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Tom Boucher
fb2d122d7f feat(#3841): assert gsd-tools identity on every state-mutating verb (#3848)
* feat(#3841): assert gsd-tools identity before any state-mutating verb

only this package publishes. The path-based branches — a project-local install,
a runtime config directory — had no such guarantee; they trusted their
configured location. This closes them.

Mechanism: once resolution finishes, and before any verb runs, the preamble
probes the tool it picked with `runtime-identity --raw` and matches the answer
with a shell `case` pattern ANCHORED to the start of the compact payload
(`{"packageName":"@opengsd/gsd-core"`). An unanchored substring match accepts
the decoy `{"packageName":"get-shit-done-cc","note":"@opengsd/gsd-core"}`, which
any colliding package could publish. The outcome is exported as the two-valued
`GSD_IDENTITY_STATUS` (`ok`/`unverified`), so the gate is asserted on a VALUE
rather than on warning prose. Rollout is warn-then-fail per the #3146 ruling:
`unverified` prints one line naming BOTH causes and continues, because
`no_identity_verb` cannot tell a foreign package from an `@opengsd/gsd-core`
older than the verb, and at rollout the old-version case is the common one.

The blocker was byte budget, not design. The preamble is inlined into 112
shipped files and several sat within single-digit bytes of frozen ceilings
(`gsd-verifier.md` 16 bytes, `gsd-executor.md` 33, `execute-phase.md` 234); a
first attempt broke five of them. What made room was collapsing the resolver's
twenty near-identical `elif [ -f … ]` arms into one candidate-list helper
(`_gsd_at`), which buys far more than the assertion costs. The preamble is now
2,624 bytes against 4,500 — a net 1,876 bytes SMALLER per inlined file, so every
capped file moved away from its ceiling rather than toward it. No cap raised, no
size-budget exception added, no override token emitted.

Resolution order, every runtime-home probe, the `unset -f gsd_run` re-source
fix, the fail-closed `exit 1`, and the `CLAUDE_ENV_FILE` persistence are all
preserved byte-for-byte in substring terms; the snippet still begins with
`_GSD_SHIM_NAME=` and still ends with `fi`, which the parity extractors anchor
on. `gsd-core/references/gsd-run-resolver.md` is re-synced byte-equal.

Also fixes two stale claims found in passing: CONTEXT.md and FEATURES.md both
described an `[ -x ]` guard as the load-bearing re-source defense. That guard
was tried and REMOVED in #3831 — it rejected the bare function name, fell
through every branch, and hit `exit 1`, which kills a sourced caller's shell.
`unset -f gsd_run` is the actual mechanism.

Refs #3841

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

* fix(#3841): pair the anchor's brace by requiring a closed identity payload

The matrix went red on `tests/new-project-mvp-prompt.test.cjs` — "new-project.md
has unbalanced braces: net depth 2" — plus a knock-on report from its parent
`bug #1516` describe, which is the same failure counted once at the child and
once at the block.

Root cause: that guard (:182-189, mirroring #3784 bd53925f) walks characters and
increments on `{`, decrements on `}`, with no awareness of shell quoting. It
scans `new-project.md` PLUS every `new-project/steps/*.md`, and both
`new-project.md` and `steps/auto-mode-config.md` carry one inlined preamble copy
— hence net 2 from a snippet that was off by exactly one. The unpaired brace was
the `{` inside the single-quoted `case` pattern of the identity anchor, which is
correct shell and invisible to a text scanner.

Fix in the snippet, not the guard. The pattern now anchors at BOTH ends:
`'{"packageName":"@opengsd/gsd-core"'*'}'`. That balances 51/51 with a brace that
does real work rather than a cosmetic pair — a truncated payload whose prefix
matches now fails too, where before it verified. Safe for any future additive
field: a JSON object's own closing brace is always the last character, whatever
type the last value has, which is pinned by two negative-space tests (a nested
object and an array-valued last key must both still verify). Cost: +3 bytes,
against the 1,873 the resolver fold already gave back.

The alternative considered and rejected was dropping the literal `{` for a `?`
glob. It balances too, but weakens the anchor from "must be an opening brace" to
"must be any one character", and the anchor is the entire point.

Two guards added so this cannot recur silently:
- runtime-launcher-parity (F0) pins brace balance at the SNIPPET, so the next
  edit to that pattern fails on the file it broke instead of surfacing three
  files downstream in a test whose name mentions neither the launcher nor this
  issue. It also asserts depth never goes negative, since a `}` preceding its
  `{` nets to zero while being unbalanced at every prefix.
- runtime-identity gains behavioral truncated-payload and trailing-garbage
  fixtures, so the added `}` is proven load-bearing rather than merely present.

Verified: snippet 51/51 braces; new-project combined net depth 0; the seven
other preamble-bearing files with nonzero depth are unchanged from merged next
(their own prose, not the preamble, and not in any guard's scan set); all 112
inlined copies and the resolver reference re-synced byte-equal; sync:launcher
idempotent on the second run.

Refs #3841

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

* chore(#3841): backfill changeset PR number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 01:05:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
63abcface9 feat(#3146): resolve gsd_run so workflows cannot reach a foreign gsd-tools (#3831)
* feat(#3146): resolve gsd_run so workflows cannot reach a foreign gsd-tools

The predecessor package get-shit-done-cc publishes a colliding gsd-tools bin whose phases.clear DELETES where this package's ARCHIVES, and both print success-shaped output against a gitignored .planning/ -- which is how #3129 cost a user 43 phase directories with no error and nothing recoverable from git.

The launcher's PATH branch now resolves gsd_run, published only by this package and self-locating via its own symlink chain to the sibling shim, instead of the colliding gsd-tools. A foreign handler becomes unreachable from PATH, and when no gsd_run is reachable the resolver fails closed rather than falling back -- that fallback was the vulnerability. This is smaller than the branch it replaces, which matters: the preamble is inlined into 113 shipped files and agents/gsd-verifier.md sits 2 bytes under a red-line size cap.

unset -f gsd_run leads the preamble so a re-source is idempotent. Without it, command -v finds the shell function, returns a bare name, and the resolver falls through to an exit 1 that kills a sourced caller's shell.

Adds gsd-tools runtime-identity, a manual diagnostic reporting this runtime's package coordinates over the baked package-identity (#498) and readHostVersion, with a strict total classifier: only a JSON object with an exact packageName verifies, since JSON.parse admits 0/"str"/[]/null/true.

An inlined identity assertion was built and reviewed first, then withdrawn -- it breaks five frozen size ceilings and no assertion fits in 2 bytes.

Closes #3146

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

* fix(#3146): stop sync:launcher relocating a deliberate preamble placement

Pre-existing defect, surfaced by this PR because sync is a no-op unless the snippet content actually changes. transformFile inserts the preamble into the first block that CALLS gsd_run, but gsd-core/workflows/explore.md deliberately places it in a bootstrap-only block that DEFINES gsd_run without calling it -- its own comment explains why: declining the research offer must not leave Step 5's commit call unbootstrapped. Stripping empties that block of calls, so the preamble migrated forward and broke the define-before-use invariant tests/explore-command.test.cjs pins.

Reproduced on a pristine origin/next checkout with the base snippet and base file, so this was not introduced here. The insertion target now honours a block that already carried the preamble, falling back to the first calling block for files that have none yet. Adds a behavioral regression test over a two-block fixture.

Also updates three runtime-launcher-parity tests that pinned the removed PATH fallback to gsd-tools. Their intent is preserved -- the PATH stub is renamed gsd_run so it is reachable by the new resolver, and the RUNTIME_DIR-wins test still asserts the stub is never invoked. Fixture shebangs move to an absolute /bin/sh, because the fixture PATH is deliberately restricted and #!/usr/bin/env sh could not resolve.

Refs #3146

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

* chore(#3146): backfill changeset PR number

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

* docs(#3146): document the FEATURES.md section-numbering practice

The monotonically increasing section number in docs/FEATURES.md is the most frequent merge-conflict source in this repo, and it has TWO conflict cells, not one: the ### N. heading and the hand-maintained table of contents. Two PRs adding differently numbered features still collide on the TOC, so renumbering alone does not make a branch safe. This branch alone was renumbered 165 -> 166 -> 167 -> 168 across successive rebases.

Adds a CONTRIBUTING section stating the practice: allocate the number last, never pre-emptively renumber, take max+1 after a rebase and update the TOC in the same commit, and never renumber someone else's section. Fork contributors are told explicitly they may leave the number to a maintainer at merge rather than chasing the counter. Agents are told to lease the allocation and to include the file in their published touched set.

Records the durable fix as planned rather than pretending it exists: FEATURES.md should be generated from per-feature fragments the way CHANGELOG.md is generated from .changeset/, and the way tests/emitted-drift-acks/ works (#2914).

Also renumbers this branch's own section to 168, leaving 167 to the PR already in flight.

Refs #3146

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 20:57:16 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c933184b97 enhance(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command (#3825)
* test(#3172): failing-first suite for the stated failing-direction probe

Pins the <fails_when> pairing walk, placeholder denylist, MISSING sentinel
exemption, degraded-read contract, CLI arm and the plan-authoring contract text.
RED by construction: the module exports it requires do not exist yet.
Executed on the remote runner.

* feat(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command

Every runnable <automated> command now carries a <fails_when> sibling naming
what output constitutes failure. A command with no expressible failure mode is
not an acceptance test: it reads as rigour and is not falsifiable.

- verify-command-grounding gains a failing-direction probe sharing the existing
  <automated> grammar, MISSING sentinel and walk guard rather than copying them
- gsd-tools check verify-failure-directions <N> backs it; plan-phase dispatches
  it and hands the JSON to gsd-plan-checker check 8f
- Dimension 8 detail extracted to references to stay under the agent size cap

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): close four review findings in the failing-direction probe

- MISSING_SENTINEL_RE matched an env-var assignment prefix (MISSING=1 cmd), so
  a real command was exempted from the new blocking gate. Tightened the SHARED
  constant rather than adding a second copy.
- Both token regexes scanned to EOF on unclosed openers (O(n^2), 1562ms at 40k).
  Bodies are now non-crossing; 1ms, byte-identical on well-formed input. The
  pre-existing AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE carried the same defect and is fixed here too.
- probePhaseFailingDirections reported status 'ok' when one plan was unreadable,
  conflating 'could not look' with 'nothing to report'.
- Extracted the phase-resolution block both check arms had copied verbatim.

Also corrects a docs/AGENTS.md dimension list stale since #2401.
Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): project the planner rule onto the spawn contract, settle emitted bookkeeping

The remote runner refuted the planner-side edit. agents/gsd-planner.md is frozen
under a 49152-LF-char cap asserted by four suites and sat at 49,146 — six chars
of headroom — so the +537 of authoring rule blew it. #3297/#3645 already settled
where such a rule goes: the planner spawn contract in plan-phase.md, beside
<tracked_source_paths>. The agent file is reverted to origin/next verbatim.

- plan-phase.md gains <failing_direction_contract>; tests row 30 now asserts the
  contract there and row 30b guards the freeze in both directions
- plan-phase.md growth acknowledged by APPENDING to the 3409 fragment, per the
  precedent that two ack sources may never name the same path
- install-tree fixtures regenerated for the three new reference files

Verified on the remote runner.

* chore(#3172): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment

pr:0 -> pr:3825 now that the PR exists.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 19:05:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8442d984b9 fix(#3809): route runtime-loaded markdown through the gsd_run launcher (#3815)
* test(#3809): generalize dead-ref guard into a rule table (failing first)

The #2020 guard hardcoded `sdk/(src|dist|handlers)/` — the three dead paths
that had caused that storm. That proved those three paths were gone and said
nothing about the class, so #3809 reproduced the identical Windows find.exe
storm under a different token and the guard could not see it.

Replaces the single regex with a rule table over the same runtime-loaded
markdown surface, adds `commands/` to the scan set (previously uncovered),
and adds rule B: the runtime shim filename must never appear in command
position, because it is not a PATH command and an agent that meets it falls
back to locating the file.

Rule B's matcher is deliberately lenient — the launcher's own resolver
assignment, `node <path>/<shim>` calls, bare paths, and prose that names the
file all stay unflagged, each pinned by a negative-space row.

This commit is expected to FAIL: 50 offenders across 23 files remain in the
tree. The remediation lands next.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): route every workflow call through the gsd_run launcher

50 places across 23 runtime-loaded workflow, agent, reference, and command
files instructed the agent to run the runtime shim by filename. That filename
is not on PATH under any name -- package.json ships gsd-core, gsd-tools,
gsd_run and gsd-mcp-server -- so the call exited 127, the file-shaped token
sent the agent looking for the file, and on Git Bash for Windows the resulting
`find /` walked the entire drive (7268 CPU-seconds in the report) until
somebody killed it by hand.

CONTEXT.md -> Runtime Launcher Module already makes gsd_run the single entry
point: "Canonical space-safe shell preamble (`gsd_run`) used by every workflow
bash block to invoke the GSD runtime CLI." These sites predate that rule --
they trace to 0e6907050 (docs(#195): migrate workflow markdown off gsd-sdk
query), which swapped one non-PATH token for another.

Two further instances of the same class surfaced during remediation and are
fixed here rather than left for later:

  - references/model-profiles.md prescribed `node <shim> effort sync` with no
    path at all; node resolves a bare filename against cwd, so it fails the
    same way.
  - references/universal-anti-patterns.md rule 25 instructed every agent to
    "use <shim>" when shelling out. That rule did not contain the defect, it
    prescribed it repo-wide.

Five "(or legacy <shim>)" parentheticals left dangling by the substitution are
removed; after the rewrite they offered the non-resolving form as an
alternative.

The guard from the previous commit now passes. Its node-prefix exemption was
tightened to require a path separator, which is what exposed model-profiles.

Fixes #3809

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

* fix(#3809): key the guard on the CLI's whole verb roster, not observed usage

Review found the first cut of rule B repeating the very mistake it exists to
prevent. Its verb set held query, commit and effort -- the verbs that happened
to appear in the tree -- so it could not see `<shim> phase add`,
`<shim> state load`, `<shim> verify ...` or twenty-odd other real single-word
subcommands. A guard that only recognises yesterday's offenders is not a guard.

The set is now the CLI's full advertised roster, unioned from the usage banner
and HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS (which carries verification, planning, uat, stats,
todo and windows, all absent from the banner).

Widening it immediately caught a live offender the first pass had missed:
references/planning-config.md prescribed `node <shim> worktree set-baseref`
with no path. Fixed here.

Also drops the "a hyphen or a dot means subcommand" heuristic, which was
unsound for prose -- it flagged `built-in` and `v1.2`. Detection now keys
entirely on the roster, testing the first dot-segment so that phase.add and
state.patch still match while prose does not. Both false positives are pinned
as negative-space rows.

Guard verified against the pre-fix tree at origin/next: 52 offenders across 25
files, and 0 after this branch's remediation.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): derive the verb roster from the router; repair launcher parity

Standards review caught the guard repeating the defect it exists to prevent.
Its verb list was a hand-copied literal -- and worse, transcribed from an
INSTALLED older binary, so it was missing 22 verbs this tree actually ships
(websearch, windows, state-snapshot, context-predicates and the dispatch-*
family among them). gsd-tools.cjs already carries three hand-maintained
rosters whose drift is a named defect pinned by the parity test in
tests/commands.test.cjs; a hand-copied fourth was that same defect wearing a
guard's clothes.

The roster is now derived from HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS + TOP_LEVEL_USAGE, lazily
and memoised, with `query` supplemented explicitly -- it dispatches through
the routing hub ahead of the host-router table, so it appears in neither
export, yet 45 of the 50 offenders used it. A parity test pins the derivation.

Two regressions this branch introduced, both caught by the remote runner:

  - runtime-launcher-parity: rewriting a comment in gsd-research-synthesizer.md
    put a `gsd_run` token at line 65 while the canonical preamble sits at 158,
    breaking "exactly ONE preamble, before the first gsd_run call". The comment
    is descriptive and needs no command token at all; it now names none.
  - The #2751 guard's PROSE_ALLOWLIST entry for that same line went stale once
    the line stopped carrying a bare mention. Pruned, exactly as that guard's
    own stale-entry test instructs.

Also corrects git-planning-commit.md, where the first pass rewrote only the
trailing "legacy" clause and left the sentence reading backwards.

Note the #2751 guard and this one are complementary, not duplicates: its regex
requires whitespace immediately after `gsd-tools`, so it cannot match the
`.cjs` form, and this one only matches the `.cjs` form.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#2751): extend the bare-command guard to references/ and commands/

The #2751 guard has only ever scanned agents/ and gsd-core/workflows/. Two
runtime-loaded directories were never in its scan set, and 47 bare
`gsd-tools <verb>` calls had accumulated there unseen -- the same defect that
guard exists to catch, in the rooms it never entered.

  - gsd-core/references/: 37 calls, all rewritten to gsd_run. references are
    fragments inlined into a parent that defines the launcher, which is why 21
    of the 22 files already using gsd_run carry no local preamble.
  - commands/gsd/: 10 operative calls rewritten. The remaining 10 are
    descriptive prose ("resolved inside the workflow via ...") and are
    allowlisted with reasons, bringing PROSE_ALLOWLIST to 15.

commands/ also came under launcher propagation. sync-runtime-launcher.cjs
walked only WORKFLOWS_DIR and AGENTS_DIR, so every preamble under commands/
was a hand-pasted copy nothing propagated and no test checked -- graphify.md
had accumulated five. It now walks COMMANDS_DIR too, which collapses those
five to the canonical one-per-file, and runtime-launcher-parity gains a
(B-commands) arm mirroring (B-agents) exactly so the placement stays honest.

The parity arm keys on shell blocks, so commands/gsd/workstreams.md and
config.md -- which name gsd_run only in inline backtick prose -- are exempt,
as they should be. gsd_run is itself a shipped npm bin, so those inline
instructions resolve from PATH exactly as the gsd-tools form they replace did.

skills/ is deliberately NOT added to either guard's scan set: it is generated
from commands/ and pinned by lint:generated-sync, so guarding the source
guards both, and scanning the mirror would double-report every future
offender. Regenerated here.

