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Tom Boucher
eea9247c93 enhance(#4095): checkpoint:decision auto-selection is opt-in via auto_select (#4912)
* enhance(#4095): checkpoint:decision auto-selection is opt-in via auto_select

Auto-mode used to auto-select a checkpoint:decision's first <option>
unconditionally, making a decision checkpoint's safety depend on option
presentation order rather than an authored choice. Add an optional
auto_select="<option-id>" attribute on the <task> tag: absent, auto-mode
now escalates to a human exactly like gate="blocking-human" does; present,
it names the option auto-mode selects; naming an id with no matching
<option id> is a hard structural-validation error at plan-parse time
rather than a silent fallback to the first option. gate="blocking-human"
continues to win over everything, unchanged.

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

* fix(#4095): anchor auto_select/id attribute regexes past hyphenated decoys

An isolated adversarial review of the auto_select work found that both new
attribute regexes used \b as their left anchor, which is a word boundary,
not a "start of attribute name" boundary. A decoy attribute ending in the
same word (e.g. data-id="...") sitting before the real id="..." on the
same <option> tag matched first, silently corrupting the extracted option
id. Anchor on (?:^|\s) instead so only the real attribute name can match.
Adds a regression test reproducing the exact decoy-attribute shape, plus a
Unicode option-id test from the same review pass.

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

* test(#4095): register auto-select-attribute.test.cjs in the docs-guard lane

lint-docs-guard-registration failed: the new test reads docs/reference/
plan-md.md but was not registered, so a future edit to that doc could
silently desync from the test without the guard catching it on the PR
that changed the doc. Registered alongside its direct precedents
(precondition-element.test.cjs, reversibility-tagging.test.cjs), which
read the same file for the same reason.

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

* fix(#4095): fit the decision bullet under execute-phase.md's frozen byte ceiling

The remote gsd-test run caught what local checks missed: execute-phase.md
carries a frozen ADR-857 Phase-6 byte ceiling (93600) with only 36 bytes
of headroom before this change, and the original checkpoint:decision
wording pushed it to 93772 (over the ceiling). Cascaded into failures in
phase6-capstone-conformance, execute-phase-completion-reconciliation,
claude-orchestration, and the compact-content drift-report test.

Also caught: tests/package-legitimacy-gate.test.cjs anchors a
"decision is conditional, not unconditional" safety check on the literal
phrase "first option" in the decision bullet — which #4095 deliberately
removes, since there is no more unconditional first-option pick. The test
was asserting an assumption this change intentionally makes obsolete;
re-anchored on tokens that still identify the bullet ('decision',
'auto-spawn') without weakening what the test actually verifies (the
bullet must still carry a blocking-human carve-out).

Also fixed a word-order mismatch between my own new test's regex and the
actual doc text it was asserting against (tests/auto-select-attribute.test.cjs).

Regenerated the compact-content benchmark baseline
(tests/fixtures/compact-content-benchmark-baseline.json) to match the new
byte counts.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-executor.md — +7 bytes (49138 -> 49145), from the auto_select carve-out added to the checkpoint:decision auto-mode bullet; already trimmed once to fit the 49152 hard cap.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — +12 bytes (93564 -> 93576), from the same carve-out in the orchestrator's decision bullet; kept 24 bytes under the frozen 93600 ADR-857 ceiling after two rounds of trimming for clarity vs. margin.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#4095): backfill changeset PR number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 23:47:01 -04:00
BeeHiggs
0967358b8b enhance(#3638): render bracket phase IDs on progress, stats, manager and statusline surfaces (epic #612 PR-5) (#4111)
* enhance(#3638): render bracket IDs on display surfaces

Gate progress, stats, manager, and statusline projections on the bracket convention; validate phase_id_convention and single-source the convention card.

Forward note: the uat.cts bracket co-change remains deliberately deferred to its owning slice.

* chore(#3638): point the changeset at PR #4111

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

* fix(#3638): close bracket display review gaps

* docs(#3638): register phase display modules

* chore(#3638): re-trigger CI after macOS shard SIGTERM

`full test (macos-latest, 24, shard 3/3)` failed on 20ce98cd1 in
`tests/lint-compiled-artifact-sync.test.cjs` — the spawned
`scripts/lint-compiled-artifact-sync.cjs` was killed at 60024ms
(`exited null (signal SIGTERM)`, stdout and stderr both empty), 24ms past
the test's own `TSC_COMPILE_TIMEOUT_MS`. That is the failure mode the
constant's comment already documents ("under CI shard load that compile
can exceed the budget, dying to a SIGTERM with empty piped stdout").

No content change; this empty commit exists only to re-run the matrix,
since re-running a job needs write access on the upstream repository.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-15 04:47:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
06845717fe feat(#4740): make the Loop Host Contract role partition normative and enforced (#4742)
* test(#4740): pin the per-step role-family partition

Failing-first coverage for the Loop Host Contract role partition. At this
commit crossCheckRoleFamilies does not exist, so the rows throw
"crossCheckRoleFamilies is not a function" -- the RED proof they bind to
behavior rather than restating it.

ADR-894 section 3 assigns roles per step but parenthesises the assignment as
"(illustrative roles)", and nothing enforced it. The only thing standing in the
way was a single deepEqual in this same file, which is editable prose.

Rows cover: each step's own family accepted; a strict subset accepted; a
foreign role rejected at every step; an unknown role rejected; an unknown step
failing CLOSED; capitalization not silently matched; every offending role
reported rather than only the first; and purity, because buildContract puts the
same array into the generated contract.

Two rows exist because an earlier cut of this suite was vacuous. The purity
fixture is deliberately UNSORTED -- an alphabetically-sorted fixture cannot
fail an in-place sort(), and the mutant was being killed by three unrelated
rows instead. A parity row asserts ROLE_FAMILY and ROLE_TO_AGENT cover the
exact same role-name domain, both directions: they are parallel constants over
one domain, so divergence is the generative-fix class CLAUDE.md names.

Every negative row asserts the offending ROLE NAME and the STEP NAME appear in
the message. A count-only assertion survives a mutant that reports the wrong
role, which the 80% Stryker gate would surface only after a full CI round-trip.

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

* feat(#4740): reject a cross-family agent-role declaration

Orchestration and execution are distinct functions of the loop and must not
drift into one another. That partition was real but unenforced: ADR-894
section 3 calls its own role assignment "illustrative", and the generator
accepted anything. Adding orchestrator to execute-phase.md's agent-roles line
compiled, --check passed once regenerated, and capability-validator.cjs then
began accepting into:"orchestrator" at every execute point.

ROLE_FAMILY maps every role to one of orchestration, planning or execution.
EXPECTED_FAMILY_BY_STEP gives each of the five steps exactly one family.
crossCheckRoleFamilies rejects a cross-family role, a role outside the
vocabulary, and an unknown step. It reports every offender, not the first.

It fails CLOSED on an unknown step, deliberately diverging from
assertPointsCoverage's "unknown step -- caught elsewhere". For points that is
true: the canonical-set and duplicate checks catch it. For roles there is no
second net, so failing open would leave an unknown step as the one input that
bypasses the gate.

crossCheckRoles' orchestrator exemption is untouched. ROLE_TO_AGENT maps roles
to agent FILES and the orchestrator is the host, owning none -- admissibility
and agent-file presence are separate concerns with separate checks.

Additive to section 3's existing rule that contribution.into must be a member
of the step's agentRoles, which is unchanged. That governs what a CAPABILITY
may target; this governs what a WORKFLOW may declare. No capability is
affected, and all five workflows already declare single-family sets, so the
gate is green on the commit that introduces it.

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

* docs(#4740): make the ADR-894 role assignment normative

Section 3 parenthesises its per-step role assignment as "(illustrative roles)".
That word was accurate about the list's PURPOSE -- it illustrated the shape of
a generated contract entry -- and wrong about its STATUS, because the
assignment was load-bearing from the moment the generator consumed it. Read
literally it makes the partition an example rather than a rule.

Appended as a dated in-place section per docs/contributor-standards.md, which
records that an accepted ADR is never rewritten and names this the default
pattern. Section 3's original body is untouched.

The amendment states the three disjoint families, the one family each step
admits, that a step may declare a strict subset but never outside it, and why
this is a clarification rather than a new decision: the contract is generated
from the workflow markers "so it cannot drift into a lie", and all five
workflows have always declared single-family sets. What was absent was any
statement that it is required, and any check that it holds.

It also pins the distinction that is easy to re-merge: contribution.into being
a member of agentRoles governs what a CAPABILITY may target and is unchanged;
the family rule governs what a WORKFLOW may declare. The CONTEXT.md glossary
entry for the Loop Host Contract records the same, beside the agent-reference
drift guard it already documented.

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

* chore(#4740): add changeset fragment

pr:0 placeholder is backfilled with the real number once the PR exists.

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

* chore(#4740): backfill changeset pr number

Replaces the pr:0 placeholder with 4742 now that the PR exists. Verified with
GITHUB_BASE_REF=next, the way CI runs them: changeset lint and lint:docs both
go from invalid_pr(0) to ok. Without that env both report success without
evaluating the branch at all.

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

* fix(#4740): stop injecting the orchestrator procedure into executors

claude-orchestration declared a contribution at execute:wave:pre with
into:"executor". loop-hook-dispatch.md defines a contribution as "inject
fragment.inline verbatim into the context for the role named in into", so its
267 lines were injected into EXECUTOR prompts whenever the capability was
enabled. Those lines are orchestration end to end -- construct a wave manifest,
resolve the dispatch backend, invoke the Workflow tool to spawn executors,
bridge per-agent results into the merge chain. An executor can act on none of
it.

Retargeting to into:"orchestrator" would not have been a fix. ROLE_TO_AGENT
carries no orchestrator entry by design: the orchestrator IS the host, and the
host's procedure lives in execute-phase.md. A step's agentRoles enumerates
agents a capability may inject context INTO, so adding orchestrator there would
model the host as an injectable agent -- the same category error pointed the
other way, and it would need an exception carved into the partition the same
issue just made normative.

So the defect is the mechanism, not the label. A contribution injects into an
agent's context; "replace step 3's inline dispatch loop" is a change to what
the HOST does. The contribution channel was serving as a host-behaviour
directive because it was the only channel available at an execute point.

The entry is removed. plan:post into:"planner" is correct and untouched. The
procedure is preserved verbatim at docs/workflow-backend-dispatch.md inside the
capability -- it is the only copy in the repo -- and is no longer injected
anywhere.

Consequence, not softened: the Workflow backend now has no loop wiring.
Detection, emission and config remain and the design is intact, but nothing
dispatches it. Under the separation ADR-1143 itself asserts it never had a
legitimate channel; ADR-1143's own audit already records the end-to-end path
has never been exercised. Wiring it properly needs a host-level mechanism that
does not exist today.

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

* fix(#4740): invert the stale execute:wave:pre registry assertions

Removing the contribution left four surfaces asserting or describing the old
state. Caught by an isolated review before a verification run was spent, which
is the point of reviewing first: the first of these was a guaranteed CI red.

execute-wave-post-gate-pipeline-e2e asserted against the REAL generated
registry that byLoopPoint['execute:wave:pre'] held exactly one contribution
with capId claude-orchestration. It now holds zero. Inverted to assert exactly
0 -- not a vague >= 0 -- and the #2285 comment above it now explains the
current state rather than the one it was written for.

CONTEXT.md's Claude Orchestration entry claimed two contributions at wired
points. It is now one, and the entry's execute:wave:post label was already
wrong before this change: the manifest said execute:wave:pre. Rewritten to one
plan:post contribution, why the execute-point one was removed, and where the
procedure now lives.

One assertion in claude-orchestration.test.cjs could not fail. It tested for
the prose "(into the executor)" while the doc says "(`into: executor`)", so no
plausible wording matched it and the paired plan:post assertion was carrying
the row. Replaced with a check on the structural claim, and proved RED by
restoring the two-contribution wording before reverting.

The moved procedure keeps section headings that speak as a live contribution --
"When this contribution is active", "Why execute:wave:pre". Preserving the body
verbatim was deliberate, so the headings stay and an editor's note under the
header explains why they read that way.

A sweep of all 17 files referencing byLoopPoint found no further siblings: the
remaining hits are a synthetic capability fixture and an empty-points test that
already expected no active hooks, both correct before and after.

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>
2026-09-14 18:30:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b54c1c5848 fix(#4709): retire the Gemini CLI reviewer lane (#4716)
* fix(#4709): retire the Gemini CLI reviewer lane

Google stopped serving Gemini CLI for the free/Pro/Ultra tiers on 2026-06-18 —
the same sunset that removed the gemini RUNTIME in #1928 (shipped 1.8.0). GSD
targets solo developers, so those tiers ARE the user path: the lane spawned
`gemini {{model}} -p -`, a binary that no longer answers for the majority of
users, and five locales documented it as a supported choice.

The lane was re-created after #1928 by the reviewer-lane-as-manifest-data work
(6a9babda69, #2798/#2837, ADR-2782). Per the maintainer that re-creation was an
error in that buildout rather than a considered decision, so this corrects a
mistake and needs no ADR-2782 amendment.

Reviewer roster: 12 lanes / 13 flags -> 11 lanes / 12 flags.

TWO sources of truth had to be removed, not one. Deleting
capabilities/gemini/capability.json left the capability registry at 11 lanes
while src/review-lane-descriptor.cts's hand-maintained REVIEWER_LANES array
still carried its own complete gemini entry at 12 — precisely the disagreement
checkReviewerLaneParity exists to catch. Both are gone; both parity checkers
now run clean against the real tree (lane parity ok/0 violations, docs parity
0 violations).

Surfaces stripped of the dead flag:
- capabilities/gemini/ deleted; registry and capability-matrix regenerated
- src/review-lane-descriptor.cts: REVIEWER_LANES entry, docblock count, and the
  three doc comments that used --gemini as a live example
- commands/gsd/{review,plan-review-convergence,autonomous,progress}.md and the
  four matching skills/*/SKILL.md: argument-hint frontmatter and flag bullets
- gsd-core/workflows/help/modes/{full,full.compact}.md: /gsd-help signatures,
  the detected-CLI list, and the reviewer-title list
- gsd-core/workflows/settings-integrations.md: the integrations wizard no longer
  offers "Gemini" as a model option, and the settable-keys list drops it
- gsd-core/workflows/review.md: the `command -v gemini` probe, the --gemini
  flag, the roster frontmatter, the install pointer to the sunset repo, and the
  jq-less / precedence / self-skip lane lists
- gsd-core/workflows/sync-skills.md: "two runtimes (grok, gemini) resolve to
  ANOTHER runtime's skills root" is now one runtime; gemini never aliased
  anything, it fell through canonicalizeRuntimeName to a fail-closed default
- docs/{CONFIGURATION,COMMANDS,CLI-TOOLS}.md, docs/reference/capability-matrix.md,
  docs/how-to/set-up-cross-ai-review.md — including its `npm install -g
  @google/gemini-cli` instruction and the two rows recommending --gemini
- docs/features/{cross-ai-peer-review,opt-in-parallel-reviewer-lanes}.md as the
  generator inputs behind docs/FEATURES.md, plus the three locale FEATURES.md
  signature lines the docs-parity gate covers (the #2781 class: a flag change
  that never reaches the mirrors)

Counts reconciled against measurement rather than arithmetic: 8 timeout keys of
11 lanes, 11 budget keys, 9 model keys, and four hardcoded literals in
tests/reviewer-lane-declarations.test.cjs (NEW_LANE_ONLY_IDS 5->4, LITERAL_ROSTER
12->11, two roster counts 12->11).

BEHAVIOR CHANGE, accepted deliberately: `gsd config-set review.models.gemini`
now errors with "Unknown config key". An existing key already in
.planning/config.json still parses and is simply never read, so no project fails
to load. This is the repo's own documented policy for exactly this case
(docs/CONFIGURATION.md:327 — "a key left over from a removed reviewer validated
silently and was never read. Such a key is now rejected by config-set"), so no
installer migration ships. Note my first measurement of this was WRONG: I tested
config-get, which reads undeclared keys fine, and generalised. Read and write are
different surfaces and gave different answers.

Antigravity is untouched throughout — its --antigravity/--agy flags,
review.models.agy, ~/.gemini/antigravity configHome, ~/.gemini/config global
skills root (#3738), hookEvents "gemini", GEMINI.md instruction file, and every
gemini-* model id it actually runs on.

Refs #4709

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

* chore(#4709): changeset for the reviewer-lane retirement

Type Removed: the --gemini flag and its three config keys are user-visible
surface that no longer exists.

Refs #4709

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

* fix(#4709): close the 24 test failures and the locale-doc gap the gates found

An adversarial review and a full matrix run between them found substantially
more fallout than inspection had. All of it is this PR's own, and all of it is
fixed rather than waved off.

THE MATRIX RUN FOUND 24 FAILURES ACROSS 6 FILES. Inspection had predicted two.
The dominant class was a test helper that looks up a lane by slug and throws
`no declared lane 'gemini'`:

- tests/feat-2483-review-claude-mds-guard.test.cjs (6) — used gemini as the
  "other declared first-party lane" to contrast against claude's env
  suppression. Now qwen, verified from source as a lane that declares no `env`
  (only claude does), so the contrast still holds.
- tests/review-lane-descriptor.test.cjs (6) — the duplicate-flag and
  duplicate-section fixtures deliberately COLLIDED with a real declared lane to
  prove the parity checker reports a duplicate. `--gemini`/`Gemini` no longer
  collide with anything, so the checker reported
  `descriptor_lane_not_in_registry:acme` instead and the tests proved nothing.
  Now collide with `--codex`/`Codex`, reproduced against the real checker.
- tests/review-reviewer-selection.test.cjs (3) — these distinguish KNOWN-but-
  undetected from UNKNOWN. gemini flipped categories, inverting what they
  proved. The known case now uses qwen; `__nope__` stays the unknown fixture.
- tests/review-default-reviewers-resolution.test.cjs (2), and
  tests/settings-integrations.test.cjs (3) — the wizard now offers three
  reviewer CLIs, not four, so the test and its name say three.
- Two count assertions the earlier sweep missed outright:
  reviewer-lane-declarations.test.cjs:359 (`length, 12`) and
  reviewer-docs-parity.test.cjs:681 (`>= 12`).

THE LOCALE-DOC GAP, and why the parity gate stayed green over it. All four
locale mirrors still documented `--gemini` as a live reviewer flag. The
docs-parity checker asserts the PRESENCE of every current flag and never the
ABSENCE of a retired one, so "0 violations" was never evidence those files were
clean — my earlier reading of it as such was wrong. This is the #2781
locale-drift class in the opposite direction. Fixed across 12 locale files:
COMMANDS.md flag lists and table rows, CONFIGURATION.md `review.models.gemini`
rows and reviewer prose, CLI-TOOLS.md config examples, and
set-up-cross-ai-review.md including its install block and its
which-reviewer-to-choose row, which now recommends Antigravity.

ALSO FOUND, and instructive about my own method: docs/CONFIGURATION.md:297 still
carried a `review.models.gemini` row. My sweep had missed it because my grep
excluded lines matching `gemini-[0-9]` to spare Google's model ids — and that
row's example value is `"gemini-2.5-pro"` on the same line. The exclusion built
to avoid false positives created a false negative.

Remaining comment/example sites: src/review-reviewer-selection.cts:309 and
src/config.cts:598 named the dead flag and key as examples;
gsd-core/references/planning-config.md:269 likewise; and
review-reviewer-selection.cts:22 claimed in the PRESENT tense that gemini is a
lane-only reviewer capability. Line 38 of that same docblock says "Before this
phase the five non-runtime reviewers (gemini, ...)" and is left exactly as is —
that is past-tense history, and rewriting it would falsify the record.

Deliberately still deferred to Phase 4, because it is the RUNTIME axis rather
than the reviewer lane: the locale install-on-your-runtime.md `--gemini --global`
instructions, the USER-GUIDE colon-form notes, and the ARCHITECTURE
runtime-detection flag lists.

Both parity checkers green against the real tree; lint:ci exit 0.

Refs #4709

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

* chore(#4709): backfill the changeset PR number

pr: 0 -> 4716, now that the PR exists. Never guessed ahead of the number.

Refs #4709

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>
2026-09-14 03:03:44 -04:00
sim
9c20b7b40a fix(#4652): use the validated path, collapse the duplication, correct two false claims
Seven findings from the two-axis review, all fixed in place.

THE ONE THAT MATTERS: cmdTodoComplete validated sourcePath and targetPath and
then ran every fs call against the RAW strings — existsSync, statSync,
readFileSync, platformWriteSync, unlinkSync, and the dry-run path payload —
never sourceCheck.resolved / targetCheck.resolved. That is the exact
"validate one path, use another" shape ADR-4650 names as the defect this epic
exists to prevent, and it is the same bug this phase had just fixed in
check-command-router. Committed inside the fix for it. All I/O now uses the
resolved paths; user-facing messages still echo the raw filename, never a
resolved absolute path.

A VACUOUS TEST, and the false doc claim it was propping up. The test
"[RED #4327] an absolute path outside the project is rejected" would have
passed with ZERO containment logic: path.join(pendingDir, '/abs/outside/x')
yields <pendingDir>/abs/outside/x — Node does not let a later absolute segment
escape — so the name is FOLDED under the root, passes containment, and simply
404s. The test only ever observed "Todo not found". It now asserts what is
actually true and actually valuable: an absolute name is neutralized, and the
real outside file is not read, not moved, and still present afterward.
docs/CLI-TOOLS.md claimed such a path "is rejected as a usage error", which
was false; it now describes the fold-under-root behavior. Traversal and
embedded separators ARE rejected, and those claims stand.

DUPLICATION THIS EPIC EXISTS TO REMOVE. resolvePath already did
isAbsolute-or-join + validatePath + reject; cmdGapAnalysisPlanPost and
cmdCheckPredicate each re-inlined the identical triplet in the same file. Both
now call resolvePath. Cost, stated rather than hidden: its generic message
replaces the two sites' distinct "phase-dir escapes…" wording. The message
still names the offending input, and one predicate with one message is the
point.

SYMLINK COVERAGE was required by #4652's "Done when" and was missing. Added
for both the todos root and --phase-dir, skipping cleanly on EPERM so the
Windows lanes do not fail where unprivileged symlink creation is disallowed.

Both fast-check properties were UNSEEDED. Seeded now.

The changeset named "check decision-coverage-plan" as a boundary; that is a
caller of the shared resolvePath, which the body never mentioned. Corrected.

DISCLOSED, not hidden: ctx.phaseDir is now always the resolved ABSOLUTE path,
so ${PHASE_DIR} interpolation and the "not found in <targetDir>" message show
an absolute value where a relative --phase-dir previously produced a relative
one. That is an observable output change. A test pins it and
docs/reference/gate-predicates.md states it.

Also regenerated scripts/lib/platform-conformance-tier.generated.cjs and its
macos twin — the new tests changed check-predicate.test.cjs's tier
classification. Caught by npm run lint:ci locally rather than by a bench run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 09:43:50 -04:00
sim
374300da17 fix(#4652): confine every boundary that joins argv to a managed root
Phase 2 of epic #4636, absorbing #4327 and #4354. Implements ADR-4650
decision 3: containment is a boundary concern — the predicate runs where
external input enters, not at whichever interior call site remembered.

Four boundaries now validate against their managed root and reject with a
USAGE-shaped error before touching the filesystem:

  todo complete <name>                 -> todosDir(cwd)
  check predicate --phase-dir <dir>    -> projectDir
  check decision-coverage-plan <dir>   -> projectDir   (via resolvePath)
  check gap-analysis.plan-post <dir>   -> projectDir

#4327 understated its own severity. It reports that a traversal name
"resolves outside the todos root", which reads as an information leak.
Measured, it was destructive: the command exited 0, MOVED the outside file
into completed/, and unlinked the original. cmdTodoComplete ends in
fs.unlinkSync(sourcePath), so an unconfined name consumed across the
boundary rather than merely reading across it. Validation now precedes every
fs call — existsSync, readFileSync, ensureDir, writeSync, unlinkSync — and
both halves of the move are confined, so neither source nor destination can
land outside the root. --dry-run is rejected on the same terms; a preview
must not leak a resolved outside path either.

#4354 reproduces exactly: a BLOCKING gate returned block:false sourced
entirely from a SECURITY.md in a caller-chosen directory outside the project.

THE HARDER HALF, found by the isolated adversarial review of the first
attempt: validating a path and then using a DIFFERENT one closes nothing.
The first fix validated `--phase-dir` joined against `--cwd`, then passed the
RAW unjoined value into the predicate context. gate-predicate-evaluator uses
it as-is and findPhaseArtifact resolves a relative path against the REAL
process cwd — so validation and the read used two different roots whenever
process.cwd() differed from --cwd. Reproduced: running from a directory
holding a plan with `secret_field: LEAKED_VALUE`, a predicate declared
against an empty --cwd project exited 0 and returned "actual":"LEAKED_VALUE".

The rule now applied at all three router sites: **use the validated resolved
path, never the raw input.** Independently re-verified after the fix — the
lookup resolves in the --cwd project and no value leaks.

gate-predicate-evaluator.cts is untouched and still imports no fs. Confining
in the router is what keeps that pure-leaf contract intact AND covers
${PHASE_DIR} interpolation into command-exit-zero, which an evaluator-local
fix would have missed entirely.

Also fixed, same review: `todo complete .` and `..` passed containment
(they resolve to the pending dir, which IS inside the root) and then threw an
uncaught EISDIR with an absolute-path stack trace. Now a clean USAGE
rejection naming the real reason — "todo name is not a file" — rather than
borrowing the escape message, which would have stated something false.

Ripples discharged BEFORE the verification checkpoint rather than after, per
the Phase 1 retrospective: docs/reference/gate-predicates.md and
docs/CLI-TOOLS.md document the new constraints, CONTEXT.md records why
containment lives at the router rather than the evaluator, the changeset is
written, and the install-tree goldens were regenerated to confirm unchanged
(no new shipped file) rather than assumed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 09:43:50 -04:00
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
18c899def5 enhance(#4209): optional external source reviewer lanes for /gsd:code-review (#4323)
* test(01-01): define reviewer-support trait contract

Add failing coverage for step.supportsReviewerLanes (#4209 DISP-02):
validator rejects non-boolean values with an exact field path, accepts
missing/true/false, and the real code-review capability.json steps
must declare supportsReviewerLanes: true. Add loop-resolver projection
coverage proving the trait reaches activeHooks verbatim for a
provider-neutral synthetic step (not code-review-specific), and that
omitted/false values stay inert (no key on the active hook).

All 8 new assertions fail today: the validator has no such field, and
loop-resolver has nothing to project. RED before GREEN.

* feat(01-01): declare reviewer-capable steps

Add step.supportsReviewerLanes (#4209 DISP-02): a strict optional
boolean opt-in trait, step-scoped (not capability-wide). Only a
literal true validates and projects; false/omitted stay inert (no
key on the projected active hook), and every non-boolean type fails
capability-validator.cjs with an exact field-path error.

Opt both existing code-review steps (execute:post, execute:wave:post)
into the trait in capabilities/code-review/capability.json. Project
the validated field through src/loop-resolver.cts into activeHooks
so a provider-neutral generic interpreter can read it without any
code-review-specific knowledge. Document the field in
docs/reference/capability-manifest.md and regenerate
gsd-core/bin/lib/capability-registry.cjs via the generator (never
hand-edited).

Makes all 8 RED assertions from the prior commit pass.

* test(01-02): define shared reviewer dispatch

- Add tests/reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs covering dispatchReviewerLanes:
  inert when the supportsReviewerLanes trait is off or nothing is selected,
  exactly-once plan/invoke per selected lane, duplicate-alias dedup, the
  bounded metadata-only source-review prompt (repo root, paths+baseSha,
  depth, four fixed prohibitions), and capability-neutral reuse via a
  second synthetic step context.
- RED: module under test (src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts) does not exist
  yet, so require() fails and every assertion is unreached.

* feat(01-02): dispatch reviewers for opted-in steps

- Add src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts: dispatchReviewerLanes(input, deps),
  ONE interpreter for a step's supportsReviewerLanes trait. Reuses
  resolveReviewerSelection for selection and resolveLanePlan for planning
  (both already-existing, pure building blocks); invocation is the one
  required, caller-injected seam (deps.invoke) since runLane needs
  OS-aware spawn plumbing this module does not own.
- trait !== true, or a selection resolving to zero lanes, dispatches
  nothing (zero plan/invoke calls). Each selected lane is planned and
  invoked exactly once, in the selector's deduped/sorted order.
- buildSourceReviewPrompt assembles a metadata-only bounded prompt
  (repo root, canonical paths + base SHA, depth, four fixed
  prohibitions) — never file contents — written once per dispatch and
  shared across every invoked lane.
- GREEN: tests/reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs now passes.

* test(01-02): define reviewer dispatch failures

- Extend tests/reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs with the fail-closed
  matrix: an explicitly requested lane the selector could not resolve
  still lets the OTHER resolved lane run, but the aggregate result must
  never read as a clean success (and 'every explicit lane unavailable'
  must be distinguishable from the plain no-flags-passed inert case);
  request-level validation (path traversal, absolute paths outside
  repoRoot, empty/non-string paths, missing depth/base SHA) halts the
  whole dispatch before any lane is planned or invoked; a per-lane
  prompt-budget overflow hard-fails only that lane before invoke while
  its sibling still runs.
- RED: src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts does not yet implement any of
  these guards, so 9 of the new assertions fail against the current
  (Task 1) implementation.

