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Tom Boucher
ab69b9ce56 enhance(#3987): guard slug re-derivation and the swallowed-precondition shape — §8.5 was guardable after all (#3999)
* feat(#3987): guard slug re-derivation, and record why the swallow shape cannot be guarded

Epic #3473's Decision 1 requires the wrong call site be UNREPRESENTABLE. #3984
measured that two of the nine §8 rules had no guard at all and recorded both as
"Shipped - test-covered". This closes one of them, proves the other cannot be
closed the same way, and corrects two false claims I merged yesterday.

1. §8.3 - scripts/lint-slug-derivation-drift.cjs.

   generateSlugInternal (src/core-utils.cts) is the canonical owner; #3883 removed
   11 inline copies. Nothing prevented a twelfth: no slug guard existed in
   scripts/ or eslint-rules/.

   The detector is STATEMENT-scoped and matches the shape the real copies took -
   one statement carrying BOTH .replace(<negated class>, '-') and
   .replace(/^-+|-+$/, ''). Statement scoping is what buys the precision: the
   loose LINE-level form yields 18 hits with 7 unrelated, a material
   false-positive rate. Measured on the tree: 5 flags, 2 TRUE, 3 SANCTIONED,
   0 FALSE.

   The three sanctioned sites are allowlisted with a reason each, following
   lint-phase-enumeration-drift's form rather than a bare denylist. The owner
   itself is listed explicitly even though it escapes by construction - an
   implicit escape is a latent bug, and the next person to touch line 192 would
   not know the guard depended on it.

2. Both TRUE positives were live defects, not style.

   scripts/qa-smell-ratchet.cjs reproduced the canonical formula including the
   60-cap but trimmed BEFORE truncating - the #2849 bug - and never
   transliterated. The divergence is total, not cosmetic:

     canonical  "privet-mir-privet-mir-privet-mir-privet-mir-privet-mir-prive"
     inline     "tail"

   Cyrillic collapsed to nothing and only the ASCII remainder survived, so the
   ratchet was keying on wrong identifiers for any non-ASCII input.

   tests/planning-inspect.test.cjs carried a helper whose comment claimed parity
   with getPhaseDirFromPhaseId. That function now transliterates; the helper did
   not, so the test asserted against a stale formula while looking correct. Both
   now route through the seam.

3. §8.5 - measured, and deliberately NOT shipped.

   A candidate detector (swallowing catch + errno-retry-set test in the same
   function) gives 26 flags across 11 functions: 0 TRUE, 26 FALSE. Every one is
   best-effort unlink/rm/close cleanup, lost-rename-race backoff, or a deliberate
   null fallback. The file-scoped variant is worse at 71.

   Worse than the noise: the only known true instance was removed by #3885, so
   there is NO POSITIVE CONTROL - the guard cannot be shown capable of failing,
   which this repo requires of every drift guard. Shipping it would add a guard
   nobody can trust and nobody can test.

   The ADR now records the measurement and the reason, keeps §8.5 at
   "Shipped - test-covered", and points at the #1884 regression test as what
   actually enforces it. An honest "not detectable at acceptable precision" beats
   a guard that only ever passes.

4. Two claims I merged into the ADR yesterday were wrong.

   §8.9 said 17 of 19 subsumed children have a test citing their issue number,
   and that #3364 and #3812 have none. Both halves are false, and the claim came
   from a NUMBER-GREP - inside an amendment whose own subject is that a text match
   is not a fact.

     #3364 IS cited: tests/runtime-marker-resolution.test.cjs:107,
       T3 installMarkerResolvesWhenEnvAndConfigAbsent_3897 (#3364), asserting at
       :115-119.
     #3812 IS covered: tests/gen-state-md-docs.test.cjs:374, asserting at :382.

   Corrected to 19 of 19.

   #3812 does carry a real finding, though a different one: it is PARTIALLY
   DELIVERED on a CLOSED issue. The shipped fix declares cardinality for
   frontmatter keys, but #3812's stated acceptance was about the
   ## Current Position BODY section, and docs/reference/state-md.md:196-208 still
   has no normative single-valued/overwrite sentence and no pointer to
   ## Performance Metrics for history. Recorded in the ADR and left for #3812 to
   re-open - fixing it here would bury a scope question inside an unrelated PR.

Note on B6: this ADDS a guard, and B6 said the net count must fall. #3951 already
amended that clause - a guard ledger is a claim about COVERAGE, not count - which
is what makes adding this one honest rather than contradictory.

Verified: the guard flags 0 on the fixed tree, and PROVES IT CAN FAIL - a fresh
inline copy planted in src/ makes it exit 1 naming the exact statement. All three
sanctioned sites were confirmed exempt BY the allowlist, not by accident of the
pattern, by re-attributing each to a non-exempt path and watching it flag.
build:lib, lint and lint:ci all exit 0.

Refs #3987

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

* chore(#3987): add the changeset fragment

Doc-only, so it carries forward from the verified sha rather than costing a
second matrix run.

Refs #3987

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

* fix(#3987): §8.5 IS guardable — I was wrong, and the guard found a live defect

Two orthogonal reviews. The correctness review overturned my central judgment,
and it was right.

1. I concluded §8.5 was "not detectable at acceptable precision" and recorded
   that in the ADR. False.

   My evidence was 26 flags / 0 TRUE / 26 FALSE. The reviewer pointed out what I
   had not: all 26 false positives are CLEANUP verbs - rmSync 54, unlinkSync 43,
   closeSync 17, chmodSync 12 - and the obvious narrower predicate was never
   tried. A swallowed cleanup is legitimate best-effort. A swallowed CREATION is
   a precondition silently lost, which is exactly the #1884 shape.

   Measured properly, in three stages:
     swallowing catch                                     911
     + try-block calls a CREATION verb                     24
     + enclosing function references a *_ERRNOS set         0

   0 flags, 0 false positives. The `*_ERRNOS` naming key is empirically total -
   all 10 retry/tolerate sets in src/ follow it.

   My second claim was worse. I wrote that no positive control exists because
   #3885 removed the only true instance, so the guard "cannot be shown capable of
   failing". That is self-refuting: this very PR's slug guard proves-it-can-fail
   on a synthetic tree, and the pre-#3885 blob is available as exactly such a
   fixture. It is now the control, and it works in both directions - the rule
   flags 0c43d853e^:src/planning-workspace.cts at line 210, the line the fix
   commit's own message cites, and reports zero on the post-fix code.

   I stopped at the first negative result on the option that meant less work.

   Shipped as eslint-rules/no-swallowed-precondition.cjs, wired into the existing
   src/**/*.cts ESLint block rather than a scripts/lint-*-drift.cjs: no script in
   scripts/ requires typescript/espree/acorn, and scripts/ ships to consumers, so
   a .cts-parsing standalone guard would add a devDep at consumer runtime. The
   ESLint block already parses .cts for free.

2. The guard immediately found a live defect of the same class.

   src/capability-lock.cts swallowed a mkdirSync on the lock directory, then
   acquireLock classified the follow-on failure as `code !== 'EEXIST' → return
   null`. A real EACCES/EROFS makes openSync(lockPath,'wx') fail ENOENT, which is
   not EEXIST - so a fatal filesystem error was laundered into "lock
   unavailable". Same defect as #1884, different laundering target.

   Fixed the way #3885 fixed #1884: the creation failure propagates. Regression
   test proven fail-first by hand - with the fix stashed, EACCES was laundered to
   null; restored, it throws.

   The strict rule does NOT catch this shape (its errno classification is an
   inline literal, not a named set). The rule is deliberately left strict: the
   broadened form had 2 false positives - capability-lock.cts:408, the deliberate
   EEXIST steal protocol, and commonjs-marker.cts:131, which returns a distinct
   documented outcome. The gap is noted in code rather than papered over with a
   noisy predicate.

3. The security review found the slug guard's exemption FAILED OPEN.

   currentFunction was never reset, and only a column-0 `function` declaration
   updated it, so exemption bled from an allowlisted declaration to the next one.
   generateSlugInternal exempted 50 lines for an 11-line function. A
   re-derivation planted anywhere in that window was silently exempt - the same
   fail-open shape that produced a blocker in #3897, and an allowlist is a
   SUBTRACTION so a mismatch fails open by construction.

   Extent is now tracked by real brace depth, and a test plants a violation after
   each allowlisted function's real closing brace and asserts it IS flagged.

4. Also from the security review: the guard was a CI-DoS and narrower than I
   claimed.

   Its unbounded [^\]]* was re-scanned from every `.replace(/[^` start: 54.3s on
   a 1.28MB line. It imported MAX_REGEX_LITERAL_LEN and never called
   readRegexLiteralAt - the bounded tokenizer that exists for exactly this. Now
   routed through it with a 2MB file cap: ~200ms.

   15 of 25 genuine re-derivations evaded. Widened to catch replaceAll, {1,},
   \s*-wrapped classes, escaped ], literal new RegExp(...), five trim spellings,
   .split().join(), and multi-line .replace( args - still 0 false positives.
   Two forms still evade and are documented as deliberate gaps with negative
   tests: the two-statement/temp-var form and new RegExp built from a variable.
   Both need data flow, and guessing at it is how a guard becomes noisy.

   Also fixed: // inside a string truncated the line, a ; inside the collapse
   regex split the statement (a one-character bypass), and SCAN_EXT omitted
   .mjs/.tsx/.jsx.

5. A regression I introduced, caught by the same review.

   qa-smell-ratchet.cjs top-level-required a build output that is not
   git-tracked, so the script hard-failed MODULE_NOT_FOUND before build:lib -
   including for --help, which previously had no build dependency. The require is
   now lazy at the point of use.

6. Four of my own tests were vacuous or weak.

   T9's input yielded an identical string under the buggy formula, so it passed
   on the implementation it was meant to catch. T12 compared maxLen null vs 60 on
   an 18-char name, where they agree trivially. T9-T12 all asserted
   generateSlugInternal directly, so they would pass unchanged if both call-site
   fixes were reverted. And prove-it-can-fail was scoped to scanRepo, never the
   CLI - dropping main()'s exit-code line would have kept every row green.

   All rewritten with discriminating inputs, per-call-site rows that red when the
   fix is reverted, 59/60/61 boundaries, an entirely-non-alphanumeric row, and a
   CLI row asserting the real subprocess exit code and both sanitizeForReport
   sites.

Verified: both guards flag 0 on the tree and both prove they can fail. The
swallow rule's control is confirmed in both directions - pre-#1884 shape flagged,
post-#3885 shape clean. build:lib, lint and lint:ci all exit 0.

Refs #3987

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

* docs(#3987): record that §8.5 IS guardable, and correct a correction that made a ledger worse

Three ADR corrections, two of them to text this branch wrote hours ago.

§8.5 advances to Enforced. Its previous entry said the rule was not detectable
at acceptable precision. That was wrong twice: the 26 false positives were
uniformly CLEANUP verbs, which is a reason to narrow the predicate rather than
abandon it, and the claim that no positive control exists was self-refuting - the
pre-#3885 blob is available as a fixture and this repo's own guards prove-it-can-
fail on synthetic trees. Narrowed to creation verbs plus a *_ERRNOS reference:
911 -> 24 -> 0 flags, 0 false positives, control confirmed in both directions.
The entry keeps the wrong reasoning visible, because a high false-positive count
being evidence the predicate is wrong - not evidence the rule is unguardable - is
the transferable part, and the first negative result is most seductive when it is
also the answer that means less work.

§8.9's correction is itself corrected. The original 17-of-19 claim was CORRECT
for the predicate it stated; this branch silently swapped cited -> covered and
declared 19 of 19. #3812 appears in zero test files. Changing what a word means
to make a ledger read better is a worse failure than the miscount it claimed to
repair. Both predicates are now reported separately - 18 of 19 cited, 19 of 19
covered - because §8.9 asks for a test NAMING each child, so 18 is the number
that answers it. #3812 is also re-opened for real, rather than the first draft's
promise that it could be.

§8.3 stays Shipped - test-covered rather than advancing. The slug guard catches
the copy-paste class and a dozen variants, but two forms still evade by decision
(temp-var split, new RegExp from a variable) because both need data flow. Naming
them keeps the status honest: the wrong call site is much harder to write, not
unrepresentable.

Closes #3987

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

* chore(#3987): backfill changeset pr number

Refs #3987

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

* fix(#3987): replace my own wall-clock assertion, and close the guard that let me write it

CI went red on ubuntu shard 2/3. The failing test was mine, and the failure was
the test, not the code.

  a 1.28MB line ... scans in well under a second (was 54.3s pre-fix)  7368ms

It asserted ELAPSED TIME. ~200ms locally, 7.4s on a shared CI runner. The bound
introduced for the MAJOR-2 DoS fix works - 7.4s against a 54.3s pre-fix baseline
is the fix doing its job - but an absolute wall-clock threshold on shared
hardware is a race, not an assertion. CLAUDE.md says so directly: "Clock Seams:
Do not assert on wall-clock time." I wrote the anti-pattern the project bans, in
a PR about guards.

Raising the threshold would only move the flake. The row now asserts a
DETERMINISTIC bound instead: an instrumentation seam on drift-scan.cjs counts
readRegexLiteralAt calls and characters examined, and the test asserts
charsExamined stays under an absolute ceiling. Measured on the same 1.28MB
fixture: 120,000 calls, 48,000,000 chars - two orders under the ceiling. The
pathological fixture is kept; only the thing being asserted changed.

Proven to still discriminate: with MAX_REGEX_LITERAL_LEN raised to simulate the
unbounded pre-fix behavior, the same fixture does not complete in 120 seconds,
versus ~0.3s bounded. It is a real regression test, not a tautology.

Then the second half, which is the same defect class as the rest of this PR.

  eslint-rules/no-elapsed-assertion.cjs matched only the EXACT identifiers
  ^(elapsed|duration|took|ms)$.

I used `elapsedMs`. It evaded the rule entirely. tookMs, durationMs,
elapsedTime and msElapsed evade the same way. A guard that cannot see the
violation it exists to catch is exactly what this PR is about - it just happened
to be an existing rule rather than one of the two I came here for, and it was
found because I committed the violation it should have blocked.

Widened to /^(?:elapsed|duration|took|ms)(?:[A-Z]\w*)?$/ plus a narrow
start/endMs delta pair. Deliberately NOT a blanket *Ms suffix: a first draft did
that and produced 2 false positives on `timeoutMs` in
plan-phase-stall-detection, which is a configured timeout and not a measurement.
Verified negative on params, items, forms, terms, dirnames, timeoutMs,
cacheTtlMs and staleAfterMs.

Measured over the five files carrying camelCase timing identifiers: 0 true
positives beyond my own, so nothing else needed rewriting. The rule's own test
file gains a row asserting `elapsedMs` flags, proven to fail against the
pre-widening rule - the same prove-it-can-fail standard both new guards in this
PR are held to.

Refs #3987

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

* fix(#3987): a comment I added leaked a Claude reference into every runtime install

The runner went red with 4 failures in tests/install.test.cjs:

  Leaking: .hermes/scripts/lib/drift-scan.cjs
  Leaking: .qwen/scripts/lib/drift-scan.cjs

The instrumentation seam added for the deterministic bound carried a comment
naming CLAUDE.md as the source of the no-wall-clock-assertions rule. scripts/
SHIPS to consumers, so that comment was installed verbatim into hermes and qwen
trees, and the install suite scans for exactly this - a Claude-specific reference
reaching a non-Claude runtime.

The rule is real and worth citing; the filename is not portable. The comment now
says "this repo's test rules" and states the rule inline, which is what a reader
of an installed tree actually needs anyway.

Worth noting what caught it: not lint, and not the two guards this PR adds - the
install suite's full-tree scan, which exists precisely because a shipped file is
read by runtimes that have never heard of CLAUDE.md. Same lesson as the rest of
this PR from the other direction: the check that matters is the one that can see
the surface where the defect actually lands.

Refs #3987

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

* fix(#3987): a test fixture swallowed 46 git exit codes and produced a silent false negative

CI red on ubuntu shard 3/3:

  tests/health-validation.test.cjs:2029
  expected exactly one W024, got [{"code":"W006", ...}]

Not caused by this branch, and the evidence is decisive rather than a hunch: the
SIBLING test at :2039 builds the IDENTICAL fixture with the identical
commitsAhead and asserts the same thing, and it PASSED in the same process, same
file, same run. Same input, both outcomes - which rules out logic, ordering,
sharding and environment, and leaves a per-invocation nondeterministic failure
inside one fixture build.

The mechanism is an unchecked exit code, 46 times over. The W024 fixture performs
~46 runGit spawns and never checks a single one. runGit returns failures as DATA
and never throws, so one silently-failed `git commit` yields 19 commits instead
of 20, or a silently-empty `git rev-parse HEAD` yields a blank state_head. Either
drops readStateHeadFreshness below the advisory threshold, W024 never fires, and
only W006 remains.

Reproduced exactly: 20 commits -> ["W006","W024"]; 19 -> ["W006"]; blank
state_head -> ["W006"] - byte-identical to the CI assertion dump.

The arithmetic is what hid it. At threshold-1 and threshold+1 a lost commit still
produces the asserted answer; only the exactly-at-threshold cases sit one commit
from a false negative. Two of the seven tests are in that position, and CI hit
one. That is why it had never been seen before, and why it surfaced now: this
branch adds three test files, which reshuffles the cost-weighted shard partition
and moved this file into a chunk where the latent flake fired.

My files were checked as suspects first and cleared: all fixtures mkdtemp-unique,
no process.chdir, no .planning/ writes, no git spawns, and node --test gives
per-file process isolation regardless.

Fixed at the cause, not the symptom. A mustGit wrapper throws on a non-zero exit
with the command, exit code and stderr, and all nine call sites route through it.
The fixture now asserts its OWN preconditions before the assertion under test
runs - the seed head is non-empty, and `git rev-list --count <seed>..HEAD` equals
the requested commitsAhead - so a fixture that did not build what it claims fails
loudly as a FIXTURE ERROR naming got-versus-asked, instead of quietly handing a
weaker input to the assertion.

Proven: dropping one commit now raises
  FIXTURE ERROR: requested commitsAhead=19 but git rev-list --count reports 18
where it previously produced a silent ["W006"] pass-for-the-wrong-reason. 64/64
tests in that block pass unperturbed.

Deliberately NOT done: no threshold change, no retry, no loosened assertion, no
skip. The assertion was correct; the input was silently wrong.

Worth naming, because it is the same shape from the other side: this PR ships
eslint-rules/no-swallowed-precondition.cjs, whose entire subject is a swallowed
precondition failure being laundered into a plausible downstream outcome. This
fixture is that defect in test code - the swallowed git failure was laundered
into a legitimate-looking "W024 did not fire". The rule does not cover test
fixtures, so the connection is noted at the fix site rather than enforced.

Refs #3987

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

* fix(#3987): two tests wrote to committed files; the shard packing decided when that mattered

CI red on windows-latest shard 1/3 only:

  "gen-exit-code-registry: CLI" > "a --write run redirected to a tmpdir leaves
  every committed artifact untouched"
  AssertionError: hooks artifact must be untouched

The Linux runner passed the same sha at 40425/40425. It is Linux-only, so a
Windows-scheduling defect is structurally invisible to it.

Root cause, established by measurement rather than inference.

tests/cli-exit.test.cjs appended a corruption marker to the REAL COMMITTED
hooks/lib/exit-code-registry.js, held it corrupted across a full subprocess, and
restored it in a finally. tests/exit-code-registry.test.cjs reads that same real
file before and after its own subprocess and asserts byte equality. If it samples
while the other test holds the file corrupted, it fails. The landmine is
pre-existing, from 2ea5efc15 (#3911).

What this branch changed is WHEN the two run together. scripts/run-tests.cjs
shards by cost-weighted LPT over the sorted unit list, so adding three test files
repacks the bins:

  merge-base c3e667df3 (838 files): cli-exit -> shard 1, exit-code-registry -> shard 3
  HEAD       03b342601 (841 files): BOTH in shard 1, same argv chunk, one
                                    node --test process, concurrent

Co-location is necessary but not sufficient - Linux shard 1/3 also had both and
passed. Windows loses because TEST_CONCURRENCY defaults to 2 there against 4
elsewhere, spawn cost is ~10x, and the sibling corruptor holds one of only two
slots through a ~90s tsc compile. That turns a sub-second overlap into seconds.

Not a path-separator or case-sensitivity issue, and not CRLF - .gitattributes
pins * text=auto eol=lf. Redirection was not at fault either: ensureScriptsOut
derives all five --out flags correctly and gen-exit-code-registry.cjs honours
them with no __dirname escape.

Fixed at the cause: no test writes to a committed file any more. Both corruptors
now copy to a mkdtempSync tmpdir, corrupt the COPY, and point the generator at
it. Repinning or reordering the shards would have turned CI green while leaving
the landmine armed for the next reshuffle.

That required closing an inconsistency between two sibling generators.
gen-exit-code-registry.cjs already accepts
--out/--scripts-out/--hooks-out/--dts-out/--sh-out and honours them under
--check; gen-hooks-cli-exit.cjs hardcoded OUTPUT_PATH and had no flag surface at
all, so its corruptor could not be redirected anywhere. It now takes --out in the
same style, honoured by both --write and --check, and is a no-op when absent -
verified: a bare --check on the default path still exits 0.

ensureScriptsOut moved to tests/helpers/exit-code-artifact-flags.cjs and both
test files import it. Hand-rolling a second copy of the flag derivation would
have been a re-derivation of exactly the kind this PR ships a guard against.

Verified: both tests still detect corruption (proven by defeating the check and
watching them red, with a positive control showing an uncorrupted copy exits 0);
SHA-256 of hooks/lib/exit-code-registry.js and hooks/lib/cli-exit.js identical
before and after running both rewritten bodies, and git reports nothing under
hooks/ modified - that is the property that was violated. A repo-wide search for
the corrupt-then-restore-in-finally shape against hooks/ found no other
instances.

One detail worth recording: the tmpdir test keeps --declaration pointed at the
real committed declaration rather than copying it, because the generated banner
embeds path.relative(REPO_ROOT, declarationPath) - copying it would produce a
false drift unrelated to the injected corruption. The declaration is read-only on
that path and never written.

Refs #3987

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 14:40:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
12f9d1d9a0 enhance(#3913): docs, and the guards come down (#3994)
ADR-3889 terminal phase. Generated docs/reference/exit-codes.md from the exit-code declaration with a --check drift arm; deleted the inert soft-error-exit-zero oracle; promoted untyped-success from SMELL to VIOLATION so it can fail a build; pruned all 5 smell-baseline entries.

Fixed inline: two mis-scoped oracles (routing-validity, value-hygiene), a second source behind the band table, unescaped declaration strings reaching Markdown, and a pre-existing Windows 8.3 short-name path-comparison defect.

Guard ledger corrected from a claimed net -4 to a measured net -1.

Closes #3913
2026-08-28 13:10:20 -04:00
Tom Boucher
355c943b08 enhance(#3626): make CONTEXT.md seam claims checkable via a SEAM.*.enforced-by gate (#3975)
* feat(#3626): make CONTEXT.md seam claims checkable via SEAM.*.enforced-by gate

Adds SEAM.<id>.owns / SEAM.<id>.enforced-by=lint-rule:<name>|test:<path>
predicates to CONTEXT.md, generalizing the existing WORKTREE.SEAM.* shape,
plus scripts/lint-seam-enforcement.cjs (wired into lint:ci) which fails
when a declared single-owner seam names no existing, registered
enforcement mechanism. Backs all six current module-level single-seam/
single-canonical-owner claims found in CONTEXT.md, including the Shell
Command Projection Module's Windows-binary-resolution claim via #3619's
local/no-private-binary-resolution rule.

Scope is resolves-only per maintainer decision: the gate proves an
enforcement pointer exists and is registered, not that its surface
covers every file the seam claims. See docs/adr/3626-context-md-seam-claim-gate.md.

Closes #3626

* fix(#3626): back the Package Identity Module's seam claim too

Isolated adversarial review caught a miss in the "no grandfather list"
sweep: the Package Identity Module also declares itself "Single seam
owning GSD's published-package coordinates" and already names its real
enforcement (scripts/lint-package-identity-drift.cjs). Backs it with
SEAM.package-identity.owns/enforced-by=test:tests/package-identity.test.cjs,
bringing the total to 7 backed seams. Also makes explicit, in the design
doc and ADR, that function-level "single owner" sentences inside
already-covered modules (STATE.md Document Module, etc.) are deliberately
out of scope — a seam claim is about a module's boundary, not every
function inside it.

* docs(#3626): backfill changeset PR number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 08:06:41 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2ea5efc151 enhance(#3911): hooks declare their crash policy (#3960)
* enhance(#3911): give hooks an exit seam that needs no build

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911, #3838

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

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

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

Refs #3911

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

Two review findings.

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

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

Refs #3911

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

The remote run returned 7 failures across 3 real causes.

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

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

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

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

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

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

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

Refs #3911

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

Refs #3911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3911

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

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

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

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

Refs #3911

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 22:21:10 -04:00
Tom Boucher
fa41bfec5c enhance(#3942): the emitted-drift ack is PR-lifetime data — move it to a commit trailer (#3954)
* test(#3942): failing-first suite for the emitted-drift ack commit trailer

Binds 37 input classes from the phase test matrix to the behavior ADR-3942
specifies, before any of it exists. Stubs return benign empty values rather
than throwing, deliberately: several rows assert that something DOES throw
(cap overflow, uncomputable commit range), and a throwing stub would turn
those green for the wrong reason and destroy the red.

The two rows that carry the design's load:

- merge-base semantics. The range is $(git merge-base base HEAD)..HEAD, not
  base..HEAD, because changedPaths comes from `git diff base...HEAD` (three
  dot). Two-dot would let the ack set and the change set disagree about which
  commits are this PR's. The fixture forks a topic branch, puts a trailer on
  each side, and asserts only the topic-side trailer is in range.

- fail-closed on an uncomputable range. With fragments a depth-1 checkout
  passes VACUOUSLY, every fragment reading as brand-new. With trailers the
  range cannot be computed at all, and returning an empty set would silently
  disarm the gate, so it must throw. The fixture builds a genuine shallow
  clone rather than simulating one.

Also covers the self-inflicted case: this change's own documentation quotes
the trailer syntax, so an example landing at the end of a commit message would
arm a live acknowledgment keyed on the literal placeholder text. Keys carrying
angle brackets or whitespace are rejected.

Authored per the phase artifacts 40-design.md and 50-test-matrix.md.
Not yet run on the remote runner — this commit exists to be tested.

Refs #3942

* chore(#3942): move the emitted-drift ack to a commit trailer

Implements ADR-3942, superseding ADR-2719 section 3 and its #2789 amendment.
Sections 1, 2 and 4-7 are retained: the conservation law is unchanged, only the
storage of its escape hatch moved off the working tree.

An acknowledgment explains one PR's ripple, and the moment that PR merges the
ripple is in the base, so it can never clear anything again. It was stored in
permanent shared state anyway, and every consequence of that mismatch had to be
built and then maintained. The chain is #2789 -> #2914 -> #3078 -> #3842 ->
#3823 -> #3875, each fix generating the next defect, ending in a scheduled
sweeper whose own first PR could not merge itself.

Added
  parseAckTrailers + renderAckTrailer (pure) and readAckTrailers (IO shell),
  reading Emitted-Drift-Ack-Hash: / Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: trailers over
  the merge-base range. tests/emitted-ack-trailer.test.cjs, 37 cases, written
  failing-first and confirmed red before any of this existed.

Changed
  diffEmitted takes two structurally distinct key-space maps instead of one
  shared paths map. That closes a latent defect: the spaces were separated by
  convention only, so a growth key satisfied a hash lookup by naming
  coincidence. staleAcks now reports which space a key was declared in.
  REMEDIATION teaches the trailer, per space, with its example rendered through
  renderAckTrailer so the taught grammar cannot drift from what the parser
  accepts.

