is genuinely emitted, just on fd 2, not on the
  exception. Fixed the test to capture fd-2 writes (mirroring
  tests/estimate-calibrate.test.cjs's runCalibrateExpectError and this
  same file's own captureStdout for fd 1) and assert against the captured
  stderr text instead of err.message. This was masked locally because a
  manual `node -e` sanity check that only inspects the caught exception's
  .message cannot see what the real node:test run actually failed on.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-plan.md — adds the ADR-3646 task-content-resolution bullet and checkpoint-exclusion caveat to the per-task execute loop; a real behavioral prose addition, not incidental bloat.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#3970): backfill changeset PR number (pr:0 -> pr:4000)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 13:17:04 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c3e667df34 fix(#3786): authorize mutable scope from live observation only in the quick planner (#4005)
* test(#3786): the quick planner constraints must carry a mutable-scope authority rule

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3786): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3786): backfill changeset PR number (4005)

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 11:40:34 -04:00
Tom Boucher
15af0f5536 enhance(#3951): B6+B7 — widen two unreachable lint rules and make the guard ledger true (#3965)
* fix(#3951): two lint rules that could not reach the code they govern

B6 names two widenings. Measuring them first turned up a defect the criterion did
not know about, and refuted the reason it gave for one of them.

1. no-adhoc-markdown-parsing self-gates on its own filename.

   Lines 107-110 short-circuit create() to {} unless the path matches
   /(?:^|\/)src\/[^/]+\.cts$/. B6 says to widen the files: glob in
   eslint.config.mjs - but doing only that ships an INERT rule, because the gate
   still returns {} for every new path. Both halves have to change, and the gate
   is the load-bearing one.

   That same regex hides a live hole: [^/]+ is FLAT-ONLY, so it requires the file
   to sit directly in src/. The registered glob is src/**/*.cts, which includes
   subdirectories. 28 .cts files - health-diagnostic-rules/ (10),
   installer-migrations/ (11), observability/ (3), host-integration-adapters/ (2),
   vendor/ (2) - are inside the registered glob and silently skipped.

   Measured with the gate neutralized: 0 violations there today. The hole is
   hiding nothing right now, and is fixed anyway, because "no violations today" is
   not a property that keeps holding.

   The fix is not invented: require-subprocess-timeout.cjs:196 already carries the
   correct form of this guard, /(?:^|\/)src\/.*\.cts$/ with .*, one directory over.
   Checked the other 21 rules for the same bug - no-adhoc-regex-escape and
   no-private-binary-resolution short-circuit only to exempt their own seam file,
   which is the right shape, and no-crlf-fragile-split has no filename gate at
   all. This bug is unique to the one rule.

2. no-adhoc-regex-escape could not see the shape that actually occurs.

   Line 396 gated the whole UNSAFE-NEW-REGEXP arm on arg.type === 'Identifier'.
   Every check below it - the _SOURCE provenance check, the
   isSoleReturnOfOwnParameter shape - lives inside that branch, so
   new RegExp(obj['key']) and new RegExp(cfg.pattern) were never examined at all.
   Runtime data arrives as a property access far more often than as a bare
   identifier, which is exactly why this rule never fired on the #3477 ReDoS.

   Widened to MemberExpression, measured by AST walk across all five registered
   blocks rather than by grep. 27 sites, zero TSAsExpression:

     18  safe new RegExp(X.source, flags)  -> exempted, keyed strictly on the
         PROPERTY being `source`, never on the object. Keying on the object would
         wave through X.anything and buy nothing. B6 estimated ~10; that was an
         undercount.
      3  _SOURCE-suffixed constants reached through a required module namespace
         (phaseId.BRACKET_PHASE_TOKEN_SOURCE) -> the same provenance-exempt class
         the rule already recognizes for bare identifiers, extended to reach them.
         Without this the widening produces 3 false flags.
      6  real findings -> marked, each a test extracting a pattern from a shipped
         file at test time, where the runtime contract IS the product.

