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Tom Boucher
382bf7c423 fix(#3706): deliver the resolved reasoning effort to OpenCode subagents (#3867)
* test(#3706): failing-first coverage for OpenCode variant emission and frontmatter escaping

* fix(#3706): emit the resolved reasoning effort as OpenCode's variant key

`query resolve-execution` resolved an effort level for every agent, but the
OpenCode bake wrote only `model:` — the effort never reached the generated
agent, so subagents ran at whatever the runtime defaulted the model to. This
is the effort-side twin of the model-side defect fixed in #3705.

The key is written only when an `effort` block is actually configured.
`resolveInstallTimeEffort` always returns a level (the catalog default is
`high`), so gating on its return value would stamp `variant: high` into every
existing OpenCode install — and OpenCode resolves a variant name against a
`variants` map in the user's `opencode.jsonc`, so a value nobody declared is
not a safe default. Gating on `readGsdEffectiveEffortConfig` keeps installs
that never asked for effort routing byte-identical.

Kilo does not receive the key: `EFFORT_ARGV` declares surfaces for claude,
opencode and codex and has no kilo entry. This is deliberately asymmetric with
the model side, where #2794 J8 requires the two runtimes to resolve alike.

Both frontmatter sinks now route through `frontmatterScalar`, which quotes and
escapes any value that is not a plain scalar. The raw interpolation predates
this change, but it was already shown by execution during the #3705 security
review to let a config value containing a newline inject additional top-level
keys (`tools:`, `permission:`) into a generated agent file. This change adds a
second write to that sink, so it is closed here rather than doubled.

* fix(#3706): quote frontmatter values YAML would not read back verbatim

Self-review of the predicate added in the previous commit. Treating
/^[A-Za-z0-9._:/@+-]+$/ as 'safe to emit bare' answers the wrong question:
a value can match it and still not round-trip.

  - A leading '@' is a YAML *reserved* indicator and may not open a plain
    scalar at all, so a scoped ID like '@org/model' emitted bare is a parse
    error, not an ambiguity — the whole agent file becomes unreadable.
  - 'no' / 'y' / 'off' / 'null' resolve to booleans and null, so a variant
    with one of those names would match no entry in the user's variants map.
  - '12:30' resolves to 750 under YAML 1.1 sexagesimal, and ':' is legal
    mid-identifier here, so the form is reachable rather than contrived.

Real model IDs pass every clause and stay bare, so already-generated files
remain byte-identical.

* fix(#3706): route variant through the declared effort seam and cover the live path

Addresses six findings from the isolated review, all confirmed by execution.

The tests were the serious one: they required `../bin/install.js` while the fix
landed in src/, which compiles to gsd-core/bin/lib/. They exercised a different
copy of the converter than the one the bake actually uses, so the whole suite
was green-by-construction against unchanged code and the remote run failed all
13. Every case now runs against BOTH copies from one table, which doubles as the
parity assertion the generative-fix note in runtime-artifact-conversion.cts asks
for, and bin/install.js carries the mirrored change.

Emission no longer hand-rolls the value. It goes through `renderEffortArgv`,
the declared OpenCode effort seam (EFFORT_ARGV.opencode: its own supported set
and clamp). That is what rejects a level that is not a wire value — above all
`inherit`, which per #3533 (10d) means "omit the key and follow the host
default" and was previously written literally, naming a variant that cannot
resolve. Reachable two ways, both now pinned: an agent_overrides entry and a
routing_tier_defaults entry. A bare effort.default does NOT reach a tiered
agent (the #3531 tier ladder answers first), so a test written against
`default` alone asserts nothing — that is pinned too.

The plain-scalar decision moved into frontmatter.cts beside
`scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting` rather than sitting next to it as a second, weaker
predicate. `agentScalarNeedsDoubleQuoting` is a documented superset: it adds a
trailing `:` (read as a nested mapping key, which fails the whole frontmatter),
boolean/null words, and numeric-looking values including YAML 1.1 sexagesimal.

Docs now state the cascade plainly: the gate is on effort being configured at
all, not on the individual agent being named, so every generated OpenCode agent
gets a variant line once any effort block exists.

* test(#3706): assert the two frontmatterScalar copies cannot diverge

A hand-picked adversarial corpus plus a fast-check property over
YAML-significant strings, both run against bin/install.js and the live
src copy. Verified the property can actually fail: mutating one copy's
quoting rule is killed well inside the run budget.

* fix(#3706): close the review findings — predicate, seam, and dead mirror

Third review round; every item below was confirmed by execution.

The scalar predicate was wrong in two families, both found by a round-trip
property test rather than by reading. Basing it on scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting
dropped the "first character must be alphanumeric" clause, so `~`, `.inf`,
`.nan`, `+1`, `-0` and `.5` went out bare and came back as null/floats/ints;
and that base predicate only inspects the FIRST character, so an embedded `: `
(a nested mapping, i.e. a parse error) or ` #` (a comment, i.e. silent
truncation) also passed. Dates round out the set: `2026-08-25` opens
alphanumeric, survives every other clause, and YAML resolves it to a Date.
The property now asserts the contract directly over generated values instead
of trusting an enumerated character list.

The bin/install.js mirror is gone. Its premise was false — install.js already
requires bin/lib at :65 — and it was unreachable besides: install.js's
convertClaudeToOpencodeFrontmatter has no `isAgent: true` call site, because
its agents path resolves converters from the compiled module. It was a third
copy of the YAML rules serving a test rather than a caller, so the file is
back to origin/next and the tests target the live copy only.

Effort clamping moved to `clampEffortForHost`, which renderEffortArgv now
delegates to. The layout was calling renderEffortArgv with a hardcoded 'argv'
to borrow its clamp, which read as if the frontmatter key were gated on the
invocation-time axis. It is not: claude declares effortSurface "argv" and
independently bakes an effort: key. One capability table, one clamp, two
channels that no longer pretend to be each other.

