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Tom Boucher
c0b2a05d2f fix(#4594): one canonical dispatch-identity owner — the emitted format and the parser that reads it back (#4693)
* fix(#4594): give dispatch identity one owner for the emitted format and its parser

The isolation guards decided whether a run-scoped sentinel applied to a
dispatch by regex-scraping model-authored prose. The scrape returned values in
a different namespace from the ones the sentinel records, so the comparison
could never succeed:

  sentinel  { phase: "03", plan: "03-02-hardening" }   <- $PHASE_NUMBER / $plan_id
  prose     "Execute plan 02 of phase 03-auth."
  scraped   { phase: "03-auth.", plan: "02" }          <- greedy (\S+), both wrong

#4594 reports only the phase half. Measured against a real phase-plan-index
run, plans[].id is phase-prefixed, plan-numbered AND slugged, while the prose
carries a bare in-phase plan number — so the plan field mismatches too, and the
Claude path is dead rather than latent. A fresh sentinel was therefore
discarded on every executor dispatch and every legitimate ISOLATION=none
degrade was denied, leaving the work unrun.

hooks/lib/dispatch-identity.js is now the single owner of both halves. The two
prompt-body producers emit a canonical marker carrying the same shell values
the sentinel records, so producer and consumer agree by construction. The prose
frame stays as a fallback, bounded by the phase-token grammar ADR-2121 owns and
deliberately reporting no plan — an absent identifier means "cannot compare"
and is safe; a wrong one is a false mismatch and is not.

The prose sentence itself is byte-identical: the executor agent reads it too,
so the marker is purely additive (Hyrum's Law).

An inapplicable sentinel is now named in the guards' deny reason instead of
being dropped silently — the silence is why this survived three producers and
two consumers unnoticed. Interpolated values come from a sentinel file and from
prompt text, so both are length-bounded and stripped of control characters.

ADR-4630 locks the seam and maps the epic's three phases.

Refs #4630
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4594): resolve eight review findings across the dispatch-identity seam

Three orthogonal review engines ran on 43418af144 — the code-review skill's
Standards and Spec axes, and an isolated adversarial security pass — plus a
self-review of the committed diff. Every finding is fixed here; none deferred.

F1 (major, reproduced). A keyless or unknown-key-only marker — the literal
"[gsd:dispatch]" or "[gsd:dispatch run=..]" — matched the marker grammar and
returned source:'marker' with both fields null, suppressing the prose fallback
entirely. Any prompt text containing that literal silently disabled identity
narrowing, so a fresh sentinel applied to a dispatch it was never scoped to,
defeating #3045 SECURITY F2. Prompt text is attacker-influenceable. A marker
that yields neither recognized key is no longer a marker: the scan continues to
later markers, then later texts, then prose. Forward-compatible tolerance of
unknown keys is unchanged.

F2/F3 (major). The first cut duplicated sanitizeForReason,
describeSentinelDiscard and REASON_INTERPOLATION_MAX_LEN byte-for-byte across
both guards — the exact defect class this epic exists to delete, and with no
cold-load justification, since both hooks already require hooks/lib/. They now
live in hooks/lib/isolation-deny-reason.js, and buildSentinelDiscard lives in
isolation-sentinel.js beside the comparison it mirrors, returning the nested
{sentinel:{phase,plan}, dispatch:{phase,plan}} shape instead of a bespoke
four-field bag that renamed the pairs already flowing through the seam.

F4 (hard violation). The visibility test asserted on the deny reason's prose.
CONTRIBUTING.md prohibits raw text matching on hook output, which is why every
deny carries a stable reason_code. The discard is now a structured
sentinel_discarded field on each hook's stdout JSON, and the test asserts that;
the sentence stays for the operator but is no longer the contract.

F5 (hard violation). The 64-character truncation limit had no boundary
coverage. 63/64/65 are now exercised against the single consolidated helper.

F6 (minor). sanitizeForReason stripped C0/C1 controls but not U+2028/U+2029 or
the bidi overrides, so a crafted value could still reflow or reverse the
message. Both classes are stripped, with a test each.

F7 (major). The producer/template parity test was vacuous — it rendered a
marker and re-parsed its own output, and would have passed with both templates
deleted. It now reads the two workflow templates, extracts each marker line,
substitutes the measured values and asserts the owner's parser returns them.
Proven red by deleting one template's marker line before being proven green.

F8 (doc). ADR-4630 and the design notes claimed the marker is guaranteed on the
orchestrator-worktree path because that prompt is built in shell. It is not:
executor-isolation-dispatch.md:131 says plainly that those are template
placeholders, not shell variables, so {plan_id} is model-substituted there too.
A false guarantee in a design lock is worse than a stated limit. Both documents
now say the marker is model-substituted on both paths and that the prose
fallback is the real floor everywhere. The "3 workflow templates" count was
also wrong — 3 prose sites across 2 files, 2 of which carry the marker.

Refs #4630
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#4594): refresh the compact-content baseline and acknowledge execute-phase.md growth

Refs #4630.

The dispatch-identity marker and its substitution note grew
gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md by 525 bytes (91846 -> 92371), which drifts
two real-tree guards that lint:ci does not run:

- tests/benchmark-compact-content.test.cjs asserts the committed baseline is
  "up to date"; the split for execute-phase.md moved off 25827 -> 25952 and on
  23576 -> 23701, taking its compaction reduction 8.72% -> 8.67%. Baseline
  regenerated with scripts/benchmark-compact-content.cjs --write.
- tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs requires a growth acknowledgment trailer
  for any emitted file that grows, keyed on the bare filename. Added below.

The growth is two additions and no rewrites: the [gsd:dispatch ...] marker line
inside the Agent() prompt's <objective>, and the note telling the orchestrator
to substitute {plan_id} with the plan's id verbatim. Both are load-bearing --
the marker is what lets a guard hook match a dispatch to the sentinel the
per-plan gate wrote, and without the note the orchestrator has no instruction
telling it the value must not be paraphrased.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — adds the canonical [gsd:dispatch] identity marker and its {plan_id} substitution note, which the isolation guards compare verbatim against the run-scoped sentinel (#4594)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#4594): set changeset fragment pr to 4693

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>
2026-09-13 15:36:08 -04:00
Tom Boucher
db4d8a9bae fix(#4619): execute-phase computes decimal/N-segment phase numbers without breaking shell arithmetic (#4644)
* fix(#4619): execute-phase computes decimal/N-segment phase numbers without breaking shell arithmetic

$((10#${PHASE_NUMBER})) is a hard bash/zsh syntax error when PHASE_NUMBER is
decimal (01.1, from an inserted phase) or N-segment (23.1.2) — neither is
valid shell-arithmetic syntax at all, and the failed expansion aborts the
rest of the snippet in a non-interactive shell. safe_resume_gate runs
unconditionally before trusting STATE.md or dispatching any executor, so
execute-phase failed at its own gate before the first executor on any
decimal phase, regardless of workflow.tdd_mode. Regression from #4194.

Fixes all 4 sites: safe_resume_gate and the TDD gate in
workflows/execute-phase.md, the completion-signal spot-check fallback in
workflows/execute-phase/steps/completion-reconciliation.md, and the
executor gate validation example in references/tdd.md. Each now zero-strips
only the leading integer segment into a *_INT variable (via %%.* / #
parameter expansion — always valid shell syntax regardless of what follows)
and keeps the remainder as an escaped-dot string for the anchored commit-
scope regex, exactly as issue #4619 verified in both bash and zsh. A plain
integer phase (12, 01) computes byte-identically to before.

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

* test(#4619): pin the decimal/N-segment fix and characterize the pre-fix bug

Behavioral coverage via real bash execution: the old $((10#01.1)) form
throws (characterizes the bug, matching the issue's own reproduction); the
new form resolves 01.1 -> 1\.1 and 23.1.2 -> 23\.1\.2, unchanged for plain
integers (12 -> 12, 01 -> 1); the resulting anchored ERE matches
feat(01.1-03):/test(1.1-3): and correctly rejects feat(01-03):,
feat(01.2-03):, feat(011-03):, feat(12-03): for a decimal phase — mirroring
issue #4619's own verified table exactly. Updates
safe-resume-gate-anchoring.test.cjs's 4 existing source-text assertions
(one per site) to the new fixed text.

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

* chore(#4634): refine the shell-arith drift detector to distinguish safe from unsafe arithmetic

With #4619's fix in place, the guard's original "ban $((10#... outright,
match any occurrence" was too blunt: it flagged a comment merely mentioning
the pattern in prose, the now-safe $((10#$PHASE_INT)) arithmetic on an
already-%%.*-stripped integer, and the always-safe plan-id arithmetic
(plan ids are plain integers, never decimal). Refines the detector to skip
full-line comments and to only flag a captured variable/placeholder name
that contains "phase" and does NOT end in _INT/_int — the naming convention
the #4619 fix establishes at all four sites for "already reduced to a safe
integer." A plan-id variable was never phase-number arithmetic in the first
place and is excluded on the same basis.

This closes epic #4634's D6 ("lint-phase-id-drift... passes with no new
exemptions") and D7 ("a decimal and N-segment phase id survive an
end-to-end execute-phase selection without error") for real — the guard now
reports zero violations across all five .cts/.md rules.

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

* chore: regenerate conformance-tier manifests for the new test file

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

* test(#4619): cover the plain-padded-integer near-miss matrix too

Review found the anchored-ERE near-miss coverage only exercised the
decimal case (PHASE_NUMBER=01.1); issue #4619's own worked table also
verifies the plain padded-integer case (01 -> PHASE_N=1) against its own
near-miss set (matches 01-03, rejects 01.1-03/011-03/12-03). Adds the
missing assertion.

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

* docs(#4619): add Fixed changeset

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

* fix(#4619): correct JS backslash-escaping in safe-resume-gate anchoring test

The test's string-literal assertions for the PHASE_FRAC//./\\.} pattern wrote
only 2 backslash characters in JS source, which single-quoted-string parsing
collapses to 1 real backslash at runtime -- but the workflow/reference files
actually contain 2 raw backslash bytes at that position (needed so bash's
${var//pattern/replacement} produces the correct single-backslash output).
Write 4 backslash characters in the JS source at all 4 occurrences so the
runtime string matches the files' real bytes.

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

* chore(#4619): refresh the committed compact-content benchmark baseline

The new PHASE_INT/PHASE_FRAC arithmetic lines added to
gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md shifted its committed compaction-ratio
baseline. Regenerate via `node scripts/benchmark-compact-content.cjs --write`.

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

* docs(#4619): note the safe_resume_gate arithmetic growth in the test header

The emitted-attribution gate flags execute-phase.md growing 91253 -> 91846
bytes (593 bytes). The growth is the fix: the safe_resume_gate and TDD RED
block now derive PHASE_INT/PHASE_FRAC before computing PHASE_N, so a
decimal/N-segment phase number (e.g. 01.1, 2.3.1) zero-strips its leading
integer segment via base-10 arithmetic instead of forcing the whole value
through $((10#...)) and hitting a hard shell syntax error on the first dot.

A blank line previously separated the Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth trailer from
the Co-Authored-By trailer below it, which splits git's trailer-block
detection: only the last contiguous non-blank run of Key: Value lines at the
end of a commit message is recognized as trailers, so the growth ack was
silently read as ordinary body text and the differential-attribution gate
failed with the growth unacknowledged. Joining the two trailers into one
contiguous block fixes it.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — adds PHASE_INT/PHASE_FRAC derivation to the safe_resume_gate and TDD RED commit-scope grep so a decimal/N-segment phase number zero-strips its leading integer segment via base-10 arithmetic instead of failing on a non-numeric value (#4619)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#4208): replace chmod-based restore-failure injection with a root-proof git shim

`tests/commit-files-deletion.test.cjs`'s two restore-failure tests simulated
an unwritable index via a `post-index-change` hook running `chmod a-w` on
the git dir. That relies on the OS enforcing the *owner's own* permission
bits against itself, which uid 0 (a routine identity inside this repo's
Docker-based gsd-test benches) does not: every DAC check short-circuits true
for root, so the write the chmod meant to block silently succeeds, the
restore comes back clean, and the disclosure/rollback behavior under test
never actually gets exercised.

This is CLAUDE.md's own named anti-pattern for I/O-failure injection
("Cross-platform test IO-failure injection" — chmod tricks fail under root
Docker/CI). It is confirmed as the actual root cause here, not a production
defect: `src/commands.cts`'s `restoreRemovedEntries`/rollback-disclosure
logic (added by #4253, merged just before this run) was hand-traced and
manually reproduced end to end on an unprivileged workstation against a
freshly built `gsd-core/bin/lib/commands.cjs`, and it already produces
exactly the `staging_failed` + "could not be restored" / "could NOT be
restored during rollback" results both tests assert. The other
`post-index-change`-based tests in this file (a `sleep` to force a timeout;
a real `update-index` to flip a restored entry's mode) are unaffected
because neither depends on a permission check — consistent with only the
two chmod-based tests failing on the real remote run.

Replaces the chmod fixture with a fake `git` placed ahead of the real one on
PATH that fails only `update-index --add --cacheinfo` — the one call the
restore makes — unconditionally, regardless of privilege level. Every other
git invocation execs straight through to the real binary, so the rest of
each scenario (`rm --cached`, the restore's own `ls-files` verification,
etc.) is exercised exactly as before.

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

* chore(#4619): backfill changeset pr number to 4644

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

* fix(#4619): feed the bash fixture script via stdin, not argv, to fix Windows CI

Passing the script as a `-c "<script>"` argv element made it subject to
Windows' CreateProcess command-line argument encoding, which silently
dropped the escaped-dot backslashes before bash ever saw them (observed on
PR #4644's windows-latest CI shard: `1\.1` came back as `1.1`). Feeding the
same script via stdin instead removes argv entirely from the transport, so
there is nothing for Windows to re-encode. POSIX behavior is unchanged.

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>
2026-09-11 15:47:14 -04:00
Norman Yee
42c02a00c0 enhance(#3418): report real codebase drift instead of the whole repository (#4124)
* fix(#3418): write the codebase-drift baseline from code instead of agent prose

writeMappedCommit shipped correct and callerless, so no full map-codebase run ever wrote last_mapped_commit. The gate then read null and diffed HEAD against the empty tree, reporting every tracked file as newly added on every run.

Adds the stamp-codebase-map leaf verb and calls it from the map-codebase workflow and the execute-phase auto-remap path, replacing the prose instruction that asked the mapper agent to stamp its own output. An agent that concludes its work is already done skips a prose step silently, which is the failure the stamp exists to detect.

The gate now reports an absent or unresolvable baseline as skipped, with reason no-mapped-commit or unresolvable-mapped-commit, rather than as whole-repo drift. Files under .planning/ are excluded from the diff so the map's own commit does not read as seven new directories on the next run.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: map-codebase.md — adds the stamp_codebase_map step and its rationale, new workflow content this change requires

* test(#3418): cover the stamp writer and the absent-baseline gate

* docs(#3418): document how the drift baseline is written and skipped

* docs(#3418): note that a manual stamp reflows the map's whitespace

writeMappedCommit writes through platformWriteSync, which normalizes markdown whitespace on .md targets. Run in its workflow position the stamp lands on documents the mapper just wrote, so the normalization is folded into the same commit, but a hand-run stamp over an already-committed map reflows that map as a side effect. Reported on the issue thread.

* chore(#3418): add changeset fragment

Typed Changed to match the enhancement route the linked issue's label sets. The docs-required lint is satisfied by the ARCHITECTURE.md update already in this branch.

* fix(#3418): anchor the planning-artifact filter to the repo root

git diff --name-status prints repo-root-relative paths whatever the cwd, so computing the exclusion prefix against cwd yielded ".planning/" while git printed "sub/.planning/" and the filter silently matched nothing from a subdirectory.

* fix(#3418): derive the planning prefix from git, not from path arithmetic

Anchoring the exclusion prefix with path.relative() against `rev-parse --show-toplevel` broke on Windows, where os.tmpdir() hands back the 8.3 short form and git resolves the long one, so relative() produced a "../.." chain that matched nothing. `rev-parse --show-prefix` gives the cwd's root-relative prefix from the same producer as the diff paths, so the two sides cannot disagree.

* fix(#3418): take the planning lock around the codebase-map stamp

Stamping seven documents is seven frontmatter read-modify-writes, and two stampers can run at once: the full map-codebase run and the execute-phase auto-remap. Wrap the write loop in withPlanningLock, the same lock the other .planning/ writers take, so a concurrent pair cannot lose an update.

Also corrects the path-arithmetic comment, which read as if the Windows short-path hazard applied to the .planning half of the prefix. It applies to the rejected --show-toplevel alternative; both sides of the surviving relative() call are the same cwd string.

* fix(#3418): read HEAD and the map file list under the planning lock

The stamp resolved HEAD and listed the present codebase-map documents before it acquired the planning lock, so a stamper that then waited on the lock could write its now-stale sha over a newer one, or recreate a document deleted while it waited as a frontmatter-only stub. Both reads now happen inside the lock, matching the read-and-write-in-one-lock pattern config.cts and phase.cts already use. An empty --files value is refused as well instead of silently widening the stamp to all seven documents.

* fix(#3418): narrow the map stamp to the documents an update run refreshed

An "Update - only update specific documents" run reached the new stamp step with no --files narrowing, so the six documents the user did not select were stamped at HEAD and read as freshly mapped. The selection now threads through to --files, the same way the auto-remap path already does.

A bare --files (an unquoted empty shell variable drops the token) parsed to null, indistinguishable from an absent flag, so it skipped the empty-filter refusal and stamped all seven. Presence is now read off argv.

* fix(#3418): require the drift baseline to resolve to a commit, not any object

`git cat-file -t` exits 0 for a tree or blob sha and for a ref name, and `git diff <tree> HEAD` is valid, so an exit-code-only probe accepted a baseline that is not a commit and reported the resulting diff as real drift. Check the reported type instead of the exit code alone, which routes every non-commit stamp to the same `unresolvable-mapped-commit` skip.

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-09 05:08:20 +00:00
Tom Boucher
e03921c7d8 enhance(#4405): split the rest of the eager-window workflows worth splitting (#4536) 2026-09-08 00:17:22 -04:00
Tom Boucher
476394689a fix(#4254): pin sequential executor to the orchestrator's validated root (#4476)
* test(#4254): sequential executor root pin — failing-first regression + matrix

The new suite executes the shipped supplied-root-pin guard against real git
fixtures (drifted primary-checkout cwd halts before the write and the FATAL
names both roots; matching cwd permits it; unexpanded/empty pins halt;
normalization forms; submodule and sibling boundaries; metacharacter quoting;
drive-letter form gate) and locks the dispatch contract across execute-phase.md,
its sequential-root-pin step fragment, and worktree-path-safety.md. The #2772
per-plan serialization assertion retargets to the fragment that now carries
those rules (ADR-857 Phase 6 ceiling), plus the host-step wiring.