   Deliberately the NARROW MemberExpression form. The rule's own
   isSoleReturnOfOwnParameter doc comment records that an earlier broad
   "any non-literal identifier" heuristic produced ~25 false positives and was
   rejected; a re-run of the census after this change flags exactly the 6 above
   and nothing else.

Verified by execution, not by reading: the gate now accepts src/<subdir>/x.cts,
still accepts flat src/x.cts, and still exempts paths outside src/ - each pinned
by a test proven to fail against the old regex. build:lib, lint and lint:ci all
exit 0.

Refs #3951

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

* fix(#3951): give no-adhoc-markdown-parsing its reach, and fix the 80 parses it finds

The rule self-gates on filename AND is registered on one glob, so widening either
half alone is inert. Both move here: the gate now accepts tests/**/*.cjs and
scripts/**/*.cjs alongside src/**/*.cts, and eslint.config.mjs registers it on the
same two.

A test pins that the gate and the registration AGREE, in both directions. The
original defect was a gate narrower than its registration; the failure mode of
this fix is a gate wider than its registration. Both are silent, so the test
asserts the pair rather than either half.

80 violations across 43 files, all in tests/, zero in scripts/. 70 are routed
through the existing seams - scanFencedBlocks, collectSection, stripFencedCode,
tokenizeHeadings from markdown-sectionizer; splitTableRow, parseMarkdownTable,
findTableWithColumns from markdown-table. Headerless STATE.md tables use
splitTableRow per line, because parseMarkdownTable needs a real delimiter row.

10 are suppressed, 12.5%, well under the third that would have meant the rule is
mis-scoped for tests/ rather than the tests carrying debt. Each names its reason:
three regression guards (#3873 / bug-#21) are deliberately independent of the
generator's own fence handling, and routing them through the seam would have them
test the generator against itself; one is a negative-text probe that extracts
nothing; six are a shell-pipe-to-jq detector whose regex coincidentally matches the
table fingerprint and is not markdown parsing at all.

All ten sit in tests whose subject is .md content, which is normally a reason to
prefer the seam. The marker used is allow-adhoc-markdown, distinct from
no-source-grep's allow-test-rule, and lint:ci's lint-allow-test-rule-refs reports
the same 280/280 unverified count as before - checked rather than assumed, because
those two markers are easy to conflate.

The widening earned its keep immediately: it found a test that passed for the
wrong reason.

  tests/config-field-docs.test.cjs asserted notEqual(<cell>, '600') against the
  TYPE column instead of the DEFAULT column. notEqual('number', '600') is true
  forever, so the guard against workflow.subagent_timeout regressing to the old
  seconds default could never fire. docs/CONFIGURATION.md:434 is
  `| workflow.subagent_timeout | number | 300000 | ... |`, so the default is cell
  index 2; the assertion is now row-scoped through splitTableRow and reads 300000.

That is the argument for the widening in one case: the violation was invisible to
lint, the suite was green, and the assertion was vacuous. A rule that cannot reach
a file cannot tell you the file is lying.

Not fixed here, and recorded rather than assumed: #3426/#3239 are NOT reachable by
this widening. tests/package-legitimacy-gate.test.cjs yields zero violations even
with the gate bypassed - its hand-rolled scans are real, but built from line
filters and split('|') rather than the regex-literal fingerprints this rule
detects. They need new detectors. The epic assumed a wider glob would catch them.

build:lib, lint and lint:ci all exit 0; the post-fix census across tests/** and
scripts/** is 0 violations.

Refs #3951

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

* fix(#3951): B7 — and #3356's defects were still live in the code

B7 asks that each closed child be driven fail-first with a behavioral identity
test at the CONSUMER's output. Four of eleven children had no test citing their
issue number. Auditing them by BEHAVIOR rather than by number-grep changed the
answer for three of the four.