Removed
  the sweep workflow, the guard-no-ack-on-next job, the standalone linter and
  its lint:ci entry, the fragment directory and its three spent fragments, the
  legacy single-file union, and the baseAck/spentAcks mechanism -- spentness is
  now structural, not computed.

Two range properties carry the design and are pinned by tests rather than
asserted: the range is merge-base scoped, matching git diff base...HEAD, so an
already-merged trailer is out of range by construction; and an uncomputable
range throws instead of reading as zero acknowledgments, which is the inverse
of the fragment guard's vacuous pass.

Three deliberate observable changes, each disclosed in the changeset: the
unread runtime field is gone, the legacy file is no longer read, and cross-space
excusal no longer works.

Ten open PRs carry fragments and will meet a modify/delete conflict. Measured
before landing and accepted deliberately; the one-line migration is in the PR
body.

Verified: lint:ci exit 0. Remote runner to follow on this exact sha.

Refs #3942

* fix(#3942): silent trailer collapse, lost coverage, and an unbounded cap

Six findings from the orthogonal review round, all fixed in place.

BLOCKER -- two trailers of the same name on one commit collapsed silently.
readAckTrailers built `separator=1d` where git needs `separator=%x1d`: the
`separator=` value inside a %(trailers:...) placeholder is itself a
pretty-format string, so the bare hex was emitted as two literal characters
and the split on \x1d never matched. Two same-name trailers therefore joined
into one value with errors empty -- the first reason absorbing the second
entry's key. Silent truncation, the exact class MAX_ACK_TRAILERS throws to
prevent. Confirmed with od -c against real git output before and after.

The failing-first matrix did not catch it because its "both spaces coexist"
row uses Hash plus Growth -- different trailer NAMES -- so the value separator
was never exercised. Two regression tests now cover same-name trailers
directly.

Coverage recovered: normalizeAckReason and INVISIBLE stayed on the live path
via parseAckTrailers but lost every test when the old suite was pruned. Back
under test against the current surface -- all six invisible codepoints
individually, whitespace collapse, trim, CRLF, and two seeded fast-check
properties. Dropping any single codepoint now fails.

MAX_ACK_TRAILERS counted raw trailers before de-duplication, so one trailer
carried forward across rebased commits counted once per commit and could throw
on a legitimate branch. Now counts distinct entries; 100 identical repeats
dedupe to one.

diffEmitted validated baseline, current and changedPaths but not the new
ackHash/ackGrowth, so a bad shape raised an unhandled TypeError instead of an
error verdict -- the same defect shape this file documents for #2778.

Docs: CONTRIBUTING and TESTING-SUITES were rewritten only in their first
sections; the later passages still taught fragments, git rm and the deleted
guard, contradicting the new text directly above them. Finished.

Also extends lint-removed-but-needed to exempt docs/adr and docs/research.
That gate fails on any docs mention of a file deleted in the same diff, which
makes it impossible to document a deletion in the PR performing it -- an ADR's
whole job is naming what it retired. Exemption is narrow and comes with a test
proving the gate still fires for a live consumer elsewhere under docs/. A
guard that cannot fail is worse than no guard. Maintainer-approved.

CONTEXT.md names the retired machinery by role rather than by filename: its
generated projection lands in docs/, which that gate does scan.

Adds docs/how-to/acknowledge-emitted-drift.md. The required docs set is
Reference and Explanation, so the task quadrant can be empty with every gate
green -- and this change has a real multi-step journey, including the fragment
migration ten open PRs now need.

lint:ci exit 0.

Refs #3942

* docs(#3942): correct the duplicate-trailer rule in CONTRIBUTING

Both axes of the code review independently flagged the same passage, without
seeing each other's output.

It claimed two declarations of the same key are always "a hard, loudly-reported
error, not a silent last-wins". That is only half true, and the missing half is
the one contributors hit: identical declarations -- same key, same reason --
dedupe silently, because a trailer legitimately survives a rebase and reappears
on every rebased commit. Failing there would red a branch for doing nothing
wrong, which is exactly why the dedup exists.

Only a same-key/different-reason pair errors, and that one is a genuine
ambiguity about which explanation holds.

As written, the paragraph told a contributor that a rebase-carried trailer
breaks the gate -- the opposite of the behavior. CONTEXT.md's parallel entry
already stated it correctly; this brings CONTRIBUTING into line.

Doc-only, root-level markdown.

Refs #3942

* chore(#3942): backfill changeset PR number to 3954

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 17:28:39 -04:00
Tom Boucher
878f25025c enhance(#3905): the exit-code registry — one number, one meaning, enforced at build (#3920)
* feat(#3905): the exit-code registry — one number, one meaning, enforced at build

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3905): backfill changeset pr number

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3915

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

Review findings, all fixed in place.

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

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

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

Refs #3915

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3915

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3915

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 22:43:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8edace40d5 enhance(#3904): one exit module — generate the scripts-side copy from a single source (#3917)
* test(#3904): failing-first coverage for the drifted scripts-side exit module

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#3904): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 21:24:34 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6b7df61938 enhance(#3881): one YAML parser — vendored js-yaml replaces the hand-rolled dialect (#3888)
* docs(#3881): answer §8.1's open question and correct three wrong premises

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

ADR-3473 §8.1 review findings, addressed inline:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

Root cause was two clobber sites, not one:

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

Refs #3881

* chore(#3881): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3881

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

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

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

Refs #3881

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

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

Refs #3881

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

Refs #3881

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

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

Closes #2571
Refs #3881

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 19:29:32 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ddde001af6 enhance(#3873): the STATE.md schema — one owner, generated artifacts (#3880)
* test(#3873): failing-first locale parity, plus tripwires for what must not move

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

* chore(#3873): backfill changeset PR number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 01:57:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
36375513b9 feat(#3840): generate docs/FEATURES.md from per-feature fragments (#3845)
* feat(#3840): generate docs/FEATURES.md from per-feature fragments

docs/FEATURES.md was hand-maintained, and every feature PR wrote into two
shared mutable cells: the '### N.' heading whose integer was hand-allocated at
authoring time, and the hand-maintained table of contents. Concurrent PRs all
picked the same next integer, and two PRs adding differently numbered features
still collided on the TOC. #3831 was renumbered 165 -> 166 -> 167 -> 168 across
successive rebases, each collision also costing a full matrix verification run
because the sha-keyed pass marker dies with the rebase.

Mechanism: one fragment per feature at docs/features/<slug>.md carrying
id/title/group (and an optional order) in frontmatter, consolidated by
scripts/gen-features.cjs --write|--check into a marker-delimited region of
docs/FEATURES.md that holds BOTH the TOC and every section body. Group headings
and their order are derived too - a group sorts by its lowest-ordered member -
so there is no shared registry to edit either; optional per-group prose lives in
docs/features/_groups/<slug>.md. A contributor adds exactly one new file.
Wired into regen:derived and lint:generated-sync alongside the eight existing
generators, matching gen-adr-index.cjs's CLI shape and typed-REASON reporting.

Migration froze all 168 existing numbers verbatim: identical section set,
identical order, identical bodies. Two defects found in the tree are fixed
inline rather than carried forward - the '## Related' block had been spliced
into the middle of the document, orphaning §142's Reference line, and four
inbound anchors were already broken on next (FEATURES.md#runtime-identity in
two files, and #143-spec-phase-edge-completeness-probe off by one). Since the
repo has no link checker, --check now validates every inbound
FEATURES.md#anchor by resolved target, so that class cannot ship silently
again; locale FEATURES.md files resolve elsewhere and stay out of scope.

Refs #3840

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

* fix(#3840): carry upstream §69 delta into its fragment and harden the generator

Review found section 69 missing '[--strict]' and REQ-STATE-05/06 versus
origin/next. Root cause was a stale base, not extraction loss: those lines
landed in 394bf384b (#3844) AFTER this branch forked at 63abcface, and
'git diff 63abcface origin/next -- docs/FEATURES.md' is exactly that hunk.
Merging origin/next auto-applied the hunk into the GENERATED region, which
--check immediately reported as stale; the delta is now carried in
docs/features/statemd-consistency-gates.md and regenerated from there.

--write is now fail-closed. It previously rendered the region even with
violations outstanding, warning only on stderr and exiting 0, so a
'--write && git commit' chain could commit a FEATURES.md carrying two
colliding sections. It now refuses and exits 1; --force is the explicit
override and says so in the report. The test that pinned the old behavior now
pins the refusal, plus the --force override and its scoping.

Marker forgery is rejected at two layers. A fragment body containing
'<!-- FEATURES:START' or '<!-- FEATURES:END' is a typed
body_forges_region_marker violation (fragments and group notes alike), and
spliceIntoFeatures anchors the end boundary with lastIndexOf instead of
indexOf, so a marker that reaches the document by any other route can only
make the generated region grow, never shrink. Matching is on marker PREFIXES,
so a decorated variant comment cannot slip past.

Symlinked corpus entries are refused with a typed dirent_not_regular_file
rather than read. A fork PR could otherwise commit docs/features/evil.md as a
symlink to any readable path and have the generator inline those bytes into
the committed docs/FEATURES.md on the next regen.

Equivalence re-verified with a method that cannot cancel out. The first
check extracted both operands with the same body-normalising helper, so
anything that helper dropped was dropped on both sides. The replacement runs
two independent passes: a global content-line multiset diff with no
per-section logic at all (0 gained, 19 lost, all 19 the stale hand-written
mini-TOC links this change deliberately deletes), and a per-section
byte-exact body diff carrying a coverage assertion that fails loudly per file
when the extractor accounts for fewer lines than the file contains. That
assertion caught two blind spots in the checker itself. 168/168 sections
present, order identical, one intended body difference (§142 regains the
Reference line orphaned by the misplaced '## Related' block).

Refs #3840

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

* chore(#3840): backfill changeset PR number

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 22:49:00 -04:00
Tom Boucher
107eb8c1d9 feat(#3753): run docs guards on the PR that changes the docs they read (#3787)
A PR whose diff is entirely under docs/ runs zero tests, so a guard whose INPUT
is shipped prose cannot protect the PR lane of the diffs it exists to check. Its
only firing opportunity is after merge, on the shared branch -- which is how next
went red on dacae9273 while the PR that caused it (#3746) was green on every
check.

The docs-lint job in .github/workflows/docs-required.yml -- an ALREADY-REQUIRED
context -- now selects and runs the docs guards that read the specific docs files
the PR changed.

  scripts/docs-guard-registry.cjs    test file -> the docs paths it reads (63)
  scripts/select-docs-guards.cjs     pure (changedPaths, registry) -> test files
  scripts/lint-docs-guard-registration.cjs   drift guard, wired into lint:ci

scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs is NOT touched -- `git diff origin/next --` on it is
empty -- so #764's saving stands and its 21 pinning tests are untouched.

Selection: exact path; trailing-slash directory prefix (boundary-checked --
docs/adrenaline.md does NOT match docs/adr/, which a naive startsWith gets
wrong); and '*' for the 6 entries that walk docs/ generally or read a computed
path. Unknown maps to '*' -- guessing narrow is how a guard silently stops
running. Measured: a typo fix selects 6 of 63; docs/AGENTS.md selects 12;
docs/COMMANDS.md selects 18.

Four things this got wrong first, each found by an independent reviewer or by
probe, and each having been asserted safe in a comment:

1. The registry started as a RULE in ci-test-scope.cjs's RULES, on the theory
   that classify()'s !codeChanged normalization made it inert. True for
   docs-ONLY diffs; false for MIXED docs+code diffs, where codeChanged is true
   and the normalization never runs:

     node scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs --files "docs/a.md src/semver.cts"
       with the RULE:  25 targeted_tests
       origin/next:     3 targeted_tests

   Category error: RULES is the scoped lane's input; a docs-guard registry is a
   lane manifest for a consumer that never calls classify(). Extracted; pinned
   by value.

2. The second attempt was a dedicated workflow with paths: [docs/**]. Such a
   workflow never reports on a non-docs PR, so it can never be a required
   context without hanging every non-docs PR -- and a non-required check does not
   block a merge, so the guard would have been advisory and #3753 unfixed.
   docs-required.yml already has no paths: filter, already supplies the required
   docs-lint context, already computes docs_changed, and already ran one docs
   guard gated on it. Generalizing that step needs no ruleset edit at all.

3. The registry and the drift lint were built from ONE path-segment heuristic, so
   both were blind identically -- and blind at the guard that motivated the issue.
   The reader-call regex required a character BEFORE its keyword, so a callee
   named exactly read( / load( / parse( / doc( / file( / content( could never
   match; and only an INLINE path.join(ROOT,'docs','X.md') argument was caught,
   missing the two-step-via-variable form -- the MAJORITY spelling -- plus
   template literals and concatenation. Detector 1 fired on 14 of ~450 files, so
   35 genuine guards sat unregistered while the lint reported 0 violations,
   including cursor-reviewer (reads docs/COMMANDS.md, asserts
   .includes('--cursor')) and inventory-headings-countfree. The "accepted blind
   spot" this shipped with was the common case, not a fringe.

4. With detection fixed the true population is 115 files: 63 genuine guards, 52
   incidental. Running all 63 in a REQUIRED check on a one-line typo fix is the
   cost #764 exists to avoid -- install.test.cjs is 7840 lines and reads exactly
   one docs file, docs/AGENTS.md, for its frontmatter. Dropping it reproduces the
   bug; running it for a typo elsewhere is waste. Hence the map.

Then a second review round found six more, all fixed here:

- fragment-single-edit-propagation.install.test.cjs was EXEMPTED as
  "overlay fixture only". False: it reads the real docs/registries/eos.json and
  asserts on a registry entry name, and reads the real ADR-0001 and asserts its
  H1. A docs-only PR touching either would have gone green and red next -- #3753
  shipping again, from inside the fix for it. Now registered against both paths,
  and all 52 remaining exemptions were re-audited one by one.
- The SUITES-collision guard compared RAW registry keys, but run-tests.cjs strips
  a leading `tests/` BEFORE its suite check. So it caught 'all' and missed
  'tests/all' -- the only spelling that can actually occur, since every key
  carries the prefix. One typo would have run all 824 test files inside the
  required job. Now normalized the same way run-tests.cjs normalizes.
- The lint failed OPEN on an unreadable tests dir or candidate file: 0 violations,
  ok:true. A guard that cannot read its input must never report success.
- The exemption ratchet gated identity only, so a baselined file that later
  STARTED asserting on shipped docs stayed exempt silently -- 52 permanently blind
  files. The baseline now fingerprints the docs paths each exempted file
  references and fails when that set changes, naming what changed.
- The exemption marker was still honored inside a multi-line template literal in
  the header window. The scanner now tracks template-literal and block-comment
  state.
- `git diff --name-only | grep '^docs/'` silently dropped C-quoted non-ASCII docs
  paths, making docs_changed=false a green zero-guard check. Both call sites now
  pass -c core.quotepath=false.
- The run step was gated on hashFiles(), which a force-committed
  .docs-guard-tests.txt would satisfy. The step now rm -f's both scratch files
  first and gates on an output it sets itself.

Three empty states, deliberately distinct, because conflating them rebuilds
#3753: an empty or malformed registry HARD-FAILS; docs changed with no guard
covering them logs and skips; no docs change is already gated. The middle state
must never be expressed as an empty --files-from, which prints `no tests in suite
"all"` and exits 0 -- a green check that guarded nothing. With the current
registry that state is unreachable, because the six '*' entries always match;
the branch is kept as defensive handling for a future registry and says so.

timeout-minutes: 15 bounds the required job against a hanging fork-supplied test;
it had none. npm ci was added because the job never installed dependencies -- the
previous single-file step got away without it, the registry does not.

docs/contributing/docs-guard-registration.md documents the rule, following its
sibling cross-platform-portability-rules.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md's CI Test
Quality Checks table links to it. It is also load-bearing: without a docs/ file
in the diff this PR would not have triggered its own lane, shipping an
unexercised change to a required check.

One unrelated fix, included because this PR surfaced it and CLAUDE.md forbids
deferring a defect found while working. On this branch's first CI run,
`full test (windows-latest, 24, shard 3/3)` was CANCELLED at exactly 30 minutes;
tests were still passing 0.8s before the cancel, so it is a wall-clock timeout,
not a hang, and a cancelled job reddens `Required tests`.

The cause is not this PR's test file, which costs ~60ms. Shard composition is
unstable: adding ONE file to the unit suite reshuffled 115 of 268 files between
shards, and shard 3 drew a heavier mix. Underneath that is a real pre-existing
defect. tests/ci-test-job-timeout-budget.test.cjs requires every lane's budget to
be >= 1.5x its MEASURED cost -- "a lane that got slower must be re-budgeted, not
excused" -- and its test-full entry recorded 19m from a windows-22 shard. That is
stale. Measured on `next` with none of this PR's changes present: 26m18s (run
32614439702, windows-latest/24 shard 3/3), 23m36s and 23m17s on shard 2/3. So the
lane costs ~26m and the 30-minute cap carried 1.14x headroom, not 1.5x. The gate
had been out of compliance with its own rule; this PR was merely the file
addition that reshuffled shard 3 past the cliff.

Fixed as that file prescribes: measuredMinutes 19 -> 27 with fresh evidence, and
test-full timeout-minutes 30 -> 45. The rule's minimum for 27m is 41; 45 is
deliberately above it because the reshuffle means per-shard worst case moves run
to run, and a budget pinned to the exact minimum would be re-breached by the next
test file anyone adds. Only that one job's timeout changed; test.yml's scope,
matrix and steps are untouched, so #764's saving is unaffected.

Raising that cap let the Windows shard finish (28m45s, inside 45) and uncovered
a real failure the 30-minute cancel had been masking:
`new quick-task branch branches off origin/main (#2916)` died with
`outcome=timed_out exitCode=null`, SIGTERM, at the 15000ms bound.

tests/quick-branching.test.cjs:149 `runStep` runs a `#!/usr/bin/env bash` script
executing MULTIPLE git commands, but was bound to GIT_TIMEOUT_MS (15000) -- the
norm for a SINGLE git plumbing call. tests/helpers/timeouts.cjs already documents
this exact failure and exists to fix it: HOOK_FANOUT_TIMEOUT_MS was created after
PR #3285 recorded "outcome=timed_out exitCode=null at exactly the 15000ms probe
bound while every other lane passed the same commit", and calls that "a bound
sized for the wrong class, not a slow machine". Our failure is that case
verbatim, so both sites move to the class norm rather than to a bigger number.

The same class also failed on `next` itself 21 hours earlier -- run 32608945654,
windows-latest/24 shard 1/3, `plan touching only src/ in a submodule project
keeps worktree isolation ENABLED` -- where tests/worktree-safety.test.cjs:5845
`runGate` fans out to `git config --file .gitmodules` under a hardcoded 30000.
Fixed too, since it is a defect in the tree regardless of which branch surfaced
it.

A survey of the whole tests/ tree found the same class-mismatch at further
bash fan-out sites bound under 60000ms, and the maintainer approved sweeping
them rather than leaving them latent to surface the same way one at a time. 16
fan-out sites across 16 files now use the class norm.

The sweep is class-correctness, not raising numbers until things pass. Sites
were moved ONLY where the bash body demonstrably spawns something (git, node,
npm, a CLI); self-contained shell snippets were left where they are, and are
listed as deliberately unchanged: pure if/printf bodies (copilot-install), pure
array/case builtins (code-review-pipeline-regression:638), a documented
pure-shell gsd_run stub (host-integration), single-process hook calls
(workflow-guard:222/271/302), and a deliberately tight 5000ms fast-check hook
(gsd-write-guard.property). Nothing was lowered. process-seam.test.cjs:513
(literal 300) is untouched on purpose -- it tests timeout BEHAVIOR, so raising
it would destroy what it asserts.

Shared file-level constants were the trap here, and were handled per file rather
than by redefinition: GIT_TIMEOUT_MS has ~15 users in git-base-branch and only 1
is a fan-out; WORKTREE_TIMEOUT_MS has 16 users in worktree.test.cjs and 3 are;
PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS has several in three more files. In each the CALL SITE was
changed and the constant left alone, so no single-plumbing-call site silently
inherited a 60s bound. The one exception is hooks-opt-in.test.cjs, where
HOOK_TIMEOUT_MS has exactly one consumer -- spawnHook, the fan-out itself -- so
redefining it is identical in effect and reads better.

Only two of these sites have actually been observed failing. The rest cite that
shared class and those two run ids rather than inventing evidence of their own.

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-23 21:21:21 -04:00
github-actions[bot]
97ca69a53e chore: sync next package version to 1.11.0 2026-08-19 13:51:49 +00:00
Tom Boucher
bf2332e67c fix(#3582): route every hook's compiled-module require through the self-heal build seam (#3629)
* test(3582): failing-first cold-tree coverage and the seam drift lint

On a plugin-channel install the compiled gsd-core/bin/lib/*.cjs are legitimately
absent (ADR-457 build-at-publish; the npm package builds before publishing, a raw
tree materialization never does). gsd-tools.cjs calls ensureRuntimeBuild() before
requiring ./lib; no hook does, so the isolation guard's Cannot-find-module lands in
its fail-closed catch and is misreported as an unreadable dispatch-isolation
configuration, blocking every executor dispatch.

These tests fail on that: cold-tree runs of the isolation guard, statusline, cursor
guard and update worker, plus the seam's actionable build error surfacing instead of
the generic misreport.

Also adds the drift lint the acceptance criteria require, with a fixture proving it
CAN fail — a guard never shown to fail is worthless. It is red here by design: it
flags today's unfixed hooks, which is exactly the defect.

* fix(3582): route every hook's compiled-module require through the self-heal seam

RED proven at 5b174b0d: 11 failures — the cold-tree runs for the isolation guard,
cursor guard and update worker, the fail-closed-with-actionable-message assertion, and
the lint's own real-tree check.

The compiled runtime library is produced by build:lib and gitignored (ADR-457,
build-at-publish). The npm package builds before publishing; a plugin-marketplace or
git-clone install materializes the raw tree and never does, so on that channel those
modules are legitimately absent. The self-heal seam added by #2002 exists to heal exactly
this, and the CLI entrypoint already calls it — no hook did. The isolation guard's
Cannot-find-module therefore landed in its fail-closed catch and was reported as
'could not read or resolve dispatch-isolation configuration', so an ARTIFACT ABSENCE was
misdiagnosed as an unreadable project config and every executor dispatch was blocked.

All SEVEN affected files now call the seam before their first compiled require. The issue
named four; a scan found six; implementing it surfaced a seventh — the shared isolation
sentinel helper, used by BOTH guards, which requires two compiled modules itself and
would have defeated the guards' own fix on a genuinely cold tree. Same defect class, so
fixed here rather than left as a known-broken remainder.

Failure posture is deliberately split by hook kind:
- Gates (agent isolation guard, cursor subagent start) surface the seam's actionable
  build error distinctly instead of swallowing it into the generic text, and stay
  fail-closed — a genuinely unreadable project config still DENIES exactly as before.
- Cosmetic and detached hooks (statusline, update worker, update check, update banner)
  DEGRADE rather than crash: the statusline draws on every render and the worker is a
  detached process, so a build failure there must not take down the prompt.

The npm path is untouched: the seam's already-built fast path returns immediately, so
prebuilt installs pay nothing and behave bit-for-bit as before.

Adds a drift lint, wired into the CI lint chain, so the invariant is enforced rather than
remembered — without it the next hook to add a compiled require reintroduces the class
silently. It is proven able to fail: a fixture hook requiring a compiled module without
the seam is flagged, and one that uses the seam is not. Verified directly — on the
unfixed tree it named all seven offenders; with the fix it passes.

While writing the lint's comment stripper, a naive whole-text block-comment regex ate its
own fixture, because this repo's comments legitimately spell the compiled-lib glob whose
star-slash reads as a comment opener. Rewritten as a line-based scanner with a regression
test pinning that case.

* fix(3582): test the three untested seam call sites and assert typed reason codes

Two independent reviews converged on the same major gap: the fix wired the seam into
seven files but only four had cold-tree tests. The adversarial pass put it plainly —
deleting the shared isolation-sentinel helper's seam call would not have failed any test
in the diff. That file was my own addition beyond the issue's four, so it shipped
untested; that is now closed.

- Shared isolation-sentinel helper: its seam call is only reached when .planning is NOT
  directly under cwd, and every existing cold-tree fixture puts it there, so the early
  return always fired first. Now covered, and proven load-bearing by mutation: with the
  call removed the spy records zero seam invocations and the test fails.
- update-check hook and update-banner hook: cold-tree tests added asserting the DEGRADED
  VERDICT — the fallback cache filename, and silent suppression when the package name
  degrades to null — rather than merely 'did not throw'. The banner hook previously had
  no test file at all.

Standards violation fixed: two tests asserted on free-form prose via assert.match against
a JSON reason string, which CONTRIBUTING bans by name — its own BAD example is exactly
that. The ESLint rule only covers readFileSync/spawnSync text, so tooling did not catch
it. Both isolation guards now emit a machine-readable reason_code from a frozen enum,
following the repo's existing REASON convention, and the tests assert that instead. The
human-readable message is unchanged for operators; only the assertion target moved.

The duplicated degrade boilerplate across the three cosmetic hooks was deliberately NOT
extracted, and the reason is recorded at each site: both viable shapes — a
path-parameterized helper, or a ceremony-only wrapper — defeat the drift lint's per-file
literal co-occurrence check, so extracting would require the lint to special-case its own
helper. Triplication is the lesser evil while the lint stays a co-occurrence scan.

The lint's header now states what it does and does not catch (literal quoted requires
only; hooks/ scan root), so a future reader does not over-trust a guard that a
concatenated path or a require inside a non-hooks helper would evade.

* chore(3582): regenerate the committed install-tree fixtures

Adding a new shipped hook helper changed the install tree, and those fixtures are
committed-and-derived (regen:derived / gen:install-tree), so 12 'install tree — <runtime>'
tests failed on 541a1913. Regenerated rather than hand-edited.

The delta across all 15 runtime fixtures is exactly two lines — the new helper under both
its hooks/ and gsd-hooks/ install paths — and nothing else, so the regeneration pulled in
no unrelated drift.

This is the bookkeeping ripple a new file under hooks/ carries; it was not visible from
lint:ci, which passed both before and after.

* chore(3582): backfill changeset PR number (#3629)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-18 14:11:23 -04:00
Tom Boucher
3c61b4a838 enh(#3565): sentinel/contract registry + check:contract-drift lint (#3571)
* enh(#3565): sentinel/contract registry + check:contract-drift lint

* fix(#3565): report artifact-row markers once and dedupe per marker

* docs(#3565): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-16 12:59:08 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1591454357 feat(#3409): reject shell guards that cannot observe their own failure arm (#3558)
* test(#3409): failing-first regression tests for unreachable shell guard arms

Drives the three live defects fail-first, executing the shipped workflow
snippets rather than a re-typed copy:

- G1/G2 plan-phase.md Walking Skeleton gate reads `--pick summaries_total`,
  a field that does not exist, so PRIOR_SUMMARIES is always "" and the gate
  has never fired (#3365). G2 is the load-bearing negative-space case: it
  rejects a fix that treats "no answer" as "zero" and fires unconditionally.
- G3 plan-phase.md PHASE_REQ_IDS resolves "" instead of the TBD sentinel on
  a phase with zero requirements.
- G4 complete-milestone.md's bare `cat <glob>` blocks on stdin under a
  nullglob left set by an earlier block (measured hang).

Skipped on Windows for G4 only: the FIFO-blocked-stdin mechanism is POSIX
only, and a weakened assertion there would pass vacuously.

Refs #3409

* fix(#3409): make nine shell guards observe their own failure arm

`--pick` coerces a missing field to empty string and exits 0, so the
`|| echo <default>` fallback after it fires only on a verb typo, never on
the field absence it was written for. Nine sites relied on that arm.