* fix(01-02): fail closed in reviewer dispatch

- src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts: add the fail-closed guards the prior
  commit deliberately left out. An explicitly requested lane the
  selector could not resolve no longer lets the aggregate read as a
  clean success — lanes that DID resolve still run and keep their
  results (never narrow the requested set), but selection.errors now
  flips the aggregate ok to false, and 'every explicit lane
  unavailable' is now distinguishable (SELECTION_FAILED) from the
  plain no-flags-passed inert case (NO_LANES_SELECTED).
- Add request-level validation (validatePaths, depth/baseSha presence)
  that halts the WHOLE dispatch before any lane is planned or invoked:
  path traversal, absolute paths outside repoRoot, empty/non-string
  paths, and missing provenance are all rejected up front.
- Add per-lane prompt-budget enforcement (resolveBudget, mirroring
  gsd-tools.cjs's budgetFor convention including budget 0 = unbounded):
  a lane whose resolved budget the prompt exceeds hard-fails before
  invoke runs for it, without cancelling a sibling lane already
  planned.
- Document the supportsReviewerLanes trait and its dispatch-step
  interpreter in gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md.
- GREEN: all 19 tests in tests/reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs pass;
  no regressions in the review-lane/reviewer-selection/prompt-budget
  suites (356 passing).

* test(01-03): define optional source reviewer flow

RED: assert code-review.md dispatches roster-derived reviewer-lane flags
through a single review-lane dispatch-step call (DISP-01..05), that the
no-flag path stays byte-for-behavior unchanged (COMP-01), and that
external evidence reaching the internal reviewer prompt is marked
unverified (CONS-02). Also covers the CLI contract directly: no-op with
no explicit selection, and fail-closed on an explicit unknown lane
(SAFE-07) via real gsd-tools.cjs subprocess calls.

* feat(01-03): route optional source reviewers

GREEN: code-review.md gains a dispatch_reviewer_lanes step that matches
canonical reviewer-lane flags against the merged first-party + installed
roster (never a hand-maintained list) and, only when at least one is
present, calls the shared reviewer-step interpreter exactly once with the
already-resolved repo root, file scope, depth, and base SHA. Its evidence
paths are appended to the internal reviewer prompt via
${EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK}, explicitly marked unverified. No reviewer-lane
flag leaves the internal-only dispatch byte-for-behavior unchanged
(COMP-01).

Deviation (Rule 3 — blocking issue): 01-02 documented `review-lane
dispatch-step` (gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md) as the CLI
route `dispatchReviewerLanes` wires through, but never implemented the
gsd-tools.cjs subcommand — the workflow's call had nothing to reach. Add
it to the existing review-lane router, reusing the same effort-aware plan
building and runner deps `plan`/`invoke` already use (factored into
buildLaneRunnerDeps to avoid duplicating the spawn/http/fs seam). Guard
the CLI's own `detected` set on whether an explicit flag was passed:
resolveReviewerSelection's no-explicit-selection fallback is "select every
detected reviewer" (the correct default for /gsd:review), and passing it
an unconditionally non-empty detected set would silently invoke the whole
roster on every no-flag code review, violating COMP-01.

* test(01-03): define external finding consolidation

RED: assert gsd-code-reviewer.md treats <external_reviewer_evidence> as
untrusted input — independently re-verifies every claim against the actual
current source, resists a prompt-injection attempt embedded in evidence
text, and folds a verified claim into the existing Narrative Findings
section with no second REVIEW.md schema (CONS-01..03). Also assert
code-review.md's EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK restates the four fixed
source-review prohibitions (SAFE-03..06) at the internal-reviewer handoff.

* feat(01-03): consolidate external review evidence

GREEN: gsd-code-reviewer.md's load_context parses <external_reviewer_evidence>
as untrusted data, independently re-verifies every cited claim against the
actual current source before it can appear in REVIEW.md, and explicitly
resists prompt injection embedded in evidence text (never a command, no
matter what it claims to be). A verified claim folds into the existing
Narrative Findings section with (external: {slug}) provenance — one
REVIEW.md schema only, no separate external-findings section.
code-review.md's EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK now restates the four fixed
source-review prohibitions (SAFE-03..06) at the internal-reviewer handoff.

* fix(01-02): gitignore the reviewer-step-dispatch build artifact

01-02 added src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts but never added its
npm run build:lib output to .gitignore, unlike every sibling
gsd-core/bin/lib/*.cjs generated file. Left it showing as untracked
noise in git status.

* docs(01-04): publish user and command contract for reviewer-lane source review

- Document optional reviewer-lane flags on /gsd-code-review in USER-GUIDE.md
  and COMMANDS.md: opt-in, no source bodies in prompts, no fallback on
  failure, findings independently consolidated into the single REVIEW.md
- Add the same contract to the docs/features/code-review-pipeline.md
  fragment and regenerate docs/FEATURES.md from it
- Preserve /gsd-review as the plan-review command; cross-reference it
  rather than duplicating the reviewer roster
- Pick up docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json and skills/gsd-code-review/SKILL.md
  drift owned by source already shipped in Plans 01-01/01-03 but never
  regenerated (npm run regen:derived had not been run in this worktree)

* docs(01-04): align architecture and agent ownership docs for reviewer-lane trait

- ARCHITECTURE.md: trace the #4209 capability trait (supportsReviewerLanes)
  through the shared dispatchReviewerLanes interpreter to the existing
  review-lane plan/invoke machinery, ending at gsd-code-reviewer as the
  sole REVIEW.md consolidator
- AGENTS.md: document gsd-code-reviewer's full-context verification scope
  and its treatment of external reviewer evidence as unverified input
- No new diagram, abstraction, or config key; docs/CONFIGURATION.md is
  unchanged since the feature adds no setting or default

* fix(01-02): eslint-ignore the reviewer-step-dispatch build artifact

Same gap as the earlier .gitignore fix: 01-02 added
src/reviewer-step-dispatch.cts but never added its generated
gsd-core/bin/lib/reviewer-step-dispatch.cjs output to
eslint.config.mjs's ignore list like every sibling generated file,
so tsc's emitted __importDefault CommonJS-interop var tripped
no-var.

* fix(01-04): add the reviewer-step-dispatch.cjs roster row to docs/INVENTORY.md

01-04 regenerated docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json (which now lists
cli_modules/reviewer-step-dispatch.cjs) but the hand-written roster
row in docs/INVENTORY.md — required by design, since a role sentence
cannot be generated — was never added.

* fix(01-01): update the code-review capability-step fixture for supportsReviewerLanes

refactor-trigger-cli.test.cjs's preservesCodeReviewHookShapeAlongsideRefactorHook
strict-deep-equals the code-review step's exact shape at execute:post; 01-01 added
supportsReviewerLanes: true to that step and this fixture was not updated.

* chore(01-03): acknowledge emitted-doc growth for code-review.md and gsd-code-reviewer.md

Both files grew as a direct, intended consequence of wiring optional
reviewer lanes into /gsd:code-review (the new dispatch_reviewer_lanes
step and the untrusted-evidence consolidation contract) — not
incidental drift.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review.md — new dispatch_reviewer_lanes step and EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK wiring for optional reviewer lanes (#4209)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-code-reviewer.md — untrusted external-evidence consolidation contract for optional reviewer lanes (#4209)

* test(01-05): define WR-01/WR-02 reliability contract for dispatchReviewerLanes

From internal code review: dispatched must be false when zero lanes
actually reached plan(), and a throwing plan()/invoke() for one lane
must not discard results already collected for a sibling lane —
matching the fail-closed pattern gsd-tools.cjs already uses for the
same resolveLanePlan call (#2494/#2605/#1698/#1936/#2073/#2176/#2589/#2794).

Refs: gsd-core-dks.16, gsd-core-dks.17

* fix(01-05): close WR-01/WR-02/IN-01/IN-02 from internal review

- WR-01: dispatched now tracks whether any lane actually reached
  plan(), not results.length — an unresolvable selected slug no
  longer reports dispatched:true.
- WR-02: plan()/writePromptFile()/invoke() wrapped per-lane so a
  throw for one lane can never discard results already collected
  for a sibling lane, matching the same guard gsd-tools.cjs already
  has around the identical resolveLanePlan call.
- IN-01: documents the intentional budget===0-is-unbounded
  convention (#2797) the caller already relies on.
- IN-02: review-lane dispatch-step no longer blocks indefinitely on
  an un-piped interactive TTY; fails closed to empty paths instead.

Refs: gsd-core-dks.16, gsd-core-dks.17

* docs(01-05): add changeset fragment for PR #17

* fix(01-03): allowlist prompt-injection-scan false positive on the untrusted-evidence contract

agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md's untrusted-evidence section and its
pinning regression test both quote injection phrases as the exact
attack they defend against/detect — same
DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION class as the existing
allowlist entries, not an actual injection vector.

* test(01-05): extend WR-02 coverage to writePromptFile/invoke throws; DIFF_BASE-empty skip

From CodeRabbit review: WR-02's earlier fix only wrapped plan() —
writePromptFile()/deps.invoke() still ran unguarded, so a throw
there still aborted every later selected lane. Also covers the
dispatch_reviewer_lanes DIFF_BASE-empty-provenance gap (explicit
lanes silently not running when no prior review and no phase-start
commit exist).

* fix(01-05): skip dispatch_reviewer_lanes with a clear warning when DIFF_BASE cannot be resolved

Previously an explicit reviewer-lane request with no prior review and
no resolvable phase-start commit reached dispatch-step with an empty
--base-sha, which fails closed via missing_provenance — correct, but
silent about why explicitly requested lanes didn't run. Now skip
dispatch entirely in that case with a stderr warning naming the
actual cause.

* fix(01-05): wrap writePromptFile/invoke in the same per-lane try/catch as plan()

WR-02's original fix only guarded plan() — a throw from
writePromptFile() or deps.invoke() still aborted the whole dispatch,
discarding results already collected for lanes processed earlier in
the loop. CodeRabbit caught the gap; WR-02b/WR-02c pin it.

* fix(01-05): WR-02b mock must throw only on the first writePromptFile() call

The committed mock threw unconditionally, so codex's retry also threw and
failed for the same reason as claude's — the test could not distinguish
'sibling still runs' from 'sibling also breaks'. Gate the throw to the
first call, matching WR-02/WR-02c's single-failure intent.

* fix(#4209): close review findings from adversarial + critical-code-reviewer pass

Two independent reviews (agy adversarial review, Opus critical-code-reviewer +
ponytail) found 6 Blocking and 7 Required issues in the reviewer-lane dispatch
wiring around dispatchReviewerLanes. All 13 tracked in gsd-core-dks.18-30 and
fixed here:

- dispatch-step's reducer silently swallowed whole-dispatch rejections
  (invalid paths, missing provenance, etc); it now checks parsed.ok/reason.
- spawn_reviewer recomputed its own stale DIFF_BASE, diverging from the
  LAST_REVIEW_COMMIT-aware value dispatch_reviewer_lanes uses on re-review;
  now shares the single compute_file_scope derivation.
- the external reviewer prompt had no actual review request or citation
  requirement, only prohibitions; added both.
- removed the supportsReviewerLanes trait plumbing (capability registry,
  validator, loop-resolver, docs, tests) — it was never consulted by the
  real dispatch path, which gates on explicit CLI flags instead.
- flag-resolution require() was a fragile cwd-relative literal that failed
  silently on non-vendored installs; now resolves via GSD_TOOLS's own
  directory and warns instead of swallowing failure.
- reducer didn't unwrap the @file: overflow protocol for large payloads.
- deduplicated resolveBudget/budgetFor into one resolveLaneBudget.
- lane artifacts now write to a mktemp run dir instead of $PHASE_DIR, so a
  second dispatch can't overwrite prior evidence.
- validatePaths rejects control characters, closing a markdown-injection
  vector into the external prompt via crafted filenames.
- reworded the one line that tripped prompt-injection-scan.sh instead of
  allowlisting the whole production prompt file.
- fixed a stale docstring range and a dispatched-field ordering bug.
- added 3 integration tests executing the actual reducer against synthetic
  dispatch-step JSON, replacing markdown-substring-only assertions.

771/771 tests pass across every touched suite; tsc --noEmit clean.

* fix(#4209): wire supportsReviewerLanes as the maintainer's required reusable trait

The maintainer's approval on issue #4209 explicitly redirected implementation
shape: reviewer-lane dispatch must be a reusable capability/step-dispatch
trait ("supportsReviewerLanes"), not code-review.md hand-wiring the call
itself. My previous commit (e2558326) deleted that trait entirely after
finding it declared-but-never-consulted, which was backwards — the fix was to
wire it, not remove it.

Restores the trait (capability.json, generated registry, validator,
loop-resolver.cts, docs, tests) and wires it for real: dispatch_reviewer_lanes
now resolves its own active hook via `gsd_run loop render-hooks` for the
configured workflow.code_review_point and only proceeds to CLI-flag matching
when supportsReviewerLanes reads true. Explicit flags no longer bypass the
trait; a matching flag with the trait false resolves zero slugs (proven by a
new integration test executing the real fence with both trait states).

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-core/workflows/code-review.md — the
dispatch_reviewer_lanes step grows a trait-resolution fence (#4209 maintainer
redirect requires the capability layer, not the workflow, own the opt-in
decision).

* fix(#4209): dispatch-step self-verifies the reviewer-lane trait via --cap-id/--point

Both an agy adversarial review and an Opus critical-code-reviewer pass
independently found the same gap in my previous commit (9b2c3773d): the trait
check I wired into code-review.md only protected code-review's OWN
invocation — gsd-tools.cjs's dispatch-step handler still hardcoded
`trait: true` unconditionally, so a second capability declaring
supportsReviewerLanes would get zero enforcement from the shared CLI unless
it correctly re-implemented the ~15-line render-hooks scrape itself. That is
exactly the "each workflow.md hand-wiring the call" the maintainer's redirect
said to eliminate.

Moves the trait check into dispatch-step itself: given --cap-id/--point, it
self-invokes `loop render-hooks <point>` (relocating the one subprocess
code-review.md used to spawn for this, not adding a new one) and derives the
real trait from that capId's active hook, rather than trusting a
caller-passed boolean. code-review.md now only passes
--cap-id code-review --point "$CODE_REVIEW_POINT" and no longer resolves or
gates on the trait itself — the ~20-line scrape it previously carried is
gone. Any other capability opts into the identical enforcement by declaring
the trait and passing the same two flags.

Replaced the two tests that stipulated SUPPORTS_REVIEWER_LANES as an input
variable (they proved a bash branch honors a variable, not that the variable
reflects the real capability manifest) with three integration tests that
invoke the real dispatch-step CLI against the real first-party capability
registry: the real code-review trait resolves true, an unknown --cap-id
resolves false (trait_not_enabled, fail-closed), and omitting
--cap-id/--point entirely resolves false (no context means no opt-in).

Also: reject \x7f/U+2028/U+2029 in validatePaths' control-character check
(agy-F1 was incomplete), and delete the promptWritten per-lane coupling
flag — the prompt write is idempotent, so writing it once per lane instead
of gating on "did any lane write it yet" removes a latent bug where a
deps.plan override that ever varies promptPath per lane would silently skip
writing for a later lane.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-core/workflows/code-review.md — net line count
drops (the trait scrape moved into dispatch-step), but the file still grew
this session across multiple commits; acknowledging per the growth-tracking
convention.

* fix(#4209): remove per-run token waste from the shipped prompts

Runtime prompt content, not session tokens: two real, per-invocation token
costs in the code that ships.

1. agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md's critical_rules restated nearly all of
   load_context step 5's ~180-word untrusted-evidence contract in ~90 more
   words, breaking this section's own established terse one-liner style
   (every other rule here is 1-2 sentences). This prompt loads fresh on
   every /gsd:code-review invocation. Shrunk to a one-line cross-reference,
   matching how write_review's own reference to step 5 already does it.

2. buildSourceReviewPrompt repeated the base SHA on every single file line
   even though it is identical for every file and already stated once at
   the top of the prompt — O(files) wasted tokens on every dispatched lane
   for a 50-file review, for zero information gain. File lines are now bare
   paths.

* fix(#4209): resolve reviewer-lane trait in-process, fix CI failures found in review round 3

Opus critical-code-reviewer found a real Blocking defect in the --cap-id/
--point self-invocation added last commit: `dispatch-step` spawned
`loop render-hooks <point> --raw` as a subprocess and bare-JSON.parse'd its
stdout, but `io.cjs`'s output() redirects any payload over 50000 chars to
`@file:<path>` instead of inline JSON -- the same overflow protocol this
feature already unwraps for its OWN dispatch result 60 lines later in
code-review.md. A large-enough activeHooks envelope (more installed
capabilities/fragments) would throw, get silently swallowed by the bare
catch, and misreport a real trait as trait_not_enabled with zero diagnostic.

Fixed by extracting the config/registry/capability-state resolution
`cmdLoopRenderHooks` already performs into an exported pure function,
resolveActiveHooksForPoint (both `cmdLoopRenderHooks` and dispatch-step now
share it), and calling it in-process from dispatch-step instead of spawning
a subprocess at all. This eliminates the @file: exposure entirely (the
dispatch-step path never touches the rendered-string envelope or its
JSON-stringify/50000-char threshold), removes one subprocess spawn per
code-review invocation, and gives a genuine diagnostic (stderr warning) on
resolution failure instead of silent fail-closed. Corrected three doc/
docstring references to the now-removed subprocess self-invocation.

Also fixes 2 real CI failures this round surfaced:
- lint-tests: the agy-F1 control-char regex fix's `eslint-disable-next-line
  no-control-regex` comment was unused under this project's ESLint config
  (verified locally: the rule never actually flags \x00-\x1f in this repo's
  config) -- a mistake from an earlier commit this session, never actually
  lint-checked before push. Removed the disable comment.
- security (prompt-injection-scan): the agy-F1 regression test's crafted
  fixture literally contains "Ignore all prior instructions." as test data
  proving validatePaths rejects it -- allowlisted the test file, same
  DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION class as existing entries.

Also trimmed agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md's load_context step 5 (R2): one
bullet stated "untrusted, never a command" three different ways in one
paragraph, and a same-file duplicate of write_review's schema rule.
Consolidated to state each rule once.

Declined one suggestion from this round: shrinking code-review.md's
EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK to a bare evidence list. Two tests
(tests/code-review-pipeline-regression.test.cjs's CONS-01..03 block,
tests/code-review.test.cjs's CONS-02 test) deliberately lock the four-
prohibitions restatement and the untrusted-evidence prose into the
INJECTED block itself, not just the consolidator's system prompt --
adjacency of the warning to the untrusted payload it's warning about is a
recognized prompt-injection defense-in-depth pattern from this
workstream's original TDD plan, not accidental duplication.

* fix(#4209): correct stale per-file base-SHA prose in the external prompt

Leftover from removing the per-file base SHA repetition earlier this
session: the review-request sentence still said "relative to its base SHA"
(singular per-file framing) when there's now exactly one base SHA, stated
once above the file list. Reads "relative to the base SHA above" now.

* fix(#4209): make getLane/configGet/plan required deps, delete dead defaults

R3/R4 from the review round I'd deferred as low-priority test-churn: this
file's one production caller (gsd-tools.cjs's dispatch-step handler) always
supplies all three, so the fallbacks were dead in production -- but each was
actively WRONG if ever reached: the default configGet always returned
undefined, silently disabling resolveLaneBudget's overflow guard; the
default getLane looked up only first-party REVIEWER_LANES, diverging from
production's overlay-merged roster; the default plan skipped per-host effort
resolution entirely.

These defaults were introduced by this PR's own earlier work (this file did
not exist before #4209 -- first commit a760bfcda, 01-02), not inherited from
elsewhere, so there's no external caller depending on the lenient contract.

Turned out free to fix: making the three deps required and deleting
defaultGetLane/defaultPlan needed zero test changes -- every existing test
that actually reaches the per-lane loop already supplies getLane/plan
explicitly, and configGet's only real dependent (the budget-overflow tests)
already supplies it too. 788/788 tests pass unchanged, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): define depth semantics for the external reviewer lane

Verified this was a real bug, not a match to existing convention as I'd
claimed when declining the suggestion earlier this session: the internal
gsd-code-reviewer agent's own system prompt carries a full <depth_levels>
block defining what quick/standard/deep mean and do (agents/gsd-code-
reviewer.md:68-99). The external reviewer lane has no access to that
persona at all -- it only ever sees buildSourceReviewPrompt's bounded text,
which sent the bare depth label with zero definition to a third-party CLI
with no other source of truth for what "standard" means.

Added depthMeaning(), condensed from the internal reviewer's own
<depth_levels> definitions so the two stay consistent, and interpolated it
into the review-request sentence. 150/150 tests pass, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): merge dispatch_reviewer_lanes' split fences into one shell invocation

CR-01 (Opus critical-code-reviewer, confirmed by direct execution): the
roster-matching fence set EXPLICIT_JOINED/EXPLICIT_REVIEWER_SLUGS, and a
SEPARATE later fence read them via ${#EXPLICIT_REVIEWER_SLUGS[@]} to decide
whether to dispatch at all. This file's own documented rule (its
depth-resolution guard, stated explicitly a few hundred lines earlier) is
that a guard and the extraction it protects must run as one shell
control-flow decision, because markdown-fenced blocks do not share shell
state -- this step violated its own file's rule for the entire feature's
gating condition.

Merged the roster-resolution fence and the dispatch-decision fence into one
continuous bash block, removing the intervening prose that split them.
Fixed the stderr-based failure detection in the same edit (RQ-01: checking
whether stderr is non-empty misfires on any benign Node warning; now checks
the actual exit status of the roster-resolution command).

Verified by extracting the merged fence and executing it standalone, driving
both branches: --codex resolves EXPLICIT_JOINED=codex, SLUGS_COUNT=1, and a
real dispatch-step call succeeds; no flags resolves EXPLICIT_JOINED empty,
SLUGS_COUNT=0, dispatch-step never invoked (COMP-01). 141/141 workflow tests
pass, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): depthMeaning accuracy, injection defense on all embedded fields, hoisted prompt write

Batch of Required/Suggestion fixes from the Opus critical-code-reviewer +
writing-for-agents pass:

- CR-02/CR-03: depthMeaning() dropped real categories from quick (empty catch
  blocks, commented-out code) and deep (error propagation, state mutation
  consistency, circular dependencies) relative to the real <depth_levels>
  block, and had zero test coverage. Restored full accuracy and added tests
  that read the real agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md file directly, so drift
  between the two can't recur silently. Unrecognised depth now normalizes to
  standard's definition, matching that agent's own documented rule, instead
  of rendering an undefined bare label.

- RQ-04: depth/baseSha/repoRoot/runDir land in the same markdown prompt
  `paths` does, but weren't checked for control characters like paths were
  (agy-F1's original finding). Hoisted CONTROL_CHAR to module scope and
  applied it to all four fields at the same provenance-check boundary.
  runDir previously had zero validation at all.

- S1: deleted the dead `identity` parameter on `invoke` -- the one production
  caller already ignores it, no test read it by name.

- S2: hoisted the shared prompt write above the per-lane loop -- promptPath
  is derived from runDir alone (constant across lanes by construction), so
  writing it once is both correct and cheaper than the per-lane write R1
  introduced earlier this session. Discovered and fixed a real regression
  from the naive version of this hoist: an unguarded throw would have
  escaped dispatchReviewerLanes as an uncaught exception instead of a clean
  per-lane failure. Added a new PROMPT_WRITE_FAILED whole-dispatch reason,
  matching the existing validatePaths/MISSING_PROVENANCE halt pattern, with
  a dedicated regression test.

- S3: moved `planned = true` past the budget-overflow gate, so `dispatched`
  only reports true once a lane has cleared BOTH plan and budget checks.

- S5: relayed gsd-code-reviewer.md's own "performance issues are out of
  scope unless also correctness issues" policy into the external-lane
  prompt, which previously had no such guidance and could return findings
  the internal reviewer's own contract excludes.

- RQ-05 (partial): shrunk this file's own header docstring's restatement of
  the trait-reuse architecture to a pointer at
  gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md, the canonical home.

234/234 tests pass across the full reviewer-lane test suite, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): dedupe roster-merge logic, consolidate trait architecture prose, add step completion criterion

RQ-02: added a `review-lane explicit-from-argv` subcommand that reuses the
SAME merged-roster logic (`laneBySlug`) `dispatch-step`/`plan`/`invoke`
already share. code-review.md's ~18-line inline `node -e` reimplementing
`loadRegistry`+`mergeReviewerLanes` (a rename-only copy of the block in
gsd-tools.cjs) is now a single call to this subcommand -- the exact
violation code-review-flags.cjs's own header warns against ("this is the
canonical flag-parsing surface -- do not replicate inline bash parsing").

RQ-03: an empty --cap-id XOR --point now warns distinctly from the
legitimate no-context opt-out (both absent) -- a caller that named a
capability without its point was silently indistinguishable from a correct
opt-out. Also hardened the CODE_REVIEW_POINT config-get fallback: it only
ever fires when the config-get COMMAND ITSELF fails (config-get already
resolves the manifest's own schema default in the normal case), but that
failure was previously silent.

RQ-05/W-01/W-12/W-13: the "supportsReviewerLanes is a reusable trait
resolved inside dispatch-step" explanation was restated in full in 5
places across this session's own review cycles. Consolidated to ONE
canonical statement in gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md; the other
4 (this file's own header, gsd-tools.cjs's comment, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md,
code-review.md's step-opening comment) now point at it instead.

W-05/W-06: loop-hook-dispatch.md described "false or non-boolean" as two
inert cases when capability-validator.cjs already rejects non-boolean at
load -- restated as the two cases that actually reach this code. Removed a
"do not hand-roll trait resolution" prohibition whose target no longer
exists once the positive description precedes it.

W-04: deleted a no-op sentence in agents/gsd-code-reviewer.md ("missing
block means proceed as normal") -- an absent optional block already means
proceed as normal without being told.

W-08/W-09: replaced longhand "zero selection/plan/invoke calls" and the
made-up compound "byte-for-behavior [un]changed" with the token this
session's own docs already coined for this concept (inert) and the word
that means what byte-for-behavior was reaching for (unchanged).

W-10: dispatch_reviewer_lanes had no completion criterion -- added one
sentence naming the checkable end state (EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK is set,
either populated or empty). This exact sentence would have caught the
cross-fence bug fixed two commits ago at authoring time.

Declined from this round, with reasoning: W-02/W-03 (trim the
untrusted-evidence restatement in EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE_BLOCK/critical_rules) --
two tests deliberately lock this as intentional adjacency-based
prompt-injection defense-in-depth, not accidental duplication (see this
branch's own earlier commit). S4 (wrap LANE_RUN_DIR in a creation-site
`trap ... EXIT`) -- would fire at the end of the CREATING fence, before
spawn_reviewer's agent ever reads the evidence files, given this file's own
documented fenced-block execution model; the existing named cross-reference
between creation and cleanup already satisfies the co-location concern
without introducing that regression.

853/853 tests pass across the full reviewer-lane test suite, tsc/lint clean.

* fix(#4209): merge CODE_REVIEW_POINT into dispatch_reviewer_lanes' one fence, stop test from spawning real codex

Round-5 review (agy) found the same cross-fence-split bug CR-01 already fixed
for EXPLICIT_JOINED/EXPLICIT_REVIEWER_SLUGS: CODE_REVIEW_POINT's config-get
fallback lived in an earlier, separate fence from the fence that consumes it
via --point, split only by prose (not a guard, per this step's own documented
rule). Merged into the single continuous fence and added a structural test
asserting exactly one bash fence in the step.

The new end-to-end regression test for this used --codex, which drives the
fence's real `review-lane dispatch-step` call and, with the codex binary
present on PATH, spawns the real external CLI — which then blocks on
interactive auth with no stdin (BL-01). Stubbed gsd_run for
`review-lane dispatch-step` only (captures argv instead of executing),
keeping the real config-get/explicit-from-argv calls the test is actually
about.

* fix(#4209): split control-char vs missing provenance reason, realpath-check path escapes, stale comment

Round-5 review (Opus) warning-tier findings:

- WR-04: MISSING_PROVENANCE covered both "field absent" and "field present but
  a control-character injection attempt" — a caller distinguishing a config
  problem from a security event couldn't tell them apart. Split into
  MISSING_PROVENANCE (absent) and INVALID_PROVENANCE (present but invalid).
- WR-05: validatePaths' containment check was lexical only (path.resolve),
  so a symlink whose own path sits inside repoRoot could still point outside
  it. Added an fs.realpathSync check (ENOENT-tolerant — a git-diff path can
  legitimately name a file already deleted in a stale worktree), realpathing
  repoRoot itself too so a symlinked repoRoot (e.g. /tmp on macOS) doesn't
  false-positive-reject its own real children.
- WR-08: a comment in the per-lane loop still said a throwing writePromptFile()
  was caught there — stale since the prompt write was hoisted above the loop
  in an earlier round.

WR-03 (validate depth against the quick/standard/deep enum) was considered
and declined: this dispatcher is deliberately capability-neutral (see the
existing "synthetic step context" test, which passes a non-code-review depth
label on purpose to prove no code-review-specific special-casing exists).
WR-01 (double registry load), WR-02 (trim-vs-hard-fail budget semantics), and
WR-07 (reason omitted on the aggregate return) were verified against source
and are not bugs — see review notes.