Refs #2751, #3809

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

* test(#3809): acknowledge the one emitted file this change grows

The emitted-attribution gate failed on the previous sha: gsd-research-synthesizer.md
grew 3 bytes (13847 -> 13850) with no acknowledgment. The substitution SHRANK the
other 19 emitted files, which is why the growth arm was not expected to fire at all.

The 3 bytes are unavoidable. Line 65 is a descriptive comment inside a fenced block;
naming any command there puts a gsd_run token ahead of the file's canonical preamble
at line 158, which runtime-launcher-parity's (B-agents) arm correctly rejects. So the
comment names no command and says where the config is actually loaded instead, which
reads longer than the token it replaced.

Acks only the path the gate reported, per the fragment rules.

Refs #3809

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

* revert(#2751): drop the commands/ half — three contracts pin it in place

The remote runner refuted the commands/ extension outright. Reverting it and
keeping the references/ conversion, which passed.

What broke, all of it caused by bringing commands/ under launcher propagation:

  - graphify.md's five per-block preambles are LOAD-BEARING, not accumulated
    drift. tests/graphify-visualization.test.cjs extracts individual Step-3
    shell chains and executes them standalone, so each fenced block needs its
    own definition of gsd_run. Collapsing them to the canonical one-per-file
    produced `bash: gsd_run: command not found`, exit 127, across four tests.
    The "define once per file" contract holds for workflows and agents because
    nothing extracts their blocks in isolation; commands/ is not like that.
  - explore.md broke "the preamble that DEFINES gsd_run must appear before the
    first USE of gsd_run anywhere in the file".
  - tests/gsd-tools-path-refs.test.cjs (#1766) ASSERTS that
    commands/gsd/workstreams.md contains the literal string
    `gsd-tools query workstream.list`. Rewriting it to gsd_run contradicts a
    test that pins the opposite, so the two guards disagree about that file by
    construction.

So commands/ is not a scan-set widening. It needs those contracts reconciled
first, and that is its own change. SCAN_DIRS keeps gsd-core/references/ and
drops commands/, the ten commands/ allowlist entries go with it (back to 5),
and the reasoning is recorded in the guard itself so the next person does not
rediscover it by burning a matrix run.

commands/gsd/import.md keeps its #3809 fix — that one is the .cjs form this
PR exists to remove, and it is untouched by any of the above.

Refs #2751, #3809

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

* revert(#3809): restore explore.md's Step 1 preamble placement

Running the launcher sync script processed workflows/ and agents/ too, not
just the commands/ directory the run was aimed at, and it MOVED
gsd-core/workflows/explore.md's preamble from Step 1 down to Step 3.

The script inserts into the first bash block that USES gsd_run. explore.md's
Step 1 block only DEFINES it, and that placement is deliberate -- the file
says so on the line above: "Placed in Step 1 rather than Step 3 so declining
the research offer cannot leave Step 5's commit call unbootstrapped."
tests/explore-command.test.cjs pins it.

explore.md carried no #3809 offender, so reverting it costs this fix nothing.
This was collateral from invoking the sync script at all, not from the
COMMANDS_DIR change, which is why the earlier commands/ revert did not catch it.

Refs #3809

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

* chore(#3809): backfill PR number into changeset fragments

pr:0 -> pr:3815 for both fragments now that the PR exists.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): drop the hand-rolled regex escaper CodeQL flagged

CodeQL raised js/incomplete-sanitization (HIGH) on the guard's pattern build:
`SHIM.replace(/\./g, '\\.')` escapes the dot and nothing else, so it does not
escape backslashes. It blocked PR #3815.

The repo already bans this shape -- local/no-adhoc-regex-escape exists exactly
to stop hand-rolled escapers, with the canonical one in src/pattern.cts. Rather
than reach for that helper, the pattern now carries no escaping logic at all:
SHIM is a compile-time constant whose only metacharacter is the dot, so the
regex source is spelled out literally. The generated source string is
byte-identical to what the replace() produced, verified before and after --
0 offenders on this tree, 52 against origin/next, unchanged.

A drift pin asserts SHIM_PATTERN still matches SHIM exactly, and that the dot
is escaped rather than acting as a wildcard, so the two cannot separate.

Refs #3809

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 11:47:37 -04:00
Tom Boucher
cf15682d1c enhance(#3028): responsive Markdown separators instead of fixed-width rules (#3789)
* feat(#3028): responsive Markdown separators instead of fixed-width rules

Stage banners, checkpoints, completion and error panels used fixed-width
runs of box-drawing characters -- a 53-column heavy rule and a 62-column
double-line box. Those runs are ordinary text to a Markdown-rendering
host, so in a narrower pane they wrap and the border comes apart from
the heading it framed.

Shipped content now emits an ATX heading for a titled section and a
blank-line-delimited --- for a break between sections, both of which
adapt to the available width. The same convention is applied to the
three code sites that built these strings at runtime: the UAT
checkpoint renderer, the milestone-close audit report, and the TDD
review checkpoint table.

Removing the box also removes its only reason to exist -- the
east-asian-width padding helpers that kept its right border aligned
(checkpointBoxLine, displayWidth, isWideCodePoint, ZERO_WIDTH_MARK_RE,
CHECKPOINT_BOX_WIDTH). RTL directional isolation is unchanged.

The convention is specified in gsd-core/references/ui-brand.md and
enforced across all shipped content by tests/responsive-separators.test.cjs.

Refs #3028

* test(#3028): pin the heading form in checkpoint and audit-report assertions

These suites asserted the exact box borders and the 62-column padded
banner interior. With the box gone they assert the ### heading form,
the --- break and the bolded instruction line, and each now carries a
positive assertion that no box character remains -- which is what pins
the fix rather than merely tolerating it.

Language coverage is converted, not dropped: Japanese, Chinese, Korean,
Hindi and Arabic all still assert their rendered banner, and the Arabic
case still asserts the RTL directional isolates the box removal must
not disturb. Adds a case for a banner longer than the old inner width,
which previously produced a ragged border and now has none.

Refs #3028

* chore(#3028): acknowledge execute-plan.md growth from the checkpoint display spec

The checkpoint_protocol display spec described the drawn box; it now
describes the heading, the --- break and the bolded action prompt,
which costs 22 bytes (40111 -> 40133, 827 under the cap).

Appended to the existing #3370 fragment rather than filed as a new one:
a growth ack keys on the bare filename and #3370 already declares
execute-plan.md, so a second source naming it would be a hard
duplicate-key error. Same supersede-by-append route #3370 took for the
spent #2652 fragment.

Refs #3028

* docs(#3028): state the load-bearing half of the separator rule, and amend the zh-CN reference

Review found three things.

The rule as first written demanded a blank line above AND below every
---. Only the one above is load-bearing: it is what stops CommonMark
reading the rule as a setext underline for the line above. The one below
is cosmetic, because a thematic break is a leaf block. The rule now says
that, with the reason, instead of asserting a stricter form the content
does not keep.

The zh-CN reference had received the mechanical box-to-heading swap but
none of the prose behind it: it still claimed a 62-character checkpoint
width and still listed --- among forbidden mixed banner styles, so it
contradicted the convention it was translating. It now carries the
separator section, the setext reasoning, the unconditional-vs-per-runtime
rationale and a corrected anti-pattern list, in Chinese.

The user guide asserted that a heading is not a degradation anywhere.
That is an assertion, not a demonstration. It now says what was actually
traded away in a plain terminal, points at the recorded rationale, and
invites the report that would justify the capability flag instead.

Refs #3028

* chore(#3028): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3028

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-23 22:38:12 -04:00
Behruz Nassre Esfahani
622f43353c fix(#3299): tracer feedback gate honors workflow.human_verify_mode (#3390)
* fix(#3299): tracer feedback gate honors workflow.human_verify_mode

The tracer feedback gate (#2294) predates `workflow.human_verify_mode`
(#3309, whose scope was the planner and verifier only), and branched on
auto-mode alone. Under the documented `end-of-phase` default an
interactive run therefore halted after EVERY `type="tracer"` task,
synthesizing a `checkpoint:human-verify` no planner ever emitted and
asking the user to retype a verdict the executor had just computed —
at the cost of a full executor cold-start each time.

Planner-side suppression cannot reach this halt because the executor
synthesizes it at runtime, which is why #3309 did not close it.

The gate now branches on HUMAN_VERIFY_MODE in the interactive path:
under `end-of-phase` an automated-only tracer `<verify>` is re-run and,
on success, expansion continues with no checkpoint. HALT-on-failure is
unchanged. `mid-flight`, `gate="blocking-human"`, and tracers carrying
genuine `<human-check>` evidence all still stop; the autonomous branch
is untouched.

`--default end-of-phase` on the config read is load-bearing, not
decorative: `workflow.human_verify_mode` is absent from SCHEMA_DEFAULTS,
so a bare `config-get` exits non-zero with `Key not found` on any
project whose config.json predates #3309 — which is the reporter's
exact config and every pre-existing project.

Both copies of the rule (workflows/execute-plan.md and
agents/gsd-executor.md) are updated together; the reference doc records
the seam and the human-check-still-halts rationale so it cannot recur.

Fixes #3299

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#3299): add changeset

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3299): reconcile the canonical schema table and the stale acceptance test

Review round 1 (trek-e) — three items, all in the drift class this PR is
about, two of them landed inside this PR's own diff.

1. docs/reference/plan-md.md:233 — CONTEXT.md names this file the canonical
   schema reference for the tracer task-type contract, and its Task-types row
   still claimed interactive runs unconditionally present a
   checkpoint:human-verify. CONTEXT.md and docs/AGENTS.md were updated in the
   first round; this one was missed, so the authoritative reference was the
   wrong answer. The row now carries the human_verify_mode-conditional
   behavior and points at the canonical precedence chain.

2. tests/tracer-bullet.test.cjs — the docs assertion only checked that a
   tracer ROW EXISTS, never its content, which is why CI could not see the
   drift. It now asserts the row's actual claims and rejects the pre-#3299
   wording. Separately, the #1945 acceptance test named 'interactive run emits
   checkpoint:human-verify after the tracer' kept passing only because its
   substrings still occur in the fallback clause, while its name asserted the
   opposite of shipped behavior. Renamed and narrowed to what #1945 still
   guarantees, plus a new interactiveIsConditional pin so the unconditional
   prose cannot be restored under a passing substring check.

3. plan-md.md's <verify> row now documents that the legacy bare-text form
   (valid, and still shown at :179) does not reach the #3299 auto-continue —
   only a <verify> carrying <automated> does — so the benefit is silently
   unreachable for tracers using that format.

Mutation-verified: reverting the plan-md row fails 1 test; reverting the
executor's interactive branch fails 4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3299): make the tracer gate reachable from the planner template, and bind the assertions

Peer review round 3 found two Majors, both verified by reproducing the
mutation before fixing.

MAJOR 1 — the fix was largely inert on its own default path.
agents/gsd-planner.md's Nyquist Rule (:191) says every <verify> includes
<automated>, but the tracer-specific template twelve lines later emitted the
legacy bare-text form. The gate auto-continues only on a <verify> carrying
only <automated>, so every tracer produced from the canonical template fell
to the STOP fallback and #3299's benefit was unreachable for exactly the task
type it targets. Template now wraps in <automated>; a contract assertion pins
it so the two cannot drift apart again.

MAJOR 2 — the new assertions did not bind condition to action.
Appending 'Nevertheless, interactive runs always present a
checkpoint:human-verify' to the canonical row, and 'then immediately STOP and
return a checkpoint:human-verify' to the auto-continue clause in BOTH
operative copies, restored unconditional interactive checkpointing and left
the suite 35/35 green. Every required keyword still matched. Fixed by:

- clause 2 must now contain no STOP outcome and emit no checkpoint at all —
  'never a checkpoint' has to be true OF the clause, not merely stated in it;
- interactiveIsConditional replaced with the ordered-clause parse plus the
  same no-STOP property, instead of proving only that HUMAN_VERIFY_MODE
  appears somewhere on the line;
- the plan-md.md Autonomy cell is now pinned EXACTLY rather than by keyword
  presence. Deliberately brittle: CONTEXT.md names that table the canonical
  schema reference, so a wording change must be a conscious edit in both
  places.

Mutation-verified after the fix: the combined semantic regression now fails 3
tests; reverting the planner template fails 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#3299): exact-pin the safety clauses instead of blacklisting outcome verbs

Peer review round 4. Blacklisting did not hold, twice over:

- Round 3 banned literal STOP and the 'return a'/'present a' checkpoint
  forms in the auto-continue clause. Round 4 defeated that by appending
  'then pause and invoke checkpoint_protocol with a checkpoint:human-verify
  before expansion' — none of the banned tokens, same restored interruption
  after every successful tracer. 36/36 passed.
- The planner guard looked for <automated> anywhere inside <verify>, so
  '<verify>[...]<!--<automated>--></verify>' satisfied it while leaving the
  legacy bare form operative. 107/107 passed across tracer, planner and the
  three size-cap suites.

Synonyms are unbounded; the clauses are not. Both are now pinned exactly on
normalized whitespace, the same approach already proven on the plan-md.md
Autonomy cell, with defence-in-depth checks behind them: no checkpoint-emitting
or blocking outcome in any wording inside clause 2, and the planner's <verify>
body must be exactly one non-empty <automated> child with no commented markup.

These pins are deliberately brittle. Each is a safety contract, so changing the
behavior must be a conscious edit in both the prose and the expectation.

Mutation-verified: the synonym-checkpoint mutation fails 1; the commented-out
wrapper fails 1; the round-3 literal-STOP + contradictory-doc-row regression
fails 3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#3299): strip comments, require uniqueness, pin whole regions

Peer review round 5. Exact-pinning one clause was still bypassable two ways,
both reproduced before fixing (each left the suite fully green):

- COMMENTED DECOYS. Put the correct text in an HTML comment followed by a live
  wrong copy: every extractor selected the commented decoy. Worked against the
  planner template, the canonical plan-md.md row, and both executor branches.
- SURROUNDING OVERRIDE. Insert 'after every tracer, pause and invoke
  checkpoint_protocol before expansion, regardless of the mode-specific rules
  below' immediately ABOVE the pinned clause, or 'ignore row 3; always wait for
  approval' below the canonical table. The pinned text was untouched, so
  equality held while the shipped meaning inverted.

The shape that holds, applied to every operative surface:
  1. strip HTML comments BEFORE selecting, so a decoy cannot be chosen;
  2. require the structural anchor to occur EXACTLY ONCE, so a live second copy
     cannot hide behind a correct first one;
  3. pin the ENTIRE decision region, not one clause, so no unparsed prefix or
     suffix can override what the pin proves.

Applied to: the executor's whole tracer branch, execute-plan.md's whole
dispatch line, checkpoints.md's whole precedence section, and plan-md.md's
Autonomy cell.

Also addresses the round-5 Minor: the planner template is now asserted
STRUCTURALLY (exactly one <verify> in the fenced block, body exactly one
non-empty <automated> child) rather than pinning the descriptive placeholder
verbatim, so behavior-preserving wording changes no longer false-fail. The
clause and section pins keep their exact form — those have a safety rationale
the placeholder copy does not.

Mutation-verified, all six rounds: override-above-clause 1; commented decoy row
1; commented decoy branch 1; ignore-row-3 override 1; synonym checkpoint 1;
commented-out wrapper 2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#3299): drop the superseded exact-placeholder planner assertion

Peer review round 6, Minor. The round-5 brittleness fix ADDED a structural
planner assertion but left the old exact-placeholder one in place, so the
over-brittleness it was meant to remove was still live: rewording the
descriptive placeholder while preserving exactly one non-empty direct
<automated> child failed the old test and passed the new one.

Removed the old test. The structural assertion is the real contract — the gate
auto-continues on the SHAPE of the verify, not on the wording of a placeholder.

Verified both directions: a behavior-preserving reword now passes; reverting the
template to bare <verify> still fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#3299): select operative prose via parsePredicates, not a hand-rolled scanner

Peer review round 7. I had judged the round-6 selector bypass adversarial-only
and out of scope, intending to disclose it. Both premises were wrong, and the
review said so:

- 'Needs new src API' — false. parsePredicates is ALREADY a public export and
  internally uses the repo's interleaved fence/comment scanner. Instrumenting
  candidate lines as throwaway predicate declarations borrows that scanner with
  no src change at all.
- 'Adversarial-only' — false, and this is the part that mattered. Two ORDINARY
  edits silently turned the guards into decoy checks:
    * a forgotten '-->' comments the live rule through to EOF, and the
      balanced-only stripper still saw and accepted the commented rule;
    * a normal fenced documentation example of the rule, plus a whitespace-only
      reformat of the live list item, made the selector choose the example.
  Neither needs intent. A dangling comment is a typo; a fenced example is good
  documentation. Together they reproduce exactly the accidental drift #3299 came
  from — with CI green.

The selection layer now defers to parsePredicates for operativeness, uses
whitespace-tolerant anchors so a reformat cannot decouple the live line from its
pin, extracts regions by operative line index rather than string search, and
carries a self-guard test proving fenced / balanced-commented /
after-unclosed-comment copies are all excluded. The helper also ignores indexes
it did not inject, so a pre-existing GSDTEST.CANDIDATE line cannot pollute it.

Verified both ordinary-edit scenarios now fail the suite (each was green before).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#3299): close the operative-selection gaps the maintainer blocked on

trek-e's Blocker: the operative-line selection layer had three gaps, all
reachable by ordinary future doc edits rather than sabotage. He independently
found a fourth I had not disclosed. All are fixed.

1. INDENTATION PROMOTION (his find, not in my disclosure). The instrumentation
   replaced a matched candidate with an UNINDENTED marker regardless of the
   original line's indentation. A 4-space-indented CommonMark code block is not
   skipped by parsePredicates (it accepts indented declarations by design), so
   stripping the indent PROMOTED an indented decoy to operative — the exact
   inversion of the guard's purpose. The marker now preserves the original
   indent, and a candidate that is itself indented 4+ spaces is never injected.

2. NO SET MEMBERSHIP. The filter accepted any in-range integer, so a
   pre-existing literal GSDTEST.CANDIDATE=<valid index> in source text could
   pollute the count. Now filters on a Set of the indexes actually injected on
   this call.