- plan-phase.md walking-skeleton gate: `--pick summaries_total` names a
  field that does not exist under any flag combination, so the gate has
  never fired on any project (#3365). Repointed at the existing single
  owner, `phases.list --type summaries --pick count`, which returns a real
  integer in every case including a project with no `.planning` directory.
  No new counter is added: a second one would duplicate the ownership
  ADR-3180 Decision 1 forbids. The gate now fires only on a literal "0",
  so an unanswerable query fails safe instead of entering skeleton mode.
- plan-phase.md phase_req_ids: now falls back to the documented TBD.
- The remaining seven convert to an explicit empty test.
- complete-milestone.md read all phase summaries through a bare
  `cat <glob>`; under a nullglob left set by an earlier block that is zero
  operands, so cat blocks on stdin. Guarded with the array shape the
  #3300 fix already established in review.md.

Refs #3409

* fix(#3409): guard eleven more globs that defeat their own fallback arm

The nullglob audit this issue asks for turned up the same class in files
#3300 never touched.

- Eight bare `cat <glob>` reads (transition, complete-milestone, planner x4,
  verifier, phase-researcher). With nullglob set that is zero operands, so
  cat reads stdin and blocks; measured rc=137 at 3s.
- Three `ls <glob> || echo "<message>"` sites (session-report,
  review-backlog and its generated skill). nullglob makes ls succeed
  listing the cwd, so the message never prints and the user gets a
  directory listing instead.

Guarded with `[ -e "${_ARR[0]}" ]` rather than `[ ${#_ARR[@]} -gt 0 ]`.
The count form is correct only when nullglob is set, and six of these
seven files never set it: without it the array holds the unmatched literal
pattern, so the count is 1 and the guard passes wrongly. `-e` is correct
in both worlds. review.md keeps its count guards — that block sets
nullglob two lines above them.

skills/gsd-review-backlog regenerated from commands/, never hand-edited.

Refs #3409

* feat(#3409): add the unreachable-shell-guard drift lint

A sibling of lint-planning-prompt-drift.cjs, consuming the shared
scripts/lib/drift-scan.cjs rather than copying it, wired into lint:ci.

Both detectors are one shape — a fallback arm defeated by a legitimate
success-on-empty:

- Detector A: `--pick` and `|| echo` on one line. `--pick` is the
  discriminator because "missing field renders empty at exit 0" is a
  documented CLI contract, not a heuristic. A rule keyed on gsd_run
  matched 111 lines, ~132 of them legitimate, and was rejected.
- Detector B: `cat <glob>` in command position, and `ls <glob>` whose
  exit code feeds a real fallback or an if/while head. Informational
  `ls <glob>` whose stdout is consumed (97 sites) and `|| true` failure
  suppression (~15) are not guards and never fire.

Shrink-only ratchet keyed on (file, trimmed text) with a per-pair count,
POSIX-normalized unconditionally so Windows CI cannot report everything
fresh and stale at once. Ships with a ZERO-entry baseline: every site it
can find is fixed. Exemption is the per-line `# gsd-scan-ignore: #NNN`
marker whose reason must name an issue or URL; a malformed reason reports
a distinct error rather than silently exempting. No file allowlists.

ADR-3409 records the invariant, the measurements behind both detectors,
and why the upstream `--pick` contract fix belongs to #3473.

Refs #3409

* fix(#3409): resolve review findings — typed surface, sanitized reports, tighter marker

Standards axis (blocker): the guard's tests asserted on human-readable
stdout/stderr and on free-form baseline-load prose, which CONTRIBUTING
prohibits by name. Added the typed surface it prescribes instead of
weakening the tests: a frozen REASON enum, a --json report mode,
structured loadBaseline errors, and a test locking Object.keys(REASON)
so a new reason stays three coordinated changes.

Security axis: sanitizeForReport covered every violation field but not
the baseline-load error path, which embeds raw JSON.stringify output --
that escapes nothing above 0x1f, so bidi and C1 controls reached CI logs
unfiltered. Routed through the sanitizer at the output seam.

Security axis: the scan-ignore marker accepted `#0` and a bare
`http://`. Tightened to a positive issue number and a URL with a host.
This diverges deliberately from the sibling in
tests/commit-files-pathspec.test.cjs, whose looser form was copied
verbatim; the header now records the divergence.

Security axis: G4 built its FIFO with `mktemp -u`, reserving a name
without creating it. Now created inside a `mktemp -d` directory.

Spec axis: ADR-3409 claimed a ninth site landed after the issue was
filed. git blame disproves it -- all nine predate it; the issue's hand
count missed one. Corrected. The design and test matrix still specified
B9 as a FLAG after implementation reversed it to PASS; both now record
the reversal and why.

Refs #3409

* docs(#3409): add the how-to for resolving unreachable-guard findings

Reference and Explanation are carried by ADR-3409; this is the
task-oriented quadrant CI cannot check for.

The page exists mainly for one thing the lint structurally cannot catch:
both `[ -e "${_ARR[0]}" ]` and `[ ${#_ARR[@]} -gt 0 ]` remove the glob
from the command and therefore both pass, but the count form is correct
only when nullglob is set — and nullglob is usually set in a different
block of the same file. A reference table cannot carry that; a how-to can.

Also documents the reason codes, so a reader can tell "nothing to report"
from "could not look".

No tutorial: this is a gate inside an existing CI loop, not a new entry
point a newcomer starts from.

Refs #3409

* fix(#3409): bring the touched prompt files back under their size gates

The remote run was red on 14 tests, all size/attribution, none of them
the regression suite.

- agents/gsd-planner.md was 194 chars over a 49152 cap enforced by four
  separate tests, each of which says the remedy is extraction, not a bump.
  It had 41 chars of headroom before this branch. Its `## Checkpoint
  Types` section was an unlinked, condensed duplicate of
  references/checkpoints.md, which already carries all three types and
  their XML shapes; the section now points there and keeps the three
  names and percentages inline. Net -969, margin 1010.
- gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md sat 2 chars under a comfortable
  margin assertion. Dropped the AUTO_MODE default: the `|| echo "false"`
  it replaced was unreachable, so the value was already sometimes empty
  on next, and its only consumer compares against `true`. Net -16.
  Left plan-phase.md's AUTO_CHAIN default alone -- that file names an
  explicit `false` branch, so empty would match neither branch.
- Acknowledged the seven prompt files that genuinely grew, one specific
  reason each. Five of those paths were already claimed by spent
  fragments identical to next, which blocks a second source naming the
  same path; removed just the colliding key from each, deleting the two
  that this emptied.

Refs #3409

* test(#3409): extract the whole PHASE_REQ_IDS block, not just its first line

G3 failed on the remote runner with '' !== 'TBD'. The test was wrong, not
the workflow.

The shipped contract is now two consecutive lines -- the capture and the
`${PHASE_REQ_IDS:-TBD}` default -- but the helper's `^PREFIX=.*$` regex
returns only the first match, so the test executed half the contract and
correctly observed the empty string. Renamed to extractAssignmentBlockFor
and taught it to consume the contiguous run of lines sharing the prefix.

The assertion is untouched: TBD is the right expectation, and weakening
it to accept the empty string would have reinstated exactly the class
this suite exists to catch -- a check that cannot observe the thing it
is checking.

extractFencedBashAfterAnchor is unaffected: it is fence-delimited rather
than line-anchored, so G1/G2/G4 still capture their full blocks.

Refs #3409

* chore(#3409): drop a spent ack fragment that collided on complete-milestone.md

#3458 landed on next while this branch was in flight and its fragment
claims complete-milestone.md, which this branch also grows. Two ack
sources may never name the same path.

Its entry is spent: the +9163 it explains is already absorbed at base, so
it can no longer clear anything, and the checker's own guidance for spent
entries is to delete them. Removing the key emptied the fragment, so the
file goes too -- an empty one signals nothing.

Refs #3409

* chore(#3409): backfill changeset pr number 3558

* test(#3409): hoist a regex subject out of exec() to clear the injection scan

CI's prompt-injection scan flagged `MARKER_RE.exec('# gsd-scan-ignore: ...')`.
The pattern `exec[[:space:]]*\(["']` is receiver-blind on purpose, so it
catches `require('child_process').exec('...')` -- and the scanner's own
header records that RegExp.prototype.exec is collateral, to be handled by
its allowlist.

Allowlisting the file would blind it to the real exec vector permanently,
so the subject is hoisted into a const instead: same assertion, scanner
left at full strength, no security surface widened.

Refs #3409

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-15 21:09:05 -04:00
Tom Boucher
bc557f6876 chore(#3520): ratchet on effective exemptions, track unverified separately (#3529)
Phase 5 of #3464, following #3465, #3466, #3502 and #3508. Those cut the
ceiling 305 -> 278, made the rule accurate, and ended file-wide amnesty. This
one fixes the number itself.

scripts/lint-allow-test-rule-refs.cjs counted FILES CONTAINING MARKER TEXT.
Only 5 of those files carry a marker that actually suppresses a violation the
rule detects, across 10 sites. The ratcheted number was ~98% noise, which is
exactly why bumping it was frictionless: the metric was never coupled to the
thing it claimed to govern. That is the whole complaint this epic opened with,
stated precisely.

Verified directly rather than assumed: only eslint-rules/no-source-grep.cjs
functionally honors the marker. Four other rule files mention allow-test-rule
in prose only, and no-raw-rmsync-in-tests.cjs:24 explicitly states it does not
apply. So the large count was not legitimately large because several rules
share the annotation.

Now two numbers, only the first ratcheted:

  EFFECTIVE EXEMPTIONS -- markers that actually suppress a detected violation.
  10 sites across 5 files. Tightly ratcheted in both directions, as before:
  over the ceiling fails, and slack beyond grace fails.

  UNVERIFIED MARKERS -- marker-bearing files with no detectable violation. 273
  files. Reported and given a loose ceiling so the pool cannot silently
  balloon, but deliberately NOT tightly ratcheted, because shrinking it is a
  rule-coverage problem and not a delete-the-markers problem.

A file with at least one effective site counts as effective and is not also
counted as unverified; the two numbers never double-count.

Reporting ONLY the effective count was considered and rejected. It would say
five files and look excellent while being falsely reassuring, because "no
detectable violation" is not "no violation". This phase's own measurement found
two genuine source-greps that are unsuppressed AND undetected --
tests/security-prompt-injection.security.test.cjs:852 and
tests/check-update-config-dir.test.cjs:91 -- each reading a real shipped file
and text-searching it, invisible only because the path is bound to a separate
const the rule never resolves back to its literal. Markers guarding that class
count as zero-effective and would look vestigial. Trading a number that is too
big and meaningless for one that is too small and falsely reassuring is not
progress, so the script prints the known-limit caveat alongside the numbers and
the two undetected violations are filed separately rather than lost.

Single source of truth is structural, not a matter of discipline. The script
does not re-implement detection or the site-scoped adjacency predicate -- that
is the generative-fix-divergence class this repo has shipped before. The rule
now exports MAX_MARKER_LOOKAHEAD_LINES, MARKER_COMMENT_RE,
collectMarkerAndCommentLines and isSuppressedAt (extracted verbatim, no logic
change), plus a default-off neutralizeSuppression option so the counter can
enumerate every site through the real rule via ESLint's Linter API and then
classify each with the rule's own predicate, replicating reportUnlessSuppressed's
search-line-OR-read-line check exactly. Default rule behavior is byte-identical:
tests/eslint-rules.test.cjs passes 168/168 unchanged. A parity test asserts the
script's suppressed/not verdict equals the rule's own report/no-report outcome
for every site in a fixture corpus.

A real silent-failure bug surfaced and was fixed while building this: ESLint's
flat-config Linter reports "No matching configuration" and returns ZERO messages
for any filename resolving outside its cwd. That would have quietly
misclassified every sandboxed test fixture as having no violations -- a test
suite that passes while asserting nothing. Fixed by anchoring the Linter to the
tests dir, with a defensive throw if it ever recurs.

Two earlier claims of mine are corrected by this phase's measurement. Widening
the source-dir allowlist to include hooks/ -- the "fifth blind spot" recorded in
#3508 -- rescues ZERO sites; it is real in principle and has no practical
effect, because the hooks reads that exist are missed for other reasons
(.sh extension, identifier-indirection, dynamic filenames). And the #3508
correction that attributed those reads to the hooks/ gap rather than to variable
indirection was itself incomplete: both are independently sufficient, so fixing
either alone changes nothing. I accepted the reviewer's causal claim as
uncritically as I had made my own.

The unverified count is 273, not the ~289 in the phase design doc. That is
legitimate drift -- the baseline was measured at fba7c9032 and other merged work
has since removed markers. Left as measured rather than adjusted to match the
document.

Adversarial review found a BLOCKER in the first revision and it is fixed here.
The counter walked only tests/**/*.test.cjs, but the rule is registered on
tests/**/*.cjs -- every .cjs, not just test files -- plus scripts/**,
eslint-rules/**, bin/lib/**, pi/**, examples/**, gsd-core/bin/** and three
plugin globs. 35 non-.test.cjs files under tests/ were never walked, and
tests/helpers/live-command-registry.cjs:1 carries a real marker that appeared in
NEITHER reported number. A counter that undercounts is worse than the
meaningless one it replaces, because it will be trusted.

The scan set is now derived programmatically: the script dynamically imports
eslint.config.mjs and extracts the `files` globs from every config block that
enables local/no-source-grep. There is no hardcoded list to drift, which is the
same divergence class the parity test already guards.

Two further defects surfaced while fixing it. The silent-clean catch around
linter.verify() was worse than reported -- ESLint signals a parse error by
returning a message with fatal:true rather than throwing, so the original catch
would not even have fired for the common case. Both paths now throw with the
file path. That silent swallow was actively hiding a broken fixture in this
suite's own tests: 'no marker here\n' is not valid JS and the case only
"passed" because the parse failure was discarded. Fixed.

And once the scan widened, the raw-text marker scanner started matching this
tooling's own doc comments and RuleTester fixture strings, so marker extraction
moved to AST comment nodes. That corrected three long-standing FALSE POSITIVES:
allowlist entries for tests/eslint-rules.test.cjs that were never real markers,
only fixture payload. Allowlist 137 -> 135: three false positives pruned, one
real entry added for live-command-registry.

The headline numbers are coincidentally unchanged (10/10 effective across 5
files, 273/280 unverified) but the composition is corrected: one real file
gained, one phantom dropped. Verified by direct diff rather than inferred from
the totals matching.

The first remote run of this branch came back RED with 23 failures, all one
cause, and it is fixed here. Classification drove ESLint's flat-config Linter,
which resolves configuration relative to a cwd and refuses to lint any file
outside it. The test harness writes fixtures into an OS temp dir, so every
sandbox row hit "No matching configuration found" and tripped the defensive
throw. It surfaced only on the container because the repo lives at /work there
and the fixtures at /tmp, making the mismatch unmissable; a local run had
reported the suite green, which it was not.

Fixed by not depending on config *resolution* at all: the script now builds an
eslintrc-format Linter and registers the rule directly with defineRule, since it
already knows exactly which rule and options it wants. That removes the
cwd-ancestor constraint entirely and makes repo files and out-of-tree fixtures
classify identically. Verified out-of-tree explicitly, not just in-repo, because
the local temp path shape is what hid the bug the first time. Parse failures
still throw loudly -- that behavior is required and tested. Classifications are
unchanged for real repo files (10/10 effective across 5, 273/280 unverified,
0 live), which is the check that the config swap did not quietly alter results.

The second remote run cut the failures from 23 to 2, and the survivors were a
genuinely different and more interesting defect:
tests/packaging-shipped-scripts-require-only-shipped.test.cjs caught that
scripts/ SHIPS in the published package while eslint-rules/ does not, so
importing the rule for single-source-of-truth would MODULE_NOT_FOUND in a real
consumer's install. That test statically extracts require() calls, so hiding the
import inside a function would have dodged the check without fixing the problem.

Resolved along the grain of existing convention rather than by weakening
anything: package.json already excludes several repo-internal lint gates from
the shipped set via `!scripts/...`, including
`!scripts/lint-no-adhoc-regex-escape.cjs`, which is the same situation. This
gate is CI-only and has no meaning in a consumer install, so it joins them.
Verified with `npm pack --dry-run` that the .cjs is genuinely absent from the
tarball (its inert JSON config files remain, and carry no requires).

The third remote run failed on shard 3/3 across all three OSes with exit code
NULL and empty output -- the spawned gate was killed by a timeout, not failing
an assertion. Cause: replacing a raw text scan with a full ESLint Linter pass
over every file in every registered glob took the gate from 0.57s to ~7-12s,
and GitHub's runners are slower than the bench that had just passed it green.

Fixed by narrowing the work rather than raising the timeout to hide it. Both
numbers the gate computes are properties of files that CONTAIN a marker, so
only those (~294) need linting; the repo-wide byte walk that finds them stays,
since that was the undercount fix. Live violations in files carrying NO marker
are already enforced by npm run lint over exactly these globs, so re-detecting
them here was redundant. 2.87s now, from ~7s measured locally.

That narrowing changes what one reported number means, so the wording changed
with it: "live violations in marker-bearing files: 0 (unmarked files are
enforced separately by npm run lint)". A number that quietly covers less than
it reads is the failure this whole epic is about, so it is stated rather than
left implicit, and the test row that asserted the old broader behavior was
split -- an unmarked live violation now passes this gate (and is caught by
eslint), while a live violation in a marker-bearing file still fails it.

The repo-baseline test's timeout was also raised to 30s with a comment, since a
gate that legitimately takes ~3s must not sit at a timeout close to its own
runtime. Every other row keeps the shorter sandbox-scoped timeout.

Closes #3520

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 00:33:31 -04:00
Tom Boucher
895d9df96d fix(#3477): run untrusted key_links patterns on a linear-time engine (#3496)
`cmdVerifyKeyLinks` compiled `must_haves.key_links[].pattern` from plan frontmatter with `new RegExp()` and tested it against whole file contents, so a nested-quantifier pattern such as `(a+)+$` hung `verify-phase` indefinitely (CWE-1333). JavaScript has no regex-execution timeout.

Untrusted patterns now run on RE2 (re2js), whose match time is linear in input length — the class is closed by the engine, not by a heuristic screen. The screen lost in the ADR-0174 consolidation was deliberately NOT restored: it never worked, since `(a|a)*$`, `((a+))+$`, `(a+){2,}$` and `(a{1,3})+$` all evade it. A refused pattern's matcher returns false for every input, so it cannot report a match no matter what the caller does.

The engine is vendored at gsd-core/bin/lib/vendor/re2js.cjs because gsd-core/bin/** is copied into installed trees with no node_modules; runtime dependencies are unchanged. New ESLint rule local/no-external-require-in-bin enforces that invariant, which had been documented in a comment since the #3024/#2071 bug class and enforced nowhere.

Backreferences and look-around are unsupported by RE2 by construction — disclosed in a Changed changeset.

Closes #3477

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 14:34:36 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1218d76d62 refactor(#3468): dispatch state preservation on the declared policy, not the field (#3495)
* test(#3468): add write-path drift guard, ratcheted at its measured baseline

Guard-first, per ADR-3180 Amendment 3's standing rule that a phase builds
and runs its guard BEFORE its scope is fixed, and states its copy count as
'N found by the guard', never 'N per the epic'.

Measured, not assumed:

  Axis 1 (policy dispatch, ADR-3408 section 8.1) — 7 violations, RED by
  design. 5 field-name-keyed getFieldClassification('literal') branches
  plus 2 declared FieldPreservation members with no executor at all
  (derive, clear). This is the fail-first evidence for the refactor.

  Axis 2 (write seam, section 8.3) — 4 bypasses, ratcheted. Epic #3408
  scoped this at two writers; the whole-repo scan found four, and one the
  epic named (patchCore) is not among them because it bypasses via
  stateReplaceField rather than the seam calls. Fourth consecutive time an
  epic's copy count proved a lower bound.

Two detectors were written and removed again before this commit, both
recorded in the file header rather than silently dropped:

  - A prompt-layer detector that reported 5 backticked prose mentions as
    drift. That is ADR-3180 Amendment 3's recorded false-positive class,
    and CONTRIBUTING.md already settles it: a backticked command reference
    is a mention. Now gated on inline-code spans.

  - A stateReplaceField co-occurrence detector for section 8.3(b). Measured
    at 29 false positives to 1 true positive — it matched the function's own
    definition and ~20 calls on frontmatter-free body slices. Banking 29
    non-defects to catch one is the 'ratchet as a parking lot' gaming route
    Decision 5 names, so it is a DECLARED KNOWN GAP owned by Phase 2
    (#3469), which both fixes it and makes its detection tractable.

* test(#3468): failing-first coverage for policy dispatch and the loud failure

Matrix sections A, B and C from 50-test-matrix.md.

Expected RED against this tree, confirmed by static trace rather than
assumed:

  B1, B2, B3 — an unwired declared preserve-when-unchanged row must throw
  with code STATE_PRESERVATION_UNWIRED_ROW and a structured .field. Today
  src/state-transition.cts:314 silently continues.

  A4 — a whitespace-only snapshot is restored today, because the guard is
  .length > 0. Required behavior is skip.

Everything else is characterization, locking in behavior the refactor must
preserve. C1 is table-driven over every FIELD_CLASSIFICATION key; C2 pins
current_phase_name's exact outputs as literals, because its row is being
reclassified preserve-always to preserve-when-unchanged as a
behavior-preserving change and nothing else would catch a drift. C3 is a
seeded fast-check property (seed 3468, 200 runs, replay data on failure).

A22 is deliberately NOT a behavioral test. Whether 'derive' has an explicit
executor is not observable through applyStatePreservation's public API — it
is a structural property, and the drift guard's unimplemented_policy axis is
what enforces it. That split is ADR-3408 Decision 5's own pairing: the lint
is the structural metric, the test is the outcome metric, and neither is
reported alone.

* refactor(#3468): dispatch preservation on the declared policy, not the field

Implements ADR-3408 sections 8.1, 8.2 and 8.6.

applyStatePreservation is now one loop over FIELD_CLASSIFICATION dispatching
on the row's preservation value, with four small executors — one per
FieldPreservation member. No branch is selected by field name. Zero
literal-argument getFieldClassification calls remain.

Behavior-preserving for 16 of 20 input classes. The four that change:

  - An unwired declared preserve-when-unchanged row now THROWS
    (code STATE_PRESERVATION_UNWIRED_ROW, structured .field) instead of
    silently continuing. This fires only on an internal invariant violation
    with both ends in our own source; a drifted, malformed or unparseable
    user STATE.md must never reach it, which is section 8.2's bright line
    and what test B8 proves through the real CLI.
  - derive gained an explicit no-op executor. That is what makes the throw
    decidable: 'policy says do nothing' is now distinguishable from 'nobody
    wired this'.
  - current_phase_name's row is corrected from preserve-always to
    preserve-when-unchanged. The row was wrong, not the code — it has always
    been delta-gated on the body Phase line, so preserve-always had two
    divergent implementations. Behavior is unchanged and test C2 pins it.
  - A whitespace-only snapshot is no longer restored; the check is trimmed.

clear is deleted from the FieldPreservation union — no row used it and no
executor existed. Speculative Generality: a policy invented for a need that
never arrived. Verified zero dependents.

The caller folds six dedicated pre/post parameters into one bodyDeltas map
keyed by field, so all seven preserve-when-unchanged rows travel one channel
instead of two. Two shapes for one kind of data is why the executor needed
per-field branches at all.

Also fixed, found while reviewing the refactor rather than deferred:

  - applyPreserveIfPlaceholder opened with a field-name literal test, which
    section 8.1 forbids outright. The executor is idempotent, so the test
    bought nothing. The drift guard could not see it, so Axis 1 is widened
    to catch field-variable comparisons against literals — the guard
    reported zero while a violation sat in the file it polices, which is
    Goodhart's gaming-by-indirection.
  - loadBaseline conflated an unreadable baseline with an absent one. A
    guard whose own diagnostic collapses two states into one identical
    result reproduces the exact failure shape this epic exists to remove.

* docs(#3468): record Phase 1 validation as ADR-3408 Amendment 1

Amendment 1 records what Phase 1 found, per ADR-3408 section 8's rule that a
behavior it does not state is not decided:

- preserve-always had TWO divergent implementations; current_phase_name's
  row was wrong and is reclassified, behavior unchanged.
- section 8.6 resolved: clear is deleted, zero dependents.
- the closed guard vocabulary is real and has exactly one true member,
  because stopped_at's scoping turned out to be caller-side extraction.
- copy count found by the guard: 4 write-seam bypasses where the epic
  scoped 2, and patchCore — one of the two it named — is not among them.
- two detectors built and removed again, with their measured false-positive
  rates, so nobody re-attempts them.
- a DECLARED KNOWN GAP for section 8.3(b), owned by Phase 2.
- Decision 5's anti-gaming list earned itself twice in one phase.

Also adds the changeset fragment.

* test(#3468): fix review findings — try/finally, stale clear allowlist, ratchet owners

Standards axis, both hard violations:

  - tests/state-write-path-drift-guard.test.cjs wrapped stdout/argv/exitCode
    restoration in try/finally inside the test body. CONTRIBUTING.md:356
    forbids it outright, and the correct t.after() pattern was already in
    use two lines up in the same test.

  - tests/state-transition.test.cjs still listed 'clear' as an allowed
    FieldPreservation value in the row-enumeration test AND the
    getFieldClassification property test, after this PR deleted it. A stale
    allowlist weakens the property's negative space — it would accept a
    resurrected clear row as valid.

Contract tension, resolved rather than left:

  ADR-3408 section 8.3 requires each ratchet entry carry the issue owning
  its removal. All four shipped with owner: null. The guard was right not to
  INVENT one, but the owners are known from the phase plan, so recording
  them is not inventing: phase.cts -> #3469, state.cts and milestone.cts ->
  #3471, health-diagnostic.cts -> sanctioned-permanent.

  Rather than a JSDoc caveat, --baseline now MERGES prior owner values on
  the (file, source) key, so a mechanical regeneration can no longer
  silently discard curated provenance. Verified by regenerating twice.

* fix(#3468): sanitize attacker-controlled fields on every guard output path

Isolated security review, MEDIUM, confidence 8/10.

findSeamBypasses and findPromptSeamUses built findings with an UNSANITIZED
`file`, while the co-located `source` on the same object was correctly
wrapped in sanitizeForReport. On a fork PR a filename is exactly as
attacker-controlled as a source fragment — a repo can legally track a
filename carrying C1 control bytes or bidi overrides.

The raw value reached two paths: --json stdout, and the COMMITTED baseline
JSON via buildBaselineEntries. JSON.stringify neutralizes C0 controls but
does NOT escape C1 (0x7f-0x9f) nor the bidi/zero-width range
sanitizeForReport exists to strip — which is the precise threat the guard's
own header names. Only the human formatter was safe.

Sanitization now happens at CONSTRUCTION, so every consumer inherits it
rather than each output path having to remember. The same defect was present
on `field` and `policy` and is fixed alongside. Double-sanitization in the
formatter is left in place, verified idempotent: escaped output is ASCII and
cannot re-match the control/bidi classes.

Also: the guard was not referenced anywhere in package.json, so nothing ran
it. A drift guard nobody runs is not a guard, and ADR-3408 Decision 5 assumes
it runs. Wired into lint:ci beside its sibling drift guards; it was already
green on this tree, so the chain stays green.

* chore(#3468): re-curate ratchet after an upstream rewording of a tracked bypass

The rebase onto origin/next turned the guard red on its first real day, which
is the ratchet working rather than a defect.

c90ae479f fix(#3350) reworded cmdPhaseComplete's syncStateFrontmatter call
onto one line and changed its third argument. Because entries are keyed on
(file, trimmed source text) rather than a line number, that single upstream
edit registered as BOTH a stale acknowledgment and an unrecorded site — the
two-sided signal the design intends, forcing a human to look rather than
letting a tracked bypass drift out of view.