Also corrects an earlier claim of mine: adding EFFORT_RENDERING.opencode would
NOT have made `effort sync` write the wrong key, because it guards on the
runtime name before it ever renders. The seam choice stands on other grounds.
`effort sync` still skips OpenCode, but its stated reason claimed OpenCode
"does not use effort: frontmatter", which this change makes false — so the
message now says what is actually true.

* docs(#3706): restate the changeset around the round-trip contract

* fix(#3706): restore the changeset fragment belonging to #3809

An earlier commit in this branch picked the first file in .changeset/ by
glob order instead of the fragment created for this issue, and overwrote
agile-geese-squeak.md (PR 3815 / #3809) with this change's body. Restored
verbatim from origin/next; this change's text now lives in its own
patient-cranes-parade.md, where it was created.

* feat(#3706): maintain the OpenCode variant key from effort sync

Install bakes the resolved effort into OpenCode agent frontmatter as
`variant:`, so `effort sync` has to maintain it or a config change only takes
effect on reinstall — and its skip message claimed OpenCode does not use
frontmatter effort at all, which this issue made false.

cmdEffortSyncOpencode mirrors the codex branch: resolve per agent, clamp
through the declared OpenCode capability, then write, strip, or skip. A null
target means the key must not exist, which covers both "no effort configured"
and "resolved to inherit or to an unsupported level" — the same states under
which install writes nothing, so sync and install agree by construction.

The frontmatter line-editors are key-parameterised rather than copied:
setEffortFrontmatter / removeEffortFrontmatter are now thin wrappers over the
same internals the variant path uses, and a test pins that the claude `effort:`
behavior did not move. The child-process test harness fixes both HOME and
USERPROFILE, so the hermetic-config assertions cannot pass vacuously on Windows.

* fix(#3706): scope the frontmatter line editors to the matched block

Found by the security review of the sync path, reported as correctness rather
than vulnerability, and reproduced against pre-fix code before being fixed.

Both editors matched the frontmatter with a regex that can match a block after
a preamble, then derived the EOL and the opening-fence length from the START OF
THE FILE. On a CRLF document with a preamble those disagree, the offsets shift
by one byte, and the reassembled document comes back with a mangled fence
(`---\rname: x`). Both now take the EOL from the matched block.

`setFrontmatterKeyLine` additionally did a whole-file `/m` replace when the key
already existed, gated only on the key being present in the frontmatter body —
so a preamble line starting with the same key was rewritten instead of the
frontmatter one. It now replaces inside the frontmatter span only, which is the
hazard `removeFrontmatterKeyLine` already documented and guarded against.

Neither is reachable from an install-written `gsd-*.md` (those begin at byte 0
with `---`), and both predate this change — but the editors are in this diff
because #3706 key-parameterised them, so they are fixed here rather than left
for the next caller to trip over. Three regression tests, each confirmed to
fail against the pre-fix build.

* fix(#3706): treat a present-but-empty key as present, and pin the real seam

Fourth review round.

The MAJOR one: both sync branches read the current value with `(.+?)`, which
needs at least one character, so a key present with an EMPTY value read as
"key absent". When the target was also null the code concluded "already
correct" and skipped — leaving the key in the file, where it reads back as
YAML `null`: exactly the unresolvable-variant state this change exists to
prevent. Whitespace decided whether it fired, since `variant:   ` matched and
`variant:` did not. Presence and value are now separate questions at both the
opencode and the claude branch.

The OpenCode writer now follows the codex branch rather than the claude one:
tmp file plus retryRenameSync with orphan cleanup, and a write failure skips
that agent and is reported instead of aborting the sweep. Same granularity,
same transient-Windows-lock exposure, so the hardened sibling was the right
precedent.

Also: the generic line-editors escape their interpolated key, the JSDoc
stranded by the clampEffortForHost extraction is back on renderEffortArgv, and
a cast that declared a nullable function as non-nullable is corrected.

Tests close the gaps the review listed — empty value (both spellings), CRLF
round-trip through write and strip, the symlink guard, a body line starting
`variant:`, a file with no frontmatter, and the YAML classes that actually
broke the predicate. The new layout-seam test drives the real stage() path and
was verified to FAIL when `variant` is removed from the converter call; a seam
test that survives cutting the seam is worse than none.

* fix(#3706): clear the round-five review findings

No blockers or majors this round; the repo's review gate is zero-tolerance, so
the minors are cleared too.

A duplicated key was only half-stripped: the strip regex had no `g` flag, so a
frontmatter carrying the key twice lost one occurrence, reported success, and
left the "a null target means the key must not exist" invariant false on disk —
converging only on a second run. Such a document is already invalid YAML, so
this is robustness rather than a live corruption path, but a successful sync
has to leave the invariant true.

A run in which every write failed still summarised as `ok`, so a caller could
not tell "nothing to do" from "everything failed". The OpenCode branch now
reports `failed` when any write failed. The write-failure path was also the
newest code in the change with no coverage at all; it now has a test that
injects the failure by monkeypatching the write, per CLAUDE.md §4, rather than
by chmod — mode bits do not bite under root in CI.

`CodexEffortSyncWriteFailure` is renamed `EffortSyncWriteFailure` now that two
branches share it. Removed a guard on the claude concrete path that was
provably unreachable — no member of EFFORT_SET renders null there, so it read
as protection that did not exist. The claude inherit path's presence check is
load-bearing and untouched.

Three stale statements corrected: the OpenCode result shape matches codex's,
not claude's, now that it emits write_failures; the `thread()` test helper now
calls `clampEffortForHost` so it genuinely mirrors the layout instead of
merely claiming to; and a test helper restored `USERPROFILE` by assignment,
writing the literal string "undefined" into the environment on POSIX — it
deletes now.