* fix(#4254): pin sequential executor to the orchestrator's validated root

Sequential-mode dispatch told the executor to self-derive PROJECT_ROOT from its
own cwd; every existing guard is worktree-mode-only or self-referential, so an
executor spawned with a drifted cwd committed onto the wrong checkout silently.

- worktree-path-safety.md step 0p: mode-agnostic supplied-root pin guard,
  composed by the orchestrator at build time with the literal $ORCHESTRATOR_WT
  (git-vs-git comparison on both sides — representation-safe on Windows, the
  #4296 lesson), fail-closed on empty/unexpanded pins, registered-submodule
  allowance, warn-and-proceed only when the dispatch carries no pin block.
- execute-phase.md sequential branch: build-time embed of the bound
  <project_root_pin> via the new execute-phase/steps/sequential-root-pin.md
  fragment (ADR-857 Phase 6 frozen ceiling — the host step cannot grow; the
  wave serialization rules move with the fragment, verbatim in substance) plus
  the per-write/commit pin instruction in <sequential_execution>. Worktree-mode
  dispatch untouched (its self-derived toplevel IS correct there).
- INVENTORY rows (5 locales) + INVENTORY-MANIFEST + install-tree goldens
  regenerated for the new fragment; changeset added.

* chore(#4254): backfill changeset PR number

* fix(#4254): accept backslash-separated Windows drive pins

CI on windows-latest showed every permit-path test failing with
"Actual root: <none>": pins composed from Node's path.join arrive in the
backslash drive form (C:\Users\RUNNER~1\...), which the guard's absolute-form
gate rejected before the cwd-side root was ever computed — a legitimate
matching pin could never pass. The gate now accepts either separator
([A-Za-z]:[\\/]); git -C resolves both forms (and 8.3 short names) to the
same canonical toplevel, so the git-vs-git comparison is unaffected. Form-gate
tests cover the emitted (C:/…) and produced (C:\…) spellings plus short names.

* fix(#4254): portable drive-form gate for MSYS bash

The bracket class [\\/] that accepted backslash drive pins parses
inconsistently on MSYS bash (the Windows CI leg still rejected C:\ pins —
every permit-path test red with "Actual root: <none>"). Replace it with
standard pattern escaping outside brackets: [A-Za-z]:/*|[A-Za-z]:\\* —
the escape form is version- and build-portable. Verified across all forms:
both drive spellings accepted; bare "C:", relative, empty, and unexpanded
rejected.

* fix(#4254): runtime-generated backslash comparator + self-describing FATAL

The Windows CI legs failed every #4254 permit-path row with
'Actual root: <none>' across two prior pattern spellings ([\\/] and \\*).
Stage misattribution: <none> appears whenever the FATAL fires BEFORE the
cwd-side capture assigns ACTUAL_ROOT — the absolute-form gate was what fired.

Mechanism: the test harness spawns bash -c <script> through the Windows
command-line boundary; that round-trip applies one extra shell-quoting pass
with double-quote semantics — a backslash written twice in the script text
arrives halved, while a lone backslash survives (the pin displays intact;
row 9's pure-bash gate independently showed the halved pattern rejecting
C:\ while C:/ still passed its surviving arm). On windows-latest every pin
carries backslashes (os.tmpdir() is the 8.3 short form C:\Users\RUNNER~1\...),
so the gate ate every pin before the actual root was ever computed.

Fix, robust by construction:
- the drive-form gate generates its backslash comparator at RUNTIME
  (BS=$(printf '\134'); match [A-Za-z]:"$BS"*) — the shipped guard now
  contains no doubled backslash anywhere, enforced by a regression
  assertion on the extracted guard text;
- the FATAL self-describes: Guard stage (pin-unbound / form-gate /
  actual-capture / pinned-capture / root-mismatch) plus a Diagnostic line
  carrying git's own stderr for capture failures and both compared values
  for mismatches — future platform failures name their stage in the log;
- row 9's hand-rolled duplicate case gate (transit-fragile copy, #4296
  Minor 1 duplication smell) is replaced by driving the SHIPPED guard and
  asserting the stage; rows 2/4 pin the new stage machinery.

Validated on darwin across drift/match/relative/unbound/empty/bare-drive/
forward-and-backslash drive forms, each also re-run under a simulated
Windows transit (every doubled backslash halved) with identical outcomes.

* fix(#4254): close the empty-comparator fail-open seam in the drive-form gate

Self-review of the runtime-generated backslash comparator: if printf's
octal escape ever returned empty, the drive arm [A-Za-z]:"$BS"* would
widen to drive-RELATIVE pins (C:foo) — the construction's one theoretical
fail-open path. Fail closed with a self-describing diagnostic instead of
trusting the shell's printf.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-07 10:54:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2cf119f57e fix(#4217): reconcile artifacts before classifying an abnormally-ended executor (#4442)
* fix(#4217): reconcile artifacts before classifying abnormal ends

* test(#4217): pin the completion-reconciliation contract

* chore(#4217): regen derived inventory and install-tree fixtures

* test(#4217): follow the #4003 anchoring pins into the reconciliation fragment

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — the runtime-neutral completion-reconciliation pointer, the two Codex wait-rule bindings, and the step-7 reconcile-first gate net +33 bytes over the extracted fallback block (#4217)

* chore(#4217): add changeset fragment

* chore(#4217): backfill PR number in changeset fragment

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 18:57:38 -04:00
Michel Moreira
19b66c3ec8 fix(#4218): stop the orchestrator steering an executor that is still working (#4391)
* fix(#4218): stop the orchestrator steering an executor that is still working

An executor with recent RED/GREEN/REFACTOR commits and passing verification had
not yet written its SUMMARY because it was finishing closeout. The parent saw no
local OS test/build process, inferred an "idle tail", and sent "Finalize
immediately" into a working child; in CLI runs the same inference interrupted an
executor before GREEN, leaving a RED commit and an uncommitted edit.

The stall block said only "if no completion signal, no SUMMARY.md, and no
expected-branch commits appear for N minutes" — it never said what to do when
commits DO exist and only the SUMMARY is outstanding, never defined the
threshold as a period without progress rather than a total runtime, and never
ruled out a process listing as an idleness signal. Four rules close that:

- the threshold measures a period WITHOUT MEANINGFUL PROGRESS, from the last
  sign of progress, not from dispatch — a long verification tail is not a stall;
- commits + missing SUMMARY + recent activity resolves to KEEP WAITING, with
  steering, interrupting and re-dispatching each named and forbidden;
- urgency/finalization messages ("Finalize immediately" and family) are
  forbidden outright — they arrive mid-verification and truncate a correct run.
  The existing user-facing pause is the only sanctioned stop, and `kill and
  retry` is a clean restart, not a nudge;
- the absence of a local OS test/build process is NOT idleness: a native
  subagent runs in the runtime's own session, and an executor between two tool
  calls shows no process at all. Progress is judged only by the signals this
  workflow names.

Five prose-contract assertions in tests/execute-phase-wave.test.cjs, all red on
next.

* fix(#4218): extract the progress policy to a step fragment

CI's #1168 gate caught it: execute-phase.md sits 77 bytes under a frozen 93600
ceiling and the four rules added ~2.3 KB. "Extract, not bump" is the repo's
stated remedy, and this workflow already carries policy detail that way.

execute-phase/steps/executor-progress-policy.md owns the policy. The
worktree-recovery arm moved with it — `kill and switch to inline execution`
qualifies the stop this policy governs, so it belongs beside the rule about when
stopping is sanctioned at all, not stranded in the host. The #3212 recovery
OPTIONS stay in the host, where tests/config.test.cjs pins them.

The host keeps what must be read before the orchestrator acts: the verdict, the
threshold definition, and a pointer that fires before any message is sent to the
child. execute-phase.md is now 93475 bytes — 48 SMALLER than next.

* chore: add changeset for #4218

* chore(#4218): regenerate the inventory manifest for the new step fragment

docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json is the authoritative per-file list behind
INVENTORY.md's `<workflow>/steps/*.md` row, so a new fragment has to appear
there or gen-inventory-manifest --check reds the lint-tests lane.

* chore(#4218): restore the issue ref on the allow-test-rule marker

ADR-456 requires a #NNN on a new exemption; the block rewrite that moved the
policy into the fragment dropped it.

* chore(#4218): regenerate the install-tree fixtures for the new step fragment

The fragment ships with the workflow, so every runtime's golden install tree
gains one path — gen:install-tree is the generator that owns those fixtures.

---------

Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-06 17:51:34 -04:00
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0fca71eaae enhance(#2529): cover every workflow with response-language directives + CI lint (#2558)
* enhance(#2529): cover every workflow with response-language directives + CI lint

Every workflow now carries response-language coverage in one of three forms,
and a CI lint keeps it that way.

- 43 workflows load the new shared reference,
  `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, by eager `@`-import.
- Lazy-loaded modes/steps/templates, which cannot rely on an eager import,
  carry an exact inline directive; 35 such paths are pinned by exact path.
- Fragments dispatched by a covered parent inherit coverage, proven per file
  rather than granted per directory.

The 45 workflows whose directive covered only "questions, prompts, and
explanations" now name inter-tool narration, which is the defect #2529
reports: the running commentary between tool calls stayed English while the
answers around it were translated.

`scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` enforces it and fails closed on
three independent discovery failures (unreadable catalog, empty catalog,
unfollowed symlink). It resolves which reference a workflow imports and applies
the same four-predicate test to that file, so a weakened shared reference
uncovers its importers instead of passing silently, reported once as a systemic
failure rather than 43 times. The walk follows symlinked subtrees with a
realpath cycle bound. `lint:ci` invokes it by name.

REQ-LANG-03 and REQ-LANG-04 state the contract in docs/FEATURES.md;
REQ-LANG-04 names the two forms that satisfy it ("narration", "between tool
calls") rather than enumerating class members an author cannot use verbatim,
and a test pins that text to what the matcher accepts.

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

* chore(#2529): register the coverage test in the docs-guard lane

`107eb8c1` (#3787) landed the docs-guard lane on `next` while this PR was
open: a test that reads a `docs/` path must be named in
`scripts/docs-guard-registry.cjs` or carry a `docs-guard-exempt` marker,
so the guards that read a doc run on the PR that changes it.

`tests/response-language-coverage.test.cjs` reads `docs/FEATURES.md` -- it
extracts every form REQ-LANG-04 offers an author and runs each through the
matcher that enforces it. Registration, not exemption, is the correct side
of that gate: a reword of the requirement with no code change is precisely
the diff this test exists to catch, and it is the diff the lane would
otherwise skip.

Registered narrowly (`['docs/FEATURES.md']`) rather than with the `'*'`
sentinel, so an unrelated docs change does not pull this test into the lane.

Verified: lint-docs-guard-registration 0 violations, tests/ci-docs-guard-registry.test.cjs
51/51, lint:ci exit 0.

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

* chore(#2529): consolidate this PR's emitted-growth acks into its own fragment

This PR ripples emitted bytes across 85 workflow paths. Until now each ripple
was acknowledged by appending to whichever live fragment owned that path,
because two ack sources may never name the same path.

`a84f7563` (#3078) swept all 45 fully-spent fragments off `next`. Forty-two of
the paths this PR grows were owned by swept fragments, so those keys are now
unowned and this PR's own fragment declares them directly -- one path, one
source, and no dependence on a fragment that no longer exists. Each adopted
entry keeps its measurement and records where it came from.

Two paths are handled differently, because the sweep did not free them:

- `review.md` is now owned by `3034-parallel-reviewer-lanes.json`, which
  landed on `next` after the sweep. Its entry is live, so the old route still
  applies: this PR's note is appended to that entry rather than declared a
  second time.
- `plan-review-convergence.md` keeps the arrangement made in round 24.

Result: 3 fragments in the directory, 85 keys in this PR's own,
0 cross-source duplicates. `lint-emitted-drift-ack` exit 0,
`tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs` green.

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

* fix(#2529): move REQ-LANG-03/04 into the feature fragment that now generates them

`36375513` (#3845) made docs/FEATURES.md a generated projection of
docs/features/*.md, marked "do not edit by hand". This PR wrote REQ-LANG-03
and REQ-LANG-04 straight into the generated file, so the rebase left the
requirement present in the projection and absent from its source -- the next
regeneration would have deleted both, and `tests/features-index-gate.test.cjs`
was already red on the mismatch.

Both requirements now live in docs/features/response-language-config.md
alongside REQ-LANG-01 and -02. Regenerating produces a docs/FEATURES.md that is
byte-identical to the committed one, so the text this PR shipped is unchanged --
only its source of truth moved to where #3840 put it.

The docs-guard registration is widened to name the fragment as well as the
projection. The requirement's source is the fragment now, and an edit there
that skips regeneration would otherwise reach this guard through neither path.

Verified: features-index-gate 68/68, lint-docs-guard-registration 0 violations,
ci-docs-guard-registry + response-language-coverage 142/142.

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

* chore(#2529): hand the plan-phase ack back to its new live owner

`c933184b` (#3825) landed `3172-stated-failing-direction.json` on `next` after
fragment had adopted that path when the sweep left it unowned, so the merged
tree named it from two sources -- a hard failure in
`scripts/lint-emitted-drift-ack.cjs`.

The path has a live owner again, so the append route applies: this PR's note
joins that entry, carrying its own measurement, and the key is dropped from
this PR's fragment (84 keys left, the others untouched). The provenance
sentence written for the swept-fragment case is removed rather than reused --
this path was never orphaned, so that account of it would be false.

Same shape as `review.md` and `plan-review-convergence.md`: ownership is a
property of the merged tree, and a fragment landing upstream after a push can
reclaim a key no local check would have flagged.

Verified: lint-emitted-drift-ack exit 0, lint:ci exit 0.

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

* fix(#2529): state byte figures that are true against the tree

The reference claimed `execute-phase.md` has "2 bytes of headroom under the
ceiling named below". That was true when the sentence was written -- the file
sat at 93398 against the 93400 comfort assert -- and upstream has since shrunk
it to 91493 against a 93600 hard ceiling, so the figure now understates the
headroom by three orders of magnitude. The rationale the sentence supports does
not depend on the number, so the number is gone rather than refreshed: a
restated figure would go stale again on the next upstream edit, and nothing
parses it.

Audited every other numeric claim this PR ships the same way, mechanically
against the merge base: all 82 FILE-delta claims in the ack fragment match the
real per-file delta exactly, and the 1,629-byte reference and 63-byte import
line check out. One class was imprecise: the 41 notes for workflows whose
inline directive was rewritten in place quoted the conversion counterfactual as
"+1,692 bytes more loaded context", which is the reference form's whole weight,
not the increase over the inline directive those files already carry. Each now
names both quantities and the net (+1,605 / +1,609 / +1,584).

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

* fix(#2529): one rule for pinned vs inherited coverage, and the docs to pick it

Review measured that 14 of the 35 pinned fragments would pass by inheritance
anyway, and that the PR asserted both readings at once: inheritance is real
coverage (so those 14 pins are noise) or it is not (so 30 inheriting fragments
are green-but-uncovered). Only one can be true.

Inheritance is real: the predicate proves it per file -- the parent must
dispatch this exact path from a read/execute context AND be covered itself --
so the parent's directive is in the loaded context by the time the fragment is
read. The 14 pins are therefore removed along with the directive lines they
pinned, and those files inherit like the 30 structurally identical ones. The
rule is now stated where the set is declared, and enforced from the other side
by a test: no member of the pinned set may be one that would have inherited.
That is what decides the form for the next fragment.

- pinned set 35 -> 21; 14 workflow files revert to their base content
- `findViolations` no longer returns early on a pinned path: a file that becomes
  eagerly loaded and takes the shared reference is strictly better off, and the
  gate must not red that. The reference form is admitted because its own wording
  is validated in turn; an arbitrary reworded inline line still fails.
- the reference-directive cache is keyed by size and mtime, not by path alone,
  so a rewritten reference re-asked in one process no longer returns the stale
  verdict
- `carriesInlineDirective` names its negation blindness: four independent hits
  read vocabulary, not polarity
- the real-tree scan asserts each source produced files instead of `> 152`, a
  constant that read as the workflow count and would have passed a scan that
  lost one of its two directories
- the pinned-set size assertion goes the same way: the size follows from the
  rule, so the rule is what the suite asserts

Docs, for the gate that now governs every future workflow:
- `docs/contributing/response-language-coverage.md` -- why the narration class
  is the discriminator, the four coverage forms, the decision order that picks
  one, the pinned line, and what each failure message means
- a row in CONTRIBUTING.md's CI checks table, matching the docs-guard row
- `docs/CONFIGURATION.md` points at it from the `response_language` entry

Also: the changeset said 45 reworded workflows; it is 44 (42 @-reference + 21
pinned + 44 rewritten = 107 touched). That text ships to CHANGELOG.md.

`3707-parse-gap-reporting.json` landed on `next` reclaiming `audit-uat.md` and
`progress.md`; both handed back by the append route, leaving 82 keys here.

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

* fix(#2529): correct the reference-taker count, 43 -> 42

The ack notes said the import line is byte-identical "in each of the 43
workflows that take the reference" and that the alternative would be "43 inline
copies". The shared reference has 42 importers; the 43rd file in review's table
is `execute-phase.md`, which imports the OTHER reference. Corrected in all 41
notes that carry the sentence, across this PR's fragment and the two it appends
to.

Found by re-running the numeric audit from the previous round after the rebase,
which also re-verified all 84 FILE-delta claims against the new base -- all
exact.

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

* chore(#2529): migrate the emitted-drift ack from a fragment to commit trailers

ADR-3942 (#3954) landed while this PR was open: the acknowledgment is now a commit
trailer and tests/emitted-drift-acks/ no longer exists. The fragment is deleted and
each key it declared becomes one trailer, reasons unchanged.