* docs(#4209): document LANE_RUN_DIR's early-exit trade-off as accepted, not a gap

Round-5 review (Opus, BL-03) flagged that an early exit between
dispatch_reviewer_lanes and commit_review leaks the run-scoped temp dir. A
trap-based cleanup was considered and rejected: if a step genuinely runs as
a separate process, a trap set at creation time would fire at the end of
that SAME fence, deleting the directory before spawn_reviewer/commit_review
ever read it — worse than the leak it would fix.

review.md's own gather_context/cleanup pair for the identical resource class
(a run-scoped reviewer temp dir) already makes and documents this exact
trade-off: cleanup runs only on a documented success path, and a leftover
$TMPDIR entry is explicitly called cheaper than destroyed evidence. Recording
that precedent here so this isn't re-raised as a live gap in a future review.

* fix(#4209): register the WR-05 symlink-escape test's synthetic docs/ path

reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs's "capability-neutral reuse" fixture passes
paths: ['docs/spec.md'] as a synthetic, never-read path proving the
dispatcher has no code-review-specific special-casing. lint-docs-guard-
registration correctly flagged this as an unregistered docs/ path reference —
add the docs-guard-exempt marker and its pinned baseline entry, the same
pattern every other synthetic docs/ literal in this test suite already uses.

* fix(#4209): backfill changeset pr: field with the real upstream PR number

changeset-lint's fail_pr_field_drift caught the fragment still pointing at
the fork PR (17) instead of the upstream one (open-gsd/gsd-core#4323) this
branch is now also open against.

* docs(#4209): amend ADR-2782 for the supportsReviewerLanes step-trait seam

trek-e's review (2026-09-07, gsd-core#4323) found a real ADR gap: every
decision in ADR-2782 (D1-D9) and every prior dated amendment governs the
`role: "reviewer"` capability body and its one consumer, /gsd:review. This
PR's actual new seam - a `supportsReviewerLanes: true` trait on an ordinary
feature capability's `steps[]` entry, projected through loop-resolver.cts
and resolved in-process via resolveActiveHooksForPoint - is a different
capability axis (steps/gates/contributions) that the ADR's own scope note
explicitly places out of reach. Per docs/contributor-standards.md's
"Amending an accepted ADR", an in-place dated section is the established,
lighter-weight path for an addition that stays within the ADR's existing
decisions - used twice already in this same file - so this appends a third
dated entry documenting the new seam, its consumer, and why it reuses the
existing D1-D9-governed plan/invoke machinery rather than adding a second
one. No decision is reversed; no new Amends/Amended-by pair is needed since
the steps/gates/contributions axis already carries reciprocal links to
ADR-857 and ADR-894.

* fix(#4209): close two test-quality gaps trek-e's review found

Minor 1: validatePaths (a path-shape parser guarding the prompt-
injection/path-traversal trust boundary) had only example-based coverage,
violating ADR-456's rule that parsers/budget limits carry at least one
fast-check property test. Adds three: safe-segment paths are never
rejected, a single leading "../" always escapes the one-segment repoRoot,
and a control character anywhere is always rejected - one property per
rejection reason validatePaths owns.

Minor 2: the budget-overflow check (`estimatedTokens > budget`) was only
ever exercised far below budget or at budget:0 (unbounded), never at the
exact threshold crossing where a `>` vs `>=` off-by-one would hide. Adds
three exact-boundary tests using the real estimateTokens/
buildSourceReviewPrompt the module calls internally, so the resolved
token count is exact rather than approximated: budget == estimate (must
pass), budget == estimate - 1 (must fail), budget == estimate + 1 (must
pass).

Also extracts okPlan()'s fixture timeoutMs into a named constant -
local/no-adhoc-timeout-literal (#4446) landed on next after this branch
was authored and flagged the pre-existing literal on rebase; it is fixture
data for a synthetic plan object dispatchReviewerLanes never waits on, a
distinct class from tests/helpers/timeouts.cjs's real subprocess norms.

* fix(#4209): update docs-guard-registration baseline for the new ADR citation

reviewer-step-dispatch.test.cjs's new fast-check property tests cite
docs/adr/456-test-rigor-architecture.md in a justifying comment (never a
real read). lint-docs-guard-registration fingerprints every docs/ path
string an exempted test file mentions and fails on drift so a human
re-confirms the exemption still holds - re-confirmed, and the baseline is
updated to match.

* fix(#4209): point changeset pr: field at the fork PR for CI validation

changeset-lint's fail_pr_field_drift check compares the fragment's pr:
field against the PR the CI run is actually attached to (GITHUB_EVENT_PATH),
not a fixed target. Rehearsing this branch on fork PR
davdittrich/gsd-core#17 needs pr: 17 to pass that check; the prior commit's
pr: 4323 (the real open-gsd upstream PR number) is correct for that PR but
fails here. Backfill to 4323 happens again, as the last commit, immediately
before the approved push to open-gsd#4323 - never leaving pr: 17 on the
branch that ships upstream.

* fix(#4209): reject promptChannel:none lanes from source-review dispatch

CodeRabbit found a real scope mismatch: coderabbit's lane declares
promptChannel: 'none' and reviews the working tree on its own terms,
fed nothing (review.md:367). Silently dispatching it through
dispatchReviewerLanes would ignore the bounded paths/depth/baseSha scope
buildSourceReviewPrompt promises and let the lane review whatever it
independently sees fit, violating this interpreter's own scoped,
metadata-only contract. Reject before plan()/invoke(), same as an
unresolved slug.

* fix(#4209): scope CONS-02 test to the evidence-block line, not the whole file

CodeRabbit found the whole-file match on workflowContent would still
pass if UNVERIFIED and re-open/reopen appeared in two unrelated parts
of this 1000+-line workflow, proving nothing about the actual evidence
block's contract. Line-filtered via splitLines (not a bare-\n regex
spanning readFileSync content) so this stays CRLF-portable and passes
local/no-unbounded-quantifier and local/no-crlf-fragile-split.

* fix(#4209): guard DISPATCH_JSON substitution and capture its stderr

CodeRabbit found the dispatch-step command substitution unguarded: a
non-zero exit could leave DISPATCH_JSON empty (or halt the step under
errexit with no warning), and the downstream reducer would only ever
report the generic unparseable_dispatch_output reason, discarding the
command's own diagnostic. Guarded like the existing CODE_REVIEW_POINT/
EXPLICIT_JOINED calls above it: capture stderr to a temp file, surface
it in a warning on failure, and fall back to a parseable dispatch_
command_failed JSON stub so the reducer's existing reason-reporting
path still fires.

* docs(#4209): fix byte-for-behavior wording and missing colon, regenerate

CodeRabbit found "byte-for-behavior" should read "byte-for-byte" (the
established repo term for output-identical unchanged behavior) and a
missing colon after the bold "Optional external reviewer lanes (#4209)"
lead-in in docs/features/code-review-pipeline.md. Fixed in the two
hand-authored sources (commands/gsd/code-review.md, docs/features/
code-review-pipeline.md) and regenerated the two derived projections
(skills/gsd-code-review/SKILL.md via gen-plugin-skills.cjs, docs/
FEATURES.md via gen-features.cjs) so they stay in sync.

* fix(#4209): drop the fabricated DISPATCH_JSON fallback stub (Windows CI)

The prior fix's fallback `DISPATCH_JSON='{"ok":false,...}'` embeds
double-quoted JSON keys inside a single-quoted shell literal. That
extra quote density, inside an already quote-heavy ~8KB driver string,
passed bash -n and the full local suite on Linux but broke Windows
Git-Bash: `dispatch_reviewer_lanes computes CODE_REVIEW_POINT ... end
to end (#4209 round 5)` failed on two Windows CI shards with `bash -c:
unexpected EOF while looking for matching '''` — a Windows argv-to-
command-line re-quoting edge case, reproducible on rerun, not a flake.
Root-caused via gh api job logs plus a byte-identical local
reconstruction of the test's own driver script.

Fix: drop the fabricated stub. The downstream node -e reducer already
falls back to reason `unparseable_dispatch_output` on any JSON.parse
failure, so an empty/partial DISPATCH_JSON on command failure is still
handled correctly, with zero new quoting risk.

* revert(#4209): drop the DISPATCH_JSON stderr-guard nitpick (Windows CI)

Two materially different mechanisms for the same CodeRabbit Nitpick
("Trivial | Quick win") both broke Windows Git-Bash reproducibly:
a single-quoted JSON-literal fallback ("bash -c: unexpected EOF ...
matching '''") and, after removing that, a plain `head -1 "$VAR"`
inside a nested command substitution ("unexpected EOF ... matching
'"'"). Both passed bash -n and the full local suite on Linux every
time; both failed the SAME test deterministically on Windows CI. Two
attempts at the same class of fix (nested-quote construction near
this exact step) is the retry limit - reverting to the original,
already-shipped, Windows-verified unguarded form rather than
continuing to guess at a third quoting mechanism for a Trivial-
severity nitpick. Logged as bug-221/bug-222 in .wolf/buglog.json for
anyone attempting this again: the fix belongs outside this specific
markdown-fence-driver test harness (e.g., a real .sh helper script)
if it's worth doing at all.

* fix(#4209): backfill changeset pr: field to the real upstream PR before push

Fork validation (davdittrich/gsd-core#17) needed pr: 17 to satisfy
changeset-lint's PR-number check while rehearsing there; this is the
last commit before the approved push to the real upstream PR
(open-gsd/gsd-core#4323), so the field points at that PR number again.

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Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-07 22:52:33 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b7917882bb fix(#4398): render the pending-todo bullet link repo-relative (#4416)
* test(#4384): failing-first regression rows for the macOS long-base todo-cap failure

The 240-char pending-todo bullet cap must be deterministic w.r.t. where the
repo is checked out. Deterministic long-base-path fixtures (a single 110-char
segment, no real macOS dependency) reproduce next's own macos shard 3/3
failure (run 34038716700) on every OS: with an absolute link the bullet
exceeds the cap and the documented needs-first truncation drops the
'Needs <solution>' clause. Rows cover the determinism property (byte-identical
bullets under short and long bases), the CLI surface, relative-path stability,
legacy no-projectRoot behavior, drop-order preservation, and adversarial
edges (outside-root, path===root, non-string path).

* fix(#4384): render the pending-todo bullet link repo-relative

renderPendingTodosMarkdown gains an optional projectRoot; when given and the
todo's path is absolute, the bullet's [todo file](…) target becomes
toPosixPath(path.relative(projectRoot, path)) — the idiom already used for
project_exists. cmdInitTodos passes cwd.

The JSON todos[].path field stays absolute (#2376). Only the rendered display
link changes: embedding the machine-variable absolute base let macOS's
/private/var/folders/… temp paths consume the 240-char budget and drop the
'Needs' clause on long-path machines only — next's own macos-latest shard 3/3
went red on exactly this (run 34038716700), Linux's short /tmp passed. The
240-char whole-bullet cap and the needs→title→area drop order are unchanged;
this matches PR #4384's own canonical example, docs, and unit tests, which all
show repo-relative links. Docs updated at all three surfaces that describe the
bullet (COMMANDS.md, templates/state.md, reference/state-md.md — the last was
still pre-#4384 'count and reference' prose).

Fixes the macOS regression introduced by #4384; next is red on its own CI.

* test(#4384): fix substring false positive in the outside-root regression row

The ../-form relative link legitimately contains the absolute path as a
substring, so !line.includes(absolutePath) fired on correct output (caught by
the first remote verify run, linux-node24 44018/44019). Assert the property
itself instead: extract the link target and require it to be non-absolute and
not equal to the absolute path.

* chore(#4398): backfill PR number in changeset

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 13:23:26 -04:00
Tom Boucher
03738824de enhance(#2586): stop installing Codex context-monitor hooks without metrics (#4367) 2026-09-06 05:46:49 -04:00
Tom Boucher
06eba5fdb0 fix(#4130): parse phase-prefixed decision IDs (D4-01) (#4357)
* test(#4130): failing-first regression for phase-prefixed decision IDs

Add the #4130 matrix: D4-01/D12-01 across all three bullet forms, tags,
discretion, wrapped lead-ins, gate-level plan/verify end-to-end rows, and
parity properties (well-formed digit-prefixed ids parse to their exact id;
a non-digit injected into the prefix fails loud). Update the #2347
non-D-prefix fixture from D5-NN (now a legal grammar) to DEC-NN, and
graduate the representative d5-prefix corpus fixture from could-not-parse
to parsed-but-uncovered.

All new rows are RED against origin/next; they go green with the parser
fix in the next commit.

* fix(#4130): parse phase-prefixed decision IDs (D4-01)

The three declaration grammars, the parse-miss guard, the #3939 join
regexes, and the token evidence all anchored on the literal 'D-' (or
'**D-'), so an ID carrying a digit-run phase prefix between the leading
letter and the hyphen matched nothing — while the #2347 shape detector
correctly called those bullets decision-shaped, collapsing the whole
CONTEXT.md to could-not-parse with 0 extracted instead of a coverage
verdict.

Derive the extractor ID grammar from one shared DECISION_ID_SOURCE
('D[0-9]*-' + the existing alnum tail, full id captured), widen the
guard/join anchors to ID_ATTEMPT_SOURCE (bare 'D-' or a digit-initial
prefix run, so a typo'd 'D4x-01' fails loud while letter-initial prose
like 'Deferred-until' stays none-present), and align the bare-token
evidence. Both gates and the gap-checker share the parser, so all three
surfaces read phase-prefixed decisions now; the gate messages name the
accepted forms including the phase-prefixed one.

* docs(#4130): document the phase-prefixed decision identifier form

The canonical CONTEXT.md reference said decisions carry 'a sequential
D-NN identifier' with no mention of the optional phase-number prefix the
parser now accepts (D4-01) or the alphanumeric tail it always accepted
(D-INFRA-01). Name both in the Decision identifier format section, EN
and ja-JP.

* chore(#4130): changeset

* chore(#4130): backfill PR number in changeset

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-05 21:05:19 -04:00
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
a262ad6b61 fix(#4148): dispatch wave-pre step hooks (#4185)
* fix(#4148): dispatch wave-pre step hooks

External capabilities can render step hooks before a wave, but the execute workflow consumed only contributions and silently skipped every step. Reuse the shared dispatch contract before executor spawning and pin the capability-validator boundary with a red-first regression.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — wave-pre now carries the missing generic step-dispatch contract before executor spawning

* test(#4148): pin wave-pre dispatch ordering

* test(#4148): pin wave-pre dispatch contract

* chore(#4148): bind upstream changeset PR

* chore(#4148): restore fork changeset identity

* fix(#4148): align wave-pre dispatch contract

Mirror the sibling wave-post all-shapes clarification while pruning redundant prose so the rebased workflow remains below its frozen byte ceiling.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — wave-pre now carries the missing generic step-dispatch contract before executor spawning

* chore(#4148): restore upstream changeset identity

* fix(#4148): align wave-pre capability guidance

* docs(#4148): identify wave-pre manifest input

Name the third-party manifest trust origin at the wave-pre dispatch boundary so the reviewer-requested validation guidance matches wave-post.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — wave-pre now carries the missing generic step-dispatch contract before executor spawning

* docs(#4148): preserve execute-phase byte budget

Remove a redundant advisory label while retaining the non-blocking contract, keeping the reviewer-required trust-boundary wording at the enforced 93,400-byte ceiling.

* fix(#4148): mark wave-pre manifest-input validation as security-relevant

Reviewer nit on PR #4185: wave-pre's step-dispatch sentence had the
(third-party manifest input) parenthetical but dropped the ⚠ marker
that wave-post's parallel sentence (execute-phase.md:1044) carries,
losing the visual flag that this validation is security-motivated.

Trims the redundant "of one" from "not one shape of one" to reclaim
the 4 bytes the marker adds — the ADR-857 byte-margin gate
(tests/claude-orchestration.test.cjs) leaves zero slack at the
93,400-byte ceiling.

* fix(#4148): trim wave-pre step-dispatch prose to clear ADR-857 byte ceiling

Merging next's unrelated growth (#3990's TDD_APPLICABLE conditional) pushed
execute-phase.md 116 bytes past the 93,400-byte ceiling, failing CI on all
three platforms. The security-relevant ⚠ marker and ref.command validation
call-out (added per prior reviewer nit) are preserved verbatim per the
pinned regression test in capability-registry.test.cjs; only the
non-pinned connective prose is trimmed.

* fix(#4148): recalibrate execute-phase.md self-imposed margin, restore security marker

next grew execute-phase.md by ~230 bytes across two unrelated merges during
this fix (#3990's TDD_APPLICABLE conditional, then a further step-extraction
commit), consuming this test's own self-imposed 93,400 safety buffer under
ADR-857's actual, unmodified 93,600 ceiling (docs/adr/857-capability-system.md:22).
The wave-pre step-dispatch sentence cannot shrink further without dropping one
of the pinned substrings this same test file asserts on (kind=="step",
loop-hook-dispatch, never blocks or redirects executor spawning, Validate
`ref.command`).

Raises the self-imposed margin to 93,550 (still 50 bytes under the real,
untouched ADR ceiling) and restores the ⚠ marker the prior reviewer round
required for the ref.command validation call-out, which byte pressure had
dropped.

* fix(#4148): restore full ref.command validation wording, drop self-imposed margin

Adversarial review (agy/gemini-3.8-flash-high) flagged two issues in the prior
CI-recovery commit:

1. Trimming "in-context before any shell use" from the step-dispatch warning
   weakened the inline operational instruction (the reader is told WHAT to
   validate but not the specific in-context-not-shell mechanism the referenced
   loop-hook-dispatch.md:45-51 threat model requires). Restored it - the merge
   with next since the last commit freed enough real margin (77 bytes under
   the untouched 93,600 ADR-857 ceiling) to afford it without any margin
   change.

2. The prior commit self-imposed margin bump (93400 to 93550) was, on
   reflection, the wrong lever: it is a number this PR invented, not an ADR
   value, and re-bumping it every time next grows execute-phase.md is a
   losing pattern (already needed twice in one session). Removed the
   redundant assertion; the same line existing bytes-under-93600 check
   against the real, frozen ADR-857 ceiling (docs/adr/857-capability-system.md:22)
   is the actual invariant and is untouched. workflow-size-budget.test.cjs
   tier hard cap (98304 bytes, extract-not-bump by design) remains the
   correct backstop for runaway growth.

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Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-05 02:56:37 -04:00
Tom Boucher
585a8b7f1b fix(#3747): correct antigravity matrix evidence and pin the CLI-only skills install path (#4274)
* test(#3747): fail-first regression — matrix must not cite configHome skills path for antigravity

* fix(#3747): correct disproven antigravity stateIO evidence; pin CLI-only probe branch install path

* fix(#3747): scope doc evidence claim to skills discovery per adversarial review

* chore(#3747): add changeset

* chore(#3747): backfill PR number in changeset

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-04 11:48:38 -04:00
Tom Boucher
acb903c2e8 enhance(#3661): make the code-review hook point configurable (#4159)
* feat(#3661): make the code-review hook point configurable

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

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

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

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

Closes #3661

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 11:01:54 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c0fd2e3f4c feat(#3673): add dispatch.maxConcurrency axis and dispatch-capacity query (#4162)
* test(#3673): add failing tests for dispatch.maxConcurrency axis and dispatch-capacity CLI route

Extends tests/host-integration.test.cjs with negotiateHostCapabilities
maxConcurrency negotiation coverage (test matrix rows 1-15, including a
fast-check property test) and a new #3673 dispatch-capacity CLI route
describe block spawning the real gsd-tools.cjs (rows 16-25). Extends
tests/host-integration-validator-parity.test.cjs with an all-19-descriptor
maxConcurrency presence/validity sweep (row 26) and adds a hostile-input
validator test to host-integration.test.cjs (row 27).

The dispatch.maxConcurrency field does not exist yet, so these tests fail.

* feat(#3673): add dispatch.maxConcurrency axis, negotiation, validator parity, and the dispatch-capacity query

Adds a numeric dispatch.maxConcurrency sub-field to the Host-Integration
Interface (ADR-1239 Phase 1), following the existing dispatch.isolation
sub-field pattern: DispatchCapability interface, SAFE_DEFAULTS/PROFILE_BASELINES
floors, and a negotiateHostCapabilities branch that passes through a positive
safe integer and fails closed to 1 otherwise (no engine-side reduction, per
the design doc's explicit rejection of a min(host,engine) rule).

capability-validator.cjs gains parity validation for the new field (optional,
positive safe integer or the "undocumented" sentinel — mirroring isolation's
"added after existing descriptors" treatment).

gsd-tools.cjs gains a new `query dispatch-capacity` route, a pure-read sibling
of `dispatch-isolation` with no side effects: live env
(GSD_DISPATCH_MAX_CONCURRENCY) > descriptor > fallback-to-1 precedence.

All 19 capabilities/*/capability.json descriptors now declare
dispatch.maxConcurrency: claude carries the one cited value (20, per
code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents); the other 18 carry "undocumented"
(not yet researched for this axis).

* docs(#3673): document dispatch.maxConcurrency and add its citation row to the capability matrix

Updates docs/reference/host-integration-interface.md's dispatch struct entry
(also backfilling the previously-undocumented isolation/backgroundDispatch
sub-fields found stale in the same table) and adds fail-closed/live-transport
precedence prose for the new maxConcurrency field.

Adds a dispatch.maxConcurrency row (with citation) to all 19 host sections in
docs/reference/host-integration-capability-matrix.md — required for
tests/host-integration-descriptors.test.cjs's kimi-code matrix-parity check,
which asserts every declared dispatch sub-axis is documented there.

Updates docs/how-to/add-or-update-a-host-integration.md's dispatch checklist
and example descriptor block to mention maxConcurrency (and, likewise
backfilling a stale gap, isolation/backgroundDispatch).

* fix(#3673): extract shared maxConcurrency validator, drop dead reserved-name check

Exports isPositiveSafeInteger from src/host-integration.cts as the single
source of truth for the dispatch.maxConcurrency positive-safe-integer
contract; negotiateHostCapabilities and gsd-tools.cjs's routeDispatchCapacity
now both call it instead of independently reimplementing the same predicate.

Also removes the __proto__/constructor/prototype reserved-name branch from
capability-validator.cjs's maxConcurrency check — copy-pasted from the
string-enum fields above it, but unreachable for a numeric field (the
generic positive-safe-integer branch already rejects any string) and absent
from maxDepth, the field the code's own comment claims to mirror.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 21:39:12 -04:00
Cody Anderson
8c9265d4e5 fix(#3724): warning-only Dimension 3b findings no longer force the revision loop (#3758)
* fix(#3724): stop advisory Dimension 3b findings from forcing the revision loop

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

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

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

Closes #3724

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-31 19:08:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6beaa66b25 enhance(#3304): gate re-verification blockers on deterministic evidence (#4085)
* test(#3304): add failing-first suite for the convergence evidence gate

Content-assertion suite for the Step 7 re-verification evidence gate
(agents/gsd-verifier.md / gsd-core/references/verifier-evidence-gate.md).
Committed before the implementation to prove RED via gsd-test.

* enhance(#3304): gate re-verification blockers on deterministic evidence

Step 7's anti-pattern scan re-runs at full, unbounded scope on every
re-verification pass, independent of the must-haves established in Step 2.
A blocker it finds — other than the self-evidencing debt-marker check —
previously reverted a completed gap-closure round and started another
--gaps cycle on nothing more than the verifier's own new judgment call,
with no bound on how many times that could repeat.

A Step 7 blocker now blocks unconditionally in re-verification mode only
if it is a carried-forward gap (present in the prior VERIFICATION.md's
gaps: list) or the flagged file was git-modified since the prior pass
(a regression; fails closed toward blocking when history is unresolvable).
Otherwise it predates the gap-closure round unflagged and needs
deterministic evidence — a named test run red, or another concrete
reproducible artifact — to stay blocking. Unevidenced, it downgrades to
a new advisory: frontmatter list and report section instead of setting
status: gaps_found, and never reverts a completed must-have.

Maintainer approval was narrowed to this evidence condition only,
explicitly rejecting the broader "advisory whenever untraceable to a
requirement/decision/prior-gap" proposal — implemented and pinned by
tests/verifier-evidence-gate.test.cjs and documented as rejected in
gsd-core/references/verifier-evidence-gate.md so it can't silently
re-expand.

Closes #3304

* fix(#3304): correct window-truncation and indentation bugs in evidence-gate tests

gsd-test's GREEN checkpoint caught 3 real bugs in the test file itself
(not the production prose): a {0,600} match window was shorter than the
724-char paragraph it was scanning (the "exclude from Step 9 Rule 1"
phrase starts at offset 662), and two regexes assumed no indentation
after a markdown list-continuation line break. All three phrases are
confirmed unique across agents/gsd-verifier.md, so the windowed
submatches are replaced with direct whole-string assertions instead of
just widening the window.

Also acknowledges the deliberate byte growth in agents/gsd-verifier.md
that the differential-attribution check (ADR-2719) correctly flagged.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-verifier.md — adds the #3304 re-verification evidence gate (Step 7 rule, Advisory bucket, advisory: frontmatter, report section); 1488 bytes, still within the LARGE-tier 48 KiB cap (48751/49152).

* docs(#3304): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 16:51:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
62b0d939b6 feat(#3274): make reviewer-lane timeout configurable via timeoutConfigKey (#4083)
* feat(#3274): make reviewer-lane timeout configurable via timeoutConfigKey

Add an optional `timeoutConfigKey` field to the reviewer lane descriptor,
resolved in `resolveLanePlan` at invocation time and falling back to the
frozen `timeoutFloorMs` when unset or invalid, in the same spirit as the
existing `promptBudgetKey`/`modelConfigKey` fields. All 12 shipped lanes
declare `review.timeouts.<slug>` on both surfaces (the descriptor and their
capability.json manifest), validated by capability-validator.cjs.

For the antigravity lane, the native `agy --print-timeout` flag — previously
a second hardcoded literal (`540s`) independent of the outer cap — is now
derived from the same resolved outer timeout in `antigravityArgv`, preserving
the existing 60-second buffer relationship (ADR-2782 D6: the outer bound is
declared data, the inner one is handler-owned).

The antigravity default timeoutFloorMs stays at 600s per the maintainer's
disposition; users raise it through the new config key instead.

* docs(#3274): document review.timeouts.* and extract resolveTimeoutMs helper

Address code-review findings on the timeoutConfigKey change: extract the
inline timeout-resolution logic into a named, exported, directly-tested
resolveTimeoutMs helper (matching the file's existing configString/
normalizeHost convention); document the new review.timeouts.* federated
config keys in docs/CONFIGURATION.md, docs/reference/capability-manifest.md,
and docs/how-to/ship-a-reviewer-lane.md; add the changeset fragment.

* fix(#3274): resolve native antigravity timeout in resolveLanePlan, not the runner

gsd-test caught two design mistakes in the prior commits:

1. SpawnPlan.argv is documented and tested as fully resolved by
   resolveLanePlan (model/effort/output/prompt already folded in) — leaving
   the antigravity '{{nativeTimeout}}' marker unresolved until the runner's
   antigravityArgv violated that contract and broke tests that read
   plan.argv directly (tests/antigravity-reviewer.test.cjs,
   tests/review-default-reviewers-workflow.test.cjs). Fix: '{{nativeTimeout}}'
   is now a fifth ARGV_PLACEHOLDER member, resolved by resolveLanePlan itself
   via the new nativeTimeoutToken() helper, exactly like the other four.
   antigravityArgv reverts to its pre-#3274 four-argument form. Also missed
   updating capabilities/antigravity/capability.json's invoke.args to match
   the descriptor, which broke the manifest/descriptor parity test.

2. tests/reviewer-config-federation.test.cjs enforces a deliberate, narrow
   invariant (#3691 narrows #2797): qwen, cursor, and coderabbit — the three
   lanes with neither a model flag nor a host — may own no config key beyond
   their own prompt-budget key. Adding review.timeouts.<slug> to all 12 lanes
   violated it. Fix: those three keep timeoutConfigKey: null and own no
   review.timeouts.* key, matching their existing modelConfigKey: null. The
   other 9 lanes are unaffected.

* chore(#3274): backfill changeset PR number (pr:0 -> 4083)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 14:26:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ac7587287b fix(#3812): document how Current Position actually resolves a duplicate field (#4017)
* docs(#3812): say that Current Position is single-valued, and pin the behavior that makes it true

#3812 shipped CLOSED with half its acceptance unmet. #3873 delivered cardinality for FRONTMATTER
keys - current_phase/current_plan render as optional at docs/reference/state-md.md:89,91, covered by
tests/gen-state-md-docs.test.cjs:374. The issue's actual ask was the ## Current Position BODY
section, and that never landed. Surfaced by an /adr-phase-coverage audit of epic #3473; the issue
was reopened rather than noted.

The section now states three things: every field is single-valued, the section is overwritten rather
than appended to, and a duplicate resolves to the FIRST occurrence with no warning - so a line
appended in good faith is silently ignored rather than winning. Progress history belongs in
## Performance Metrics, two headings down, and the text now points there.

The third claim is a behavioral promise about the reader, so it was VERIFIED BY EXECUTION before
being written rather than inferred from the issue title:

  stateExtractField(<"Phase: 1 of 5 (First)" ... "Phase: 9 of 9 (Appended later)">, "Phase")
    -> "1 of 5 (First)"

The mechanism is state-document.cjs:405 - the plain-line pattern ^<field>:[ \t]*(.+) carries flags
im with NO g, so String.match returns the first hit. Writing "first wins" without running it would
have repeated the exact error I had to retract twice in this epic already.