* fix(#3706): converge the set path, degrade on unreadable files, preserve mode

Rounds five and six of review. No blockers or majors; the review gate is
zero-tolerance, so the minors are cleared too.

`setFrontmatterKeyLine` was the mirror of a defect already fixed in its
sibling: `remove` was made global, `set` was not, so on a frontmatter carrying
the key twice it rewrote the first and left a stale second. Last-wins YAML
readers honour the stale value while the sync's own first-occurrence read
reports "in sync" — permanently non-converging. It now collapses to exactly one
occurrence, in the position of the first, so ordinary single-occurrence
documents stay byte-identical (verified across seven shapes before and after).

An unreadable agent file used to throw and abort the entire sweep, while a
failed WRITE in the same loop degraded into a report. The OpenCode branch now
reports read failures alongside write failures; the claude branch degrades to a
skip without a new result field, because its shape is long-standing and widely
consumed and one bad file aborting the sweep is the actual defect.

The tmp+rename publish dropped the original file's mode — a plain writeFileSync
preserves it, a rename does not — so a 0600 agent came back 0644. Both the
OpenCode and the codex branch now carry the original's permission bits across
the publish, masked with 0o7777: the raw stat mode includes the file-type bits,
and POSIX leaves those unspecified for chmod. Linux is the only OS the remote
matrix runs, so relying on Darwin's tolerance would have been untestable here.

Also documents the `from` contract on EffortSyncChange (null means the key was
absent, '' means present with an empty value — a distinction earlier rounds
introduced and then collapsed in the output), adds OpenCode to the docs
paragraph enumerating where the key is omitted under inherit, and records in a
comment that the 'failed' summary reaches only raw mode and does not change the
exit code, which is a CLI-contract change affecting all three branches and is
deliberately not made here.

* fix(#3706): guard the codex read, close the tmp permission window, rename the failure type

Round seven, plus one thing I found myself.

`cmdEffortSyncCodex` still had an unguarded `fs.readFileSync` — a read fault on
one agent exited 1 and aborted the whole sweep. The claude and opencode
branches were both guarded earlier this round and codex was missed, with the
unguarded read sitting ten lines above the chmod block the previous commit did
edit. It now reports read failures the way the OpenCode branch does, and a read
failure flips its summary to `failed` — which write failures did not do there
either, so both are corrected for consistency.

The tmp file was created at the default mode and only tightened afterwards, so
a 0600 agent's contents sat in a 0644 file for the length of the publish. I
measured the window rather than assuming it, then closed it by passing the
mode at creation. The chmod after the write is deliberately RETAINED and
commented: the `mode` option only applies when the file is actually created, so
a leftover tmp from an earlier crashed run would be truncated and reused at its
old mode, and the chmod is what corrects that.

`EffortSyncWriteFailure` is renamed `EffortSyncFileFailure` — it was typing a
`read_failures` array, the same naming-lie the `Codex…` prefix had last round.

Also pins the codex mode preservation with a test. It only writes on a path
that genuinely rewrites the file, so the fixture is an Anthropic-flavoured
model pin the sync strips, and the test asserts the content changed before
checking the mode — otherwise it would pass on a sync that did nothing.

* fix(#3706): guard the claude writes and share one escaping rule

The security sign-off caught a comment of mine that was factually wrong: the
new claude read guard said the failure is folded in "like the write path in
this same loop does", and there was no write guard in that loop. Rather than
correct the sentence, both claude write sites are now guarded the way the read
is — a failed file is skipped, the sweep continues, and the raw summary token
flips to `failed`. The JSON shape stays frozen deliberately, because it is
long-standing and widely consumed; the token is the channel that can carry the
signal without a compatibility risk, which is the reviewer's own suggestion.

That makes all three branches consistent: reads and writes guarded everywhere,
per-file failures degrade instead of aborting, and every branch reports
`failed` rather than `ok` when something did not sync.

`setFrontmatterKeyLine` interpolated its value raw while the install-side
writer quoted through the shared helpers — two writers of the same frontmatter
key disagreeing on escaping, the divergence class this repo requires closed.
They now share one rule. Verified no churn: all six effort levels are plain
scalars and emit byte-identically, with claude's documented minimal-to-low
clamp the only difference in the table, exactly as before.

* fix(#3706): publish claude agent writes atomically too

Both reviewers found this independently, and it is data loss rather than a
reporting gap. The claude branch wrote in place, so `fs.writeFileSync`'s
O_TRUNC meant a post-open fault left the agent file truncated or half-written:
an injected ENOSPC produced an empty file, and under `ulimit -f` a 60000-byte
agent came back as 512 bytes of wrong content. The guard added earlier this
round then counted that destroyed file as `skipped`, which in JSON mode is
indistinguishable from "already in sync" — so a caller would have read the
sweep as clean while an agent on disk was corrupt.

It now publishes the way the codex and opencode branches already do: write to
a tmp file created at the original's masked mode, chmod, then retryRenameSync,
with the tmp unlinked and the agent skipped on any failure. The corrupting case
is gone rather than merely reported, which matters because this branch
deliberately takes no new result key.

I had claimed all three branches were consistent after the previous commit.
That was true for degradation and reporting and not for atomicity; the reviewer
caught the overclaim. It is true now.

Also sorts the claude file list, which the other two branches already did —
readdir order is platform-dependent, so leaving it unsorted made the reported
`changes` ordering differ across machines for identical inputs.

* chore(#3706): backfill the changeset PR number

pr:0 placeholder replaced with the real PR now that gh api returned it.

* test(#3706): kill the frontmatter mutants this change introduced

CI's Stryker frontmatter shard scored 60.58 against a break floor of 62.
The cause is documented in the lane's own config, from #1882: this PR added a
multi-clause predicate to frontmatter.cts and exported the escaper, but the
tests constraining them live in tests/runtime-converters.test.cjs, which that
shard does not run — so every mutant in the new code was uncovered there even
though the behaviour is tested elsewhere.