The owner-preserving merge behaved exactly as designed: three owners survived
because their keys were unchanged, and phase.cts's dropped to null because its
source text is genuinely a different key. Re-curated to #3469, the phase that
owns its removal.

Note for Phase 2: c90ae479f is #3350's fix landing independently on next —
one of the two instances Phase 2 was scoped to drive fail-first. Surfaced to
the epic rather than absorbed silently.

* test(#3468): derive B1's fixture from the table so it cannot go stale

Checkpoint 2 came back with 2 failures of 33803, both B1:

  actual   'current_phase_name'
  expected 'current_plan'

The implementation was right and the test was stale. B1 hand-built a
bodyDeltas literal intending current_plan to be the ONLY unwired row, but it
also omitted status, stopped_at and current_phase_name — all three of which
became preserve-when-unchanged rows in THIS PR. Table order puts
current_phase_name first, so the throw correctly named it.

B1 now builds from neutralBodyDeltas() and deletes exactly one key, which is
what its own comment always claimed it did. A future table change can no
longer silently make it assert the wrong field.

Audited every other bodyDeltas literal in the file: four exist, all correct —
two enumerate all seven rows explicitly, two pass {} where the emptiness is
the point of the test. Roughly thirty other sites already derive from the
helper.

Also renames the local unchchangedChanged to lastActivityDescChangedDeltas.
A typo'd identifier that happens to work is still a Mysterious Name; noted
during research and fixed now that this change touches the file.

* chore(#3468): re-curate ratchet and fold the seam channel into the shared helper

The rebase onto be9329b10 fix(#3374) was a true semantic conflict, resolved
rather than handed back, because the resolution was determinable:

That PR extracted the post-sync preservation pass into a shared
applyPostSyncPreservation helper — which is ADR-3408 section 8.3, i.e. a
piece of Phase 2's own deliverable, landing upstream. Its structure is kept
wholesale; this branch's contribution is applied INSIDE it.

That combination had to be checked rather than assumed. Upstream's helper
wires only FOUR bodyDeltas keys and still passes status / stopped_at /
current_phase_name through six dedicated parameters. This branch reclassifies
current_phase_name to preserve-when-unchanged, deletes those six parameters
from StatePreservationInput, and makes an unwired declared row THROW. Taking
upstream's file as-is would therefore have thrown on EVERY STATE.md write.

The helper now wires all seven rows through the single channel. Verified
7-to-7 against FIELD_CLASSIFICATION, with a clean tsc — which is the real
proof the dedicated parameters are gone, since they no longer exist on the
input type.

The ratchet also caught the same phase.cts call being reworded a second time,
reporting it as both a stale acknowledgment and an unrecorded site. Re-curated
to #3469. Recording the tradeoff plainly: keying on (file, source text) means
an upstream reword of a tracked line needs re-curation, where keying on line
numbers would churn on every unrelated edit. ADR-3180 Decision 4(e) chose
source text deliberately, and the owner-preserving merge added earlier covers
the common case where the text is unchanged.

* chore(#3468): backfill pr number in changeset fragment

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 13:25:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
dc3c81e93d chore(#3212): src/pattern.cts is the sole owner of runtime-value regex construction — Phase 1 (#3416)
* test(#3412): failing-first suite for the pattern-construction seam

Phase 1 of epic #3212 (ADR-3212 §1/§2/§7). Tests only — src/pattern.cts
and eslint-rules/no-adhoc-regex-escape.cjs do not exist yet, so both
suites fail with MODULE_NOT_FOUND, which is the intended RED.

Locks the measured behavior rather than the assumed behavior:
RegExp.escape hex-escapes the leading character of nearly every string
("abc" -> "\x61bc"), so the suite asserts match-equivalence against an
inlined historical oracle (the implementation being deleted) rather
than byte-equivalence of pattern text — 200 seeded fast-check runs plus
a fixed corpus, 0 mismatches. Also locks the latent character-class
range bug this phase fixes as a side effect: a hyphen-bearing value
interpolated into [...] currently forms a real range and matches an
unintended character; post-migration it must not.

* chore(#3412): src/pattern.cts owns runtime-value regex construction

Phase 1 of epic #3212 (ADR-3212 §1/§2/§6/§7). Adds the pattern seam
delegating to the built-in RegExp.escape, deletes every hand-rolled
copy, and raises the Node floor to the Active LTS line.

The census was low, three times over. ADR-3212 counted 10 copies; a
graph query found 12; the new lint rule — once live — found 27 more.
The difference is that the census counted named helper FUNCTIONS while
the rule counts the escape SHAPE, so inline .replace(<class>, '\$&')
copies were never in scope. ADR §1's actual requirement is that no
module outside the seam escapes a value for regex use, so all of them
are, and CLAUDE.md's no-defer rule makes them this change's work.
Fourth consecutive epic here whose copy count was low — the argument
for ADR-3180 Amendment 3's "state N found by the guard" rule.

Also corrected mid-implementation: the survey reported phase-id.cts's
escapeRegex had 0 external importers. It had 8 production importers,
making its removal a public-surface change to an ADR-2121-owned module
and requiring an update to that ADR's locked-surface test. Blast
radius revised Medium-High -> High.

RegExp.escape is match-equivalent but NOT text-equivalent: it
hex-escapes the leading char of nearly every string ("abc" ->
"\x61bc"). Equivalence is proven by a seeded fast-check property test
against the deleted implementation as oracle. It also fixes a latent
bug: a hyphen-bearing value interpolated into a character class
previously formed a real range and matched an unintended character.

Node floor 22 -> 24 (RegExp.escape is Node 24+), across engines,
.nvmrc, package-lock, 9 CI matrix entries, and 5 docs. The aggregate
`required-tests` context is unchanged and no job was added or removed,
so branch protection cannot be orphaned by the dropped lanes.

Enforced by eslint-rules/no-adhoc-regex-escape.cjs (shape-matched, with
structural provenance for reviewed pattern-fragment constants rather
than a name heuristic) plus a whole-tree companion guard covering the
directories ESLint's globs miss.

* fix(#3412): close the _SOURCE guard evasion, correct two false claims

Three findings from the orthogonal review pass, all fixed.

1. The ESLint rule's `_SOURCE` provenance fallback was pure identifier-
   name matching with no binding check, so `new RegExp(userInput_SOURCE)`
   — a function parameter — sailed past the guard. That is the same
   rename-evasion class issue #3410 documents, reopened by the very
   fallback meant to complement the structural check. Now bound to the
   identifier's actual binding kind: import, require-derived const, or
   module-scope const; parameters, `let`/`var`, and unresolvable
   bindings fail closed. Four RuleTester cases cover the evasion and
   prove the legitimate cross-module case still passes.

2. src/pattern.cts's own header carried the stale pre-correction counts
   (12 copies / 17 call sites) while CONTEXT.md and the design doc
   carried the corrected ones (~39 / ~44) — a self-contradiction inside
   the PR whose entire purpose is deleting divergent copies. Rewritten,
   preserving the durable lesson: a named-function census cannot see
   inline copies; only a shape-matching guard can.

3. The claim that all deleted copies threw TypeError on non-string was
   false. phase-id.cts's copy — the one with 8 external importers — did
   String(value).replace(...) and never threw. The seam's locked
   signature does not coerce, so this is a real, now-disclosed behavior
   change rather than the pure preservation the tests asserted. Audited
   all 32 invocations across the 8 importers and 6 in-file callers:
   every one is safe by construction (upstream truthy guard or a
   string-producing derivation), verified by runtime probe against the
   compiled modules rather than by TS compilation, which cannot see a
   runtime undefined. Corrected the false claim in both the test comment
   and the design doc, and added it to Known limits.

* docs(#3412): add Changed changeset for the Node 24 floor

The only user-visible break in this phase. The escape-behavior change
is internal and match-equivalent, so it carries no user-facing note.

* fix(#3412): resolve the seam's require graph in script fixtures and packaging

Checkpoint 2 came back red with 90 failures on the node24 lane. Three
distinct defects, all introduced by routing scripts/ through the new
pattern seam, none reproducible by any local gate:

1. ~82 failures — tests/adr-index-gate.test.cjs and
   tests/removed-but-needed-lint.test.cjs copy a scripts/*.cjs into an
   mkdtemp fixture and spawn it there (necessary: those scripts resolve
   their scan root from __dirname/.., so running the real script would
   scan the real repo). Each harness hand-listed the dependencies to
   copy alongside. Adding require('../gsd-core/bin/lib/pattern.cjs') to
   gen-adr-index.cjs made both lists silently incomplete ->
   MODULE_NOT_FOUND, plus 17 downstream 'did not emit parseable JSON'
   failures from the same crash.

   Fixed as a class, not an instance: new tests/helpers/copy-script-
   fixture.cjs walks a script's transitive static relative-require graph
   and copies it, so dependencies are derived and never re-declared. It
   throws (naming the unbuilt artifact) instead of letting the child die
   with a bare MODULE_NOT_FOUND. Verified for all four seam-consuming
   scripts: gen-adr-index, lint-removed-but-needed, gen-loop-host-
   contract, sync-runtime-launcher.

2. 2 failures — scripts/ ships wholesale but eslint-rules/ does not, so
   the new scripts/lint-no-adhoc-regex-escape.cjs would be
   MODULE_NOT_FOUND in a published install (#2858 guard). Excluded from
   the tarball, matching the existing precedent for gen-emitted-
   baseline.cjs, which is excluded for the identical reason, and locked
   with a test modeled on that one. Confirmed against a real npm pack:
   890 files, 0 from eslint-rules/, and gsd-core/bin/lib/pattern.cjs
   present (so the other four scripts' requires are legitimate).

3. 6 failures — tests/phase-id.test.cjs asserted the literal escaped
   source text ('0*29', 'PROJ-42'). RegExp.escape is match-equivalent to
   the retired hand-rolled escaper but NOT text-equivalent: it hex-
   escapes the leading character and all hyphens ('0*\x329',
   '\x50ROJ\x2d42'). Verified NOT a behavior change — 576 match
   decisions across all three real interpolation prefixes, zero
   divergence. Those tests now compile each source into the same heading
   regex src/roadmap.cts's searchPhaseInContent builds and assert what
   matches and what does not, including the 'i'-flag canonicalization
   the hex escape has to preserve. Re-pinning the new literals would
   have rebuilt the same brittleness one layer down. Adds a test for the
   property the escape exists for: a dot in '1.2' must not act as a
   wildcard.

Also shares one definition of 'a require' between the packaging guard
and the fixture copier, so the two cannot disagree about what they scan.

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

* fix(#3412): refuse to copy a fixture dependency outside the fixture root

copyScriptWithDeps resolved each relative require and joined the
repo-relative result onto fixtureRoot. A require resolving OUTSIDE the
repo yields a '../'-prefixed relative path, so path.join climbed out of
the fixture and wrote into the surrounding temp dir (verified:
repoRoot=/repo + depAbs=/etc/passwd wrote /tmp/etc/passwd).

No script in the tree does this today, so this closes an available
escape rather than an active one. Refuses via the existing unresolved-
require path so the failure names the offending specifier. Covered by a
negative proof that the guard fires and that nothing lands outside the
fixture.

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

* fix(#3412): parse requires instead of pattern-matching them; restore the foreign-prefix contract

Applies all findings from the second orthogonal review round, re-run
because real code changed after round 1.

HIGH (security) — extractRequires stripped BLOCK comments before LINE
comments, so a '//' comment containing '/*' opened a phantom block
comment, and a '//' inside a string literal truncated the line. Both
hid real requires: 'const u="http://x"; require("./real.cjs")'
returned [], and four real requires in gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs were
invisible. Replaced with a real AST parse via espree.

This is ADR-3212's own Decision 4 — tokenizer-first for stateful
grammars — applied to the case it describes; comment/string/regex
nesting is exactly such a grammar, which is why the regex version was
wrong. The function was moved byte-identical out of the #2858 packaging
guard, so the bug PRE-DATES this branch and has been a live blind spot
there: a shipped script could have required an unshipped path
undetected. Fixing it makes that guard strictly stronger than on next.

espree is promoted from a transitive eslint dependency to an explicit
devDependency rather than relying on hoisting. The script parse attempt
sets ecmaFeatures.globalReturn because Node wraps CommonJS bodies in a
function, making a top-level return legal — scripts/check-coverage-gate
.cjs relies on it, and without the flag the guard throws on a file it
is supposed to scan. Verified 0 unparseable across all 324 .cjs/.js
under scripts/, bin/, and gsd-core/bin/, and 0 new violations against a
real npm pack, so the exact extractor does not newly fail the guard.

MEDIUM (security) — the repo-containment check guarded dependencies but
not the entry path. One escapesContainment predicate now guards both.

LOW (security) — containment was lexical while fs follows symlinks, and
a directory symlink could mint a fresh dedupe key per level. realpath
now resolves both repoRoot and each dependency before the decision, and
the realpath-derived path is the dedupe key. Destination layout still
uses the original repo-relative path, so copied trees are unchanged.

MAJOR (standards) — the round-1 behavioral rewrite of phase-id tests
lost the foreign-prefix contract: every assertion was satisfied by an
impl returning [A-Z]+\x2d42, i.e. ANY project code — the exact #3599
bug class the exact-source prevents. The literal assertions it replaced
were catching this. Now asserts the compiled regex REJECTS a different
prefix with the same number.

MAJOR (standards) — the test hand-duplicated production's heading regex
with no parity guard (CLAUDE.md's 'Generative Fix Divergence'). Removed
the parallel surface instead of policing it: src/roadmap.cts exports
buildPhaseHeadingRegex, searchPhaseInContent calls it, the test imports
it. Byte-identical .source and .flags verified for both escaped forms.

MINOR — '..foo' no longer false-flagged as an escape; the inverted
spurious-vs-missing doc claim corrected; the dead allow-test-rule
header removed.

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

* chore(#3412): backfill changeset pr number to 3416

* fix(#3412): make the escape guard's own regex linear, reword an injection-scan collision

Two CI failures on PR #3416, both in code this branch added.

CodeQL js/redos (high) — REPLACE_CALL_RE's outer alternation let a
bracket run be consumed EITHER by the character-class branch OR one
character at a time by the trailing catch-all, so a failing match
explored both parses of every pair. Measured on the real regex:
n=26 -> 204ms, n=28 -> 791ms, n=30 -> 3475ms, a clean 2^n. This script
scans repo source, so a file with a long bracket run after '.replace(/'
would hang CI outright — a guard against undisciplined pattern
construction was itself the worst pattern in the diff.

Fixed the way ADR-3212 already prescribes: the catch-all branch now
excludes '[' and ']' so a bracket can only be consumed by the class
branch (this is what makes it linear), and every quantifier is bounded
(the locked bounded-quantifiers decision) as a second line of defense.
Now 0ms at n=2000. Disclosed coverage tradeoff, recorded at the
constant: a regex literal with a BARE unescaped ']' outside a class is
no longer matched by this backstop. No census shape has that form, and
the AST rule remains the primary detector.

Verified the guard did not go blind doing it: a real census-shape
violation is still reported, and an allow-adhoc-regex-escape
suppression comment is still honored.

Regression test drives the exported findViolations on a
2000-repetition adversarial input and asserts the RESULT. It makes no
wall-clock assertion — elapsed-time tests are forbidden — so a
regression surfaces as a harness timeout, which is the correct signal.

Prompt injection scan — 'must not act as a regex wildcard' in a test
comment matched the scanner's jailbreak pattern act\s+as\s+(a|an|if|
my). Reworded to 'behave as'. Deliberately NOT allowlisted: silencing a
whole test file over one phrase would blunt the scanner permanently,
and the comment has nothing to do with injection.

Neither failure was reachable from the remote runner — CodeQL and the
injection scan are not in that matrix, so the sha it passed was green
and still wrong.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 16:19:57 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6dbc124018 enhance(#3180): the sibling validators share one envelope and one owner — Phase 12 (#3407) 2026-08-13 11:31:16 -04:00
sim
041414c4ad feat(#3309): generate health.md's error-code and repair-action tables
Closes the issue's explicit acceptance criterion: "health.md's tables
are generated rather than hand-maintained, closing the 16-vs-30+
documentation gap structurally." The published roster listed 16 codes
against 30+ actually emitted; W010-W017 and W020-W023 had never been
documented.

Adds description/repairable as static fields on Rule (health-diagnostic-types.cts)
— generation needs a fixed, human-readable summary per code, distinct
from the dynamic per-instance Diagnostic.message a rule's check()
produces. repairable is true only when --repair will actually apply
the remedy: false for ADVISE-only rules AND for DESTRUCTIVE-risk rules
(regenerateState/resetConfig), which are described but never
auto-applied — matches verify.cts's diagnosticToIssueEntry semantics
exactly, after fixing E004/E005's static field to agree with it (both
were wrongly true, an inconsistency caught during this same commit's
own review, not left for later).

New scripts/gen-health-docs.cjs (--write/--check, wired into
lint:generated-sync) regenerates the two tagged table regions in
gsd-core/workflows/health.md from RULES (31 rules) plus the 3
pre-checks that stay outside the rule table by design (E001, E010,
I010) plus a small static Effect/Risk lookup for the 6 real repair
actions — including addAiIntegrationPhaseKey, live in code since an
earlier phase but never documented until now. 34 error-code rows, 6
repair-action rows. The table's old "grep verify.cts for the next free
number" footnote is rewritten to point at the rule table and its lint
guard instead.
2026-08-13 03:13:25 -04:00
sim
acc1a7abd6 feat(#3309): add health-diagnostic rule-table lint guard
Enforces ADR-3180 §8.2's 1:1 rule-code invariant (every code unique,
every severity a property of the Rule) and §8.5's fixture-proof
invariant (every code has a describe()/test() block naming it,
verified statically against tests/health-diagnostic-rules/*.test.cjs
and tests/health-diagnostic.test.cjs) for the new RULES table.

Adapted from the design doc's original plan of separate
tests/fixtures/health-diagnostic/<code>.* files: implementation used
inline temp-dir fixtures instead (mirrors tests/planning-snapshot.test.cjs),
so coverage is checked statically against test-file structure, mirroring
lint-fix-has-regression-test.cjs's house style. Wired into lint:ci
adjacent to lint-planning-snapshot-bypass-drift.cjs, its closest sibling.

Passes clean against the real tree: 31 codes, all unique, all covered.
2026-08-13 01:53:20 -04:00
sim
2538fd6344 refactor(#3308): add planning-snapshot.cts parsed projection per ADR-3180 §8.1
Phase 10 of epic #3180. src/planning-snapshot.cts is a new parsed
projection of .planning/, composed exclusively from the already-
consolidated §7 owners (getMilestoneInfo, listMilestonePhaseDirs,
isPhaseComplete, scanPhasePlans, stateFieldValue, planningPaths) plus
the frozen SCOPE enum. No new semantic derivation is introduced beyond
worstScope, a pure combinator folding several independently-scoped
owner answers into one composite signal.

Adds STATE_UNREADABLE to src/unusable-input.cts's UNUSABLE_REASON
(seventh #1879 site) for STATE.md exists-but-unreadable, distinct
from absent.

Adds scripts/lint-planning-snapshot-bypass-drift.cjs, a ratcheted
drift guard (ADR-3180 Decision 4(e)) scoped to DIAGNOSTIC_RULE_FUNCTIONS
(currently cmdValidateHealth in src/verify.cts only) preventing new
raw .planning/ reads from bypassing the snapshot, while acknowledging
cmdValidateHealth's existing 15 raw-read sites as debt owned by
Phase 11 (#3309).

Six-gate .cts ripple: .gitignore, eslint.config.mjs,
docs/INVENTORY.md + manifest regen, CONTEXT.md glossary entry.

Breaking changes: none. This phase adds the subject only; Phase 11
migrates cmdValidateHealth onto it.
2026-08-12 21:43:39 -04:00
Tom Boucher
0f2a14e3a3 fix(#3320): widen c8 --include glob to cover nested gsd-core/bin/lib dirs (#3397)
--include 'gsd-core/bin/lib/*.cjs' (single-star) does not match the 15
nested .cjs files under installer-migrations/, host-integration-adapters/,
and observability/ -- confirmed live via
`find gsd-core/bin/lib -mindepth 2 -name '*.cjs'`. c8's --all zero-fill
is scoped by --include (confirmed via c8 docs), so widening the glob
alone fixes both --include and --all together; no separate --all change
needed.

Thresholds intentionally left unchanged in this commit -- the real
lines/branches percentage including the now-visible nested files can
only be measured via a real CI run (this repo hard-blocks local
node --test), so this push observes CI's actual number before deciding
whether scripts/check-coverage-gate.cjs's OVERALL_LINES/OVERALL_BRANCHES
(the constants CI's coverage-gate job actually enforces) need
re-baselining.

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-12 20:47:18 -04:00
Tom Boucher
bcf7b04864 chore(#2896): convert CONTEXT.md prose defect registry into enforced gates (#3325)
* chore(#2896): convert CONTEXT.md prose defect registry into enforced gates

Squashes the prior 4-commit sequence and fixes defects found while
resuming this branch: 5 orphaned/corrupted DEFECT fragment lines left
by an earlier botched edit, 17 "Source of truth: Memtrace `find_symbol`"
placeholders that had destroyed real file-path citations, and 3
DEFECT.GENERATIVE-* entries merged into one RULESET.GENERATIVE-FIX
predicate (policy, not an unenforced defect) to satisfy the zero
DEFECT.<NAME>.<field>= acceptance criterion.

Six mechanizable defects get real gates: DEFECT.UNBOUNDED-SUBPROCESS
(eslint-rules/require-subprocess-timeout.cjs), DEFECT.CANARY-VERSION-LEAK
(scripts/lint-canary-version-leak.cjs + version-gate.yml),
DEFECT.CHANGESET-PR-FIELD-DRIFT (findPrFieldDrift in changeset/lint.cjs),
DEFECT.FRONTMATTER-SCALAR-BROAD-GREP, DEFECT.REMOVED-BUT-NEEDED, and
DEFECT.DEFAULT-FLIP-DOCUMENTATION (new lint scripts, wired into lint:ci).
Already-enforced and unenforceable prose entries are deleted; the gate
is the record.

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

* chore(#2896): route the new lint tests' subprocess calls through the bounded process-seam helper

The 4 new test files for this PR's lint checks called cp.spawnSync/
execFileSync directly with no timeout, tripping this repo's own
existing local/no-unbounded-spawn ESLint rule. Route every one through
runNode/gitOrThrow (tests/helpers/process-seam.cjs,
tests/helpers/git-fixture.cjs) instead, matching the pattern already
used elsewhere in the suite (e.g. tests/changeset-lint.test.cjs).

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

* fix: register claude-orchestration.cjs and regenerate stale generated indexes

Pre-existing drift on next, unrelated to this PR's own change, surfaced
by running lint:ci as part of verifying #2896: two cli_modules
(claude-orchestration.cjs, write-set.cjs) landed without a manifest
regen, and CONTEXT.md's own edits in this PR staled its two generated
indexes. Adds the missing docs/INVENTORY.md row for
claude-orchestration.cjs (write-set.cjs already had one — only its
manifest entry was stale) and regenerates
docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json, docs/CONTEXT-INDEX.json, and
examples/dynamic-context-management/CONTEXT-INDEX.json.

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

* fix(#2896): default-flip-documentation lint's local fallback base was main, not next

Found in review: every other base-ref fallback in this repo (see
scripts/changeset/lint.cjs's DEFAULT_BASE, #2988) defaults to `next`,
the integration branch every PR actually targets — `main` is the
release branch. This script's local fallback (used only when
GITHUB_BASE_REF is unset, i.e. never in CI, but potentially on a local
or direct invocation) diffed against the wrong ref. No test exercised
the unset-env-var path, so it shipped unnoticed; every e2e test sets
GITHUB_BASE_REF explicitly and is unaffected by this fix.

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

* fix(#2896): stale eslint comment, overclaiming CONTEXT.md wording, and an incompletely-regenerated manifest

Found by the isolated Standards code-review pass:
- eslint.config.mjs's require-subprocess-timeout comment said "'warn'
  for now... flip to 'error' once migrated" while the rule already
  shipped as 'error' with all 8 sites migrated in the same commit —
  described a state that never existed.
- The CONTEXT.md pointer block claimed the rule's bounded call sites
  "never throw", but roadmap-upgrade.cts's pre-mutation clean-tree
  check correctly still throws on failure (it gates a destructive
  real-run migration; degrading to "assume clean" would risk clobbering
  uncommitted work) — softened the claim to describe both shapes
  accurately instead of overclaiming one.
- docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json's claude-orchestration.cjs/write-set.cjs
  entries from the prior "fix: register claude-orchestration.cjs..."
  commit didn't actually land — re-running the generator now includes
  them; lint:generated-sync is green.

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

* chore(#2896): backfill changeset pr field with the real PR number

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

* fix(#2896): normalize buildCorpus file paths to POSIX in lint-removed-but-needed

Windows CI caught it: path.relative(root, abs) returns backslash-
separated paths on Windows, but findSurvivingReferences's package-lock
special case does file.startsWith('.github/workflows') — a forward-
slash literal. On Windows the check silently never matched, so
tests/removed-but-needed-lint.test.cjs's real-defect-shape fixture got
exit 0 instead of the expected exit 1. Normalize at the production
source (RULESET.CONTENT-PATH-NORMALIZATION) rather than the test side.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 12:55:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
5339dd60e5 feat(#3313): allow-test-rule total-file-count ratchet, F17 promotions (#3326)
Extends lint-allow-test-rule-refs.cjs with a second, independent check
alongside the existing uncited-citation identity ratchet: the total
number of distinct test files carrying any allow-test-rule marker
(cited or not) is now checked against a tight ceiling via the
previously-unwired assertTightCeiling primitive (allowlist-ratchet.cjs,
0 prior callers). A cited exemption is legitimate under ADR-456 but
nothing stopped the raw total from growing forever - this closes that
gap without duplicating the file walk (both checks consume one shared
walkTestFiles pass).

Ceiling introduced at the exact measured high-water mark (314 files,
grace 3) rather than a padded estimate, per "budgets may only
decrease."

Also lands the two F17 pieces (absorbed from the now-closed #1885)
that had no precondition:
- --max-warnings 0 added to lint/lint:ci
- local/no-source-grep promoted warn->error in the scripts/bin/
  eslint-rules glob block (already error in the tests/ glob)

Both promotions were pre-verified against a zero-warning tree (fresh
non-cached eslint run) before flipping, per the maintainer's clean-
tree-first decision.

Not included: local/no-elapsed-assertion promotion, which stays warn
pending #3314 (H2) - 10 of 19 clock-touching src modules have no
sanctioned time-control mechanism until ADR-456 is amended there.

H1 of epic #3053, absorbing #1885 F17.

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-10 12:23:01 -04:00
Tom Boucher
e201cde73c refactor(#3186): one shared phase-completion predicate, disk-strict (#3306)
* docs(#3186): record the disk-strict completion decision in ADR-3180 7.4

The maintainer decided #2957 on 2026-08-08: disk state is authoritative and a
ROADMAP checkbox is a human annotation with no machine authority. Section 7.4
still carried the OPEN QUESTION and was marked blocked, so the contract said one
thing and the tracker another.

Recorded per section 7's own rule - a behavior not stated there is not decided,
and amending a rule is an ADR amendment rather than a code change with a comment.
The decision comment names Phase 4's PR as the carrier of this edit and makes it
an acceptance criterion that the text be in the tree before implementation
begins, so this lands first, alone, ahead of any code.

Also clears the stale blocked-on-2957 row in the guard roster.