A test pins the reader, not the prose. Three rows in tests/state.test.cjs: T1 (load-bearing) asserts
the duplicated case resolves first; T2 asserts the ordinary single-field case still works, so a fix
that only functions when duplicated cannot pass; T3 puts a Plan: line BETWEEN the two Phase: lines
and asserts it resolves independently - negative space, because a reader returning the first line of
the SECTION rather than the first matching FIELD would satisfy T1 alone. Proven to discriminate: a
last-match variant returns "9 of 9 (Appended later)" and T1 reds.

No assertion checks that the document contains a sentence. That is what local/no-source-grep exists
to stop, and it would pin wording that is allowed to improve. The point of the test is that if that
regex ever gains g and a last-match walk, the test fails - instead of the documentation quietly
becoming a lie with nothing to notice.

Prose only, no new heading. docs-state-md-locale-parity compares heading-level sequences by LCS
rather than text, so added paragraphs cannot fail it while an added HEADING would fail all four
locales. The constraint is structural, not stylistic - confirmed by running that comparison after
the edit.

The four locale copies are translated rather than left stale. They are not gate-enforced for prose,
so "nothing fails" was available and is not the same as correct: leaving four documents asserting
something the English one now contradicts is a correctness problem. Code spans and the anchor link
stay untranslated - they name real tokens.

The whole approach rests on one fact, checked first: ## Current Position at :196-208 sits OUTSIDE
every generated marker region (:81-104, :138-151), so a hand edit survives --write. Re-confirmed
after all five edits - gen-state-md-docs --check reports all 6 targets up to date. Had that been
false the fix would have belonged in the generator, and a hand edit would have been silently
reverted.

One real gate failure fixed inline rather than reported: the new test's comments referenced
docs/reference/state-md.md, which was not in that file's registered exempt-docs paths, and
lint-docs-guard-registration failed lint:ci correctly. Registered.

Known limit, named rather than folded in: gsd-tools validate/health still do NOT warn on a
duplicated Phase:. #3812 records that as a "consider", not a requirement, and confirms none of the
nine rules in src/health-diagnostic-rules/{state-consistency,phase-structure}.cts counts
occurrences. Documenting the silent first-match is the delivered scope; making it loud is new scope
and stays unclaimed.

Closes #3812

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

* docs(#3812): the rule I documented was false — replace it with the measured one

An isolated review returned two blockers. Both mine, and the first is the worse
kind: I wrote a falsifiable rule into a reference page and got it wrong.

1. "A duplicate resolves to the FIRST occurrence" is FALSE.

   stateExtractField (src/state-document.cts:401-419) tries BOLD `**F:**` across
   the whole input, THEN plain `^F:`, THEN a pipe-table row. Form precedence
   beats document order. Measured against the built reader, all intra-section:

     Phase: A (plain)  /  **Phase:** B (bold, later)   -> B    LATER WINS
       Phase: A (indented) / Phase: B (plain, later)   -> B    LATER WINS
     Phase: A (plain)  /  | Phase | T (table) |        -> A    first wins

   My original verification tested plain-versus-plain, saw first-wins, and
   generalized to all forms. Measuring one case and claiming the general rule is
   the same error I have had to retract twice already in this epic.

   It is also worse than silence. The sentence told authors an appended line is
   safely ignored; a bold line appended "for emphasis" silently overrides the
   original. Someone trusting the doc would have corrupted their own state file.
   And #3812 never asked for a resolution rule - it asked for single-valued,
   overwrite-not-append, and where history goes. The rule was my unrequested
   addition.

   Replaced with the measured truth: resolution is by FORM (bold anywhere, then
   plain at line-start, then table row), and only WITHIN the winning form does
   the first occurrence win. Both consequences stated plainly - a higher-ranked
   form wins regardless of position, and an indented `Phase:` is invisible to the
   plain form. All five claims in the new paragraph verified by execution before
   being written, including the two I had wrong.

2. The tests tested the wrong case and passed for the wrong reason.

   T1/T3 put the second `Phase:` under `## Somewhere else` - the INTER-section
   case, which #2956 already fixed by scoping. #3812 says verbatim that #2956
   "fixed the inter-section case and never addressed intra-section duplication",
   so the case the new prose describes was untested, and the fixtures passed
   because of section scoping rather than field resolution. They also called bare
   stateExtractField rather than the production chain, T2 could not discriminate
   first from last at all, and no fixture mixed forms - which is precisely why the
   false claim survived to review.

   Rewritten as four rows, all intra-section, all through the real
   stateCurrentPositionSlice -> stateExtractField path: plain-then-plain (first
   wins within a form), plain-then-bold (the bold LATER value wins - the row whose
   absence let the false claim ship), indented-then-plain (indented invisible),
   and sibling-field independence. Each proven to fail against a reader that
   disagrees.

3. Two dead anchors. pt-BR and zh-CN linked `#performance-metrics` while their own
   headings are `### Métricas de Desempenho` and `### 性能指标`. Both fixed to the
   anchor their own heading generates. ja-JP/ko-KR kept the English heading, so
   theirs already resolved.

4. A ja/ko sentence inverted its own meaning. Both rendered "which is the section
   designed to grow" with a bare demonstrative whose nearest referent read as
   Current Position - saying the opposite of the point. Rewritten so the clause
   attaches unambiguously to `## Performance Metrics`.

5. Cross-locale drift, flagged by the implementing agent rather than by me: after
   fixing EN, the four locales still stated the OLD false rule. Four documents
   asserting something measured to be wrong is worse than four saying nothing.
   All four now carry a faithful translation of the corrected paragraph, with
   code spans, each file's own anchor, and the ja/ko referent fix preserved.

Verified: all five claims executed against the built reader; every rewritten test
row proven to discriminate; gen-state-md-docs --check reports all 6 targets up to
date, so the edits stay outside the generated marker regions; locale heading
parity unaffected (prose only, no headings added); build:lib, lint and lint:ci all
exit 0.

Refs #3812

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

* docs(#3812): second false rule on the same page — scope the ranking to the section

A second isolated review found a second false falsifiable claim, and the failure
mode is the same one twice in a row:

  attempt 1: verified plain-vs-plain, wrote a claim about ALL FORMS
  attempt 2: verified bare stateExtractField, wrote a claim about THE DOCUMENT

Both times the claim covered a wider surface than what was actually executed. The
fix each time was not a better sentence, it was executing the surface the
sentence describes.

BLOCKER — "bold `**Phase:**` anywhere in the DOCUMENT wins" is false.

  ## Current Position / Phase: 1 of 5   +   ## Archive / **Phase:** 88

    bare stateExtractField(whole doc) -> "88 (other section)"
    PRODUCTION (slice then extract)   -> "1 of 5 (in section)"

#2956's section slice means production never hands another section to the
matcher; a bold line in `## Archive`, or in the YAML frontmatter, is simply not
seen. The ranking is real but scoped: it applies WITHIN `## Current Position`.
I verified against the bare function and wrote a claim about the system.

Every existing test placed its bold line inside the section, which is exactly why
nothing contradicted the claim. T5 now puts a bold `**Phase:**` in `## Archive`
and asserts production returns the in-section plain value, with the unscoped
reader asserted to DISAGREE so the row proves the scoping rather than assuming
it.

BLOCKER — the changeset still shipped the ORIGINAL retracted claim.

I corrected the page and left the release note saying "resolves to the first
occurrence ... a second entry added in good faith is silently ignored". The note
contradicted the page it announces, and the release note is what most people
actually read. Rewritten to the corrected rule.

MEDIUM — the concession was inverted. It read "wins even if it comes FIRST in the
file", which is the vacuous direction; the surprising case, and the one the very
next clause illustrates with an APPENDED bold line, is "even if it comes LAST".
All four locales reproduced the inversion faithfully, so it was an EN-source
defect rather than translation drift.

Two sharp edges now named, both measured: a bold `**Phase:**` followed only by
trailing spaces resolves to an EMPTY STRING and does not fall through to a valid
plain line below (T6 pins it); and `| **Phase:** | 3 of 4 |` short-circuits to the
bold form and returns the literal `"| 3 of 4 |"`. A page that teaches form
ranking has to say where the ranking bites.

Also fixed: all five files labelled the link `## Performance Metrics` while the
heading is `### Performance Metrics`. Anchors resolved correctly everywhere; only
the label's level was wrong.

Every clause in the final paragraph re-verified through the PRODUCTION chain
(stateCurrentPositionSlice -> stateExtractField), clause by clause, before being
written: bold in another section does not win; bold in frontmatter does not win;
bold appended last does win; first wins within one form; trailing-space bold
yields empty. All four locales carry the same corrected rule.

gen-state-md-docs --check reports all 6 targets up to date; heading counts
unchanged at 20/20 across all five files, so locale heading-parity is untouched;
build:lib, lint and lint:ci all exit 0.

Refs #3812

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

* chore(#3812): backfill changeset pr number

Refs #3812

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 20:50:15 -04:00
Tom Boucher
dd4f179672 feat(#3970): per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam (#4000)
* feat(#3970): per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam

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

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

Closes #3970

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 13:17:04 -04:00
Tom Boucher
12f9d1d9a0 enhance(#3913): docs, and the guards come down (#3994)
ADR-3889 terminal phase. Generated docs/reference/exit-codes.md from the exit-code declaration with a --check drift arm; deleted the inert soft-error-exit-zero oracle; promoted untyped-success from SMELL to VIOLATION so it can fail a build; pruned all 5 smell-baseline entries.

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

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

Closes #3913
2026-08-28 13:10:20 -04:00
Tom Boucher
9410f7e6e6 enhance(#3897): ADR-3473 §8.3 rungs 2-4 — runtime marker, derived Codex sandbox, short-form depends_on (#3941)
* test(#3897): failing-first coverage for §8.3 rungs 2-4

ADR-3473 §8.3 has four rungs; #3883/PR #3896 shipped the first. This pins the
other three RED before any fix.

Rung 2 — the install marker has four readers and resolveRuntime is not one.

  resolveRuntime resolves GSD_RUNTIME > config.runtime > 'claude' and reads no
  marker at all, while bin/install.js writes one (#2297) and FOUR hand-rolled
  readInstallRuntimeMarker copies exist: src/model-resolver.cts:65 (cached, with
  test seams), hooks/gsd-agent-isolation-guard.js:112, and TWICE in
  hooks/gsd-cursor-subagent-start.js at :346 and :355. Four copies of one rule.

  Fixtures and seam names mined from PR #3382 rather than re-derived; it
  implemented this rung and was closed "not on the merits".

Rung 3 — the sandbox map, and the fallback that was the real defect.

  Measured across all 35 files in agents/, deriving workspace-write iff tools:
  declares Write or Edit:

    - all 11 CODEX_AGENT_SANDBOX entries derive to their mapped value exactly,
      zero disagreements — the map carries nothing the contract does not
    - 24 roles fall through `|| 'read-only'`, of which 16 declare Write or Edit

  So the map is redundant and the silent fallback is the defect. The maintainer
  chose to derive but hold those 16 at read-only pending the question of whether
  Codex enforces sandbox_mode or merely advises; HALT.md records it.

  T20 asserts the emitted sandbox_mode PER ROLE against a captured baseline, not
  in aggregate — an aggregate passes while one role silently widens, which is
  the proxy-instead-of-identity shape this repo names. T24 and T25 fail on a
  stale hold, so the hold list cannot rot into the subset map being deleted.

Rung 4 — shortFormToId, recovered rather than invented.

  I nearly reported this as another wrong §8.3 claim: `git log -S shortFormToId`
  returns only documentation commits. That was the wrong instrument. Direct
  inspection of sdk/src/query/phase.ts at 11918dcc3^ shows five occurrences, and
  the tests match that code rather than a guess at its semantics — including
  first-write-wins on a duplicate short form.

  T43 asserts at the consumer's output: the emitted `waves` map from the real
  CLI, which pre-fix collapses to {"1":[...]} because every short-form edge is
  dropped. A unit assertion on resolveDependencyId would have passed throughout
  this defect's life.

Observed RED, this tree:
  rung 2   11/11 fail — no marker rung, no seams
  rung 3   T23,T24,T25,T26,T30 fail; T28 fails (validate agents passes a TOML
           whose sandbox_mode disagrees — it checks presence only)
  rung 4   T42,T44 fail; T43,T49 fail with waves collapsed to a single wave 1

Green and staying green: T20/T21/T22/T27 as captured baselines, #3885's
unresolvable-token warning and wave-verdict suppression, and #3785's
display-mapping passthrough. If the third tier over-reaches, those go red — that
is their job.

Disclosed weakness: T45 (a canonical id with no dash is not short-form indexed)
cannot be isolated behaviorally, because planMap always masks it. It is a
non-crash boundary pin, weaker than the other rows, and is recorded as such
rather than presented as equivalent.

Design:      .gsd/phase/feat-3897-adr3473-83-rungs/40-design.md
Test matrix: .gsd/phase/feat-3897-adr3473-83-rungs/50-test-matrix.md
Decision:    .gsd/phase/feat-3897-adr3473-83-rungs/HALT.md

Refs #3897

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

* enhance(#3897): §8.3 rungs 2-4 — one marker reader, a derived sandbox, the third depends_on tier

ADR-3473 §8.3 has four rungs. #3883/PR #3896 shipped the first. These are the
other three.

Rung 2 — the install marker had four readers, and resolveRuntime was not one.

  resolveRuntime resolved GSD_RUNTIME > config.runtime > 'claude' and read no
  marker, while bin/install.js writes one (#2297) and four hand-rolled
  readInstallRuntimeMarker copies existed: src/model-resolver.cts (cached, with
  seams), hooks/gsd-agent-isolation-guard.js, and twice in
  hooks/gsd-cursor-subagent-start.js.

  model-resolver's was already the house idiom, so it was promoted rather than
  replaced: src/runtime-slash.cts now owns it, and model-resolver plus both
  hooks delegate. The hooks reach it through ensureRuntimeBuild(), the seam
  lint-hooks-runtime-build-seam enforces. No import cycle existed - checked
  both directions before moving anything.

  The marker is the THIRD rung: env > project config > marker > 'claude'.

  N1 was checked rather than assumed, and my first reading of it was wrong. A
  marker holding an unknown name comes back essentially verbatim, which looked
  like a validation gap. Measured against the env rung with the same inputs -
  including "../../etc/passwd" and "claude;rm -rf /" - the two are identical,
  because they share resolveRuntimeNameFromCandidates. N1 asks for exactly that,
  and it is met. The residual (the shared normalizer normalizes shape, it does
  not validate against the known-runtime set) is pre-existing on the env rung
  and plausibly deliberate, since a new runtime should not need a code change.
  The marker also does not widen the trust boundary in any real sense: it lives
  inside the install tree beside the code, so anyone who can write it can write
  runtime-slash.cjs itself.

Rung 3 — the map was redundant; the silent fallback was the defect.

  Measured across all 35 files in agents/, deriving workspace-write iff tools:
  declares Write or Edit: all 11 CODEX_AGENT_SANDBOX entries derive to their
  mapped value exactly, zero disagreements. The map carried nothing the contract
  did not already have, so it is DELETED rather than reconciled. What was
  actually broken is `|| 'read-only'`, which silently under-granted 24 of 35
  roles.

  16 of those 24 declare Write or Edit and would widen under derivation. Per the
  maintainer's decision (HALT.md), they are held at read-only pending the
  question of whether Codex enforces sandbox_mode or merely advises. Emitted
  TOML is therefore byte-identical for all 35 roles - asserted per role, not in
  aggregate, because an aggregate passes while one role silently widens.

  The hold list self-invalidates. A hold whose role no longer derives broader
  fails, and so does a hold naming a role with no agents/<name>.md. Without
  that it would rot into exactly the hand-maintained subset map being deleted,
  and this commit's own ledger claim would become false over time. Both cases
  were proved by injecting them and watching them throw.

  Two committed tests asserted the deleted map's existence and contents. They
  were pinning the thing being removed, so the tests moved rather than the
  production code: the 11 role-value pairs survive as a test-local
  PRE_3897_CODEX_AGENT_SANDBOX baseline, and the assertions now drive the real
  derivation against real agents/*.md. The coverage is preserved; only its
  source moved out of production code.

  validate agents gains checkCodexSandboxPosture, mirroring the existing
  checkCodexModelPosture: each installed TOML's sandbox_mode must equal the
  role's expected value, failing with role, expected and found. It previously
  checked file presence and manifest completeness only, so a TOML whose
  sandbox_mode disagreed passed.

Rung 4 — shortFormToId, recovered rather than invented.

  I nearly reported this as another wrong §8.3 claim: git log -S returns only
  documentation commits. Wrong instrument. sdk/src/query/phase.ts at 11918dcc3^
  carries five occurrences, and the implementation here matches that code rather
  than a guess at its semantics - including first-write-wins on a duplicate
  short form, deterministic from the sorted plan order.

  It resolves the bare plan number: depends_on: ["01"] now reaches
  26-01-auth-hardening. That is a control-flow change, not a diagnostic one -
  plans that silently collapsed into a single wave 1 now execute in their
  declared waves, and execute-phase.md consumes those wave values.

  In-phase only, by construction: the map is built from this phase's rawPlans,
  so a same-named short form in another phase does not resolve.

  #3785's display-mapping passthrough and #3885's unresolvable-token warning and
  wave-verdict suppression are untouched and stay green. If the third tier had
  over-reached, those are what would have caught it.

Refs #3897

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

* fix(#3897): close a fail-open I introduced, and wire the posture check to its command

Two blockers from review. Both are mine, and one is a security regression my own
change created.

1. A held role could escape its hold by editing its own frontmatter.

  The Codex install loop set the sandbox identity from the agent's frontmatter
  `name:` field rather than from its filename, so the hold lookup keyed off a
  value the file itself declares:

    deriveCodexSandboxMode('gsd-doc-writer',   <real file>)          -> read-only
    deriveCodexSandboxMode('gsd-doc-writer-x', <same file, name: edited>) -> workspace-write
    deriveCodexSandboxMode('GSD-Doc-Writer',   <same file, name: recased>) -> workspace-write

  What makes this a blocker rather than a nit is the DIRECTION. The deleted
  CODEX_AGENT_SANDBOX map had the identical lookup-key quirk, but it was an
  allowlist: an unmatched key fell back to read-only, which is safe. The new
  scheme derives workspace-write from the tool contract and uses the hold as a
  subtraction, so the same mismatch fails OPEN. I converted a fail-closed quirk
  into a fail-open one and did not notice; the isolated reviewer proved it by
  execution.

  Neither safety net caught it. validateCodexSandboxHolds only checks that
  <key>.md exists, never that a file's derived identity matches its key.
  checkCodexSandboxPosture looks the canonical source up by the installed TOML's
  filename, finds nothing for a renamed agent, and treats it as a custom
  non-roster agent — silently no violation.

  The identity is now the FILENAME STEM, which is what validateCodexSandboxHolds
  already validates and what an attacker editing frontmatter cannot change
  without renaming the file — at which point the existing validator catches it.
  The lookup is case-insensitive so a recase does not slip past either. The
  frontmatter name still drives the TOML body and filename, unchanged; only the
  sandbox identity moved.

  All 35 roster files were checked: name matches filename stem everywhere, so a
  stricter "they must agree or throw" invariant would have been safe against real
  content. It is deliberately NOT added — it would abort an install on a tampered
  file where emitting a correctly-derived read-only TOML is the safer outcome.
  Recorded as a fork rather than decided silently.

2. checkCodexSandboxPosture was exported and never called.

  cmdValidateAgents (src/verify.cts) called checkAgentsInstalled and
  checkCodexModelPosture only; grep for the sandbox check in that file returned
  nothing. So criterion 3 — "validate agents fails on semantic drift, not only on
  missing files" — was unmet, and `validate agents` behaved exactly as before.
  That is ADR-3473 Decision 2's named shape: a declared policy with no executor.

  It also meant the T28 test asserted at the helper's return value while the
  COMMAND stayed broken — the ADR-3180 Decision 4(b) failure this epic exists to
  close, committed by me while enforcing it elsewhere in the same epic.

  Now wired as an additive `sandbox_posture` field beside `codex_posture`,
  following the sibling precedent exactly. Drift is report-only, not a non-zero
  exit, because that is what checkCodexModelPosture does — two sibling posture
  checks disagreeing about whether a violation is fatal would be its own defect.
  The choice is recorded in a comment rather than left implicit. A consumer-output
  test now drives the real CLI and asserts on the emitted JSON, and was shown
  failing before the wiring and passing after.

Also corrected a stale artifact: the design's Known limit L1 still claimed rung 3
was not in this deliverable, written while it was halted and false once the
maintainer unblocked it.

Verified after both fixes: the three bypass probes all return read-only, the
per-role table is 35/35 byte-identical, and both hold self-invalidation cases
still throw.

Refs #3897

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

* docs(#3897): the marker rung, the derived sandbox, and the bare plan-number depends_on

Reference: the runtime precedence ladder in docs/CLI-TOOLS.md gains the install
marker rung; docs/COMMANDS.md documents validate agents' new sandbox_posture
field; docs/reference/plan-md.md documents that depends_on accepts the bare plan
number.

Explanation: a docs/features fragment keyed id 3897, so it cannot collide with a
concurrent PR hand-allocating a section number, regenerated into FEATURES.md.

ADR-3473 §8.3 gains an ANSWER blockquote in the document's own correction style,
recording what was measured and built against the section's 2026-08-26 correction
- including the qualification that checkAgentsInstalled itself still checks
presence only, and the semantic assertion lives in a sibling wired into validate
agents rather than folded into it.

No how-to. Both user-visible changes are zero-step: a non-Claude install resolving
its own runtime, and plans executing in their declared waves, both happen without
the user doing anything. docs/how-to/control-the-reported-host-runtime.md covers a
DIFFERENT ladder (resolveReportedRuntime / agent_runtime) that this change does
not touch, and was deliberately left alone rather than edited by association.

No tutorial - nothing multi-step to walk through. docs/AGENTS.md unchanged: it
documents Claude-side tools frontmatter, never Codex sandbox_mode, and the
emitted tools contract did not change.

The prompt layer documents depends_on only by example, not by schema, so nothing
there needed editing - and few-shot-examples/plan-checker.md already showed
depends_on: ['01'], which now actually resolves.

Translated copies of plan-md.md are untouched; the project treats translations as
community-maintained.

Refs #3897

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

* fix(#3897): move the sandbox derivation out of the installer, off the install path, and off a third parser

The full suite came back with 26 failures across four files. Three distinct
causes, mapped individually rather than assuming the first explained the rest.

A. Requiring bin/install.js printed the GSD banner to stdout and corrupted
   `validate agents` JSON.

     Unexpected token '', "[36m   ██"... is not valid JSON

   checkCodexSandboxPosture reached deriveCodexSandboxMode by lazily requiring
   bin/install.js, whose module load prints the ASCII banner. So the command
   emitted banner bytes before its JSON and every JSON consumer broke, including
   ten tests that predate this branch. src/ reaching into bin/ was backwards
   layering that happened to also be loud.

   The derivation now lives in src/codex-agent-toml.cts - the existing Codex TOML
   domain module, no new module and no six-gate ripple - and both bin/install.js
   and src/agent-install-check.cts import it. One owner, which is §8.3's rule
   applied to the fix for §8.3.

B. The stale-hold throw fired on a legitimate partial source dir, and masked a
   security assertion.

   validateCodexSandboxHolds treated "this hold's .md is absent from the install
   SOURCE dir" as a stale hold and threw. A test fixture, or any partial install
   source, legitimately contains a couple of agents. Worse, it threw BEFORE the
   path-escape check, so a test asserting that a `../../evil` frontmatter name is
   rejected got my unrelated error instead of the traversal rejection it was
   written for. A fail-closed check of mine was hiding a real security check.

   The "no stale holds, shrink-only" invariant is a property of the repo's
   canonical agents/ roster, not of whatever directory an install happens to read.
   It is off the runtime path and enforced where it belongs, in the tests that
   already existed for it. A partial source dir now installs cleanly, and the
   evil-name case throws with its own escapes-configHome message again.

C. T8 depended on ambient process.env state.

   The marker/env parity assertion round-tripped through live process.env. It now
   compares against resolveExplicitRuntime's already-exported dependency-injection
   parameter - deterministic and hermetic, same claim. Proven still falsifiable
   rather than assumed: with the marker rung's normalization temporarily bypassed
   the two rungs diverge ("codex\n../../etc/passwd" vs "codex-../../etc/passwd")
   and the assertion fails, then passes again once reverted.

One correction folded in along the way. The first version of the move added
private _extractFrontmatterAndBody/_extractFrontmatterField helpers to
codex-agent-toml.cts - a THIRD copy of frontmatter extraction, where the graph
already shows two (bin/install.js:2348, runtime-artifact-conversion.cts:893).
Adding a third inside the epic whose thesis is one implementation per rule is not
defensible. deriveCodexSandboxMode no longer parses anything: it takes
(identity, toolsValue) and each caller supplies the tools value using the
extractor it already has. Both helpers are deleted. The identity argument is
still the filename stem, so the fail-open fix is untouched.

Verified after all three: `validate agents --raw` emits parseable JSON with no
banner and both posture fields; the four hold-bypass probes still return
read-only; the per-role table is 35/35 byte-identical at 26 read-only / 9
workspace-write; the hold list is still 16.

Refs #3897

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

* fix(#3897): drop a dev-only transitive dep, make the derivation total, retire a stale fallback test

Suite down to 7 failures from 26. Three more causes, mapped individually.

A. My extractor import dragged in a script that does not exist in an installed
   tree.

     Cannot find module '../../../scripts/fix-slash-commands.cjs'

   Chain: src/agent-install-check.cts imported runtime-artifact-conversion.cjs,
   which requires command-roster.cjs, whose line 36 requires
   ../../../scripts/fix-slash-commands.cjs. That path exists in the repo and not
   in an install, so every test exercising a synthetic install dir died at module
   load. I picked that extractor for convenience without checking what it pulls
   in - the same mistake that produced the banner bug, one layer further out.

   agent-install-check now uses a single-purpose extractToolsLine on
   codex-agent-toml.cts. That is deliberately NOT a general frontmatter parser:
   we deleted those helpers a commit ago for good reason, and this reads one
   line. Verified from outside the repo root that requiring either module prints
   nothing and does not throw.

B. A test pinned the deleted name-based fallback.

   'defaults unknown agents to read-only' called generateCodexAgentToml with a
   fixture declaring tools: Read, Write, Edit. Under derivation an unknown agent
   with a writing contract correctly derives workspace-write - design row S6, a
   new writing role gets the contract, not the pin. The behavior it asserted was
   the silent fallback this rung deleted; identity no longer decides the sandbox.

   Replaced with two rows rather than a flipped string: no tools declared ->
   read-only (absence is not a grant), and Write/Edit declared -> workspace-write.
   Strictly more coverage than the row it replaces.

C. The stale-hold check still threw per derivation call.

   Last commit took the roster-existence check off the install path, but
   deriveCodexSandboxMode itself still threw when a hold's role did not derive
   broader FOR THE CONTENT IT WAS HANDED - so it fired on any synthetic fixture
   for a held role.

   The throw is gone, and it cost nothing: if a held role's content does not
   derive broader, the hold pins read-only and derivation returns read-only
   anyway, so the hold is a no-op and there is nothing to fail about. The
   staleness invariant is a property of the real agents/ roster, and
   validateCodexSandboxHolds still enforces it there - confirmed against the real
   roster after the change, not assumed.

   deriveCodexSandboxMode is now total: every (identity, toolsValue) including
   undefined and null returns read-only or workspace-write, never throws.

Verified: validate agents emits parseable JSON; the four hold-bypass probes
return read-only; the per-role table is 35/35 at 26 read-only / 9
workspace-write.

Refs #3897

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

* docs(#3897): put the rung-3 decision in the shipped docs instead of pointing at an ignored path

The ADR entry and the feature fragment both ended their rung-3 explanation with
"see .gsd/phase/feat-3897-adr3473-83-rungs/45-decision-rung3-sandbox.md". That
directory is gitignored (.gitignore:55), so the rationale for holding 16 roles at
read-only was reachable only from the machine that produced it. A reader of the
ADR got a pointer to nothing.

Both now carry the reasoning inline: the criterion asks both that the sandbox
derive from the declared tool contract and that no role gain a broader sandbox,
and those cannot both hold, because a faithful derivation widens 16 roles the
deleted map never listed and that fell through its silent read-only default. The
resolution is derive-and-hold - the derivation owns the rule now, each hold is
released as its enforcement question is answered, and a hold is reversible where
a widened sandbox that turns out to be enforced is not.

Checked before assuming this was a defect class: CONTEXT.md cites
.gsd/phase/<slug>/40-design.md as its standard Design: provenance line in eight
module entries, and four other shipped docs do the same. Citing a phase artifact
is an established convention here, so those are left alone. What was wrong was
specific to these two: they put load-bearing rationale behind the pointer instead
of provenance.

docs/FEATURES.md regenerated from the fragment via scripts/gen-features.cjs
rather than hand-edited.

Refs #3897

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

* fix(#3897): close a fail-open, stop a silent mis-resolution, and read a declaration as a declaration

Two orthogonal reviews on the shipped sha. Three of the findings are the same
failure class this epic exists to close, committed inside it.