The fix is assertions that kill real mutants, per the repo's own instruction,
not a lowered floor and not a Stryker disable: scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs is
untouched. Each clause of agentScalarNeedsDoubleQuoting now has a true case AND
a near-miss that must answer the opposite way, so flipping the clause fails a
specific named test — alnum-first against `a-b`, trailing `:` against `foo:bar`,
embedded `: ` against `a:b`, embedded ` #` against `a#b`, the word list against
`yes1`/`nullish`, the numeric forms against `1a`/`0xzz`, the timestamp against
`2026-08-25x`, plus the case-insensitive spellings that pin the `i` flag.
escapeDoubleQuoted is pinned on exact output, including a case constructed so
that escaping in the wrong ORDER yields a different string.

Two of my expectations were wrong and are asserted as the code actually
behaves: `12:99` is NOT quoted, because the sexagesimal alternative never
range-checks minutes and so does not match — which is right, since YAML would
not read it as sexagesimal either; and `20260825` is quoted by the numeric
clause rather than the timestamp one, being a bare integer.

* chore(#3706): ratchet the frontmatter mutation floor to 65

The lane measured 66.67 on PR 3867 after the mutant-killing unit tests landed —
above its pre-change 63.35 baseline, not merely recovered. Step 3 of this
file's own HOW TO UPDATE procedure says to set minScore = floor(measured) - 1
in the same diff, so 62 becomes 65 and the improvement is locked in rather than
left free to slide back.

The ledger of measured scores now records the new measurement, why the shard
broke in the first place (logic added to frontmatter.cts whose only tests lived
in a file this lane does not run — the same trap the #1882 note describes), and
one discrepancy: step 3 also says to update "the matching RATCHET_BASELINE
entry", but no such declaration exists in this file. The name appears only in
that comment, so minScore and the ledger are all there is to update.

* fix(#3706): update RATCHET_BASELINE alongside the raised floor

The ratchet test caught the previous commit: it raised COVERED['frontmatter']
.minScore to 65 without updating the baseline that mirrors it, which is exactly
the mismatch that guard exists to make visible in review.

I had claimed RATCHET_BASELINE did not exist. It does — in
tests/mutation-matrix-ratchet.test.cjs, not in scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs,
which is the only file I searched before concluding it was a stale reference.
The ledger comment is corrected to say where it lives and to record that the
guard caught the error rather than leaving my wrong claim on the record.

* docs(#3706): put the mutation ledger entries back under their own dates

The 2026-08-25 measurement was spliced into the middle of the 2026-06-14 list,
so adr-parser, config-schema, active-workstream-store and core-utils ended up
sitting under the wrong heading and misattributing their measurement dates.
That ledger is what a future change reads to calibrate a floor, so a wrong date
there is not cosmetic. Each measurement is now under the date it was taken.

Also drops the first-person account of my own mistake from the entry — the
factual half (where RATCHET_BASELINE lives, and that it is updated in the same
diff) is what a reader needs; the confession is not.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-25 19:54:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
596540f864 feat(#3227): publish machine-readable state contract at step boundaries (#3824)
* feat(#3227): publish machine-readable state contract at step boundaries

Adds src/state-contract.cts, a best-effort publisher that writes
.planning/state.json (contract 1.0.0) at 11 step-boundary commands, so
external tools read a versioned contract instead of parsing STATE.md and
ROADMAP.md heuristically.

Composes existing owners rather than re-deriving: phase rows come from a
new locateProgressTable extracted from deriveProgressFromRoadmap (so the
snapshot can never disagree with GSD's own progress counters), milestone
identity from getMilestoneInfo, and next from classifyProject. Owners are
required lazily to avoid the state -> state-contract -> smart-entry ->
state require cycle.

Also fixes a pre-existing defect in scripts/lint-test-file-count.cjs
(maintainer-approved as a second concern): testEffectivePrefix never
stripped the suite qualifier, so 65 dotted test files counted against no
module and 9 mis-bucketed into a shorter one. Allowlist re-baselined for
the 74 files the gate can now see.

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

* chore(#3227): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment

pr:0 -> pr:3824 now that the PR exists. Doc-only.

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

* test(#3227): shape hostile-name fixtures away from the scan corpus

The two hostile-input fixtures used a literal phrase from
scripts/prompt-injection-scan.sh's corpus, so CI's Security Scan redded on
this file. These tests assert that an arbitrary phase name round-trips into
state.json as inert data -- the property holds for any string, so the
injection flavor is illustrative, not load-bearing.

Reshaped to a hyphenated fake instruction tag, which stays hostile-looking
while matching none of the scanner's patterns. Allowlisting the file was
rejected: that mechanism is for suites whose subject IS injection defense,
and it would blind the scanner to this whole file permanently.
See DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION.

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

* chore(#3227): ratchet the state-contract mutation floor to its measured score

The module was registered at minScore 50, the ratchet's minimum permitted
floor for a newly-registered module whose score had not been measured. This
PR's own Stryker shard measured 66.25% (run 32769289750, job 97565813640),
so the floor moves to floor(measured) - 1 = 65, per the rule the registry
documents.

66.25 is below TARGET_MUTATION_SCORE (80), so this stays a ratchet
candidate: raise as the tests improve, never lower.

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 17:56:02 -04:00
Tom Boucher
004e9dd741 fix(#3007): resolve Codex reasoning effort per model and make every clamp visible (#3765)
* test(#3007): failing-first suite for per-model Codex effort capability

RED by construction. Binds to behavior renderEffortForRuntime does not yet
have: an optional third `model` argument, a per-model advertised-level table,
`max` passing through instead of clamping to `xhigh`, `minimal` clamping to
`low`, `ultra` rejected outright, and clamp visibility (`requested`/`clamped`/
`reason`) so a downgrade is legible from resolver output rather than silent.

