The subtest asserted project-only model_overrides but called
readGsdEffectiveModelOverrides without isolating HOME, so the real
~/.gsd/defaults.json global overrides bled into the deepEqual on any dev box or
non-hermetic runner that has one. Pass a sandboxed homedir (mirroring the sibling
warnIfStaleBake subtests that already inject homedir).
Fold remaining isKilo logic branches into descriptor-driven reads:
finishPermissionWriter (uninstall cleanup), skipSharedHooksInstall (hooks
copy), and a skills converter-name registry (the artifactLayout.converter
field is now load-bearing, not decorative). frontmatterDialect stays the
documented dispatch key for frontmatter (no descriptor field for it). Dead
isKilo destructure bindings removed. Byte-identical golden parity for all 16
runtimes (opencode, which shares kilo's combined-family path, verified clean).
UPGRADE 1 (hook bus): install .kilo/plugins/gsd-core.js native plugin +
extensionEvents:"kilo" + EXTENSION_EVENT_SURFACES.kilo (OpenCode-fork bus).
UPGRADE 2 (active model): populate runtimeTierDefaults.kilo + thread
modelOverride through convertClaudeToKiloFrontmatter — model no longer stripped
from agents. UPGRADE 3 (MCP): document the gsd-core MCP companion under kilo's
mcp config key. UPGRADE 4 (named dispatch): agents/*.md mode:subagent roster is
the Task-tool dispatch surface (tested); subagentToolkit stays 'undocumented'
per AC so dispatch degrades to 'degraded' by design.
Model-catalog single-source edit ripples the shared model-catalog.json hash
into all 16 golden fixtures (expected). Inline defect fixes (no-defer): stale-
bake-guard resolveAgentDir 'agent'->'agents' (was a silent no-op for opencode/
codex), hardcoded 'Removed OpenCode plugin' uninstall log -> generic, and the
connect-gsd-mcp-server.md OpenCode mcpServers->mcp doc error.
Tests: kilo-imperative-reference (adapter/axes/fail-closed/degradation/
hostBehaviors + widened isKilo source-grep across 4 modules) + kilo-upgrades
(plugin parity+load, model-override converter, agents dispatch surface, MCP
doc). Matrix + how-to + config docs updated; changeset added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(#1650): fix stale opencode install-path claim in core settings
* feat(#1688): warn on stale model bake for static-frontmatter runtimes
* chore(#1688): backfill changeset pr field with real PR number
* test(#1688): make resolveAgentDir assertions use path.join for windows
* docs(#1688): codify windows path-literal-in-assert anti-pattern + align test