The four keys this PR had handed to 3034-*, 3172-* and 3707-* under the one-source
rule come home here. That rule was the whole reason for the hand-backs, and the
trailer model has no shared namespace to collide in -- five of this PR's rounds were
spent on exactly those collisions.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: add-backlog.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: add-phase.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: add-tests.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: add-todo.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ai-integration-phase.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 16: the fragment that carried this sentence (`3423-required-reading.json`) was retired on `next` by ddf85287 (fix(#3357), #3513), and no fragment on `next` declares this path now. The ack therefore returns to this PR's own fragment, which is the only live source for it — the change to the path is this PR's.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: analyze-dependencies.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: audit-fix.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 19: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: audit-milestone.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed from `2962-zsh-nomatch-for-glob-portability.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: audit-uat.md — A live/archived split was added and then reverted on this branch (see `$comment`): the split's extra rule in `initialize`, the narrowed Unparsed-table filter, and the separate 'Unparsed UAT Files in Archived Milestones' informational section are all removed, so the file settles at origin/next 5582 -> 7124 bytes (+1542, final). #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: autonomous.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 16: `3210-autonomous-precondition-gate.json` landed on `next` in 8fc88f66 (fix(#3210), #3528) and declares this path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves this PR's fragment. Re-homed from `3210-autonomous-precondition-gate.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: check-todos.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: cleanup.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 18: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `2142-quick-task-archival.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `2142-quick-task-archival.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review-fix.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 13: `3190-code-review-fix-auto-rewrite-review.json` landed on `next` in 1d5d7795 (fix(#3190), #3434) and declares this path too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves this PR's fragment. Re-homed from `3190-code-review-fix-auto-rewrite-review.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 19: the fragment that carried this sentence (`3503-diff-base-scope-anchor.json`) was retired on `next` by 2fca0e17 (enhance(#2554), #3695), and `2554-code-review-depth-overrides.json` declares this path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner. Re-homed from `2554-code-review-depth-overrides.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: complete-milestone.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 15: the fragment carrying it (`3458-audit-open-acknowledge-wiring.json`) was retired on `next` and the path is declared by `3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json` today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner. Re-homed from `3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: debug.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 14: the fragment that carried this sentence (`3149-init-debug-entry-point.json`) was retired on `next` by 26f8015c (fix(#3448), #3476), and `3448-debug-autoresume-next-action.json` declares the path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner rather than being dropped or re-armed under a retired number. Re-homed from `3448-debug-autoresume-next-action.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: diagnose-issues.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: an inline copy in every workflow would be that many places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 19: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: discuss-phase.md — #2529 round 36: this workflow's inline directive was rewritten in round 10 to name inter-tool narration, but in the compressed form, and that rewrite came to −1 byte against `next` — so it declared no growth and this key was absent from this PR's ack set until now. Round 36 replaces the compressed clause with the same enumeration the other rewordings carry — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings, questions, prompts, and explanations — because `discuss-phase.md` started from the identical upstream sentence as `verify-work.md` and `new-milestone.md` and those two took the full list, so the shorthand was an inconsistency rather than a decision. +87 bytes against `next`, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. The directive stays INLINE rather than becoming an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have cost 1,692 bytes of loaded context against the 87 this sentence costs. `commands/gsd/discuss-phase.md` dispatches this workflow lazily (`Read and execute ...`) rather than `@`-importing it, so the 87 bytes land in the installed file and are read once the workflow is dispatched, not on every command invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: discuss-phase-assumptions.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 15: `3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json` landed on `next` in #3558 and declares this path too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves this PR's fragment. Re-homed from `3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: discuss-phase-power.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: do.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: docs-update.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +83 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +83 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 83 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,609. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,609 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 19: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3602-workflow-subagent-model-resolution.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: edit-phase.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 13: `3262-editphase-milestone-scope-guard.json` landed on `next` in fd4715f8 (fix(#3262), #3446) and declares this path too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves this PR's fragment. Re-homed from `3262-editphase-milestone-scope-guard.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: eval-review.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 16: the fragment that carried this sentence (`3423-required-reading.json`) was retired on `next` by ddf85287 (fix(#3357), #3513), and no fragment on `next` declares this path now. The ack therefore returns to this PR's own fragment, which is the only live source for it — the change to the path is this PR's.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-plan.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 14: the fragment that carried this sentence (`2652-quick-diagnose-dispatch-isolation.json`) was retired on `next` by 362d0434 (fix(#3370), #3478), and `3370-execute-phase-gate-conflation.json` declares the path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner rather than being dropped or re-armed under a retired number. Re-homed from `3370-execute-phase-gate-conflation.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: explore.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed from `2229-explore-claim-disposition.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: extract-learnings.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: fast.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Re-homed in round 18: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3585-planning-commit-guard.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3585-planning-commit-guard.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: forensics.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: graduation.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: health.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 13: the fragment that carried this sentence (`2573-state-head-freshness.json`) was retired on `next` by 7ddcc198 (fix(#3309)), and `3309-health-docs-generated.json` declares the path today. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence follows the path to its live owner rather than being dropped or re-armed under a retired number. Re-homed from `3309-health-docs-generated.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: help.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: import.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed in round 18: this PR declared the path in its own fragment, and `3576-references-canonical-cites.json` landed on `next` declaring it too. One path takes exactly one ack source, so the sentence moves here and the key leaves ours. Re-homed from `3576-references-canonical-cites.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: inbox.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ingest-docs.md — #2529 MAJOR 1 (round 10): the workflow's pre-existing inline response-language directive is rewritten IN PLACE so the sentence names inter-tool NARRATION explicitly — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings — instead of only "questions, prompts, and explanations". That older wording is the defect #2529 reports (it leaves the running commentary between tool calls in English while the answers around it are translated), and `scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` had been certifying it as coverage, so the gate legitimised the bug. +87 bytes, prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. FILE delta and LOADED-CONTEXT delta are both +87 here, and that identity is the point — the directive was deliberately NOT converted to an `@`-reference, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"), so the conversion would have bought a smaller measured file at a cost of 1,692 bytes of loaded context per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629-byte reference — against the 87 bytes this inline directive costs, a net +1,605. Stated plainly because the gates cannot state it: the repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so an `@`-reference conversion would have READ as a smaller change to every gate in the repo while costing 1,605 bytes more loaded context per invocation. Re-homed from `2658-trae-instruction-file-path.json` in round 26: `a84f7563` (#3078) swept that fragment as all-spent, so this path is unowned and this PR's own fragment declares it directly.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: insert-phase.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: list-phase-assumptions.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: list-seeds.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. The eager import is accepted on its merits, not hidden: 42 inline copies would be 43 places for the wording to drift, and the reference is the one place it is maintained. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: list-workspaces.md — #2529 — RESTATED in round 10, superseding this PR's earlier "+63 bytes, prose only" wording, which reported a file delta as if it were the whole cost. The workflow gains the shared response-language directive as a single `@`-reference line. FILE delta: +63 bytes, byte-identical in each of the 42 workflows that take the reference. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,692 bytes per workflow — the 63-byte import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates — the tier hard caps in `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` and this size ratchet — measure the FILE, not the transitive inline, so they see 63 of those 1,692 …

* fix(#2529): read the catalog-relative dispatch spelling, and the plural of "output"

Two false positives in the coverage lint, both surfaced by this round's work
rather than by a red gate finding them for us.

#3552 landed `execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md` on next while this PR was
open, dispatched from execute-phase.md's `"none"` arm with the path written
RELATIVE to the catalog. `namesFragmentAsEntryPoint` only ever looked for the
`gsd-core/workflows/`-rooted spelling, so it read a live dispatch as no dispatch
and the new fragment as uncovered. It now accepts both spellings and matches the
relative one on a path boundary, so `vendor/<path>` cannot vouch for `<path>`.

Recognizing that spelling makes one pin redundant: execute-phase.md dispatches
executor-isolation-dispatch.md the same way, so the fragment inherits and its
own copy of the sentence comes back out. That is the rule round 29 encoded,
enforced by the test that measures it rather than by hand.

`output` was the one term in USER_OUTPUT_RE without an `s?`, so "translate all
outputs, including narration between tool calls" read as uncovered. The new
property tests caught it on their first run.

Those properties pin the rule the hand-written cases are instances of: four
signals on ONE line accept, dropping any one rejects, spreading them across
lines rejects. The vocabulary is written out in the test rather than read back
from the script's regexes, per CONTRIBUTING.md "Fixture provenance (#2371)" -- a
generator seeded from the matcher can only re-derive what the matcher already
believes, and that independence is what caught the plural. Both new properties
are mutation-verified: dropping the narration predicate reds the necessity
property, and collapsing the document to a single line reds the cross-line one.

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

* enhance(#2529): spell the narration enumeration out in the last two shorthand directives

discuss-phase.md and plan-phase.md were the only two of this PR's 44
rewordings that abbreviated the inserted clause to "narration between tool
calls included" instead of naming the output classes the way the rest of them
do. Both forms satisfy the lint's four predicates, so nothing was broken --
but the point of #2529 is that an author reading one workflow should not have
to infer what the neighbouring one means by "included".

Both abbreviations were size decisions rather than wording ones, and both
reasons have since expired because next shrank the files. discuss-phase.md
sat 25 bytes under the 32,000-byte #717 dispatcher budget and now has 1,825;
plan-phase.md sat 87 bytes under the 94,519-byte ADR-857 capstone ratchet
against a +108 clause and now has 3,180. Neither budget is raised here and no
unrelated prose is trimmed; workflow-size-budget and
phase6-capstone-conformance both pass.

discuss-phase.md started from the identical upstream sentence as verify-work.md
and new-milestone.md ("All user-facing questions, prompts, and explanations in
this workflow"), and those two received the full enumeration; it now matches
them exactly. plan-phase.md keeps its own scope word ("orchestrator output") and
its subagent pass-through instruction, both upstream's, and only trades the
shorthand for the enumeration.

The shorthand now appears nowhere in the catalog. The two remaining variants
(plan-review-convergence.md, spec-phase.md) keep upstream's own verb and scope
and end on "report prose", which is what those workflows actually emit --
rewriting those would change a directive's strength, not its wording.

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

* fix(#2529): match the workflow extension case-insensitively in coverage discovery

`findMarkdownFilesRecursive` filtered on `entry.name.endsWith('.md')`, so
`SETTINGS.MD` — the same file to Windows and macOS, a different one to Linux —
was skipped on the only platform whose verdict gates the merge. The direction of
that failure is the problem: a workflow the walk declines to see is a workflow
this lint certifies by omission, which is the same vacuous pass `main()` already
refuses when discovery returns nothing at all.

The filter is now an allowlist keyed on the lowercased `path.extname`.
`.mdx` stays out on purpose: admitting an extension states what a workflow IS,
and that claim has a second half — `inheritsParentCoverage` resolves a
fragment's parent as `<workflow>.md`. An `.mdx` entry belongs here next to the
parent resolution it would have to move with, not ahead of it.

Two tests: an uppercase-extension file is discovered AND lands as a violation
rather than an exemption, and every admitted extension is spelled so the
lowercasing match can reach it (an uppercase or dotless entry would be dead
configuration that reads like coverage).

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

* enhance(#2529): cover the quick-batch workflow that #3676 landed uncovered

`next` gained `quick-batch.md` and nine step fragments in 2f64e6230 (#3676,
PR #4212) with no response-language directive, so the merge result reds this
PR's own lint with 10 violations. The lint is doing exactly what it exists to
do; the coverage is what has to move.

`quick-batch.md` takes the shared @-reference on line 1, the same as the other
42 top-level workflows, and eight of the nine fragments then inherit through
its `read and execute` stubs. The ninth does not:
`quick-batch/steps/plan-checker-loop.md` is dispatched by a SIBLING fragment
(`planner-wave.md:134`) and named in the parent only inside a parenthetical
with no dispatch verb, which is the shape round 29's rule already covers for
`execute-phase/steps/regression-gate-run.md` and
`plan-phase/steps/prd-express-path.md`. It carries the pinned inline directive
and joins `EXACT_INLINE_DIRECTIVE_WORKFLOWS`; the comment above that set now
names four such fragments instead of three. Coverage: 163 workflows.

`FULL_BUDGET` in tests/skill-frontmatter-contract.test.cjs moves 844 -> 846.
The same commit grew `help/modes/full.md` from 834 to 844 lines, landing it
exactly on the ceiling with zero slack, and the two lines this PR adds there
are its pinned directive and the blank separating it. That is a coverage
contract every workflow carries, not the content creep the budget guards.
The #597 ratchet rule holds: actualMax 846, slack 0, well inside LARGE_GRACE.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick-batch.md — #2529: the workflow arrived on `next` in 2f64e6230 (#3676, PR #4212) with no response-language directive, so this PR's lint reds on the merge result; covering it is the PR's whole contract, not an optional extra. It gains the shared directive as a single eager `@`-reference line, the identical form the other 42 top-level workflows take. FILE delta: +62 bytes, as the gate measures it. LOADED-CONTEXT delta: +1,691 bytes — the import line plus the 1,629 bytes of `gsd-core/references/response-language-directive.md`, because an `@`-import in this repo is EAGER (ADR-1610 Decision point 4; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: moving prose into a file that is still eagerly `@`-imported "shrinks the measured file without shrinking loaded context"). The repo's size gates read the FILE and not the transitive inline, so they see 62 of those 1,691 bytes; the remaining 1,629 are declared here because no gate reads them. Prose only: no step, gate, tool invocation, or subagent dispatch shape changed. Nine `quick-batch/steps/*` fragments are covered without a byte of their own — eight inherit through the parent's dispatch stubs, and the ninth takes the pinned inline sentence, which the emitted surface does not measure.

* fix(#2529): scope row 48 by what a diff says, not by which paths it names

`tests/gsd-quick-batch-quick-regression.test.cjs` treats any branch touching a
`quick-batch` path as #3676 phase work, then forbids it from editing ordinary
`quick.md`. This PR covers EVERY workflow with the shared response-language
directive — quick-batch.md and its fragments included — so the scope check
turned true, and the row read this PR's one-line directive on `quick.md` as a
phase violation.

That is the false positive the row's own #3730 note already scoped away from,
arriving by the other door: not an unrelated branch that misses the surface,
but a catalog-wide sweep that touches all of it. A path now counts as phase
work only when its diff says something other than the coverage contract, and
the two accepted directive forms are read from
`scripts/lint-response-language-coverage.cjs` rather than restated, so a
reworded contract cannot leave the carve-out matching prose the lint no longer
recognizes. A file the branch ADDED still counts — every line is new, which is
what a real #3676-phase branch looks like.

The invariant is unweakened in the direction that matters: a phase branch that
edits `commands/gsd/quick.md`, `gsd-core/workflows/quick.md` or anything under
`quick/steps/` for any reason other than the directive still fails the row.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-04 21:12:12 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2f4f7538e9 fix(#4264): wire both TDD dispatch backends to phase.tdd-applicable (#4284) 2026-09-04 16:08:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
97ce61dee2 fix(#3990): state the RED/GREEN/REFACTOR cycle once, embed tdd.md conditionally (#4228)
* test(#3990): the RED/GREEN/REFACTOR cycle is stated once, embedded conditionally

* fix(#3990): state the cycle once — pointers in consumers, conditional tdd.md embeds

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — #3990 conditions the tdd.md embed on the dispatch being TDD

* chore(#3990): changeset for the single-statement TDD cycle

* chore(#3990): backfill changeset pr number

* fix(#4228): linear cycle check — the lazy-span regex pinned a Windows core for the whole job cap

* test(#3990): allowlist pin tracks the rebased line

* fix(tests): npm-integrity gate names an empty audit output explicitly — empty stdout crashed the parse as a bare SyntaxError

* fix: name an empty npm-audit stdout explicitly — it crashed the parse as a bare SyntaxError

Observed on CI (several branches, all lanes): spawnSync npm ETIMEDOUT with
empty stdout; the empty string survived the recovery path and surfaced as
'SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input', hiding the captured error. The
recovery path now requires non-empty stdout, and an empty result throws with
the captured stdout/stderr/message so the actual error is on the record.
Root cause of the ETIMEDOUT itself is NOT diagnosed here — this change only
stops masking it.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-03 21:41:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
e242d85c92 fix(#4109): rewrap unquoted DISPATCH_SLUGS-shaped consumption to survive zsh (#4116)
* test(#4109): add zsh regression coverage for gate-check and invoke_reviewers dispatch

Extends tests/review-plan-coverage-manifest.test.cjs to cover the two
DISPATCH_SLUGS consumption sites the existing #3301 coverage-check tests
don't reach: the write_reviews gate-check block (ALL_LANES_SKIPPED /
TOTAL_LANE_FAILURE counting) and invoke_reviewers' dispatch + join loops.
Both extract the real shipped bash from review.md and run it under bash and
zsh, same convention as the existing coverage-check rows. Expected RED under
zsh pre-fix, GREEN post-fix.

* fix(#4109): rewrap unquoted DISPATCH_SLUGS-shaped consumption to survive zsh

Bash word-splits an unquoted scalar on IFS by default; zsh does not (no
setopt SH_WORD_SPLIT anywhere in these files), so a scalar accumulated from
multiple space-separated tokens and then consumed via bare `for x in $VAR`
collapses onto one bogus iteration under zsh whenever it holds 2+ tokens.

Fixes all four review.md sites reported by #4108/#4109 (invoke_reviewers
dispatch + join loops, the gate-check block, and the #3301 coverage-check
block), plus the identical pattern found by a repo-wide sweep in
complete-milestone.md, code-review.md, pr-branch.md, sync-skills.md, and
execute-phase/steps/per-plan-worktree-gate.md. Each site is rewrapped in
unquoted command substitution (`$(printf '%s' "$VAR")`), which re-splits
identically under both shells regardless of SH_WORD_SPLIT — the same
mechanism that already made the accumulator-building loops in these files
shell-safe.

* test(#4109): warn loudly when the zsh probe fails instead of skipping silently

detectShells() drops the zsh test lane whenever a live zsh probe fails (e.g.
on a CI runner without zsh installed), and a dropped lane reads identically
to a passing one in the suite's own output — exactly the blind spot that let
#4109's bug class ship undetected. Both copies of this helper (this file and
its byte-identical duplicate in review-build-prompt-optional-sections.test.cjs)
now emit a greppable console.warn when the probe fails, so a run without zsh
reads as "zsh coverage unknown" rather than "all lanes green".

* ci(#4109): gate workflows/*.md's embedded bash blocks in lint:ci

Adds scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck.cjs, wired into npm run lint:ci, so
this bug class can't land undetected a third time. Two independent checks
run over every ```bash block in gsd-core/workflows/**/*.md:

- ShellCheck (new `shellcheck` devDependency, downloads and caches the real
  koalaman/shellcheck binary) catches the general unquoted-expansion/
  word-splitting family in argument position. 212 pre-existing findings
  across the tree are absorbed into scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck-baseline.json
  (matched on {file, code, message}, not line number, so unrelated edits
  elsewhere in a file can't spuriously un-baseline anything) — fixing all of
  them is out of scope for this issue; only NEW findings fail the build.
- A custom structural check specifically for #4109's own shape: ShellCheck
  does not flag a bare `for x in $VAR` word-list — it treats that as an
  intentional idiom under any ruleset (confirmed empirically). This check
  does, and gates the build on any occurrence, with zero tolerance (no
  baseline) since every known site was already swept and fixed on this
  branch.