* refactor(#3186): one shared phase-completion predicate, disk-strict

isPhaseComplete in verification.cts becomes the single owner. It calls
readVerificationStatus UNCONDITIONALLY - plan count is not a precondition - so a
zero-plan phase with a passing VERIFICATION.md is complete. That is #3168: init
gated the read on a plan count and synthesized a not_required sentinel, so
phase.complete succeeded while init.manager reported incomplete for the same
phase.

The guard, built and run before scope was fixed per Amendment 3, found 9
re-derivations where the ADR named 3. Four were unnamed, including one in the
prompt layer: mvp-phase.md ORed a ticked checkbox with disk status, which under
disk-strict is the divergence itself.

Per the #2957 decision, a ticked ROADMAP checkbox is a human annotation with no
machine authority. The overrides in roadmap analyze and init manager are deleted
rather than generalized; the user's checkbox stays in ROADMAP.md, only its
authority goes.

scanPhasePlans.completed and buildWorkstreamInventory are deliberately NOT folded
- they answer 'are all plans summarized', which is a different question, and
folding them would either over-report completion or invert the dependency
direction between Phase 1's owner and this one.

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3186): close seven review findings and record the missing-verdict rule

The isolated review reproduced a write-path regression I introduced: migrating
cmdRoadmapUpdatePlanProgress dropped its summaryCount>=planCount gate, so a phase
with a fresh passing verification plus a newly-added unsummarized plan reported
complete AND wrote a checkbox into ROADMAP.md while phase complete refused. The
owner stays right per 7.4 - plan count is not a completion precondition - so the
gate is restored at the write site as an explicit composition, mirroring the
separate 2648 unexecuted-plan gate cmdPhaseComplete already carries.

The spec axis was right that my 0.x-split reasoning was too permissive. The 2957
decision names buildStateFrontmatter as one of the three that must converge, and
buildWorkstreamInventory combined a summaries-met local with verification data to
decide the same verdict - Decision 4(c)'s named bypass, and it reproduced 3168 in
a third surface. Both now route through the owner. The raw scanPhasePlans helper
stays: it answers are-plans-summarized, which genuinely is a different question.

Maintainer decision recorded in 7.4: a missing verdict is not a passing one, so
an absent VERIFICATION.md means not complete everywhere. That retires 2645's
verifier-disabled tolerance and inverts its Goodhart incentive - deleting the
evidence now lowers completion instead of raising it.

Guard hardened: block-form count gates and algebraic restatements are caught, and
the header now discloses its remaining limits instead of overclaiming.

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3186): route state sync through the owner and catch bare completed reads

The matrix found 52 failures. 51 were fixtures asserting the old semantics: a
phase with plans and summaries but no VERIFICATION.md used to count complete and
correctly no longer does. Each fixture now carries a passing verification where
that is what the test was actually about, rather than having its assertion
weakened.

The 52nd was a real 10th re-derivation the guard could not see. cmdStateSync
destructured scanPhasePlans().completed directly - a bare field read, not a
comparison - and used it as a completion verdict, so state sync and state json
disagreed on completed_phases for identical disk state. Routed through the owner.

Guard gains shape (d): any read of .completed off a scanPhasePlans() result
outside plan-scan.cts, in chained, destructured and indirect forms, function
scoped with no line window. It cannot tell a summaries-met read from a completion
read - that is data flow - so it flags every one and requires a written-reason
exemption, which is the same discipline shapes a-c already use. The blind spot is
disclosed in the header rather than overclaimed.

The emitted-attribution failure was also mine, not pre-existing: the mvp-phase.md
checkbox-OR removal moves emitted bytes, acknowledged in tests/emitted-drift-acks.

Verified on the remote runner.

* test(#3186): give the nested-plans sync fixture a passing verification

Last 3 matrix failures were one failure echoing up two describe levels. Phase
01-alpha had plans and summaries but no VERIFICATION.md, so under disk-strict
completed stayed 0 and no Progress change was emitted - correct new behavior, not
a regression.

Added the passing verification rather than dropping the Progress expectation, so
the test still covers what #3257 is about: that a nested plans/ layout is counted
and not undercounted. Probe against the built lib confirms
Progress: 0% -> 50% alongside Total Plans in Phase: 0 -> 3.

* chore(#3186): backfill changeset PR number

pr:0 placeholder replaced with the real number now that #3306 exists.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-10 10:18:29 -04:00
Tom Boucher
693f12ad56 refactor(#3187): give state field extraction one canonical owner (#3283)
* refactor(#3187): give state field extraction one canonical owner

stateFieldValue in state-document.cts becomes the single owner of the #1760
frontmatter-then-body fallback chain. The new whole-repo guard found 14
independent re-derivations where the epic scoped 5, all now routed through it:
cmdStateSnapshot (11), cmdStatePrune (2) and smart-entry fmScalar (1).

state validate was a gate that could not fail. Every warning it could emit sat
behind a phase resolved without the frontmatter tier, so a STATE.md whose phase
lives only in frontmatter skipped the drift scan entirely and returned
valid:true. It also read unstripped content, letting a frontmatter status: key
shadow the body field (#1255 class). Both fixed; output gains a scope field so
could-not-look stops being output-identical to looked-and-clean.

Verified on the remote runner.

* docs(#3187): document the state validate scope field and its reason codes

Adds docs/how-to/interpret-state-validate-results.md so a reader can tell
nothing-to-report from could-not-look, updates the COMMANDS.md and USER-GUIDE.md
entries, corrects the CONTEXT.md glossary overstatement about Current Position
sole ownership, and drops the changeset fragment.

* fix(#3187): close three drift-guard evasion shapes and test the refuse path

The isolated adversarial review found the ladder detector was evadable by
ordinary reformatting, not just deliberately: a member or computed operand
(fm.key / fm[key]) missed the bare-identifier backreference, a swapped tier
order missed a hardcoded number-then-boolean sequence, and a ladder wrapped
across lines missed single-line detection. All three now caught, each with its
own test plus a proven boundary control.

The frontmatter-parse refuse path on the destructive complete-phase route was
unreachable and therefore untested. It is now driven by an injected parse
failure and asserts STATE.md is byte-identical after the refusal, rather than
shipping untested defensive code on a path that rewrites user state.

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3187): widen the drift guard to the prompt layer and disclose tier-2 changes

The code-review spec axis found the guard's scan surface was src/ only, which is
Decision 4(d)'s forbidden allowlist one directory wide - and it had a live miss:
gsd-core/workflows/smart-entry.md tells an agent to read status from frontmatter
or the body, a prose expression of this same chain. The surface now covers the
prompt layer. That one site carries a permanent written exemption rather than a
ratchet: it is the gsd-tools-is-down fallback, so it cannot call the owner by
construction, and a ratchet would imply removable debt that does not exist.

Two tier-2 output changes shipped undisclosed and are now named in the changeset
and docs: complete-phase's idempotency guard consulting frontmatter, and the
workstream inventory resolving frontmatter-only fields. docs/COMMANDS.md gains a
state complete-phase entry, which it never had.

Also records Amendment 5 on ADR-3180, extracts the duplicated frontmatter-parse
block the epic's own thesis forbids, and re-points two assertions from free-form
warning prose onto the structured drift object.

Verified on the remote runner.

* chore(#3187): backfill changeset PR number

pr:0 placeholder replaced with the real PR number now that #3283 exists.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 22:49:39 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a5b5860b93 fix(#3238): bump js-yaml to the patched 4.3.1 (high-severity devDep advisory) (#3246)
* chore(#3238): bump js-yaml 4.3.0 -> 4.3.1 (GHSA-5p4m-2wfm-xmqj)

Dependabot alert 14. js-yaml 4.3.0 sits inside the vulnerable range
>=4.0.0 <4.3.1 of GHSA-5p4m-2wfm-xmqj -- high, CVSS 7.5
(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic
Complexity.

resolveYamlOmap() enforces `!!omap` key uniqueness with a linear
objectKeys.indexOf() scan inside the per-element loop, so resolution is O(n^2)
in entry count. `!!omap` is registered in the DEFAULT schema, so a plain
yaml.load(untrustedInput) with no options is affected. The loop is synchronous,
so it blocks the event loop -- amplification is per-process, not per-request.
Same weakness as CVE-2026-59870, fixed in 5.x at 5.2.1 and only now backported
to the 3.x/4.x lines.

Reproduced locally against the installed 4.3.0, advisory PoC, default schema:

  n= 5000 load=  22ms  -
  n=10000 load=  57ms  2.59x
  n=20000 load= 199x   3.49x
  n=40000 load= 768ms  3.86x     <- ~4x per doubling = quadratic

After the bump, same machine, same PoC:

  n= 5000 load=  33ms  -
  n=10000 load=  33ms  1.00x
  n=20000 load=  49ms  1.48x
  n=40000 load=  96ms  1.96x     <- ~2x per doubling = linear

Duplicate-key rejection is preserved (YAMLException still raised), so the
upstream indexOf -> Set swap kept the semantics it was guarding.

Scope is development-only and stays that way: js-yaml is a devDependency and is
absent from package.json's `files` allowlist, so it never ships to consumers.
`npm audit --omit=dev` reported 0 vulnerabilities before this change and still
does; `npm audit` went 1 high -> 0.

Targeted install rather than `npm audit fix`, so the blast radius is auditable:
npm reports "changed 1 package", and the lockfile diff is 4 insertions /
4 deletions touching only js-yaml. The declared floor moves ^4.2.1 -> ^4.3.1 so
a future resolution cannot land back on a vulnerable 4.3.x -- the operative fix
is the lockfile, since npm ci is lockfile-driven.

Stayed on the v4-legacy line (4.3.1) rather than jumping to `latest` 5.2.3: 5.x
is a rewritten module layout and a separate change with its own blast radius.
The v4-legacy dist-tag exists precisely so 4.x consumers can take this patch.

Regression guard mirrors tests/issue-2765-brace-expansion-lockfile.test.cjs --
the repo's existing precedent for a dev-scope lockfile bump against a
high-severity DoS advisory. It walks `npm ls --json --all` so a transitive copy
left behind still fails, and carries a vacuity guard so an empty version list
cannot pass silently. No timing assertion: wall-clock assertions are barred by
the clock-seam rule and would be load-sensitive on shared benches, so the
measurements live in the diagnosis artifact instead.

Refs #3238

* fix(#3238): require 5.2.1 on the 5.x line; add the release-notes fragment

Three review findings, all fixed inline.

SPEC AXIS (the serious one): the guard's `(maj > 4)` clause accepted ANY 5.x.
GHSA-5p4m-2wfm-xmqj names only the 3.x and 4.x ranges, so the isolated
adversarial pass -- checking strictly against that advisory -- rated 5.0.0 as
correctly accepted. But the advisory's own body records that the SAME weakness
in the 5.x line is CVE-2026-59870 / GHSA-724g-mxrg-4qvm, fixed in 5.2.1. A
guard whose purpose is "this tree has no quadratic !!omap resolver" must
require 5.2.1 there too, or an accidental major bump to 5.0.0 silently
reintroduces the exact bug the test exists to prevent. The two reviewers
disagreed and the disagreement was load-bearing: taking only the adversarial
verdict would have shipped the hole.

ISOLATED ADVERSARIAL (item 4): Number('4.3.1-beta.1') produced NaN, and NaN
comparisons made the predicate return false. That failed safe, but by accident
rather than design, and majors outside {3,4} were reported vulnerable despite
being outside every advertised range. The predicate is now explicit -- build
metadata stripped, prerelease fails CLOSED (4.3.1-beta.1 sorts below 4.3.1 and
may predate the fix), unparseable fails closed, maj<3 accepted as predating the
affected lines.

Validated by a standalone harness over 27 version strings (12 accepted, 14
rejected, 1 build-metadata): all 27 agree with the advisory ranges. Boundary
rows on all three affected lines -- 3.15.0/3.15.1, 4.3.0/4.3.1, 5.2.0/5.2.1.

STANDARDS AXIS: the precedent this change mirrors, 54cb4145b (#2765, identical
dev-scope lockfile security bump), shipped `fix(#2765)` plus a
`.changeset/*.md` typed Fixed. This change was typed `chore` with no fragment.
Per CONTRIBUTING.md, `chore` is omitted from user-facing release notes
entirely, so a security fix would have merged invisibly. Adds the fragment
(type Fixed, pr:0 to be backfilled) and types this commit `fix`. Note the
changeset gate does not require a fragment for a package.json/tests diff
(`ok_no_user_facing_changes`) -- it is added because users should be told they
received a security patch, not to satisfy a gate.

Not fixed, recorded as not-a-defect: the near-duplication of
tests/issue-2765-brace-expansion-lockfile.test.cjs. The reviewer that raised it
also argued the repo's one-self-contained-guard-per-advisory convention is the
better call -- each advisory guard stays independently auditable and removable,
and a shared helper would couple unrelated advisories. Extracting it would also
be drive-by refactoring of a file this change only appends beside.

Refs #3238

* chore(#3238): backfill changeset PR number 3246

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 11:39:40 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b9f51836e6 refactor(#3180): ADR-3180 behavior contract + cross-surface drift guardrails (#3223)
* refactor(#3180): one owner for completion ratio, a prompt-layer drift guard, and a written behavior contract

The 2026-08-08 coverage audit on #3180 found the epic's copy counts were a
lower bound for the third consecutive time, and that two derivation families
had never been named at all.

ADR-3180 gains Decision 7 — a normative behavior contract that says what the
right answer IS for each derivation, not merely who owns it. A reviewer with
no written rule can only ask "does this look like the others", which is how a
fifth copy passes review. Decision 4 gains (d) scan surface is every authored
surface and an owner FILE is never exempt, only its named functions; and (e)
a surface that cannot be consolidated today ships ratcheted, never unguarded.

Completion ratio: `clampPercent` sat exported and unused beside six hand-inlined
copies of its own body across five modules. All six now route through it;
`clampPercentFromFraction` is added for the one caller that already held a
fraction. Every migration is behaviour-identical — clampPercent's first line IS
the `total > 0 ? … : 0` ternary each copy carried. Guarded by
lint-completion-ratio-drift.cjs, which reports zero re-derivations with no
file-level exemption.

Prompt layer: workflow markdown re-derives live-plan counting in raw shell
(#1762), invisible to every `src/`-scoped guard. lint-planning-prompt-drift.cjs
scans it with a shrink-only baseline of the 7 sites that exist today — new
sites fail, and a baseline entry that stops firing fails too, so an
acknowledgment can never outlive the thing it describes.

lint-milestone-window-drift.cjs stops exempting its owner file wholesale; only
the four named canonical functions are exempt now. The blanket exemption was
pointed at the one file most likely to grow the next copy, and it had.

Refs #3180

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

* docs(#3180): link Phases 6-8 sub-issues (#3216, #3217, #3218) from ADR-3180

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

* fix(#3180): address orthogonal review — consumer-output identity tests, count-keyed ratchet, property coverage

Five findings from the two orthogonal review passes, all fixed.

Decision 4(c) breach: the completion-ratio identity test asserted at the
OWNER, which is exactly the bypass that decision exists to close — a consumer
can call clampPercent and then post-process locally, leaving both the lint and
an owner-level test green. It now drives `roadmap analyze`, `query progress`
and `stats` and asserts on their own output, over a fixture containing a
`status: superseded` plan so a consumer that re-counted raw files would report
60 where the owner reports 75.

Decision 4(e) breach: ratchet entries named the epic (#3180) rather than the
issue that removes them. They name Phase 8 (#3218) now.

The ratchet keyed on (file, text) alone, so plan-phase.md's two byte-identical
sites were one indistinguishable key and migrating either would have left the
guard green with the other alive. Entries carry an occurrence count; fewer than
acknowledged fails as a partial migration, more fails as a new copy.

Adds the missing MAX_REGEX_LITERAL_LEN boundary coverage the sibling guard's
test already had, and the fast-check property tests CONTRIBUTING requires for
clamp/budget-limit functions.

Refs #3180

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

* test: stop wrapping a nested double-spawn in a 15s wall-clock budget (bug #641 probes)

`tests/ci-test-scope.test.cjs`'s `bug #641` block spawned `run-tests.cjs`
under PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS=15000; that child then spawned a nested `node --test`.
A fixed wall-clock budget around a double spawn, running inside a container
that is concurrently executing the full ~31k-test suite, fails by construction
under load.

Confirmed against three full matrix runs. Every failure was shaped
`null !== 0` — the child was KILLED, never an assertion about the thing under
test. One captured probe had already printed the correct resolution
(`suite="all" files=2: a.test.cjs b.test.cjs`) and was killed anyway. It
reproduces on `next` alone: 5 failures on linux-node22, 0 on linux-node24. The
victim subset varies by run and by lane.

What these tests are actually about is suite-token RESOLUTION — `unit` as a
bare token in --files/--files-from. Executing the seeded trivial files is
incidental and is the entire timeout surface, so the assertions move
in-process against the same functions `main()` calls, in the same order.
`parseArgs`, `selectExplicitFiles`, `selectFiles` and `walkTestFiles` are
exported for that; no behavior, signature or logic changed.

No coverage lost: `tests/run-tests-harness.test.cjs` already spawns the
harness for real and asserts exit codes end to end, on a 120s budget.

Pre-existing on `next`, fixed here rather than deferred.

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

* test: delete the three elapsed-time assertions

CLAUDE.md forbids asserting on wall-clock time. Three assertions did, and all
three are load-sensitive: on a saturated bench each can fail while the code
under test is correct. In every case the load-bearing assertion sits on the
line above and the timing line adds no discrimination.

run-with-timeout: the stated worry — "was this 124 the cap firing or the 30s
harness backstop?" — is already answered by the assertion above it. A backstop
kills by signal, which surfaces as status null, never 124. Observed directly
this session: three matrix runs produced exactly that null shape from killed
children.

normalize-test-command and context-predicates: both bounded a ReDoS check.
A threshold only ever separates "fast" from "slightly slow", which is bench
load, not correctness — catastrophic backtracking on 800 KB of input does not
take 251ms, it does not finish at all. A real regression therefore shows up as
the suite being killed on that test, which is louder and more reliable than a
number. The structural assertions (returned unchanged; cleanly rejected) are
what actually carry those tests, and they stay.

The sweep now reports zero elapsed-time assertions in tests/. The remaining
Date.now() uses are unique-path suffixes, barrier deadlines, fixture
timestamps and fake mtimes — none of them assertions.

Pre-existing on `next`, fixed here rather than deferred.

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

* chore(#3180): backfill changeset PR number (#3223)

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

* fix(#3180): key the prompt-drift ratchet on POSIX paths so it works on Windows

The baseline keys on (file, trimmed text). `file` came from scanTree's
`path.relative()`, which uses NATIVE separators, while the committed baseline
stores POSIX. On Windows every violation was therefore unmatched — reported as
FRESH — and every baseline entry matched nothing — reported as STALE. The guard
failed 100% of the time there, on both CI shards:

  ✖ scanRepo(repoRoot) matches the baseline exactly: zero fresh AND zero stale
    + { file: 'gsd-core\\workflows\\execute-plan.md', ... }

The remote runner this repo gates on is Linux-only and cannot see this class at
all; the GitHub Actions Windows lane is what caught it.

Normalization is unconditional — never gated on process.platform. A
platform-conditional normalizer makes the POSIX path the special case and
leaves the Windows branch unexercised on every other OS, which is the same
blind spot in a different place. It is applied at one seam inside
findPromptDrift, which builds `file` on every returned violation, so the
baseline key, the --update writer, the stderr report and the tests all consume
one normalized value.

The regression tests drive a Windows-shaped relPath directly and run on every
OS rather than skipping off-Windows — a test that only runs on the platform
where the bug lives is why this escaped. They include a sanity check that
un-normalized input does NOT match, so the assertion cannot pass vacuously.

Audited the three sibling guards: none keys against a committed cross-platform
baseline, and their exemption keys are path.join-built, so producer and
consumer share the native convention. Left correct code alone rather than
making them look alike. scripts/lib/drift-scan.cjs is untouched — normalizing
there would break those three on Windows.

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>
2026-08-08 16:05:17 -04:00
Tom Boucher
636ec92107 refactor(#3185): phase enumeration has one owner and a decidable scope (#3222)
* test(#3185): failing-first phase-enumeration single-owner suite

Covers the enumeration rows with direct code evidence: 999.* backlog dirs
listed by progress/stats, the phase-0 sentinel divergence, the #1324
letter-prefixed-decimal negative space, and the destructive-path find —
cmdPhasesClear carries a fifth sentinel copy (/^999(?:\.|$)/) that excludes
999 but not 0, so a 0-* directory roadmap.analyze preserves is deleted there.

Also covers the pass-all degrade, which is where the defect actually lives:
when the milestone window declares no phases the filter becomes a literal
() => true and its heading-side sentinel exclusion is unreachable. A fixture
carrying phase headings keeps the filter active and never reaches that path.

Named for the derivation, not a module: the suite drives commands, phase,
milestone, workstream-inventory and state, and both the phase and
phase-locator buckets are already at the per-module test-file cap.

Committed alone so the remote runner records the failure before the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QELmgcSwcNBgbUs3kzJeqG

* refactor(#3185): phase enumeration has one owner and a decidable scope

Adds phase-locator.cts::listMilestonePhaseDirs as the single canonical owner
of "which phase directories belong to the current milestone". It applies the
milestone window AND the sentinel filter and returns a ScopedResult, so a
caller can tell a genuinely-empty milestone from an enumeration that could
not be scoped.

The sentinel test now runs against DIRECTORY NAMES and is unconditional.
getMilestonePhaseFilter excludes sentinels from its ROADMAP heading set, but
degrades to a literal () => true pass-all predicate when that set is empty --
at which point the heading set is never consulted and its sentinel exclusion
is unreachable exactly when it is needed. That degrade is the #3167 path, and
it is why stats already used the filter and still listed backlog directories.
The narrowing is sentinel-only: pass-all stays over-inclusive otherwise.

Sentinel copies deleted, canonical isSentinelPhaseId adopted:
  - cmdRoadmapAnalyze's local closure (parseInt === 0 || === 999), 2 call sites
  - cmdPhasesClear's /^999(?:\.|$)/ -- the DESTRUCTIVE path, which excluded
    999 but not 0, so a 0-* directory roadmap.analyze preserves was deleted

cmdStats also seeded rows from ROADMAP headings with no sentinel filter, so a
999 heading produced a row with no directory; that seed is filtered now.

cmdPhasesList routes only its ENUMERATION. --phase lookup searches the
physical set (scoping it would report an out-of-window phase as not found) and
--include-archived still merges archived dirs (they are by definition from
other milestones). Both exempt by documented reason, never a file allowlist.

Fixed inline, found while building: isDirInMilestone could not match a #1324
letter-prefixed-decimal directory (P0.0-foundation) to its own Phase P0.0
heading, so stats reported the phase with plans: 0 while its directory held
plan files. Defers to phase-id's extractPhaseToken rather than widening a
fourth bespoke regex; additive, so it can only admit directories.

Refs #3180. Closes #3185.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QELmgcSwcNBgbUs3kzJeqG

* refactor(#3185): route the last two enumeration re-derivations

workstream-inventory countRoadmapPhases counted every `Phase` heading across
the whole ROADMAP -- no window, no sentinel filter -- so it counted 999.*
backlog and Phase 0 and spanned every milestone the document ever had. Its own
caller already resolved a currentVersion and passed it to getMilestonePhaseFilter
elsewhere in the same file; this was the sibling copy that never got the fix.

state.cts phaseInventoryProvider enumerated phase dirs with its own
/^(\d+)-(.+)$/ convention regex and neither filter, so a rebuilt STATE.md
inventory carried backlog and sentinel directories as current-milestone phases.
A non-COMPLETE enumeration scope now throws to the outer catch as a real scan
failure rather than reporting a confident undercount, mirroring the per-phase
scanPhasePlans contract beside it.

Refs #3180 #3185.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QELmgcSwcNBgbUs3kzJeqG

* refactor(#3185): consolidate 23 sentinel re-derivations onto one predicate

The whole-repo drift guard (ADR-3180 Decision 4a, no file allowlist) found the
sentinel rule re-implemented 23 times across 8 modules, in three regex variants
plus four integer-comparison forms. Most tested 999 only, so Phase 0 slipped
through them while roadmap.analyze and the engine-wide convention (#1580) both
treat 0 and 999 alike. That disagreement is the defect class this epic removes.

All 23 now call phase-id's isSentinelPhaseId (SENTINEL_RANGES [0,999]). Sites:
init recommended-actions and backlog counts, milestone phase scan, the
phase-lifecycle progress table, phase.cts used-number collection and the four
renumber-on-remove guards, roadmap-parser's heading and bullet milestone
counts, roadmap get-phase fallbacks, and state's heading denominator.

Excluding Phase 0 at these sites is a deliberate behavior change and the point
of the consolidation — several carried comments already saying 0 should be
excluded while the literal beside them caught only 999.

Adds scripts/lint-phase-enumeration-drift.cjs, wired into lint:ci. It scans the
whole src/ tree with no file allowlist and reports both shapes: an independent
phases-dir enumeration, and an independent sentinel literal. Exemptions are
function-scoped with a written reason. The guard is comment-aware — its first
pass flagged JSDoc and a comment documenting that the code below uses the
canonical owner, which would have trained readers to exempt prose.

Refs #3180 #3185.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QELmgcSwcNBgbUs3kzJeqG

* refactor(#3185): resolve every phases-dir enumeration; drift guard reports zero

Per-site triage of the 31 remaining whole-repo guard hits, applying the rule
generalized from #3183's Amendment 1: a LOOKUP, DIAGNOSTIC, ARCHIVAL or
MUTATION pass wants the physical set; only "which phases belong to this
milestone" wants the scoped set.

Routed (10): init new-milestone phase_dir_count, init milestone-op fallback
count, init manager, init progress, milestone complete stats/dry-run/archive
move, phase complete's next-phase scan, state update-progress, state
frontmatter stats, and uat audit's active set.

Exempt with a written function-scoped reason (never a file allowlist): the
audit/UAT/verification sweeps that deliberately scan every directory to report
gaps, phase create/insert/rename/renumber mutations, single-phase lookups,
roadmap-upgrade's cross-milestone migration, cmdPhasesClear's whole-tree
destructive pass, and the reads that list a phase dir's FILES rather than
enumerating the phases dir at all.

Latent defects fixed by the routing: sentinel directories leaked into
cmdInitNewMilestone's phase_dir_count, cmdMilestoneComplete's stats, dry-run
AND ARCHIVE MOVE, cmdStateUpdateProgress, buildStateFrontmatter and
cmdAuditUat's active set — every one of those hand-rolled an isDirInMilestone
filter with no sentinel exclusion, so `milestone complete` was archiving
backlog directories.

scripts/lint-phase-enumeration-drift.cjs now reports 0 re-derivations and
npm run lint:ci is green.

Refs #3180 #3185.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QELmgcSwcNBgbUs3kzJeqG

* docs(#3185): document milestone-scoped enumeration and record ADR Amendment 3

Changeset fragment (Changed), CLI-TOOLS/COMMANDS/USER-GUIDE updates for the
scoped output of progress, stats, phases list, phases clear and milestone
complete, the CONTEXT.md Phase Locator glossary entry naming
listMilestonePhaseDirs, and ADR-3180 Amendment 3.

Amendment 3 records: the SCOPE contract held unchanged; the declared deviation
from Decision 1's provisional signature (the window needs cwd/ws, which the
locked roadmapContent parameter cannot supply); the copy count being a lower
bound for the third consecutive phase (4 scoped vs 54 found); the load-bearing
finding that the sentinel exclusion sat on the heading set and was unreachable
under the pass-all degrade; the two destructive-path defects; and the
generalized exemption rule.

Refs #3180 #3185.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QELmgcSwcNBgbUs3kzJeqG

* fix(#3185): wire scope to consumers; revert two wrong routings the suite caught

Review + remote runner findings, all fixed:

The three consumers computed the enumeration scope and threw it away, so
TRUNCATED/UNSCOPED/UNREADABLE collapsed into the same output as COMPLETE --
reproducing this epic's own output-identical-failure defect one layer up.
progress, stats and phases list now emit phase_scope (null on the phases list
--phase lookup path, which performs no enumeration).