#3364 and #2540 — traceability only. Both were implemented by #3941 and their
consumer-output tests exist and were shown failing-first; neither cited its
originating issue, so an audit that greps for the number reports them uncovered.
Tagged the specific asserting test in each file, following the citation form those
files already use.

#3372 — covered, but only at helper level, and the triage narrowed it. Of the four
commands the issue names, only estimate-cli's collectCalibrationSamples actually
enumerates phase dirs from disk; smart-entry, audit and roadmap-upgrade derive from
ROADMAP/body text and never reach the sentinel path, so they are benign by
construction and were left alone rather than "fixed" into churn. The existing #3882
rows asserted the helper's return value. Added a consumer-output test driving
`query estimate-calibrate` and asserting sample_count and the persisted document.
RED proof: reverted collectCalibrationSamples to a raw readdirSync and ran the real
CLI - sample_count 3, sentinel leaked; restored - sample_count 2.

#3356 — NOT covered, and BOTH halves of the defect were still live in source. The
issue is closed; the bug was not fixed. Fixed here rather than writing tests that
document a bug as correct.

  Defect 1, the contradicted row. quick.md:627 claimed
  `quick-tasks-append` performs "the equivalent write" to the Step 7c row. It did
  not: the `#` cell was a positional ordinal and `Directory` read `—`, because the
  route had no way to receive a quick id or task directory. Added OPTIONAL
  `--quick-id` / `--slug` / `--directory`. A caller with neither - fast.md, the
  original #2133 caller - omits them and gets the byte-identical prior row, so
  nothing existing changes. A caller that HAS a real id and directory now gets the
  canonical row quick.md:632 renders. The false-equivalence sentence itself is
  corrected rather than left to mislead the next reader.

  Defect 2, the forced re-derive. The route called readModifyWriteStateMd with no
  options, so a body-only append to the Quick Tasks table triggered a full
  re-derive of the disk-derived progress.* frontmatter. Every other body-only
  writer passes { resync: false } - src/state.cts's own docstring prescribes it -
  and this route was the lone outlier. RED proof: reverted the option, seeded a
  project with 2 real phase dirs and a curated total_phases of 25, ran
  quick-tasks-append; total_phases collapsed to 2. Restored; it stayed 25.

That second one is the shape this epic exists to close: a silent write that
replaces curated state with a re-derivation nobody asked for, exit 0 throughout.

build:lib, lint and lint:ci all exit 0.

Refs #3951

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

* docs(#3951): amend B6's ledger to what was measured, and document the new flags

The ADR gains a ledger amendment in its own correction style - the sixth wrong
premise it records, found the same way as the other five, by measuring before
building.

B6 says the net guard count must fall. It rose: 62 -> 69, +7, measured from the
epic's filing commit to origin/next. The attribution is the point, though. Five of
the seven came from PRs unrelated to this epic, one was added by a phase of it, and
the epic did retire something sub-file - #3884 removed a detector with an explicit
"net: -1 detector, 0 added" ledger. Every named casualty is load-bearing, two
already carry retractions in this same document, and a sweep of all 22 rules plus
every scripts/lint-* found no provably dead guard. There is no honest way to make
the count fall; forcing it would trade coverage for a number, which is the Goodhart
outcome Decision 6 exists to prevent.

The amendment also records that B6's own prescribed fix for one widening was inert.
no-adhoc-markdown-parsing self-gates on its filename, so widening only the files:
glob - which is what the criterion says to do - ships a rule that still returns {}
for every new path. And #3426/#3239 are not reachable by that widening at all;
their scans use line filters and split('|'), not the regex fingerprints the rule
detects. The roster row tracked them against the wrong mechanism.

Three roster rows updated from aspiration to fact: the two widenings are DONE with
their measured counts, and lint-phase-enumeration-drift is marked RETAINED rather
than "expected casualty - verify before retiring", because Phase 5 verified it and
kept it.

The rule Decision 6 should carry forward is stated plainly: a guard ledger is a
claim about COVERAGE, not about COUNT. "Net count must fall" is measurable and
wrong. "Every guard is reachable, and each retirement names what makes its defect
unrepresentable" is the property that was actually wanted.