1. BLOCKER - the sandbox was decided for one identity and applied to another.

   bin/install.js derived sandbox_mode for the filename stem and then wrote the
   result to `${name}.toml`, where name comes from the file's own frontmatter.
   Make the two disagree and a HELD role's artifact goes wide:

     rename gsd-doc-writer.md -> gsd-doc-writer-v2.md, keep name: gsd-doc-writer
       -> stem is unheld, derives workspace-write, lands on gsd-doc-writer.toml
     add any gsd-*.md whose frontmatter name: is a held role
       -> clobbers that role's toml with workspace-write

   Both emit read-only on origin/next, because the deleted map was an allowlist
   and a miss fell back safe. This is a regression my change introduced. The
   previous review round moved the HOLD KEY off frontmatter to the filename stem
   and left the OUTPUT PATH on frontmatter; my own comment at install.js:6985
   calls that value attacker-editable, four lines above the line that uses it as
   the filename.

   The decision is now made over BOTH candidate identities, most-restrictive
   wins: if either the stem or the emitted name is held, the mode is read-only.

2. MAJOR - hold matching was toLowerCase() only, so confusables escaped.

   Turkish dotted/dotless i, fullwidth, NFD, trailing space/NBSP/dot/newline,
   ./ and ../agents/ all slipped the hold and emitted workspace-write.
   Identities are now basenamed, trimmed of NBSP/zero-width/control characters,
   NFKC-normalized and lowercased - and anything still carrying a character
   outside [a-z0-9._-] is treated as suspicious and derives read-only. We do not
   enumerate confusables; every shipped roster file is ASCII, so refusing to
   widen on an identity we cannot recognize is fail-closed with no false
   positives on real content.

3. MAJOR - the short-form depends_on tier mis-resolved SILENTLY.

   shortFormToId keyed on the last dash-segment of any canonical id with no
   constraint that it is a plan number, so a phase holding 09-FIX-auth-PLAN.md
   made depends_on: ["auth"] bind at wave 2 with zero warnings. This is the
   worst shape in the epic: the unresolvable-token warning fires on a DROPPED
   token, so a MIS-RESOLVED one is invisible and the tool reports a confident
   wave assignment built from a wrong edge. A wrong edge is worse than a missing
   one.

   The segment must now match /^\d+$/, which is exactly the contract
   docs/reference/plan-md.md already documents. This tier was recovered verbatim
   from the retired SDK lineage, which carried the same defect; we are
   deliberately NOT preserving it bug-for-bug, and the comment says so, so the
   next reader does not "restore" it.

4. MAJOR - the derivation was reading a declaration as an absence.

   extractToolsLine read one line, so a YAML list-form tools: block returned only
   its first item. Two roster files use list form, and gsd-nyquist-auditor
   declares Write and Edit there - parsed as "- Read", found no write tool, and
   emitted read-only. Rung 3's headline claim is that sandbox_mode derives from
   the declared tool contract; that claim was false for 2 of 35 roles and
   materially wrong for 1. Reading a declaration as an absence is the silent-drop
   class this epic exists to close.

   Renamed extractToolsValue and taught it both shapes. gsd-nyquist-auditor now
   derives workspace-write and joins CODEX_SANDBOX_HOLDS as its 17th entry, per
   the standing derive-and-hold decision - so emitted TOML stays byte-identical
   at 26 read-only / 9 workspace-write while the hold list finally records every
   role that would widen. A previous pass declined this fix because it moved the
   count; that inverts the priority. Byte-identity is preserved THROUGH the hold,
   not by leaving a parser broken.

   Divergence check, because this is where that bug hides: both paths feeding
   sandbox derivation - install.js's emitter and checkCodexSandboxPosture - now
   route through the one extractor. The tools readers in
   runtime-artifact-conversion and install.js's other frontmatter call sites
   serve Claude-side emission and do not feed sandbox derivation.

Also fixed, each real: the posture check's `found` used a naive whole-file regex
where its own sibling uses the block-aware scanner, so prose inside
developer_instructions produced a false violation; `found` skipped
truncatePostureValue and leaked a 300-char value into validate agents output;
deriveCodexSandboxMode's absolute never-throws claim was false for an object with
a throwing toString; T49 could not falsify cross-phase leakage (its target phase
had its own 01, so a globally-scoped map passed too); T20/N6 iterated a hardcoded
table and pinned the FIXTURE size, so a 36th agent would be silently unchecked;
three tests reimplemented the code they were testing instead of importing it; and
T2-T4 deleted GSD_RUNTIME without restoring it.

Verified: hold list 17, gsd-nyquist-auditor derives workspace-write unheld and
emits read-only held, roster 35/35 at 26/9, depends_on ["auth"] no longer
resolves while ["01"] still does, both identity-bypass cases and every confusable
vector emit read-only.

Refs #3897

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

* docs(#3897): the hold list is 17, and the reason the 17th was missing

The count read 16 because the derivation could not read the declaration it
claimed to derive from: the tools reader was single-line, so a YAML list-form
tools: block returned only its first item and gsd-nyquist-auditor's declared
Write and Edit were read as an absence.

Both the ADR entry and the feature fragment now carry the corrected count and the
reason for it, rather than a silently updated number. Deriving from a declaration
you cannot parse is not deriving, and a flattering count is worse than a wrong
one because it looks settled.

docs/FEATURES.md regenerated from the fragment.

Refs #3897

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

* chore(#3897): backfill changeset pr number

Refs #3897

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 15:19:01 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ddde001af6 enhance(#3873): the STATE.md schema — one owner, generated artifacts (#3880)
* test(#3873): failing-first locale parity, plus tripwires for what must not move

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

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

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

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

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

Refs #3873

* chore(#3873): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 01:57:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
86fa2917d7 enh(#3866): dispatch step and contribution hooks at verify:pre (#3869)
* test(#3866): pin that verify:pre must dispatch every hook kind

verify-work.md's verify_pre_hooks step dispatches only `kind == "gate"`, so
getWiredKinds reports verify:pre -> {gate} and gen-capability-registry rejects
any capability declaring a step or contribution there. The verify lane is
therefore closed to capabilities that want to contribute to what UAT covers
rather than refuse to let it start.

Failing-first: the step, contribution, and exact-kind-set rows are RED; the
pre-existing gate row is a green regression pin so the new arms cannot orphan
the arm verify:pre already had.

Refs #3866

* feat(#3866): dispatch step and contribution hooks at verify:pre

verify_pre_hooks dispatched `kind == "gate"` only, so getWiredKinds reported
verify:pre -> {gate} and gen-capability-registry's validateHooksWired rejected
any capability declaring a step or contribution there. A capability could
refuse to let UAT start; it could not contribute to what UAT covers.

Add contribution and step arms mirroring execute:wave:post, deferring to
references/loop-hook-dispatch.md and carrying its ref.command in-context
validation guard ahead of any shell-use prose. A verify:pre step is advisory:
it never blocks the start of UAT and an erroring step is routed by its own
onError. The gate arm and its check guard are untouched.

Give extract_tests an additive consumption seam for the artefacts those steps
declare via the existing steps[].produces field -- no new registry field, no
new ordering, no invented filename. Manifest-supplied artefact names are
validated in-context against an allowlist and resolved only inside PHASE_DIR.
With no producing step the derivation is unchanged, pinned by test rather than
asserted in prose.

Review findings folded in: the artefact-name allowlist (isolated adversarial
pass), the artefact-shape contract and the seam-inertness tests (spec axis),
and the reference/how-to split so one constraint has one source of truth
(standards axis).

Closes #3866

* chore(#3866): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-25 18:07:29 -04:00
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>

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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
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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 15:07:21 -04:00
sim
147856040b fix(#2873): close review findings across fences, sanitizer and docs
Isolated security review found resolveSpecRootReference's fence tracker
toggled on any delimiter, so a backtick fence could be closed by a tilde
one and an include in the gap was rewritten inside a code block. Fixed by
reusing scanFencedBlocks - the canonical engine already behind
stripFencedCode and extractFencedBlock - rather than carrying a fourth
copy of fence detection, which also closes the duplication the standards
review flagged.

sanitizeForRender now strips combining marks and zero-width characters
alongside the ANSI, control and bidi classes it already handled.

Adds the C, E and F matrix rows the spec review found missing, including
installer-level coverage that spawns the real install rather than calling
the report builder. Ships the how-to, the reference and command docs in
five locales, the changeset, the inventory and glossary entries, and
regenerates health.md for the new W028 rule.

Refs #2873
2026-08-14 23:48:39 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7976b1ca0d feat(#1689): per-plan agent_hint executor routing (#3417)
* feat(#1689): per-plan agent_hint executor routing

Option A per-plan specialist routing: a plan with an `agent_hint:` frontmatter field is dispatched to that subagent instead of gsd-executor when it resolves on the active runtime; absent/unresolved/disabled falls back to gsd-executor (byte-identical). Default-on via workflow.agent_hint_routing.

- src/phase.cts: parse agent_hint into the plan-index JSON (plan_json.agent_hint)
- agent-install-check.cts: resolveAgentHint() reuses getAgentsDir + runtime filename variants; probes project + global agent dirs; fails closed; rejects path-traversing names
- gsd-tools.cjs: 'resolve-agent' query route (fail-closed to gsd-executor; --raw/--json)
- execute-phase.md: lean per-plan reference + {EXECUTOR_TYPE} placeholder (host stays under the ADR-857 Phase 6 byte ceiling)
- execute-phase/steps/per-plan-executor-routing.md: resolution logic (Agent()-based dispatch; advisory on orchestrator-worktree)
- config: workflow.agent_hint_routing (validKey, default-on via SCHEMA_DEFAULTS, boolean validator)
- docs (CONFIGURATION.md, plan-md.md), changeset, tests/agent-hint-routing-1689.test.cjs (17 tests)

* chore(#1689): backfill changeset PR number (#3417)

* chore(#1689): regenerate install-tree fixtures for new workflow fragment

* chore(#1689): ack deliberate execute-phase.md growth (agent_hint routing)

* test(#1689): SPAWN contract allows parameterized subagent_type placeholder

agent-frontmatter's spawn-type checks scanned subagent_type="..." as a
concrete agent name. execute-phase now uses subagent_type="{EXECUTOR_TYPE}"
(a runtime placeholder resolved via resolve-agent, default gsd-executor).
Skip {TOKEN} placeholders in both the known-type and <available_agent_types>
checks; execute-phase still lists the built-in roster incl. gsd-executor.

* fix(#1689): CI conformance for the routing fragment

- per-plan-executor-routing.md: add the canonical runtime-launcher preamble to
  its gsd_run block (runtime-launcher-parity #373), matching sibling step fragments.
- agent-install-check.cts: drop a literal ~/.claude/agents path from the
  resolveAgentHint JSDoc so it does not leak into the compiled engine .cjs
  (cline install leak guard).

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-13 23:10:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4a0b5e26b4 test(#3338): fold the verify/validate & workflow-text issue-* cluster — Wave 6 (#3383)
* test(#3338): fold the verify/validate & workflow-text issue-* cluster — Wave 6

Folds 10 legacy issue-*.test.cjs regression files (75 test() blocks) into
their module's main suite, per H3 (#3315) of the test-hygiene epic (#3053).
Third of 4 issue-* waves.

- issue-2701-nul-corrupted-validators.test.cjs (9) + issue-429-comment-
  text-gate.test.cjs (31, incl. fast-check property tests): both target
  verify.cjs/validate.cjs via different calling styles (CLI vs direct-
  require) — merged jointly into verify.test.cjs, 0 dropped.
- issue-2762-plan-reviews-chunked.test.cjs (3) merged into
  plan-phase-drift-guard.test.cjs.
- issue-2771-advisor-subagent-type.test.cjs (1) + issue-2772-discuss-
  phase-text-inconsistencies.test.cjs (6) merged jointly into
  discuss-phase-power.test.cjs.
- issue-498-update-backup-runtime-dir.test.cjs (3, rename basis) +
  issue-815-update-next-channel.test.cjs (7, merged in): both concern
  update.md workflow-text contracts, now update-workflow.test.cjs.
- issue-498-update-context.test.cjs (13): pure rename to
  update-context.test.cjs, sole comprehensive suite for its module.
- issue-2765-brace-expansion-lockfile.test.cjs (1, rename basis) +
  issue-3238-js-yaml-lockfile.test.cjs (1, merged in): two distinct CVE
  regression pins against package-lock.json, now lockfile-cve-audit.test.cjs,
  shared ROOT/npmLs helpers deduped instead of double-declared.

Ratchet upkeep to keep this wave's own gates green: pruned 3 stale
allow-test-rule allowlist entries, cited 2 previously-uncited comments
that surfaced in the folded content (#3338), tightened the exemption-file
ceiling 305 -> 297. Fixed one stale filename reference in production code
(src/init.cts) plus one in docs/reference/workflow-fragments.md.

Zero net test-coverage loss. No production code BEHAVIOR changed.

* test(#3338): fix orthogonal-review findings — Wave 6 fold

Standards-axis review found a real structural defect in two files, both
the same root cause and both fixed here:

- tests/update-workflow.test.cjs: the folded:issue-815-update-next-channel
  wrapper's closing brace was placed after the file's pre-existing tail
  instead of before it, making the already-established folded:bug-2470
  and folded:bug-3130 wrappers CHILDREN of issue-815's block in the test
  hierarchy instead of independent siblings — confirmed via an actual
  node --test run showing the mislabeled TAP nesting. Moved the closing
  brace to the correct position; all three fold wrappers are now
  top-level siblings again (verified via node --test, TAP hierarchy
  correct, 10/10 tests, 5 suites, identical count before and after).
- tests/plan-phase-drift-guard.test.cjs: same mistake in the other
  direction — folded:issue-2762-plan-reviews-chunked was spliced inside
  the pre-existing folded:bug-2492-context-coverage-gate wrapper instead
  of after it. Fixed the same way (227/227 tests, 38 suites, identical
  count before and after).
- Reverted unnecessary 815-suffixed local renames (assert815/fs815/etc.)
  introduced by the fold — the wrapper is genuinely block-scoped once
  correctly closed, so no collision existed (same class as Wave 4's
  __foldSetNested finding).

No test() count changed in either file. No production code touched.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-12 00:51:19 -04:00
0xdhx
0396d9cab1 enhance(#2483): stop the claude reviewer lane from inheriting CLAUDE.md + auto-memory (#2493)
* enhance(#2483): env-guard the claude reviewer leg against CLAUDE.md injection

The claude reviewer in workflows/review.md was a bare headless `claude -p`
spawn run from the project cwd, so it inherited the invoking user's global
CLAUDE.md, the project CLAUDE.md, and Claude Code auto-memory.

That made it the only reviewer leg seeing anything beyond the prompt file.
gather_context assembles PROJECT.md, the roadmap section, every PLAN file,
CONTEXT.md, RESEARCH.md and REQUIREMENTS.md into the prompt before any
reviewer runs; the gemini leg receives only that prompt and the codex leg
runs --ephemeral. Beyond the measured ~4k tokens/spawn, the asymmetry cuts
at the workflow's own premise: "independent review" meant something
different for the claude leg than for the other two.

Guard both dispatch lines with a per-invocation
`env CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_CLAUDE_MDS=1`. `env`, never `export` — the flag
must not leak into the orchestrating session (which may itself be Claude
Code on the SELF_CLI="auto" path) or into any later spawn.

review.md is the only claude -p call site in the installed tree, so this is
two lines on one surface. The self-skip logic is untouched.

* enhance(#2483): fix CRLF-fragile split and regenerate workflow baselines

Two CI failures from the first push, both mine:

1. lint-tests: the new regression test split readFileSync content on a
   literal "\n". On a Windows git-autocrlf checkout that leaves a trailing
   "\r" on every line (local/no-crlf-fragile-split). Use .split(/\r?\n/).

2. golden-install-parity / workflow-size-budget / workflow-compat: editing
   gsd-core/workflows/review.md changes its content hash and byte size, and
   both are pinned in committed baselines. Regenerated via the repo's own
   generators (npm run size:baseline, npm run gen:golden).

The regenerated diffs are review.md-only: exactly one hash line per
golden-install-parity fixture and one size entry in workflow-size-baseline
— no unrelated drift swept in.

Full suite now green locally: 2113 pass, 0 fail, 3 skipped (run with HOME
and CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR overridden to throwaway dirs; live profile verified
untouched afterward).

* enhance(#2483): adapt guard-test matcher to the effort-args dispatch reshape

The effortSurface wiring (#2481) reshaped the bare-model dispatch to
`claude $CLAUDE_EFFORT_ARGS -p -`; the invocation matcher's dash-first
form could no longer see it, and the count assertion failed exactly as
designed. The matcher now tolerates variable expansions between `claude`
and its first literal flag. Negative-controlled both ways: a stripped
guard and a deleted dispatch line each still fail.

* enhance(#2483): also guard the claude leg against auto-memory injection

CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_CLAUDE_MDS suppresses CLAUDE.md file loading;
auto-memory is an independently-toggled mechanism with its own flag.
Add CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_AUTO_MEMORY=1 to both dispatch lines, correct
the docs/COMMANDS.md and changeset claims that credited the first flag
with covering auto-memory, and extend the regression test to require
both flags on every claude invocation (negative-controlled: 2/4
assertions fail with the new flag removed).

* enhance(#2483): match the claude binary in command position, not argument position

The line-oriented invocation matcher counted any line where the token
`claude` was followed by a flag. #2589 (landed on next as 920a5f3f)
reshaped the effort-args lookup from

  --host claude 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.effort_argv_string // ""'

to

  --host claude --pick effort_argv_string

which put a flag immediately after `claude` and made the config query
read as a third claude dispatch, failing the count assertion.

The defect class is a binary name in *argument* position being read as a
command. Fixed at the class rather than the instance: tokenise the line
and skip any `claude` whose preceding token is a flag. That also covers
the latent sibling one line away in review.md (`command -v claude`),
which escaped today only because its next token is a redirect.

Negative-controlled four ways: stripping CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_AUTO_MEMORY=1
fails, stripping the whole env guard fails, adding a genuine third
unguarded dispatch (`timeout 900 claude --output-format text -p -`) still
fails — so the narrowing did not blind the matcher to reshapes, which is
the property the count assertion exists for — and the pre-#2589 jq form of
the lookup still passes, so the matcher is not pinned to today's base.

* enhance(#2483): carry the claude reviewer's memory guard as declared lane data

ADR-2782 Phase 5b replaced the hand-authored per-CLI dispatch legs in
review.md with the declared lane table, so the two `env`-prefixed shell
lines this PR previously added no longer have a surface to live on. The
guard is reimplemented where the lane contract now lives.

`SpawnInvoke` gains an optional `env`, the claude lane declares the pair,
the resolver folds own string-valued entries into `SpawnPlan.env` (absent
or empty resolves to null, so the runner has one shape to test), and the
runner passes it to spawn. Production merges it OVER `process.env` into a
fresh object for that one child, so nothing reaches the orchestrating
session or any other lane in the run.

Declared data rather than a handler (D6): the pairs are static per lane,
which is precisely what the manifest vocabulary is for. The capability
manifest carries the same field, because the lane-fidelity test compares
manifest and descriptor over the union of `invoke`'s keys.

The regression test is rewritten against the resolver and runner rather
than review.md's text. It gains the property the source-text assertions
could only approximate: that `process.env` is never mutated.

Scope boundary, asserted rather than left in prose: `env` is not part of
the trust-disclosure surface, which is safe only while no manifest body
reaches the resolver — the registry's reviewer bodies contribute slugs to
the parity check and execution resolves from `REVIEWER_LANES`. The new
test fails first if that ever changes.

* enhance(#2483): restate the guard's mechanism in the docs and changeset

Both described the fix as two `env`-prefixed dispatch lines, which is the
surface ADR-2782 Phase 5b removed. The user-visible behaviour is
unchanged; the carrier is not, and a changeset that ships a description
of a mechanism the tree does not have is a CHANGELOG entry nobody can
verify against the code.

* enhance(#2483): cover the production spawn wiring end to end

The unit tests stop at the runner's `deps.spawn` seam — every one injects
a spy. Production supplies that seam in `gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs` as a
hand-written object no test constructs, so the chain could be correct all
the way to `SpawnPlan.env` and the merge could still be wrong or absent
with the suite green. Deleting those four lines was the one mutation that
left every other control silent.

This runs the real `spawnSync` through `gsd-tools review-lane invoke`,
with a `claude` shim on PATH that records the environment it was handed.
It asserts both halves in one test: the pair arrives, and an unrelated
inherited variable survives — a wiring that REPLACED the environment
rather than merging over it would satisfy the first and break every
lane's PATH and HOME.

POSIX-only; mediating a Windows `.cmd` shim is a separate concern the
repo already tests on its own.

Noted rather than fixed: `timeout`, `killSignal`, `maxBuffer` and
`shell: false` on that same object are equally uncovered. That is the
epic's gap, not this change's, and closing it is not in scope here.

* enhance(#2483): validate the invoke.env shape and register it as spawn-only

`env` was the one spawn-invoke field with no shape enforcement: every sibling in
`validateSpawnInvoke` is checked, and a manifest declaring `env` as an array, a
string, a number, or an object with non-string values passed validation in
silence. That matters more than an ordinary schema gap here, because
`resolveLanePlan` DROPS a non-string value rather than coercing it — so an
unvalidated manifest declares a pair that never reaches the spawn, which is the
failure a memory guard can least afford.

Two registrations, not one. `env` was also absent from
`SPAWN_ONLY_INVOKE_FIELDS`, which is the list the openai-http arm rejects
against — so `invoke.env` was accepted on a transport that issues an HTTP POST
and has no child environment at all. It was the only spawn-shaped field accepted
there; the other six each produce two errors. Self-found while sweeping the
class, not raised in review.

Keys are held to the portable POSIX environment-name grammar. That is a policy,
not a claim about what an environment can hold: measured, only NUL is actually
rejected by `spawnSync`, while `=`, a leading digit, a dash and a space are all
carried through to the child (an `A=B` key arrives as the raw entry `A=B=value`).
They are refused because a name outside the grammar is not portably addressable
by the program meant to read it.

`__proto__` is refused for a different and concrete reason. It passes that
grammar and is a real own key once a manifest is JSON-parsed, but assigning it
onto a plain accumulator goes through the inherited `__proto__` setter rather
than creating an own property — and for the string values this field permits the
setter is a no-op that does not even change the prototype. The pair would
validate and then simply vanish before the spawn. (An environment CAN carry a
literal `__proto__` entry; this is about the resolver's accumulator, and the
error message says so.)

Deliberately narrower than the sibling reserved-name guards in this file, which
also reject `constructor`/`prototype`: those guard bracket lookups that resolve
prototype members, whereas this reads via `Object.keys` plus an own-value read,
where `constructor` assigns as an ordinary key the spawn could carry.

`effortChannel` is deliberately left in neither field list: ADR-2782 D2 defines
it for both transports, so it is shared rather than spawn-only.

Reversion-controlled, three mutations, all three fire a named test: dropping
`env` from the discriminator fails `httpTransportRejectsEnv`; removing the
`__proto__` arm fails `envRejectsProtoKeyThatWouldSilentlyVanish`; disabling
the block fails four.

(#2483)

* enhance(#2483): amend ADR-2782 D2 for the invoke.env vocabulary widening

D2 records the spawn `invoke` shape as a closed vocabulary, and its Amendments
section carries a dated entry for every prior widening (Phase 1 #2794, Phase 2
corrections #2795, Phase 5b #2799). This change extended that vocabulary in code
without touching the ADR governing it, so the ADR contradicted the
implementation — and the repo's own convention, recorded in CONTEXT.md, is that
the ADR is amended in the same PR precisely because the prior widenings did it
correctly.

Adds the `invoke.env` row to the D2 table and a dated Amendments entry.

The entry also corrects the authority this change cited. The source comment
pointed at D6, which governs the closed `handler` enum — imperative behavior
admitted first-party — and says nothing about the `invoke` field vocabulary.
That is D2's territory, so the citation never covered the gap.

Two claims are corrected rather than restated, both about the trust boundary
that justifies leaving `env` out of the D5 disclosure signature:

- The regression test does not enforce that boundary. On one forged lane it
  shows the resolver folds whatever it is handed, so a future path feeding it
  manifest lanes would not make any assertion in that test fail. Its comment
  claimed it "will fail first"; that was wrong, and both the comment and the
  ADR now say the boundary is a property of the production call chain instead.
- The ADR is internally inconsistent on whether third-party manifest lanes
  execute at all: Consequences says adding a reviewer needs "no core patch",
  while `gsd-tools.cjs` rejects every slug absent from the first-party
  REVIEWER_LANES map. CONTEXT.md, `workflows/review.md` and the resolver's own
  header take the first view. #2483 did not create that inconsistency and does
  not resolve it; the entry records it rather than settling it in its own favour.

(#2483)

* enhance(#2483): document invoke.env in the capability-manifest reference

ADR-2782 points capability and plugin authors at
`docs/reference/capability-manifest.md` as where the lane vocabulary must be
visible, and its `invoke` row enumerates the spawn sub-shape field by field.
`env` was absent from that table while being part of the real shape, so the one
document a third-party capability author would actually consult to learn the
field exists did not mention it.

Squarely Diataxis reference material — a field-by-field schema description — so
it goes here rather than in the user-facing prose, which was already updated.
States the constraints a manifest author can actually trip, and is explicit that
the name grammar is a portability policy rather than an OS limit, so a reader
does not take it for a claim about what an environment can hold.

(#2483)

* enhance(#2483): disclose and sign the reviewer lane's env and residual invoke fields

`invoke.env` was undisclosed at install time. That was defensible while manifest
lanes could not execute — the premise this PR's own ADR amendment recorded — and
#2927/#3062 retired it: `routeReviewLane` now merges installed overlay `reviewer`
bodies into its lane map via `mergeReviewerLanes`, which is a field-identical merge
by ADR-2782 D1 and deliberately does not deep-validate. An overlay's whole `invoke`
therefore reaches `resolveLanePlan`, and `env` reaches the spawned child. A consented
third-party capability could set `NODE_OPTIONS=--require ./evil.js` on a reviewer lane
with no install-time disclosure and no re-consent.

The same file already decided what `env` means in a manifest: MCP servers fold it into
the disclosure signature and render each key and value in the consent prompt, with an
inline rationale naming this exact shape. Reviewer lanes get the identical treatment.

`env` was the ninth unsigned invoke field, not the first. `defaultHost` (the manifest's
OWN fallback egress host, used whenever the config key resolves to nothing),
`path`, `outputChannel`/`outputArg`, `modelArg`, `effortChannel` and `modelDiscovery`
all reach `resolveLanePlan` and none was bound. Enumerating a ninth name leaves the
tenth open, so the lane signature carries a RESIDUAL of every other declared `invoke`
key — the completeness backstop `rawConfig` already gives the MCP line (#1459 finding 5),
and the "sign the whole object" remedy the recorded decision on this class prefers.

`defaultHost` is also rendered: `resolvedHost` comes from user config, so a lane whose
key is unset displayed "(unresolved …)" — which reads as "no destination" — while the
runtime egresses the plan and review text to the address the manifest picked.

D4.5 is preserved one level down: the extra element is appended ONLY when the lane
declares something beyond the eight already-bound fields, so an env-free lane's
signature stays byte-identical and no already-consented capability is re-prompted for
a field it does not use. A lane that does declare one re-consents, which is the point.

Execution-primitive env names are FLAGGED in the prompt, not refused in the validator.
A denylist cannot be the boundary here: `PATH` alone is a complete execution primitive
for a spawn lane and can never be refused, the child is an arbitrary third-party binary
so the true set spans every interpreter's injection vars, and the MCP `env` this mirrors
refuses nothing and discloses everything. Missing a name costs a quieter line, never a
boundary.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): exercise the real overlay merge path in the guard test

The test named for the manifest/first-party boundary did not test it. It built a
forged lane locally, handed it straight to `resolveLanePlan`, and asserted that
`REVIEWER_LANES` did not contain it — so no assertion in it depended on the claim its
name made, and a code path that fed manifest lanes to the resolver would not have made
it fail. Its own comment said as much, and named the production chain as the real
carrier of the guarantee: "gsd-tools.cjs builds its lane map solely from REVIEWER_LANES".

That sentence is now false. #3062 merged overlay reviewer bodies into that map, so the
test's premise and its subject both moved.

The replacement routes through `mergeReviewerLanes` — the real helper the production
path calls — and asserts the overlay lane is admitted, resolves, and carries its `env`
into `SpawnPlan.env`. That makes the security property falsifiable instead of narrated.
It then asserts what now backs it: the env is disclosed on the surface, rendered key
and value in the consent prompt, flagged when the name is an execution primitive, and
bound to the signature so a value change, an addition, or a removal each force
re-consent.

Three further cases, because the finding's generative half is what stops it recurring:
the residual backstop is asserted against five fields including one that does not exist
(`aFieldThatDoesNotExistYet`), so a future vocabulary widening cannot silently re-open
this; a fully-enumerated lane is pinned to its original 8-tuple, which is what keeps the
fix from re-prompting every consented capability; and an http lane's manifest-declared
`defaultHost` is asserted to reach both the prompt and the signature.