Two routings were wrong and the suite proved it:

roadmap-parser's two milestone phase-count scans are reverted to the 999-only
literal. isSentinelPhaseId is BROADER than what it replaced: its legacy branch
runs /^0*(\d+)/ over "00.1", which backtracks to capture 0, so it read #2554's
decimal phase ids as sentinel milestone 0 and stopped counting them.

state.cts phaseInventoryProvider is reverted to the physical disk scan.
`state rebuild` is a RECONCILIATION pass -- scoping it made it throw on healthy
trees whose fixture resolves no window, swallowed the raw readdirSync fault
message #3057 B1 requires verbatim, and stopped it dropping orphan STATE.md
rows, which is the job.

Both are now function-scoped guard exemptions with written reasons, not
silent reverts. This is the consolidation trap named in the epic: a canonical
rule can cover MORE than the copy it replaces, and only real inputs show it.

Adds phases list coverage, a scope-branch test, and a drift-guard unit suite;
backports comment-awareness to the milestone-window and plan-count guards so
all three siblings share one false-positive profile; names #3161 alongside
#3167 in Amendment 3's subsumption record.

Refs #3180 #3185.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QELmgcSwcNBgbUs3kzJeqG

* fix(#3185): correct isSentinelPhaseId's decimal-zero misclassification

An isolated security review caught this branch committing the epic's own sin:
the over-broad predicate was worked around at ONE call site and left live at
the destructive ones.

isSentinelPhaseId's legacy branch ran /^0*(\d+)/, which backtracks so any id
whose leading digit run is all zeros before a non-digit captures 0 -- "0.1",
"00.1" and "0.2554" all read as sentinel milestone 0. Two pinned contracts
disagree with that: #2554 requires "00.1" to be counted as a real phase, and
the 999 icebox is a whole reserved milestone so "999.1" must stay sentinel.

The rule is asymmetric and now says so explicitly: 999 is sentinel with or
without a decimal part; 0 is sentinel only when bare. A decimal phase under
either is a real phase for 0 and reserved for 999, because 999 reserves a
MILESTONE while 0 reserves a PHASE.

Fixing the owner lets the earlier workaround go: getMilestonePhaseFilter's two
scans route through isSentinelPhaseId again and the guard exemption that
existed only to accommodate the defect is deleted. The state.cts cmdStateRebuild
exemption stays -- that one is a genuine reconciliation-wants-the-physical-set
case.

Also corrects tests/adr-612-bracket-grammar.test.cjs, which asserted
isSentinelPhaseId('0.1') === true and so had encoded the defect as expected
behavior.

Refs #3180 #3185.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QELmgcSwcNBgbUs3kzJeqG

* fix(#3185): keep isSentinelPhaseId's semantics — 0.x is layered, not wrong

Reverts the previous commit. The remote suite failed six tests proving it
wrong, and the reason is the sharpest finding of this phase.

An isolated security review observed that isSentinelPhaseId reads 0.1 and 00.1
as sentinel milestone 0 and judged that a defect against #2554. Correcting the
canonical predicate broke #2949. Both contracts are pinned and both are right,
because they ask different questions:

  #2554  is this dir part of the current milestone's phase SET?  -> count 00.1
  #2949  must this phase COMPLETE before the milestone closes?   -> 0.x sentinel

No single global predicate answers both. isSentinelPhaseId keeps its semantics
(0.x IS a sentinel, #2949), and the milestone-window layer keeps a narrower
999-only rule (#2554) as a function-scoped guard exemption with a written
reason — not a second silent copy.

That corrects how Decision 1 reads: "one owner per derivation" governs who
computes an answer, not how many questions share it. An over-broad canonical
rule is as much a defect as a divergent copy and fails worse, because it looks
like consolidation. Recorded in Amendment 3 as the lesson for Phases 4 and 5.

Where a review's inference about intent conflicts with a pinned contract, the
pinned contract wins; the finding is adjudicated, not fixed.

The boundary tables in the enumeration suite are corrected to assert 0.x IS a
sentinel, with the layering explained.

Refs #3180 #3185.

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* chore(#3185): set changeset fragment pr to 3222

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Tom Boucher
66a4940d6f Merge branch 'next' into fix/2665-test-env-base-config-location-vars 2026-08-08 10:47:09 -04:00
Tom Boucher
342590c70e refactor(#3184): milestone windowing has one owner and a decidable failure signal (#3209)
* test(#3184): failing-first milestone-window single-owner suite

Covers the 50 input classes in the phase test matrix: scope classification
(genuinely-empty vs truncated vs unscoped vs unreadable), the section-end
owner's level boundaries, consumer-output identity per ADR-3180 Decision 4(c),
the milestone.complete refusal with negative proof that no directory moved,
the version-token boundary defect, drift-guard behavior, and three fast-check
properties over document-shaped generators.

Committed alone so the remote runner records the failure before the fix lands.

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* refactor(#3184): milestone windowing routes through one owner

Three copies of the milestone section-end walk lived in roadmap-parser.cts —
two distinct computeSectionEnd function nodes plus an inline third in
getMilestonePhaseFilter's versionOverride branch. computeMilestoneSectionEnd is
now the sole owner and the other two are deleted, not kept in sync by comment.

The whole-repo drift guard found what the epic did not: state.cts held three
more re-derivations of the same vocabulary — two byte-identical milestone
bounding checks carrying a defect neither reported copy has (no boundary after
the version token, so v2.0 matched inside v2.0.1), and a milestone-sectioning
predicate. All three route through the owner now.

A composition-level duplicate appeared inside this change's own first pass:
getMilestonePhaseFilter and cmdMilestoneComplete each re-assembled a window out
of the owner's primitives, and had already diverged on whether to skip a closed
milestone heading. sliceMilestoneWindow is the one composition.

Windows now carry the ADR-3180 SCOPE discriminator, so a truncated window is
distinguishable from a genuinely empty milestone — those were output-identical,
which is the whole failure class. roadmap analyze emits it (#3165), and
milestone complete refuses to archive on anything but COMPLETE rather than
pass-all moving every phase directory on disk (#3166). The pass-all degrade is
preserved where its premise holds: making the filter deny-all would trade a
silent over-inclusive answer for a silent under-inclusive one on the read paths
that count with it.

extractCurrentMilestone keeps its signature — 200+ affected symbols across 41
files and 25 process flows — and is a one-line wrapper over the scoped owner.

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* fix(#3184): fence-aware phase detection and one heading-selection owner

Review fixes from the two orthogonal passes.

The blocker: hasPhaseEntries matched ATX phase headings fence-aware via
tokenizeHeadings but tested the #2199 bullet form against un-stripped markdown,
so a fenced EXAMPLE of the bullet syntax counted as a real phase. A genuinely
empty milestone then classified TRUNCATED and milestone complete refused a
legitimate archive — a false positive in the destructive direction, worse than
the defect this phase set out to fix. Both that path and getMilestonePhaseFilter
own pre-existing bullet scan now run on stripFencedCode, since leaving one meant
the owner file gave two different answers to the same question.

The selection rule — locate, prefer the non-closed heading, else the first — had
been written three more times inside the file whose thesis is single ownership.
selectMilestoneHeading owns it; all three sites route through it. The copies were
behaviorally identical, so this is de-duplication with no observable change,
verified by probing that all three paths select the same heading.

roadmap analyze emitting a scope no consumer read left #3165's actual symptom
alive, so Route 0 in next.md now treats a non-complete scope as scan-failed
rather than as a clean empty scan, and the ADR amendment no longer overstates
what shipped.

Also: the scope refusal moved above the archive-directory create, so a refusal
leaves nothing on disk; the versionOverride comment names all four consumers;
COMMANDS.md documents the new guard beside its sibling.

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* test(#2658): exclude the changelog from the malformed-path scan

The gate walks every emitted .md/.js/.cjs file in an installed tree and asserts
none contains `.claude/.trae/rules` or `.trae/.trae/rules`. CHANGELOG.md ships
into that tree, and its #2658 entry quotes both malformed paths while describing
the fix that removed them — so the release note documenting the fix trips the
fix's own regression test. Red on next before this branch.

The installer is correct: a probe over a real --trae --local install found 621
emitted files, exactly one hit, and it was gsd-core/CHANGELOG.md. The scan scope
was the defect, not the product.

Excluded by exact relative path rather than by loosening the patterns or skipping
all markdown — the emitted agent and command markdown is precisely what #2658 was
about, so the gate stays strong everywhere it matters.

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* test(#3184): regenerate install-tree fixtures for the shared drift scanner

scripts/lib/ ships in the npm package and installer, so extracting the shared
tree-walk into scripts/lib/drift-scan.cjs adds one path to every runtime's
install tree. Regenerated via npm run gen:install-tree; the delta is exactly
that one path per fixture.

The two drift guards themselves do not ship (scripts/lint-*.cjs is excluded),
so only the extracted library moves. This matches the existing
scripts/lib/allowlist-ratchet.cjs precedent, which is likewise a lint-only
helper carried in the shipped tree.

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* fix(#3184): restore the #730 sub-milestone boundary and narrow the refusal

The remote runner caught two regressions this branch introduced. Both were mine,
and neither review pass found them — only running the existing suite did.

The version-token boundary. I replaced locateMilestoneHeadings' \b with
(?![\w.-]), reasoning that v2.0 matching inside v2.0.1 was the same defect #2562
fixed in isMilestoneShippedInRoadmap. It is not the same question. A milestone
state of v8.0 legitimately selects the '## v8.0-B' sub-milestone section over a
closed v8.0-A sibling (#730), and \b is what allows it while the stricter
boundary forbids it — nine tests in roadmap-phase-fallback said so. Reverted to
\b; the state.cts consolidation is now a straight merge with no behavior change,
and the v2.0/v2.0.1 ambiguity is left exactly as it was. The ADR amendment and
the design doc no longer claim otherwise.

The refusal scope. I refused whenever the window was not COMPLETE, but #3166 is
about the TRUNCATED window specifically — the heading is found and the section
closes before the phase region, so pass-all archives everything. UNREADABLE and
UNSCOPED are pre-existing, legitimately handled states, and refusing on them
broke 'handles missing ROADMAP.md gracefully' and three archive tests. Narrowed
to TRUNCATED; docs corrected to match.

One of the new tests was also wrong: its fixture gave the shipped and current
milestones' phases the same numeric id, and the filter matches on that id, so it
could not have distinguished the two windows. Fixture corrected to exercise what
it claims to.

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* fix(#3184): enumerate drift-scan.cjs for uninstall

The installer copies scripts/lib/ wholesale, but uninstall removes an explicit
set — deliberately, so a user's own helpers in that directory survive. The
extracted drift-scan.cjs was copied in and never enumerated, so it outlived
uninstall, left the directory non-empty, and the rmdir that follows failed.

Added to GSD_SCRIPTS_LIB_FILES, following allowlist-ratchet.cjs, which is
likewise a lint-only helper that ships there and is enumerated. Verified with a
real install-then-uninstall into a temp target: scripts/lib/ held exactly the
three GSD files and was gone afterwards.

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* test(#3184): assert install and uninstall agree on scripts/lib and scripts/changeset

Found while shipping this phase, and fixed here rather than noted.

install() copies scripts/lib/ and scripts/changeset/ into the target WHOLESALE —
the comment at the copy site literally says "and any future lib helpers".
uninstall() removes them by hardcoded enumeration, deliberately, so a user's own
helpers in those directories survive. A wholesale writer paired with an
enumerated remover cannot stay in sync by construction: any file added to either
directory ships to every user and is then orphaned in their repo forever, since
it survives uninstall, leaves the directory non-empty, and the rmdir that follows
fails. Nothing reported this. 31,225 tests were green over it.

That is the same divergence class this epic exists to delete, sitting in the
installer, so it gets the same remedy CLAUDE.md prescribes for it: a parity
assertion that fails the moment the two surfaces disagree. The test compares each
directory's real contents against its enumeration and names the offending file
plus the constant to add it to.

Both enumerations are hoisted to module scope and exported, so the test asserts
on the actual arrays rather than pattern-matching the installer's source — no
allow-test-rule annotation needed. Proven non-vacuous both ways: empty diff on
the current tree, correct report when an unenumerated file is injected.

scripts/changeset/ turned out to carry the identical defect and is covered too.

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* chore(#3184): backfill changeset PR number

Also narrows the wording to match the shipped behavior: the refusal fires on a
truncated window specifically, not on any non-complete scope.

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2026-08-08 09:50:35 -04:00
0xdhx
209f2fe983 fix(#2665): exclude the test-instrumentation chain from the npm tarball
Review round 4, Major 1: scripts/live-config-guard.cjs is pure test
instrumentation and was shipping to every npm install. The repo already
carries the exclusion convention (gen-emitted-baseline, qa-smell-ratchet)
in the same files[] array.

Excluding the guard alone would trip the #2858 shipped-requires-only-shipped
gate: run-tests.cjs (shipped) requires it at load time, and
affected-tests-lib.cjs / run-affected-tests.cjs sit on the same chain. The
four files are one closed require chain of test instrumentation, so the
exclusion covers the chain, not one link. The guard's LOCATION header cited
affected-tests-lib.cjs as "the precedent for a non-shipped helper", which
npm pack disproves — rewritten to the tarball-exclusion fact.
2026-08-08 05:50:49 -05:00
Tom Boucher
343835facc refactor(#3183): route live-plan counting through scanPhasePlans (#3199)
* refactor(#3183): route live-plan counting through scanPhasePlans

scanPhasePlans becomes the sole owner of the live-plan derivation. Twenty-one
independent re-derivations across seven modules now route through it, and
scripts/lint-plan-count-drift.cjs reports zero, scanning the whole repo rather
than an allowlist (ADR-3180 Decision 4a).

The epic scoped this at three copies. A whole-repo guard found twenty-six sites
across nine files, so Phase 1 absorbs every live-plan re-derivation and Phase 3
narrows to window plus sentinel enumeration.

Two sites are exempt with a documented reason rather than a bare allowlist:
audit.cts scans one quick task's own directory for a single completion record,
and gsd2-import.cts reads a foreign GSD-2 tasks/ layout during a one-time
import. Neither is a phase directory.

scanPhasePlans gains allPlanFiles (pre-supersession) alongside planFiles so one
owner answers both questions: verify.cts's numbering-gap check wants every plan
on disk, its pairing check wants the live set. Both fields are additive.

Highest-severity fix: cmdPhasePlanIndex, which feeds execute-phase wave
scheduling, was scheduling status:superseded plans into waves and reporting zero
plans for the post-#3139 nested layout.

filterPlanFiles and filterSummaryFiles are deleted; getPhaseFileStats orphaned
them and only their own tests still called them.

New leaf module src/planning-scope.cts carries the frozen SCOPE discriminator,
with its six-gate ripple closed: gitignore, inventory manifest, INVENTORY.md and
the CONTEXT.md glossary.

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* docs(#3183): amend ADR-3180 for the Phase 1/3 boundary re-slice

The contract held; the phase boundary did not. The whole-repo drift guard found
26 re-derivations across 9 files against the epic's estimate of 3, and
cmdProgressRender re-derives both enumeration and plan counting on adjacent
lines, so DW4 was unsatisfiable within Phase 1's original file scope.

Records the amended scope, scanPhasePlans's new allPlanFiles field,
findOrphanSummaries, the two documented exemptions, the re-derived Tier-2
table, and the describeNonCanonicalPlans trap for later phases.

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* fix(#3183): complete the canonical pairing rule and gate the naming diagnostic

The remote runner went red with 13 deterministic failures on both lanes,
and they were right: replacing verify.cts's canonicalPlanStem pairing with
summaryCandidates dropped a case the bespoke rule covered. A plan carrying a
descriptive slug after its id (68-01-scaffolding-PLAN.md) pairs with its
canonical-stem summary (68-01-SUMMARY.md), and summaryCandidates generated no
such candidate, so the plan read unsummarized.

The fix is to complete the one rule rather than restore a second:
summaryCandidates gains a canonical-id candidate, narrowed to fire only when an
id pair was actually extracted. countMatchedSummaries, findUnsummarizedPlans
and findOrphanSummaries all inherit it. The two-plans-one-summary collision
behaviour of the original rule is preserved deliberately and documented in
place.

Second defect, independently root-caused while verifying: routing the #2893
naming diagnostic through scanPhasePlans exposed it to the loose /PLAN/i
fallback, which is correct for counting and wrong for a naming check — a
non-canonically-named file was accepted as a valid plan and the diagnostic
went silent. cmdPhasesList, cmdFindPhase and cmdPhasePlanIndex now intersect
with a strict isCanonicalPlanFile predicate before reporting names.

Same class as the describeNonCanonicalPlans trap already recorded in ADR-3180:
a question about file naming wants the physical, strictly-matched set; only a
question about outstanding work wants the live set.

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* chore(#3183): register planning-scope.cjs in the eslint migration list

tests/repo-invariants.test.cjs asserts every bin/lib/*.cjs is linted xor
ignored per its ADR-457 migration state. The new planning-scope module closed
five of the six .cts ripple gates - gitignore, inventory manifest, INVENTORY.md
and the CONTEXT.md glossary - but not eslint, because that one is enforced by a
test rather than by lint:ci, so the local pipeline stayed green while it was
missing.

Generated from src/planning-scope.cts, so the .cjs is ignored and the .cts is
linted, matching every other migrated module.

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* fix(#3183): replace the plan-count drift detector with a literal tokenizer

CodeQL reported 4 high-severity js/redos alerts on REGEX_LITERAL_MD_RE, the
backtracking regex that finds "a regex literal mentioning PLAN/SUMMARY and an
escaped \.md". Five review rounds found it had two defects, not one:

  - EXPONENTIAL, then CUBIC. Its "any char" atom `(?:\\.|[^/\r\n])` let a `\.`
    pair be consumed either as one escape or as two class characters, which is
    exponential backtracking: 27,464ms on `"/\.mdplan" + "\.".repeat(28) + "X"`.
    Excluding `\` from the class killed that but left a cubic path — 23ms at
    N=200, 172ms at N=400, 1362ms at N=800 on `"/" + "PLAN\.md".repeat(N)` with
    no closing `/`. This guard is the last stage of `npm run lint:ci`, which CI
    runs on fork pull requests, so a crafted src/*.cts could stall the job.
  - A DETECTION HOLE. A character class holding a bare, unescaped `/` — e.g.
    `/SUMMARY[^/]*\.md$/`, an ordinary path-excluding filter — terminated the
    literal at that `/`, so the scan never reached `\.md` and the guard missed
    it entirely. (Classes holding an ESCAPED `\/` were already matched; the
    tests cover those separately as parity, not as regressions.)

Both defects have one root cause: regex-literal grammar — `\x` escapes, and
`/` inside `[...]` not terminating — is not expressible in a backtracking
regex. So the detector is now a tokenizer, not a regex.

readRegexLiteralAt reads the literal at a given `/` in a single left-to-right
pass with no backtracking, treating escapes as two-character units and
suppressing the `/` terminator inside a character class. findRegexLiteralMdMatch
restarts it at every `/` on the line, preserving the old "find anywhere"
behaviour; MAX_REGEX_LITERAL_LEN (400) bounds each read — including the
trailing-flag scan — which keeps the whole-line cost linear.

Results: cubic shape flat at 0.06-0.39ms out to N=3200 (25KB), exponential
shape 0.01ms at 28 reps and 0.00ms at 64, and the bare-`/` class shapes are now
caught. Differential against the old regex over 28,474 lines (those matching
FILENAME_TEST_RE but not PLAN_SUMMARY_LITERAL_RE, across src/tests/scripts/
gsd-core/bin/eslint-rules, excluding 265 lines with >6 backslashes on which the
old regex hangs): 6 differences, all the tokenizer returning the fuller or
newly-correct literal, 0 old-only misses. The `\.md` token stays
case-insensitive, matching the `/i` the old regex carried.

Also closes three holes in the same new file:

  - walk() tested entry.isFile(), false for a symlink, so a symlinked
    src/*.cts was silently unscanned — an evasion of a guard whose stated
    principle (ADR-3180 Decision 4a) is whole-repo discovery with no allowlist.
    It now resolves symlinks, but confined: file links must resolve inside the
    repo root, directory links inside the scanned dir itself. Every sibling
    drift guard in scripts/ uses the Dirent classification and never follows
    links, so following them unconfined would have made this the only linter
    able to read outside the tree — on fork PRs an arbitrary out-of-repo read
    whose matched fragments reach a public CI log. The narrower directory rule
    additionally stops `src/up -> ..` from sweeping the whole repo, and the
    skip list is now checked against resolved paths so `src/g -> ../.git`
    cannot reach .git/** or node_modules/**. Real paths are de-duplicated and
    files reported canonically, so a symlink alias cannot shift which
    FUNCTION_SCOPED_EXEMPTIONS key applies.
  - Both the reported fragment and the reported FILE PATH are attacker-
    controlled source text written straight to a CI log, and git permits
    control bytes in a filename. Both are now escaped — C0/C1/DEL plus the
    bidi and zero-width controls — so a crafted literal or filename cannot
    recolour the log, overwrite a line with CR, or fabricate a line that looks
    like this guard's own success output.

Regression coverage in tests/plan-count-single-owner.test.cjs: a child-process
probe over both pathological shapes (catastrophic backtracking is synchronous
and would freeze the suite rather than fail one test), the bare-`/` class
shapes verified to fail against the parent-commit blob, root-confinement tests
covering the outside-file, outside-directory, cycle, broken-link and duplicate
cases, direct isInsideRoot coverage including the sibling-prefix case that a
bare startsWith would let through, sanitizeForReport coverage, and
limit-1/limit/limit+1 coverage of MAX_REGEX_LITERAL_LEN derived from the
exported constant. The earlier structural assertion was dropped — it checked
for the substring `[^/`, which respelling the class as `[^\r\n/]` defeats
while staying exponential.

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* chore(#3183): backfill changeset PR number

Restores b77931869, which a force-push during the ReDoS remediation dropped.

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4f2a4932ce chore: sync next package version to 1.10.0 2026-08-08 05:07:32 +00:00
Tom Boucher
ffd5370464 fix(#2903): use the command form that actually works in reader-facing docs (#3047)
* fix(#2903): use the command form that actually works in reader-facing docs

Docs told readers to type the colon form, which no runtime registers -- 18 of
19 runtimes use slash-hyphen and the 19th uses shell-var -- so anyone copying an
example got an unrecognized command. Swept 178 occurrences across 53 files,
locale mirrors included so they do not re-diverge from English.

The colon form is a source-authoring token, not a user-facing one: install-time
converters key on it to produce the hyphen form runtimes actually register. So
the sweep is scoped, and three things are deliberately left alone:

- ADRs, which are a historical record; editing their prose falsifies what was
  written at the time.
- The legacy release-notes archive, pending a maintainer decision on whether it
  follows the same historical carve-out. Excluding it keeps a later reversal
  additive rather than a revert.
- Source artifacts under commands, workflows and agents, where the colon form is
  load-bearing. Rewriting those would break the installed-skill guarantee across
  every runtime -- the single largest hazard here.

The plugin namespace form is a real, separate token and survives untouched.

Adds a lint enforcing exactly that boundary, since the correct form genuinely
differs by directory and nothing previously caught the drift.

Also fixes a hardcoded colon form in the capability-matrix generator. The sweep
alone would have left the generated matrix disagreeing with the template that
produces it, so the fix is at the source and the output regenerated.

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* fix(#2903): stop the sweep misquoting source frontmatter

Adversarial review caught three lines where the sweep rewrote a citation of the
literal YAML name: key from a source command file. That key genuinely is the
colon form -- this change's own carve-out logic says source-authoring tokens keep
it -- so the docs ended up misquoting the real files. One of the three is an
acceptance-checklist assertion, which the sweep turned into a false statement.

Restored the three citations to match their sources verbatim, surgically: where a
line carried both a name: citation and a real reader-facing slash command, only
the citation reverted and the command stayed corrected.

The guard needed the same distinction, or it would have flagged the restoration
and reddened the build: a gsd:<cmd> token preceded by name: is a citation of a
source token and is now permitted. The exemption is deliberately narrow -- a bare
gsd:<cmd> anywhere else still fails -- with a test pinning that narrowness.

Also makes the detection case-insensitive. Review found /GSD:next slipped through
silently; no such casing exists in the tree today, so this closes a latent gap
rather than fixing a live one.

Swept the whole tree for further corrupted citations: none beyond the three.

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* fix(#2903): retire the stale-next invariant and sweep next like every other command

Maintainer decision on a genuine conflict between two contracts.

Invariant #3054 banned the literal /gsd-next from user-facing docs because it
named a retired workflow-advance command. But commands/gsd/next.md is a live
command -- the state-aware smart-entry launcher -- and this issue requires docs
to use the hyphen form every runtime actually registers. Both could not hold for
this one command, so docs had been sidestepping the ban by keeping the colon
form, which is exactly the defect this issue exists to remove.

FEATURES.md already recorded the reassignment: the hyphen form "is not the
retired workflow-advance command; it is reserved for the state-aware smart-entry
launcher. Workflow advancement remains under /gsd-progress --next." With that
reassignment the invariant's premise is obsolete and the guard now contradicts
the documented command form, so it is retired with a comment recording why
rather than deleted silently.

next is now swept like every other command, and the earlier exemption added to
the new guard is removed so nothing is special-cased.

Four citations of the literal name: frontmatter key stay in colon form, because
the source file really does carry name: gsd:next and a doc quoting it must
reproduce it verbatim. Two of those lines were reworded to say which side is the
frontmatter key and which is the slash command, since they previously conflated
the two.

Verified the retired scan would now genuinely fail against this tree -- the
conflict was real and resolved, not dodged.

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* chore(#2903): backfill changeset pr number

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Tom Boucher
a987cf2731 chore(#2932): emit a per-invocation section manifest from the init bundle (#2987)
* chore(#2932): emit a per-invocation section manifest from init

Extends the init bundle with a typed per-invocation section manifest so an
invocation loads only the branch guidance it will actually take.

The three flag/state-gated branches in execute-phase.md move into their own
step files; the parent keeps its gsd:section markers wrapping a one-line
on-demand reference, so each section's prose lives in exactly one file and
the parent shrinks 93369 -> 89507 bytes. A new drift-guarded generator
derives the shipped section manifest from those markers, and a new pure
evaluator maps invocation facts to applicable section ids.

The evaluator is a lookup over the frozen WHEN_VOCABULARY, never a parser
(Greenspun's Tenth Rule, ADR-1671:69); a parity test asserts the vocabulary
and the predicate map stay exhaustively in sync.

Closes #2932

* fix(#2932): fail closed on prototype-chain when values

An isolated adversarial review found WHEN_PREDICATES[section.when] was a
bracket lookup on a plain-prototype object, so inherited Object.prototype
members resolved as predicates: "constructor"/"toString"/"valueOf"/
"hasOwnProperty" returned truthy and SILENTLY INCLUDED the section, and
"__proto__" threw an untyped TypeError carrying no .reason. Both violate
the module's documented fail-closed contract, and the manifest is read from
disk at run time so it cannot be assumed trustworthy.

Builds the predicate map on a null prototype and guards the lookup with an
explicit Object.hasOwn check. Adds table-driven coverage for nine
Object.prototype-shaped keys asserting the TYPED reason (asserting only
that it throws would still pass while broken) plus a fast-check property
injecting a hostile value at an arbitrary document position.

* test(#2932): retarget execute-phase step assertions at extracted step files

* fix(#2932): emit typed reasons for generator lib-load and write failures

* fix(#2932): restore launcher preamble in extracted steps and refresh derived fixtures

* chore(#2932): backfill changeset pr number to 2987

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-02 12:34:41 -04:00
Tom Boucher
33fd203ccd test(#2966): loop QA walk — drive real scenarios across all five loop steps (#2976)
* test(#2966): loop QA walk — drive real scenarios across all five loop steps

Adds a headless walk that carries accumulating project state across
discuss -> plan -> execute -> verify -> ship against one temp project,
layered over the existing tests/helpers.cjs runGsdTools substrate.