3. RAW FENCE SELECTION (planner). The template test matched the first raw
   ```xml fence after the marker with no fence/comment awareness — the one
   selection in the suite that was not operative-aware — so a commented-out
   decoy template between the marker and the real one would be selected while
   the live template regressed. The opener must now be operative AND the first
   non-blank line after the marker.

4. RAW END ANCHOR (regionFrom). The end anchor was tested against raw lines, so
   a fenced example containing a ### / <type line truncated the pinned region
   early — a false FAILURE on a legitimate doc edit. End anchors now go through
   the same operative filter as start anchors.

Mutation-verified: the indented-decoy + whitespace-varied-anchor combination
and the commented-out fence decoy each now fail the suite (both passed clean
before). Truncation is confirmed fixed by extraction — the region spans the
full section and retains the content following a fenced example, where it
previously stopped at it.

Note on the remaining brittleness: adding a fenced example INSIDE a pinned
region still fails the whole-region exact pin. That is the intended tradeoff
for a safety contract, not the truncation defect, and is called out as such.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#3299): allow-list operative indentation; pin marker provenance

Review round 9.

BLOCKER — the round-8 indentation guard was written as a DENY-list,
/^(?: {4,}|\t)/, and CommonMark has more indented-code forms than that
enumerates: " \t", "  \t" and "   \t" all open an indented code block and all
slipped through, so an indented decoy was still promoted to operative while the
live rule regressed (34/34 green). Inverted to an allow-list — only 0-3 literal
spaces is ordinary block indentation; anything else is code. Enumerating the
bad shapes was the error, not the specific regex.

MINOR — the injected-index Set validated the marker's VALUE but not its SOURCE.
A pre-existing literal `GSDTEST.CANDIDATE=<n>` could name an index that some
other (skipped) candidate had contributed to the set, and be accepted. Now also
requires p.line - 1 === Number(p.value): the predicate must have been parsed
from the line it names.

MINOR (false negative) — ```xml title=x is a valid CommonMark info string, and
requiring exactly ```xml failed the suite (33/34) on a behavior-preserving edit.
Both the opener assertion and the extraction now accept an info string.

Mutation-verified: the mixed " \t" decoy and the forged-provenance marker each
now fail; the info-string fence no longer false-fails.

KNOWN LIMITATION, disclosed on the PR rather than papered over: parsePredicates
is a predicate parser, not a general CommonMark operativeness oracle. Two
standards-valid constructs still read as operative — a lazy blockquote
continuation line (state opens only on a line that literally starts with ">"),
and a comment opened mid-line ("prose <!--", where state opens only when the
trimmed line STARTS with "<!--"). Closing those means either teaching the shared
src/context-predicates.cts about container/lazy-continuation state — a change to
a module every health rule consumes, well outside a tracer-gate fix — or
hand-rolling a CommonMark parser inside a test, which is how this suite got into
trouble in the first place. Left for the maintainer to scope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#3299): re-arm the execute-plan.md emitted-drift ack after the base merge

The #3299 ack rode on tests/emitted-drift-acks/2652-quick-diagnose-dispatch-isolation.json,
which upstream retired in 362d0434b (#3370) once #2728's entries were spent.
#3370's own fragment now owns execute-plan.md at the base, so a new
3299-*.json naming that path would collide — mergeAckSources rejects a
duplicate key across fragments rather than silently last-winning.

Re-arms #3370's entry instead, the mechanism the gate is built for (a spent
ack whose reason changes in the diff is live again), carrying #3370's own
reason forward verbatim so the base growth keeps its account.

Verified: emitted-attribution 175/175 against origin/next@be9329b10.

* fix(#3299): honor golden rule 6 in the tracer gate, extract the chain

Addresses the review on #3390 (B1-B3, M1-M4, minors).

B3 — checkpoints.md asserted two incompatible rules about the same gate.
Golden rule 6 says gate="blocking-human" stops for a human in every mode;
the precedence table scoped row 1 to interactive runs, so a first-match
chain let an auto-mode tracer carrying that gate fall to row 2 and
auto-continue. Rule 6 wins: row 1 is now "Any run, any mode", the
justification sentence it falsified is gone, and the STOP is evaluated
before the auto-mode branch at all three dispatch sites — gsd-executor.md,
execute-plan.md and the plan-md.md schema row. Unreachable by our planner
is not unreachable: src/verify.cts parses only `type` and never consults
`gate` on non-checkpoint tasks, so an imported PLAN.md can carry it.

B1 — the LARGE-tier cap. gsd-executor.md is 49150 on next against a 49152
cap, so this PR could not add a byte. Extracted rather than trimmed: the
precedence chain now lives only in checkpoints.md (already @-imported by
<checkpoint_protocol>, so no new load), and the duplicate summary inside
that protocol section is a pointer. The rationale the earlier trim
deleted is restored — "production-quality, never a throwaway" and
"Pouring more layers onto a broken foundation...". Result 49097: 55 bytes
under the cap and a net 53-byte REDUCTION against next, so the PR returns
headroom instead of consuming it.

B2 — merged upstream/next and resolved all three drift-ack conflicts.
2775 changed shape upstream (string -> {reason}); adopted the new form.

M1 — the 2775 ack claimed the Nyquist Rule sat "twelve lines earlier"; it
is ~75 lines. Corrected to "earlier in the file".
M2 — ack arithmetic restated from measurement, not from a stale base. The
2943 #3299 append is DELETED: with gsd-executor.md now shrinking there is
no ripple to acknowledge, and emitted-attribution correctly flagged the
entry as stale.
M3 — changeset rewritten to the documented bold-lead + em-dash one-liner.
M4 — the two self-defeated shapes are gone. The planner-human-verify-mode
presence checks now go through operativeLineIndexes. The config-get check
does NOT: all three reads live inside ```bash fences, which is their
correct executable form, and that selector excludes fenced lines by
design. It instead pins exactly one live, uncommented, fenced read per
file — mutation-tested against both a commented-out read and a duplicate.

Minors — dangling colon lead-in dropped, a "below" pointer that pointed
above corrected, and the `(default)` asymmetry between the two dispatch
copies aligned.

Two defects the merge surfaced, both caught only by the full suite:
the new #3576 gate rejected this PR's own bare `references/checkpoints.md`
cite in planner-human-verify-mode.md (rewritten to the canonical
gsd-core/ form), and the line-keyed PROSE_ALLOWLIST entry for
gsd-executor.md needed 794 -> 795 after this change shifted the line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3299): correct the size record the 08-22 merge falsified

Review round: one Major, four Minors.

Major — the #3299 arm's arithmetic was measured before the merge and is
now wrong in a document whose whole purpose is to be an accurate size
record. Re-measured at head: execute-plan.md is 39315 B on next and
40111 B here, so the 796-byte delta was right but the endpoints and the
headroom were not (849 bytes against DEFAULT_CAP 40960, not 1003). The
superseded figures are named rather than silently replaced. Confirmed
the workflow cap counts LF BYTES while the agent cap counts CHARACTERS —
two caps in two units, one per file.

Minor 1 — 2943-context7-tool-name.json reverted to next. JSON.parse of
both sides was already identical; the diff was an em-dash/times-sign
re-serialization left over from adding and then removing the #3299 arm.
No business in this PR.

Minor 2 — the duplicated `tracer row Autonomy cell` test is gone. Both
copies were new here and carried the same ~8-line canonical string; the
one removed selected its row with a raw startsWith find, the shape this
suite records at :477 as defeated in round 1. Its rationale — why the
cell is pinned EXACTLY, and the append-a-contradiction attack that
defeated keyword matching — is carried onto the surviving fence-aware
copy rather than deleted with it.

Minor 3 — the executor's condensed interactive clause said only "re-run,
continue", which does not distinguish pass from fail; read in isolation
it invites expansion onto a broken slice, the outcome the gate exists to
prevent. Now "re-run; fails → HALT as above, passes → continue, no
checkpoint". The pinned expected string moved with it. Executor at
48,905 chars, 247 under the cap.

Minor 4 — 2775 asserted two different current sizes for gsd-planner.md.
The stale half is next's own text taken wholesale, so the contradiction
was inherited; it now reads as a before-figure rather than a current one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3299): cite the plan-md example by section, not by a drifting line

Review round 7, Nit N-1. The 2775 ack fragment justified its one-line
formatting with "matching docs/reference/plan-md.md:207's own example
style". At head, :207 is prose; the one-line <verify><automated>
example it means is at :222. The citation was accurate when written
(77c2fda, f23205c) and drifted with a later merge of next.

Re-pointed by section rather than by line — it has already drifted
once, and the fragment's whole purpose is to be an accurate record —
and the drift itself is recorded inline so the correction does not
quietly overwrite what the earlier number said.

Also narrows the changeset's "any task with gate=blocking-human" to
"any tracer carrying gate=blocking-human" (found by Codex in the
whole-PR pass). Golden rule 6 and the #3299 decision table both scope
that gate to checkpoints and to the tracer feedback gate; the normal
type="auto" branch never inspects `gate`, so the wider claim promised
behavior the implementation does not have.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3299): answer fence-delimiter liveness by insertion, not replacement

Review round 9. The round-8 fence-awareness fix was itself unsound, in the same
class it was added to close.

`operativeLineIndexes` detects operative lines by REPLACING each candidate with
a throwaway predicate declaration and asking `parsePredicates` which survived.
Sound for ordinary content lines. Not sound for a fence DELIMITER, which is
exactly what the tracer-template selection passed it: deleting every ```xml
OPENER leaves each matching closer to become an opener, and since
`computeSkippedLineFlags` is a strict FORWARD state machine, fence parity
inverts for the whole remainder of the document.

Measured against the real file rather than argued:

  agents/gsd-planner.md has 3 live top-level ```xml openers — 0-based 180, 232,
  262. operativeLineIndexes reported 180 and 262. Line 232, the "Task-level TDD"
  example, read NON-OPERATIVE — a wrong answer from a helper whose only job is
  that question.

It passed only by parity coincidence, and one extra live example anywhere
earlier flipped it to a false FAILURE blaming a decoy that does not exist:

  HEAD as-is                  | anchor 260 | openIdx 262 | ASSERTION PASSES
  +1 unrelated ```xml example | anchor 265 | openIdx 267 | ASSERTION *** FAILS ***

Fixed by asking the question a way that perturbs nothing. `isOperativePosition`
INSERTS a marker on its own line immediately before the candidate instead of
replacing it. Insertion preserves every delimiter, and because the skip-state
machine runs strictly forward, a line inserted at `idx` observes exactly the
fence/comment state the candidate observes, with nothing but the marker between
them — so marker-operative IS the candidate's position-liveness.

The review's suggested direction (substitute a same-shaped opener that still
opens a fence) cannot work here: the marker would then be inside the fence and
would never parse as a predicate at all.

Position-liveness is not content-liveness, so the helper also rejects a line
that is entirely comment (`<!-- ```xml -->`), rather than leaving that to each
caller's own shape test to happen to exclude.

`operativeLineIndexes` now THROWS when its candidate regex matches a fence
delimiter, so the unsound route cannot be reached again by a future caller
rather than only being fixed at the one site that got it wrong.

Verified with the same extra-example scenario above: with the fix, all 35 rows
stay green. Teeth: reverting the call site to `operativeLineSet` turns the
tracer-template row red on the new guard. The regression row pins both live
openers (the second is the one the deletion route lost), the block-commented
and same-line-commented openers, a line inside a fence, and re-checks both
openers after unrelated lines shift above them.

Only tests/tracer-bullet.test.cjs changes — no agent file is touched, so the
5-char gsd-planner.md and 19-byte gsd-executor.md headroom are unaffected.

Verified: `npm run lint:ci` exit 0; full `npm test` 31307 tests / 31292 pass /
0 fail / 14 skipped, TMPDIR unset, against a freshly synced origin/next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3299): guard the delimiter class, match the scanner, pin the assignment

Codex full-PR review of #3390, run against the round-9 head. Three defects,
two of them in the code that round added.

1. The mode-read pin survived the regression it exists to catch.
   `READ` matched the config-get substring only, so rewriting the shipped line
   as `IGNORED_MODE=$(gsd_run query config-get ...)` kept the row green while
   nothing defined HUMAN_VERIFY_MODE — the gate falls through to STOP and #3299
   is back with the suite passing. The regex now requires the assignment. A
   lookahead after `end-of-phase` closes the other half: the bare prefix also
   accepted `--default end-of-phase-wrong`. Proven by mutation: renaming the
   variable in agents/gsd-executor.md now turns that row red, and did not before.

2. The round-9 fence-delimiter guard was a SAMPLE of the class, not the class.
   It probed a fixed list of five delimiter strings. `~~~xml`, ```json, `~~~~`
   and arbitrary info strings all walk past any list short enough to write down
   — the guard was added precisely because one such regex had already slipped
   through. Now matched against the lines the regex actually selects in the
   document, which cannot go stale and cannot miss a spelling nobody thought of.
   Four such spellings pinned as rows.

3. `isOperativePosition` disagreed with the scanner it delegates to.
   For `<!-- closed --> real content` it stripped the span, found surviving
   content, and answered "live". `computeSkippedLineFlags` skips an ENTIRE line
   whose trimmed text starts with `<!--`, balanced or not, before it considers
   fences at all. Verified directly against parsePredicates. It now applies the
   scanner's own rule instead of out-reasoning it. Latent for the present caller
   (its anchored ```xml shape cannot match a comment-prefixed line), real in
   general.

Disclosed rather than fixed, and raised with the maintainer: the exact executor
region pin ends before the second operative tracer-gate paragraph at
agents/gsd-executor.md:327, which is only heading-checked — so contradictory
later instructions could ship. How much of that file to pin is a call for its
owner.

Independently probed isOperativePosition across 19 edge cases before the review
(line 0, CRLF, tab / 4-space / mixed " \t" indentation, 0-3 space fences, nested
fences, ~~~ fences, info strings, bounds); all correct. That probe is what
surfaced finding 2, which the review then confirmed from the other direction.

Verified: `npm run lint:ci` exit 0; full `npm test` 31296 tests / 31281 pass /
0 fail / 14 skipped, TMPDIR unset. One caveat stated rather than smoothed over:
in that run tests/planning-snapshot.test.cjs was truncated by concurrency after
row A5 — 11 tests did not execute, which a 0-fail aggregate cannot show. Re-run
in isolation it is 87 tests / 87 pass / 0 fail, and it is untouched by this
change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-23 18:43:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2f86278b5e fix(#3003): opt-in mechanism for intentional deletions in worktree.cleanup-wave (#3757)
* test(#3003): failing-first suite for declared deletions in cleanup-wave

Binds the guard's opt-in before it exists, so the suite is RED against next.

The rows that carry the weight are the over-authorization set: a directory
declaration must not authorize its children, a glob declaration must authorize
nothing, and a declaration must not act as a string prefix of another path.
Each of those BLOCKS, and each would PASS under a prefix, glob, or startsWith
matcher — which is how a path list quietly degrades into the boolean opt-in
#3003 explicitly rejected. The glob row matters most: declaredScopePrefix
already returns null ("matches everything") for a glob-leading pattern, correct
for the advisory it serves and catastrophic for a gate.

Also pinned: a failed deletion check blocks on its own reason rather than being
filtered into a pass; the block detail names only the undeclared residue so the
operator is not misdirected by paths that were fine; an entry with no
declaration blocks exactly as before; junk and non-array declarations do not
authorize; and a blocked entry still isolates rather than aborting the wave
(#2852, which must stay fixed).

Two advisory rows cover an interaction found while designing: git diff
--name-only includes deleted paths, so without unioning the declaration into
the #2596 scope check, authorizing a deletion would raise
SCOPE_OUT_OF_DECLARED against the very path just authorized.

A seeded property states the whole invariant the three over-authorization rows
sample: a deletion merges iff its normalized path is in the declared set.

* feat(#3003): declared deletions opt-in for the cleanup-wave guard

The deletions guard blocked the merge-back of any executor branch whose diff
removed a file, with no way to say a removal was intended. A plan that folded
one test file into a sibling could not be merged by the tool meant to merge it,
forcing a manual --no-ff outside the tool -- strictly less safe than what the
guard protects against.

A plan now declares removals in its own frontmatter (files_deleted), and that
list rides the same path files_modified already travels: plan-document parse ->
phase plan JSON -> the per-plan worktree gate -> record-agent/create
--deletions -> declared_deletions on the manifest entry -> the guard. The guard
blocks only the deletions NOT in that list.

A path list rather than a boolean, per the pinned decision: a boolean disarms
the guard for the whole entry, so an unexpected deletion riding along with a
declared one would pass unnoticed. Matching is exact after the module's shared
normalizer -- never a prefix, never a glob. Both would let one declaration
authorize a whole set, which is the mass-deletion accident the guard exists to
catch. That also means declaredScopePrefix is deliberately NOT reused here: it
returns null ("matches everything") for a glob-leading pattern, which is right
for the advisory it serves and would silently disarm a gate.

The block detail now carries only the undeclared residue, so an operator is not
sent looking at paths that were fine. A failed deletion check still blocks on
its own reason and is never filtered into a pass. A blocked entry still
isolates rather than aborting the wave (#2852).

The #2596 scope advisory unions the declaration into its declared set --
git diff --name-only includes deleted paths, so without that, authorizing a
deletion would immediately warn that the same path was out of declared scope.

Optional and additive throughout: files_deleted is absent from
PLAN_REQUIRED_FIELDS, a manifest entry without declared_deletions keeps the
original unconditional block, and omitting --deletions leaves the on-disk entry
shape untouched.

Supersedes the spent #2856 emitted-drift ack entry for execute-phase.md, the
same supersede that entry performed on #3370 and #3370 on #3324.

* fix(#3003): wire --deletions on every dispatch surface, not just one

Review found the feature inert on two of three dispatch paths. execute-phase.md
(harness inline) passed --deletions, but the orchestrator-worktree path