CLI-TOOLS.md documents the optional --quick-id/--slug/--directory flags and says
plainly that omitting them keeps the pre-#3356 row byte-identical, plus that the
append no longer re-derives progress frontmatter.

New features fragment (id 3951); FEATURES.md regenerated rather than hand-edited.
Changeset is Changed, pr:0 pending backfill.

Refs #3951

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

* test(#3951): correct four rows that pinned the lint rule's old narrow reach

The remote suite came back RED with 5 failures, all in tests/eslint-rules.test.cjs.
They are stale tests, not a regression: four rows assert that
no-adhoc-markdown-parsing is inert outside src/*.cts, which is exactly the
contract this deliverable changes.

Confirmed by reading rather than inferred from the names - the row at :1981 used
filename: 'tests/some.test.cjs' and filename: 'scripts/helper.cjs', the two roots
the rule now covers on purpose.

Worth recording WHY local gates missed this. npm run lint and lint:ci were green,
and the touched test files passed standalone. Lint only reports violations in real
files; these rows assert the rule's REACH using synthetic RuleTester filenames, so
nothing but the full suite could see them. Local green on a rule change says
nothing about the rule's own tests.

Each row is rewritten with BOTH halves rather than flipped from valid to invalid:

  - the same fingerprint under tests/ or scripts/ is now flagged, with the right
    messageId
  - the negative space is preserved - the same fingerprint under a path outside
    all three roots (gsd-core/bin/lib/foo.cjs) is still NOT flagged

The second half is the one that matters. Without it the rule has no boundary and
nothing would catch an over-wide gate later, which is the mirror image of the bug
this deliverable just fixed.

Each row is renamed to state the current contract; the old names said
"non-src/*.cts ... is not flagged" and would have been actively misleading once
the bodies changed.

Proven to test the widening rather than restate it: every flagged half was run
against HEAD~2's pre-widening rule and does NOT fire there, then against the
current rule and does. 12/12 on that probe; the full file is 178/178.

Swept for the same staleness elsewhere and found none.
require-subprocess-timeout's own "inert outside src/*.cts" row is untouched -
that rule's gate was not widened here - and no-adhoc-regex-escape's test file
already carries correctly-targeted rows.

Refs #3951

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

* test(#3951): acknowledge the quick.md growth the attribution guard reported

The full suite came back RED with one failure, and it is mine:

  1 file(s) grew without an acknowledgment:
    quick.md grew 364 bytes

gsd-core/workflows/quick.md is runtime-loaded emitted content, so correcting
its false 'performs the equivalent write' claim trips emitted-attribution by
construction. This is the acknowledgment, not a workaround - there is nothing
to regenerate.

The fragment names ONE path, which is the only one the guard reported. The four
spent acknowledgments it also listed (audit-uat, plan-phase, progress, review)
belong to other fragments whose ripple the base already absorbs; they are inert,
not failures, and are deliberately NOT copied here - naming paths I did not
change would make this record false in the other direction.

Byte figure corrected before committing: the guard reported 37220 -> 37584
(+364), but origin/next has since moved and quick.md is 37232 there now, so the
measured delta is +352. The reason text says so and names the base as a moving
figure rather than pinning a number that is already stale.

Refs #3951

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

* test(#3951): move the quick.md growth ack to a trailer, delete the obsolete fragment

The acknowledgment mechanism changed under this branch. Merging next brought in
the redesign - it also deleted .github/workflows/ack-fragment-sweep.yml, which
was in the merge status and which I did not register at the time - and the guard
now says so directly:

  Add a trailer to a commit in this PR (never a new file).
    Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md - <why this growth is deliberate>

So tests/emitted-drift-acks/3951-quick-append-equivalence.json is obsolete on
arrival. A fragment file is no longer read by anything, and leaving it would be a
dead record that looks like an active one. It is deleted here rather than kept
"just in case".