Findings carry severity. A violation breaks a stated contract and fails
the build; a smell is legal under today's implementation but structurally
questionable, is recorded, and never reddens CI. Without that split an
oracle set derived from current behavior can only ever confirm current
behavior -- the harness could not say "this works and is still wrong".

The end-to-end test asserts the walk produces at least one smell: a QA
harness that reports nothing on a first run against a real engine is far
more likely mis-specified than the engine is perfect. It deliberately does
not pin smell ids or counts, which would re-freeze current behavior.

First run against the real engine: 0 violations, 3 smell classes --
init returns agents_dir outside the project tree; smart-entry emits prose
unconditionally so routing cannot be asserted; state-snapshot reports a
missing STATE.md through a payload key with exit 0.

Also fixes tests/fixtures/index.cjs: createFixture with git:true and
planning:false staged nothing, so the commit failed with "nothing to
commit". That combination was unreachable until greenfield needed it.

Extends RULESET.TESTS.feedback-loop-convergence from estimation to the
loop itself. Design lock: docs/adr/2966-loop-qa-walk.md.

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

* test(#2966): wire fault injection, make perturbations discriminating

Independent review found tests/qa/mutations.cjs entirely unwired: 462
lines exercised only by their own unit tests, with no mutation hook in
the scenario DSL and no scenario applying one, while the module header
and the ADR described fault injection in the present tense. Dead code
documented as live.

Adds a `mutate` step field, three perturbation scenarios, and a wiring
detector: a self-test scenario whose expectations are known-false and
which MUST fail. The previous anti-vacuity check asserted only that the
walk produced a smell, which passes on well-known engine behavior
regardless of whether the harness wiring works.

First perturbation attempt produced zero signal -- progress does not
structurally parse ROADMAP.md, so a corrupted roadmap sailed through. A
perturbation that cannot fail is the same defect in a new costume.
Probes now target roadmap get-phase, and each mutated step runs a clean
baseline first so `mutationObserved` records whether the corruption
changed anything at all.

Also clears four review findings: classify() returned PROSE for exit-0
with empty stdout; `warnings` was structurally unpopulatable on the
success path (execFileSync discards it) and is now documented as
error-path-only; read-only-idempotence passed vacuously when asked to
check idempotence without the data to check it; the ADR miscounted the
oracles.

Discrimination matrix across 8 mutations x 6 commands: bom,
duplicate-phase-id and escaped-pipes are absorbed silently by every
probed surface, and progress / smart-entry / roadmap validate never
reacted to any mutation.

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

* test(#2966): add path-containment guard for scenario-supplied targets

Security review found scenario-supplied paths joined to the temp project
with no containment check. step.mutate.target and agent.write keys were
validated only as non-empty strings, so a target of ../../../../etc/hosts
reached fs.unlinkSync / fs.writeFileSync / fs.symlinkSync outside the
project. The symlink mutation was worst: it read the traversed file, wrote
a sibling copy, deleted the original and symlinked it back.

Not exploitable today -- all shipped scenarios target .planning/ROADMAP.md
and scenarios are repo-committed, not runtime input. Fixed anyway: it is a
live primitive any future scenario or copied helper can reach.

Adds tests/qa/paths.cjs with resolveWithin(): rejects absolute paths, NUL
bytes and empty input, normalizes separators unconditionally, and requires
containment by path segment so a sibling like <base>-evil is not treated as
inside. Non-existent targets resolve via nearest existing ancestor rather
than falling back to a lexical compare. Scenario load now rejects traversing
or absolute targets up front.

oracles.cjs previously carried its own copy of the containment logic; both
now share paths.cjs, since a duplicated containment check is exactly the
divergence class this repo calls out.

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

* test(#2966): complete trajectory corpus, report emission, boundary-aware oracle

Adds the remaining trajectories and drives all 11 mutations end-to-end.
20 scenarios, 72 steps, 0 violations, 25 smells.

Adds qa-report.json with per-step verdicts and a copy-pasteable repro
command, plus --keep / GSD_QA_KEEP=1 to preserve a failing tree. A repro
line for a tree that was not preserved is marked NOT RUNNABLE rather than
emitting a command pointing at a deleted directory.

monotonic-progress is now boundary-aware. Two scenarios had been trimmed
to stop the oracle complaining at a milestone rollover, which destroys the
signal the trajectory exists to produce. Evidence: counters legitimately
reset to zero at milestone complete, but the payload milestone_version
lags until a new ROADMAP.md is written. So the oracle now scopes by
milestone plus workstream, keeps a same-scope decrease as a violation, and
records a boundary crossing as a smell. Both scenarios walk the real
boundary again.

Standards review fixes: oracle findings now carry a structured subject so
tests assert on typed fields instead of substring-matching the free-form
detail string, resolveWithin throws a typed EPATHESCAPE error, and the
absolute-path predicate scenario.cjs had re-implemented now comes from
paths.cjs.

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

* test(#2966): fix silently-vacuous fixtures and guard the class

Every fixture carried its #2371 provenance comment BEFORE the frontmatter
block, and extractFrontmatter returns {} when anything precedes the opening
---. So every scenario reading status/phase/name was operating on an empty
object and reporting green. Nine fixtures repositioned; the comment stays,
it just moves below the closing ---.

Both UAT fixtures lacked a parser-recognized result block, so
evaluateUatPassed saw checks.length===0 and could never return passed:true.
The uat-fail-then-remediate scenario could not have proven a remediation.
Its expect block only inspected blockers, which is empty before AND after,
which is why the corpus never noticed. Both fixtures now carry real result
blocks and the scenario asserts passed and no_uat_artifacts on each side of
the flip.

The actual deliverable is the guard: a fixture-integrity block asserting
every fixture with a frontmatter shape parses to a non-empty object, that
every fixture carries its provenance marker, and that the two UAT fixtures
produce opposite verdicts through the real evaluateUatPassed. The first
guard written required --- at byte 0, which would never have fired on the
regression it exists to prevent; it was rewritten and proven by deliberately
re-breaking a fixture.

No engine defect here. no_uat_artifacts means no parsed check items, not no
UAT files, and it was reporting correctly on fixtures that had none.

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

* test(#2966): make the walk report — smell ratchet, baseline, CI job

The harness computed smells into a gitignored qa-report.json that nothing
read. In CI it surfaced nothing at all: violations failed the build, but the
half of the tool that says "this works and is still wrong" was inert. A QA
tool nobody hears is decoration.

Adds a ratchet on the same idiom this repo already uses three times over
(the regression-test-name allowlist, the emitted-drift acks, the size
baseline): a committed smell-baseline.json, per-PR acknowledgment fragments
under tests/qa/smell-acks/, and a ratchet script wired into CI.

The design invariant is preserved exactly. A smell still never fails a build
on its own merits. What fails is an UNACKNOWLEDGED NEW smell -- the absence
of a decision -- leaving an author two honest exits: fix it, or record a
fragment with a real reason. An empty reason is rejected. The baseline is
shrink-only, so a fixed smell must prune its entry. Violations remain
unacknowledgeable.

Fingerprints are composed only from stable fields (oracle id, scenario,
argv, subject discriminator) -- never temp paths, timestamps or counts.
Verified byte-identical across two runs in separate temp dirs; an unstable
fingerprint would have false-positived every CI run.

CI gains a qa-loop-walk job that runs the suite and the ratchet, uploads the
report with `if: always()` (it matters most when it failed), and renders a
summary a reviewer reads without downloading anything.

Also fixes the report runner invoking main() unconditionally on require, so
importing it double-ran every scenario and clobbered its own output.

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

* test(#2966): every smell terminates in a defect or a fixed detector

The baseline accepted a smell with a free-text reason. That is a mechanism
for designing smells in -- an allowlist nobody revisits. The harness is
brand new, so nothing it found is inherited legacy; every finding is a
FIRST finding. Each must now terminate in exactly one of two states:

  REAL           -> an assigned defect, entry carries the issue number
  FALSE POSITIVE -> the detector is wrong and gets fixed, never baselined

There is no third "accepted with a good explanation" state, so the ratchet
now requires a positive-integer `issue` on every entry. A reason may remain
as a human note but can never substitute. `--update` refuses to invent
issue numbers: a new smell is written with `issue: null` and a TODO, and
the next plain run rejects it, forcing triage rather than accumulation.

Working the 21 existing entries through that rule found 16 were my own
detectors being wrong:

value-hygiene (10) flagged $.agents_dir, a field whose entire contract is
to point at the install tree outside any project. Fixed with a leaf-key
allowlist of contractually-external fields, verified as the only such key
in the init payload. Genuinely unexpected out-of-project paths still smell.

monotonic-progress (6) fired on legitimate boundary crossings -- milestone
v1.0 to v2.0, workstream beta to alpha -- and on one payload carrying no
scope fields at all, where a change cannot even be known. Scope changes now
reset silently and scope-less observations are skipped. The same-scope
decrease remains a violation; that is the real invariant and is regression-
guarded.

The five survivors are real and now tracked: soft-error-exit-zero (#2980),
untyped-success (#2979). Baseline 25 -> 5.

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

* test(#2966): keep the ratchet out of the tarball, unpin the qa CI job

The remote matrix returned failed -- 3 unique failures, identical on
node22 and node24, both root causes in this branch's own diff.

The ratchet lives under scripts/, which ships in the npm tarball, and it
requires three modules under tests/, which does not. In a published
install it is MODULE_NOT_FOUND at load. This is exactly the class the
#2858 guard was added to catch, and it caught it. Fixed the way #2858
fixed the same shape for its own repo-only CI script: a targeted files[]
negation, so the ratchet stays in the repo for CI and out of the tarball.
Not solved by moving or inlining the required modules -- the ratchet must
keep using the same code the harness uses, or the two drift.

Verified both directions: the script is no longer in the pack list, and
build-hooks.js, fix-slash-commands.cjs and gen-capability-registry.cjs are
all still shipped. Over-negating there would have broken installs, since
bin/install.js requires them.

The qa-loop-walk job also carried CI_REBASE_BASE_SHA copied from a
neighbouring job without the paired GSD_EMITTED_BASE, which the #2854
invariant forbids by name: diverging them makes the differential compare a
tree against a baseline from a different commit. The job runs only the qa
suite and the ratchet and invokes no emitted-attribution test, so it needs
no rebase-pinned base at all -- the step was removed rather than paired.

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

* test(#2966): stop monotonic-progress going blind on scope-less payloads

The full remote suite caught a false NEGATIVE I introduced while fixing a
false positive. Silencing the boundary-crossing noise had made the oracle
skip ANY observation lacking milestone fields -- so a minimal payload like
{total_summaries: n} produced no violation at all, and the oracle stopped
catching the exact defect it exists to catch. For a QA tool that is
strictly worse than the noise it replaced.

Scope is only indeterminate when the two observations DISAGREE about
having it:

  both scoped, same scope, decrease -> VIOLATION
  both scoped, different scope      -> reset silently
  NEITHER scoped, decrease          -> VIOLATION   (the regression)
  mixed                             -> skip the comparison

Implementing the mixed case surfaced a second blind spot: advancing the
reference point on a skipped pair lets a scope-less observation sitting
between two same-scope ones mask a real decrease. Mixed now leaves the
reference untouched. All four branches carry explicit coverage; only one
did before, which is why this shipped.

The self-test that failed was right and the code was wrong, so the code
moved. Corpus behavior is unchanged: still 5 smells, 0 new, 0 stale, 0
violations.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 16:13:28 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d3305fc3a5 fix(#2858): exclude gen-emitted-baseline.cjs from npm tarball + class-extinction guard (#2968)
* test(#2858): add class-extinction guard for shipped-script require boundary

Every shipped scripts/**/*.cjs must be require-able using only shipped paths.
The guard resolves the tarball file list via npm pack --dry-run --json (not a
hardcoded list) and statically checks each require() call against the shipped
set. A script requiring ../tests/** (which does not ship) is a violation.

* fix(#2858): exclude gen-emitted-baseline.cjs from the npm tarball

scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs is repo-only CI tooling (CI workflows +
test fixtures spawn it from a checkout). It requires three modules from
tests/, which does not ship — so in a published install it is
MODULE_NOT_FOUND at load time.

Add a targeted files[] negation (!scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs) so the
script stays in the repo for CI use but does not ship. Other scripts that
ship and are required by bin/install.js (build-hooks.js,
fix-slash-commands.cjs, gen-capability-registry.cjs) are unaffected.

The class-extinction guard test in
tests/packaging-shipped-scripts-require-only-shipped.test.cjs ensures no
shipped script can require outside the shipped tree going forward.

* test(#2858): widen guard to .js + strip block comments (review fixes)

Two findings from isolated adversarial review:
1. MAJOR: the guard only checked .cjs files, but scripts/build-hooks.js
   ships and is required by bin/install.js — a .js file with a broken
   require would bypass the guard. Widened filter to /\.(cjs|js)$/.
2. MODERATE: the static parser could false-positive on require() calls
   inside /* */ block comments or inline // comments. Now strips both
   before matching.

* chore(#2858): add changeset fragment

* chore(#2858): backfill changeset PR number 2968

* fix(#2858): add issue ref to allow-test-rule exemption (ADR-456)

CI lint-tests caught: the allow-test-rule comment needs a 'see #NNN' ref
per ADR-456. Added '(see #2858)' to the integration-test-input exemption.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-01 09:29:15 -04:00
Tom Boucher
f6257f3745 ci(#2952): shard the full test lane instead of widening its cap (#2960)
* ci(#2952): budget CI job timeouts by headroom over measured cost

`origin/next` was red. The only failing check was `Required tests`, and its
sole cause was `test (ubuntu-latest, 24)` reported `cancelled` — GitHub's
conclusion for a job that exceeds its `timeout-minutes`, not a button press.

That job's `ubuntu-latest / 24` entry is the only `scope: full` matrix entry:
it runs the whole unit suite under c8 coverage, then the scripts/ coverage
floor, integration, security, install and slow, serially on one runner. On
next@5a0a9f097 it ran 15m16s against `timeout-minutes: 15` and was axed 23s
into `npm run test:slow`. Projected to a completed slow step (27s on the last
green run) the lane costs ~15m20s.

Confirmed hypothesis: the budget, not the suite. The lane had been riding the
ceiling all day — 12m03s, 11m34s, 11m50s, 14m25s, 14m51s — and crossed on
three of the last four full-lane runs (d2d2f7c08, 07603df8f, 5a0a9f097). There
is no pathological test: the unit run is cost-first bin-packed into 12 chunks,
chunk 1 is gated by run-tests-harness.test.cjs at 169s (expensive by design —
it spawns real harness subprocesses, one of which exercises the per-chunk
timeout), and the remaining chunks are 32-94s. 769s is the honest cost of 689
files under c8. Re-running could not have helped; the work exceeded the budget.

Review of the first cut surfaced the same defect one runner away: `full test
(windows-latest, 22, shard 3/3)` reached 18m59s against its own 20-minute cap
on 05b170e44 (94%) and 18m14s on 81eeb8a53 (91%). That lane has already blown
its cap twice (#1051, #1212). Fixed here rather than deferred.

The first cut also asserted `test >= test-full`, which is unsound — those two
budgets are dominated by different platforms, so their ordering carries no
meaning. Replaced with the invariant that actually generalises: every lane is
held to a headroom FACTOR over its own measured cost. `test` 15 -> 25 (1.5x of
16m), `test-full` 20 -> 30 (1.5x of 19m), `test-inert` unchanged at 15.

tests/ci-test-job-timeout-budget.test.cjs locks that rule. No unit test can
prove a lane still FITS its budget — only a real run measures that — but a
budget can no longer be lowered back beneath what its lane is known to need,
and a lane that gets slower must be re-measured rather than excused.

Separately: the earlier `failure` at 05b170e44 was an unrelated, already-fixed
CONTEXT-INDEX.json drift (07603df8f re-synced it; lint-tests is green at HEAD).
07603df8f's own run hit this same timeout, which is why it never reported green.

Refs #869, #1051, #1212

* ci(#2952): shard the full test lane instead of widening its cap

The `scope: full` lane was the only unsharded lane in this file. It ran the
entire unit suite under c8 on one runner, grew past a 15-minute cap, and
reddened `next`. Raising the cap bought room; it did not change the shape, and
the same lane would have walked back into the ceiling. Shard it, the way #1212
answered this for the Windows lane.

Balance comes from measurement, not file counts. scripts/run-tests.cjs already
partitions by measured per-file duration using LPT (#2472); the table it reads
was 10 days stale — 638 of 695 files timed, 64 missing, including the whole
context-predicates group. Regenerated from a verified matrix run: 700 files, 0
missing. On that table the 685-file unit suite splits 19.37m / 19.37m / 19.37m
— 0.0% spread — and the split is a total, disjoint cover with 0 files dropped.
Completeness, disjointness, balance and determinism of the partition itself are
already pinned against selectShard in run-tests-harness.test.cjs, including a
fast-check property, so this change does not restate them.

Sharding a COVERAGE run is the part that needs care. A per-shard percentage is
meaningless — shard 2 never executes shard 1's files, so those read 0% — and
leaving the gate on the shards would have quietly measured a third of the tree.
Each shard now renders no report and only leaves raw V8 dumps; a new
`coverage-gate` job merges all three into one coverage/tmp and runs the gate
there. c8's default temp directory is where the download lands, so the ≥70%
lines / ≥60% branches gate and the ≥55% scripts floor run unmodified against
merged data.

Both surfaces call the same npm scripts rather than inlining c8 into YAML, so
the include/exclude globs and both thresholds stay defined once in package.json.
The workflow holding its own copy is the divergence this repo has a rule
against, and the new test cross-checks package.json so an inline reintroduction
fails rather than drifts.

tests/ci-full-lane-sharding.test.cjs covers the two ways this stays GREEN while
being wrong: an incomplete shard set (declare 1/3 and 2/3, never 3/3, and a
third of the suite silently stops running) and a coverage gate that stops being
required. required-tests now depends on coverage-gate and fails on it, while
still tolerating `skipped` so docs-only PRs are not blocked.

`timeout-minutes: 25` on the lane is deliberately left alone. The budget test
requires a real measurement before a lane's declared cost changes, and the
sharded cost is not measured until this PR's own CI run.

Refs #1212, #2472

* ci(#2952): tighten the sharded lane's budget to its measured cost

The sharding commit deliberately left `timeout-minutes: 25` alone, because
tests/ci-test-job-timeout-budget.test.cjs requires a real measurement before a
lane's declared cost changes and the sharded cost did not exist yet.

It exists now. Run 30677442953: shard 1/3 7m12s, 2/3 4m32s, 3/3 3m59s, and
coverage-gate 1m20s. Shard 1 is the long pole because the unsharded aux suites
ride along on it, which is deliberate — they total ~1m35s and sharding them
would cost more than it saves.

So the lane's budget is 15 against a slowest measured shard of 8 minutes
(~1.9x), and coverage-gate joins LANE_COSTS at 2 minutes. 15 is the same number
the lane blew before sharding; the work behind it is now a third the size.

Merged coverage was checked against the pre-shard single-runner baseline rather
than assumed from a green check: 94.36 stmts / 96.3 funcs / 94.36 lines
identical, branches 84.22 vs 84.21 — one branch across two different trees,
noise rather than a regression.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-07-31 22:16:26 -04:00
Tom Boucher
5a0a9f0972 fix(#2944): remove the catastrophic-backtracking regex from the ADR-1671 example (#2950)
* fix(#2944): remove the catastrophic-backtracking regex from the example

The non-shipping Option-E reference example carried its own copy of the
predicate-id regex, which nested a dot-containing character class inside a
dot-prefixed repeat. A run of N consecutive dots therefore had exponentially
many partitions. Measured on next before this change: 30 dots 54ms, 35 66ms,
40 807ms — so roughly 55-60 dots hangs for hours.

Not exploitable where it sits: the example is outside tsconfig.build.json,
outside the npm package files list, outside the installer and outside tests,
so no build step or CI job parses anything with it. Fixed because the entire
point of a reference example is that people copy it forward, and ADR-1671
presents this one as the pattern for the platform.

Ports the linear per-segment validation that #2928 gave the production module,
so the two copies agree: both parse the real CONTEXT.md to 415 predicates
across 20 classes with 0 duplicates. Doubled-dot ids are now rejected here
too, matching production, and the grammar comment records it.

Also refreshes the example's committed index, which #2928 made stale when it
removed the duplicate predicate from CONTEXT.md.

Closes #2944

* test(#2944): guard predicate-index sync and example/production parity

Two regression tests for the two defects in this PR.

Index sync: asserts the committed docs/CONTEXT-INDEX.json equals a fresh parse
of CONTEXT.md, naming any diverging predicate ids. The merge race that reddened
next was invisible to both PRs involved and only surfaced on the next PR to run
lint:ci; this puts the same check inside the suite, which runs on every PR, and
a mutation test proves the assertion is not vacuous.

Example/production parity: asserts both copies of the parser report the same
count, classes and duplicates for the real CONTEXT.md, and agree verdict-for-
verdict over a table of id shapes. The divergence WAS the bug — production went
linear-time while the example kept the backtracking regex, with nothing
asserting they agreed. Also pins the example rejecting a 60-dot id, with the
clean rejection as the binding assertion and wall-clock only as a smoke check.

Notes a real tension rather than hiding it: ADR-1671 says the example sits
outside tests/, and this imports it. The ADR's intent is that the example is
not compiled, packaged or installed — not that it may silently rot. A parity
guard does not ship it. The file states this so a reviewer can object.

* fix(#2944): address both isolated review passes

Two independent reviewers (correctness and security axes, neither the author).
Security found nothing — it measured linearity to 100k chars across dots,
hyphens, underscores and mixed classes, and showed prototype pollution is
structurally unreachable because the first-segment pattern forbids
lowercase and underscore-leading ids. The correctness pass found three
blockers, all real.

Blocker: the parity test violated ADR-1671 verbatim. The ADR lists FOUR
exclusions for the reference example, the fourth being the CI test suite, and
the test imported it from tests/ while its own justification comment cited only
three -- constructing a rationale around the exclusion it broke. Moved to
scripts/lint-example-parser-parity.cjs wired into lint:ci; a lint script is not
the test suite, so the exclusion stands. The test file keeps only the
docs/CONTEXT-INDEX.json sync check.

Blocker: the mutation test leaked its temp dir. Its callback took no `t`, so a
failing assertion skipped the bare cleanup call. Now registered via t.after(),
matching the convention adr-index-gate.test.cjs documents.

Blocker: the example's own committed index carries the identical merge-race
staleness this PR fixes for the production one, and nothing guarded it.
Deliberately NOT fixed by wiring the example's --check into CI: that artifact
bakes line numbers, so it re-drifts on any unrelated CONTEXT.md line shift --
exactly ADR-1671 open question 4 -- and would make CI routinely red. The new
lint asserts the line-INDEPENDENT facts instead: count, class map, duplicate
set, and every (id, value) pair. Proven non-vacuous both ways: mutating a value
fails and names the id, mutating only a line number passes.

Major: a real divergence the parity claim would have missed. Production rejects
values containing an embedded CR, LF, U+2028 or U+2029; the example did not, so
a value with an embedded lone CR was rejected by one copy and accepted by the
other. Ported, and now covered by the parity table.

Also, found while verifying rather than reported: malformed diagnostics covered
only empty values. A doubled-dot id, a space in an id, and a lowercase-leading
id were all dropped silently. That contradicts the module's own intent -- a
typo should be diagnosable, and a space in an id is a likely one -- and
predicates are contractually cited, so a silently vanished predicate is the
failure mode that matters. Each rejection class now carries a named reason in
both copies, while ordinary inline code still yields none.

Trues up counts my own change staled: the example README and ADR-1671's
prototype figures said 416 and 393/18 against a real 415/20/0.

Closes #2944

* chore(#2944): backfill changeset PR number 2950

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-07-31 15:44:19 -04:00
Tom Boucher
05b170e448 chore(#2928): productionize the CONTEXT.md predicate fact-store and gate it in CI (#2938)
* feat(#2928): port CONTEXT.md predicate fact-store into the src seam

Productionizes the ADR-1671 Option-E reference example as a real module:
src/context-predicates.cts (parser + selector + index builder) compiled to
gsd-core/bin/lib/, plus scripts/gen-context-index.cjs following the repo's
--check/--write drift-guard idiom and wired into lint:generated-sync.

Parser behavior is deliberately prototype-equivalent in this commit so the
next commit's regression matrix binds to the real defects rather than to a
missing module.

Two locked design deviations from the prototype:
- duplicates carry a count, not line numbers
- the committed index carries no line field at all, resolving ADR-1671 open
  question 4: an artifact without line numbers cannot drift on a line shift,
  so promoting --check to a CI gate does not make it routinely red

Also reconciles the one remaining duplicate predicate ID
(RULESET.WORKFLOW_MARKDOWN.FENCES was declared twice; the non-MD040 wording
is removed) so the gate can land fail-closed on duplicates.

Refs #1671

* test(#2928): failing-first matrix for the predicate fact-store

Adds the regression matrix from the phase test plan: parser declaration
forms, fence and comment regions, ID/value grammar boundaries at
limit-1/limit/limit+1, CRLF fidelity, duplicate detection, the drift-guard
CLI, the selector query surface, and four document-shaped fast-check
properties.

Seven rows are RED for behavioral reasons against the ported parser:
indented-bare, star-list, plus-list and numbered-list declaration forms are
dropped; a tilde fence and a four-backtick fence containing a shorter fence
are not skipped; and a multi-line HTML comment is parsed as live. Eleven
selector rows are RED because the query surface is not wired yet.

Negative fixtures come from real repo documents that predate the grammar
(CONTEXT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md's fenced env-assignment examples) per the
fixture-provenance rule, and the property generators are document-shaped
rather than seeded from our own serializer.

Refs #1671

* fix(#2928): consume the shared fence scanner, relocate the index, wire the selector

Drives the failing-first matrix green.

Parser: replaces the ported naive triple-backtick toggle with the shared
markdown-sectionizer fence engine. scanFencedBlocks and FencedBlockRecord
gain an export keyword — the only change to that module, which has 71
upstream dependents — because it already returns line-indexed spans, which
is exactly what a line-reporting parser needs. It also already documents
itself as the second copy of the fence state machine pending consolidation;
adding a third copy here would have been the generative-fix divergence this
repo warns about. A parity suite now pins predicate fence-skipping against
that scanner across eight fence shapes. HTML-comment skipping stays local
because the sectionizer has no comment scanner. Declaration forms widen to
indented-bare, star, plus and numbered list items.

Index location: docs/CONTEXT-INDEX.json, not a module under bin/lib. The
remote matrix run caught the original choice — a committed .cjs there ships
~120KB of CONTEXT.md prose into a runtime module, and two content guards
fired truthfully on it (a leaked .claude install path, and four hardcoded
package-name literals). Neither guard was allowlisted; the artifact moved
instead, mirroring docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json. Nothing at runtime needs to
require it — it is a drift-detection artifact, so the selector parses
CONTEXT.md live and is always current.

Generator: adds a frozen REASON enum and --check --json so the gate's
outcome is asserted structurally instead of by matching prose, and
--context-path/--index-path so tests drive the real CLI against a temp tree
with no filesystem monkeypatching.

Selector: gsd_run query context-predicates with --class/--prefix/--contains,
structured output carrying a matched count, own-property guards, and no
project-root resolution. Registering it exposed that the query dispatch
table and the usage string had drifted: a new parity test found 20 routed
commands missing from the usage list, all added here rather than deferred.