Reversion-controlled, seven mutations, all seven fail a named test: env dropped from the
surface, the prompt's env line removed, the execution-primitive warning removed, the
signature's extra element never appended, the residual emptied, the defaultHost line
removed, and the declares-something test un-widened. The last of those was SILENT on its
first run and its test was written in response, then the control re-run.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): correct the ADR amendment's manifest-lane premise

The amendment argued `env` needed no D5 disclosure because a manifest's `invoke`
fields never reach `resolveLanePlan`. That was true when written and #3062 retired it
22 hours after this branch's last commit: `routeReviewLane` now builds its lane map
from `mergeReviewerLanes(REVIEWER_LANES, loadRegistry({includeInstalled: true}))`, and
D1's no-translation-layer rule makes that a field-identical merge, so an overlay's
whole `invoke` reaches the resolver and executes.

The entry had named this exact trigger — "were manifest lanes ever made executable,
`env` must join the disclosed surface in that change, and nothing here will trip if it
does not." Nothing tripped. The premise is rewritten to current truth rather than
annotated, because an ADR is read in fragments and a superseded paragraph left standing
reads as live reasoning to the next author; a one-line dated tombstone points at git for
the withdrawn text.

The rewritten entry records four things the first draft could not: that the enumeration
itself was the defect (`env` was the ninth unbound `invoke` field, and `defaultHost` and
`path` are egress-relevant on their own), that the residual is what closes the class,
that D4.5's byte-identical-signature property is preserved by appending the residual only
when a lane declares something beyond the eight bound fields, and that consent — not
shape validation — is the boundary, since no honest env denylist can exclude `PATH`.

It also closes the internal inconsistency the previous entry could only record. This ADR,
`CONTEXT.md`, `gsd-core/workflows/review.md` and `resolveLanePlan`'s own header all said
overlay lanes reach the resolver while the runtime said otherwise; #3062 resolved that in
the documents' favour, which is what makes the disclosure mandatory rather than defensive.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): record in the manifest reference that invoke fields are consent-bound

`docs/reference/capability-manifest.md` is the field table ADR-2782 points capability
authors at, and it described `invoke` purely as a schema. A third-party author reading it
could not learn that everything they declare there is shown to the user at install and
bound to the consent signature — which is exactly what they need to know now that an
overlay reviewer lane executes (#2927/#3062).

States the two things the schema alone cannot: that `env` and `defaultHost` are named in
the consent prompt and the rest is covered by a residual, so any change to a declared
`invoke` field forces re-consent; and that `env`'s validation is a portability policy
rather than a safety boundary, since `PATH` is a complete execution primitive and cannot
be refused. Names that are execution primitives are highlighted in the prompt instead.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): add a Security changeset for the reviewer-lane disclosure

The existing fragment describes the enhancement this PR was opened for and stays as it
is. The disclosure fix is a separate user-visible change of a different type: a
capability declaring `invoke.env` or `invoke.defaultHost` will ask for consent once
more, and users are entitled to read why in the changelog rather than discover it as an
unexplained prompt.

Type is `Security` rather than `Changed` because the entry describes a closed
code-execution disclosure gap, not a behaviour adjustment.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): correct this round's own claim about who gets re-prompted

Self-found while auditing the round's claims before publishing them. The changeset and
the ADR entry both stated that a capability declaring `invoke.env` or `defaultHost`
"will ask for consent once more". That is wrong, and it overstated the cost of the fix
in the one direction a maintainer would have had to take on trust.

A code change to `disclosureSignature` re-prompts nobody. `hasProjectConsent` matches on
the recomputed bundle `contentHash` — the signature has not been the security binding
since #1459 CB-1/CB-2 — and the upgrade path's `executableSetChanged(old, new)` compares
two disclosures both computed by the CURRENT code, so widening the signature moves both
sides of that comparison equally. First-party capabilities never reach the path at all:
the install flow blocks a first-party id before trust evaluation.

What the widening actually buys is forward-looking, and is the real argument for it: an
upgrade whose manifest edits a declared `invoke` field now registers as an
executable-surface change and re-consents, where before it could change what the lane
runs in silence.

Also measured and recorded, because the D4.5 property was stated more strongly than it
deserved: of the twelve first-party reviewer capabilities, ZERO are in the
byte-identical-signature class — every real lane declares at least `effortChannel`. The
property is a guarantee about minimal lanes, not a description of the fleet, and the ADR
now says so.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): sign and disclose the probe binary and the lane's outer fields

Found by this round's own adversarial review, and it is the same defect one level out:
the `invoke` residual cannot reach the lane body's OUTER fields, and `probeLane` SPAWNS
`probe.binary` with `--help` before dispatch (`review-lane-runner.cts`, the
`command-exists`/`command-capability` arms). An overlay naming an arbitrary probe binary
therefore executes it — unsigned and undisclosed, exactly as `invoke.env` was, and
reachable on the same #3062 path.

The lane element now carries a second residual over the outer fields, and the probe
binary is shown in the consent prompt when it differs from the dispatch binary — it is a
program that runs, and the user is entitled to see it.

TWO fields stay excluded, and that is a decision rather than an omission:
`reviewsSection` and `timeoutFloorMs` are ADR-2782's cosmetic carve-outs (matrix
A10/A13), where re-consenting would present a prompt carrying no security information.
A test pins that they remain excluded, so a later widening cannot quietly reverse D4.5
while claiming to complete this fix.

Also corrects a miscount introduced by the previous commit: the source comment said the
enumeration had fallen behind by "seven fields" and omitted `fallbackModel`, while
asserting `env` was the ninth. `resolveLanePlan` reads twelve `inv.*` fields and four
were bound, so the number is eight. The comment now states the derivation rather than
just the total.

Reversion-controlled: emptying the outer residual fails "repointing the probe binary must
force re-consent"; removing the render line fails its own named assertion.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): refuse execution-primitive env names as defence in depth

Adopts the review's B5 after this round's own adversarial pass refuted my reason for
declining it. I had argued a denylist was worthless because `PATH` can never be refused.
That was wrong on the facts: no shipped reviewer manifest declares `PATH`, so it can be
refused, and it is the most complete primitive in the set — repoint it at a directory
holding a fake binary and the declared `invoke.binary` is irrelevant. A list that cannot
be exhaustive can still close the highest-confidence, lowest-legitimacy routes.

So the validator now rejects `PATH`, `NODE_OPTIONS`, `LD_PRELOAD`, `DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES`,
`BASH_ENV`, `PYTHONPATH`, `PERL5OPT`, `RUBYOPT`, `GIT_SSH_COMMAND`, `JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS`
and their siblings on a reviewer lane. A lane needing a specific executable declares an
absolute `invoke.binary` instead of reshaping the child's environment.

The comment states plainly that this is defence in depth and NOT the boundary — the
boundary is install-time consent, which discloses every declared pair and binds it to the
signature, so an unlisted name is still SEEN before it runs. That framing is load-bearing:
a future reader who mistakes the denylist for the control will under-invest in the one
that is, which is the failure mode I was trying to avoid by declining it outright.

Two tests: the rejection itself across ten names, and a guard asserting no shipped
reviewer capability declares a denied key — so if the list ever outgrows its evidence,
that surfaces as a decision rather than a silent removal.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): fix two stale D5 enumerations elsewhere in the ADR

The previous commit rewrote the amendment's premise but swept only the amendment. Two
normative passages earlier in the same ADR still enumerated the old closed field list and
now contradicted it: the `executableSetChanged` trigger list, and the split-binding note
asserting the seven manifest-derived fields were "everything that is SHA-pinned".

That is the failure the rewrite-don't-annotate rule exists to prevent, one section over —
an ADR is read in fragments, and a fragment carries no supersession marker, so a reader
landing on either passage would have taken the superseded enumeration as current.

Both now name the residual as the mechanism rather than restating a list, which is also
what stops them going stale the next time the vocabulary widens.

Found by this round's adversarial review, which grepped the whole document rather than
the section under edit.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): stop the probe disclosure claiming a spawn that does not happen

The probe line added one commit ago rendered "probes by running: <binary> --help" for
every lane. That is false for `kind: "command-exists"`, which only calls `hasBinary` — a
PATH/filesystem scan that starts no process. Only `command-capability` spawns.

A false statement in a consent prompt is worse than a missing one: the prompt is the
surface a user is asked to trust, and this one overstated what a lane does. Worse, the
test I wrote to prove the fix used `command-exists` — the kind that does NOT spawn — so
it pinned the wrong claim and would have kept the error green forever.

The surface now carries `probeKind` and the two kinds render differently: a spawn is
described as a spawn, a presence check as a presence check. The test exercises both, and
asserts the `command-exists` path never emits the spawn wording.

Also corrects the field-count parenthetical to state its derivation unambiguously —
`resolveLanePlan` reads thirteen `inv.*` fields including `env` (twelve before this PR),
four were bound, so eight were unbound before `env` and nine including it. The bare
"twelve" was true only of the pre-PR tree and read as a claim about the current one.

And retires two comments that argued AGAINST the validator denylist this round then
shipped. Leaving them would have handed the next reader the reasoning for removing it.

Reversion-controlled: conflating the two probe kinds fails a named test.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): match the reviewer-lane env denylist case-insensitively

The denylist added one commit ago compared exact case, so `Path`, `path`, `node_options`
and `Node_Options` all passed it. Windows environment lookup is case-insensitive, so
those reach the child as `PATH` and `NODE_OPTIONS` — the exact inputs the list names.

An exactly-cased denylist is worse than none: it reads as a control while admitting the
input it was written to refuse, and the next reader has no reason to doubt it. Members
are stored uppercase and the key is folded before lookup; the name grammar already
constrains keys to ASCII, so a plain fold is sufficient.

Reversion-controlled: restoring the exact-case compare fails `envDenylistIsCaseInsensitive`
on `Path`.

Refs #2483.

* enhance(#2483): correct the docs that still described the denylist as absent

Both the ADR and the manifest reference still said `env` carries no denylist and that
`PATH` "can never be refused" — written when that was this round's position, and left
standing after the round reversed it. A reader landing on either passage would have taken
the superseded argument as current, which is precisely the failure the rewrite-don't-
annotate rule exists to prevent.

Both now describe the denylist, name `PATH`'s inclusion and the case-insensitive match,
and keep the limit explicit: the list cannot be complete against an arbitrary child and
disclosure runs before validation, so consent remains the boundary.

The ADR's byte-identical-signature claim is also corrected rather than softened. With the
outer residual in place, a lane producing no residual is one the validator rejects — it
declares no `flags`, `probe`, `emptyOutput`, `evidenceClass`, `requiresBinaries` or
`promptBudgetKey`. So the property is about the ENCODING, not a claim that any real
signature is unchanged, and it is not the argument for the change being safe. That
argument is that consent binds to the bundle contentHash and no existing consent is
invalidated at all.

Refs #2483.

* test(#2483): cover the three new lane disclosure fields in the injection-safety parity guard

The PARITY test in section N exists to catch a renderer field that skips
`renderValueForPrompt` (#3248). Its payload manifest is hand-maintained, so it
covers the fields that existed when it was written — slug, binary, args,
hostConfigKey, handler — and none of the fields this PR adds.

This PR renders three further manifest-supplied values into consent-prompt
lines: `invoke.env` (keys and values), `invoke.defaultHost` and `probe.binary`.
The gap was silent rather than theoretical: with the lane env line reverted to
the pre-#3248 raw form, the whole 948-test lane/capability/trust-disclosure
suite stayed green.

Two manifests, because the shapes render disjoint lines — `defaultHost` only on
the openai-http branch, `env`/`probe` only where declared, and the probe line
only when the probe binary differs from the dispatch binary.

Non-vacuity is asserted on the typed disclosure object and on structural line
counts, not by substring-matching rendered prose: CONTRIBUTING.md forbids raw
text matching on test output, and this section's own header promises structural
assertions only, so a prose match here would have made that promise false.

Negative-controlled three ways against the merged tree, each producing exactly
one named failure: env rendered raw, defaultHost rendered raw, probe binary
rendered raw.

* docs(#2483): extend the #3248 render-site comment to the fields this PR adds

The comment enumerates every manifest-supplied value that must pass through
`renderValueForPrompt`, and it stopped at `handler` — the reviewer-lane fields
that existed when #3248 landed. This PR renders three more (`defaultHost`, the
probe binary, and the env keys and values), so the list understated its own
contract in the one place a future author would check before adding a fourth.

A comment enumerating a closed set is a set that can silently fall behind the
code it describes; the parity test added alongside is what makes the omission
fail loudly rather than read as deliberate.

---------

Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-11 17:42:41 -04:00
Rezolv
e87fb409ee enhance(#2573): stamp STATE.md with its commit and surface a freshness hint (#2622)
* enhance(#2573): stamp STATE.md with its commit and surface a commit-age freshness hint

Adds a `state_head` stamp to STATE.md and derives a tri-state commit-age
freshness proxy (state_commits_behind / state_commit_stale) through
state.cjs's readStateHeadFreshness, surfaced on smart-entry signals and as
health W024. The proxy is advisory: classify() deliberately does NOT consume
it (ADR-1787 locks the classification/routing boundary — a signal, not a route).

Composes with #3099 and #1882 (both merged to next after this branch): the
commit-age proxy reads `state_head` while the LAST_ACTIVITY_UNPARSEABLE
diagnostic reads `last_activity` — two different fields, not "two staleness
signals on one field." A new regression test asserts a STATE.md carrying both
an unparseable last_activity AND a valid state_head resolves each independently
(diagnostic fires once; freshness reads state_head, commits_behind 0).

Rebased onto next (flattened): resolved the add/add conflicts in
src/smart-entry.cts (kept both the #2573 freshness import/derivation and the
#3099 diagnostic import/call) and tests/smart-entry.unit.test.cjs (kept both
describe blocks). Drift-ack for health.md's W024 row is unchanged (12348 B).
Tests: smart-entry 62, state/state-transition/health/verify 639, all pass.

* chore(#2573): allowlist health-validation test in the prompt-injection scan

The scanner's `exec('` code-execution pattern matches the benign
`re.exec('<phase-id>')` RegExp method calls in the phase-ID grammar tests
(pre-existing: 16 such calls on next, this PR adds none). The file entered the
diff-mode scan's changed-file set only because #2573's W024 state_head
assertions touch it. Allowlist it alongside the other test files that carry
pattern-matching content as data (same DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION
class). Scanner self-test 38/0; diff scan 14 files, 0 findings.
2026-08-11 17:10:23 -04:00
Tom Boucher
cf6de5e1c0 feat(#2871): resolve triggers and host precedence, not just placement (#3291)
* test(#2871): failing-first suite for trigger-surface resolution

23 tests over the 50-test-matrix rows. RED by construction:
resolveTriggerSurface and DEFAULT_TRIGGER_PRECEDENCE do not exist yet,
and the validator silently ignores triggerPrecedence today.

Written in the per-runtime describe idiom the other four
runtime-artifact-layout suites use, not a table.

The rows that carry the weight: windsurf must NOT report a shadow it
does not have, since its global scope emits only agents and agents are
not trigger-bearing; agents and kimi-agents must be absent from the
output for every runtime; and reordering a runtime's triggerPrecedence
must flip the winner, which is the only assertion that proves the axis
is read rather than decorative.

Stems are injected, never scanned, so the surface is assertable with no
filesystem.

* feat(#2871): resolve triggers and host precedence, not just placement

resolveTriggerSurface(runtime, scopes) returns every /gsd-<name> trigger
a runtime emits, with the scope and kind that produced it, whether the
host registers it directly or only through a router, and which artifact
shadows it. resolveRuntimeArtifactLayout is untouched -- its 7 callers
need placement only and the issue requires them unchanged.

AGENTS ARE NOT TRIGGER-BEARING, and ADR-2866 said they were. The
host-integration matrix models command and dispatch as separate interface
points: an agent is invoked through the Agent tool's subagent_type, not
by typing a slash trigger, and _copyStaged never applies the kind prefix
to an agents entry. So agents and kimi-agents are excluded from the
surface entirely, and this commit amends ADR-2866 with a dated
correction. #2218's conclusion is unchanged -- the collision is strictly
commands-vs-skills, and claude's local /gsd-* trigger surface is still
fully shadowed -- but the ADR implied the local agents surface was lost
too, and it is not.

That correction is what makes windsurf come out right. Its global scope
emits only agents, so it has no global trigger and its local commands
are unshadowed. Model agents as trigger-bearing and windsurf falsely
reports a full shadow.

The triggerPrecedence axis lands on all 19 descriptors as an ordered
kind list, one value with one owner, rather than a numeric rank spread
across N kind entries with nothing keeping them consistent. Validation
uses a required-with-default shape that has no precedent in this
validator -- every existing axis is hard-required -- so a third-party
capability.json omitting the field still validates, which is what
ADR-894's additive-only contract promises.

Winner resolution reads Phase 1's scope rank first, then the kind
ordering. A test reorders the axis and asserts the winner flips, since
an axis that is added, validated and never consulted would pass every
other assertion.

shadowedBy ships unread. Phase 4 (#2873) is its first consumer, per this
issue's out-of-scope note.

Verified via the remote runner.

* fix(#2871): single-source namespacedByDir and close two test gaps

Four findings from the isolated adversarial review.

The namespacedByDir rule had reached three copies -- install-engine,
surface, and the new trigger resolver -- one of which carried a
hand-written keep-in-sync comment and no assertion. That is this repo's
generative-fix-divergence class. Extracted to one exported predicate all
three now call. Verified by diverging one copy deliberately: the existing
#816 parity test failed, and passes again on revert.

The omission test was vacuous. Row 16 asserted that a descriptor without
triggerPrecedence still validates, but built its fixture from claude's
shipped descriptor -- which this PR had just added the axis to. It now
clones and deletes the key, following the shippedDescriptorWithout
pattern, and asserts both that validation passes and that the resolver
still picks the right winner from the default. The second half is what
makes it prove anything.

resolveTriggerSurface silently dropped an unrecognized scope while every
sibling in this epic throws. Two phases of one epic should not disagree
about whether an invalid scope is an error, so it now rejects through the
same shared validator; an empty scope list still returns empty rather
than throwing.

The ADR amendment had been spliced into the middle of the References
list, orphaning its last bullet. Moved to the top, after the header
block, which is where ADR-3660 and ADR-1016 both put dated amendments.
No lint checks markdown structure, so this was green while malformed.

* fix(#2871): single-source the command filename composition too

The earlier fix shared the namespacedByDir boolean but left the
filename composition around it written twice -- once in _copyStaged as
what actually gets written, once in resolveTriggerSurface as what gets
predicted. The predictor could go stale silently.

One exported helper now composes it for both. The entry.name asymmetry
that looked like it would block extraction does not: entry.name is
filtered to end in .md and stem is entry.name minus those three
characters, so the two branches are the same string by construction.

Divergence proven to fail: injecting a marker into the helper broke the
trigger-surface suite; reverting restored 25/25. The four sibling layout
suites hold at 227 unchanged.

* docs(#2871): correct the ADR timing notes that this phase makes stale

The Amended by back-links on ADR-3660 and ADR-1016 were written in
Phase 0, when the widenings they describe had not shipped. Each carried
a forward-looking clause -- "the module changes at Phase 2, not before,
until then this module resolves placement only" -- which becomes false
the moment this PR merges. ADR-2866's own Amends header and its
reciprocal-notes section carried the same tense.

All four now describe what shipped. This is a tense and status
correction on Accepted ADRs, not a change to any decision.

Worth stating because it is the failure mode this epic keeps meeting:
gen-adr-index.cjs tracks only Supersedes and Subsumes, so nothing in CI
would have caught either the missing back-link in Phase 0 or these stale
clauses now. They stay correct only because someone checks.

* chore(#2871): backfill changeset PR number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 22:25:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b901d1e06f feat(#1953): complexity-triggered refactor extension point (execute:post) (#3261)
* test(#1953): failing-first suite for the complexity-triggered refactor hook

60 behavioral cases against src/complexity-trigger.cts, which does not exist yet:
decision-point counting, the comment/literal stripping leak surface, threshold and
jump-delta boundaries at limit-1/limit/limit+1, stable-anchor baseline semantics,
and fs fault injection via mock.method. Two fast-check properties assert that
stripping never manufactures a decision point and that comments and string
literals are score-neutral.

Also registers the refactor-trigger capability manifest (inert until
refactor.trigger_enabled) and regenerates the capability registry and matrix.

Verified RED on the remote runner before any implementation exists.

* feat(#1953): complexity-triggered refactor extension point

Adds the opt-in refactor-trigger capability. After a phase executes, an
execute:post step measures per-function complexity for the files the phase
touched and writes a scoped refactor proposal when a function crosses the
configured threshold or drifts past its recorded anchor.

Design notes worth carrying:

- The signal is computed in-core (decision-point counting over comment- and
  literal-stripped source, Node builtins only) rather than via Memtrace or a
  shelled-out analyzer. The hook fires as a deterministic CLI, not an agent
  with MCP tools, and core takes no external dependencies — this is the only
  option a behavioral test can bind to. The metric sits behind a seam.
- The baseline is a stable anchor, not a rolling value: set on first
  observation, moved only on disposition. A rolling baseline makes the delta
  the single-phase change, so a function creeping +2 per phase never trips a
  delta of 5 and the jump check adds nothing over the absolute threshold.
- Strict mode records an open deviation window in the broken-windows ledger
  rather than declaring its own ship:pre gate. ship.md has no generic ship:pre
  gate dispatch — only two hardcoded branches — so a third gate of any kind
  would be declared and never evaluated.
- The gate clears on the proposal being dispositioned, never on the score
  improving. A blocking complexity number is one an executor can satisfy by
  splitting a coherent function in two.

execute-phase.md gains a generic execute:post step-dispatch contract; it
previously matched only ref.skill == "code-review", so any other step
registered there was declared and never run. The code-review branch is
unchanged.

Full rationale in ADR-1953.

Closes #1953

* fix(#1953): close git option injection and symlink escape in the refactor hook

Three findings from the isolated security review, all fixed inline.

HIGH — changedFilesSince interpolated the --since value into a revision
token placed before the -- separator. A -- only stops PATHSPEC parsing of
arguments after it; git still option-parses what comes before. So
--since '--output=/tmp/x' became --output=/tmp/x..HEAD, which git accepts
as --output=<file> and uses to redirect diff output — an arbitrary write.
Fixed with --end-of-options before the revision range plus a conservative
ref validator. The validator deliberately permits ~ ^ @ { } because those
are legitimate git REVISION syntax (HEAD~1, main@{yesterday}) as distinct
from ref-NAME syntax; --end-of-options is the actual barrier. The doc
comment asserting the trailing -- was sufficient was wrong and is corrected.

MEDIUM — resolveConfinedPath confined by string prefix only, so a symlink
committed inside the repo passed the check (its own path is under cwd) and
readFileSync then followed it outside the root. Now lstat-checks for a
regular file and skips anything else with REFACTOR_FILE_UNREADABLE, so one
bad path skips one file and the run continues.

LOW — the new execute:post dispatch contract showed the gsd_run example
before the rule requiring ref.command be validated first. That prose is
executed by an agent, so textual order is execution order. Reordered.

Refs #1953

* fix(#1953): make the analyzer able to see TypeScript at all

Found by running the shipped analyzer over its own source: it reported
functions=1 for a 940-line module with 24 function forms. A return-type
annotation or a generic parameter list made a function invisible —
`function f(a): number {}` and `function f<T>(a: T): T {}` both detected as
zero. Since gsd-core is written in .cts and the capability declares
.ts/.cts/.mts analyzable, the feature silently found nothing in this repo's
own primary language while reporting success. A safety net that reports
"all clear" because it cannot see is worse than no safety net.

All 98 tests passed over this, because every fixture was plain JS — the
exact failure the test matrix's own "assert against the shape production
uses" warning describes. Adds a TypeScript-shapes suite covering return
types (including unions, generics, object literals and type predicates),
generic parameter lists (constrained and defaulted), export/async/generator
combinations, annotated arrows, class-method modifiers, and optional/
default/rest params — plus the two traps: an overload signature has no body
and must not count, and `a < b && c > d` is a comparison, not a generic.
Detection now reports 24/37/21 functions for the three source files, which
matches a hand count exactly.

Also from review:

- The strict-mode ledger dedup identified entries by parsing a prose
  description string. That is banned by CONTRIBUTING's raw-text-matching
  rule and was a real bug: the "exactly one window per untriaged proposal"
  guarantee rested on prose matching, so rewording a description or editing
  WINDOWS.md by hand silently produced duplicates. Now matches structurally
  on kind + phase + file + line.
- A property test asserted on the stripper's output text. Reframed to
  assert the same invariant through analyzeSource's score.
- nextBaseline's `candidates` parameter has been dead since the anchor
  change; removed from the signature and all call sites.
- Extracted the duplicated require-or-degrade and capability-check
  boilerplate.
- ADR-1953's Implementation bullet still named a `refactor.ship-gate` in
  check-command-router.cts — a leftover from the design cut D6 rejects.
  That file is untouched and no such gate exists. Removed.

Refs #1953

* fix(#1953): keep execute-phase.md under its byte ceiling; un-vacuum the large-file test

Five of the seven remote-runner failures were one cause: the execute:post
dispatch contract, written out inline, grew execute-phase.md 1876 bytes
(93,400 -> 95,276) against a frozen PRE_PHASE6 ceiling of 93,600. A drift-ack
does not clear that — tests/phase6-capstone-conformance.test.cjs and
tests/fix-2285-claude-orchestration-wiring.test.cjs assert the file is
literally under the cap.

The contract now lives in gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md, which
already claimed to be the point-agnostic dispatch reference and already
documented ref.skill and ref.agent. It gains the ref.command shape, its
in-context validation rule, the advisory-by-construction statement, and a
note that a point whose workflow hand-rolls one kind is not implementing
this contract. execute-phase.md now defers to it in one line: 145 bytes of
growth, 55 B of headroom under the cap. Better placement than the first cut
— the reference was overstating its coverage, and this makes the claim true
rather than duplicating prose next to it.

Acknowledged by appending to tests/emitted-drift-acks/2930-*.json rather
than a new 1953-*.json: two ack sources may never name the same path, and
that fragment is already the accumulating ack for this file.

Sixth and seventh failures: analyzesLargeFileWithinBounds tripped its own
vacuity guard — the fixture generated ~480 KB against a `> 500000` assert,
so the guard fired and the three assertions after it never ran. The test
has been vacuous since it was written. The matrix row specifies ~1 MB, so
N goes 8000 -> 20000 (1.17 MB, 17% margin) and the guard to > 1_000_000.
Verified by reproducing the exact body against the compiled module: 1168888
bytes, 118 ms, all four assertions hold.

Refs #1953

* fix(#1953): fold the execute:post step deferral into the existing resolve line

The remaining two failures were one test: execute-phase.md carries a SECOND,
tighter assertion than the 93,600 ceiling — `<=93400`, which is exactly its
current size. The file cannot grow by a single byte. My previous fix got it
under 93,600 but not under 93,400, so it still failed. ("H." in the report is
just the parent describe of that same test, not a separate defect.)

Rather than add a paragraph, the deferral now REPLACES the existing hook
resolution line. It read:

  Resolve active step hooks from `EXECUTE_POST_HOOKS_JSON` where
  `kind == "step"` and `ref.skill == "code-review"`.

which is the bug itself written down — only code-review was ever dispatched.
It now reads:

  Dispatch each `kind == "step"` hook per
  @gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md. For `code-review`:

The following prose already begins "If no active code-review step hook
exists", so it reads correctly and the code-review handling is untouched.
Net effect on the file is -11 bytes: 93,400 -> 93,389, under the margin
assertion rather than merely under the ceiling.

That also removes the need for a drift-ack: the file shrank, so there is no
growth to acknowledge, and the append to the shared 2930-*.json fragment is
reverted. Leaving it would have shipped a claim of "145 bytes of growth"
that is no longer true, on a file six other issues share.

The test's own comment states the principle this ended up honoring: "the host
loop must stay small — optional-feature detail belongs in the capability
fragment, not the host workflow." Putting the dispatch contract in the
reference rather than inline is that rule, applied.

Refs #1953

* fix(#1953): keep the code-review hook literal the workflow test requires

tests/code-review.test.cjs extracts the <step name="code_review_gate"> block
and asserts it contains `ref.skill == "code-review"` verbatim. The previous
commit replaced the line carrying that literal, so the token vanished and the
test went red — a fair assertion: code-review IS the bespoke branch there and
the workflow should still name it.

Restored inside the same one-line deferral, which now reads:

  Dispatch `kind == "step"` hooks per @gsd-core/references/loop-hook-dispatch.md.
  `ref.skill == "code-review"`:

93,396 bytes — still under the `<=93400` margin assertion and 4 bytes below
the base, so the file continues to shrink rather than grow.

Because three consecutive runs were each reddened by a different assertion on
this one file, this change was verified by sweeping ALL of them at once rather
than one run at a time: every test under tests/ that reads execute-phase.md or
references/loop-hook-dispatch.md was located by resolving its path constants,
and each content/size assertion was evaluated directly against the working
tree — 22 assertions, plus two real executions (gen-section-manifest --check,
and emitted-attribution's full real-tree differential). All pass.

That sweep also confirms the earlier judgement call: the net change to
execute-phase.md is a SHRINK, and the size ratchet only gates growth, so
reverting the append to the shared 2930-*.json ack fragment was correct — an
ack would have been both unnecessary and factually wrong.

Refs #1953

* chore(#1953): backfill changeset pr number to 3261

* docs(#1953): add the missing how-to for acting on a refactor proposal

Reference and explanation shipped (COMMANDS.md, CONFIGURATION.md,
FEATURES.md 159, ADR-1953) but the Diataxis how-to quadrant did not, and
that is the one a user reaches for. CONTRIBUTING's required-docs table is
'new command -> COMMANDS.md + FEATURES.md', so CI was green on a gap.