Two of these pin defects that exist on next today:

- `max` is discarded. Both Codex models whose catalog entries are retrievable
  (sol, luna) advertise `max`; GSD clamps it to `xhigh` and reports nothing.
- `minimal` is emitted to a model that refuses it. providerPresets.openai.
  haiku.low pairs gpt-5.6-luna with reasoning_effort "minimal", and luna's
  advertised floor is `low`. GSD is sending a value into a document Codex
  itself validates. The parity test is what pins that fixed, and it names the
  offending path/model/effort when it trips.

Also corrects tests/model-resolver.test.cjs:351, which asserted
renderEffortForRuntime('codex','max').value === 'xhigh' -- the defect pinned as
though it were a contract. ADR-443 recorded "Codex has no max" as fact and it
was true when written; Codex has since added both `max` and `ultra`. That is a
stale premise, so the assertion is corrected here rather than worked around.

The property test asserts the invariant the whole change exists for: a rendered
effort is always a level the target model actually advertises, or an explicit
rejection. There is no third outcome.

* fix(#3007): resolve Codex effort per model, and make every clamp visible

Codex declares supported_reasoning_levels per MODEL and validates against it,
so a single per-runtime capability set cannot be right for all of them. GSD's
was wrong in both directions at once.

`max` reaches Codex now. ADR-443 recorded "Codex has no max" as fact and clamped
max -> xhigh on that basis; it was accurate when written, and Codex has since
added both `max` and `ultra`. Every Codex model whose catalog entry is
retrievable advertises `max`, so the clamp was discarding a level the provider
supports, silently, on the most-used path.

`minimal` stops reaching Codex. No Codex model advertises it -- both retrievable
entries floor at `low` -- yet providerPresets.openai.haiku.low paired
gpt-5.6-luna with reasoning_effort "minimal". GSD was writing a value the
receiver validates and refuses into a file the receiver reads. Being
unconservative in what you send is the half of Postel's rule with no defensible
reading, so that preset is corrected and a parity test pins it.

`ultra` is refused rather than laddered. Codex's own catalog calls it "Maximum
reasoning with automatic task delegation": at ultra, effective_multi_agent_mode
returns Proactive and Codex spawns sub-agents on its own initiative, underneath
GSD's orchestration rather than inside it (#2167). It is a mode switch, not a
reasoning depth, so it is not added to the universal ladder -- which stays
provider-agnostic by ADR-443's design -- and it is rejected even for
gpt-5.6-sol, which does advertise it. Clamping it down to `max` was considered
and rejected: that silently discards what the user actually asked for.

Clamping is now visible. RenderedEffort carries requested/clamped/reason and
resolve-execution surfaces them. The previous table clamped correctly but
invisibly, so a user asking for `max` on Codex had no way to find out they were
getting `xhigh` -- exactly the failure mode the robustness principle's modern
critique warns about, and why "be liberal" has to mean "liberal and loud".

Also closes a latent trap found while reviewing the implementation: the clamp-up
loop walks the ladder upward, and for a future model advertising `ultra` but not
`max` it would have selected `ultra` as the clamp target -- re-entering by the
back door the mode the rejection above exists to keep out. A clamp may never
produce a value that a direct request for that value would refuse. Unreachable
with today's catalog, which is why no test caught it; a test now asserts the
invariant directly.

Signature stability is preserved: the third `model` argument is optional and the
two-argument form still resolves, against the family baseline. That form's
BEHAVIOR does change for `max` and `minimal`, and it must -- keeping the old
answer would have fixed the defect only where a model happened to be threaded
through and left it live everywhere else.

tests/model-resolver.test.cjs:351 asserted the defect as if it were a contract
and is corrected here rather than worked around.

* fix(#3007): close every review finding on the Codex effort alignment

Two isolated reviewers, correctness and security. Both found the same two
blockers, and the per-model work was inert on every surface that matters until
this commit.

BLOCKER — resolve-execution never passed the model and discarded the clamp.
cmdResolveExecution called the two-argument form and emitted only
effort_rendered/effort_param/effort_propagation, so the per-model table was
unreachable from production code (tests were its only caller) and requested/
clamped/reason were computed and thrown away. Requested outcome 3 names "the
effective rendered effort in resolver output" specifically, so the feature was
unmet on the exact surface the issue asks for. Now passes the resolved model and
emits effort_requested / effort_clamped / effort_clamp_reason, flat, matching the
existing key convention rather than introducing a nested object.

BLOCKER — the docs described output that did not exist. CONFIGURATION.md showed
a nested {"effort": ...} sample; the real result is flat and those keys were
absent entirely. A reference doc asserting a JSON path a reader can copy is worse
than no doc. Corrected against the actual emitted key set.

MAJOR — the argv channel still shipped both original defects. EFFORT_ARGV.codex
kept minimal in its supported set and still clamped max down to xhigh, so the
invocation-time and install-time channels disagreed about the same runtime's
capability: --host codex with max emitted xhigh while the generated TOML said
max. This is the repo's documented generative-fix-divergence class, so both
tables now cross-reference each other and a parity test fails if they ever
diverge again.

MAJOR — malformed catalog data failed OPEN and could crash the CLI. A null
_baseline became an EMPTY Set that is nonetheless truthy, so the nullish fallback
never fired and every effort rendered as null. And a non-array value made the Set
constructor throw at module load — model-catalog.cjs is required across the whole
CLI, so one bad JSON value killed every command, not just codex effort. Guarded
on size and filtered to array values; both degrade to the hardcoded baseline.

MAJOR — value widened to a nullable string with two consumers left behind.
runtime-artifact-conversion passed it straight into injectEffortFrontmatter (a
null effort key in generated frontmatter); install-effort-resolver still declared
a non-nullable return, a structural lie that silently defeated null checking.
Both corrected, both omitting the key on null — the same posture as 'inherit',
where omission means "follow the host default".