Refs #1671

* test(#2928): lock the newly-public scanFencedBlocks contract

Exporting scanFencedBlocks made it public API for the first time, so it
needs its own contract test independent of the consumer that motivated the
export. Memtrace's co-change analysis flagged the gap: this suite changes
together with markdown-sectionizer.cts 8 times in 90 days and was absent
from the diff.

Covers the documented rules: 0-based indices, -1 for an unterminated fence,
the same-char/>=length/no-trailing-text closer rule, a shorter fence inside
a longer one staying content, CommonMark 4.5 backtick-in-info-string, and
<=3-space indent tolerance.

Refs #1671

* fix(#2928): address both isolated review passes

Two independent reviewers (correctness axis and security axis, neither the
author) found seven findings. All are fixed here with regression tests; none
deferred.

BLOCKER — comment-blind fence scanning caused silent, permanent predicate
loss. The HTML-comment scan and the fence scan ran as two independent passes,
and the fence scanner is comment-blind, so a fence delimiter inside an HTML
comment with no later close read as an unterminated fence and skipped every
remaining line to EOF. Worse, the drift-guard could not catch it: it diffs
against a baseline produced by the same corrupted parse. The two constructs
now interleave in a single pass so each suppresses the other's boundary
detection while active, covered in both directions. The parity suite still
binds this scanner to markdown-sectionizer's for comment-free documents, so
the two cannot diverge unnoticed.

BLOCKER — the selector was not consumed anywhere, leaving the phase's
acceptance criterion unmet. Now wired into the pre-work predicate-citation
step in contributor-standards, which is the repo's actual brief-assembly
path; no code-level brief assembler exists to wire into.

MAJOR — ReDoS with an unauthenticated CI-hang exploit. The predicate-id
regex nested a dot-containing character class inside a dot-prefixed repeat,
so N consecutive dots had exponentially many partitions: 40 dots took 565ms
and growth was exponential. CI runs this parser over a pull request's own
CONTEXT.md, so any contributor could have hung a shared runner with one
line. Replaced with linear per-segment validation. Doubled-dot ids are now
rejected; the real document contains none.

MAJOR — the duplicate-id gate had only ever been proven on synthetic
fixtures. A test now re-inserts the exact line this branch removed and
asserts the real generator names it.

MAJOR — --check together with --write silently let write win, turning the
gate into a writer; a missing path value resolved to the cwd and leaked an
EISDIR stack trace. Both are now clean usage errors.

MINOR — the hoisted skip-list was exported as a live mutable Set; replaced
with a read-only predicate. MINOR — flag-shaped selector values were
unmatchable; the inline --flag=value form now provides the escape hatch.

Refs #1671

* chore(#2928): backfill changeset PR number 2938

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-07-31 13:17:01 -04:00
github-actions[bot]
854c93533c chore: sync next package version to 1.9.1 2026-07-31 13:12:09 +00:00
github-actions[bot]
4232a79396 chore: sync next package version to 1.9.0 2026-07-31 03:14:04 +00:00
Tom Boucher
1e3c995e6f fix(#2789): scope the emitted-drift ack to the diff that introduced it (#2803)
* fix(#2789): scope the emitted-drift ack to the diff that introduced it

Every input to `diffEmitted` is base-relative -- `baseline` vs `current`,
`changedPaths` from `git diff base...HEAD` -- except the ack set, which
was read absolutely, from the working tree only. A differential machine
consulting a non-differential input.

So `staleAcks` asks exactly one question, "did a delta consume you?", and
that cannot distinguish an ack that never explained anything (an
authoring mistake) from one whose ripple is now absorbed into the base
(the ack's SUCCESS condition). After merge an ack is in the second state
but reports as the first.

The trigger is ordinary. Actions sets GITHUB_BASE_REF on pull_request
events only, so a push to `next` falls through to origin/next -- the very
commit under test. Both sides build identical content, no deltas remain,
and every live ack is reported stale. PR #2768 acked a deliberate 40866
-> 42020 byte growth, was green on its own lane, and reddened `next` the
moment it merged. It also reds every PR branching off the poisoned base,
and since publish-emitted-baseline is gated on the test job, it blocked
baseline publication too.

Give the ack the base side it was missing. `diffEmitted` now takes
`baseAck` -- the same document at the base ref, via `readAckFileAtRef`.
An entry already present there is SPENT: it may no longer consume a delta
and is never reported stale, only surfaced as `spentAcks` for tidying. An
entry new or reworded in this diff stays live, and if nothing consumes it
that genuinely fails, with blame on the author who just wrote it.

This closes a hazard the IMPLEMENTATION named but could not prevent -- a
leftover ack silently pre-clearing the next ripple on its path. (ADR-2719
§3 asserted only that TOUCHING the file is the alarm; its residual-risk
list never covered pre-clearing, and §3 now carries an amendment.)
Verified against the two-PR laundering sequence -- land an innocuous ack,
then change the artifact -- which passed silently before and now fails on
both the hash pass and the size ratchet.

Three things the design has to get right, each of which was wrong first:

  - A read failure on the base document THROWS; only absence-at-the-ref
    returns null. Returning null on error LOOKS armed (every entry stays
    live) but a live entry's defining power is that it CONSUMES a delta,
    so null is armed on the staleness axis and DISARMED on consumption --
    silently the whole pre-#2789 gate. `git show` cannot tell absence
    from fault, so absence is established with `ls-tree`.
  - Re-arming a spent ack costs actual PROSE. Internal whitespace and the
    zero-width family collapse, and `runtime` is not compared: a doubled
    space, an invisible character, or a decorative field would otherwise
    re-arm an ack whose justification still describes the previous
    ripple, showing a reviewer nothing.
  - `baseAck` is REQUIRED once an ack declares entries -- omission is an
    error, not a silent "inherit nothing" -- so a dropped argument fails
    loudly instead of quietly restoring this bug with the suite green.

Because a corrupt document ON THE BASE is expensive (the loud base-side
failure reds every ack-carrying PR), scripts/lint-emitted-drift-ack.cjs
blocks one from landing. It is standalone rather than importing parseAck
-- scripts/ ships in the npm package and tests/ does not -- so a parity
test runs both surfaces over one corpus and fails on divergence; it
caught one immediately, a `null` document, now classed as policy rather
than schema. Deadlock is separately foreclosed: a tree carrying no ack
never reads the base, so the PR that DELETES a corrupt file still lands.

`readAckFileAtRef` takes an injected git runner so all four branches are
tested deterministically; it never executes in the remote runner, where
the real-tree test skips for want of a base ref. It also refuses an
option-shaped ref, since execFileSync's array form stops shell
metacharacters but not git's own option parsing.

Rejected: skipping the differential when base == HEAD. It treats the
symptom, costs real coverage on the push-to-next lane, and does nothing
about the downstream PRs the same flaw was reddening.

Deletes the now-spent tests/emitted-drift-ack.json, and updates the
CONTEXT.md canon and ADR-2719 §3: presence is no longer the alarm -- a
LIVE entry is, and a spent one is inert.

Closes #2789

* chore(#2789): backfill changeset PR number
2026-07-28 21:28:10 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1c1af70a4b refactor(#2724): delete the committed golden fixtures and size baselines (#2767)
* test(#2724): delete golden-install-parity fixtures, test, and generator

Removes the 19 committed path->hash manifests, the two per-file size
baselines, tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs, and
scripts/gen-golden-install-parity-zcode.cjs. These were pure functions
of the source tree (ADR-2719); the differential attribution check
(tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs + tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs)
is now the sole gate for emitted-artifact propagation.

tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json and tests/golden-install-tree.test.cjs
are unchanged (ADR-2719 section 7 exception).

Follow-up commits fix the resulting bookkeeping: scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs's
existence guard, .gitattributes, package.json scripts, the emitted-provenance
totality guard's IO, the differential check's baseline acquisition, CI
wiring to publish/restore the baseline artifact, and docs.

* refactor(#2724): make the differential attribution check self-sufficient

Three fixes required to delete the golden fixtures without breaking CI:

- scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs: remove tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs
  from the three rules that named it. #2759's missingRuleTestFiles guard
  hard-throws at module load if a rule names a test file absent from
  disk, which would break the changes job on every PR the moment the
  fixture-deletion commit landed.

- tests/helpers/emitted-provenance.cjs: loadManifests() read the
  committed golden fixture directory. With that directory deleted at
  every future ref, this would throw at module load forever, taking
  the Phase 2 totality guard down with it. Rebuilt from real installer
  spawns (MANIFEST_FAMILIES + runMinimalInstall + buildParityManifest),
  the same shape emitted-runtime.cjs's currentManifests() already uses.

- tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs / tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs:
  the real-tree test's baseline acquisition swaps from
  baselineManifestsAtRef(base) (git show at a ref that no longer carries
  fixtures) to resolveBaseline()'s documented precedence: env, then the
  on-disk cache, then an in-job build. The build fallback
  (buildBaselineAtRef, new) checks out base into a throwaway git
  worktree and runs the new scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs there --
  no npm ci needed, since bin/install.js and the test helper shells are
  Node-builtins-only. That script also publishes the baseline artifact
  from CI's push-to-next job (wired in a follow-up commit).

* refactor(#2724): retire the merge-driver bridge and per-file size baselines

The Phase 1 bridge (#2721) is retired now that the artifacts it guarded
are deleted: scripts/git-merge-regen-driver.cjs, its test, and the
'setup:merge-driver' npm script are removed, and the .gitattributes
merge=gsd-regen/linguist-generated block for the three deleted-path
globs is dropped. tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json keeps its normal
merge behavior, unchanged (ADR-2719 section 7).

scripts/update-size-baseline.cjs and its test are removed: their sole
purpose was regenerating tests/workflow-size-baseline.json and
tests/agent-size-baseline.json, both deleted. The 'size:baseline' npm
script and its step in 'regen:derived' go with it. The per-file
baseline describe blocks in tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs and
tests/agent-size-budget.test.cjs are removed for the same reason; the
independent loose-tier hard caps are untouched. The differential
attribution check's size ratchet (tests/emitted-diff.cjs, already
shipped in #2723) is the replacement anti-creep mechanism.

'npm run gen:golden' is replaced by 'npm run gen:install-tree', which
keeps regenerating tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json (the one artifact
family ADR-2719 section 7 keeps committed); tests/golden-install-tree.test.cjs's
error messages point at the new command name.

tests/golden-parity-single-source.test.cjs's anti-divergence guard
(#2266) is retargeted from the two deleted golden-parity consumers to
their two replacements (tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs and
tests/helpers/emitted-provenance.cjs), which import buildParityManifest
the same way — the divergence risk the guard exists for is unchanged.

Also wires CI: a new publish-emitted-baseline job runs
scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs after a push to next and caches the
result keyed on the sha; the test and test-full jobs restore that cache
on pull_request events, keyed on the PR's base sha, and export
GSD_EMITTED_BASELINE for tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs's real-tree
test to pick up.

* docs(#2724): flip ADR-2719 to Accepted and update contributor docs

Status: Proposed -> Accepted. Regenerated docs/adr/README.md index.

CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/TESTING-SUITES.md, and CONTEXT.md (RULESET.
EMITTED_ATTRIBUTION, RULESET.WORKFLOW_SIZE_BUDGET, RULESET.
AGENT_SIZE_BUDGET, and the Emitted Artifact Provenance glossary entry)
no longer point at the deleted golden-install-parity fixtures, size
baselines, gen:golden, UPDATE_GOLDEN, or the setup:merge-driver /
git-merge-regen-driver.cjs bridge. Editing shipped content now
requires zero manual fixture regeneration, documented against the
differential attribution check instead of the deleted commands.

* docs(#2724): add changeset for removed golden-parity commands

* fix(#2724): drop stale scripts/update-size-baseline.cjs glossary ref

check-glossary-refs.cjs verifies every backtick-wrapped scripts/*.cjs
token in CONTEXT.md resolves to a real file. The RULESET.
EMITTED_ATTRIBUTION rewrite named the deleted script inside backticks,
which the checker reads as a live reference, not historical prose.

* test(#2724): retarget ci-test-scope tests off the deleted golden test

tests/ci-test-scope.test.cjs asserted specific RULES entries select
tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs, and that every rule selecting it
also selects both emitted gates. Both premises broke when the golden
test was deleted (#2724): the deleted filename never re-appears in
targeted_tests, and there was no longer a third file for the gates to
travel alongside. Retargeted the two selection describe blocks to
assert tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs directly (the drift guard the
golden gate's rules were retargeted to), and simplified the third block
to assert the two emitted gates always travel together, without
reference to the golden filename.

* docs(#2724): repoint two contributor how-to guides at the differential check

Both guides told contributors to regenerate a baseline against
tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs, which #2724 deletes. Repointed
at the differential attribution check (tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs,
ADR-2719), which needs no manual regeneration step.

* fix(#2724): repair phase6-capstone-conformance's deleted-baseline read

An independent orthogonal review caught a real regression this branch
introduced into a test file the branch's diff never touched:
tests/phase6-capstone-conformance.test.cjs read
tests/workflow-size-baseline.json (deleted earlier in this branch) with
no fallback, so the whole suite would throw ENOENT the moment this
branch landed. The test's actual intent — prove the host-loop workflow
files are real, tracked, non-empty docs — is preserved by asserting the
live byte count via the same shared counter (scripts/workflow-size.cjs)
the size guards already use, instead of a committed snapshot.

Also, from the same review: a stale doc comment in
scripts/workflow-size.cjs still named the deleted
scripts/update-size-baseline.cjs as a consumer, and
buildBaselineAtRef's cleanup in tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs left
two fs.rmSync calls unguarded against masking the primary result/error,
inconsistent with the try/catch already wrapping the git cleanup beside
them. Both fixed. A doc comment was added to baselineFamilyNamesAtRef
explaining why it (and its siblings) are kept despite having no
production caller post-cutover — they still answer real questions
about refs that predate the cutover.

* fix(#2724): repair three real regressions found by remote verification

1. tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs's two hostile-input tests
   (non-object manifest, unreadable fixture) drove loadManifests(tmp)
   and monkeypatched fs.readFileSync, both premised on the deleted
   fixture-directory read this branch already replaced with real
   installer spawns -- the negative assertions silently stopped firing.
   loadManifests() now accepts injected {families, install, build,
   clean} (defaulting to production values), giving the tests a real
   seam to drive a bad build result and a build failure through the
   ACTUAL loader instead of a reimplementation, and added coverage that
   clean() still runs on both paths.

2. .github/workflows/test.yml's two 'Export GSD_EMITTED_BASELINE'
   steps hardcoded shell: bash, which is wrong on windows-latest (native
   pwsh) and on test-full's macos-latest legs (native zsh per that job's
   own matrix) -- the repo's H1 shell policy (tests/policy-shell-pinning
   .test.cjs) caught it. Replaced the inline bash script with
   scripts/ci-export-emitted-baseline-env.cjs, a plain Node script: a
   bare 'node <path>' command line has no shell-specific syntax, so it
   runs correctly under bash, zsh, and pwsh without a shell override.

tests/phase6-capstone-conformance.test.cjs's deleted-baseline read
(caught by the same remote run, at a commit prior to this one) was
already fixed in d0c3b1242 and is not touched here; verified still
passing after these changes.

* fix(#2724): revive ADR-1610's new-file size cap inside the differential

An isolated review caught a real regression: deleting
tests/workflow-size-baseline.json silently dropped NEW_FILE_CAP
(ADR-1610 Decision point 3, the Codex project_doc_max_bytes anchor)
with no successor. tests/helpers/emitted-diff.cjs's size ratchet
already 'continue's past any file absent from sizeBaseline -- exactly
the files this cap exists to bound -- so a brand-new workflow file
sized 32,769-40,960 bytes passed CI clean and shipped, then risked
silent truncation at the Codex anchor at runtime. ADR-1610 is Accepted
and never referenced anywhere in this branch.

Fix: NEW_FILE_CAP=32768 revived inside emitted-diff.cjs's own
size-ratchet loop, keyed off the SAME hasOwnProperty(sizeBaseline,
name) signal the growth check already computes -- 'new' is exactly
'present in sizeCurrent, absent from sizeBaseline'. Not ack-able,
matching the tier hard caps it sits beside: the fix is extraction, not
an acknowledgment entry. Documented, disclosed narrowing: the pure
differential module cannot see XL_WORKFLOWS/LARGE_WORKFLOWS tiering
(tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs's classification), so a
legitimately large new file must extract rather than tier in, one
release earlier than an existing file would need to. ADR-1610 itself is
left unamended -- this restores its decision rather than re-litigating
it.

Also fixes a stale comment plus a redundant real 19-installer-spawn
assertion left over from the pre-injection-seam version of
tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs's build-failure test, and annotates
3 of 4 stale golden-fixture citations in
docs/reference/host-integration-capability-matrix.md as superseded
(the 4th is an accurate historical PR narrative, left alone).

* fix(#2724): repair three red CI defects on the golden-fixture cutover

Windows-only provenance false attribution (defect A): the `hooks-built`
provenance rule attributed `hooks/<name>.cmd` to itself. Those shims are
Windows-only installer output (ensureCodexHooksJsonSessionStart /
ensureCodexHooksJsonEvent, both in src/runtime-hooks-surface.cts) wrapping
the same-named `.js` hook — no `.cmd` file is ever tracked in the repo, so
the self-attribution resolved to a path that exists on no platform. Only
windows-latest ever emits the key, so this only failed there. Fixed by
special-casing `.cmd` inside the SAME `hooks-built` rule (not a dedicated
rule) — a dedicated rule would match zero paths, and therefore report as a
dead rule, on every non-Windows lane of the same totality guard. `sources`
already supported per-match functions; `transforms` is extended to support
the same shape so the attribution can vary by match within one rule.

Baseline bootstrap was structurally impossible (defect B): `buildBaselineAtRef`
ran `scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs` from INSIDE the base-ref worktree, but
that script is new in this PR and therefore absent at any base ref that
predates it — every call failed closed with "Cannot find module". Fixed by
running the PR checkout's own generator against the worktree via a new `--dir`
parameter, decoupling "which copy of the script runs" from "which tree it
measures" (`currentManifests`/`currentSizes` gained a `repoRoot` override,
threaded down to `runMinimalInstall`'s new `installScript` override). This is
not just a bootstrap fix: a differential needs ONE measurement schema applied
to both sides, or the two stop being comparable the moment that schema
evolves — running each side's own copy would silently reintroduce that risk.
Verified locally end-to-end against real origin/next: resolves a valid
{version, sha, manifests, sizes} artifact with the correct sha and no leaked
worktree.

Changeset placeholder (defect C): `pr: 0` -> `pr: 2767`, which is what let
docs-lint evaluate the fragment for the first time; it already passes
(docs/TESTING-SUITES.md and friends already document the removed scripts).

Also fixed while in this file: an eslint no-unused-vars warning surfaced by
the changed lint run (unused `cleanup` import in
tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs).

Added regression coverage for both A and B: a cross-platform spot-check that
drives the real hooks-built rule against `.cmd` keys directly (not through a
real Windows install), and a real-tree test that drives buildBaselineAtRef
against a base ref verified (via git cat-file) to lack the generator, both
skipping honestly rather than false-passing when their precondition does not
hold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W5kQs6ZufZDySC6zDJfYP6

* fix(#2724): repair false .cmd byte-provenance and a permanently-skipping regression test

Two isolated-review findings on PR #2767:

- `hooks-built`'s `.cmd` branch attributed the Windows shim's bytes to the
  wrapped `hooks/<name>.js` script, asserting a byte-provenance link that
  does not exist — traced against buildCodexHookWindowsShimIR
  (src/runtime-hooks-surface.cts), only the script's NAME (a literal in that
  same file) flows into the .cmd bytes, never its content. Point `sources`
  at HOOKS_WINDOWS_SHIM_SRC instead, matching the code-derived convention
  used elsewhere in the table. Since `sources` is checked before
  `transforms` in the differential, the wrong mapping silently excused any
  .cmd byte movement caused by editing the wrapped .js file.

- The `buildBaselineAtRef` regression test skipped unless a resolvable base
  ref still lacked scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs — true only until this
  PR merges, after which every base ref carries the file and the test skips
  forever with zero ongoing coverage. Rebuilt hermetically: synthesize the
  missing-generator condition in-place via git plumbing (a throwaway commit,
  child of HEAD, with just that one file removed from a scratch index),
  never touching the real working tree, HEAD, or index, and never depending
  on ambient history or remotes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W5kQs6ZufZDySC6zDJfYP6

* fix(#2724): tolerate the remote runner's dubious-ownership git mount in the emitted baseline path

The runner container mounts the repo at a path owned by a different uid than
the process running the suite, so git's dubious-ownership protection refuses
every git operation there. GitHub Actions never hits this because
actions/checkout registers the workspace as safe automatically; this
runner's container does not.

buildBaselineAtRef is the production build-fallback the sole remaining
emitted gate depends on (resolveBaseline's in-job-build leg), not just a
test helper, so the fix is in the shared git() wrapper (emitted-runtime.cjs)
that every caller — resolveChangedPaths, resolveBase, buildBaselineAtRef's
worktree add/remove/prune, and the hermetic regression test added in the
prior commit — funnels through, plus gen-emitted-baseline.cjs's own
rev-parse (now reusing that same wrapper instead of a second execFileSync,
so the fix has one source of truth). Each call declares -c
safe.directory=<the exact directory it already operates on>, never the *
wildcard.

Audited every other helper on this surface (emitted-diff.cjs,
emitted-baseline.cjs, install-shared.cjs) for the same gap: none of them
shell out to git at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W5kQs6ZufZDySC6zDJfYP6

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 15:41:43 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a613caaeef enhance(#2721): regenerating merge driver, regen:derived, and a name for the emitted-artifact family (#2730)
* test(#2721): failing-first suite for the gsd-regen driver and CONTEXT.md parity

Tests precede the implementation per the TDD gate. The driver module does not
exist yet, so tests/git-merge-regen-driver.test.cjs fails at require time; the
contributor-standards parity assertions fail against next as it stands today,
where the standards doc names two CONTEXT.md headings that have never existed.

Refs #2721

* feat(#2721): add the gsd-regen merge driver and regen:derived

The golden parity manifests and the two size baselines are pure functions of
the source tree, so their only correct merge is "recompute" -- something git's
ours/theirs interface cannot express. 140 of 143 conflicted-file instances
across the open PR queue are these files.

The driver deliberately does NOT regenerate. Four probes established that at
merge-driver time neither the working tree nor the index reflects the merge:
both hold the ours side, a file added by theirs does not exist yet, and
MERGE_HEAD is unwritten. Git also invokes the driver once per conflicted path
(20 here). A regenerating driver would therefore read the ours-side tree and
emit a plausible-but-wrong hash manifest -- worse than a conflict, because a
conflict is visible. So it accepts %A, runs zero subprocesses, records the
resolved paths, and prints one notice pointing at npm run regen:derived.
Staleness stays caught where it already was, by golden-install-parity in CI.

Every failure path degrades toward today's behaviour (a normal conflict).
install-tree is deliberately excluded per ADR-2719 section 7.

Also folded in, per the no-defer rule: workflow-size.cjs claimed .md files have
no eol=lf in .gitattributes; git check-attr shows eol: lf, set by .gitattributes
line 2 since #1088.

Refs #2721

* docs(#2721): document regen:derived and the gsd-regen merge driver

Adds the how-to a contributor actually reaches for when the generated parity
manifests or size baselines conflict, in both places they would look: the
merge-conflict path in CONTRIBUTING.md and the full guide in TESTING-SUITES.md,
including what the driver deliberately does not do (it does not clear GitHub's
CONFLICTING label, and it does not regenerate mid-merge).

Also scopes the new contributor-standards parity assertion to the doc's own
CONTEXT.md section. Its first run flagged `## Decision`, `## Consequences` and
`## Standards followed`, which the doc attributes to an ADR body and a PR body
rather than to CONTEXT.md -- a doc-wide extractor would have demanded CONTEXT.md
grow headings that do not belong to it.

Refs #2721

* fix(#2721): stop passing %P to the merge driver — shell injection

The isolated adversarial review found, and I independently reproduced, local
arbitrary command execution.

Git does not invoke a merge driver with an argv array. It substitutes %O %A %B
%L %P textually into the configured string and runs the whole thing through a
shell, and $(...) executes inside POSIX double quotes -- so quoting the
placeholder does not neutralise it. %O/%A/%B are git-generated temp names and
%L is an integer, but %P is the file's own path, chosen freely by any
contributor. A branch renaming a covered fixture to
evil$(touch PWNED_SENTINEL).json executed that command on the machine of every
maintainer who merged it, and the merge still reported success.

Fix removes the input rather than filtering it: %P is no longer registered, so
the driver receives no attacker-controlled argument at all. The marker records
a count instead of path names. A metacharacter filter would have been a guess
about shell grammar; passing nothing is a property. Re-ran the identical
exploit against the fixed command: nothing executed, conflict still resolved.

Two regressions guard it -- a platform-independent assertion that the
registered command carries no %P, and a real merge driven by the actual
planInstall output with a $(...) filename.

Also from review: CLI dispatch had no coverage at all (CONTRIBUTING's
"CLI and command routing" matrix), which is why runInstall/runStatus now take
{repoRoot} -- hardcoding REPO_ROOT was what made them untestable. Renamed
planResolution to resolveAndRecord since the plan* prefix promised purity it
did not have. Reconciled the eleven-vs-twelve generator count across
CONTEXT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and the changeset.

Refs #2721

* test(#2721): scope safe.directory for the check-attr helper

The 66f4d85a run failed 11 assertions, all in the .gitattributes scoping block,
with "fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/work'". The test
container checks the repo out at a path its user does not own, so git refuses
check-attr outright. Everything else passed (27,185).

`check-attr` is a pure read of .gitattributes -- no hooks, no filters -- so the
exemption is scoped to that one invocation. It is deliberately NOT applied to
the driver's own production `git config` calls, which run in the user's own
clone and should keep the protection.

Refs #2721

* test(#2721): delete the stale assertion that the driver command carries %P

The plex2 run on bdfd0856 left exactly two failures, both this test: it still
asserted the pre-fix command string, i.e. the vulnerable behaviour. Deleted
rather than relaxed, per RULESET.TESTS.delete-bad-tests -- its useful half is
already covered, in both directions, by
registeredDriverCommandNeverPassesThePlaceholderForTheFilePath.

Refs #2721

* test(#2721): drive the end-to-end merges from the real planInstall output

The e2e helper hand-rolled its own driver registration, and still carried %P.
That meant the five real-git tests were not exercising the production command
string at all -- planInstall could drift and they would keep passing. They now
register exactly what a contributor gets from npm run setup:merge-driver.

Refs #2721

* chore(#2721): backfill changeset pr number to 2730
2026-07-27 19:55:37 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4d6e49f4d2 fix(#2654): bump js-yaml past the merge-key DoS advisory (#2655)
* fix(#2654): bump js-yaml past the merge-key DoS advisory

js-yaml was pinned ^4.2.0, inside the vulnerable 4.0.0 - 4.2.0 range of
GHSA-52cp-r559-cp3m (YAML merge-key chains force quadratic CPU, CVSS
7.5). Bump to ^4.2.1; the lockfile resolves 4.3.0.

It is a devDependency with no reachability from shipped runtime code
under gsd-core/bin/ or src/ — the consumers are scripts/workflow-policy.cjs
and five test files. The path worth closing is CI: workflow-policy parses
workflow frontmatter during the Tests workflow, and on a fork PR that
frontmatter is attacker-controlled.

Scoped to js-yaml only. The remaining brace-expansion advisory is not
fixed by this and is deliberately left alone: npm audit fix takes the
high count from 1 to 5, because the three copies nested under eslint
land on 1.1.16, which still compares inside the advisory's <=5.0.7
range. Closing it needs an eslint major or an overrides entry.

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

* chore(#2654): backfill changeset pr number to 2655

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-25 23:45:26 -04:00