* test(#4109): update pr-branch cherry-pick loop test anchor for the zsh fix

extractPickLoop()'s PICK_LOOP_MARKER located the create_pr_branch cherry-pick
loop by the literal substring "for HASH in $INCLUDED_COMMITS", which no
longer appears verbatim after this issue's fix rewrapped that loop in
unquoted command substitution. Updates the anchor (and its error message,
now derived from the same constant instead of duplicating stale text) to the
new literal form. No behavior change to the extraction logic itself.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: review.md — #4109's fix adds explanatory comments at 4 sites; net code is functionally equivalent, comment expansion grows the file
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: complete-milestone.md — #4109's fix adds explanatory comments at 3 sites documenting the zsh word-splitting divergence
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: code-review.md — #4109's fix adds an explanatory comment documenting the zsh word-splitting divergence
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: pr-branch.md — #4109's fix adds explanatory comments at 3 sites (TRANSIENT_DIRS, INCLUDED_COMMITS, FILTER_PATHS)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: sync-skills.md — #4109's fix adds explanatory comments at 2 sites (CREATE_LIST/UPDATE_LIST, REMOVE_LIST)

* test(#4109): cover lint-workflow-shellcheck parsers + add timeout

Adds tests/lint-workflow-shellcheck.test.cjs covering the hand-rolled
parser/logic functions exported by scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck.cjs
(stripCommandSubstitutions, stripShellComments, substitutePlaceholders,
extractForLoops, findBareForLoopSplits, findingKey, partitionAgainstBaseline)
that shipped with zero coverage — CLAUDE.md requires at least one fast-check
property test for parsers, included here (bare/braced forms always flagged
naming the variable; quoted/substituted/literal forms never are).

Also bounds runShellcheck's subprocess with a 60s timeout: the `shellcheck`
npm package's own API has no timeout option and internally blocks on a
synchronous spawnSync, so this reimplements the binary resolve/download step
via the package's own exported config/download and calls spawnSync directly
with a native timeout. And guards the CLI entry point with
`if (require.main === module)`, matching this repo's sibling dual-purpose
lint scripts — without it, requiring the module for its exported functions
(as the new test file does) also triggered a live ShellCheck run as a side
effect.

* docs(#4109): add changeset for the zsh word-splitting fix

* chore(#4109): backfill changeset PR number (#4116)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-31 18:08:06 -04:00
Dennis Kim
8487f0ed42 enhance(#3552): warn on additional protected branches beyond the resolved base branch (#3648)
* test(01-01): add failing protected-branch warning coverage

- pin configured, absent, and malformed branch-list behavior
- require opposite CLI and execute warning outcomes

* feat(01-01): warn on configured protected branches

- resolve the base branch union configured protected branch names
- expose exact boolean CLI comparison output for workflow callers
- keep execute-phase warning advisory and within its byte budget

* test(01-01): add failing protected branch config coverage

- cover valid list persistence and null unset
- reject hostile shapes while preserving the prior value

* feat(01-01): validate protected branch configuration

- register git.protected_branches as a canonical config key
- require a non-empty array of non-blank branch names

* test(01-02): add failing ship protected-branch controls

- Execute both workflow warning blocks with exact predicate arguments
- Require true and false results to produce opposite warning outcomes
- Preserve the none-strategy feature-branch offer contract

* feat(01-02): warn at ship on protected branches

- Reuse the typed protected-branch predicate in ship preflight
- Keep raw base resolution for PR targeting and advisory branch creation
- Prove execute and ship warning blocks with opposite-result controls

* test(01-02): add failing protected-branch docs parity

- Require the canonical schema key in both English config references
- Pin the non-empty string-array type and absent default
- Require synchronized multi-branch examples and advisory semantics

* feat(01-02): publish protected branch configuration contract

- Document the optional non-empty string-array field in both references
- Explain resolved-base union and absent-field compatibility
- Keep execute and ship warnings advisory under branching_strategy none

* fix(01): CR-01 honor active workstream branch policy

* fix(01): WR-01 assert protected config path selection

* docs: add changeset fragment for #3648

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017CteVPJt4BkPmroMPGajYx

* fix(#3648): resolve base_branch precedence inversion and round-1 findings

Blocker 1/2: production config resolution was flat-first, so a project
that migrated to git.base_branch but still carried a stale flat
base_branch got the old value back. Add base_branch to
normalizeLegacyKeys (mirrors the existing branching_strategy/sub_repos
pattern: canonical nested wins) and route readEffectiveGitConfig's
test seam through the same normalization so it can't silently diverge
from production again. Adds a regression test with both keys set that
fails without the fix.

Blocker 3/4/5: restore the handle_branching case-selector prose and
"none" contract sentence that #3389's tests anchor on, and revert the
unrelated prose/comment compaction in the same step — both were
drive-by edits outside #3552's scope.

Also addresses review majors/minors: delete readConfigBaseBranch and
readConfigProtectedBranches (dead in production, only self-tested);
--is-protected now fails closed (reports protected) instead of
silently answering false when the base branch can't be verified;
trim configured protected-branch names; fix HOME-without-USERPROFILE
vacuous isolation on Windows; correct the drift-ack's byte accounting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S44stkuQbhD3jTCtKzte5N

* test(#3648): add failing legacy-key hoist safety coverage

Round-2 review found normalizeLegacyKeys block 5 records a normalization
carrying the DISCARDED flat value on the canonical-wins branch. Probing
that turned up a second, unreported defect in the same helper shape:
blocks 1, 2 and 5 all spread result['git'] / result['planning'] with no
object guard, so a config whose section key holds a string is spread into
index keys —

  {"git":"main","base_branch":"release"}
    -> {"git":{"0":"m","1":"a","2":"i","3":"n","base_branch":"release"}}

The resolved value is accidentally still correct, so nothing fails and no
diagnostic fires. But normalizations.length > 0 sets configDirty, and
config-loader then serializes that shape back into the user's
config.json — a read that silently corrupts config.

The deleted #3057 W3 suite covered {"git":"main","base_branch":"release"}
explicitly; this is the input it would have caught.

Covers both defects across blocks 1 and 5, with object/array/null
negative controls that must stay green in both phases, and a fast-check
property over arbitrary `git` values.

* test(#3648): pin fail-closed handling of malformed protected_branches

Replaces the test that pinned the fail-OPEN behaviour. The old
assertion — ['develop', 42] yields isProtected === false for 'develop' —
locked in the exact failure #3552 exists to close: config-set validation
is bypassable by a direct edit of .planning/config.json, so a user who
believes 'develop' is protected got a silent false and no warning.

It was also inconsistent with the fail-CLOSED direction twelve lines
away, where an unverified base reports protected and writes a
diagnostic. A protection predicate must not have two opposite failure
directions depending on which input is bad (#3648 review Blocker 3).

New coverage: a bad element drops only itself, a non-array contributes
no names, an empty list is well-formed rather than malformed, and
--is-protected surfaces the rejection. Both negative controls — a clean
list reports nothing rejected and writes no diagnostic — must stay green
in either phase, so the reject channel cannot fire unconditionally.

* fix(#3648): drop only invalid protected_branches and report them

Partition git.protected_branches instead of discarding the whole list on
one bad element, and carry the rejections out through
ProtectedBranchStatus so --is-protected can name them on stderr. Valid
names keep protecting; the user finds out the rest were ignored.

A non-array value still contributes no names — a bare string is not a
list of branch names — but is now reported rather than swallowed. An
empty array stays silent: declaring no extra protected branches is a
valid choice, not a misconfiguration.

writeDiagnostic is hoisted out of the unverified-base branch since both
arms now use it.

* test(#3648): prove the predicate diagnostic survives both call sites

The workflow bash stub now emits a stderr diagnostic the way the real
command does, which is what makes a swallowed `2>/dev/null` visible to a
test — previously the stub was silent on stderr, so discarding it changed
no observable behaviour and the call sites could drop the explanation
undetected.

Adds the Minor 2 binding check as well: ship must expose the predicate
result as IS_PROTECTED rather than only echoing a warning, asserted by
running the extracted bash and reading the bound value, not by grepping
the workflow source.

Both tests carry opposite-outcome controls — an empty diagnostic must
leave the text absent, and a false predicate must bind false.

* fix(#3648): surface the predicate diagnostic and bind ship's result

Drop `2>/dev/null` from the --is-protected call at both call sites. The
fail-closed explanation and the new rejected-entry warning both go to
stderr, so discarding it left the user with a bare "protected branch"
warning on a branch that is not protected and no way to tell a real
match from a degraded-git guess. `git branch --show-current` keeps its
own redirect — that one is genuine noise.

ship.md binds IS_PROTECTED and its prose now branches on the variable,
so the following steps have evaluable state instead of having to infer
it from warning text in tool output.

execute-phase.md byte accounting refreshed: 92326 -> 92645, net growth
319 bytes (was 331 before the redirect came out). Baseline re-verified
against the current rebase base by blob id; the ceiling check passes
with 755 bytes of margin.

* test(#3648): restore negative space for the readFile config seam

The #3057 W3 suite was deleted with readConfigBaseBranch, but every arm
it pinned survives verbatim in readEffectiveGitConfig's readFile branch —
the JSON.parse catch, the non-object guard, the git-section object guard,
.trim() and blank-string rejection — and the four surviving readFile
injections were positive-path only. protected_branches was never driven
through this seam at all.

Restores nine cases against the seam, including protected_branches
partitioning, plus a control proving loadConfig still wins when both
seams are supplied.

Records honestly what the suite pins. Mutating the built lib shows
.trim() is KILLED, while the non-object guard and the blank-string
rejection SURVIVE — both are unreachable through this entry point for
the same reasons the deleted suite documented against its own
equivalents: a JSON-parsed non-object carries no relevant own-property
either way, and a blank value is rejected a second time downstream by
the resolver's truthiness check. They stay as defence-in-depth and are
labelled known-unkillable rather than left looking like coverage this
suite does not provide.

* test(#3648): distinguish detached HEAD from a missing branch argument

`args[1] ?? ''` collapsed two different situations into one: a detached
HEAD, where `git branch --show-current` legitimately prints nothing, and
the flag being called with no argument at all. Both answered false, so
the right outcome arrived by an unintentional path and a caller bug was
indistinguishable from normal operation.

Asserts the detached case stays silent and the missing-argument case
reports, with a control that the two diagnostics differ.

* fix(#3648): report a missing --is-protected branch argument

Answer false either way, but say so when the flag arrives with no
argument. A detached HEAD passes an explicit empty string and stays
silent, since that is a normal state rather than a misconfiguration.

* docs(#3648): state exact-name matching and per-entry rejection

isProtected is exact string equality, so a git-flow project must
enumerate every release/* and hotfix/* by name. #3552 only asked for an
integration-branch field, so the implementation satisfies the letter of
the issue while leaving its git-flow motivation partly unserved — say so
where users will meet it rather than leaving them to discover it.

Also documents the Blocker 3 behaviour change: an invalid entry is
ignored with a warning naming it and the remaining names still apply.

Both statements land in docs/CONFIGURATION.md and
gsd-core/references/planning-config.md, and the config-field-docs parity
test asserts each in both so the two cannot drift.

* refactor(#3648): extract isValidProtectedBranches for cross-surface pinning

The `git.protected_branches` check inside `cmdConfigSet` and the resolver's
per-entry filter in `git-base-branch.cts` are deliberately different shapes —
all-or-nothing on write, per-entry on read, so a hand-edited config.json cannot
fail the guard open. Nothing structural keeps their two definitions of "usable
branch name" in step.

Lifting the write-side check into a named, exported predicate lets a property
test ask both surfaces about the same value and assert they agree, which is the
fast-check gap the round-2 review flagged. No behaviour change: the predicate is
the same expression, called from the same place.

* fix(#3648): stop --is-protected rewriting the config it is asking about

`gsd_run query git.base-branch --is-protected` runs on every execute-phase and
every ship. It resolved config through `loadConfig`, whose normalize-then-write
path rewrites `.planning/config.json` whenever any legacy key normalizes — so a
boolean question was silently editing the user's checked-in config. This PR had
widened the trigger by adding a fifth normalization block (top-level
`base_branch` -> `git.base_branch`), making it fire for exactly the projects the
feature targets.

`loadConfigResolved` gains `options.persist` (opt-OUT, default true): resolution
is unchanged, only the two write-back side effects are suppressed. The predicate
passes `persist: false`; the ~30 other callers are untouched, so a legacy config
is still migrated by ordinary use.

Asserted on BYTES rather than parsed shape, because the rewrite reorders keys and
reflows whitespace even when the values are equivalent. Three tests, each with
its own control: the end-to-end CLI leaves the file byte-identical while still
answering `true` from the legacy key (proving the config WAS read); an ordinary
persisting load of the same fixture DOES change the bytes (proving the fixture
is live rather than inert); and `persist:false` vs default over one directory
returns deep-equal config while differing on the write. Reverting the one-line
`persist: false` fails the first of those and only that one.

Also from the review:

- `readEffectiveGitConfig`'s comment claimed the readFile branch routed "through
  the same precedence authority production uses". It does not, and cannot — it
  reproduces two of production's steps over a single file. The comment now names
  what the seam covers and what it does NOT (root/workstream deep merge, builtin
  and global defaults, federated merge), and the seam now applies production's
  flat-then-nested lookup so it stops disagreeing about a surviving flat key.

- The missing-argument diagnostic promised "answering false", which the
  fail-closed guard on the same call can contradict by printing `true`. It now
  states what it did with the argument and leaves the answer to stdout.

* test(#3648): re-pin block 5 on #3760's refusal contract

#3767 landed on next while this PR was in review and fixed the non-object
config-section defect properly: a present-but-non-object section now BLOCKS its
own migration — value preserved, no Normalization pushed, refusal reported via
`skipped[]` — rather than being rebuilt from a plain-object view. That supersedes
this branch's round-2 `hoistLegacyKey`, which prevented the character-key spread
but still dropped the section value silently, and which the round-3 review
correctly called out as destruction in place of corruption. The rebase drops that
commit and routes block 5 through the upstream helper.

This file's tests asserted the superseded design, so they are rewritten to pin
block 5 — `base_branch` -> `git.base_branch`, which did not exist when #3760's
suite was written — against the contract that now governs it: ordinary hoist into
an absent/null/object section, canonical-nested-wins, and refusal for each of
string/number/boolean/array sections with the exact `skipped` entry.

Two controls keep it from passing vacuously: the refusal must be scoped to block
5 (an unrelated block still normalizes in the same call), and a property over
arbitrary `git` values asserts hoist and refusal are exhaustive AND mutually
exclusive per key, that a refusal leaves both the section and the legacy key
untouched, and that a hoist manufactures no index key the input did not carry.

* docs(#3648): correct the Git Query and Config Loader module contracts

CONTEXT.md's Git Query Module still described base-branch tier 1 as a direct
`.planning/config.json` read. Since this PR it is the EFFECTIVE configuration
resolved by the Config Loader — a materially different authority, carrying the
root/workstream deep merge, flat-then-nested lookup and builtin/federated
defaults. The `--is-protected` predicate, `git.protected_branches`, and the two
invariants that distinguish the predicate from the plain query (fails closed on
an unverified base; must not write) were undocumented entirely.

The Config Loader entry now states that loading is not side-effect-free by
default and documents `options.persist`.

docs/INVENTORY.md's `git-base-branch.cjs` row carried the same stale ladder and
no mention of the predicate. `node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write`
was run and produced no diff: the manifest indexes roster NAMES, not row prose,
so a description edit cannot move it.

Also closes the global-defaults minor: `git.protected_branches` is inert in
`~/.gsd/defaults.json`, but so is every other `git.*` key — no branch-policy key
appears in `_globalBaseCfg` or `GLOBAL_DEFAULTS_RESOLUTION_KEYS`. That is
section-wide and predates this PR, so the fix is to state the scope where users
meet it rather than to quietly extend the resolution set for two new keys.

* fix(#3648): close four defects found by the round-4 external review

Two external reviewers (codex, antigravity/Gemini 3.1 Pro) were run adversarially
against this branch. Four findings reproduced against source; each is fixed with a
failing-first test and a control, and each fix was verified by reverting it and
watching exactly the intended test fail.

1. `persist:false` was DROPPED by the workstream fallback (codex). Blocker 1 was
   only half closed. `loadConfigResolved` re-enters itself with a bare
   `{ workstream: null }` when a workstream has no config.json of its own, and
   that literal discarded every other option — so the recursive pass ran at the
   DEFAULT persistence and rewrote the ROOT config. Reproduced: with
   GSD_WORKSTREAM=alpha and a legacy flat `base_branch`, `--is-protected`
   rewrote `.planning/config.json` despite `persist:false`. Both recursions now
   forward `options` and override only `workstream`; the explicit override still
   wins the hasOwnProperty check, so spreading cannot let `workstreamContext`
   reintroduce a workstream.

2. Both workflow call sites failed OPEN, and aborted under `set -e` (both
   reviewers, independently). `IS_PROTECTED=$(gsd_run ...)` yields an empty
   string when the query fails, so `[ "$X" = true ]` was simply false: no
   warning, no trace — a silent hole in the guard whose only job is to warn. The
   bare assignment also aborted the step under `set -e`. Both sites now degrade
   VISIBLY: `|| IS_PROTECTED=""`, then an explicit empty-string arm that says the
   check did not run. Deliberately not fail-closed — claiming "protected" on no
   evidence would warn on every branch whenever gsd-tools is unavailable.

3. `isValidProtectedBranches` and the resolver disagreed on a sparse array
   (antigravity). `.every()` skips holes; the resolver's `for...of` yields
   `undefined` for them, so `["main", , "develop"]` was accepted by config-set
   and rejected by the resolver. The cross-surface property passed only because
   `fc.array` cannot generate a hole. The predicate now indexes, and the
   generator punches holes so that axis is actually falsifiable. JSON cannot
   express a hole, so this is unreachable in production — but two definitions of
   one predicate must not contradict each other.

4. A top-level `protected_branches` silently outranked `git.protected_branches`
   (antigravity). Routing the key through `get(key, {section, field})` gave it
   flat-then-nested precedence, which is back-compat for keys
   `normalizeLegacyKeys` migrates. `protected_branches` is new in #3552 and has
   no legacy form, so that invented an undocumented alias. It now resolves
   nested-only through a new `getNested`, in production and in the test seam.
   `base_branch` keeps flat-then-nested — it HAS a legacy spelling that #3760's
   refusal path can leave behind — and a control pins that distinction.

Also narrows a CONTEXT.md claim this round introduced. The predicate fails closed
only when a git query TIMED OUT or could not be spawned (#3057 B4's `verified`);
a git command that runs and exits non-zero counts as a clean negative, so a cwd
that is not a repository answers `false`, not `true`. Verified pre-existing on
next @ 738f42f4, so the documentation was over-claiming rather than the code
regressing — but an over-broad contract is exactly what the module docs must not
carry.

Both workflow byte figures re-derived after the call-site change:
execute-phase.md 92356 -> 92865 (+509), ship.md 36784 -> 37227 (+443).

* test(#3648): pin git config read parity

* docs(#3648): document git query contracts

* fix(#3648): expose protected branch default

* test(#3648): snapshot planning tree for read-only query

* test(#3648): pin planning snapshot stray-write detection

* fix(#3648): resolve merge conflict from #3078's ack-fragment sweep

next swept the fully-spent 2818/3003 ack fragments this branch had
appended to (#3078, a84f7563). Rebased onto upstream/next and took
the deletions on both, then moved the #3552 append into a new
fragment of its own.