MAJOR — the per-model table is inert today, and the docs now say so. All three
shipped models advertise the same usable range and ultra (sol's only
differentiator) is rejected for every model, so no observable output differs by
model. The table stays because Codex declares capability per model and the sets
are free to diverge — a single per-runtime assumption is precisely what went
stale and produced this issue — but overselling it as a visible per-model feature
would have been the same class of error as the doc blocker above.

Tests: three passed under a full revert and are strengthened rather than deleted,
since each guards a real contract (#3533's inherit rule, the undeclared-host
rule, off-ladder handling) — they now also assert the clamp-visibility fields,
which only exist after this change. The fast-check property is kept for its
shrinking, and a deterministic nested loop over the full cross-product now sits
beside it so coverage is exhaustive rather than sampled.

Also folded in earlier: bin/install.js generated the Codex TOML with the two-arg
form and would have written a literal null reasoning effort on the ultra path;
CONTEXT.md's Model Catalog Module glossary entry now records CODEX_MODEL_EFFORT.
The installer defect was found by the co-change gate, not by a reviewer —
install.js is a historical co-change partner of model-catalog.cts that this diff
had not touched.

* test(#3007): correct assertions that pinned Codex's stale effort premise

Thirteen pre-existing tests encoded "Codex has no max" as fact and failed on the
shipped commit. Every one is a stale pin, not a defect: each was probed against
the built module before its expectation was changed, and none failed for a
reason other than this premise correction.

Kept as its own commit per CONTRIBUTING — a test-fixture correction made stale
by a production change must not ride inside another commit, because the
release-sdk hotfix cherry-pick filter routes by subject prefix and a correction
buried under the wrong prefix ships a half-state (v1.42.3, #3621).

The most valuable one was tests/model-resolver.test.cjs's cross-provider
validity invariant, which hardcoded the Codex enum as
`minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh` and failed with "real API would 400". That
message is now false in both directions: Codex accepts `max`, and rejects
`minimal`, which no model advertises. The enum is corrected to
`low|medium|high|xhigh|max` and the guard is kept intact — it is exactly the
"would the real API refuse this" check worth having, and it was right to fail
here. It simply carried the stale fact in its own fixture.

Test NAMES were corrected alongside their assertions wherever the name asserted
the old behavior — "max is Anthropic-only", "max clamps to xhigh", "minimal
passthrough". A renamed test that still claims the old thing is worse than a
failing one, and a green test whose name states a falsehood is how the next
reader inherits the wrong premise.

Both channels are covered: install-time (renderEffortForRuntime, and the
generated .toml in install-runtime-artifacts) and invocation-time argv
(effort-surface-axis). They were deliberately brought into agreement in this
change, so their assertions had to move together.

Each site carries a #3007 comment recording that Codex gained max/ultra and that
capability is declared per model, so a future reader can tell this was a
deliberate premise correction rather than a test bent to fit an implementation.

* test(#3007): separate the effort-precedence case from the clamp case

The previous stale-assertion pass over-corrected one test. It saw
`effort: { default: 'max' }` on codex expecting `effort_rendered: 'xhigh'`,
assumed the xhigh came from the max→xhigh clamp #3007 removes, renamed it to
"max passes through" and changed the expectation to `max`. The remote runner
disagreed.

Reproduced against the real CLI: with that config and `gsd-planner`, the
resolver emits `effort: "xhigh"`, `effort_requested: "xhigh"`,
`effort_clamped: false`. The xhigh is produced by effort-resolution PRECEDENCE —
gsd-planner is heavy/opus tier and its routing-tier default outranks
`effort.default` — so `max` never reaches the renderer at all. The test says
nothing about clamping and never did; it only looked like a clamp pin because
both mechanisms happened to yield the same string.

Restored to `xhigh` and renamed to say what it actually tests. It now also
asserts `effort_clamped === false` and `effort_requested === 'xhigh'`, which is
what makes it impossible to mistake for a clamp pin again: those two fields prove
the value is what the resolver produced rather than something the renderer
downgraded. Before #3007 there was no way to tell the two apart from the output —
which is precisely why the previous pass could not tell them apart either.

Added the test that was actually missing: `effort.agent_overrides`, which
outranks the tier default, so the requested level genuinely reaches the renderer
and `max` survives to `effort_rendered` end-to-end through the real CLI. Verified
by probe before asserting.

One test now pins the precedence rule and the other pins the #3007 behavior, and
neither can be read as the other. That the clamp-visibility fields are what
resolved this is a small argument for having added them.

* chore(#3007): backfill changeset pr number to 3765

* test(#3007): put model-catalog under the mutation gate

The Stryker shard showed as `skipping` on this PR despite the diff rewriting
model-catalog's effort logic. That was legitimate, not a detection bug:
`model-catalog` was never in scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs's COVERED map, so the
whole module — including everything #3007 touches — sat entirely outside
mutation scoring with has_work "false".

Registered, with a dedicated spawn-free surface. tests/model-catalog.unit.test.cjs
is new: 44 in-process tests, no runGsdTools, no child process, no filesystem, no
temp dirs. That shape is not stylistic — it is the #2790 precedent this file
already documents. Stryker's command runner treats a whole `node --test <file>`
invocation as ONE test costing whatever its slowest case costs, and re-runs it
per mutant, so pointing a shard at tests/model-resolver.test.cjs (which uses
runGsdTools throughout) would reproduce exactly the 15-minute shard-cap
cancellation #2790 hit. The integration file is unaffected and keeps running in
full in the normal test job.