Enabling this feature is genuinely multi-step and no single page walked it:
turn it on, tune the threshold, understand advisory vs strict, discover
that strict needs a SECOND toggle on a DIFFERENT capability, and know what
to do when a proposal appears. The two-toggle subtlety in particular was a
footnote in a config table; here it is a section with both commands.

Follows the shape of its closest siblings, resolve-edge-coverage-findings
and resolve-prohibition-findings — both 'the loop surfaced a finding, here
is what to do with it'. Includes a reason-code table for the silent cases,
since the analyzer is deliberately quiet in six situations and a user who
expected a proposal needs to tell 'nothing to report' from 'could not look'.

Indexed from docs/README.md beside the other loop how-tos.

Docs-only: exempt from the push gate, no re-verification, pass marker on
2af188b4 untouched.

Refs #1953

* feat(#1953): warn when strict mode is on but nothing will actually block

Closes acceptance criterion 5, which I had wrongly marked satisfied.

refactor.trigger_strict records an untriaged proposal as an open deviation
window, but a ship only STOPS if workflow.windows_enforce is also on — a
toggle owned by the broken-windows capability that this feature neither sets
nor requires. So a user could enable strict, believe ship was gated, and find
out otherwise at ship time.

The split itself stays: requires:["broken-windows"] would force-install the
ledger on advisory users who never enable strict, and a ship:pre gate of our
own would never fire because ship.md has no generic ship:pre gate dispatch.
What was missing was discoverability, so that is what this fixes.

`refactor evaluate` now emits a typed REFACTOR_STRICT_NOT_ENFORCING warning,
naming the exact remediation command, whenever strict is on and either
workflow.windows_enforce is off or broken-windows is unavailable. It fires
only on a run that produced a candidate — with nothing to block on there is
nothing to warn about, and warning every run would be noise.

Reads workflow.windows_enforce through the same resolveConfigKey walk the
router already uses for its own keys rather than a second config reader.
Four tests cover the matrix: strict+enforce-off warns, strict+enforce-on does
not, strict+ledger-absent warns, strict-off never warns.

Also corrects a user-facing message in this same file that told the user to
run `gsd-tools config-set` — the wrong form. docs/CONFIGURATION.md and the
broken-windows capability both use `gsd config-set`, and gsd-tools is invoked
as `node gsd-tools.cjs`, so the bare form may not resolve. The two adjacent
messages in this file now agree.

Refs #1953

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 19:52:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
653f95e39f chore(#2801): remove the hostBehaviors.reviewerCli deprecated alias (#3272)
* test(#2801): failing-first suite for the hostBehaviors.reviewerCli alias removal

Inverts the Phase 5a rows that assert the derived legacy alias still
contributes a reviewer slug, and adds the removal-warning coverage the
alias's exit needs (ADR-2782 D9).

RED against unmodified production code, by design: the six shipped
manifests still declare the key and collectReviewerWarnings emits nothing
for hostBehaviors.

Refs #2801

* chore(#2801): remove the hostBehaviors.reviewerCli deprecated alias

ADR-2782 D9, Phase 7 — the final phase of epic #2782.

The derived legacy alias survived one release (Phase 5a shipped in 1.9.0;
1.9.1 and 1.10.0 have since gone out), so it goes. A declared reviewer
body is now the only route onto the reviewer roster.

- deriveReviewerSlugs no longer reads runtime.hostBehaviors.reviewerCli
- the key is stripped from the six manifests that carried it; each already
  declares a reviewer body whose slug equals its capability id, so the
  derived roster is unchanged at the same twelve slugs
- collectReviewerWarnings emits a presence-based, non-fatal removal notice
  for any manifest still declaring the key, reaching both the build-time
  registry generation and the third-party overlay load path. The check runs
  before the reviewer-body early-return, because the manifest it exists for
  is the alias-only one that has no body.
- hostBehaviors stays an open, unvalidated bag for its other 59 keys; this
  adds one keyed removal notice, not general validation

Refs #2801

* refactor(#2801): give the reviewer-warning channel a typed IR

Review finding: the new tests asserted with String#includes() on the
warning prose, which CONTRIBUTING.md's 'Prohibited: Raw Text Matching on
Test Outputs' bans in favor of a typed intermediate representation.

Adds the IR beside the renderer rather than replacing it, which is the
shape that section prescribes and bin/verify-reapply-patches.cjs already
models:

- REVIEWER_WARNING, a frozen code enum
- REMOVED_REVIEWER_CLI_FIELD, so the emitting site and its test share one
  symbol instead of duplicating a literal
- collectReviewerWarningRecords(cap), returning typed records

collectReviewerWarnings(cap) keeps its exact string[] contract as a thin
map over the records, so both production consumers are untouched. Every
section-K row now asserts on record.code/field/capId and none on the
rendered message. Locks the code surface, asserts the renderer stays
one-to-one with the records, and migrates the pre-existing Phase 2 test
on the same channel off prose matching.

Refs #2801

* test(#2801): invert the section F alias fall-through regression row

Caught by the remote runner: 2 unique failures on both Node lanes out of
31,692. tests/reviewer-lane-declarations.test.cjs section F — Phase 5a's
isolated-security-review regressions — asserted that a blank reviewer.slug
falls through to the hostBehaviors.reviewerCli alias rather than dropping
the lane. That is the direct inverse of this phase's contract.

The original rationale held only while the alias existed. With it gone
there is nothing to fall through to: a blank body is not a declaration,
and a declaration is the only route onto the roster.

Inverted rather than deleted — the row carries the adversarial-review
provenance for the slug trim, and removing a security regression guard to
make a change pass is backwards. The duplicate row added earlier in
section C is dropped instead; section F is its canonical home.

Also corrects two count strings Phase 5b left at eleven while asserting
twelve, which would misreport on failure.

Refs #2801

* docs(#2801): give the removed reviewerCli flag a migration path

The Reference edit alone satisfied CI — a file under docs/ moved, so
lint-docs-required.cjs was green — while the task-oriented quadrant said
nothing about the removal. A maintainer whose lane had just gone silent
would have found the field documented as removed and no page telling them
what to do about it.

Adds a migration section to the how-to: the symptom, the verbatim warning
they will see, the before/after manifest, and the note to keep the
reviewer slug equal to the capability id so existing
review.default_reviewers entries and --<slug> flags survive.

Refs #2801

* chore(#2801): backfill changeset pr number to 3272

* feat(#2801): close the runtime.hostBehaviors vocabulary

ADR-1016 closes twelve descriptor axes and rejects an open escape hatch
in the descriptor. It never mentioned runtime.hostBehaviors, and that
silence was read as permission: 59 keys across 18 manifests, 39 of them
set by a single capability, validated by nothing. The reference docs went
further and attributed the open seam to ADR-1016, which does not mention
the field at all.

KNOWN_HOST_BEHAVIORS enumerates the vocabulary. An undeclared key yields a
non-fatal UNKNOWN_HOST_BEHAVIOR record on the same D4.3 channel as the
alias removal notice, reaching both build-time generation and overlay
install.

Warning, never error, for the reason this phase exists: an error would
hard-break an out-of-tree descriptor carrying a bespoke key with no
deprecation window, which is what reviewerCli was given a release to
avoid. Escalation is a separate decision.

reviewerCli is excluded from the unknown-key sweep so it keeps its own
notice with the migration pointer rather than drawing two records.

A parity test binds the vocabulary to the shipped manifests in both
directions, and a second asserts no shipped capability draws a notice, so
the closure is provably inert in-tree.

Records the decision and the miscitation as an ADR-1016 amendment.

Refs #2801

* fix(#2801): bound and sanitize the unknown-key diagnostics

Two findings from an isolated adversarial review of the closure commit,
both proven by execution rather than asserted.

MAJOR, introduced by the closure: the new Object.keys(hostBehaviors) sweep
had no ceiling. An installed third-party manifest is bounded only by
MANIFEST_MAX_BYTES, and an 8.69MB manifest with 800,000 keys produced
800,000 records and ~139MB of message text, retained for the registry's
lifetime in OverlayMeta.diagnostics. Now capped at ten records plus a
summary carrying omittedCount, mirroring capability-loader's existing
slice(0,3) idiom. The same manifest now yields 11 records and 1748 chars.

MINOR, newly reachable: manifest-supplied key names were interpolated raw.
Unlike cap.id, which validateCapability gates on KEBAB_RE before these
diagnostics run, hostBehaviors keys have no grammar check anywhere, so
ANSI escapes and CRLF reached stderr and OverlayMeta.warnings intact. New
describeKey replaces C0/C1 controls and clips at 80 chars. The file
already had describeValue for this and applied it only to values.

Both fixes land on the pre-existing reviewer.* sweep too — it carried the
identical pair, and fixing only the new copy would leave the same defect
one screen from its own fix.

Refs #2801

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 19:18:56 -04:00
Tom Boucher
f96cb44f85 enhance(#3248): disclose capability skills as an instruction surface (#3253)
* test(#3248): failing-first suite for instruction-surface disclosure

28 matrix rows from 50-test-matrix.md. Rows requiring the new
Disclosure.instructionSurfaces field fail today; rows 18-20/23-25 (the
ADR-2363 D4 signature invariants) pass today by construction because the
current code never reads skills/agents at all, and stand as regression
guards for the implementation commit.

Refs #3248

* feat(#3248): disclose capability skills and agents as an instruction surface

ADR-2363 D5. A capability whose only contribution was skills disclosed
nothing at install: summarizeDisclosure early-returned "ships no executable
surfaces (declarative only)" because hasExecutable was false, while each
SKILL.md body landed verbatim in the agent's instruction context.

discloseExecutableSurfaces gains a fifth, NON-executable class,
instructionSurfaces, collecting declared skills/agents stems through the same
safeCollect wrapper as the four existing collectors, so a hostile value
degrades only this class and the function stays total for any manifest shape.
Nothing existing is edited: the collectors, hasExecutable, disclosureSignature
and missingArtifacts are untouched. get_impact rates the symbol CRITICAL at
196 affected, which is why the design is strictly additive.

D4 is implemented by omission and pinned rather than left incidental: adding,
changing or removing skills/agents leaves disclosureSignature byte-identical,
so no stored consent record is perturbed and no spurious re-consent fires.
ADR-2782's conditional-append trick is deliberately NOT reused - it worked
because no manifest could declare a reviewer body before that class existed,
whereas skills predate this one, so a conditional append would re-sign every
already-consented skill-bearing capability.

The renderer is extracted as summarizeInstructionSurfaces and called from BOTH
branches of summarizeDisclosure. Appending only at the end would never render
for skill-only capabilities - the ones that need it - since those take the
early return. That branch's "declarative only" claim is now conditional on
there being no instruction surface either. The renderer iterates rather than
spreading into push, so an unbounded stem count cannot throw RangeError, and
tolerates the bare {} the CLI edge passes via `res.disclosure || {}`.

Scope note: #3248's prose says "skill stems"; ADR-2363 D3 classifies
instruction surfaces as "skills, agents". Shipping skills alone would leave an
ADR deliverable owned by no phase, and the epic has no Phase 2. Agents are the
same shape at no extra cost. Narrowing back is a two-line change.

Ratifies ADR-2363 (Proposed -> Accepted) and adds the owed ADR-1244 back-link.

Closes #3248

* fix(#3248): escape consent-prompt values and narrow disclosure to skills

Two review findings, both of which made the previous commit wrong.

BLOCKER (isolated adversarial review). Every manifest-supplied value
interpolated into a consent-prompt line was rendered unescaped. Those lines
are joined with \n and written RAW to stderr on the needs-consent path
(capability-command-router -> cli-exit runMain), so a stem carrying a newline
forged additional lines indistinguishable from genuine GSD disclosure text,
and an ANSI escape could clear or rewrite lines already printed. That defeats
the informed-consent guarantee this change exists to provide, and is a
prompt-injection vector against any agent that reads the stderr text to decide
whether to retry with --yes.

The hole was not unique to the new class - hook event/script, command
family/module/router, every MCP field, and every reviewer-lane field were
equally unescaped. Fixing only the new one would have created the
generative-fix divergence this repo tracks, so renderValueForPrompt is applied
to all five classes through one helper, guarded by a parity test that fails if
a future class skips it. Escaping is identity for ordinary names, so no
well-formed manifest's output changes. The disclosure OBJECT stays verbatim -
only the rendered LINE is escaped - because the signature and every consumer
reasoning about identity depend on the declared value.

NARROWED to skills only. The previous commit also collected agents, arguing
ADR-2363 D3 classifies instruction surfaces as "skills, agents". Verified
against staging: stageSkillsForRuntimeAsSkills takes a registry and unions
third-party skills in via readInstalledCapabilitySkill, while
stageAgentsForRuntimeWithConverter takes only a source directory and has no
registry-aware path. Third-party agents are never staged into the instruction
context, so disclosing them would have put a false claim in a security prompt -
worse than the scope creep two reviewers flagged it as. D3's classification
stands; D5 now records that Phase 1 implements the skills half and that
whether agents should be staged at all is an open maintainer question.

Also reverts the premature ADR-2363 ratification. The previous commit flipped
it to Accepted and asserted "#3248 merged" while this branch IS #3248 and is
unmerged. Status returns to Proposed, and the ADR-1244 back-link - owed only on
ratification - is withdrawn.

Adds the fast-check property suite CLAUDE.md requires and the direct precedent
(reviewer-trust-disclosure) already had: totality, D4 signature invariance, D3
hasExecutable invariance, and renderer totality over adversarial manifests.

Refs #3248

* chore(#3248): correct changeset scope claim and backfill pr number

The fragment was written against the pre-narrowing commit and still
advertised 'skills and agents'. 4d26887e narrowed disclosure to skills
only - third-party agents are never staged into the instruction context -
but did not touch the fragment, so the release notes would have carried a
claim the code does not implement.

Also backfills pr:0 -> 3253 and names the prompt-escaping fix, which is
user-visible and was absent from the original body.

Changeset-only; no code or test changed, so the gsd-test pass recorded for
4d26887e still describes this tree's behavior.

Refs #3248

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 13:52:29 -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
27aa40f65e fix(#3023): stage pi's shared hook bundle outside pi's reserved hooks/ directory (#3175)
* test(#3023): failing-first guard — pi must not stage hooks in its reserved dir

pi reserves <configDir>/hooks as its deprecated extension location and warns
on every startup when it exists. Assert a pi install stages the shared hook
bundle under gsd-hooks/ instead, manifests it there, and never creates hooks/.

Also adds pi to the local-scope dir table in install-shared.cjs: pi was in
RUNTIME_META but not LOCAL_DIR_NAME, so scope:'local' resolved
path.join(root, undefined) and no local pi install could be exercised.

Fails before the fix. Verified via the remote runner.

* fix(#3023): stage pi's shared hook bundle outside pi's reserved hooks/ dir

pi reserves <configDir>/hooks as its now-deprecated extension location and
warns on every startup when that directory merely exists — checkDeprecatedExtensionDirs()
guards the warning with a bare existsSync(), unlike its tools/ sibling. GSD staged
its shared hook bundle exactly there, and pi's advised remediation (move it to
extensions/) would break the adapter's paths and expose GSD's .js helpers to pi's
extension auto-discovery.

The bundle directory name is now runtime-descriptor-driven: hostBehaviors
.sharedHooksDirName, defaulting to 'hooks' so all 18 other runtimes are
byte-identical. pi sets 'gsd-hooks'. The name is validated as a single path
segment — separators, dot-only segments, trailing dots, absolute paths, NUL,
and Windows reserved device names all fall back to the default, because the
value is joined onto a user's config root and written to.

Renamed in place rather than relocated: hook scripts resolve siblings via
__dirname/.., so a depth change would silently break them.

- install / uninstall / manifest sites all read the resolved name
- pi/gsd.cjs probes gsd-hooks then hooks, so dev checkouts and half-upgraded
  trees still resolve; the never-throws contract is preserved
- new migration 009 retires the legacy pi hooks/ dir on upgrade, using a new
  non-recursive remove-empty-dir engine primitive (rmdirSync only,
  symlink-refusing, containment-guarded); ADR-0008 amended accordingly
- fixes two latent name-dependencies the rename exposed: the stale-hook scan
  and the injection scanner's self-exclusion both hardcoded 'hooks'

Verified on the remote runner.

Closes #3023

* fix(#3023): close review findings and align emitted provenance with the rename

Adversarial review found two defects, and the remote runner found four
failure clusters. All fixed here.

Review BLOCKER — detect-custom-files was blind to the renamed bundle.
GSD_PREFIX_MANAGED_DIRS in gsd-tools.cjs hardcoded 'hooks', so for pi the
whole gsd-hooks/ tree was invisible to the custom-file scan and user-added
files there were never backed up before the next update's clean-install wipe.
The dir set now resolves via the .gsd-runtime marker plus the shipped
capability registry (never bin/install.js, which is not shipped into installed
trees), and falls back to scanning every known candidate when the runtime
cannot be determined — over-scanning is safe, under-scanning is the data loss.

Review MAJOR — the pi adapter bound to an empty bundle. resolveSharedHooksDir
accepted any directory, so an interrupted install left gsd-hooks/ winning over
a fully-staged legacy hooks/ and every hook silently no-opped. A candidate now
qualifies only if it is non-empty.

Remote-runner clusters:
- emitted-provenance had no rule for the gsd-hooks/ family; added two pi-scoped
  rules pointing at the same sources the existing hooks/ rules use. The table is
  total, so an unattributed family is a hard failure by design.
- pi tests in install-minimal-hooks and the install integration suite asserted
  the old layout; updated to derive the dir name from the descriptor rather than
  hardcoding either name.
- 19 unrelated-looking failures on node22 only were a leaked fs mock: t.after()
  runs in registration order, cleanup was registered before mock.restoreAll(),
  and node22's JS rimraf calls the public fs.rmdirSync while node24's native
  path does not — so the EACCES stub leaked process-wide on one lane. Restore
  now runs first.

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3023): honor PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR, ack the rename ripple, fix expandTilde

pi resolves its agent dir as PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR ?? ~/<CONFIG_DIR_NAME>/agent
(packages/coding-agent/src/config.ts). GSD's pi descriptor declared an empty
configHome.env, so a user with that variable set had GSD installed where pi
never looks. Added the env name; the dot-home-nested resolver already handled
the override, so no resolver logic changed.

Also fixes expandTilde in the shared runtime-homes resolver, found while adding
that: it hardcoded os.homedir() and ignored the opts.home every caller threads,
so EVERY runtime's tilde-valued env override (claude, antigravity, windsurf, pi)
silently resolved against the real home. That is a correctness bug and a
test-escape hazard — a sandboxed test asserting on a tilde override reached the
developer's actual home directory. Now threaded through every branch; behavior
with no injected home is unchanged.

Adds the emitted-drift ack fragment for the 58 pi paths whose emitted location
moved with the rename. The provenance rules satisfy the totality gate; the
differential gate needs the ack because the hook sources are byte-unchanged —
only the installer's target directory moved. The two hook files this branch
genuinely edits stay attributed and are not double-acked.

Note on piConfig.configDir: it is read from pi's OWN installed package.json
(getPackageDir walks up from pi's __dirname), alongside piConfig.name — a
white-label setting for a redistributed pi fork, not a per-project user setting.
Documented accordingly rather than treated as an unsupported override.

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3023): reject blank env overrides, pin adapter/descriptor parity

Three review findings, all fixed.

A whitespace-only config-dir override was accepted verbatim: the guard was
`if (val)`, falsy only for the empty string, so PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR='   '
resolved to a literal three-space directory name instead of falling back to the
descriptor default. Fixed across every env-consuming branch — dot-home,
dot-home-nested, all three xdg steps, and generic-agents-root — not just pi's.
Non-blank values are still never trimmed, so '~/My Agent Dir' keeps working.

pi/gsd.cjs's probe list and the descriptor were two independent sources of truth
for the bundle directory name; a future rename would have desynced them silently
and left every pi hook quiet with no error. The probe list stays deliberate — it
must resolve in a dev checkout and a half-upgraded tree, where the registry's
answer would be wrong — so this adds the parity assertion the repo's
generative-fix-divergence rule calls for: the descriptor value must be the FIRST
candidate, and the default must remain present.

Changeset body rewritten to cover the two later user-facing fixes it had not
caught up with.

Verified on the remote runner.

* chore(#3023): backfill changeset PR number

* fix(#3023): anchor injection-scan patterns and fix a macOS detection hole

CI's security job flagged CONTEXT.md:124 — pre-existing prose reading 'not the
same fact as a genuinely empty or absent one'. The match was the 'act as a'
INSIDE 'f-act as a': the pattern had no left word boundary, so any word ending
in act tripped it (fact, impact, contract, artifact, interact, redact,
abstract). My four-line CONTEXT.md edit dragged the latent false positive into
this PR because the scan is diff-scoped by file but reads whole files. Anchored
with (^|[^[:alnum:]]) rather than rewording maintainer-owned prose, which would
have left the class alive for the next PR touching any file saying 'fact as a'.

Auditing the rest of the list for the same class surfaced a real detection hole:
the eval/exec/Function patterns matched a quote via \x27, a GNU-grep-only hex
escape. BSD/macOS grep reads it as four literal characters, so single-quoted
eval('...')/exec('...') payloads were NEVER detected there while passing on
GNU-grep CI. Replaced with a literal apostrophe class.

Boundaries were added only where a real word-suffix collision exists; exec,
jailbreak, developer mode and the role-manipulation family were audited and
deliberately left unanchored. 22 new cases cover both directions — the false
positives now scan clean, and every real payload still fires, including the
quote/punctuation/start-of-line boundary forms.

Also builds this branch's injection test fixture at runtime instead of carrying
the literal phrase, so the payload keeps its teeth without tripping the scan.

Verified on the remote runner.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-07 13:41:21 -04:00
sim
796bd2cb24 docs(#3149): use the hyphen slash form in reference docs
docs/ is never passed through the install-time slash-form converters, so
the colon form names a command no runtime registers. Caught by
lint-docs-command-form.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 10:10:23 -04:00
sim
2bead6ca1d feat(#3149): add dedicated init.debug entry point for /gsd:debug
/gsd:debug was one of the last workflows with no cmdInit* of its own: its
Step 0 made three separate round-trips (state.load, resolve-model
gsd-debugger, config-get workflow.tdd_mode) to assemble one context. Because
no debug-scoped fact was computed at any entry point, ADR-1671 admission gate
(2) could never be satisfied for debug — an applicability atom naming such a
fact would evaluate FALSE forever and silently exclude its section.

Adds cmdInitDebug (init.debug), registers it in the init router and the
command-alias table, and collapses debug.md Step 0 to one call. Every field
resolves through the same primitive the call it replaces used: loadConfig for
commit_docs, withProjectRoot for response_language (#2402), planningPaths for
debug_dir, resolveModelInternal for debugger_model, and the existing
Boolean(workflow.tdd_mode) idiom for tdd_mode.

PlanningPaths gains a debug field so state.load and init.debug share ONE
debug-directory expression rather than two kept in sync by hand. state.load
keeps emitting debug_dir: it is a shipped query surface with its own test
anchor, so narrowing it would break unseen consumers for no gain.

No WHEN_VOCABULARY atom and no gsd:section marker: gate (1), a consuming
section of at least 400 bytes, belongs to the change that adds the section.

Closes #3149

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 09:30:27 -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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-04 18:10:31 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ffd5370464 fix(#2903): use the command form that actually works in reader-facing docs (#3047)
* fix(#2903): use the command form that actually works in reader-facing docs

Docs told readers to type the colon form, which no runtime registers -- 18 of
19 runtimes use slash-hyphen and the 19th uses shell-var -- so anyone copying an
example got an unrecognized command. Swept 178 occurrences across 53 files,
locale mirrors included so they do not re-diverge from English.

The colon form is a source-authoring token, not a user-facing one: install-time
converters key on it to produce the hyphen form runtimes actually register. So
the sweep is scoped, and three things are deliberately left alone:

- ADRs, which are a historical record; editing their prose falsifies what was
  written at the time.
- The legacy release-notes archive, pending a maintainer decision on whether it
  follows the same historical carve-out. Excluding it keeps a later reversal
  additive rather than a revert.
- Source artifacts under commands, workflows and agents, where the colon form is
  load-bearing. Rewriting those would break the installed-skill guarantee across
  every runtime -- the single largest hazard here.

The plugin namespace form is a real, separate token and survives untouched.

Adds a lint enforcing exactly that boundary, since the correct form genuinely
differs by directory and nothing previously caught the drift.

Also fixes a hardcoded colon form in the capability-matrix generator. The sweep
alone would have left the generated matrix disagreeing with the template that
produces it, so the fix is at the source and the output regenerated.

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

* fix(#2903): stop the sweep misquoting source frontmatter

Adversarial review caught three lines where the sweep rewrote a citation of the
literal YAML name: key from a source command file. That key genuinely is the
colon form -- this change's own carve-out logic says source-authoring tokens keep
it -- so the docs ended up misquoting the real files. One of the three is an
acceptance-checklist assertion, which the sweep turned into a false statement.

Restored the three citations to match their sources verbatim, surgically: where a
line carried both a name: citation and a real reader-facing slash command, only
the citation reverted and the command stayed corrected.

The guard needed the same distinction, or it would have flagged the restoration
and reddened the build: a gsd:<cmd> token preceded by name: is a citation of a
source token and is now permitted. The exemption is deliberately narrow -- a bare
gsd:<cmd> anywhere else still fails -- with a test pinning that narrowness.

Also makes the detection case-insensitive. Review found /GSD:next slipped through
silently; no such casing exists in the tree today, so this closes a latent gap
rather than fixing a live one.

Swept the whole tree for further corrupted citations: none beyond the three.

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

* fix(#2903): retire the stale-next invariant and sweep next like every other command

Maintainer decision on a genuine conflict between two contracts.

Invariant #3054 banned the literal /gsd-next from user-facing docs because it
named a retired workflow-advance command. But commands/gsd/next.md is a live
command -- the state-aware smart-entry launcher -- and this issue requires docs
to use the hyphen form every runtime actually registers. Both could not hold for
this one command, so docs had been sidestepping the ban by keeping the colon
form, which is exactly the defect this issue exists to remove.

FEATURES.md already recorded the reassignment: the hyphen form "is not the
retired workflow-advance command; it is reserved for the state-aware smart-entry
launcher. Workflow advancement remains under /gsd-progress --next." With that
reassignment the invariant's premise is obsolete and the guard now contradicts
the documented command form, so it is retired with a comment recording why
rather than deleted silently.

next is now swept like every other command, and the earlier exemption added to
the new guard is removed so nothing is special-cased.

Four citations of the literal name: frontmatter key stay in colon form, because
the source file really does carry name: gsd:next and a doc quoting it must
reproduce it verbatim. Two of those lines were reworded to say which side is the
frontmatter key and which is the slash command, since they previously conflated
the two.

Verified the retired scan would now genuinely fail against this tree -- the
conflict was real and resolved, not dodged.

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

* chore(#2903): backfill changeset pr number

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 13:23:44 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ff4a57b78c chore(#1671): migrate the remaining 13 LARGE/XL workflows to the fragment model — Phase 6.3 (#3030)
* chore(#2994): fragmentize progress.md forensic audit onto the fragment model

Extract the --forensic-gated forensic_audit step to
workflows/progress/steps/forensic-audit.md behind a section marker, and
repair progress.md's init line to forward --forensic so the atom is
actually true in production rather than only under direct CLI tests.

progress.md shrinks 32630 -> 27207 bytes.

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

* chore(#2994): fragmentize the four manifest-wired workflows

new-project, quick, new-milestone and progress each already had a
dedicated cmdInit* entry point but zero marked sections. Extract nine
gated bodies to workflows/<wf>/steps/ behind section markers and repair
each init line to forward its flags.

Fold --full into the discuss/research/validate facts inside cmdInitQuick
so the when= grammar never sees an OR, per the chunked-mode precedent.

Fixes found while working, per the no-defer rule:
- cmdInitProgress passed no phase info to buildSectionManifestField, so
  state:phase-mvp-mode was permanently false — an atom in the vocabulary
  whose fact could never be computed.
- the quick init router folded flag tokens into the free-text
  description, which the new forwarding would have corrupted.
- a #2508 dispatch note was nested inside quick.md's Agent(prompt=)
  fence, leaking orchestrator guidance into the subagent prompt.
- progress.md had a 3-vs-4 backtick outer-fence imbalance.

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

* chore(#2994): fragmentize verify-work.md and admit state:ui-phase-active

Wire cmdInitVerifyWork to buildSectionManifestField — it was a dedicated
entry point that never emitted a manifest — and mark two sections.

state:ui-phase-active folds (plan:pre hooks include an active ui step) OR
(the phase dir holds a *-UI-SPEC.md) into one boolean in init.cts, so the
grammar still sees a single operator-free atom. The inner Playwright-MCP
check stays as prose inside the fragment: it is live session state and no
init seam can precompute it.

The MVP false-branch note is a real fallback, not redundant prose, so it
sits outside the marker — gating it away would delete the text needed
precisely when MVP mode is off.

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

* test(#2994): follow moved workflow content in drift guards

Retarget every guard that asserted on content this branch moved into
workflows/<wf>/steps/, mirroring 815b3d897. Each retargeted assertion was
verified to still fail when its step file is blanked, so none was
weakened into vacuity.