Rebasing onto the current base also left execute-phase.md only 34
bytes under the frozen ADR-857 Phase 6 margin ceiling (93400 bytes) —
intervening next PRs consumed the rest while this PR was in review.
Extracted the "none" arm's protected-branch-warning bash block into
gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md (content
unchanged, matching the existing steps/ extraction pattern used
elsewhere in this file) so the inline growth is a one-line pointer
instead of the full block. 93366 -> 93385 bytes (+19), 15 bytes
inside the ceiling.

* fix(#3648): drop stale ack entry for the new step file

The extracted execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md needed no
acknowledgment of its own — the differential-attribution check flagged
the entry as stale once the build ran, so removed it and kept the two
growth entries (execute-phase.md, ship.md) that actually needed one.

* fix(#3648): follow the step-file reference in the bash-extraction test helper

extractProtectedBranchWarningBash() read the "none" arm's bash block
directly out of execute-phase.md. That block now lives in
execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md (byte-ceiling extraction);
the helper follows the step-file reference and extracts from there
when no inline block is found, so the three execute-phase tests that
execute this bash for real keep exercising the actual behavior.

* fix(#3648): regenerate INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json and satisfy the CRLF-fragile lint rule

- gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write to pick up the new
  execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md entry (already covered by
  docs/INVENTORY.md's generic workflow_steps wildcard row, so no
  INVENTORY.md edit is needed).
- Reworked the step-file-reference lookup in
  extractProtectedBranchWarningBash() to avoid a bare-\n regex split
  on file content (local/no-crlf-fragile-split), using the same
  line-array scan the function already uses elsewhere.

* fix(#3648): regenerate golden install-tree fixtures for the new step file

npm run gen:install-tree, adding gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase/
steps/protected-branch.md to all 19 runtime install-tree fixtures.
CI's tests/golden-install-tree.test.cjs caught this on push — I'd
verified the differential-attribution and INVENTORY-MANIFEST checks
but missed this separate golden-fixture check for the new file.

* fix(#3648): add the canonical gsd_run preamble to the new step file

CI's runtime-launcher-parity suite requires exactly one canonical
resolver preamble in every workflow .md that calls gsd_run. The
inline "none"-arm block never needed one (execute-phase.md already
carried a preamble elsewhere in the same file), but the extracted
execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md is now its own file with no
preamble of its own. Ran node scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs to
insert it (execute-phase.md itself is untouched — still 93385 bytes,
inside the ADR-857 ceiling).

That preamble defines its own gsd_run(), which shadows the mock
tests/git-base-branch.test.cjs injects for the three #3648 tests that
execute this bash for real — without stripping it, those tests reached
the real gsd-tools.cjs on the machine running them instead of the
test's fixture. Preamble correctness is already covered by
tests/runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs, so extractProtectedBranchWarningBash()
now strips the preamble line before handing the block to the harness;
it only needs to exercise the #3552 warning logic.

* fix(#3552): address PR 3648 review feedback on protected branch warnings

- Fix execute-phase handle_branching branching_strategy=none instruction
  to "Read and execute execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md"
- Use io.error(..., ERROR_REASON.USAGE) for cmdGitBaseBranch usage errors
- Align git.protected_branches schema default to (none) without fallback []
- Relocate CONTEXT.md forward-referencing sentence into module body
- Sanitize control and ANSI characters in renderRejected diagnostics
- Clean up out-of-scope whitespace hunks in gsd-tools.cjs

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — #3552: execute-phase handle_branching adds a pointer to execute-phase/steps/protected-branch.md for branching_strategy=none so the protected-branch check executes while keeping execute-phase.md within the ADR-857 Phase 6 margin ceiling (93400 bytes). 93392 bytes, 8 bytes inside the ceiling.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ship.md — #3552: ship preflight step 3 now asks the same typed git.base-branch --is-protected predicate as execute-phase, binding IS_PROTECTED and warning without refusing execution or blocking the branching_strategy=none feature-branch offer; it degrades visibly (rather than silently reading an empty result as "not protected") when the query itself fails to run. 36841 bytes, well inside the XL cap (98304, tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs).

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-29 17:00:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
52b11ee811 fix(#3763): pass --raw at every shipped config-get bash call site (#3961)
* test(#3763): guard every shipped config-get substitution on --raw

* fix(#3763): pass --raw at every shipped config-get bash call site

config-get without --raw prints JSON.stringify(value), so string-typed values
reach bash with literal quotes and every string comparison silently never
matches (#3763). --raw added at 75 command-substitution sites across shipped
content; four JSON consumers (default_reviewers, sub_repos, pr_body_sections,
code_review_depth_overrides) deliberately keep default JSON output.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ai-integration-phase.md — #3763: bytes from '--raw' at config-get call sites so string-typed config values reach bash comparisons unquoted
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* chore(#3763): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3763): backfill changeset PR number (3961)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 19:55:34 -04:00
Tom Boucher
fb2d122d7f feat(#3841): assert gsd-tools identity on every state-mutating verb (#3848)
* feat(#3841): assert gsd-tools identity before any state-mutating verb

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3841

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3841

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

* chore(#3841): backfill changeset PR number

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closes #3146

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3146

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

* chore(#3146): backfill changeset PR number

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs #3146

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 20:57:16 -04:00
Tom Boucher
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
2b42b28687 fix(#3659): make the worktree base-check trust evidence, not baseRef (#3736)
* test(#3659): baseref-head suppress must be mode-aware regression rows

* fix(#3659): make baseref-head suppress mode-aware and thread isolation mode

* fix(#3659): review fixes - stale advice purge, message pins, mode alias

* fix(#3659): pick-interceptable emit seam, ack merge, writeSync pin

* test(#3659): rewrite set-baseref pin, fix writeSync row stub

* chore(#3659): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-21 04:58:33 -04:00
Tom Boucher
66228a89cf fix(#3637): carry the full executor contract in the orchestrator-worktree spawn (#3694)
* test(#3637): pin the executor contract in the orchestrator-worktree spawn prompt

* fix(#3637): carry the full executor contract in the orchestrator-worktree spawn prompt

* fix(#3637): role-definition embed, embed-performance gates, drop stale ack

* chore(#3637): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-19 20:50:12 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ea594300d9 fix(#3606): validate hook-kind coverage at call sites and dispatch generically (#3687)
* test(#3606): pin hook-kind coverage in the wired guard

* fix(#3606): validate hook-kind coverage at call sites and dispatch generically

* fix(#3606): address review - segment-granular narrowing, zero-coverage diagnosis, quick.md, fragment extraction

* fix(#3606): drop stale shrink-ack, export HOOK_GROUP_KINDS, dedupe scanner regex

* chore(#3606): regenerate install-tree fixtures for new wave-post fragment

* chore(#3606): sync canonical launcher preamble into new fragment

* fix(#3606): keep fragment preamble ahead of first gsd_run mention

* fix(#3606): revert sync script's preamble move in explore.md

* chore(#3606): regenerate derived manifests post-rebase

* chore(#3606): allowlist peer test files - base was red on the count lane

* chore(#3606): regenerate inventory for peer's verify-command-grounding doc

* chore(#3606): grounding test maps to its own module by longest prefix

* chore(#3606): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-19 16:41:27 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8fc88f663d fix(#3210): gate unmet preconditions as blocking-human; cap blocker retries at needs_human (#3528)
* fix(#3210): gate unmet preconditions as blocking-human and cap blocker retries at needs_human

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 23:01:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
362d0434b2 fix(#3370): state checkpoint gate semantics in executor dispatch prompts (#3478)
* fix(#3370): state checkpoint gate semantics in executor dispatch prompts

* fix(#3370): set changeset pr to 3478

* fix(#3370): keep gate rule in routing fragment under phase-6 ceiling

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 11:42:22 -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
Behruz Nassre Esfahani
2076d450d7 fix(#2652): gate quick/diagnose dispatch on dispatch.isolation, not the runtime name (#2728)
* fix(#2652): gate quick/diagnose dispatch on dispatch.isolation, not runtime name

quick.md and diagnose-issues.md kept the pre-#2584 `RUNTIME != "claude"`
worktree gate, so every non-Claude runtime failed closed regardless of the
capability it negotiated — including Codex, which declares
orchestrator-worktree. Route both through the negotiated dispatch.isolation
seam via a new shared reference, and migrate the two execute-phase reference
fragments that carried the same runtime-name gate.

- new gsd-core/references/dispatch-isolation-gate.md: canonical ISOLATION
  resolution, harness-flag resolution, single-agent degrade rule
- quick.md / diagnose-issues.md read the gate; dispatch uses the {harnessFlag}
  placeholder rather than a hardcoded isolation="worktree"
- execute-phase-wave-guard.md / execute-phase-between-wave-reset.md: migrate
  [ "$RUNTIME" = "claude" ] -> [ "$ISOLATION" = "harness-worktree" ]
- every degrade site now clears BOTH USE_WORKTREES and ISOLATION; clearing one
  dispatched an isolated agent with no base guard and no manifest
- parity guard in host-integration.test.cjs scans workflows AND references and
  matches six reintroduction shapes
- migrate four tests that pinned the pre-#2584 runtime-name contract

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

* fix(#2652): use the /gsd:<cmd> namespace in the isolation degrade messages

The degrade warnings cited /gsd-execute-phase, the retired hyphen form that
slash-command-namespace.test.cjs rejects in Claude-facing source. Same length,
so the quick.md size budget is unaffected.

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

* chore(#2652): add changeset for PR #2728

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

* fix(#2652): normalize dispatch-site paths to forward slashes for Windows

path.relative() returns backslash-separated paths on Windows, so the
#2652 dispatch-site parity test compared "gsd-core\workflows\quick.md"
against the hardcoded forward-slash literal "gsd-core/workflows/quick.md"
and failed on every windows-latest CI lane. Normalize with
.replace(/\\/g, '/'), matching the existing convention used elsewhere in
this suite (e.g. tests/branch-no-track-guard.test.cjs:37).

* test(#2652): restore the size-growth acknowledgment

The rebase dropped tests/emitted-drift-ack.json. #2757/#2758 fixed the
ATTRIBUTION axis, but the SIZE-GROWTH axis is independent: diagnose-issues.md
(+2086) and quick.md (+230) still need an ack naming them and saying why.

Verified: 65/66 without it (both files named), 66/66 with it.

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

* fix(#2652): convert execute-plan.md Pattern A onto the dispatch-isolation gate

Pattern A hardcoded `isolation="worktree"` — Claude Code's own literal —
gated only on `workflow.use_worktrees`, with no capability negotiation at
all. It is the same defect #2652 fixes at the other four sites, just a
different shape: the file contains no RUNTIME variable, so the new detector
correctly does not flag it.

Concrete break: a Codex user who follows this PR's own newly-documented
pattern and sets `workflow.use_worktrees: true` to get isolated dispatch via
/gsd:quick then runs a plan through /gsd-execute-plan Pattern A, and hits an
unconverted path — either an Agent() call erroring on an unrecognized
parameter or silent unisolated execution, depending on host tolerance.

Pattern A is a single-agent dispatch site through the host's own subagent
tool, so it takes the same treatment as quick.md and diagnose-issues.md:
resolve ISOLATION/HARNESS_FLAG through the canonical reference, degrade to
sequential on orchestrator-worktree hosts, and substitute the host's declared
{harnessFlag} instead of Claude Code's literal.

while the area was open.

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

* docs(#2652): add the INVENTORY row for dispatch-isolation-gate.md, refresh CONTEXT

Two bookkeeping gaps flagged in review:

INVENTORY.md had no row for the new gsd-core/references/dispatch-isolation-gate.md.
INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json was regenerated correctly and its --check only diffs a
live directory scan against the committed manifest, so CI passed regardless —
but gen-inventory-manifest.cjs's own stderr guidance says to add the matching
INVENTORY.md row. This is the repo's named "Inventory Drift" pattern. Placed
with the dispatch/isolation cluster (worktree-branch-check, runtime-aware-dispatch)
rather than alphabetically, matching how that table is grouped.

CONTEXT.md's Host-Integration Interface entry still described dispatch.isolation
as "declared and negotiated but not yet consumed by any scheduler — Phase 1 of
#2584". That was already stale before this PR (execute-phase graduated in Phase 3)
and more so now with three single-agent dispatch sites consuming it.

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

* test(#2652): detect reversed-operand runtime gates; add a permutation property

All five reintroduction regexes assumed $RUNTIME on the LEFT of the
comparison, so `[ "claude" != "$RUNTIME" ]` — the same gate written
backwards — evaded every one of them. Verified against the old patterns
before fixing: all four reversed shapes (single bracket, double bracket,
test builtin, JS template) scored EVADED.

Each comparison shape is now generated in both operand orders from a single
template, so a shape cannot be added in one order and forgotten in the other.
The mutation table gains the four reversed cases.

Also adds the fast-check property review suggested in place of the hand-rolled
cases: it generates the cross product of the axes an author actually varies —
bracket form, operator, operand order, quoting, spacing, runtime id — so a
permutation the hand-written patterns miss surfaces here rather than in
production. The 11 explicit cases stay as named regression anchors.

execute-plan.md joins the scan's required-identities list now that it is a
converted dispatch site.

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

* test(#2652): acknowledge the execute-plan.md size growth

The Pattern A conversion adds 811 bytes to an emitted workflow. Per #2719 the
size axis needs its own acknowledgment, independent of attribution.

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

* test(#2652): repin the execute-plan.md PROSE_ALLOWLIST line after the rebase

The #2751 command-position gate pins its prose exemptions by line number.
This branch inserts the dispatch-isolation resolution above the
`validated downstream by gsd-tools uat classify-coverage` sentence, moving
it from execute-plan.md:387 to :397 — which fired the gate twice for one
displacement (an un-allowlisted mention at 397, a stale entry at 387).
The prose itself is unchanged from next; only the pin moves.

Fixes #2652

* fix(#2652): gate the #2649 base-check on ISOLATION in diagnose-issues.md

The rebase onto next merged #2649's pre-dispatch base-check textually, but
its degrade flipped USE_WORKTREES after ISOLATION was already resolved, so
the degrade never reached the dispatch decision. Gate the block on
ISOLATION = "harness-worktree" and degrade ISOLATION itself, the same
pairing quick.md already uses.

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

* fix(#2652): key quick.md post-dispatch bookkeeping on ISOLATION, not the Claude literal

Review Blocker: the manifest append (l.822), worktree merge-back (l.825), and
its skip clause (l.839) all conditioned on the literal isolation="worktree" —
Claude Code's own rendering of {harnessFlag}. Cursor renders --worktree, so a
newly-unblocked isolated Cursor run created a worktree whose committed work
was never merged back and never cleaned up, silently. All three now key on
ISOLATION = "harness-worktree" at dispatch.

The existing parity detector cannot catch this class (its ISOLATION_TOKEN
treats the literal as a legitimate marker), so this adds a dedicated
literal-condition detector with a discrimination proof against both pre-fix
sentences, a benign-mention control, and a positive pin on all three
re-keyed conditions. Verified fail-first against the pre-fix quick.md.

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

* fix(#2652): scope the use_worktrees=false install stamp to isolation=none runtimes

`_stampNonClaudeRuntimeDefaults` rewrote every non-Claude runtime's
`workflow.use_worktrees` read to `--default false`. That default resolved
before `gsd_run query dispatch-isolation` was ever consulted, so the five
runtimes that declare worktree support — cursor (harness-worktree) and
codex/opencode/kimi/kimi-code (orchestrator-worktree) — got ISOLATION=none
regardless of what they negotiated. The gate this PR migrates dispatch onto
was therefore still deciding isolation by runtime name, one layer down.

The stamp's #1521 premise was that worktree isolation *was* Claude Code's
isolation="worktree" spawn parameter, which no other host honored. #2584
replaced that premise with the negotiated capability. The stamp is now scoped
to runtimes whose negotiated isolation really is `none`, where the default it
writes is the outcome the resolver reaches anyway.

`_negotiatedDispatchIsolation` mirrors routeDispatchIsolation's resolution
against the same registry — closed vocabulary, a harness-worktree host must
declare its flag, an orchestrator-worktree host must carry a descriptor that
resolves — and fails closed to `none` on anything else, so an undeclared or
unknown runtime keeps today's behavior.

Two #1515 tests pinned the superseded premise for codex and are re-pointed at
the new contract rather than deleted: the safety property they protect is now
held by the isolation gate's fail-closed resolution, not by a name-scoped
install-time default. Verified fail-first — all five assertions red against
the pre-fix source, green after.

* test(#2652): acknowledge the emitted ripple and re-point the end-to-end stamp proof

Scoping the use_worktrees stamp changes emitted output, and two gates caught it.

`gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md` now differs at emit time for the five
hosts that declare worktree support (cursor harness-worktree; codex, opencode,
kimi, kimi-code orchestrator-worktree) — the source file is byte-identical, only
the stamp is gone. Acknowledged in this PR's fragment.

`tests/install.test.cjs`'s real-install assertion pinned the superseded premise
end-to-end, asserting codex receives `--default false`. Re-pointed rather than
deleted, matching the two unit tests: it now proves codex keeps the unstamped
`true` read. A second arm installs windsurf — which declares isolation `none` —
and asserts the false stamp is still applied there, so the change cannot
silently degrade into "never stamp" without a test noticing.

The ack entry collides with `2658-trae-instruction-file-path.json`, which is
fully spent (merged via #2925, so all 25 of its entries are present at base and
gate nothing) and is pruned for the same reason and by the same rule as the
spent `2649-*` fragment this PR already removed. #2566 prunes the same file for
the same collision on `new-project.md`; a delete/delete merges cleanly either
way, and the base-side cleanup would make both unnecessary.

* fix(#2652): re-record the sentinel when a dispatch site degrades isolation

Review Blocker B1/B2/B3. Every isolation degrade in a dispatch site is decided
in shell, where routeDispatchIsolation cannot see it. That resolver persists
whatever it resolved to the run-scoped sentinel as an unconditional side effect
(#3045), so a degrade that only reassigns $ISOLATION leaves the sentinel
asserting harness-worktree while the dispatch correctly omits the harness flag.
The shipped PreToolUse guard reads the sentinel at the instant of the Agent()
call and denies that mismatch with exit 2 — the work does not run unisolated,
it does not run at all. Latent on this branch and lands on rebase, since
8f75e275 (#3045) is not yet in the merge-base.

Four sites now push the final shell-computed value through the same single
write path with --force-isolation, matching the idiom #3045 established in
executor-isolation-dispatch.md:

  - quick.md, after the #1941 base-check degrade
  - diagnose-issues.md, after the config-gate degrades and after #2649's
  - execute-plan.md Pattern A, before spawning
  - references/dispatch-isolation-gate.md, both degrade paths, plus a new
    "Re-record after every degrade" section — the canonical file taught the
    defect, so fixing only the call sites would leave the source of truth wrong

Tests assert the RECORDED value, not $ISOLATION. Asserting the local variable
is what let this class through: $ISOLATION was already `none` at every site and
the defect was entirely in what reached the sentinel. Each workflow's own
degrade block is executed under a gsd_run stub that captures the write, with a
fail-first proof that the pre-fix shape records nothing (while $ISOLATION reads
`none` in both), plus a coverage guard so a new degrade site cannot skip it.