(executor-isolation-dispatch.md, worktree.create) and the Fleet-parallel batch
path (capabilities/claude-orchestration/fragments/execute-wave-pre.md,
worktree.record-agent) still passed only --files. A plan declaring
files_deleted would have merged on one path and been blocked on the other two
-- the exact bug #3003 exists to fix, left unfixed where most of the isolation
actually runs.

Worse, per-plan-worktree-gate.md already claimed --deletions was passed 'on the
same worktree.record-agent / worktree.create calls', which was false for both
untouched sites. A doc asserting coverage that does not exist is how a gap
survives review.

All four surfaces now pass the flag, verified by sweeping every .md under
gsd-core/, capabilities/, commands/, skills/ and agents/ that invokes
worktree.record-agent or worktree.create: each one that passes --files now also
passes --deletions. The isolation-dispatch note explains why this flag, unlike
--files, is not advisory -- omitting it does not skip a check, it blocks a
merge the plan declared.

Regenerates capability-registry.cjs, which the fragment edit made stale.

Neither newly-grown file needs an emitted-drift ack: executor-isolation-dispatch.md
sits under workflows/execute-phase/steps/ and execute-wave-pre.md under
capabilities/, both outside currentSizes()'s non-recursive scan of
gsd-core/workflows/ and agents/.

* docs(#3003): document files_deleted where a plan author will actually find it

The feature's entire user surface is one plan-frontmatter field, and the
canonical reference for that frontmatter -- docs/reference/plan-md.md, the table
that documents every other key -- never mentioned it. A field nobody can
discover ships as a field nobody uses. Adds the files_deleted row and an example
entry in all five locales (en, ja-JP, zh-CN, ko-KR, pt-BR), stating the property
that makes the opt-in safe: matching is exact per path after separator
normalization, with no globs and no directory prefixes, so a declaration can
never authorize more than it literally lists, and omitting the field keeps the
guard's original unconditional block.

Also corrects two claims in the scope-conformance how-to that this change made
false. Its opening paragraph described the recorded declared scope as
files_modified alone; declared_deletions is now unioned into that comparison.
Its "Renames are not detected specially" bullet asserted the deletions guard
blocks any entry whose diff contains a deletion, full stop -- which was the
whole point of #3003 and is no longer true. Reworked to say what now decides a
rename's fate: declare the old path in files_deleted and both halves become
ordinary paths for the advisory check, which is also why the old path needs no
separate files_modified entry.

Documentation that describes the pre-change behavior of the thing being changed
is worse than no documentation, because a reader trusts it.

* fix(#3003): close every review finding on the declared-deletions opt-in

Two independent isolated reviewers, correctness and security. Neither found a
blocker; both found real defects, and the directive treats a finding at any
severity as blocking. All of them are fixed here.

MAJOR -- the submodule worktree gate could not see a deletion-only plan.
per-plan-worktree-gate.md intersected $SUBMODULE_PATHS against $PLAN_FILES
alone, while $PLAN_DELETIONS was extracted and then never used. Before
files_deleted existed, a path had to appear in files_modified to be planned at
all, so the gate saw it; the new field plus the new docs telling authors a
deleted path needs no files_modified entry opened a hole where a plan whose only
submodule touch is a removal kept worktree isolation on -- the exact case #2772
disabled it for. Both channels now feed the intersection. Note the posture is
deliberately the OPPOSITE of the cleanup-wave guard: there the channels stay
apart because a deletion AUTHORIZATION must never be inferred; here they merge
because a safety fallback must never MISS a touch.

MAJOR -- same-wave conflict detection could not see a deletion. The planner's
implicit-dependency rule compared files_modified only, so plan A editing
src/x.ts and plan B declaring files_deleted: [src/x.ts] scored as conflict-free
and ran in parallel: one branch removing what the other is writing, which is the
sharpest conflict there is. Overlap is now computed across both channels.

MINOR (both reviewers, one root cause) -- the advisory union gave one field two
matching rules. declared_deletions was unioned into the scope list handed to
planWaveScopeConformance, which reads it with prefix-and-glob semantics. So a
field that is exact-match-only at the gate silently became wider at the
advisory: ["*.md"], inert at the gate, yielded a null prefix meaning "matches
everything" and muted the advisory completely, and ["src"] muted all of src/.
The union also activated the advisory on plans that declared no modification
scope at all, warning on every modified path. Replaced with subtraction from the
findings, gated on files_modified alone. One field, one rule, everywhere.

MINOR -- core.quotepath made the feature silently inert for non-ASCII paths.
git emits "tests/\303\251.ts" C-escaped and quoted, which never equals the
declared plain path, so a correctly declared deletion of tests/é.ts would block
forever with nothing pointing at the encoding. Both diffs now pass
-c core.quotepath=false.

NIT -- flag() consumed a following flag as a value, so --deletions --files x
swallowed --files and dropped both. Now treated as a missing declaration, which
fails closed. Fixed at both call sites; the helper is duplicated verbatim in
cmdWorktreeRecordAgent and cmdWorktreeCreate and leaving one would reintroduce it.

TEST -- one test passed for the wrong reason. "a declared deletion is in scope
for the advisory" asserted only that warnings omit the deleted path; under a
full revert the entry blocks first, warnings come back empty, and the negative
assertion passes anyway. It now asserts the entry actually merged, which is the
load-bearing half. Four regressions added, one per fix above.

Docs corrected rather than extended. The rename bullet in the scope-conformance
how-to claimed a rename whose delete side is undeclared never reaches the
advisory. Verified false: git's rename detection is on by default, so a pure
rename is a single R entry that appears in no --diff-filter=D output and was
never gated, before or after #3003. Only a rename that edits enough to fall
below the similarity threshold decomposes into add+delete. The pre-existing
sentence made the same wrong claim; this restates it correctly instead of
sharpening the error. The localized plan-md.md reference edits are reverted:
the PR template requires docs content added here to be English, and the
translations already lag by three fields, so English-only is the repo's
standing posture, not an oversight.

Agent-file size caps respected: gsd-planner.md is XL-tier by bytes but carries a
separate 49152-LF-CHAR cap asserted by four suites, so its edit is deliberately
terse and lands at 49141 with 11 chars of headroom, with the rationale moved to
docs/reference/plan-md.md, which has no cap. gsd-plan-checker.md lands at 49107
bytes, 45 under the LARGE cap. Both acks merged into the existing fragments that
already name those paths, since two ack sources may never name the same path.

* fix(#3003): decode git's path quoting instead of changing the git argv

The previous commit's non-ASCII fix turned the remote suite red: 44 failures,
42 of them "unexpected git call: -c core.quotepath=false diff --diff-filter=D
--name-only ...". The suite's git mocks match on exact argv, so adding two
flags to the deletions diff and the advisory diff invalidated every existing
fixture in tests/worktree-safety.test.cjs. Rewriting dozens of fixtures to
accommodate one flag would be paying a large Hyrum's-law bill to fix a small
defect.

Both execGit calls are reverted to their original argv. The C-quoting is now
decoded in normalizeScopePath instead, via a new decodeGitQuotedPath helper.
That is the better fix on its own merits, not merely the cheaper one: the git
argv is untouched so no fixture moves, the decode lands on the ONE normalizer
already applied to both sides of the comparison so the declared and reported
paths cannot disagree, and it holds regardless of the user's own core.quotepath
setting rather than only when we remember to override it.

A value not wrapped in a leading AND trailing quote is returned completely
untouched, so the plain-ASCII path -- the overwhelmingly common case -- is
byte-identical to before. Escapes decode to BYTES collected into a Buffer and
UTF-8 decoded only at the end, because \303\251 is two bytes forming one
character and decoding them separately yields mojibake. Malformed input never
throws: a trailing lone backslash or a short octal escape degrades to the
literal character, since one bad path must not take down a cleanup wave.

Caught while reviewing the helper: the non-escape branch pushed a UTF-16 code
unit rather than UTF-8 bytes. Git always escapes non-ASCII so its own output was
fine, but this normalizer runs on the DECLARED side too, and an author may write
a quoted path holding a literal é -- pushing 0xE9 alone is invalid UTF-8, so the
declaration would decode to a replacement character and silently stop matching.
That is precisely the failure this change removes, reintroduced on the other
side of the comparison. Now converts whole code points, surrogate pairs intact.

The other 2 failures: tests/parallel-dependent-plans.test.cjs pins the exact
unbackticked substring "files_modified overlap" in gsd-planner.md, and rewording
that comment to "declared-scope overlap" deleted it. The comment is restored
verbatim and the files_deleted change rides in the pseudocode and the Rule
sentence instead. Recorded in the ack fragment so the next contributor does not
rediscover it the same way.

Four regression tests cover the decode through the public cleanup-wave seam
(the helper is module-private): a declared non-ASCII deletion merges against a
C-quoted git report, the symmetric case where the DECLARATION is the quoted
form, an undeclared non-ASCII deletion still blocks with the residue naming the
decoded path an operator can act on, and a path merely containing a quote is
left alone. Plain ASCII was already covered and is not duplicated.

* fix(#3003): revert the leading-dash flag guard, the review nit was wrong

The remote suite came back with 2 failures, down from 44, and both point at the
same thing: tests/worktree-safety.test.cjs:7045 already pins the opposite
contract, deliberately.

  test('a flag-shaped --files value is not re-parsed as a flag', ...)
    recordAgent(['--files', '--branch'])
    -> files_modified === ['--branch']
    -> branch === 'worktree-agent-a1'  ("the real --branch value must be untouched")

So consuming the next argv element positionally, whatever its shape, is the
tested intent of this parser, not an oversight. The security reviewer's nit
claimed --deletions --files x would "swallow --files and drop both". It does
not: each flag runs its own indexOf, so --deletions records the literal
'--files' while --files independently still resolves to x. And that literal is
a path git never reports as deleted, so it authorizes nothing -- already
fail-closed with no guard at all. The guard bought no safety and silently
changed --files behavior along the way, outside this issue's scope.

Reverted at both call sites, which are byte-identical again, along with the test
asserting the reverted behavior and the docs sentence describing it. The nit is
recorded as REJECTED in the review artifact with the reasoning above, rather
than as fixed -- a finding that turns out to be wrong should leave a trace of
why, or the next reviewer files it again.

docs/CLI-TOOLS.md now states the positional-read behavior plainly instead, so
the next person meets it as documented intent rather than rediscovering it
through a red suite.

* chore(#3003): backfill changeset pr number to 3757

* test(#3003): cover parsePlanDocument's filesDeleted branch to clear the mutation gate

CI's Stryker shard for plan-document failed at 73.28 against a break threshold
of 75: 170 killed, 62 survived, 232 total. Eight of those survivors are the
filesDeleted block this issue added to parsePlanDocument, which shipped with no
direct coverage at all -- the field was exercised end to end through the
cleanup-wave tests, but the parser itself was never called with a plan that
declares it, so every mutant in the block lived.

Four tests, each pinned to specific mutants rather than written for coverage
percentage:

- absent key yields exactly [] -- kills the array-literal seed
  (["Stryker was here"]) and the `fmDeleted = true` conditional, which would
  otherwise produce ["true"]
- a scalar underscore `files_deleted:` wraps into a one-element array -- kills
  `fmDeleted = false`, the `&&` logical-operator swap, the `fm[""]` string
  mutation on the first operand, the emptied if-block, and the ternary's
  non-array branch
- an array-valued hyphenated `files-deleted:` maps element-wise -- kills the
  `fm[""]` mutation on the SECOND operand (only reachable when the legacy
  hyphen alias is the one carrying the value) and the ternary's array branch
- an empty list yields [] -- boundary case, and a genuinely distinct one from
  the absent key: [] is truthy in JS so it ENTERS the if, and only
  Array.isArray's true branch mapping over nothing produces the same []

Threshold arithmetic: 174 of 232 are needed for 75%, and these take it to about
178, so the shard clears with margin rather than landing on the line.

Every expected value was confirmed by executing the built parser before being
asserted, not inferred from reading the source.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-22 13:17:51 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4918c62d76 feat(#2845): require provenance for UI-SPEC component inventories (#3745)
* test(#2845): failing-first suite for UI-SPEC inventory provenance

Binds two shared formats before either exists, so the suite is RED against
next: the gsd-ui-checker dimension roster (asserted independently on twelve
surfaces, eight English and four translated) and the provenance-line grammar
the UI-SPEC template emits and Dimension 7 consumes.

Every parity assertion is paired with a synthetic mutation case, so the guard's
failure branch executes rather than only reading a correct tree: limit-1 (a
surface still declaring 6), limit (7), limit+1 (8), a dropped dimension, a
label that drifts on one surface only, a non-contiguous roster, a duplicated
number, and a surface that stops declaring a count at all. A seeded fast-check
property renders the roster under formatting noise (CRLF, padding, interleaved
sections) and asserts the parse round-trips and is strictly sensitive to a
dropped heading.

Assertions are on parsed typed records, never raw substrings.

* docs: normalize design-a-ui-phase how-to to American English

House style for docs/ is American English (CLAUDE.md). This file carried
colour/initialisation/initialise/artefact throughout. Spelling only — no
content change; kept separate from the #2845 feature commit so the
release-notes classifier and the hotfix cherry-pick filter see it for what
it is.

* feat(#2845): require provenance for UI-SPEC component inventories

A UI-SPEC's component inventory was treated downstream as a closed allowlist
while the document recorded nothing about whether the list had been enumerated
from the installed design system or recalled from memory. A recalled inventory
is indistinguishable from an enumerated one, so an executor complying with the
spec builds against a fraction of what the package offers, and every gate stays
green because they assert semantics rather than composition.

The UI-SPEC template gains a Component Inventory slot carrying one of two
provenance lines: the command that enumerated the list, the count it returned,
the resolved package@version and the date; or a Could not enumerate record with
a real reason. gsd-ui-researcher gains an enumeration ladder and must record
the line rather than write the list from recall.

gsd-ui-checker gains Dimension 7. An inventory with no provenance line, a count
with no command, an empty could-not-enumerate reason, or a line still carrying
the template's unfilled placeholders BLOCKs; a partial line, a line placed below
its table, or an honest negative record FLAGs; a complete line passes, and so
does a spec carrying no inventory at all, which keeps every UI-SPEC predating
the dimension validating unchanged. Whatever the verdict, an unsourced inventory
is reported as a non-exhaustive list of known-good components rather than a
closed allowlist, so the executor is never blocked from a component the spec
merely failed to mention. The checker never runs the recorded command.

The dimension count moved on all thirteen surfaces that assert it, across five
languages. Also corrects the claim in the English, Korean and Portuguese how-tos
that this checker applies a scored six-pillar rubric — that rubric belongs to
/gsd-ui-review's retroactive audit.

* chore(#2845): backfill changeset pr number to 3745

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-21 11:59:56 -04:00
Tom Boucher
94bc492f57 fix(#3645): tracked-source rule for planner/pattern-mapper path resolution (#3728)
* test(#3645): failing-first agent tracked-source contract rows

* fix(#3645): tracked-source rule for planner and pattern-mapper paths

* Revert "fix(#3645): tracked-source rule for planner and pattern-mapper paths"

This reverts commit 61f05e947bbdaf3b4897240c3819d349215744fb.

* fix(#3645): tracked-source rule at the spawn seam and mapper gate

* fix(#3645): review fixes - bounded block, ack merge assertion, git wording

* fix(#3645): fit the tracked-source block under the 1168 ceiling

* chore(#3645): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 23:24:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
14679b866b enhance(#2856): add default-off live-DOM UAT capability (#3716)
* test(#2856): add failing-first suite for the live-dom-uat capability

Binds the approved triage shape before any of it exists:

- containment — the execute:wave:post hook must not render unless
  workflow.live_dom_uat is true AND the capability resolves active
  (fail-closed on a missing state entry, and on a non-boolean value)
- criterion 4 — agents/gsd-executor.md carries no browser MCP family;
  asserted as an absence, which is the only way it is observable
- Hyrum guard — the pre-existing mcp__playwright__* branch must stay
  outside the key-gated block, or upgrading silently removes working
  automated UI verification for every current Playwright-MCP user
- parity — the browser glob list now lives in two surfaces (agent
  frontmatter + workflow detection block); the assertion fails if
  either gains or loses a family without the other

Red by construction: the capability, agent and workflow block do not
exist yet. Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* enhance(#2856): add default-off live-DOM UAT capability

A phase whose acceptance criteria needed a live DOM could not be
finished by the agent that executed it: gsd-executor carries no browser
tools, so it correctly returned checkpoint:human-action even though the
work was not human-only, just tool-less. Every such phase degraded to
"executed, then finished by hand in the orchestrator", and autonomous:
false could not distinguish "a human must judge this" from "the executor
lacks the tool".

Implements the shape approved at triage, not the one reported. The
executor's tools: line is NOT widened, in any configuration: for a
first-party agent the static list is the only control that exists
(ADR-1244 D2, ADR-857 D4, no per-dispatch override). Instead one
default-off capability owns the key, the agent, and the step:

- capabilities/live-dom-uat/ — activationKey workflow.live_dom_uat
  (boolean, default false), one additive step at execute:wave:post
  (onError: skip, gates: []), so it can never halt a wave
- agents/gsd-dom-verifier.md — the only GSD agent carrying browser MCP
  globs, in its own tools: line, with no Bash
- verify-work automated_ui_verification — a gsd:live-dom-families block
  naming both new families AND the key; presence alone never activates

Two independent fail-closed gates: isCapabilityActive renders a hook
