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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Tom Boucher	33fd203ccd	test(#2966): loop QA walk — drive real scenarios across all five loop steps (#2976) ... * test(#2966): loop QA walk — drive real scenarios across all five loop steps Adds a headless walk that carries accumulating project state across discuss -> plan -> execute -> verify -> ship against one temp project, layered over the existing tests/helpers.cjs runGsdTools substrate. Findings carry severity. A violation breaks a stated contract and fails the build; a smell is legal under today's implementation but structurally questionable, is recorded, and never reddens CI. Without that split an oracle set derived from current behavior can only ever confirm current behavior -- the harness could not say "this works and is still wrong". The end-to-end test asserts the walk produces at least one smell: a QA harness that reports nothing on a first run against a real engine is far more likely mis-specified than the engine is perfect. It deliberately does not pin smell ids or counts, which would re-freeze current behavior. First run against the real engine: 0 violations, 3 smell classes -- init returns agents_dir outside the project tree; smart-entry emits prose unconditionally so routing cannot be asserted; state-snapshot reports a missing STATE.md through a payload key with exit 0. Also fixes tests/fixtures/index.cjs: createFixture with git:true and planning:false staged nothing, so the commit failed with "nothing to commit". That combination was unreachable until greenfield needed it. Extends RULESET.TESTS.feedback-loop-convergence from estimation to the loop itself. Design lock: docs/adr/2966-loop-qa-walk.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): wire fault injection, make perturbations discriminating Independent review found tests/qa/mutations.cjs entirely unwired: 462 lines exercised only by their own unit tests, with no mutation hook in the scenario DSL and no scenario applying one, while the module header and the ADR described fault injection in the present tense. Dead code documented as live. Adds a `mutate` step field, three perturbation scenarios, and a wiring detector: a self-test scenario whose expectations are known-false and which MUST fail. The previous anti-vacuity check asserted only that the walk produced a smell, which passes on well-known engine behavior regardless of whether the harness wiring works. First perturbation attempt produced zero signal -- progress does not structurally parse ROADMAP.md, so a corrupted roadmap sailed through. A perturbation that cannot fail is the same defect in a new costume. Probes now target roadmap get-phase, and each mutated step runs a clean baseline first so `mutationObserved` records whether the corruption changed anything at all. Also clears four review findings: classify() returned PROSE for exit-0 with empty stdout; `warnings` was structurally unpopulatable on the success path (execFileSync discards it) and is now documented as error-path-only; read-only-idempotence passed vacuously when asked to check idempotence without the data to check it; the ADR miscounted the oracles. Discrimination matrix across 8 mutations x 6 commands: bom, duplicate-phase-id and escaped-pipes are absorbed silently by every probed surface, and progress / smart-entry / roadmap validate never reacted to any mutation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): add path-containment guard for scenario-supplied targets Security review found scenario-supplied paths joined to the temp project with no containment check. step.mutate.target and agent.write keys were validated only as non-empty strings, so a target of ../../../../etc/hosts reached fs.unlinkSync / fs.writeFileSync / fs.symlinkSync outside the project. The symlink mutation was worst: it read the traversed file, wrote a sibling copy, deleted the original and symlinked it back. Not exploitable today -- all shipped scenarios target .planning/ROADMAP.md and scenarios are repo-committed, not runtime input. Fixed anyway: it is a live primitive any future scenario or copied helper can reach. Adds tests/qa/paths.cjs with resolveWithin(): rejects absolute paths, NUL bytes and empty input, normalizes separators unconditionally, and requires containment by path segment so a sibling like <base>-evil is not treated as inside. Non-existent targets resolve via nearest existing ancestor rather than falling back to a lexical compare. Scenario load now rejects traversing or absolute targets up front. oracles.cjs previously carried its own copy of the containment logic; both now share paths.cjs, since a duplicated containment check is exactly the divergence class this repo calls out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): complete trajectory corpus, report emission, boundary-aware oracle Adds the remaining trajectories and drives all 11 mutations end-to-end. 20 scenarios, 72 steps, 0 violations, 25 smells. Adds qa-report.json with per-step verdicts and a copy-pasteable repro command, plus --keep / GSD_QA_KEEP=1 to preserve a failing tree. A repro line for a tree that was not preserved is marked NOT RUNNABLE rather than emitting a command pointing at a deleted directory. monotonic-progress is now boundary-aware. Two scenarios had been trimmed to stop the oracle complaining at a milestone rollover, which destroys the signal the trajectory exists to produce. Evidence: counters legitimately reset to zero at milestone complete, but the payload milestone_version lags until a new ROADMAP.md is written. So the oracle now scopes by milestone plus workstream, keeps a same-scope decrease as a violation, and records a boundary crossing as a smell. Both scenarios walk the real boundary again. Standards review fixes: oracle findings now carry a structured subject so tests assert on typed fields instead of substring-matching the free-form detail string, resolveWithin throws a typed EPATHESCAPE error, and the absolute-path predicate scenario.cjs had re-implemented now comes from paths.cjs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): fix silently-vacuous fixtures and guard the class Every fixture carried its #2371 provenance comment BEFORE the frontmatter block, and extractFrontmatter returns {} when anything precedes the opening ---. So every scenario reading status/phase/name was operating on an empty object and reporting green. Nine fixtures repositioned; the comment stays, it just moves below the closing ---. Both UAT fixtures lacked a parser-recognized result block, so evaluateUatPassed saw checks.length===0 and could never return passed:true. The uat-fail-then-remediate scenario could not have proven a remediation. Its expect block only inspected blockers, which is empty before AND after, which is why the corpus never noticed. Both fixtures now carry real result blocks and the scenario asserts passed and no_uat_artifacts on each side of the flip. The actual deliverable is the guard: a fixture-integrity block asserting every fixture with a frontmatter shape parses to a non-empty object, that every fixture carries its provenance marker, and that the two UAT fixtures produce opposite verdicts through the real evaluateUatPassed. The first guard written required --- at byte 0, which would never have fired on the regression it exists to prevent; it was rewritten and proven by deliberately re-breaking a fixture. No engine defect here. no_uat_artifacts means no parsed check items, not no UAT files, and it was reporting correctly on fixtures that had none. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): make the walk report — smell ratchet, baseline, CI job The harness computed smells into a gitignored qa-report.json that nothing read. In CI it surfaced nothing at all: violations failed the build, but the half of the tool that says "this works and is still wrong" was inert. A QA tool nobody hears is decoration. Adds a ratchet on the same idiom this repo already uses three times over (the regression-test-name allowlist, the emitted-drift acks, the size baseline): a committed smell-baseline.json, per-PR acknowledgment fragments under tests/qa/smell-acks/, and a ratchet script wired into CI. The design invariant is preserved exactly. A smell still never fails a build on its own merits. What fails is an UNACKNOWLEDGED NEW smell -- the absence of a decision -- leaving an author two honest exits: fix it, or record a fragment with a real reason. An empty reason is rejected. The baseline is shrink-only, so a fixed smell must prune its entry. Violations remain unacknowledgeable. Fingerprints are composed only from stable fields (oracle id, scenario, argv, subject discriminator) -- never temp paths, timestamps or counts. Verified byte-identical across two runs in separate temp dirs; an unstable fingerprint would have false-positived every CI run. CI gains a qa-loop-walk job that runs the suite and the ratchet, uploads the report with `if: always()` (it matters most when it failed), and renders a summary a reviewer reads without downloading anything. Also fixes the report runner invoking main() unconditionally on require, so importing it double-ran every scenario and clobbered its own output. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): every smell terminates in a defect or a fixed detector The baseline accepted a smell with a free-text reason. That is a mechanism for designing smells in -- an allowlist nobody revisits. The harness is brand new, so nothing it found is inherited legacy; every finding is a FIRST finding. Each must now terminate in exactly one of two states: REAL -> an assigned defect, entry carries the issue number FALSE POSITIVE -> the detector is wrong and gets fixed, never baselined There is no third "accepted with a good explanation" state, so the ratchet now requires a positive-integer `issue` on every entry. A reason may remain as a human note but can never substitute. `--update` refuses to invent issue numbers: a new smell is written with `issue: null` and a TODO, and the next plain run rejects it, forcing triage rather than accumulation. Working the 21 existing entries through that rule found 16 were my own detectors being wrong: value-hygiene (10) flagged $.agents_dir, a field whose entire contract is to point at the install tree outside any project. Fixed with a leaf-key allowlist of contractually-external fields, verified as the only such key in the init payload. Genuinely unexpected out-of-project paths still smell. monotonic-progress (6) fired on legitimate boundary crossings -- milestone v1.0 to v2.0, workstream beta to alpha -- and on one payload carrying no scope fields at all, where a change cannot even be known. Scope changes now reset silently and scope-less observations are skipped. The same-scope decrease remains a violation; that is the real invariant and is regression- guarded. The five survivors are real and now tracked: soft-error-exit-zero (#2980), untyped-success (#2979). Baseline 25 -> 5. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): keep the ratchet out of the tarball, unpin the qa CI job The remote matrix returned failed -- 3 unique failures, identical on node22 and node24, both root causes in this branch's own diff. The ratchet lives under scripts/, which ships in the npm tarball, and it requires three modules under tests/, which does not. In a published install it is MODULE_NOT_FOUND at load. This is exactly the class the #2858 guard was added to catch, and it caught it. Fixed the way #2858 fixed the same shape for its own repo-only CI script: a targeted files[] negation, so the ratchet stays in the repo for CI and out of the tarball. Not solved by moving or inlining the required modules -- the ratchet must keep using the same code the harness uses, or the two drift. Verified both directions: the script is no longer in the pack list, and build-hooks.js, fix-slash-commands.cjs and gen-capability-registry.cjs are all still shipped. Over-negating there would have broken installs, since bin/install.js requires them. The qa-loop-walk job also carried CI_REBASE_BASE_SHA copied from a neighbouring job without the paired GSD_EMITTED_BASE, which the #2854 invariant forbids by name: diverging them makes the differential compare a tree against a baseline from a different commit. The job runs only the qa suite and the ratchet and invokes no emitted-attribution test, so it needs no rebase-pinned base at all -- the step was removed rather than paired. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): stop monotonic-progress going blind on scope-less payloads The full remote suite caught a false NEGATIVE I introduced while fixing a false positive. Silencing the boundary-crossing noise had made the oracle skip ANY observation lacking milestone fields -- so a minimal payload like {total_summaries: n} produced no violation at all, and the oracle stopped catching the exact defect it exists to catch. For a QA tool that is strictly worse than the noise it replaced. Scope is only indeterminate when the two observations DISAGREE about having it: both scoped, same scope, decrease -> VIOLATION both scoped, different scope -> reset silently NEITHER scoped, decrease -> VIOLATION (the regression) mixed -> skip the comparison Implementing the mixed case surfaced a second blind spot: advancing the reference point on a skipped pair lets a scope-less observation sitting between two same-scope ones mask a real decrease. Mixed now leaves the reference untouched. All four branches carry explicit coverage; only one did before, which is why this shipped. The self-test that failed was right and the code was wrong, so the code moved. Corpus behavior is unchanged: still 5 smells, 0 new, 0 stale, 0 violations. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-01 16:13:28 -04:00