Also corrects the drift-ack rationale (review Minor 5): @-references are
eagerly inlined, so extracting the gate does not reduce loaded context. The
reason to extract is single-sourcing across five dispatch sites.

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

* test(#2652): satisfy the new CRLF-portability and cleanup lint rules in host-integration.test.cjs

next's local/no-crlf-fragile-split and no-raw-rmsync-in-tests rules now
cover the fenced-block regexes, log-line split, and temp-dir removal this
suite added: bash-fence matchers and line counting accept \r\n, and the
raw fs.rmSync becomes helpers.cleanup (Windows-EBUSY retry budget).

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

* fix(#2652): restore next's 2658 ack fragment, minus the one colliding key

trek-e (PR #2728, 2026-08-07): the branch deleted
tests/emitted-drift-acks/2658-trae-instruction-file-path.json wholesale
while next had modified it. That was correct against the 08-03 base, where
the fragment was fully spent; it is wrong against next @ 1d208e5a, which
still carries 23 live entries.

next's copy is restored byte-identical except for the single key that
genuinely collides with this PR's own fragment,
gsd-core/workflows/execute-phase.md. Both acks name that path for
different deltas -- 2658's is the trae CLAUDE.md replacement-target
rewrite, ours is the emit-time _stampNonClaudeRuntimeDefaults ripple from
review round 3. Per the ack-lifecycle law (#2789), an entry already at the
base is spent and inert, so this PR's entry is the live one and 2658's is
dropped.

This follows the guidance given on #2566 in the 08-06 round: "Regenerate
rather than delete -- the collision is one entry."

Verified: lint-emitted-drift-ack ok (0 problems, 357 keys, no cross-source
duplicates); emitted-attribution 170/170 with GSD_EMITTED_BASE=upstream/next;
host-integration 222/222; runtime-converters 130/130.

* fix(#2652): bound the degrade-harness spawn and close the round-6 majors

B1 (CI red, ours): tests/host-integration.test.cjs spawned bash with no
timeout, violating local/no-unbounded-spawn. `next` deleted the allowlist
outright (#3148), so the merge-commit run flags it even though this branch
still carries the file's grandfathered entry. Bounded at 15s, with a named
failure on timeout/signal rather than an opaque `exited null`.

M1: add a parity test between `_negotiatedDispatchIsolation` (install time)
and `routeDispatchIsolation` (dispatch time). Both read the same capability
registry and the same `resolveOrchestratorExec`, but duplicate the DECISION
on top of them across two surfaces with no call edge between them, so neither
symbol appears in the other's impact graph and nothing static can catch them
drifting apart. The resolver leg drives the real gsd-tools CLI per registered
runtime, both ways it is really called: with `--cwd-target` (the executor
spawn, which resolves the orchestrator descriptor — the same question install
time asks) and without it (the `Resolve ISOLATION` call every dispatch site
makes first, which does not). The second leg is what catches an orchestrator
host whose descriptor stops resolving: the install would stamp
`use_worktrees=false` while the workflow gate still reported
`orchestrator-worktree`.

M2: add install-level Cursor coverage. A real `--cursor` install, then the
gate blocks that install emitted, run against the gsd-tools that install
emitted, with the runtime declared through `.planning/config.json` — the tier
`resolveRuntime` actually reads — and any ambient GSD_RUNTIME blanked, so the
install has to reach the right resolver on its own. It then performs the
documented `{harnessFlag}` substitution against the `Agent()` call that
install emitted and asserts on the rendered dispatch: exactly one emitted
Agent() call carries the slot, it is the gsd-executor / gsd-debugger dispatch
rather than some other call in the same file, and rendering it yields
`--worktree` with no residual placeholder and no `isolation="worktree"`.
This is artifact-level — it proves the emitted wiring, not a live Cursor
host invocation. Asserting the shell variable alone would have stayed green
if the placeholder were deleted from the emitted dispatch, or drifted onto
the reviewer call beside it.

M3: diagnose-issues.md inlined a reordered copy of the reference this PR
introduces as the single source of truth. It now reads the reference the
same way quick.md and execute-plan.md do; the drift-ack entry is corrected
to describe what the file actually contains, and to name the four files that
reference the gate rather than claiming five.

M4: CONTEXT.md still called `resolveOrchestratorExec` UNCONSUMED in the same
paragraph this PR edits. It has been consumed since #2584 Phase 3 — routed
through `query dispatch-isolation --json` and process-spawned by
executor-isolation-dispatch.md — and #2652 adds a second consumer.

Every new assertion verified fail-first against a real mutation: cursor's
negotiated isolation (breaks the target-bound parity leg), the no-target
orchestrator branch in routeDispatchIsolation (breaks the gate parity leg),
cursor's harnessIsolationFlag (breaks the resolved value), deleting
`{harnessFlag}` from quick.md's emitted Agent() call (breaks the slot), and
moving it onto the code-reviewer dispatch (breaks the wrong-call guard).

Refs #2652

* fix(#2652): serialize unisolated diagnosis, scope the execute-plan gate to dispatching patterns

Round-7 review findings (independent cross-AI pass over the whole PR against
the current base).

BLOCKER — diagnose-issues.md announced sequential mode and then fanned out.
The `orchestrator-worktree` degrade sets ISOLATION=none and prints "debug
agents run sequentially on the main working tree", but the spawn step still
said "All agents spawn in single message (parallel execution)". On Codex,
OpenCode and Kimi that dispatched N unisolated debuggers concurrently against
the primary checkout — the exact outcome the degrade exists to prevent, and
reachable only because this PR removed the FATAL that used to stop those
hosts earlier. Fan-out is now keyed on ISOLATION: parallel only when each
agent has its own worktree, one at a time otherwise.

BLOCKER — execute-plan.md Pattern B could not dispatch at all on Claude or
Cursor. The gate recorded `harness-worktree` to the #3045 sentinel, but only
Pattern A carries `{harnessFlag}`; Pattern B's segment executors carry none,
and `hooks/gsd-agent-isolation-guard.js` blocks precisely that mismatch with
exit 2. Segments are unisolated BY DESIGN — each continues on the working
tree the previous one left behind, so per-agent worktrees would break the
sequence — so Pattern B now records `none` before its first dispatch and
dispatches without the flag.

MAJOR — the same gate ran before routing was chosen, so an isolation-`none`
host with `use_worktrees=true` hit the fail-closed FATAL even when routing
would have selected Pattern C, which is fully inline and dispatches nothing.
Resolution now happens after the pattern is known, and Pattern C skips it.

MAJOR — tests/host-integration.test.cjs fed `fs.readFileSync` output straight
to bash. The `\r?\n` fence regex guards only the delimiter, leaving embedded
CR on every line of the captured body — DEFECT.WINDOWS-CRLF-TEST-PORTABILITY,
which helpers.cjs documents by name. Now reads through `readFileNormalized`.

MAJOR — the "every dispatch-site degrade block re-records" test hand-listed
three files, so its name was a claim its scan could not support. The scan is
now derived from the workflow/reference tree (SCAN_ROOTS/collectMarkdown
hoisted to module scope so there is one definition, not two). Verified
fail-first against execute-plan.md — a file the previous scan never opened.
The two wave fragments are exempt because they delegate the re-record to
per-plan-worktree-gate.md via USE_WORKTREES_FOR_PLAN; that delegation is now
ASSERTED, so deleting the delegate fails this test instead of widening a hole
silently.

MINOR — the changeset claimed the FATAL was gone for "non-Claude runtimes"
full stop. Narrowed: isolation-`none` hosts still fail closed when worktrees
are explicitly enabled, which is the contract rather than the defect.

Two further findings were investigated and rejected, with evidence:
- Raw `spawnSync` vs `tests/helpers/process-seam.cjs`: the seam exposes
  runNode/runGit/runHook and cannot express the `bash -c` harness these tests
  need; `installAndRead` in this same file is byte-identical to the base and
  still uses raw spawnSync with an explicit timeout, which is the form the
  lint sanctions. Migrating only the new call sites would split the file's
  convention for no safety gain.
- `pending-migration-to-typed-ir` on the runtime-converters parity test: the
  annotation and the rendered-text loop both exist at the merge-base under
  #3090. This PR extends an already-tracked test rather than adding a new one
  under a category CONTRIBUTING closes to new tests.

Refs #2652

* test(#2652): re-point the execute-plan prose allowlist at its shifted line

`PROSE_ALLOWLIST` in tests/no-bare-gsd-tools-command-position.test.cjs keys
entries by LINE NUMBER. The previous commit added the post-routing isolation
block to execute-plan.md, which pushed the `validated downstream by
gsd-tools uat classify-coverage` prose mention from line 397 to 414. That
broke the guard in both directions at once: the entry at 397 went stale, and
the real mention at 414 became an unallowlisted offender.

Caught by CI (7 red jobs, all shard 3/3 plus ubuntu-22) rather than locally,
because I verified only the suites I believed the change touched. Any edit to
a workflow .md shifts line numbers, and this repo carries line-keyed
allowlists — so a workflow edit needs the full suite, not a subset.

Refs #2652

* test(#2652): route the new subprocesses through the process seam

Retracting a rejection I made on the record. In the round-6 response I
argued these call sites could keep a hand-rolled `spawnSync` because the
seam exposes only runNode/runGit/runHook and cannot express `bash -c`, and
because `installAndRead` in the same file uses that shape. The first half
was true and irrelevant, the second half is not a licence: CONTRIBUTING is
unambiguous — "Anything that shells out goes through
tests/helpers/process-seam.cjs — never a hand-rolled spawnSync/execFileSync
in your suite", and "Never use try/finally inside test bodies."

`runHook` already documents `interpreter: 'bash'` for running a shell
script, so writing the harness to a file complies without extending the
seam. I had the rule and the seam's own documentation in front of me and
reasoned around both.

Converted:
- host-integration.test.cjs degrade harness: spawnSync('bash', ['-c', …])
  → runHook(scriptFile, [], { interpreter: 'bash' }).
- install.test.cjs cursor gate: `which bash` probe → process.platform;
  the installer spawn → runNode(…, { env: installSpawnEnv({HOME,
  USERPROFILE}) }), which also blanks ambient GSD_HOME/runtime-location
  vars that could otherwise make capability discovery host-dependent;
  the emitted-gate spawn → runHook(gateScript, [], { interpreter: 'bash' }).
- Three try/finally test bodies → t.after().

Class-norm timeouts: tests/helpers/timeouts.cjs arrived with this branch's
latest base merge, so the literals written earlier (15000/120000/60000) now
duplicate PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS and INSTALL_TIMEOUT_MS. Imported instead — that
module exists because INSTALL_TIMEOUT_MS had already drifted 60s→120s once
after a real bench ETIMEDOUT.

Deliberately NOT converted: `installAndRead`'s spawnSync, which is
byte-identical to the merge-base and predates this PR — converting shared
scaffolding is an unrelated change.

Verified equivalent, not assumed: argv/cwd/env/encoding/timeout and every
assertion are preserved; t.after() still cleans up on the assertion-failure
path the try/finally covered; and the cursor test still resolves Cursor
under a hostile ambient GSD_RUNTIME=claude.

Refs #2652

* fix(#2652): replace the falsified use_worktrees doc row; distinguish an unresolvable gate from a declared none

Round-8 review findings.

BLOCKER — docs/CONFIGURATION.md's `Non-Claude note` asserted three things
this PR overturns: that worktree isolation "no other runtime honors"
(Cursor declares harness-worktree with `--worktree`, and this PR's own
install test asserts that flag reaching the emitted Agent() slot), that
non-Claude installs default the key to `false`, and that forcing `true`
always fails closed. Replaced with the capability-based description, and
the `#1515, #1521` citation dropped — those are the two issues whose
premise this PR removes.

The reviewer flagged that the fix is merge-order dependent, because #2531
rewrites the same row and its replacement text is written in anticipation
of this PR landing. Rather than pick an order, BOTH sides are now
order-independent: #2531's "Current default … until #2652" paragraph
becomes a plain troubleshooting note, and this row states the capability
rule without asserting a stamp state. Whichever merges first, the row is
correct; the second merge is a textual conflict at worst.

MINOR — the gate reported a capability verdict the tool never returned.
`ISOLATION=$(… || echo "none")` made a shim-resolution failure, a non-zero
exit and an empty stdout indistinguishable from a declared `none`, so a
transient query failure aborted /gsd:quick on Claude Code with "runtime
'claude' declares no executor-isolation primitive" — false. The gate now
tracks ISOLATION_RESOLVED separately: both paths still fail closed, but only
a real verdict claims the host declares nothing; the unresolved branch says
it could not resolve and points at the shim. Fixed in the canonical
reference so every dispatch site inherits it.

MINOR — quick.md:527 cited #2649 for its own degrade; that is #1941, and
#2649 is the diagnose-issues/execute-plan gate. Corrected, and the
distinction stated so the next reader does not chase it.

MINOR — quick.md:413 (manifest init) and :429 (worktree_branch_check embed)
still branched on USE_WORKTREES while dispatch, manifest-append, merge-back
and the skip clause had all moved to ISOLATION. Safe only by coincidence —
both now key on ISOLATION.

MINOR — the diff removes a second drift-ack entry (the execute-phase.md key
from 2658-trae-instruction-file-path.json), forced by the same duplicate-key
lint rule as the 2649 removal. Disclosed in the PR comment; the earlier
disclosure covered only one of the two.

Verified: lint:ci green; 300/300 across host-integration,
fix-1941-quick-worktree-stale-base, execute-phase-wave and workflow-guard.

Refs #2652

* test(#2652): anchor the emitted-gate finder on the heading, not the assignment

`b89c3fbf` added a finder that located the gate's `Resolve ISOLATION` block by
the literal `ISOLATION=$(gsd_run query dispatch-isolation --raw`. `f3bccf21`
then split that assignment into `_ISOLATION_RAW`/`ISOLATION_RESOLVED` so a shim
failure stops masquerading as a declared `none` — and the finder stopped
matching. The test did not report the drift it exists to catch; it reported
"emitted dispatch-isolation-gate.md has no Resolve ISOLATION bash block" and
went red, and stayed red because the earlier full-suite run was read from a
truncated log.

Anchored on the heading instead. The workflows tell a dispatch site to run the
`Resolve ISOLATION` and `Resolve the harness flag` blocks BY NAME, so the
heading is the contract and the body is free to change under it.

Verified: 413/413 in tests/install.test.cjs. The test still bites — mutating the
gate's `ISOLATION="$_ISOLATION_RAW"` to `ISOLATION=none` turns it red (the
emitted gate then resolves cursor to none and exits 1 instead of printing
harness-worktree), and reverting restores green.

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

* fix(#2652): wire the canonical resolver at the one dispatch site that still inlined the old shape

Codex review of the whole PR on the new base found one Major, and it was real.

executor-isolation-dispatch.md declares references/dispatch-isolation-gate.md
canonical at line 10, then kept the OLDER resolver inline: `|| echo "none"`, no
ISOLATION_RESOLVED. So the one site that resolves isolation for the wave path
collapsed a shim failure into a declared `none` and aborted with "runtime
'$RUNTIME' declares no executor-isolation primitive" — false for a Claude or
Cursor user whose resolver merely failed to answer. Still fail-closed, so not an
unsafe-dispatch hole, but the correction this PR is about was unwired at the
site that matters most.

Replaced with the gate's exact shape: capture the raw value, track
ISOLATION_RESOLVED, and emit the "could not resolve" FATAL when no verdict was
learned.

Added a regression test in the #2652 dispatch-site parity suite: every file that
ASSIGNS from `gsd_run query dispatch-isolation --raw` must carry
ISOLATION_RESOLVED, must not use the collapsing form, and must have a distinct
unresolved message. Nothing covered this before — install.test.cjs checks the
emitted REFERENCE, not each site's own inline copy, which is exactly how the two
drifted apart.

The test's first draft also flagged quick.md, diagnose-issues.md and
execute-plan.md. That was a false positive worth recording: those three
@-reference the gate and only make `--force-isolation` re-record calls, which
carry no verdict. The predicate now matches an assignment from the resolver, not
any mention of it, so it flags sites that can actually be wrong.

Verified by mutation: restoring the collapsing line reds the new test.

Validated: lint:ci clean; full suite shows the same 7 known failures as the
pre-change baseline — #1160 _resolveManifest and the #3053 quick_id
host-timezone tests (both reproduce on pristine next @ 33fca50d), plus
helpers-cleanup "outside os.tmpdir()", which fails only in a worktree.

* test(#2652): close two vacuous-pass holes in the new inline-resolver guard

Codex cleared the push and flagged the guard test itself. Both holes were real.

SCAN_ROOTS already yields references/dispatch-isolation-gate.md, and the test
appended it a second time, so the candidate list was [executor, gate, gate] and
`length >= 2` was satisfiable by the gate alone. If the executor site had
dropped out of the predicate — the exact regression the test exists to catch —
it would still have passed. Paths are deduped and the assertion now pins the two
expected inliner identities instead of a count.

The collapse detector keyed on `ISOLATION=$(…)`, so `_ISOLATION_RAW=$(… || echo
"none")` restored the identical defect while satisfying every other assertion
(ISOLATION_RESOLVED still appears in the file). Codex mutation-probed exactly
that and it passed. The pattern now matches any assignment target and any
`|| … echo` tail. Verified: that mutation now reds the test.

Test-only change; the workflow bash is byte-identical to the commit the full
suite ran green against. lint:ci clean, host-integration 223/223.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-11 17:10:28 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a5706bd39d enhance(#2596): validate a wave branch's committed diff stays in its declared scope (#3264)
* test(#2596): failing-first suite for worktree-wave scope conformance

Binds the advisory diff-vs-declared-scope check to behavior before it exists:
the pure coverage predicate, the SUMMARY-artifact exemption and its parity with
the rescue walker, the gauntlet integration (never flips ok, degrades on a git
failure, survives a later block), the manifest normalizer's files_modified
handling, and the --files negative-input matrix on record-agent/create.

Refs #2596

* enhance(#2596): warn when a wave branch commits outside its declared scope

The worktree-wave merge gauntlet validated branch, base, deletions, SUMMARY
rescue and a clean worktree, but never compared a plan branch's actual
committed diff against the files_modified the plan declared — so an executor
that committed outside its brief merged into shared phase state silently.

Adds an advisory scope-conformance check: when the manifest entry carries a
declared scope, the gauntlet diffs HEAD...<branch> and appends one structured
warning per path outside it. It never flips ok and never blocks the merge;
promotion to a hard gate is a separate, disclosed change. With no declared
scope no git subprocess is spent at all.

Refs #2596

* docs(#2596): document the advisory worktree-wave scope-conformance check

Records the optional --files flag on worktree record-agent/create, the
advisory warnings channel cleanup-wave now emits, and its two deliberate
noise limits (SUMMARY-artifact exemption, literal-prefix glob matching).
Wires execute-phase to pass the plan's already-parsed PLAN_FILES.