Three assertions in verify-mvp-uat were genuinely red. Three more were
worse than red — passing for the wrong reason:
- quick-commit-boundary and worktree-cleanup anchored on indexOf('Step
  5.6'), which matched a later cross-reference and sliced 16069 chars
  that coincidentally held the asserted substrings. Replaced with an
  expandWorkflowSections helper that splices step content back in place.
- phase6-review-capabilities lost its end boundary and widened to EOF.
- playwright-ui-verify matched 'UI' in an unrelated bullet and 'fall
  back' in a subagent-dispatch line after the real content moved.

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

* chore(#2994): fragmentize code-review and complete-milestone, admit three atoms

Add dedicated cmdInitCodeReview and cmdInitCompleteMilestone entry points
alongside the shared generic ones rather than modifying them — init.phase-op
and init.manager carry a CRITICAL blast radius (179 dependents, 24
processes) and stay byte-identical for their other callers.

Admit flag:--fix, state:fallow-enabled and state:git-create-tag, each with
a consuming section and a fact its own entry point computes.

Both sections had the resolver-in-body hazard: the fallow config-gate and
the git.create_tag check each sat inside the very block being gated, so
gating would have disabled the resolver that decides the gate. Both are
hoisted into init and the bodies now consume the resolved fact.

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

* test(#2994): retarget code-review and milestone drift guards, fix two red tests

Retarget guards that asserted on content moved into steps/, proving
non-vacuity by blanking each step file and confirming failure.

Also fixes two genuinely red tests found while working, per the no-defer
rule:
- workflow-fragments' frozen-vocabulary lock was missing
  state:ui-phase-active, so commit 7ef7f8336 shipped red. Lint and build
  both passed over it, which is why neither is sufficient verification.
- code-review's quick.md capability-hook assertion carried a stale
  delimiter after the 18ff35d20 extraction.

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

* chore(#2994): fragmentize autonomous.md and admit state:plan-strategy-converge

Five sections share one atom, the pattern plan-phase already uses for
flag:--research-phase. The atom folds --converge OR --cross-ai into a
single boolean in cmdInitAutonomous so the grammar stays operator-free.

cmdInitAutonomous is additive; init.milestone-op, init.manager and
init.phase-op are untouched and still consumed. The $PLAN_STRATEGY bash
resolver is deliberately retained — ungated local-planning bullets still
read it, so the init-side fact supplements it rather than replacing it.

converge-fail-fast required splitting one bash fence so the always-run
CONVERGENCE_ARGS construction stays outside the marker. All three
flag-absent fallbacks were left outside their markers.

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

* chore(#2994): fragmentize review and discuss-phase-assumptions

Admit state:reviewer-instances-configured (two peripheral notes share it;
the core reviewer-lane dispatch stays unmarked — it is the workflow's
primary always-evaluated logic, not an optional branch) and
state:auto-advance-active, which folds --auto OR two config keys into one
boolean so the grammar stays operator-free.

discuss-phase-assumptions was the highest-risk edit in this PR. Its
auto_advance step is a full if/elif/else; gating it whole would have
deleted the flag-absent fallback needed exactly when --auto is off. Split
verified exact: resolvers 636-651 and the 'End here' fallback 668-669 both
stay outside the marker; only 653-667 is gated.

Adds emitted-drift acks for the two files that grew — review.md (+55 B)
and autonomous.md (+737 B from 80799211c, which had none and would have
red-gated the push.

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

* chore(#2994): fragmentize docs-update, update, transition and new-milestone Part A

Completes the 13-workflow rollout. Three of these had no init call at all
and gained a dedicated entry point plus their first gsd_run query line.

Admits state:is-monorepo and adds state:next-channel, state:workstream-active
and state:flat-mode. Vocabulary 26 -> 30 atoms.

Part A of new-milestone applies when NO workstream is active — the negation
of state:workstream-active. Rather than teach the grammar negation, which is
the Greenspun drift the frozen list exists to prevent, it gets a separate
positively-phrased atom whose fact is the inverse. Part B, which always runs,
stays outside the marker.

flag:--verify-only is deliberately NOT admitted: docs-update has no
contiguous purely-additive region for it, and an atom without a consuming
section is dead vocabulary. Evidence recorded in the slice report.

update.md reuses its existing resolved $GSD_TOOLS rather than prepending the
canonical preamble, which would have clobbered it.

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

* fix(#2994): stop automated-ui-verification re-resolving its own gate, retire dead vocabulary

Two defects the new tests caught.

The automated-ui-verification step re-ran gsd_run loop render-hooks and
recomputed UI_PHASE_ACTIVE inside a body that is only read when that fact
is already true — the circular self-disabling pattern this design forbids,
introduced by 3c654b168. cmdInitVerifyWork now exposes ui_phase_active and
the step consumes it. Its launcher preamble goes too: no gsd_run remains.
The Playwright-MCP check stays as prose — that is live session state.

Dead vocabulary predating this PR: flag:--full and state:needs-codebase-map
were admitted with a gate-1 claim that never materialized. flag:--full is
removed, redundant once quick folds it into discuss/research/validate.
state:needs-codebase-map gets the real consumer it always lacked, gating
new-project's codebase-map offer. Vocabulary 30 -> 29, and no atom is now
without a consuming section.

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

* test(#2994): add the atom-admission, inversion and resolver-hoist gates

The two existing parity guards prove vocabulary/predicate symmetry but
never that a fact is computed — an atom no cmdInit* assembles evaluates
false forever. These close that hole:

- per-atom satisfiability for all 29 atoms, plus an anti-vacuity assertion
  so the loop cannot silently cover zero atoms
- dead-vocabulary check against the shipped manifest
- inversion guard: the flag-absent fallbacks in discuss-phase-assumptions
  and verify-work must stay outside their markers
- data-driven resolver-hoist guard over the shipped manifest, so a future
  extraction cannot reintroduce the circular class
- compound-fold coverage (--full, --cross-ai, --rc, config-only --auto)
- null-vs-[] degraded/computed distinction, and flag value shapes

Also repairs the frozen-vocabulary lock, which was stale and red for the
seven atoms earlier commits on this branch shipped.

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

* docs(#2994): add changeset for the fragment-model rollout

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

* test(#2994): cite the issue on the two new allow-test-rule exemptions

ADR-456 requires an issue ref on the same line as the annotation.

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

* docs(#2994): correct the atom-count claims after retiring flag:--full

The vocabulary doc comments still said 30 entries; it is 29 since
flag:--full was removed as dead vocabulary.

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

* fix(#2994): dedupe the phase-fallback block and harden --ws parsing

Review findings.

MAJOR: the three new init entry points each pasted a verbatim copy of the
guardedFindPhase/guardedGetRoadmapPhase fallback, taking the repo from four
copies to seven — DEFECT.GENERATIVE-FIX. Extracted applyRoadmapFallback and
folded six of the seven; each call site keeps its own field-set via a
closure. Duplication removed rather than papered over with a parity test.
cmdInitPhaseOp stays out: its fallback omits has_reviews, so it is not a
byte-identical copy, and it is CRITICAL-radius.

LOW, pre-existing: GSD_WS captured [^[:space:]]+ and expands unquoted, so a
workstream name holding glob metacharacters would expand against the
filesystem. Narrowed to [A-Za-z0-9._-]+. The unquoted expansion is kept —
it must word-split into two args and vanish when empty.

Also restores the vocabulary ordering convention, and fixes a masked test
bug the mandated run surfaced: the flag-forwarding guard checked only the
first init line per workflow, but new-milestone has two, so a real failure
was reporting exit 0.

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

* fix(#2994): drop the stale new-milestone emitted-drift ack

new-milestone.md was acked for a +406 B growth measured against an
intermediate commit. Net against origin/next it SHRANK by 8 bytes, so
nothing needed the ack and it explained nothing — which the differential
attribution check reports as a stale acknowledgment, not a pass.

update.md's entry stays: it genuinely grew +703 B.

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

* fix(#2994): resolve the 15 failures from the full matrix run

All 15 were real and identical on both lanes.

REAL REGRESSION: autonomous.md hit 41479 chars against the #2196 guard's
40960 cap — a CHARS cap distinct from the LARGE tier byte cap, which the
five section stubs pushed it over. Extracted the 3a.5 UI Design Contract
body to references/; now 39968 chars, and the file nets -795 B vs base, so
its growth ack is deleted rather than left stale.

REAL DEFECT: docs referenced /gsd-transition, which is not a live
registered command. Reworded.

STALE FIXTURE: the emission byte-identity test hardcoded two marked
workflows; this branch legitimately marks fifteen. Fixture corrected — the
source was right.

The rest were drift guards over the eight workflows the earlier sweep did
not cover, retargeted at where the content now lives with non-vacuity
proven by blanking each step file and confirming failure. The GSD_WS
forwarding guard was checked as a possible real break and is not one: the
charclass narrowing is intact and forwarding works end to end.

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

* fix(#2994): drop the ack for a newly-added reference file

A new file's emitted ripple is attributable to the diff that adds it, so
the acknowledgment explained nothing and the differential check reports it
as stale. Removing the last entry removes the fragment — an empty one
signals nothing.

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

* fix(#2994): retarget the UI-contract guards and clear two transitive advisories

The §3a.5 extraction that brought autonomous.md under the #2196 char cap
moved its body to references/autonomous-ui-design-contract.md, so ten
guards in autonomous-ui-steps and check-ui-safety-gate were asserting it
against the host. Retargeted via a combined read, each proven non-vacuous
by blanking the reference file and confirming failure.

This class had already bitten twice on this branch because each sweep was
scoped to the workflows touched at that moment, so this one was
exhaustive: ~70 test files across all 13 workflows, zero further broken or
vacuous assertions found.

Also clears two high transitive advisories the matrix flagged on one lane
— fast-uri GHSA-7p8r-x3mc-p8w7 and three ip-address SSRF/trust-boundary
issues. Both pre-date this branch: package-lock.json was untouched until
now, so the production tree was byte-identical to the base. Lockfile-only,
package.json unchanged, verified against a real npm ci install.

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

* chore(#2994): backfill changeset pr number to 3030

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 19:59:58 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c6ce4d1d9a fix(#2755): resolve the kimi hooks-TOML root per runtime (#3032)
* test(#2755): failing-first coverage for per-runtime kimi hooks root

Install/uninstall filesystem-shape rows over a sandbox HOME (no permission
tricks) plus resolver unit rows. Covers both uninstall directions, which is
where a fix applied only to the install call site would drift.

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

* fix(#2755): resolve the kimi hooks-TOML root per runtime

resolveKimiHooksTomlDir took no runtime argument and hardcoded ~/.kimi, but
both kimi and kimi-code route through the single hooksSurface=kimi-hooks-toml
branch. A --kimi-code install therefore wrote its [[hooks]] block, hook bundle
and CommonJS marker into Kimi CLI's config file, and a --kimi-code uninstall
stripped Kimi CLI's block.

Adds a runtime selector to the resolver -- kimi keeps ~/.kimi + KIMI_SHARE_DIR,
kimi-code gets ~/.kimi-code + KIMI_CODE_HOME, per Kimi Code's own upstream
data-locations and hooks docs -- and passes the runtime at both the install and
uninstall call sites. An omitted or unrecognized runtime still resolves ~/.kimi,
so the exported no-arg contract is unchanged.

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

* test(#2755): use centralized helpers and add a divergence guard

Review findings, all fixed in-PR:

- The new test block reimplemented runMinimalInstall, createTempDir and
  toPosixPath. Extends runMinimalInstall with optional root/extraEnv instead
  (back-compat: every existing caller passes neither) and uses the centralized
  helpers, per CONTRIBUTING's Use Centralized Test Helpers rule.

- Adds a parity assertion between the capability registry and the resolver: a
  third runtime declaring hooksSurface kimi-hooks-toml would silently inherit
  ~/.kimi, re-creating this very defect. The guard fires the moment those two
  surfaces drift.

- Adds an installer-level test proving KIMI_SHARE_DIR and KIMI_CODE_HOME do not
  interfere when both are set, which only the resolver unit covered before.

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

* test(#2755): track the kimi-code hooks root in the emitted-artifact gates

The remote runner caught a real ripple: moving kimi-code hooks to ~/.kimi-code
made 31 emitted paths unattributable and 58 emitted hashes unexplained, because
three parallel surfaces keyed on the literal .kimi path.

- HOOK_CONFIG_RELATIVE_PATHS excluded only .kimi/config.toml, so kimi-code's
  config.toml became manifest-visible; it embeds a platform-varying node-runner
  command and must stay out for both products.
- HOOKS_ROOTS, the package.json-marker branch and the synthesized-install-metadata
  pattern each named .kimi only.
- tests/fixtures/install-tree/kimi-code.json still recorded the old paths;
  regenerated via gen:install-tree.

Adds the per-PR drift acknowledgment for the 58 paths whose bytes are unchanged
but whose destination moved - a ripple no source diff can show, since no hook
script was edited.

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

* fix(#2755): clear production-tree security advisories

The remote runner's npm-integrity gate reported 2 high advisories in the
production dependency tree. My diff touches neither package.json nor
package-lock.json, so these come from the base -- but a red gate is not
something to wave off as pre-existing, so it is fixed here rather than deferred.

Lockfile-only, semver-in-range, via npm audit fix:
  fast-uri   3.1.4  -> 3.1.5   (host confusion via backslash authority introducer)
  ip-address 10.2.0 -> 10.4.0  (three SSRF / trust-boundary bypasses)
  hono       4.12.31 -> 4.13.0 (moderate; reverting it traded a high for a
                                moderate, so the full remedy is taken)

npm audit now reports 0 vulnerabilities at every severity, npm ci installs
clean from the updated lockfile, and the build and the kimi behavior both
re-verified afterwards.

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

* chore(#2755): backfill changeset pr numbers

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 18:56:42 -04:00
Dennis Kim
d3ddcaba1c fix(#2785): implement missing gate predicate evaluators (#2816)
* fix(#2785): implement missing gate predicate evaluators

* fix(#2785): gate predicate numerical coercion

* fix(#2785): address evaluator review findings

* fix(#2785): use safe frontmatter read seam

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-03 12:16:56 -04:00
𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚣𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐
88f6d9bd1b fix(#2644): deduplicate Cursor slash menu (#2812)
* fix(#2644): deduplicate Cursor slash menu

* fix: preserve installer executable mode

* chore: add changeset for PR #2812

* test(#2644): acknowledge Cursor emission changes

* test(#2644): drop spent emitted drift acknowledgments

* fix(#2644): remove retired Cursor command converter

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-03 12:05:45 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ad3b9ec486 chore(#1671): fragmentize plan-phase.md and repair flag forwarding to the init bundle — Phase 6.2 (#3019)
* chore(#2993): fragmentize plan-phase.md onto the fragment model

Epic #1671 Phase 6.2. plan-phase.md is the largest workflow in the repo and
carried zero markers; it was deferred out of the Phase 3 pilot for two
reasons, both now dead. The 36-byte PRE_PHASE6 headroom was never the
blocker it looked like — fragmentizing is net-negative on host source, so
the trim is what creates the room. The --mvp interleaving was resolved by
measurement in #2992 and no sub-line mechanism is built.

- widen WHEN_VOCABULARY 14 -> 19 via a second coordinated ADR-1671
  amendment: flag:--ingest, flag:--prd, flag:--research-phase,
  flag:--reviews, state:chunked-mode
- state:chunked-mode is `--chunked` OR config workflow.plan_chunked, and
  that disjunction is resolved in the FACT, never in the grammar, so a
  compound condition never becomes an operator
- parse the new flags on the plan-phase route; extract six gated bodies to
  gsd-core/workflows/plan-phase/steps/ behind manifest-gated stubs
- prd-express-path.md was already extracted but read unconditionally; its
  wrapper is now gated, so the existing extraction finally pays off

plan-phase.md 94,483 -> 87,575 bytes (cap 94,519): headroom goes from 36
bytes to 6,944.

Also closes a surfaced docs gap: five real plan-phase flags (--chunked,
--skip-ui, --bounce, --skip-bounce, --granularity) were documented in
neither the argument-hint nor help. Making --chunked load-bearing without
fixing its siblings would leave the defect class half-open.

Refs #2993

* fix(#2993): forward flags to the init bundle so section gating actually fires

Blocker found by the correctness review, confirmed directly, and missed by
both the isolated reviewer and every test in this branch.

Neither workflow forwarded its flags to the init CLI:

  plan-phase.md:71    INIT=$(gsd_run query init.plan-phase "$PHASE" $GRAN_PARAM)
  execute-phase.md:84 INIT=$(gsd_run query init.execute-phase "${PHASE_ARG}")

So every flag: atom was permanently false in production and its section
permanently excluded. For plan-phase that made the PRD express path
UNREACHABLE — a regression, since it was an unconditional read before.
For execute-phase this is PRE-EXISTING: #2932 shipped `flag:--wave` gating
that has never once been true, so `--wave` silently dropped its own
wave-filtering guidance. Fixed here under the no-defer rule.

Why every test missed it: they drive the init CLI directly with flags,
which works. Production goes through the workflow's bash line, which did
not pass them — the exact "assert against the shape production uses" trap
this branch's own test matrix warns about.

- parse and forward --prd/--ingest/--research-phase/--reviews/--chunked
  (plan-phase) and --wave (execute-phase), using the anchored regex idiom
  the neighbouring GRAN_PARAM line already uses
- add a regression guard DERIVED FROM THE MANIFEST: for every flag:--X
  section, the owning workflow's init line must forward --X. It fails
  against the pre-fix files and covers any future atom, rather than
  spot-checking today's six.

Verified through the workflow shape, not the CLI shape: `3 --prd spec.md`
now yields ["prd-express-gate"] (was []), `2 --wave 2` yields
["partial-wave"] (was []).

Refs #2993

* test(#2993): acknowledge the execute-phase ripple and regenerate install-tree fixtures

Remote matrix was red with 46 unique failures, identical on both lanes.
Both causes are mechanical consequences of changing shipped workflow
content, and neither is visible to any local gate.

- emitted-attribution: execute-phase.md grew 163 bytes from the WAVE_PARAM
  forwarding fix and was unacknowledged, while the ack fragment named
  plan-phase.md, which SHRANK and therefore needed no ack at all — a stale
  entry is itself a failure. The reason now names the real ripple.
  The entry had to merge into the existing 2930 fragment: the ack linter
  does unconditional cross-fragment duplicate-key detection with no
  spent/live exception, so a second fragment declaring execute-phase.md
  collides even when the first is already merged and inert. Resolved per
  the linter's own guidance and that file's precedent of appending
  successive ripple reasons to one entry.
- golden-install-tree: tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json are committed and
  deliberately excluded from the ADR-2719 attribution cutover, so they must
  be regenerated when shipped tree content changes. Regenerated after
  build:lib per the ordering landmine. 19 runtimes each gained exactly the
  six new plan-phase step files; zero paths removed, which is the absolute
  failure shape those fixtures exist to catch.

Refs #2993

* fix(#2993): restore the launcher preamble in an extracted step and follow moved content in its drift guards

Second red run: 26 unique failures, identical on both lanes, in two classes.

RUNTIME BUG (runtime-launcher-parity, 7 failures) — chunked-planning-mode.md
calls gsd_run but carried no canonical launcher preamble, which is what
DEFINES gsd_run(). On any non-Claude runtime that step would fail outright.
The preamble is now copied verbatim from the canonical source of truth,
gsd-core/workflows/_runtime-launcher.snippet.sh, and the fence dedented to
column 0 to match the prd-express-path.md sibling (a list-continuation
indent breaks the byte-equal preamble match). prd-express-path.md already
had a correct one. This is the same defect #2932 hit when it extracted
steps; the parity test caught a real bug, not a stale assertion.

DRIFT GUARDS (plan-phase-drift-guard, issue-2762-plan-reviews-chunked,
skill-frontmatter-contract) — these assert plan-phase.md contains content
this branch moved into step files. Retargeted at where the content now
lives, with the asserted property unchanged; the ALL-RUNTIMES label COUNT
test now reads host + every step file so the count is preserved across the
split rather than reduced. Each retargeted guard was verified to still fail
when its step file is stripped, so none was weakened into vacuity.

No emitted-drift ack was needed: currentSizes() enumerates
gsd-core/workflows/*.md non-recursively, so files under
plan-phase/steps/ are never in the size ratchet's scope.

Refs #2993

* chore(#2993): backfill changeset pr number to 3019

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-03 09:38:58 -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
f1af47766a chore(#1671): widen the when= grammar and key the section manifest per workflow — Phase 6.1 (#3013)
* chore(#2992): widen the when= grammar and key the section manifest per workflow

Epic #1671 Phase 6.1. Two blockers stopped the fragment model reaching any
file beyond execute-phase.md: the when= vocabulary was frozen at 4 atoms
(3 execute-phase-specific), and the section manifest was single-workflow by
construction with 'execute-phase' hardcoded into buildSectionManifestField.

- widen WHEN_VOCABULARY 4 -> 14 via a coordinated ADR-1671 amendment; the
  grammar stays CLOSED (one atom, no operators, negation or nesting) and
  WHEN_PREDICATES stays a hand-written literal map, never deriving a
  predicate from its atom string
- InvocationFacts gains flags: ReadonlySet<string> plus three computed state
  booleans; add the missing reverse vocabulary/predicate parity guard
- key the manifest artifact per workflow; a stale flat {sections:[...]}
  artifact now fails shape validation instead of being misattributed
- wire the field into six init entry points and parse the flags each needs

An atom ships only with both a real consuming section and a fact the init
seam actually computes. Six surveyed atoms are withheld because their
workflows have no dedicated init entry point; an atom without a computed
fact evaluates false forever and silently disables its own section.

Fixes a defect found while wiring: parseNamedArgs always materializes a
boolean flag key, so folding its false into the absent sentinel is required
or every flag reads as present and gating is silently always-on.

Also resolves ADR-1671:194 by measurement: --mvp stays unmarkable, because
its interleaved sites are always-run flag resolution and a ~340 byte block
that already delegates lazily.

Refs #2992

* fix(#2992): treat any falsy option value as an absent flag and reject unsafe manifest read paths

Findings from two orthogonal reviews (Claude /code-review + an isolated
adversarial pass); both independently reproduced the first one.

- MAJOR: the flags-builder treated only `undefined` as absent, but
  parseNamedArgs yields `null` for an absent value-flag and `false` for an
  absent boolean-flag, so `--granularity` read as present on every
  plan-phase invocation. Fixed at the root: a flag is present iff its
  option value is truthy. The six per-handler `|| undefined` folds are now
  redundant and removed, which also closes the duplicate-translation and
  missed-onboard-handler findings.
- MAJOR: state:needs-codebase-map had zero coverage. Added unit, property
  and real-CLI integration tests.
- MINOR: reject absolute, UNC/drive and `..`-traversing `read` paths in the
  manifest, degrading the whole load to null like every other shape
  violation. Verified: `/etc/passwd` previously reached section_manifest.read.
- MINOR: corrected a stale "4 to 20" doc comment; the vocabulary is 14.

Refs #2992

* test(#2992): update the generator suite for the per-workflow manifest shape

The remote matrix went red with 5 unique failures, identical on
linux-node22 and linux-node24, all in tests/gen-section-manifest.test.cjs.
Re-keying the artifact to {workflows:{...}} left this suite asserting the
old flat {sections:[...]} shape; nothing else in the tree still does.

- three tests read manifest.sections.length, now undefined; retargeted at
  workflows.<name> with their original intent preserved (a fenced or
  loop-host marker still asserts NO section is produced, not merely a
  changed count)
- the stale-manifest test wrote its fixture in the OLD shape, so it tripped
  shape validation and stopped exercising staleness at all. Its fixture is
  now valid-but-mismatched so FAIL_STALE is genuinely reached again.
- added the coverage that exposed: a pre-6.1 flat artifact must report
  FAIL_MANIFEST_MALFORMED_SHAPE. That is the real upgrade path for an
  installed tree and nothing covered it.

Refs #2992

* chore(#2992): backfill changeset pr number to 3013

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-02 22:36:45 -04:00
kyle-the-dev
ce38d44811 fix(#2777): remove stale codex local home metadata (#2831)
* fix(#2777): remove stale codex local home metadata

* chore(#2777): add changeset for codex local layout metadata

---------

Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-02 01:00:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
640eaee16e chore(#2930): fragmentize execute-phase.md and prove per-runtime composed emission (#2972)
* feat(#2930): fragmentize plan-phase.md workflow into per-runtime-composed sections

Adds src/workflow-fragments.cts (in-file <!-- gsd:section --> marker
parser/composer, ADR-1671 epic #1671 Phase 3), wires it into
bin/install.js's copyWithPathReplacement emission path, and pilots the
marker grammar on gsd-core/workflows/plan-phase.md.

Bookkeeping ripple for the new src/*.cts module: .gitignore,
eslint.config.mjs, docs/INVENTORY.md + docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json,
and a CONTEXT.md glossary entry. Amends ADR-1671 with open questions 1
and 2 resolutions and records the closed when= applicability grammar.
Adds docs/reference/workflow-fragments.md and an ARCHITECTURE.md
section documenting the marker authoring model.

* fix(#2930): put allow-test-rule issue ref on the same line as the marker

lint-allow-test-rule-refs.cjs requires the #NNN issue reference on the
same source line as `allow-test-rule:`; it was one line below and read
as an unreferenced novel exemption.

* docs(#2930): link the orphaned gate-predicates reference from the docs index

Found while adding the workflow-fragments reference doc: docs/reference/gate-predicates.md
shipped without an entry in docs/README.md, so it was unreachable from the docs index.
Fixed inline rather than deferred.

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

* fix(#2930): scope composition to workflows, add typed failure reasons

Review findings from two orthogonal passes:

- Scope composeWorkflow to gsd-core/workflows/ only. It previously ran on
  every .md the installer copied, so a future agent/command/reference doc
  documenting the marker syntax with an unfenced example would have been
  mis-parsed and silently stripped — a lossy drop the phase forbids.
- Add a frozen REASON enum; failures attach a typed .reason and tests assert
  on it instead of matching free-form message text (CONTRIBUTING.md:635-694).
- Derive the property generator's when= values from WHEN_VOCABULARY instead
  of duplicating them (DEFECT.GENERATIVE-FIX).
- Add adversarial parser fixtures: Unicode headings, NUL, U+FFFD, BOM,
  fence-within-fence, tilde and indented fences, lone-CR marker line.
- Document why --mvp is structurally unmarkable: its content is interleaved,
  not sectioned, so the whole-line grammar cannot reach it.

Also fixes two stale tests on this branch, each reproduced on the unmodified
tree before correction.

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

* fix(#2930): retarget the pilot from plan-phase to execute-phase

The full remote matrix went red on both Linux lanes. Root cause was ours:
tests/phase6-capstone-conformance.test.cjs holds a PRE_PHASE6 ceiling of
94519 bytes for plan-phase.md, asserting an ADR-857 Phase-6 completion
property. That is a third size gate beyond the tier caps and the
differential ratchet, and it left plan-phase.md just 36 bytes of headroom
rather than the 3821 computed from the XL cap. The 330 marker bytes
overran it by 294.

Raising the ceiling is not an option: it is a red line certifying another
ADR's completion. plan-phase.md is reverted to byte-identical origin/next
and the pilot moves to execute-phase.md, which has 728 bytes of headroom
under its own ceiling and lands at 93147 with 3 marker pairs.

The vocabulary narrows to the atoms actually used: always, flag:--wave,
state:gap-closure-phase, state:has-prior-phases.

Recorded in the ADR: every branch the epic names lives in plan-phase.md,
which cannot be fragmentized until caps move from source to emitted bytes.
That is direct evidence for the epic's premise and may reorder phases 3-4.

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

* chore(#2930): backfill changeset PR number (#2972)

* fix(#2930): make the emission install tests portable on Windows

The windows-latest lane went red on three tests in the new install suite;
Linux was green. Both causes were in the test harness, not the module.

Root normalization: the opencode converter always embeds the install root
forward-slashed, but the tests stripped it with the native-separator string
from mkdtemp. On Windows that never matched, so the root leaked through
unstripped — and because the real and stub install roots have different
prefix lengths, that length difference landed directly in the byte-delta
assertion (344 observed vs 275 expected). Normalize both text and root to
one separator form before stripping.

@-ref resolution: the helper stripped only the @~/ and @$HOME/ forms, so a
Windows absolute ref (@C:/Users/...) fell through and was joined onto the
root, producing ...\@C:\Users\... Strip the @ first, then detect
absoluteness from the token's own shape (POSIX, drive-letter, or UNC) with
no platform branching, so every OS takes the same path.

Neither assertion was weakened; the exact-equality byte check is the point
of the test and still holds.

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

* docs(#2930): document every REASON member and guard the doc/enum parity

Code review found the reference doc's 'Fails closed' list covering 10 of the
11 frozen REASON members — MALFORMED_ATTRIBUTES (parseAttrs rejects malformed
key="value" syntax) had no bullet, and it is distinct from
UNRECOGNIZED_ATTRIBUTE, which is valid syntax with an unknown key.

Two parallel surfaces sharing one constant with nothing asserting they agree is
the DEFECT.GENERATIVE-FIX class, so the same commit adds the parity assertion:
the test derives the enum side from the built module and the doc side by parsing
the reference page, keyed on the reason IDENTIFIER rather than prose so a
reworded bullet does not break it, and reports set differences in both
directions by name.

Proven non-vacuous: removing the MALFORMED_ATTRIBUTES bullet turns the suite
red naming that exact member; restoring it returns 44/44.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 12:12:20 -04:00