Coverage spans the module rather than only the diff, because the score is
measured over the whole file: effort rendering across every model and ladder
level in both channels, the prototype-chain host guard, the exported enums and
maps, isAnthropicFlavoredModel's provider namespacings, the profile projections,
nextTier, and mergeEffortTierDefaults. The last two were nearly left out and are
worth naming — every uncovered exported function is score given away, and
mergeEffortTierDefaults turned out to have a genuinely interesting contract
(#3531: a partial override merges over the built-ins rather than replacing them,
and isValid gates the VALUE, not the tier name, so an unknown tier key is still
merged in). Every expectation was probed against the built module before being
asserted.

minScore is 1 and that is a PLACEHOLDER, flagged as such in the registry comment.
Floors in this repo are measured, not chosen — the existing entries sit at 94, 75
and 56 — and they can only be measured in CI, because mutation shards run
`node --test`, which is hard-blocked locally. The first CI run on this branch
reports the real number and the floor gets ratcheted to it before merge. A
placeholder of 1 reaching `next` would make the gate decorative: it would pass
whether or not a single mutant is ever killed.

Note the target is "never regress from measured", not a fixed 80 — planning-inspect
sits at 56 and is documented as an accepted ratchet candidate.

* test(#3007): bootstrap model-catalog's mutation floor legally

The placeholder floor was structurally illegal and the remote run said so.
tests/mutation-matrix-ratchet.test.cjs guards the guard: every COVERED module
must carry a matching RATCHET_BASELINE entry in the same diff, minScore must
EQUAL that baseline, and it must be at least 50. `minScore: 1` failed all three.
That is the ratchet working exactly as intended — a floor nobody can satisfy
accidentally is the point of it.

Bootstrapped at 50 in both places. Fifty is not a measured score and the comment
says so plainly: it is the minimum the guard permits, and it coincides with
Stryker's own configured `break` threshold, so it is the lowest legal starting
point for a module that has never been measured. It still must be ratcheted to
floor(measured) - 1 before this PR merges.

Also corrected a real defect in the file's own instructions. "HOW TO UPDATE"
step 1 read "Run the per-module Stryker shard locally" — which cannot be done
here, and which the same file contradicts eighty lines further down, where the
#2790 scores are recorded as "not a local run; mutation shards run `node --test`,
hard-blocked in this repo's local environment". stryker.config.mjs confirms the
command runner invokes `node --test` once per mutant, and
.claude/hooks/block-local-node-test.sh denies exactly that. So the documented
first step sends the next contributor at a wall. Rewritten to describe the path
that works — push, read the measured score off the CI shard, then set the floor
and its baseline together in one diff — and to say why local measurement is not
available, so nobody rediscovers it the slow way. GOODHART SAFETY is untouched.

The two-step is inherent to the environment rather than a shortcut: a floor
cannot be measured before the first CI run exists, and the guard rightly refuses
to accept an unmeasured one below its minimum.

* test(#3007): ratchet model-catalog's mutation floor to its measured score

The shard ran in CI and reported 59.62% — 248 mutants killed, 168 survived, no
timeouts, no errors (run 32605073352, job 97108869486). Floor set to 58 per this
file's own rule, minScore = floor(measured) - 1, which is the same arithmetic
every sibling entry used: 57.03 to 56, 76.58 to 75, 95.65 to 94.

Both halves moved together, because the ratchet guard asserts minScore equals its
RATCHET_BASELINE entry and would reject them drifting apart.

The spawn-free unit surface is vindicated by the clock: 57 seconds, against a
15-minute shard cap and a 9m46s frontmatter shard in the same run. That was the
whole reason for creating tests/model-catalog.unit.test.cjs rather than pointing
the shard at tests/model-resolver.test.cjs — #2790 recorded shards being
CANCELLED at that cap when they targeted a runGsdTools-heavy integration file.

The registry comment is rewritten rather than deleted. It previously warned that
the floor was provisional and must not ship that way; leaving that text next to a
measured floor would make the file lie in the other direction. It now records the
measurement the way the sibling entries do, including that 59.62 sits below
TARGET (80) and is therefore a ratchet candidate like planning-inspect at 56 —
comfortably clear of its own floor with real room to grow. Raise it as the tests
improve; never lower it.

Worth stating plainly: 168 surviving mutants is not a clean bill of health. It is
an honest floor for a module that had NO mutation coverage at all an hour ago,
and it is now pinned so it cannot silently regress.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-22 20:51:55 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8da2dd3ad2 feat(#2790): add read-only planning.inspect schema-v1 snapshot query (#3708)
* feat(#2790): add read-only planning.inspect schema-v1 snapshot query

Adds a read-only query emitting a schema-versioned JSON projection of .planning/
so downstream harness UIs can consume planning state without parsing GSD's
Markdown a second time.

Composed strictly from the ADR-3180 section 7 owners plus parsePlanDocument,
parseRequirements and parseUatItems; markdown structure is read through the
Markdown Sectionizer and Markdown Table Model seams. It declares its own flat
external schema rather than serializing PlanningSnapshot, which is the
diagnostic-rule subject and still growing.

Extracts plan-document parsing out of cmdPhasePlanIndex into a shared leaf
module so phase.plan-index and planning.inspect cannot drift, including the
plan-id derivation both surfaces report.

Also fixes parseRequirements dropping the separator delimiter used by the
shipped requirements template, surfaced while wiring the requirement rows.

* fix(#2790): close spec gaps and a raw-text test assertion found in review

Review findings from the standards, spec and security passes:

- phases[] rows carry goal and dependencies, the two per-phase elements the
  issue Summary names that had no corresponding field. Goal is bounded to the
  section's leading prose so the Depends-on line, the Plans checklist and the
  wave annotations are not duplicated into it.
- requirement rows carry their own diagnostic codes, so a consumer no longer
  has to string-parse the global diagnostics subject to correlate.
- roadmap_acceptance.checkbox is looked up through the phase-id key owners.
  It was compared raw against the on-disk directory name, so it read null for
  every real-world slugged phase directory and the evidence channel was inert.
- the hostile-input test asserts the structured payload instead of matching the
  raw stdout string. The absence proof over raw stdout is kept deliberately.