Refs #2596

* fix(#2596): close review findings on the scope-conformance advisory

- share one path normalizer between the SUMMARY-artifact predicate and the
  scope comparison so the exemption and the check cannot drift
- wire --files into the orchestrator-worktree dispatch, which created a
  worktree but never declared its scope, so the advisory silently did not
  apply on that backend; ADR-1239 requires both adapters share one check
- correct the now-false blockquote claiming the check does not exist yet
- add the fast-check property tests the repo requires for parser logic
- add the record-agent/create parity test that Generative Fix Divergence
  requires for two surfaces implementing one rule

Refs #2596

* fix(#2596): keep execute-phase.md under the frozen pre-phase-6 byte ceiling

The one-sentence note added with the --files flag pushed execute-phase.md to
93708 bytes, past the ADR-857 PRE_PHASE6 cap of 93600 — the tightest of the
three workflow size gates, and a hard cap an acknowledgment cannot clear. It
failed three tests plus the differential attribution check.

Condense the note to a one-line pointer (93543, 57 B of headroom); the full
explanation already lives in docs/CLI-TOOLS.md and the dispatch step. The flag
itself stays in the command, because the orchestrator reads this workflow at
runtime and cannot pick it up from docs/.

Acknowledge the remaining 143 B of growth by appending to the existing
execute-phase.md fragment rather than adding a second one — the ack lint
rejects two sources naming the same path.

Refs #2596

* fix(#2596): make the execute-phase.md edit net-negative, not merely under the cap

The size gate on this file is two assertions, not one: bytes < 93600 AND
bytes <= 93400. The base is exactly 93400, so the file is at its budget and
any growth trips the margin assertion — the previous fix cleared the ceiling
but not that.

Move the --files explanation to per-plan-worktree-gate.md, which already owns
PLAN_FILES and carries no cap, and reclaim the rest from two clauses in the
sentence being edited: the cleanup-wave rules phrasing, and a 'non-zero exit'
the very next sentence already states. execute-phase.md ends at 93392, eight
bytes below base. The flag itself stays in the command — the orchestrator
reads this workflow at runtime and cannot pick it up from docs/.

With no growth left, the acknowledgment is unnecessary and its byte delta was
no longer true, so the shared ack fragment is restored byte-identical to base.

Refs #2596

* docs(#2596): add the how-to for interpreting scope-conformance warnings

The docs for this change were entirely Reference — the flag and the warning
codes — with the task-oriented quadrant empty. Adds the page that answers the
question an operator actually has when the advisory fires: what the two codes
mean, that nothing is blocked so there is no failure to hunt for, how to tell
whether the executor over-reached or the plan under-declared, and the three
ways the check legitimately stays silent so an absence of warnings is not
mistaken for proof of conformance.

Refs #2596

* chore(#2596): backfill changeset pr number to 3264

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-09 16:12:57 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8f75e27554 fix(#3045): fail closed when an executor dispatch drops its resolved isolation (#3069)
* feat(#3045): deny an executor dispatch that drops its isolation flag

Every isolation gate already resolved correctly. The resolved value then reached
the executor through a prose instruction telling the model to substitute it into
a call the model composes itself, and nothing verified the substitution. When it
was dropped, the executor edited and committed in the user's primary checkout
with no consent and no warning.

A prose backstop would be the same class of artifact as the defect, so this is a
shipped PreToolUse hook on the Agent tool. It fires at the instant of the call
rather than being read once at the top of a workflow, which is the only placement
the model cannot skip.

The guard is inert unless it can positively establish that this is a GSD project,
that the project resolves to harness isolation, and that the dispatch targets an
executor. A non-GSD repo has no invariant to enforce. Where it cannot read the
configuration at all, it denies rather than assuming, with its own reason -- a
guard that cannot verify must not answer safe. A malformed payload allows rather
than throwing.

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

* feat(#3045): extend the isolation guard to Cursor

Cursor is the second of only two runtimes that resolve harness isolation, so
shipping the guard for Claude alone left half the exposed surface unguarded while
the changeset implied it was covered.

The two runtimes fail differently. On Claude the harness flag is a per-dispatch
kwarg the model must copy into a call it composes, and the defect is that it can
be dropped. On Cursor the flag is --worktree, which applies to the whole session,
and the subagent-start payload carries no isolation field at all. There is no
flag to check, so the guard verifies the effective state instead: whether the
workspace is genuinely running outside the user's primary checkout. That is a
stronger check than the Claude one because it tests reality rather than intent,
and it is commented so nobody later rewrites it into a flag check.

Isolation is established two ways, either sufficient: the workspace resolves to a
linked git worktree, or it sits under the worktree root Cursor manages. The
second matters because a directory Cursor placed there is a legitimate isolated
session even before it becomes a distinct git worktree, where linkage alone would
report no repository.

Detecting linkage required a new primitive rather than the existing context
resolver. That resolver short-circuits on finding a local .planning directory
before it ever compares the git directory to the common one -- and an isolation
worktree normally has its own checked-out .planning. Reusing it would have read a
correctly isolated session as unisolated and denied it, which is the failure
direction that gets a guard switched off. The comparison is now its own
shortcut-free function that the resolver delegates to after its own shortcut, so
existing behavior is unchanged, and the case that would have broken is pinned.

The subagent type is checked before any configuration is read, so an unreadable
config cannot deny a dispatch this guard would never have enforced against.

The input-schema comment on the Cursor hook documented only the fields common to
every event and omitted the ones specific to this one. That omission cost a
halt during this work; it now documents both.

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

* fix(#3045): enforce the resolved dispatch decision, not the host capability

The guard keyed on the registry's dispatch.isolation, which says only that a
runtime is CAPABLE of harness worktrees. The decision that actually governs a
dispatch is the one the workflow resolves after gating, and that legitimately
comes out as sequential in three documented cases: a project setting
use_worktrees false, a per-plan submodule intersection, and the base-check
auto-degrade. The workflow tells the model to omit the flag in exactly those
cases, and the guard was denying every one of them.

The third case matters most. The preceding fix made the base-check degrade on
git timeouts and a missing git binary, where it had previously answered "safe".
That correction is right, and it means a transient hang now degrades to
sequential far more often than before -- so the two changes composed into a trap
where the workflow behaved exactly as designed and the guard blocked it.

The workflow already resolves isolation in shell, deterministically, which is
what makes it a trustworthy source in a way the model-authored call is not. It
now records that resolved value through a dedicated verb, and both guards read
it first. A fresh record is authoritative, so sequential dispatches pass
untouched. Absent or stale, the guards fall back to the capability check
combined with the project's use_worktrees setting, which still covers the case
that never reaches the workflow.

Also widened the matcher to accept Task alongside Agent, since a host that names
the tool Task would otherwise leave the guard silently inert while implying
coverage; stopped assuming Claude when no runtime is declared, which is the
shipped default and would have demanded a Claude-only argument elsewhere; and
made a non-git project inert rather than denied, since advising a worktree
session is not actionable without a repository.

The original diagnosis never modeled sequential mode as legitimate. That
omission is what let this through, and it is now recorded there.

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

* fix(#3045): record at resolution and bind the record to its dispatch

Two independent reviews converged on the same failure: the guard was fail-open in
a default install, so it did not catch the defect it exists to catch. A shipped
project carries no runtime key, which made "runtime not confidently known" the
common case rather than a corner one. A record asserting that isolation was
required but carrying no flag then fell through to a capability lookup that
answered "none", and the dispatch was allowed. The flag itself only arrived from
a second shell block -- the same block a model dropping the argument would also
skip. A test had pinned that behavior as intended.

The record is now written by the resolver, as an unavoidable consequence of
asking for the value, rather than by a step the model is told in prose to go and
run. A guard against a prose-carried value cannot itself depend on prose. Mode,
flag and identifiers are written together and atomically, so the flagless window
is gone, and a record asserting isolation with no resolvable flag now denies
instead of degrading. Runtime is also resolved from the installer's own recorded
default, which makes confident resolution the normal case.

The per-plan submodule gate degrades after the phase-level decision and never
re-recorded, so a plan that legitimately ran sequentially was denied against a
still-fresh phase record. It now records its own, scoped to the plan.

A record also authorized any dispatch for four hours. One phase degrading to
sequential could silently license an unisolated dispatch in the next. Records
now carry phase and plan, the guards require them to match, and the window is
minutes rather than hours -- the resolver rewrites it before every dispatch, so
a long window bought nothing and only widened the hole.

The flag validator rejected any value beginning with two dashes, which is exactly
the form Cursor and Windsurf declare, so their real value could never have been
stored. Writer and reader also derived the record path differently and diverged
inside a linked worktree without local planning state.

The predictable path remains a way to silence the control without leaving a trace
in the diff. It grants no access an agent with shell does not already have, so it
is documented as accepted rather than redesigned around.

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

* fix(#3045): correct the staleness boundary and unmask a vacuous parity test

The remote runner returned twenty failures. One was a real production defect the
boundary case existed to catch: a record whose age exactly equalled the staleness
window was treated as fresh, so it stayed authoritative for one tick past its own
expiry. Freshness is now strictly inside the window.

The parity test meant to stop the two guards' executor lists from drifting could
never have failed. Its project fixture was a bare directory rather than a
repository, so the non-git inert branch answered before the executor list was
ever consulted. It asserted agreement it never actually measured. The fixture is
now a real repository, like every sibling in the file.

A test also asserted that Windsurf declares the worktree flag. It does not --
Windsurf resolves to no isolation by design, having no named concurrent dispatch
to isolate. The test claimed a registry fact that was never true, and a comment
in the resolver repeated it. Both corrected, and the test now proves what it
should have all along: that the parser accepts any bare flag value, rather than
one runtime's supposed value.

The new guard was missing from the bundled-hook whitelist, which is the surface
that decides what actually ships, and the per-plan gate had gained calls to the
launcher without the preamble those calls require. The changeset carried
parenthetical product descriptions the purity rule forbids.

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

* chore(#3045): backfill changeset pr number

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

* test(#3045): make the guard tests hold on Windows

Two tests redirect HOME to control where the installer-persisted runtime default
is read from. Node resolves the home directory from USERPROFILE on Windows and
never consults HOME, so both silently read the real runner profile, found no
recorded runtime, and asserted against a project the hook had not recognised. The
production code was already correct in asking the platform rather than the
variable; only the tests were wrong to assume one variable answers everywhere.
The helpers now mirror the override onto both.

The symlink spoofing test also created a directory symlink unconditionally, which
needs elevated privileges on Windows. It survived on this runner, but it would
fail on any host without them, so the creation is now attempted and the test
skips explicitly when it cannot be done -- a bare return would have counted as a
pass and hidden the gap.

Skipping alone would have left the platform uncovered, so the behaviour it proves
is now also driven in-process through an injected realpath, following the seam
already used for the clock. That case no longer depends on privileges at all, and
the end-to-end test keeps its original assertions wherever symlinks work.

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2026-08-04 23:42:16 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a987cf2731 chore(#2932): emit a per-invocation section manifest from the init bundle (#2987)
* chore(#2932): emit a per-invocation section manifest from init

Extends the init bundle with a typed per-invocation section manifest so an
invocation loads only the branch guidance it will actually take.

The three flag/state-gated branches in execute-phase.md move into their own
step files; the parent keeps its gsd:section markers wrapping a one-line
on-demand reference, so each section's prose lives in exactly one file and
the parent shrinks 93369 -> 89507 bytes. A new drift-guarded generator
derives the shipped section manifest from those markers, and a new pure
evaluator maps invocation facts to applicable section ids.

The evaluator is a lookup over the frozen WHEN_VOCABULARY, never a parser
(Greenspun's Tenth Rule, ADR-1671:69); a parity test asserts the vocabulary
and the predicate map stay exhaustively in sync.

Closes #2932

* fix(#2932): fail closed on prototype-chain when values

An isolated adversarial review found WHEN_PREDICATES[section.when] was a
bracket lookup on a plain-prototype object, so inherited Object.prototype
members resolved as predicates: "constructor"/"toString"/"valueOf"/
"hasOwnProperty" returned truthy and SILENTLY INCLUDED the section, and
"__proto__" threw an untyped TypeError carrying no .reason. Both violate
the module's documented fail-closed contract, and the manifest is read from
disk at run time so it cannot be assumed trustworthy.

Builds the predicate map on a null prototype and guards the lookup with an
explicit Object.hasOwn check. Adds table-driven coverage for nine
Object.prototype-shaped keys asserting the TYPED reason (asserting only
that it throws would still pass while broken) plus a fast-check property
injecting a hostile value at an arbitrary document position.

* test(#2932): retarget execute-phase step assertions at extracted step files

* fix(#2932): emit typed reasons for generator lib-load and write failures

* fix(#2932): restore launcher preamble in extracted steps and refresh derived fixtures

* chore(#2932): backfill changeset pr number to 2987

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2026-08-02 12:34:41 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6ad30f74b6 feat(#2584): Phase 3 — scheduler consumer + isolation adapters (#2635)
Final phase of #2584 (ADR-1239 Codex-binding amendment). execute-phase now negotiates dispatch.isolation and dispatches through the matching adapter, so a wave's independent plans run concurrently on six runtimes instead of one — with no runtime=== branch in the scheduler.

harness-worktree passes the host's declared isolation flag (claude, cursor); orchestrator-worktree creates the worktree via the Phase-2 verb and spawns the executor into it with the resolved argv/cwd (codex, opencode, kimi, kimi-code); none stays sequential. Undeclared/unknown/unresolvable isolation degrades to none — never an unisolated parallel run.

Fixes two shipped Phase-2 descriptors that per-host research found would fail at spawn: kimi lacked its headless flag (would launch the interactive TUI and hang the orchestrator), and kimi-code named a non-existent binary (Kimi Code installs as 'kimi'). Adds the worktree-path root confinement Phase 2 deferred here, and leading-dash guards on the resolver's prompt/cwd matching the existing git-argument guard.

Closes #2627

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2026-07-25 01:50:20 -04:00
Tom Boucher
f654c24a3e feat(#2505): Phase 4 — runtime-aware subagent dispatch (Option A; resolve-dispatch-type query) (#2525)
* feat(#2508): Phase 4 Option A — runtime-aware subagent dispatch via resolve-dispatch-type query (#2505)

* fix(#2508): prose-variant preamble (avoid scanner-tripping literals) + namedDispatch===false-only mapping

* fix(#2508): remove leftover old-preamble lines (keep prose variant only)

* fix #2508: prose-only reference file

* test #2508: regen golden install parity after workflow preamble additions

* fix #2508: remove preamble from plan-phase.md (Phase 6 capstone ceiling); regen size+golden baselines

* docs(changeset): backfill PR #2525 for Phase 4 (#2508)
2026-07-22 10:22:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d0bacc2517 fix(#2351): replace hardcoded timeout with portable run-with-timeout (#2426)
* fix(#2351): replace hardcoded gnu timeout with portable run-with-timeout

Stock macOS ships neither `timeout` nor `gtimeout` (GNU coreutils). The 10
hardcoded `timeout <n> <cmd>` calls across the workflow/agent/reference gates
exited 127 ("command not found") on such hosts, and the gates — which only
distinguish 0/124/other — misreported a passing build or test as a FAILURE.

Fix: a single Node-based `gsd_run run-with-timeout <secs> [--] <cmd…>` verb in
gsd-tools.cjs. Coreutils-independent (stock macOS AND Windows), keeps GNU
`timeout`'s exit-code contract (124 timeout, passthrough, 127/126 ENOENT/EACCES,
128+signum on signal), inherits stdio so pipes/redirects work, and reaps the
whole process group so a watch-mode runner cannot outlive its budget. Runs
before gsd-tools' flag parsing so the wrapped argv stays opaque.

Hardened per adversarial review:
- On timeout, SIGKILL the group SYNCHRONOUSLY before resolving — a descendant
  that traps SIGTERM was otherwise orphaned holding stdout, hanging captured
  gates (the exact watch-mode hang the feature prevents).
- Forward SIGINT/SIGTERM to the child tree instead of dying and orphaning it.
- Reject blank/whitespace <seconds> (was a silent unbounded run); clamp the
  timer to the 32-bit setTimeout ceiling (was a spurious immediate timeout).
- Lint detector: catch GNU long options / `-k5` / `$((...))`; anchor to command
  position so prose "timeout 30 seconds" no longer false-positives.

Resolution lives once in the CLI; all 10 sites call the shared verb. A parity
guard (scripts/lint-portable-timeout.cjs, wired into lint:ci) fails the build if
a bare `timeout`/`gtimeout` execution reappears (the portable `command -v
timeout` probe form is intentionally allowed). Also fixes the identical bug in
the zh-CN checkpoints translation, updates the tests that asserted the old
strings, trims a redundant phrase in gsd-verifier.md to keep it under its size
hard cap, and refreshes the size baselines + golden install-parity fixtures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#2351): add changeset (#2426)

* chore: regenerate golden/size baseline after rebase onto next

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2026-07-19 14:37:15 -04:00
Tom Boucher
863a54ec82 fix(#2350): pass --raw to config-get in every build/test gate (#2399)
Adds --raw to config-get workflow.build_command|test_command reads in the post-merge, regression, verify-phase, and audit-fix gates so an unset key is a genuinely empty string, not the literal "" — restoring the auto-detect cascade and graceful skip instead of a false exit-127 failure. Regression guard sweeps all four gate files. Fixes #2350.
2026-07-18 01:14:45 -04:00
Tom Boucher
603593d41d fix(#1857): test gates normalize to one-shot + bounded timeout (no watch-mode hang)
A GSD verification gate resolves a project's test command and runs it. vitest
defaults to WATCH mode in an interactive TTY — exactly where a user runs
`gsd-execute-phase` — so a resolved `npm test`/`pnpm test` backed by vitest never
exited and the orchestrator waited indefinitely. Recovery needed the user to
manually prompt "something blocking?".

Fix — one shared helper + a bounded, surfacing timeout on the test-command gates:
- New pure module src/normalize-test-command.cts + `gsd-tools query
  normalize-test-command` verb: rewrites a resolved command to a best-effort
  one-shot form (direct vitest → `vitest run`; jest `--watch` → `--watchAll=false`;
  a package-manager `test` script whose package.json runner is watch-vitest →
  `CI=true` prefix; handles `--dir`; already-one-shot commands unchanged —
  never double-flagged). Named `normalize-test-command` (not `test-*`) so the
  file does not match node --test's default `test-*` discovery glob.
- The three gates that HUNG or silently-continued route through that ONE helper
  and bound execution with `timeout $(config-get workflow.test_gate_timeout)`
  (new config key, default 600s): the regression gate (extracted to
  execute-phase/steps/regression-gate.md since execute-phase.md is size-frozen —
  it shrank 93528→93132; ABORTS on exit 124), the post-merge gate, and the
  audit-fix gate (previously an UNBOUNDED `eval`). All name watch/dev mode on 124.
- verify-phase's gate was ALREADY bounded (a fixed `timeout 300`, not a hang), so
  it only gains the normalizer (so a watch runner exits fast) + a watch-mode hint
  on 124, staying under its frozen 40960-byte tier cap.