The byte figure moved again with the merge: 37232 -> 37596, +364. The earlier
fragment said +352, measured before the merge auto-merged quick.md itself. The
trailer carries no number, which is the better design - the figure was stale
twice in two attempts.

Refs #3951

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — #3356/#3951 replaces a false claim with an accurate one. Line 627 said the `quick-tasks-append` shortcut "performs the equivalent write" to the Step 7c row rendered above it; it did not, and that was the documented half of #3356 — with no quick id or task directory the route emitted a positional ordinal in `#` and an em-dash in `Directory`, a visibly different row. The corrected sentence has to carry three facts the original elided: what the shortcut actually writes when it has neither input, that this is honest behavior for its real caller (`fast.md`, which has neither), and how a caller with both now gets the byte-identical canonical row via the new optional `--quick-id`/`--slug`/`--directory` flags. Prose is the product here — an executing agent reads this line to decide whether the shortcut is safe for its case, and a shorter correction would either drop the flags (leaving the reader unable to act on the fix) or drop the limitation (recreating the false claim in gentler words).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#3951): backfill changeset pr number

Refs #3951

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 23:10:49 -04:00
Tom Boucher
52b11ee811 fix(#3763): pass --raw at every shipped config-get bash call site (#3961)
* test(#3763): guard every shipped config-get substitution on --raw

* fix(#3763): pass --raw at every shipped config-get bash call site

config-get without --raw prints JSON.stringify(value), so string-typed values
reach bash with literal quotes and every string comparison silently never
matches (#3763). --raw added at 75 command-substitution sites across shipped
content; four JSON consumers (default_reviewers, sub_repos, pr_body_sections,
code_review_depth_overrides) deliberately keep default JSON output.

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* chore(#3763): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3763): backfill changeset PR number (3961)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 19:55:34 -04:00
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
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
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
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

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2026-08-25 01:05:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
63abcface9 feat(#3146): resolve gsd_run so workflows cannot reach a foreign gsd-tools (#3831)
* feat(#3146): resolve gsd_run so workflows cannot reach a foreign gsd-tools

The predecessor package get-shit-done-cc publishes a colliding gsd-tools bin whose phases.clear DELETES where this package's ARCHIVES, and both print success-shaped output against a gitignored .planning/ -- which is how #3129 cost a user 43 phase directories with no error and nothing recoverable from git.

The launcher's PATH branch now resolves gsd_run, published only by this package and self-locating via its own symlink chain to the sibling shim, instead of the colliding gsd-tools. A foreign handler becomes unreachable from PATH, and when no gsd_run is reachable the resolver fails closed rather than falling back -- that fallback was the vulnerability. This is smaller than the branch it replaces, which matters: the preamble is inlined into 113 shipped files and agents/gsd-verifier.md sits 2 bytes under a red-line size cap.

unset -f gsd_run leads the preamble so a re-source is idempotent. Without it, command -v finds the shell function, returns a bare name, and the resolver falls through to an exit 1 that kills a sourced caller's shell.

Adds gsd-tools runtime-identity, a manual diagnostic reporting this runtime's package coordinates over the baked package-identity (#498) and readHostVersion, with a strict total classifier: only a JSON object with an exact packageName verifies, since JSON.parse admits 0/"str"/[]/null/true.

An inlined identity assertion was built and reviewed first, then withdrawn -- it breaks five frozen size ceilings and no assertion fits in 2 bytes.

Closes #3146

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

* fix(#3146): stop sync:launcher relocating a deliberate preamble placement

Pre-existing defect, surfaced by this PR because sync is a no-op unless the snippet content actually changes. transformFile inserts the preamble into the first block that CALLS gsd_run, but gsd-core/workflows/explore.md deliberately places it in a bootstrap-only block that DEFINES gsd_run without calling it -- its own comment explains why: declining the research offer must not leave Step 5's commit call unbootstrapped. Stripping empties that block of calls, so the preamble migrated forward and broke the define-before-use invariant tests/explore-command.test.cjs pins.