only on state.active === true, plus the step's own `when`.

The pre-existing mcp__playwright__* branch keeps the gating it already
had and stays outside the new block. Pulling it behind a default-off key
would have silently removed working automated UI verification from every
current Playwright-MCP user on upgrade.

Also closes a host gap this surfaced: execute:wave:post dispatched only
contribution + gate, so ANY registered step was declared and silently
never run — exactly the single-kind hand-roll loop-hook-dispatch.md
names. Step 5.75 now dispatches every kind == "step".

The browser-profile lock is tolerated, not coordinated: --isolated is a
flag on the operator's own MCP-server registration that GSD neither
launches nor parameterizes, so the verifier reports could_not_look /
profile_locked, names the flag, and stops. DOM-VERIFY.md keeps
could_not_look and nothing_to_report distinct behind a closed reason
enum — collapsing them is the ambiguous-run-notes defect reported.

Verified on the remote runner.

Closes #2856

* fix(#2856): apply review findings from the orthogonal passes

Correctness pass (blocker):
- delete detectionBlockIsCrlfSafe. It was pass-always: it read the file,
  replaced LF with CRLF, then indexOf'd marker strings that contain no
  newline, so the replacement could not change the result and the
  assertion could never fail for the reason it stated. There is no real
  CRLF risk on this surface either — the gsd:live-dom-families block has
  no parser, only human and agent readers. Deleted rather than replaced,
  per the repo's pass-always-test rule.

Isolated security pass (two minors, both real):
- execute-phase.md step 5.75: this change is what first activates
  kind == "step" dispatch at execute:wave:post, which newly opens the
  ref.command shell path at that loop point. Our own step uses ref.agent
  and never touches it, but the door is now open, so the step-dispatch
  line carries the same in-context validate-before-shell warning the
  sibling gate-dispatch line directly below it already carries.
- gsd-dom-verifier: quoted page text in DOM-VERIFY.md is attacker
  influenced. Require it wrapped in inline code or a fence, kept short,
  and never left reading as a directive to the next reader.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* fix(#2856): settle the new-agent roster ripple

Checkpoint 2 returned 28 failures, none in the new suite — all of them
the guards that exist to make adding an agent a deliberate act. Each is
a real boundary that had to move:

- docs/AGENTS.md: Tools row must copy the frontmatter verbatim (#2526),
  so the browser globs lose their backticks; primary-agent counts 21->22,
  roster 33/34->34/35, Verifiers category 1->2
- docs/INVENTORY.md: roster completeness requires every agents/gsd-*.md
  to be classified exactly once
- gsd-dom-verifier: add the anti-heredoc instruction and the commented
  hooks: frontmatter pattern both agent gates require
- gsd-core/bin/shared/model-catalog.json: every shipped agent needs a
  profile entry (#3229)
- copilot-install / kilo-upgrades / qwen-upgrades: expected agent list
  and the 34->35 roster boundary
- execute-wave-post-gate-pipeline-e2e: execute:wave:post legitimately
  carries one step now. Asserted as an exact shape — one step, capId
  live-dom-uat, ref.agent gsd-dom-verifier, onError skip — so it stays a
  real guard against accidental change rather than being relaxed

Two findings worth naming:

mcp-tool-inheritance (#2526) rejected the agent for documenting
mcp__playwright__* while its tools: line withholds it — a dead
instruction that invites the agent to claim a path it cannot take. The
prose now names the Playwright MCP family without the dispatchable
token, in both the agent and the capability fragment.

runtime-launcher-parity rejected the new gsd_run call: each fenced block
is its own shell, so a workflow step file invoking gsd_run needs its own
canonical preamble. Propagated with scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs.
That script also normalizes explore.md, which is unrelated pre-existing
drift the parity check tolerates, so it is reverted to keep this diff
scoped.

The emitted-drift ack supersedes the spent #3370 entry for
execute-phase.md — it is merged into next, so its ripple is absorbed at
the base and it can no longer clear anything. That is the same supersede
the #3370 entry itself performed on the spent #3324 fragment. Its
unrelated execute-plan.md entry is untouched.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* fix(#2856): drop the stale emitted-drift ack entry

The automated-ui-verification.md entry was written speculatively rather
than from a reported growth, and the check names that precisely: an ack
"written or reworded in THIS diff, but nothing here needed it, so it
explains nothing".

The growth tier keys on the bare filename as it appears under
gsd-core/workflows/ or agents/. automated-ui-verification.md is nested
under verify-work/steps/, so it was never in the tracked set — only
execute-phase.md was ever reported, both before and after the launcher
preamble landed.

Only ack what the check actually reports.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* chore(#2856): backfill changeset pr number

pr:0 -> 3716. The placeholder fails both changeset-lint
(fail_invalid_fragment) and docs-lint (fail_malformed_fragment) by
design and can only be resolved once the PR number exists. Both now
report ok against GITHUB_BASE_REF=next.

Refs #2856

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 15:07:21 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8df5cb36c2 enhance(#2951): refuse [VERIFIED] for a compatibility claim resting on absent metadata (#3718)
* test(#2951): pin the absent-evidence provenance contract (failing first)

17 tests / 22 anchors on the deployed agent text. Measured against the parent
commit: 20 anchors fail, 2 pass. The two that pass are the sibling-integrity
guards on the package-name and in-repo-value rules -- green before and after is
their intended signature.

Refs #2951

* enhance(#2951): refuse [VERIFIED] for a compatibility claim resting on absent metadata

A claim of the form "X does not support Y" drawn from MISSING metadata -- no
python_requires, no engines field, no per-version classifier, no changelog entry,
no matching support-matrix row -- no longer earns [VERIFIED] however
authoritative the source consulted. An absence is silence about every value, so
the same evidence would "prove" both the version being ruled out and the version
being standardized on. The only route from an absence to [VERIFIED] is a positive
falsification attempt with its failing output pasted; everything short of that is
[ASSUMED], which the file already routes to "needs user confirmation before
becoming a locked decision".

Third member of the family beside the package-name and in-repo-value provenance
rules, mirroring PR #2768's shape. A present declared constraint and an
affirmatively documented incompatibility are untouched.

Closes #2951

* fix(#2951): close the allow-list ambiguity and the mutation gap review found

Findings from the isolated adversarial pass and the two-axis review, all fixed:

MAJOR (x2, one root cause) -- the absence clause and the present-constraint
carve-out gave opposite verdicts on the same evidence for the commonest real
case: a classifier list enumerating :: 3.9 through :: 3.13 with no :: 3.14. A
researcher could read the enumerated list as a "declared" positive constraint
and re-earn [VERIFIED], which is also the evasion vector. The rule now states
the decision procedure -- does the declaration bound EVERY value or only the
ones it names -- and closes the positive-reframing restatement explicitly. New
contract test pins all four clauses.

MAJOR -- 'licenses a positive falsification attempt as the route to [VERIFIED]'
asserted two independent substrings and never that the route lands on
[VERIFIED]. A mutant swapping the tag for [CITED] or [ASSUMED] inverted the
rule and survived all 17 tests. Now pinned as one joined sentence.

MINOR -- the attributable-failure test regex-matched illustrative examples
("a missing certificate, a wrong host"), so a copy-edit would break it for no
reason; relaxed to the substantive clause. The no-paraphrase guard counted only
the heading, missing the drift mode in its own name; it now also pins the core
proposition to one occurrence, and the test name matches what it checks. An
off-by-one in the new allow-list regex bound (141 actual vs 140) is fixed.

MINOR -- docs/AGENTS.md listed four of the five governed absence forms while
the agent prose, docs/COMMANDS.md and the changeset listed five; three copies
disagreeing on list membership is the drift this repo treats as a defect.

SCOPE -- removed docs/how-to/verify-a-dependency-compatibility-claim.md and its
docs/README.md index line. Both reviewers flagged them as a seventh and eighth
surface beyond the six the requester capped, and CONTRIBUTING's "Agent or skill
change" row requires only docs/AGENTS.md. The actionable four-case guidance is
retained in docs/COMMANDS.md, which is inside the approved scope.

Ack byte figures corrected for the final size: 44250 -> 46602 (+2352), 2550
bytes headroom under the LARGE cap of 49152.

Refs #2951

* docs(#2951): restore the how-to the phase gate requires

Reverses the removal in 6404b43d3. Both /code-review axes had flagged
docs/how-to/verify-a-dependency-compatibility-claim.md and its docs/README.md
index line as a seventh and eighth surface beyond the six the requester capped,
and CONTRIBUTING.md's required-docs row for an "Agent or skill change" names
only docs/AGENTS.md, so they were dropped.

gsd-phase-gate.cjs then denied gh pr create: it refuses when the recorded
enablement sequence has more than one step and the how-to quadrant is empty.
The sequence here is genuinely four steps -- run plan-phase, read the [ASSUMED]
claim, probe or cite or accept it unlocked, then answer discuss-phase's
checkpoint -- and the last step lands on a different capability's surface, so a
reference table cannot carry it. Compressing the sequence to one step to unlock
howToSkipReason would be gaming the gate, which is the same Goodhart failure
this whole change exists to close.

A machine-enforced repo gate outranks two reviewers' scope preference and my own
reading, so the page is restored and the PR body discloses the two extra
surfaces instead of hiding them. Reverting is a one-file change if a maintainer
prefers the tighter scope.

Refs #2951

* chore(#2951): backfill the changeset PR number

pr: 0 -> 3718 now that the real PR exists. The placeholder fails
scripts/changeset/lint.cjs with fail_invalid_fragment, which also blocks
lint-docs-required from consuming the fragment.

Refs #2951

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 14:35:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
79781e68eb enhance(#2401): ground verify-command paths and inherit prior-phase commands (#3678)
* feat(#2401): ground <automated> verify-command paths and inherit prior-phase commands

Adds a deterministic resolvability probe over each PLAN.md <automated> verify
command and surfaces the nearest prior phase's proven commands to the planner
at every context window.

- src/verify-command-grounding.cts: recognizer (not a shell interpreter) that
  grounds a leading cd <literal> chain and npm --prefix <literal>, and reports
  unresolvable rather than guessing. Never executes command text.
- gsd-tools check verify-command-paths <N>: per-phase probe, wired into
  plan-phase.md before the plan-check pass.
- init.plan-phase gains prior_verify_commands, ungated by context_window.
- gsd-plan-checker: new Verify Command Path Resolvability dimension that
  reports the failing target and never prescribes a replacement.

Also fixes first-match-wins prefix bucketing in scripts/lint-test-file-count.cjs
(readdir order is not stable across platforms, so a module whose name extends
another's with a hyphen bucketed differently on Linux than on macOS).

Closes #2401

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

* fix(#2401): ground the canonical --prefix form, quoted paths, and absolute cd resets

Independent review found three defects in the recognizer:

- npm --prefix DIR run SCRIPT never reached the script-existence check,
  because the pattern required npm and run to be adjacent. That is the
  form the docs tell planners to prefer, so script_missing never fired
  for it. The prefix flag and its value are now stripped before matching.
- --prefix captured with \S+, so a quoted path containing a space was
  truncated to a stray opening quote and reported as a missing directory
  - a false blocker, worse than the bug this feature fixes. The capture
  is now quote-aware.
- A chained cd whose later segment was absolute concatenated instead of
  resetting, producing a nonsense path and another false blocker. The
  fold now resets on an absolute segment.

Also replaces the bespoke phase-directory regex with the canonical
phase-id helpers. Real phase directories are NN-slug, not phase-N-slug,
so the prior-command harvest matched nothing outside its own fixtures
and the planner-inheritance half of this feature was dead code.

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

* refactor(#2401): source task blocks from the canonical sectionizer

The module carried its own copy of the <task>-block grammar - a fourth
hand-rolled mirror of the one markdown-sectionizer owns. verify.cts keeps
its copy only because it needs the type= attribute the canonical helper
discards; this module never reads that attribute, so it can share the
owner outright instead of adding a test around a copy.

extractAutomatedCommands now takes task bodies from extractTaggedBlocks
and the out-of-task remainder from stripTaggedBlocks. A task-grammar
parity test pins the attributed task-name set against the canonical
helper across six awkward task shapes.

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

* fix(#2401): extract agent-file overflow to references and repair the property arbitrary

The remote matrix run came back red with 19 failures, four root causes:

- agents/gsd-plan-checker.md and agents/gsd-planner.md both blew the
  49152 agent cap. Their bodies move to gsd-core/references/, leaving
  @-reference stubs, per the documented overflow pattern.
- The new checker dimension invoked gsd_run before the canonical
  preamble that defines it. The call is deleted outright: plan-phase.md
  already runs the probe and hands the result in as {VERIFY_PATHS}, so
  the dimension consumes that rather than re-running anything.
- fc.fullUnicodeString does not exist in fast-check 4.8.0. Replaced with
  fc.string({ unit: 'binary' }), which covers the same 0000-10FFFF range.
- Three runtime-loaded files grew; acknowledged in the existing ack
  fragments that already own those bare filenames, since two ack sources
  may never name the same path.

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

* test(#2401): regenerate golden install-tree fixtures for the new references

Adding two files under gsd-core/references/ changes what the installer
emits into every runtime's tree, so all 19 golden install-parity
fixtures went stale. Regenerated with npm run gen:install-tree; the
delta is exactly the two new reference paths per runtime, no removals.

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

* chore(#2401): backfill changeset pr number to 3678

* fix(#2401): treat ~ as a home expansion only at the start of a path

Windows CI caught this on both shards; the Linux-only remote matrix
cannot see it. The dynamic-path refusal rejected ~ anywhere, and a
GitHub Windows runner's tmpdir is an 8.3 short name -
C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp - so a valid absolute Windows
path came back unresolvable/dynamic_path.

This was a production bug, not a test artifact: any Windows user whose
project path carries an 8.3 short name, or any literal ~, silently lost
the probe entirely - every command degrading to unresolvable with no
explanation.

~ is a home expansion only at the start of a path; elsewhere it is an
ordinary literal. The check is now split: $, backtick, *, ? and newline
stay refused anywhere (substitution and globs, and the glob characters
are illegal in Windows path components regardless), while ~ is refused
only leading, tolerating one leading quote since the check runs before
quote stripping.

The prior tests only caught this on Windows because only Windows puts a
~ in tmpdir. Four new tests pin it on every platform via a fixture
directory literally named RUNNER~1.

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>
2026-08-19 15:21:15 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ec7e49a64c fix(#3576): repair all 43 dead references/ cites and gate the canonical resolvable form (#3596)
* test(#3576): gate shipped reference citations on the canonical resolvable form

Failing-first gate for #3576: a backticked bare references/<name>.md cite
resolves from no install location (agents, workflows, and references all
install where a bare relative references/ path is dead). The gate walks the
runtime-loaded trees the issue prescribes, strips @~/ include tokens
PER-TOKEN (a line-skip guard would miss a bare cite sharing a line with an
include — the issue-named trap), pins the genuinely relative ../ href and
canonical forms as non-offenders, and checks canonical cite targets exist.
43 offenders today across 19 files.

* fix(#3576): repair all 43 dead references/ cites to the canonical resolvable form

Every backticked bare references/<name>.md cite across the 19 shipped files
rewritten to gsd-core/references/<name>.md — the form every required_reading
block and @~/ include already uses, and the only form that resolves from any
install location. All 20 cited targets verified to exist; the one genuinely
relative href (plan-phase.md's ../references/mvp-concepts.md) is untouched
(the repair is backtick-anchored). Growth acks: new fragment for the three
first-time paths, #3206-pattern appends to the five fragments already naming
the other grown files (two ack sources may never name the same path).
execute-phase.md lands at 93,391/93,400 and gsd-executor.md at 49,150/49,152
— exactly the issue's projections; every repair fits.

* fix(#3576): drop stale default.md growth ack (nested modes file is hash-attributed, not growth-ratcheted)

Review finding: the emitted-attribution ratchet covers only top-level
workflows/ + agents/ files; discuss-phase/modes/default.md's delta is
source-attributed, so acknowledging its growth is a stale entry the
differential lane fails on.

* chore(#3576): add changeset fragment

* chore(#3576): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-17 15:24:24 -04:00
0xdhx
285cd41be0 fix(#3206): define "explicit evidence" inline at verifier 5b; repair stale honest-verifier cites (#3435)
* fix(#3206): define "explicit evidence" inline at verifier 5b; repair stale honest-verifier cites

Step 3 item 5b abstained on non-inferable (backstop) truths "unless
confirmed by explicit evidence" with the term undefined — its definition
lived only in the non-included gsd-core/references/honest-verifier.md,
behind a stale bare `references/` cite that 404s. Undefined, the term
falls back to presence + wiring, the exact false-pass the #1154
abstention protocol refuses.

- 5b: inline the compressed definition (a passing wired
  held-out/property-based test or directly observed behavior; presence +
  wiring never qualifies) and fix the cite. +84 B on the rewritten line;
  file lands at 49,151 of the 49,152 LARGE cap.
- verifier-phase-gates.md (already <required_reading>): gains the
  backstop-abstention reporting contract — AFK completion line
  ("complete with N unverified non-inferable checks", never silent,
  never a halt) and reason-distinctness (insufficient_spec vs manual-UAT
  human_needed). New content, no relocation of measured prose.
- 5c (line 204) and MVP-mode (line 644) bare cites repaired to
  gsd-core/references/ (+9 B each).
- Drift acks per ADR-2719 §4; two entries merge-appended into existing
  fragments (two ack sources may never name the same path).
- Changeset fragment with the sanctioned pr: 0 placeholder (post-create
  backfill).

Sibling census at next@7976b1ca0: 7 bare-cite instances in 4 agent
files; the 3 in gsd-verifier.md are fixed here, gsd-executor.md:429,439
and gsd-doc-synthesizer.md:20,176 stay with the epic #1891 follow-up.

Refs #1891