Security hardening (review): the normalizer only rewrites a runner named as a
standalone command TOKEN (so `run-vitest.js`/`make test-vitest`/paths are never
mangled), is length-capped and uses only linear-time split-based scanning (no
super-linear backtracking on an adversarial `workflow.test_command`), and reads
package.json only when it is a regular file (never blocks on a FIFO via `--dir`).

Config key `workflow.test_gate_timeout` (seconds, default 600) registered in the
schema manifest + templates/config.json + docs/CONFIGURATION.md (mirrors
workflow.cross_ai_timeout). New module registered in .gitignore, eslint ignores,
inventory manifest/index. All 16 golden-install-parity fixtures + workflow size
baseline regenerated for the changed shipped files; bin/lib is excluded from the
parity manifest.

Tests: tests/normalize-test-command.test.cjs (normalizer units incl. security
hardening) and tests/test-gate-watch-mode.test.cjs (the three core gates route
through the shared helper + configured timeout + exit-124 watch-mode hint;
verify-phase asserted as normalize-only/already-bounded).
tests/execute-phase-active-flags.test.cjs repointed at the extracted step;
tests/planner-language-regression.test.cjs allowlist comment updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 12:14:43 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a62079b2da fix(#1865): runtime launcher honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (#2024)
* fix(#1865): runtime launcher honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR

The gsd_run preamble resolved the Claude global install only at
$HOME/.claude/gsd-core/bin/, but the installer honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR —
so a global install redirected via CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR was invisible to every
gsd_run call (every command failed with 'gsd-tools.cjs not found').

The Claude resolver arm now uses ${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude},
matching the installer + the other runtimes' ${VAR:-default} pattern.
Default $HOME/.claude behavior is unchanged.

- _runtime-launcher.snippet.sh: Claude arm honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR.
- sync-runtime-launcher.cjs re-run: 95 workflows/agents re-synced.
- review.md / discuss-phase.md: trimmed to stay under their byte budgets.
- runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs: (A) substring updated for the new form
  + explicit #1865 assertion that the snippet honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR.
- goldens + size baselines recaptured.

Closes #1865

* docs(#1865): backfill changeset pr 2024
2026-07-05 14:20:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
91bd82f9a6 enhance(execute): isolated-executor rejected/over-reaching run fails safe — never default recovery to main (#1292) (#1303)
* enhance(execute): isolated-executor rejected/over-reaching run fails safe (#1292)

When an isolated (worktree) executor run is rejected — the user declines to
merge it, the orchestrator surfaces recovery for a blocked/halted plan, or the
run over-reached the requested scope — the orchestrator must no longer
default/propose recovery by editing the primary checkout (`main`). Absent an
explicit guardrail, the LLM orchestrator could improvise "continue on main",
inverting the isolation contract at the moment it matters most.

Added an ISOLATED-RUN RECOVERY — FAIL SAFE policy: default to a safe halt that
offers a fresh, narrowly-scoped worktree or inspect/discard; editing the primary
checkout requires explicit, clearly-labeled confirmation and is never the
default/proposed option.

To respect the ADR-857 phase-6 host-loop size cap on execute-phase.md (it sits
just under the pre-phase-6 baseline), the policy is delivered as an extracted
reference fragment rather than inline:
- New `execute-phase/steps/worktree-recovery-policy.md` holds the recovery policy
  (the existing FAIL-CLOSED rule #48 for base/HEAD mismatches + the #1292
  fail-safe guardrail). No #48 behavior change — moved verbatim.
- execute-phase.md references the fragment at the worktree-spawn recovery point,
  the step-5.5 merge decision, and the stalled-agent "switch to inline execution"
  menu (which for an isolated run now follows the fail-safe policy). Net effect:
  execute-phase.md shrinks below its cap.
- quick.md carries the fail-safe guardrail inline at its post-return merge/discard
  decision (quick.md is not size-capped).

Scoped to the recovery offer only — no automatic scope-overreach detection
(explicitly out of scope per the issue) and no new config key. Adds content
regression tests, a USER-GUIDE note, and a workflow size-baseline update.

Closes #1292

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(changeset): Changed fragment for #1292 isolated-executor fail-safe recovery

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2026-06-15 20:53:38 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7c07fce70f fix(#381): make gsd_run launcher reachable in fresh-shell-per-block runtimes (#1084)
* fix(#381): make gsd_run launcher reachable in fresh-shell-per-block runtimes

On runtimes that execute each fenced bash block in a separate shell process
(e.g. Claude Code — documented behavior: each Bash command is a separate
process; inline shell functions and exported vars do not persist between
calls), the once-per-file gsd_run() function was undefined in every block
after the preamble block, and the call was swallowed by
`2>/dev/null || echo "{}"` into silent empty state.

Fix (budget-neutral session-level resolution):
- Ship gsd-core/bin/gsd_run, a POSIX sh wrapper that symlink-resolves its own
  location and execs the co-located gsd-tools.cjs. Exposed on PATH via the npm
  `bin` field (global installs) and shipped to local installs via the recursive
  gsd-core/ copy.
- The per-file launcher preamble now appends `export PATH='<bindir>':"$PATH"`
  to the file named by $CLAUDE_ENV_FILE (Claude Code's documented
  env-persistence mechanism) so later fresh-shell blocks resolve gsd_run from
  PATH. Guarded as a strict no-op when CLAUDE_ENV_FILE is unset; the inline
  gsd_run() definition remains the fallback for all other runtimes. The
  single-quoted dir neutralizes shell metacharacters at source time.
- Propagated via scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs to all launcher-using files.
- XL workflow byte budget 93000 -> 93200 (the ~130B clause pushes plan-phase.md
  to 93135; legitimate content growth, ratchet-up per #717).

Regression tests (I)/(J) in runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs cover wrapper
delegation and end-to-end PATH persistence (sourcing the env file with a
space-bearing install path).

Known limitation: an install path containing a literal single-quote yields a
malformed env-file line and falls back to the status quo (no regression);
rare on sanitized home directories.

Closes #381

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* docs(#381): add changeset for gsd_run fresh-shell reachability fix

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* test(#381): scope test (J) bare-PATH execution to POSIX (Windows Git Bash exec bit)

Windows Git Bash (msys2) does not honor Node's chmod exec bit for
PATH-executing extension-less scripts, so the bare `gsd_run` command lookup
failed there even though the env-file PATH persistence was correct. The
env-file content assertions (the fix's actual cross-platform logic) still run
on every platform; only the final source-and-execute sub-step is gated to
non-win32. Global installs on Windows are covered by npm's generated bin shim.

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2026-06-11 21:42:52 -04:00
Jeremy McSpadden
fb37fa7dd5 fix(#725): route Codex gsd-tools calls through shim (#731)
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2026-06-10 14:44:43 -04:00
Tom Boucher
a90c654745 fix(#891): probe non-Claude runtime homes in gsd-tools launcher shim detection (#911)
- Updated `gsd-core/workflows/_runtime-launcher.snippet.sh` with 15 new
  `elif` arms covering Hermes, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Windsurf,
  Augment, Trae, Qwen, CodeBuddy, Cline, Grok, Antigravity, OpenCode, and
  Kilo (respecting each runtime's env-var override with a `$HOME`-relative
  default).
- Re-ran `scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs` to propagate the expanded
  snippet into all `gsd-core/workflows/*.md` files (~70 files).
- Manually applied the same snippet update to `commands/gsd/import.md`
  (1 occurrence) and `commands/gsd/graphify.md` (5 occurrences) — these
  are not covered by the sync script.
- Updated `tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs` budgets (XL/LARGE/DEFAULT
  + discuss-phase target) to account for the ~3 KB snippet expansion.
- Added regression test `tests/bug-891-non-claude-runtime-home-fallback.test.cjs`
  (6 tests: structural probe presence, ordering, behavioral HERMES_HOME
  env-var + default-path stubs, resolution order, and workflow propagation).
- Added `.changeset/891-launcher-non-claude-runtime-homes.md` (Fixed).

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2026-06-08 22:51:40 -04:00
Tom Boucher
b38ae41243 fix(#619): resolve gsd-tools via runtime shim in codebase-drift-gate (#645)
* fix(#619): resolve gsd-tools via runtime shim in codebase-drift-gate

The post-execution drift check ran the bare PATH binary
`gsd-tools verify codebase-drift`. On a shim-only install (gsd-tools.cjs
present, `gsd-tools` not on PATH) that exits 127, `2>/dev/null` hides it,
and the `|| echo` fallback marks the gate skipped — so codebase-drift
detection silently never runs. Non-blocking by contract, so nothing
surfaced; it just quietly stopped working.

Resolve gsd-tools through the runtime shim launcher (gsd_run) instead.
The canonical launcher preamble is now defined once in the always-run
drift-check block (the file's first gsd_run block); the conditional
auto-remap block reuses gsd_run from the workflow's shared shell scope,
keeping the file compliant with the single-canonical-preamble parity
invariant (tests/runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs). This is the same
single-preamble pattern established by discuss-phase (#614). Non-blocking
is preserved for the drift command's internal failures via the unchanged
`|| echo '{"skipped":...}'` fallback.

Scope decision (the issue's open question): workflow step-file bash blocks
share one shell scope, so the preamble is defined once before the first
gsd_run call — matching discuss-phase and enforced by the parity test.

Regression test (bug-619-...): contract assertions (gsd_run not bare
gsd-tools; single preamble in the drift block; fallback intact) plus a
behavioral proof that runs the shipped drift-check block against a
shim-only topology and asserts the shim actually executes where the old
bare-binary form would have skipped. Red→green verified.

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* chore(#619): add changeset for codebase-drift-gate shim fix

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2026-06-03 08:08:34 -04:00
Tom Boucher
463cffd894 chore(#604): rename get-shit-done/ runtime directory to gsd-core/ (#615)
* chore(#604): rename get-shit-done/ runtime directory to gsd-core/

Renames the installed runtime directory `get-shit-done/` to `gsd-core/` so the
on-disk name matches the package (`@opengsd/gsd-core`), repo, and binary
(`gsd-tools`). The npm package name and binary are unchanged; npx/npm consumers
are unaffected.

Mechanical (bulk, ~90% of the diff):
- `git mv get-shit-done gsd-core`
- Swept path/identifier references across the repo via
  `perl -pe 's/get-shit-done(?!-\w)/gsd-core/g'`. The negative lookahead
  preserves the five legitimate slug variants that are NOT the directory:
  get-shit-done-{OLD,cc,classic,cli,redux} (old package/repo names).
- Build/manifest wiring: package.json (bin, files, coverage globs),
  tsconfig.build.json (outDir), ~86 .gitignore build-output entries,
  stryker.config.mjs, scan-ignore files, install.js path strings.
- Frozen (not rewritten): CHANGELOG.md history; translated docs
  (README.<locale>.md and docs/{ja-JP,ko-KR,pt-BR,zh-CN}/).

New logic (review here):
- src/installer-migrations/003-rename-get-shit-done-to-gsd-core.cts: a proper
  ADR-0008 installer migration. On upgrade it walks the legacy
  `~/.claude/get-shit-done/` tree, classifies each file via the prior install
  manifest, and emits remove-managed / backup-and-remove for managed files
  while PRESERVING unknown user-added files. Symlink-safe (skips a symlinked
  root and symlinked entries; bounds-checks every path under configDir). The
  framework rolls back on install failure. Emptied dirs may remain (framework
  has no recursive dir-removal primitive) — documented.
- scripts/lint-legacy-dir-name.cjs: CI regression guard forbidding the bare
  `get-shit-done` directory token (split token to avoid self-match; case-
  insensitive; `(?!-\w)` lookahead allows the slug variants; allowlists
  CHANGELOG, translated docs, and `gsd-allow-legacy-name` marker lines).
  Wired into the lint-tests CI job.
- Restored scripts/lint-package-identity-drift.cjs detection regexes (the
  mechanical sweep had wrongly rewritten the old-name patterns it exists to
  detect) and marked them as intentional legacy references.
- TDD tests for the migration and the guard; do.md slash-command guard regex
  tightened so a `/gsd-core/bin` path segment is not mistaken for a command;
  changeset + docs/installer-migrations.md row added.

Breaking: the installed runtime path moves `~/.claude/get-shit-done/` ->
`~/.claude/gsd-core/`. Migration 003 removes the stale legacy dir's managed
files (preserving user files) on upgrade. Users with custom hooks/configs
hardcoding the old path must update them.

Closes #604

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): unsweep pending changesets + allowlist injection-example docs

CI fixes for the rename PR:
- Do not sweep pending .changeset/*.md (ephemeral release-note fragments,
  like CHANGELOG); reverted those body edits so 5 pre-existing malformed
  fragments (missing type/pr) no longer enter the PR diff and trip docs-lint.
  Allowlisted .changeset/ in the legacy-name guard accordingly.
- Allowlisted TEST-EXAMPLES.md and docs/explanation/security-model.md in
  prompt-injection-scan.sh: they contain intentional injection examples /
  security-model prose; the path-reference rewrites are kept.

CodeQL alerts on this PR are pre-existing (alert lines unchanged by this PR;
none in the new migration/guard) and are out of scope for the rename.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): resolve CodeQL alerts surfaced on this PR

The rename diff touched files carrying pre-existing CodeQL findings; per the
no-pre-existing-dismissal rule, fixing every surfaced alert rather than waving
them off. All behavior-preserving:

- scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs: build the config-path match from string
  .includes() instead of a RegExp over an arg-derived value (js/regex-injection).
- src/profile-output.cts: escape backslashes before pipe-escaping desc/safeName
  so the table-cell escape is complete (js/incomplete-sanitization).
- tests/{bug-2643,bug-2808,docs-parity-live-registry}: two-pass HTML-comment
  strip so a bare/unclosed `<!--` cannot survive (js/incomplete-multi-character-sanitization).
- tests/inline-plan-threshold: drop the no-op `\s`->`\s` identity replace,
  keep the meaningful POSIX-class conversion (js/identity-replacement).

Verified: build:lib green; the touched test files + ci-test-scope + profile-output
suites pass; lint:legacy-name clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): correctly resolve remaining CodeQL alerts (regex-injection + sanitization)

The prior commit's fixes for two alerts were ineffective:
- ci-test-scope.cjs js/regex-injection: the alert is the CLI-arg-derived `file`
  reaching static regex `.test(file)` calls (not the config rule). Removed ALL
  regex over file/t — startsWith/includes/=== string checks + an isWindowsHint
  helper — so there is no regex sink for the tainted value.
- js/incomplete-multi-character-sanitization (3 test files): a single
  `.replace(/<!--...-->/g,'')` can let `<!--` re-form. Replaced with a fixpoint
  loop (replace until stable) plus a final bare-opener strip.

Verified: no regex over file/t remains; ci-test-scope + the 3 test suites pass;
lint:legacy-name clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): make ci-test-scope + comment-strippers regex-free to clear CodeQL

CodeQL flags the regex PATTERNS syntactically (regex-injection on the
--files arg split; incomplete-multi-character-sanitization on the <!--...-->
replace), so loop fixes do not satisfy it. Made these paths regex-free:
- ci-test-scope.cjs splitFiles: char-by-char separator tokenizer (no /[,\\s]+/).
- 3 test files: indexOf/slice HTML-comment stripper (no .replace(/<!--/)).
Behavior preserved; ci-test-scope + the 3 suites pass; guard clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): unblock security base64 scan on the large rename diff

The security job hit its 10m timeout: base64-scan.sh choked on the binary
test fixture tests/feat-3594-parser-property-style.test.cjs (embedded NUL/
non-UTF8 bytes -> thousands of bogus blobs + "ignored null byte" warnings),
and the ~800-file rename diff is slow to scan regardless.

- scripts/base64-scan.sh: skip binary-by-content files (grep -Iq .) — they
  can't carry base64-obfuscated *text* and feeding NUL bytes through the
  per-line scanner is pathologically slow. collect_files already filtered
  binary *extensions*; this catches binary *content* in text extensions.
- .github/workflows/security-scan.yml: raise the security job timeout 10m->30m
  to accommodate very large diffs (the scan itself is unchanged).

Verified locally: scan skips the fixture, 0 "ignored null byte" warnings,
0 findings, exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): sweep get-shit-done refs introduced by merging next

The branch was updated with next (#614/#384/#618 etc.), which reference the
get-shit-done/ dir (still named that on next). Swept the stale references in
the merged files to gsd-core so the rename stays consistent and lint:legacy-name
passes:
- commands/gsd/discuss-phase.md (runtime-launcher shim paths)
- src/core.cts (getAgentsDir layout comments)
- tests/bug-384-agents-runtime-aware.test.cjs (require path to runtime lib)

Verified: guard 0 violations; build green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): exclude gsd-core/ path segments from bug-3683 command cross-ref invariant

The #614 runtime-launcher shim added to discuss-phase.md references
`${_GSD_RUNTIME_ROOT}/gsd-core/bin/...`. bug-3683's REF_PATTERN excluded path-y
refs only via lookbehind, but `}` precedes `/gsd-core/` in the shim, so it
mis-read the directory path as a dangling `/gsd-core` command ref (same class as
the #604 bug-2954 fix). Added a trailing `(?![\w-]*\/)` so `/gsd-<x>/...` path
segments are not treated as slash-command references.

Verified locally on BOTH platforms before pushing:
- mac (node 26) full suite: 0 failures
- gsd-test-runner (linux, node22 image) full suite: 0 failures
- bug-3683 + bug-2954 pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): lazily resolve findProjectRoot in gsd-tools (harden flaky CI)

CI intermittently failed state.test's gsd-tools subprocess with
"findProjectRoot is not a function" (flip-flopping across legs; not reproducible
on mac full suite, gsd-test linux full suite, test:unit, or state.test x8).
findProjectRoot is a re-export from core.cjs (sourced from project-root.cjs);
binding it via destructure at module-load can be undefined under a load-ordering
edge. Resolve it lazily at call time via a small wrapper so the lookup happens
after core.cjs is fully initialized.

Verified green on BOTH platforms before pushing:
- mac (node 26) full suite: 0 failures
- gsd-test-runner (linux, node22) full suite: 0 failures
- state.test.cjs: 106/106; gsd-tools loads cleanly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#604): allowlist verification-patterns.md placeholder examples in secret scan

The rename git-mv'd references/verification-patterns.md into gsd-core/, pulling
it into the secret-scan diff. It documents stub/placeholder RED-FLAG env-var
examples (illustrative Stripe test-key / database-URL / API-key placeholders) —
not real credentials. Added it to .secretscanignore with the strict annotation,
mirroring the existing gsd-core/workflows/plan-phase.md exception.

Verified locally: secret-scan-lint --strict OK; secret-scan --diff origin/next
exits 0 with 0 findings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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