Reproduced on a pristine origin/next checkout with the base snippet and base file, so this was not introduced here. The insertion target now honours a block that already carried the preamble, falling back to the first calling block for files that have none yet. Adds a behavioral regression test over a two-block fixture.

Also updates three runtime-launcher-parity tests that pinned the removed PATH fallback to gsd-tools. Their intent is preserved -- the PATH stub is renamed gsd_run so it is reachable by the new resolver, and the RUNTIME_DIR-wins test still asserts the stub is never invoked. Fixture shebangs move to an absolute /bin/sh, because the fixture PATH is deliberately restricted and #!/usr/bin/env sh could not resolve.

Refs #3146

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

* chore(#3146): backfill changeset PR number

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* 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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 20:57:16 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c933184b97 enhance(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command (#3825)
* test(#3172): failing-first suite for the stated failing-direction probe

Pins the <fails_when> pairing walk, placeholder denylist, MISSING sentinel
exemption, degraded-read contract, CLI arm and the plan-authoring contract text.
RED by construction: the module exports it requires do not exist yet.
Executed on the remote runner.

* feat(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command

Every runnable <automated> command now carries a <fails_when> sibling naming
what output constitutes failure. A command with no expressible failure mode is
not an acceptance test: it reads as rigour and is not falsifiable.

- verify-command-grounding gains a failing-direction probe sharing the existing
  <automated> grammar, MISSING sentinel and walk guard rather than copying them
- gsd-tools check verify-failure-directions <N> backs it; plan-phase dispatches
  it and hands the JSON to gsd-plan-checker check 8f
- Dimension 8 detail extracted to references to stay under the agent size cap

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): close four review findings in the failing-direction probe

- MISSING_SENTINEL_RE matched an env-var assignment prefix (MISSING=1 cmd), so
  a real command was exempted from the new blocking gate. Tightened the SHARED
  constant rather than adding a second copy.
- Both token regexes scanned to EOF on unclosed openers (O(n^2), 1562ms at 40k).
  Bodies are now non-crossing; 1ms, byte-identical on well-formed input. The
  pre-existing AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE carried the same defect and is fixed here too.
- probePhaseFailingDirections reported status 'ok' when one plan was unreadable,
  conflating 'could not look' with 'nothing to report'.
- Extracted the phase-resolution block both check arms had copied verbatim.

Also corrects a docs/AGENTS.md dimension list stale since #2401.
Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): project the planner rule onto the spawn contract, settle emitted bookkeeping

The remote runner refuted the planner-side edit. agents/gsd-planner.md is frozen
under a 49152-LF-char cap asserted by four suites and sat at 49,146 — six chars
of headroom — so the +537 of authoring rule blew it. #3297/#3645 already settled
where such a rule goes: the planner spawn contract in plan-phase.md, beside
<tracked_source_paths>. The agent file is reverted to origin/next verbatim.

- plan-phase.md gains <failing_direction_contract>; tests row 30 now asserts the
  contract there and row 30b guards the freeze in both directions
- plan-phase.md growth acknowledged by APPENDING to the 3409 fragment, per the
  precedent that two ack sources may never name the same path
- install-tree fixtures regenerated for the three new reference files

Verified on the remote runner.

* chore(#3172): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment

pr:0 -> pr:3825 now that the PR exists.

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2026-08-24 19:05:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
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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2026-08-24 15:25:22 -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
Tom Boucher
31fcb833ec fix(#3679): gate pr-branch verify on planning-tree deletions (#3803)
* test(#3679): failing-first rows pinning planning preservation and the verify deletion gate

* fix(#3679): gate pr-branch verify on planning-tree deletions

* test(#3679): extract hashes via rev-parse and de-vacuate the pure-code pin

* fix(#3679): close review findings — merged ack, pinned prose gate

* fix(#3679): close two-axis review findings — no-renames gate, structural pin

* chore(#3679): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 03:54:02 -04:00