* chore(#3206): set changeset fragment pr to 3435

* fix(#3206): drop stale emitted-drift-ack entries that trip the ADR-2719 ratchet

The round's ack bookkeeping explained ripples that were already
self-attributed, so `tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs` failed
deterministically on the PR head with 5 stale acknowledgments.

`agents/gsd-verifier.md` and `gsd-core/references/verifier-phase-gates.md`
appear directly in `git diff --name-only`, so PROVENANCE_RULES attributes
their emitted deltas without an ack; `agents/gsd-verifier.agent.md`,
`agents/gsd-verifier.toml` and `agents/subagents/gsd-verifier.md` are
derived emissions of a changed source and are attributed the same way.
None of the five entries could ever be consumed, so all five were stale.

Removed: the whole `3206-verifier-explicit-evidence.json` fragment (all
four entries) and the `#3206 append` to `0000-legacy-migration.json`.

Deliberately KEPT: the `#3206 append` to
`1955-verifier-coincidental-reliance.json`. Its `gsd-verifier.md` entry is
consumed by the size-growth ratchet, not the hash pass — the agent grew
49049 -> 49151 bytes, and `diffEmitted` treats a base-identical ack as
spent and excludes it from `ackEntries`. Reverting that append as well
turns the stale-ack failure into `1 file(s) grew without an
acknowledgment` (verified both ways locally).

* fix(#3206): compress 5b and re-acknowledge growth after rebase onto next

The rebase onto next (159145435, PR #3558) invalidated two things at once:

- #3558 grew agents/gsd-verifier.md to 49,098 bytes, leaving 54 bytes of
  LARGE-cap headroom where this PR's +102 no longer fits. Compressed the
  5b rewrite to +34 net by dropping the trailing honest-verifier cite —
  superseded by the now-inline definition; honest-verifier.md stays
  cited at the adjacent 5c line. File lands at 49,150 (2 under the cap).
- #3558 deleted tests/emitted-drift-acks/1955-verifier-coincidental-
  reliance.json, which carried this PR's growth acknowledgment, and its
  own 3409 fragment now names gsd-verifier.md. Re-homed the #3206 growth
  ack as an append to that entry (two ack sources may never name the
  same path).

The changeset is updated to match: two bare references/ cites repaired
(5c honest-verifier.md, MVP-mode verify-mvp-mode.md), the third (5b's)
superseded by the inline definition rather than repaired.

Reversion controls: restoring the uncompressed 5b fails
agent-size-budget.test.cjs (LARGE hard cap); reverting the ack append
fails emitted-attribution.test.cjs (differential attribution over the
real tree, GSD_EMITTED_BASE=upstream/next). Both re-verified green at
this tree: 213/213 (size + attribution), 992/992 across the 14 suites
reading the touched files.

Refs #3206

* test(#3206): pin the 5b explicit-evidence definition and cite resolution

* fix(#3206): pin regression tests to the shipped contract text

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-16 14:14:27 -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

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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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-15 21:09:05 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8fc88f663d fix(#3210): gate unmet preconditions as blocking-human; cap blocker retries at needs_human (#3528)
* fix(#3210): gate unmet preconditions as blocking-human and cap blocker retries at needs_human

* chore(#3210): add changeset fragment for PR #3528

* fix(#3210): restore blocking-human carve-out and CRLF-safe split

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 23:01:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d2fa696a30 fix(#3479): treat absent default-true mempalace keys as enabled in every prose gate (#3527)
* fix(#3479): treat absent default-true mempalace keys as enabled in every prose gate

The #2982 absent-key fix (capture_artifacts === false) was applied to only
one of the sibling gates. Five more hand-written gates in the mempalace
skill/command mirrors and the curator agent still used positive presence
('when <key> is true'), silently skipping default-enabled behavior
(mirror_kg, diary_journal) whenever the key was absent from
.planning/config.json — inverted from the registry-declared defaults.

Corrected sites, each now disabled only on an explicit false:
- skills/gsd-mempalace-capture/SKILL.md step 3 (mirror_kg)
- commands/gsd/mempalace-capture.md step 3 (mirror_kg)
- skills/gsd-mempalace-recall/SKILL.md step 3 (mirror_kg)
- commands/gsd/mempalace-recall.md step 3 (mirror_kg)
- agents/gsd-mempalace-curator.md tasks 1+2 (diary_journal, mirror_kg)

Default-false keys (mempalace.enabled, cross_project_tunnels) keep their
positive-presence gates. New #3479 regression cases in
tests/mempalace-capture-gate-default.test.cjs lock each site's absent/explicit-false
boundary and add a registry-parity guard: no gate file may positively gate
any mempalace boolean whose registry-declared default is true.

* chore(#3479): acknowledge curator size growth from the gate rewording

* chore(#3479): add changeset fragment for PR #3527

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 23:01:15 -04:00
Tom Boucher
26f8015cc2 fix(#3448): thread next_action through debug auto-resume respawn (#3476)
* fix(#3448): thread next_action through debug auto-resume respawn

Both /gsd-debug auto-resume call sites (Section 1c continue-path return
handling and Section 4's non-terminal branch) respawned the session manager
with identical session_params, making every resume prompt-indistinguishable
from a cold start: the checkpoint's recorded next_action and the disposition
that any earlier checkpoint was already answered never reached the respawned
agent. Two auto-resumes then made no progress and the (correct) no-progress
guard stalled the loop.

The respawn now carries resume: true, resume_status, and resume_next_action
sourced from the checkpoint file; the session manager documents the params
and its Step 2 gsd-debugger template forwards them via a DATA_START/DATA_END
<resume_directive> (Step 3d's shape), instructing the debugger to proceed
directly on the recorded next action without re-raising answered checkpoints.
The anti-loop guard (next_action-only heuristic, 3-resume hard cap) is
untouched.

* chore(#3448): set changeset pr to 3476

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 11:26:08 -04:00
Tom Boucher
43475a2e0f fix(#3440): retire GAP CLOSURE PLANS CREATED marker, document artifact return contract (#3443)
* fix(#3440): retire GAP CLOSURE PLANS CREATED marker, document artifact return contract

* chore(#3440): backfill changeset pr number

* docs(#3440): mark changeset docs-exempt with audit reason

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 09:20:50 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d30c99bc92 chore(#3421): delete orphan verify-phase workflow, migrate live gates to verifier (#3422)
* chore(#1892): delete orphan verify-phase workflow, migrate live gates to verifier reference

* test(#1892): retarget structural suites from verify-phase.md to verifier-phase-gates.md

* chore(#1892): reword retired-workflow mentions for removed-but-needed lint

* test(#1892): correct stale surface labels in retargeted suites

* docs(#1892): add verifier-phase-gates row to locale inventories

* chore(#3421): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-13 21:22:03 -04:00
Rezolv
2dbee3ebdd enhance(#2229): add three-way claim disposition (admit/refute/abstain) to /gsd-explore research pass (#2543)
Closes #2229.

Each claim surfaced by /gsd-explore's research pass is dispositioned admit, refute, or abstain, with abstentions routed to a visible ledger instead of being smoothed into confident prose. Refute and abstain are separated by whether the disagreeing source is authoritative for that claim; a strong prior is never authoritative alone.

Two guards ride with it: conflict-abstention, and a tier floor that presents a would-be admit as an abstain when the researcher's resolved tier is the budget tier or cannot be determined.

To make that floor enforceable, resolve-model now emits the effective tier (--pick tier). It was already computed above the resolve_model_ids omit gate but was unreachable from a workflow, which left the floor inert on every non-Claude install - the model id is blank under omit and runtime-substituted where a tier map exists, and the profile defaults to balanced. The tier signal mirrors every resolution step that can change which tier runs, including the model_policy preset, and reports unknown rather than guessing. Output is additive; model, profile and effort are unchanged.

Two residuals are disclosed in the workflow rather than papered over: a raw-model-id model_overrides pin reports unknown and is floored (fails closed), and a model_profile_overrides entry repointing a tier at another tier's model can under-report (fails open, and predates this change).

Admin merge used only to satisfy the missing secondary reviewer on a single-maintainer PR. No CI failure and no conflict were bypassed: 38 checks green, remote runner 32255/32255 on both Node lanes.
2026-08-09 23:05:41 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6e59f97dd5 feat(#1955): flag coincidental reliance in goal-backward verification (#3250)
* test(#1955): failing-first contract for verifier coincidental-reliance advisory

* test(#1955): anchor coincidental-reliance assertions on the frontmatter block

* feat(#1955): flag coincidental reliance in goal-backward verification

* chore(#1955): correct stale workflow tier high-water comment

* fix(#1955): close the verify-phase divergence and state the endogeneity limit

* docs(#1955): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 12:07:41 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c75ce93be9 feat(#1954): flag undeclared coupling between same-wave plans (#3237)
* test(#1954): failing-first contract for plan-checker undeclared-coupling check

* feat(#1954): flag undeclared coupling between same-wave plans

* docs(#1954): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 10:35:27 -04:00
Tom Boucher
10da377794 fix(#3021): recognize worktree-wf_* branch namespace in all guards (#3109)
* fix(#3021): recognize worktree-wf_* branch namespace in all guards

The Claude-orchestration Workflow backend (#1143) creates per-plan
worktrees on branches named worktree-wf_<runid>-<n>. Four independent
copies of the agent branch allow-list regex (^(worktree-)?agent-...) never
learned this namespace:
- hooks/gsd-worktree-path-guard.js:176 — FAILED OPEN (process.exit(0)),
  silently disabling path containment for exactly the concurrent dispatch
  mode where cross-worktree writes are most likely
- src/worktree-safety.cts:21 — silently dropped cleanup-wave manifest
  entries
- agents/gsd-executor.md:503 — FATAL halt on branch check
- gsd-core/references/worktree-branch-check.md:33 — same FATAL halt

Extended all four to ^((worktree-)?agent-|worktree-wf_)[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+$.
The path guard now correctly blocks cross-worktree writes for Workflow-
backend branches instead of no-op'ing.

* chore(#3021): backfill changeset PR number 3109

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-06 04:26:59 -04:00
Tom Boucher
589a9b29b0 fix(#2962): enable nullglob in for-glob shell blocks for zsh portability (#3087)
* fix(#2962): enable nullglob in for-glob shell blocks for zsh portability

Workflow shell blocks are fenced bash but execute in the user's login shell
(zsh on macOS). zsh's nomatch default aborts the WHOLE block on an unmatched
glob in a for-list (not just skipping the command), silently bypassing every
statement after it — including the verify-phase decision-coverage gate,
whose optional *-CONTEXT.md lookup used the unsafe for-list form so the
DECISION_RESULT= assignment on the next line never ran under zsh.

Fix: prepend a portable nullglob shim to every bash block containing a
for-glob loop:
  shopt -s nullglob 2>/dev/null; setopt NULL_GLOB 2>/dev/null
Each command no-ops (stderr suppressed) in the shell that doesn't recognize
it; the matching shell enables nullglob so an unmatched glob expands to
nothing and the loop body is skipped cleanly. Verified locally: both zsh and
bash now reach end-of-block (rc=0) on a no-match glob; bash matched-case
behavior unchanged.

14 blocks across 7 files: verify-phase.md (4, incl. the decision-coverage
gate), review.md, execute-phase.md, resume-project.md, complete-milestone.md,
audit-milestone.md, gsd-integration-checker.md, gsd-plan-checker.md (3).
Closes the zsh bypass of the #2770 fix.

* chore(#2962): add changeset fragment

* chore(#2962): backfill changeset PR number 3087

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-05 15:42:51 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ed360cd99f chore(#2995): extend fragment emission to agents/ and reclaim size-cap headroom (#3058)
* feat(#2995): extend fragment emission to agents/ across every read point

Epic #1671 Phase 6.4. `composeWorkflow` stripped `<!-- gsd:section -->` markers
only for `gsd-core/workflows/`, so a marked agent shipped its markers verbatim
into every runtime — and agent text is loaded into a subagent's context on every
dispatch.

The issue proposed widening the `copyWithPathReplacement` guard. That is a no-op
for agents: agents never traverse that function. Agent content is read for
emission at five independent points, and the obvious chokepoint
`stageAgentsForProfile` short-circuits on the DEFAULT `full` profile
(`skills === '*'` returns the real unstaged directory), so a hook placed there is
dead code on most installs.

Composition now happens at two call sites instead of five parallel surfaces:
`stageAgentsForRuntimeWithConverter` (with `agentsKind` and `kimiAgentsKind`
routed through it via an identity converter) and the inline agent loop in
bin/install.js. Both compose BEFORE any path rewrite, so a `.claude/` ->
`.windsurf/` regex can never reach inside a marker attribute — the ordering
#2930 established for workflows.

`installCodexConfig` was the fifth read point: Codex embeds each agent's prompt
into a per-agent `.toml` via its own readFileSync. Call-graph analysis missed it;
the exhaustive per-runtime emission sweep found it. That is why the new guard is
behavioral rather than structural — a sixth read point fails the sweep without
anyone remembering to extend a list.

tests/agent-fragments-emission.install.test.cjs spawns a real installer for every
runtime at every agent-bearing scope, derived from RUNTIME_META and the
capability registry at run time so a new runtime cannot be silently
under-covered. It asserts markers are absent AND the `when="always"` body is
retained, so marker-absence cannot be satisfied by dropping content. An
identity-composer negative control proves the assertion can fail.

Verified: 0 install failures, 0 marker leaks, body retained on 27 runtime/scope
paths; red before the wiring on claude(global+local), zcode(global+local),
kimi, codex and opencode.

Refs #2995

* chore(#2995): give the tightest agents headroom and correct the design lock

Epic #1671 Phase 6.4, second half.

`agents/gsd-verifier.md` had 12 bytes of headroom under its 49,152-byte LARGE
cap and `agents/gsd-debugger.md` had 147 under its 57,344-byte XL cap. Both now
extract reference material to `gsd-core/references/` behind an @-reference — the
documented DEFECT.AGENT-FILE-SIZE-CAP-BREACH remedy:

  gsd-verifier  49,140 -> 46,371 B   headroom    12 -> 2,781
  gsd-debugger  57,197 -> 48,851 B   headroom   147 -> 8,493

Byte accounting proves no content was lost: the combined agent+reference delta
is exactly the new files' headers plus the agents' slim replacement blocks. Each
agent keeps its routing table and a one-line summary per entry, so it degrades
gracefully on a runtime that does not inline @-references.

`agents/gsd-planner.md` is untouched and still passes both char guards
(49,130 < 49,152); it needed no change, so it took none.

The other nine LARGE/XL agents carry NO gsd:section markers, and that is
deliberate, not deferred. `when=` selection is read from
gsd-core/workflows/section-manifest.json, which gen-section-manifest.cjs derives
from gsd-core/workflows/*.md only — shape `{workflows: ...}`, no per-agent key,
no per-agent init entry point. An agent atom therefore fails admission gate (2)
("a fact the init seam demonstrably computes at a real entry point") and would
evaluate false forever while looking like working gating. Marking agents would
manufacture exactly the silent-inertness rot the frozen vocabulary exists to
prevent.

ADR-1671 gains three amendments, two of which close gaps /adr-phase-coverage
found against what actually merged:

  - The 19 -> 29 vocabulary widening shipped in #2994 with no coordinated ADR
    amendment, which that bullet's own rule forbids. Recorded now.
  - `flag:--verify-only` was one of six atoms #2992 withheld and deferred to
    "the LARGE/XL rollout phase". Five shipped; this one is permanently
    rejected, and that disposition lived only in a merged PR body.
  - Phase 6.4's own finding: emission extends to agents/, gating does not.

CONTEXT.md's glossary was stale on both seams — Workflow Fragments Module still
listed the original 4-atom vocabulary and described when= as "not yet acted on",
and Section Manifest Module still described InvocationFacts as
{waveFlag, phaseNumber, hasPriorPhases}. Both now match the shipped contract.

Inventory manifest regenerated AFTER build:lib per the documented ordering
landmine; 19 install-tree fixtures pick up the two new references.

Refs #2995

* chore(#2995): correct the compose-site count and mark the raw stager

Self-review found two comment defects in the prior commit. The agentsKind
comment claimed composition lands at TWO call sites; it is three, since
installCodexConfig's per-agent .toml writer was added after that comment was
written. And stageAgentsForProfile is now production-dead — both callers route
through the composing stager — while staying exported and unit-tested, which
makes it a trap: it does a raw copyFileSync and short-circuits to the unstaged
source directory under the default profile, so a future caller would silently
reintroduce the marker-shipping path. Its JSDoc now says so.

* test(#2995): guard the marker-documenting-doc class for agents

Widening the composer's scope to agents/ makes reachable the exact class #2930
narrowed scope to avoid: a file that DOCUMENTS the marker syntax with an
unfenced example is indistinguishable from a real marker, so the composer drops
that line from the emitted artifact.

Three rows. A fenced example must compose byte-identically. No shipped agent may
carry a marker outside a fence — asserted by parsing every real agent and
requiring zero explicit sections, which is what makes the fence protection
load-bearing rather than decorative. And a non-vacuity row asserts an UNFENCED
marker IS parsed as a real marker, so if that ever stops being true the second
row is guarding nothing.

Also applies two review findings: stageAgentsForProfile's new JSDoc claimed it
had no production caller, which is false — bin/install.js's _stageAgents still
calls it, and its consumers compose before writing. Corrected to state the
invariant instead. And a let/const nit in the emission sweep.

* fix(#2995): keep verifier status vocabulary in the agent, fix a wrong fixture

The first remote run came back red with three failures. Both root causes were
mine.

1. tests/agent-frontmatter.test.cjs requires agents/gsd-verifier.md to literally
   contain HOLLOW and DISCONNECTED. The Step 4b extraction moved that status
   vocabulary into gsd-core/references/verifier-wiring-patterns.md, so the agent
   no longer had it.

   Byte accounting said no content was lost, and byte-wise that was true — but a
   contract required those tokens to live IN THE AGENT. That is ADR-1671:66's
   flexReserve floor stated concretely: a load-bearing fragment must not be
   trimmed out of its host, and "the bytes still exist somewhere" is not the
   test. The two status tables are restored to the agent and deliberately
   mirrored in the reference with a note saying so, so the procedure there still
   reads standalone. gsd-verifier lands at 47,069 B — headroom 12 -> 2,083,
   rather than the 2,781 the first attempt claimed.

2. Row 12b of the new marker-documentation guard asserted that an unfenced
   marker example parses as a real marker, and threw instead:
   "unmatched /gsd:section close marker". The grammar is WHOLE-LINE only. The
   fixture had put the OPEN marker inline mid-sentence, so it was correctly not
   recognised as an open while the close, on its own line, was.

   That is a real refinement of the hazard this guard exists for: only a marker
   on its OWN line is mis-parsed — which is exactly how a documentation example
   is normally written. Row 12b now uses a whole-line marker, and a new row 12c
   pins the inline case as explicitly NOT a marker.

No test was weakened to accommodate the change; the change was corrected to
satisfy the tests.

Refs #2995

* chore(#2995): backfill changeset pr number to 3058

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-04 18:10:31 -04:00
Tom Boucher
9640968f8e fix(#2847): require gap_closure value in plan-gap-closure schema and bind validate_plan to it (#3018)
* test(#2847): add failing-first regression tests for gap-closure frontmatter schema gap

--gaps did not load a machine-checked requirement for gap_closure: true.
The planner's only validation gate (frontmatter.validate --schema plan)
never required it, and plan-phase.md's downstream_consumer contract never
mentioned it either, so gap-closure plans could pass validation while
missing the field that /gsd:execute-phase --gaps-only filters on.

These tests are RED against current production code: no plan-gap-closure
schema exists yet, and neither agents/gsd-planner.md's validate_plan step
nor plan-phase.md's downstream_consumer block references gap_closure
conditionally.

* fix(#2847): enforce gap_closure via plan-gap-closure schema

--gaps did not load a machine-checked requirement for gap_closure: true.
The planner's only validation gate (frontmatter.validate --schema plan)
never required it, so a gap-closure plan could pass validation while
missing the field /gsd:execute-phase --gaps-only filters on, silently
spawning zero executors.

Add a plan-gap-closure schema (every plan-required field plus
gap_closure) and make the planner's validate_plan step select it when
gap_closure mode is active, plan otherwise. Standard/reviews-mode plans
are unaffected: plan's required fields are unchanged.

plan-phase.md's downstream_consumer block was investigated for a
symmetric mention but deliberately left untouched: it sits 36 bytes
under the frozen ADR-857 PRE_PHASE6 ceiling and the validate_plan step
in gsd-planner.md is the actual call site, needing no help from
plan-phase.md's prose.

* fix(#2847): compact validate_plan edit under gsd-planner.md size caps

Merging origin/next (7 commits, including #2775's gsd-planner.md
STRIDE-row edit) left only 22 chars of headroom under four separate
hard-coded 49152-char caps on gsd-planner.md (planner-decomposition,
precondition-element, reversibility-tagging, security.test.cjs). The
verbose validate_plan prose from the previous commit overran all four.

Compact the edit to a single line (net +17 chars vs origin/next) while
keeping the functional content: schema name, mode condition, and the
unchanged base required-fields list.

Also:
- Fix a real bug in the fix-2847 negative-assertion test: plan-phase.md
  mentions the literal string "<downstream_consumer>" twice in
  backtick-quoted prose before the actual opening tag, so a plain
  indexOf() grabbed the wrong start position and swallowed ~10KB of
  unrelated content (including a "gap_closure" hit in a Mode: enum
  line), producing a false failure. Anchor on the tag starting its own
  line instead.
- Merge the emitted-drift-ack fragment for gsd-planner.md with the
  #2775 fragment brought in by the merge (both named the same path;
  two ack sources may never name the same path) and correct its byte
  delta to the actual final number.

* fix(#2847): drop stale merge-inherited emitted-drift-ack fragments

Merging origin/next brought in three new emitted-drift-ack fragments
(1700, 2658, 2775) relative to this branch's fork point. #2775
collided with my own gsd-planner.md key and was already consolidated.
#1700 and #2658 don't collide, but none of their entries name a path
this branch's actual diff touches (git diff --name-only
origin/next...HEAD) — the ripples they explain are already baked into
the current next baseline, so they explain nothing here and the
emitted-attribution gate correctly reports them as stale (verified
live: spike-wrap-up.md from #1700).

Delete both fragment files. Neither is referenced by any test beyond
a stray comment pointing at an unrelated diagnosis artifact path, not
the ack fragment itself.

* fix(#2847): restore merge-inherited ack fragments deleted in error

1700-spike-manifest-idea-scoping.json and 2658-trae-instruction-file-path.json
exist on origin/next (landed via other, already-merged PRs) and arrived
on this branch unchanged via the origin/next merge. The previous commit
deleted them to satisfy a stale-acknowledgment finding, but the finding
was about the acks being MODIFIED in this diff, not about needing to
stop existing — deleting them would have silently reverted two other
PRs' already-merged, already-justified byte growth.

Restored byte-identical to origin/next (git diff origin/next -- <path>
empty for both). 2775-planner-package-legitimacy-gate.json stays
consolidated into 2847-gap-closure-validate-plan-step.json: that one
was a genuine hard key-collision (two fragments naming the same
gsd-planner.md path, which lint-emitted-drift-ack hard-blocks), not a
pass-through case.

* fix(#2847): bind --schema to gap_closure mode, not hardcode it

Prior revision left the validate_plan bash invocation unconditional
(--schema plan)) while only the prose sentence above it described the
gap_closure-mode branch. An agent executing the shown line literally
always validated with the plan schema, so a gap-closure plan missing
gap_closure: true still reported valid:true — #2847 reproducing
unchanged. Existing tests didn't catch it: they checked for substring
presence anywhere in the step, which the prose alone satisfied.

Change the bash line to --schema "$SCHEMA" — a real shell-variable
reference in the same placeholder convention this file already uses
for "$PLAN_PATH" (never literally assigned; the agent resolves it from
context, same as PLAN_PATH). A genuine if/then bash conditional
already exists elsewhere in this file (load_project_state's
INIT @file: check), confirming executed conditionals, not merely
descriptive prose, are the established pattern here.

Rewrite the regression test to assert on the bash block's literal
--schema argument: reject a hardcoded plan) or plan-gap-closure)
literal, require a variable reference, and require the step's prose to
bind that same variable name. Verified RED against the prior revision
and GREEN against this one before committing either state.

* fix(#2847): CRLF-safe tests, drop unexplained ack, require gap_closure=true

Four items from independent review, all landing together per request:

1. The #2847 regression test file had two CRLF-fragile regexes
   (local/no-crlf-fragile-split): a bare \n on readFileSync content
   means a real \r\n checkout returns invocationLine === null and all
   four executable-content assertions stop asserting anything while
   still reporting green. Both now use \r?\n. Prior lint report of
   exit 0 was a false green from a stale eslint cache.

2. The 2847 drift-ack fragment explained nothing: a direct edit to
   agents/gsd-planner.md is self-explaining, drift-acks exist for
   emitted-artifact ripple that cannot be traced to a changed source
   path. Deleted. Restored the 2775 fragment byte-identical to next
   (git diff --name-status next...HEAD -- tests/emitted-drift-acks/
   now prints nothing) — it only conflicted with the now-deleted 2847
   fragment, never needed touching itself.

3. plan-gap-closure validated gap_closure by PRESENCE only
   (unchanged since the original #2847 fix), so gap_closure: false
   satisfied it — --gaps-only filters strictly on gap_closure === true,
   so a false-valued plan still validates green and still spawns zero
   executors: #2847's exact reported symptom, one value away. Added an
   optional requiredValues map to FRONTMATTER_SCHEMAS; plan-gap-closure
   now requires gap_closure to equal the string "true" (extractFrontmatter
   parses every scalar as a string) in addition to being present. Every
   other schema/field keeps the original presence-only contract. The
   row that had documented the hole instead of closing it now asserts
   the fix; a matching unit test locks requiredValues on
   FRONTMATTER_SCHEMAS.

4. The "names the plain plan schema" assertion matched the bare
   substring "plan" anywhere in the step, which verify.plan-structure
   satisfies incidentally a few lines below — the assertion could not
   fail even if the plain-plan branch were deleted from the prose.
   Changed to match the standalone backtick-quoted plan token.

* fix(#2847): remove contradictory leftover assertion in Row 6 test

The gap_closure:false test asserted !present.includes('gap_closure')
(correct — matches the implementation's fold-wrong-value-into-missing
semantics) immediately followed by a stale, unedited leftover from an
earlier draft of the same test asserting the opposite:
present.includes('gap_closure'). The second could never pass once the
first did; both were in the same diff.

Verified before committing: searched every consumer of frontmatter.validate
output (agents/gsd-planner.md, docs/CLI-TOOLS.md, all other test files)
for any read of the present field — none exist. Nothing depends on
"present" meaning "physically exists regardless of value correctness",
so the implementation's fold (present/missing stay a full partition of
required) is the right call; the test needed to agree with it, not the
other way around. Manually replayed all six rows in the plan-gap-closure
describe block against the built CLI to confirm each now passes.

* fix(#2847): prototype-key guard, wrong-value diagnostic, doc fixes, vacuous tests

Six items from an independent SHIP_VERDICT:no review, landing together
per request:

1. Prototype-key crash (src/frontmatter.cts): FRONTMATTER_SCHEMAS[schemaName]
   was an unguarded lookup, so --schema __proto__ (also constructor,
   toString, hasOwnProperty, valueOf) resolved to an Object.prototype
   member instead of undefined, the `!schema` check never fired, and the
   command crashed with an uncaught TypeError and a stack trace instead of
   "Unknown schema". Now reachable from prompt state (--schema is an
   agent-bound $SCHEMA), not just an unreachable literal. Guarded with
   Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call before the lookup, checked and
   rejected before assignment so `schema`'s type stays non-optional. Added
   a test for all five prototype keys.

2. Wrong-value diagnostic (src/frontmatter.cts, agents/gsd-planner.md):
   the strict gap_closure === "true" check from the previous fix was
   correct (fail-closed) but silent about WHY — a plan with
   gap_closure: True got "missing", indistinguishable from genuinely
   absent, even though the field is plainly in the file. Added an
   `invalidValue` field to the validate JSON (present but wrong-valued,
   disjoint from missing/present) and updated validate_plan's prose to
   state the exact required literal and explain invalidValue, within the
   remaining byte budget (49130/49152).

3. docs/reference/plan-md.md: fixed three inaccuracies in the gap_closure
   row — "this field plus every field above" implied `requirements`
   (documented Required: Yes) is schema-enforced, it is not; "Type:
   boolean" implied YAML True/TRUE/yes/1 are accepted, they are rejected
   (exact string match on literal lowercase true); "must never carry it"
   stated an unenforced rule as fact. Also switched /gsd:plan-phase and
   /gsd:execute-phase to the house-style hyphen form for docs/.

4. Vacuous negative assertions (tests/fix-2847-gap-closure-frontmatter.test.cjs):
   RegExp#test coerces a null invocationLine to the string "null", so both
   hardcoded-literal checks passed vacuously even if the step or its bash
   block were deleted entirely. Added a truthy precondition check first.

5. Deleted vacuous/pass-always tests: four in tests/frontmatter.unit.test.cjs
   strictly subsumed by (or, for the "superset" test, tautologically
   guaranteed by the same spread as) the deepEqual exact-list test; two
   describe blocks in the #2847 regression file that were already GREEN at
   the RED commit (5e5897cd2f17ebf2fc55757bae651bbbeb236289) and pinned
   untouched files rather than covering anything this change altered — one
   of them additionally forbade any future legitimate gap_closure mention
   in plan-phase.md, a trap for whoever frees up that file's byte budget
   later.

6. .changeset/clever-newts-wake.md: switched /gsd:plan-phase and
   /gsd:execute-phase to /gsd-plan-phase and /gsd-execute-phase — changesets
   render verbatim into CHANGELOG.md with no converter in the path, so the
   colon form would have reached readers naming a command no runtime
   registers.

* chore(#2847): backfill changeset pr number (#3018)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-03 09:16:29 -04:00
Tom Boucher
de78f2eef2 docs(#2775): align package-legitimacy docs to the ADR-0656 registry-API gate (#3010)
* docs(#2775): align package-legitimacy docs to the ADR-0656 registry-API gate

security-model.md, USER-GUIDE.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, COMMANDS.md,
FEATURES.md, and gsd-planner.md's STRIDE template (+ ja-JP mirrors)
described the pre-ADR-0656 design: slopcheck as the install-or-degrade
gate, with unavailability degrading every package to [ASSUMED].
ADR-0656 inverted this months ago — registry-API verdicts (npm/PyPI/
crates.io) are the gate; slopcheck is an optional escalate-only adapter
that no shipped configuration wires. Verified every replacement claim
against src/package-legitimacy.cts (checkPackages, classifyPackage,
lookupNpm/lookupPypi/lookupCrates) via Memtrace before writing it, so
the corrected prose matches the live implementation rather than
restating the ADR from memory.

Restored docs/explanation/security-model.md:79-84 (and its ja-JP
mirror) to original wording after an orthogonal spec review caught
that an earlier draft had edited the "Why WebSearch packages are
always [ASSUMED]" paragraph — inside the range issue #2775 explicitly
named as correct and to leave alone.

The ja-JP mirror was missing the closing clause present in the
corrected English original ("its absence leaves registry-API verdicts
intact rather than downgrading everything to [ASSUMED]") — added for
parity. This completes the ja-JP mirror the issue's acceptance
criteria named explicitly.

zh-CN/ko-KR/pt-BR (not named by #2775, but carrying the same stale
design) get the mechanical portion of the same fix: command-string
swaps, table headers, ARCHITECTURE.md diagram labels, and technical-
term swaps that reuse a word already attested elsewhere in the same
file (合法性/적법성/legitimidade for "legitimacy") — surrounding prose
untouched. The remainder in those three locales — full-paragraph
rewrites of the corrected degrade-path mechanism, deleted "External
dependency" bullets, and "manually install slopcheck" code blocks —
needs prose composed by a fluent speaker of each language and is filed
as open-gsd/gsd-core#3002 with an exact file:line inventory.

* test(#2775): acknowledge gsd-planner.md byte growth from the STRIDE-row fix

agents/gsd-planner.md grew 14 bytes (49309 -> 49323) from the STRIDE
supply-chain row correction (slopcheck -> package-legitimacy gate).
Emitted agent/workflow files are byte-tracked; this fragment
acknowledges the growth per tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs's
"differential attribution over the real tree" check.

* docs(#2775): close ja-JP FEATURES.md gap; fix a ko-KR transliterated heading

docs/ja-JP/FEATURES.md:2808 still read the katakana transliteration
"スロップチェック verdict" in REQ-PKG-GATE-01 — invisible to a literal
"slopcheck" grep, so it was missed when ja-JP parity was checked and
declared complete. Corrected to "正当性判定" (legitimacy verdict),
matching the term already established in ja-JP/explanation/
security-model.md and ja-JP/USER-GUIDE.md. This was the only
remaining ja-JP gap; a full sweep for the transliterated form across
docs/ja-JP/ now returns zero hits, and the ja-JP mirror is genuinely
at parity.

docs/ko-KR/USER-GUIDE.md:398's heading "슬롭체크 판정:" had the same
transliteration problem. Fixed inline to "적법성 판정:", reusing the
적법성/legitimacy word already attested two lines below in the same
table. A parallel sweep of zh-CN and pt-BR found no transliterated
forms of "slopcheck" in either locale. The remaining transliterated
occurrence in ko-KR (USER-GUIDE.md:406, the lead-in to the
pip-install code block) needs prose composition like the rest of that
block and is added to open-gsd/gsd-core#3002's inventory.

* chore(#2775): backfill changeset PR number to 3010

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-02 20:24:42 -04:00
0xdhx
c61dd49d95 enhance(#2255): blocking catastrophic-shrink guard for curated .planning/ writes (#2301)
* feat(#2255): blocking catastrophic-shrink guard for .planning writes

Adds hooks/gsd-write-guard.js, a PreToolUse hook that hard-blocks
(decision: 'block', exit 2) a whole-file Write collapsing a curated
.planning/ artifact (ROADMAP.md, .planning/milestones/*-ROADMAP.md,
STATE.md) below 40% of its on-disk line count. Files under 40 lines
are exempt; GSD_ALLOW_PLANNING_SHRINK=1 (named in the block message)
bypasses for legitimate milestone resets.

Fix 3 of #973 — the only defense independent of per-agent tool config.
Registered on the Claude plugin surface (hooks.json), settings-json
runtimes (runtime-hooks-surface.cts, self-contained pattern), Kimi
spec, and the OpenCode/Kilo plugin buses. Golden install fixtures and
INVENTORY regenerated; regression tests negative-controlled (16/16
RED with the hook absent, 16/16 GREEN with it present).

* chore(#2255): backfill changeset pr number to 2301

* enhance(#2255): address review — fail-closed reads, typed block output, registration, property test

Review fixes for trek-e's CHANGES_REQUESTED on PR #2301:

- Blocker 2: register gsd-write-guard.js in BUNDLED_GSD_HOOK_FILES
  (no-shipping-drift test).
- Blocker 3: update the always-on hook enumerations in ADR-766 and
  CONTEXT.md from six to seven.
- Major 4: fail CLOSED on non-ENOENT read errors — only a missing file
  (new-file Write) passes; EACCES/EISDIR/ELOOP/etc now block, with a
  typed readError field and the override still honored. Tested, with a
  negative control against the pre-fix hook.
- Major 5: fast-check property test for the SHRINK_RATIO/FLOOR_LINES
  budget contract (blocked ⟺ newLines < oldLines*SHRINK_RATIO above the
  floor; sub-floor always exempt), boundary examples pinned.
- Major 6: block output now carries typed oldLines/newLines/
  overrideEnvVar fields; tests assert on those instead of regexing the
  free-form reason string.
- Minor: CURATED_PATTERNS are case-insensitive (case-insensitive-FS
  bypass on macOS/Windows); limit+1 boundary tests added for both the
  floor and the ratio.

* enhance(#2255): engage the write guard on Kimi's native payload shape

The guard shipped with Claude-vocabulary checks (tool_name 'Write',
tool_input.file_path), which #2304 showed leaves a guard dormant on
Kimi: the [[hooks]] matcher is registered pre-translated but kimi-cli
forwards its native payload verbatim — tool_name 'WriteFile' (bare or
module-qualified) and tool_input.path per its tool schemas
(src/kimi_cli/tools/file/write.py). The guard matched, saw an unknown
name, and exited 0.

Apply the same per-guard normalization PR #2326 gives the three
sibling guards (name + field mapping, inlined — hook scripts stage as
standalone files), and write the block reason to stderr as well as
stdout JSON: Kimi feeds stderr, not stdout, back to the model on
exit 2, so a stdout-only reason blocks without telling the model why
or naming the documented override.

Regression tests pipe Kimi-shaped payloads (engage, qualified-name,
stderr-reason) plus exemption pins (StrReplaceFile stays out of scope
by design; non-curated paths pass) — verified red against the pre-fix
guard, green after.

* enhance(#2255): rebase onto next; regenerate golden-parity fixtures

* enhance(#2255): wire the escape hatch into complete-milestone's reorganize step

Review Blocker 1: the guard hard-blocked /gsd:complete-milestone's ROADMAP
reorganize — the tree's only legitimate milestone reset and the exact caller
GSD_ALLOW_PLANNING_SHRINK was built for. The reorganize step now performs the
rewrite through a shell write with the hatch set on the command (a hook
inherits the runtime env, so a bare Write cannot carry a per-step override),
and a binding test derives the env var name from the guard's typed output and
asserts (a) the workflow step sets it and (b) the guard passes the identical
catastrophic payload under it — so the next complete-milestone.md edit cannot
silently re-break the wiring.

* enhance(#2255): drop dead Edit-class mapping from normalizeKimiPayload

Review Major 1: StrReplaceFile -> 'Edit' and the old_string/new_string
reconstruction were unreachable-by-effect — the guard exits 0 for any
tool_name !== 'Write', so nothing ever read the fields they set, leaving
guaranteed-surviving mutants against the Stryker bar. The map now carries
only WriteFile -> 'Write'; the StrReplaceFile exemption test message states
the fall-through it actually exercises.

* enhance(#2255): review minors — American spellings; writeSync before exit(2)

Minor 1: normalised/normalise -> American house style. Minor 2: the two
block paths wrote stdout+stderr via async pipe writes then exit(2) —
async-on-Windows, unflushed at exit; fs.writeSync(1/2, ...) makes the block
payload durable.

* enhance(#2255): assert stderr equals the typed reason, not raw prose

Minor 3: the last raw-text match in the suite pinned override-name prose on
stderr. The contract is "stderr carries the reason Kimi feeds back" — now
asserted as stderr non-empty and byte-equal to the parsed stdout.reason.

* enhance(#2255): bind the write-guard's Kimi normalization into the parity test

Review Major 2: the guard's normalizeKimiPayload is a 4th inlined copy with
nothing binding it. This extends PR #2326's kimi-guard-normalization-parity
test (same path and helpers, authored as a superset so either merge order
resolves cleanly): sibling byte-parity is existence-gated zero-or-all —
trivially green until #2326 lands, full-strength after — and the write-guard
copy is bound semantically (map is the value-inverse of convertKimiToolName;
the Kimi name for Write must map, or the guard is dormant on Kimi; the
path -> file_path half must be present). Byte-parity is deliberately not
asserted for this copy: it legitimately omits the Edit-class mapping
(Major 1 — dead code in a Write-only guard).

* enhance(#2255): refresh golden-parity fixtures for revised guard + workflow

* chore(#2255): regenerate golden fixtures after rebase onto next

The committed fixture hashes were generated against a tree predating
next's latest 11 commits, which independently modified the same
install-parity surface. Rebased onto next and regenerated with
`npm run gen:golden`.

Verified: against upstream/next the regenerated fixtures differ by
exactly this PR's own entries -- hooks/gsd-write-guard.js (new),
hooks/managed-hooks-registry.cjs, plugins/gsd-core.js, and
gsd-core/workflows/complete-milestone.md. No unrelated drift.

* fix(#2255): regenerate workflow size baseline for complete-milestone

`complete-milestone.md` grew 31071 -> 32061 (+990) when the round-2
review fix bound GSD_ALLOW_PLANNING_SHRINK=1 into the reorganize step,
but tests/workflow-size-baseline.json was never regenerated. The
per-file workflow baseline test (issue #1074) failed on
ubuntu-latest/22 and both macOS shard 1/3 jobs.

The growth is justified: it is the escape-hatch binding requested in
review round 2 (the guard must not hard-block the tree's only
legitimate milestone reset), not incidental bloat.

Regenerated via `npm run size:baseline`; the diff is exactly the one
entry.

* chore(#2255): regenerate golden fixtures and size baseline after rebase onto next

* enhance(#2255): bind the shrink escape hatch mechanically — single-use sentinel the guard consumes

Round-5 M1: the per-step `GSD_ALLOW_PLANNING_SHRINK=1 tee` prefix was inert
(no PreToolUse hook exists on Bash in this family; the write succeeded by
dodging the guard, not by the override firing) and the protection was prose.
The hatch is now a transport code consults: complete-milestone's reorganize
step arms `.planning/.gsd-allow-shrink` with the target's path, keeps the
Write tool as the sanctioned path, and the guard — at the block point only —
verifies the sentinel is fresh (15 min) and names the pending target, then
CONSUMES it and allows that one write. Path-bound + single-use + freshness
keep it from becoming a standing unlock. The env var remains as the
interactive transport, where it can actually reach the hook.

Regression tests written first (negative control: 3 failed pre-fix): the
armed-sentinel Write passes and consumes; stale does not exempt; a token for
a different file neither exempts nor is consumed; the binding test now takes
the sentinel name from the guard's typed output (overrideSentinel), asserts
the step arms it, and asserts the step no longer routes the rewrite around
Write via a shell pipe.

Also in this commit, same file:
- m2: block emission is exception-safe — emitBlock() wraps both writeSync
  sites in their own try/catch that still exits 2, so an EPIPE can no longer
  convert fail-closed into the outer catch's fail-open.
- Header discloses the two reviewed design limits (cumulative sequential
  shrink; lexical match vs symlinked paths) per round-5 scoping.

* docs(#2255): document the sentinel transport across guard surfaces; changeset ends with the (#2255) parenthetical (m4)

USER-GUIDE bullet, INVENTORY row (en + ja/ko/pt/zh), the
runtime-hooks-surface registration comment, and the changeset now describe
both hatches — the single-use sentinel for workflow steps and the env var
for interactive use — instead of implying a per-step env can reach a hook.
The changeset's trailing `Resolves #2255.` prose becomes the `(#2255)`
parenthetical the repo's fragments use (round-5 m4).

* chore(#2255): regenerate derived families on the rebased tree (full sweep)

Full generator sweep after rebasing onto next @ the body-parser-patched
lockfile: build, gen-inventory-manifest, gen:golden, size:baseline. Every
regen delta verified to be either a PR-owned entry (gsd-write-guard.js,
complete-milestone.md, INVENTORY/USER-GUIDE) or exact convergence to next's
committed value for entries our arbitrary-side conflict resolution had left
stale (all 18 runtime fixtures checked mechanically).

* test(#2255): use helpers.cleanup for sentinel teardown, not raw fs.rmSync

The repo's local/no-raw-rmsync-in-tests rule exists for the Windows-EBUSY
retry budget; the sentinel disarm now rides it like every other teardown.

* chore(#2255): regenerate derived families after rebase onto next

Full sweep on the rebased tree (build -> gen-inventory-manifest ->
gen:golden -> size:baseline). Every delta is either a PR-owned entry
(hooks/gsd-write-guard.js, its registration surfaces
hooks/managed-hooks-registry.cjs and the two plugin buses,
gsd-core/workflows/complete-milestone.md) or exact convergence to
next's committed value across all 18 runtime fixtures.

* chore(#2255): regenerate derived families after rebase onto next @ a5180d96

Rebase onto current `next` (a5180d96) resolved 12 conflicting
golden-install-parity fixtures; all regenerated via the full generator
sweep (build, gen:golden, size:baseline) rather than a single generator.

`lint:generated-sync` reports every generated artifact in sync. All 45
differing fixture keys and the single workflow-size-baseline entry map
to files this PR actually touches; no foreign drift.

* fix(#2255): remove the stale unguarded reorganize_roadmap step (round-8 blocker)

complete-milestone.md carried a second ROADMAP-collapsing step,
`reorganize_roadmap`, distinct from the sentinel-armed
`reorganize_roadmap_and_delete_originals` this PR wired. It is a vestige
of the pre-archive-then-reorganize design: it sits BEFORE
archive_milestone, so executing it as written would collapse ROADMAP.md
before the archive snapshots the full phase detail — and its Write is
exactly the shape gsd-write-guard hard-blocks, with no hatch armed. The
file's own success criteria describe only one reorganize outcome
(Backlog-preserving, overwrite-in-place — the later step's properties),
and archive_milestone points forward to "the reorganize step".

Removed rather than wired, per the round-8 review's confirm-and-remove
option. A new binding test asserts the sentinel-armed step is the ONLY
reorganize step in the workflow, so an unguarded collapse step cannot be
silently reintroduced (negative-controlled: fails against the pre-fix
tree). Golden-parity fixtures and the size baseline regenerate for the
shrunk file; every changed fixture key is complete-milestone.md's own.

* test(#2255): document why the read-error injection is a path collision, not an fs monkeypatch

Round-8 nit: the non-ENOENT tests inject via a directory-at-target-path
collision instead of the repo's fs-method monkeypatch pattern. That is
deliberate, not drift — runHook exercises the hook as a spawnSync child
process, so an in-process fs.readFileSync patch (the pattern the cited
siblings use on require'd, in-process code) can never reach the code
under test. Record the reasoning at the injection site.

* chore(#2255): regenerate derived families after rebase onto next @ 0d08c320

Rebase onto current next (0d08c320) for the CONFLICTING/DIRTY state. All 32
conflicts were generated artifacts (19 golden-install-parity, 12 install-tree,
workflow-size-baseline); resolved arbitrarily and regenerated via a full
generator sweep (build, gen:golden, size:baseline, gen-inventory-manifest)
rather than hand-merged. No source conflicts.

Regen diff verified against the PR's changed-file set: 7 distinct differing
keys, all PR-owned (gsd-write-guard.js, managed-hooks-registry.cjs,
plugins/gsd-core.js, complete-milestone.md, and their .kimi mirrors).
lint:generated-sync clean.

* chore(#2255): regenerate derived families after rebase onto next @ 9138271b

Conflict set was 20 paths, every one a generated artifact, zero source
conflicts — resolved arbitrarily during the replay and regenerated here,
per the maintainer's round-9 recipe (never hand-merged).

Generator sweep (not just gen:golden): npm run build, gen:golden,
size:baseline, gen-inventory-manifest, gen:registry. INVENTORY-MANIFEST
came back byte-identical, so the merged value was already correct.

Regen diff verified == PR-touched entries: every differing leaf key
attributes to a file this PR changes (complete-milestone.md, the guard,
managed-hooks-registry.cjs, both plugin buses) — derived from the
changed-file set, not a feature-name filter.

* fix(#2255): port the #2595 Kimi-payload hardening the base landed for the sibling guards

Self-found via the round-10 base sweep: a8b40fa5 (#2547/PR #2595) hardened
gsd-prompt/read/worktree-path-guard's normalizeKimiPayload after this PR was
authored, and this guard carried all three pre-fix shapes:

- `path` now wins outright over a model-supplied `file_path` — kimi-cli's
  WriteFile schema carries no `file_path`, so a payload pairing a curated
  `path` with a spurious `file_path: ""` had the guard reading '' and
  exiting 0 while kimi-cli wrote to `path` (one-key bypass, no crash needed).
- null/primitive payloads pass through deliberately instead of throwing into
  the fail-open catch.
- the `file_path` read is typed (`typeof === 'string'`), closing the
  crash-to-allow on `[]`/`{}` — this is what the base-added
  kimi-guard-typed-payload-reads scan flags.

Negative-controlled: the shadowing payload exits 0 against the pre-fix guard
and 2 against this one.

* fix(#2255): round 9 Major 2 — stop printing the sentinel recipe in the agent-facing denial

The block message ended by telling the blocked agent exactly how to arm the
single-use sentinel — handing the #973 actor a mechanical self-authorization
in the moment it is blocked. The recipe is gone from the prose; the
corrective advice and the env override's name stay (the latter is a #2255
acceptance criterion, and a per-step env prefix cannot reach a hook anyway),
and the typed overrideSentinel field stays for the binding tests. The hatch
remains documented in USER-GUIDE.md and complete-milestone.md, where humans
and the workflow engine read.

* fix(#2255): round 9 Minors 1-2 — realpath-resolve the target before the curated match; disclose the /i Linux cost

Minor 1: a Write to a non-curated path that symlinks into a curated file was
not matched while writeFileSync followed the link — the target is now
realpath-resolved before the curated match (ENOENT keeps the lexical
resolution so new-file Writes still pass; any other realpath error falls
through to the read, which fails closed). Negative-controlled: the symlink
payload exits 0 against the pre-fix guard, 2 against this one. Test skips on
win32, where symlink creation needs privilege.

Minor 2: the header's design-limits block now names the unconditional /i
cost on case-sensitive Linux (a genuinely distinct .planning/roadmap.md is
also treated as curated) next to the stateless limit, and drops the closed
symlink limit.

* test(#2255): round 9 Minors 3-4 — CRLF counting pin + a passing Write leaves a fresh sentinel unburned

Minor 3: countLines' split('\n') is CRLF-safe for a count (the \r rides
along), confirmed by trace in the review — this pins it against this repo's
recurring CRLF regressions, on both sides of the compare and at the 40%
boundary.

Minor 4: consumeSentinelFor runs only after the ratio check would block, so
a within-tolerance Write never burns the workflow's token — true by
construction, previously un-asserted.

* fix(#2255): round 9 Major 3 — correct the stale env-var line in archive_milestone's summary

complete-milestone.md's "After archival" bullet still said the reorganize
happens "under GSD_ALLOW_PLANNING_SHRINK=1" — the wording from the round-2
design this PR's own history rejected in round 5 (a per-step env var cannot
reach a hook; setting it in a Bash step silently does nothing). It now points
at the sentinel mechanics the reorganize step actually documents, matching
that step and USER-GUIDE.md.

* docs(#2255): round 9 Major 1 — user-facing docs state the stateless per-Write limit

The changeset and USER-GUIDE described the guard as covering "catastrophically
shrinks" with no caveat, while the stateless design was disclosed only in the
hook header — an operator reading the shipped docs would conclude iterative
erosion is covered. Both surfaces now state the per-Write comparison and the
erosion non-goal explicitly, in line with what the guard does.

* fix(#2255): round 10 Blocker 1 — arm the hatch in the roadmapper's curated writes

gsd-roadmapper Step 7 Writes both .planning/ROADMAP.md and .planning/STATE.md
wholesale, and /gsd:new-milestone spawns it against the OUTGOING milestone's
files. new-milestone's `phases.clear` archives phase DIRECTORIES, never
ROADMAP.md, so nothing compacts it first, and no ordering rule forces
/gsd:complete-milestone to run before /gsd:new-milestone.

Measured against the shipped hook at the #973 file size (292 lines): a new
4-phase roadmap lands at 18.2% and an 8-phase one at 31.8% — both blocked; only
a 12-phase replacement (45.5%) clears. So the collapse is reachable on a
first-party flow, which is the failure mode #2255 para 4 says the guard must not
have.

Arms the single-use sentinel immediately before each Write, one per target
(the token is path-bound and single-use, so one arming cannot cover both), and
gates each arming on `[ -f ]` so the /gsd:new-project path — where the guard
already exempts via ENOENT — strands no unconsumed token.

Binding test derives the sentinel name from the guard's own typed output, so a
rename on either side fails the suite instead of silently unwiring the hatch.
Negative-controlled: 2 assertions fail against the pre-fix roadmapper.

* docs(#2255): round 10 Major 2 — scope the claim to the guarantee that ships

The sentinel is a plain file, so an agent that would reason past an advisory
can arm one with a single Bash call it is already permitted to make. The
"only defense independent of per-agent tool config" framing outran that, and
the changeset was on its way into CHANGELOG.md.

Retitles the claim on all three surfaces (changeset, guard header, USER-GUIDE)
to what the guard actually delivers: it blocks accidental and single-shot
collapse and is not a defense against a determined agent; what it converts is
"ignore a sentence" into "take one deliberate, path-bound, single-use,
auditable action".

Pinned by test on the DURABLE surfaces only — the guard header and USER-GUIDE.
The changeset fragment is deliberately not pinned: it is consumed at release,
so a test reading it would start failing the moment the release lands. The
bound-statement assertion normalizes comment markers and whitespace first, so
it pins the claim rather than the paragraph's line wrapping.

Negative-controlled: both assertions fail against the pre-fix surfaces.

* test(#2255): acknowledge the roadmapper growth from the round 10 Blocker 1 wiring

The emitted-attribution gate (#2719/#2767) flags gsd-roadmapper.md growing 1130
bytes without an acknowledgment. The growth is the Blocker 1 sentinel wiring
plus the rationale a future editor needs to keep it, so it gets an ack fragment
rather than a silencing regen — the gate's own message is explicit that there is
nothing left to regenerate.

Fragment is PR-scoped (2301-…) per the gate's naming instruction, and uses the
plain-string reason form the shipped fragments use.

Verified against the TRUE upstream tip, not the fork's origin/next: a stale
origin made this same gate report unrelated phantom drift (1 emitted path + 6
grown files + 5 stale acks) that vanishes when GSD_EMITTED_BASE is pinned.

* test(#2255): renumber the roadmapper PROSE_ALLOWLIST pin after the Step 7 wiring

CI red on shard 2/3, all four platforms. The #2751 gate keys PROSE_ALLOWLIST on
{file, line}; the Blocker 1 wiring added 18 lines above the allowlisted
parenthetical in agents/gsd-roadmapper.md, moving it 624 -> 642. Both halves of
the gate then fired: the moved line reads as a new offender, and the stale
entry no longer matches anything.

Line content at 642 is byte-identical to what the entry describes — a
descriptive "e.g." naming SDK queries a user could run — so this is a
renumber, not a re-classification.

Swept the defect class rather than the instance: agents/gsd-roadmapper.md is
the only line-pinned reference to any file this round changed.

Negative-controlled: both assertions fail against the un-renumbered allowlist.

---------

Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-01 21:19:49 -04:00
Tom Boucher
0bb7525a62 fix(#2943): rename get-library-docs -> query-docs; correct the ctx7 fallback rationale (#2963)
* test(#2943): parity guard against the nonexistent get-library-docs tool

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* changeset(#2647): backfill PR number 2942

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore(#2825): backfill changeset PR 2905

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fixes #2526

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fixes #2568

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* chore(#2568): backfill changeset PR number

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closes #2608

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 assertions across both surfaces verified against the built lib.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closes #2279

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

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

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

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

Closes #1995

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

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

Closes #1995

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

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

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

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

Found by orthogonal code review (Step 4).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closes #1951

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

* fix(#1951): address orthogonal review findings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Companion to #1945 (tracer bullets).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-07-18 15:46:42 -04:00