* fix(#2790): register planning in the runtime usage list and repair fixtures

Remote runner reported 9 failures on 9b3f9aa. Two root causes, both fixed:

- gsd-tools.cjs registered the planning family in HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS but
  never added it to TOP_LEVEL_USAGE's Commands list. Those are two surfaces a
  parity test guards, and the top-of-file block comment is not the runtime
  help string. A real wiring gap that every local gate and three review passes
  missed.

- the new suite's fixtures could not produce a resolvable phase set. STATE.md
  frontmatter omitted the milestone field, which ADR-3180 7.2 rule 1 makes the
  primary milestone selector, so the phase set scoped unscoped and every
  percentage was correctly withheld. Separately declarePhase returned a path
  without creating the directory, so a phase declared but never written to left
  phases empty. Both reproduced against the built module before fixing.

No assertion was weakened. The withholding path is still exercised and still
returns null when the roadmap is absent.

* chore(#2790): backfill changeset pr number

* test(#2790): cover every enumerated matrix row and contain a symlink escape

Reverses a silent deferral. An earlier revision left 23 of the 78 enumerated
matrix rows unimplemented and 7 more as one-off manual checks, with a paragraph
in the artifact and the PR body describing the gap. CLAUDE.md is explicit that
such a note is not a fix and is not surfacing. The rows are implemented instead
and the manual-evidence bucket is gone: 49 test cases become 88, covering all 78.

Writing the symlink row proved a real leak: a *-PLAN.md symlinked outside
.planning/ had its content emitted into the payload, confirmed via a direct call
and the spawned CLI. readDocument now resolves target and planning root with
realpathSync and rejects an escape, returning the ordinary unreadable-document
shape. Tested both ways, because a containment check that over-rejects is its own
defect: an escaping symlink leaks nothing and degrades that plan alone, while a
legitimately relocated .planning/ symlink stays fully readable.

The three new modules are registered in the mutation COVERED registry, which had
been reporting has_work false and skipping the Stryker gate entirely. Provisional
non-binding floors so the shards run and report; raised to the measured value
before merge, since the registry forbids calibrating from a local run.

* fix(#2790): satisfy the mutation ratchet contract and scope the 1MB test

Remote runner reported 16 failures on 8c451ed. Two causes.

The COVERED registry has a paired contract the earlier commit violated: every
module needs a matching RATCHET_BASELINE entry, and minScore must be between 50
and 100 with minScore === baseline. The provisional floor of 1 was illegal on
both counts. All three modules now sit at 50 — the registry's own enforced
minimum — with matching baselines. The score cannot be measured locally: the
shard runs node --test, which this repo hard-blocks, so CI is the only source.
Floors are raised to the measured value once this PR's shards report; a shard
below 50 means the tests need strengthening, since the floor cannot go lower.

The 1MB test was measuring the test harness rather than the product. The command
handles the oversized payload correctly by spilling to a tmpfile and resolving it
back, but the resolved stdout then exceeds runGsdTools' maxBuffer and the helper
reports ENOBUFS. It now uses --pick so stdout stays one byte while the full 1MB
document is still read and parsed end to end.

* fix(#2790): wire containment across every document read this command drives

An isolated security review of the containment control found the boundary logic
sound but not comprehensively wired: two content reads reached the filesystem
without it.

An escaped phase DIRECTORY could enumerate external filenames into the file
fields and diagnostic subjects. Both enumeration sites now containment-check the
directory before reading. Worth recording that the leak was already prevented one
layer earlier than the review claimed: Dirent#isDirectory() reports false for a
directory symlink, so such a directory never becomes a phase row at all. The
guard is defense-in-depth for a direct caller and for platforms where a reparse
point reports as a directory.

A *-VERIFICATION.md symlinked outside the root leaked one frontmatter value
verbatim, because readVerificationStatus does its own read and copies an
unrecognized status into the payload's next_action. Closed from the consumer
side through that function's existing fs injection seam, so src/verification.cts
keeps its signature and its other callers are untouched.

The reviewer additionally rated a forged status: passed as an integrity bypass.
It is not: anyone able to plant the symlink can plant a real VERIFICATION.md
saying the same thing. The incremental risk is confidentiality, which is what
these fixes close.

src/plan-scan.cts is deliberately unchanged: isPlanSuperseded reads
symlink-followed content but yields only a derived boolean, no document text.

* test(#2790): give the mutation shards an in-process surface

Two Stryker shards were CANCELLED at the 15-minute cap, not failed on score.
CI log: 640 mutants instrumented, and the dry run reported 'Ran 1 tests in 20
seconds' because the shards pointed at the integration suite, where nearly every
case spawns a gsd-tools subprocess and Stryker's command runner treats the whole
test-runner invocation as a single test. 640 x 20s cannot finish in 15 minutes;
at the kill it was 27/640 with an ETA over an hour.

Every other COVERED module points at a property or unit file, and the workflow's
own paths filter lists exactly those two patterns. In-process is the intended
mutation surface; the shards were pointed at the wrong shape of test.

Adds tests/planning-inspect.unit.test.cjs — 39 cases in 10 describes that spawn
nothing and call the built modules directly. plan-document and the router need no
filesystem at all, one being a pure content-to-object parser and the other taking
an injected mock. The three shards now point here. The 91-case integration suite
is untouched and still runs in the normal test job.

* chore(#2790): ratchet mutation floors to the measured CI scores

CI run 32392791843 measured all three shards, which is the only source the
registry accepts — local runs count timeouts as kills and inflate badly.

  planning-command-router  95.65 -> floor 94
  plan-document            76.58 -> floor 75
  planning-inspect         57.03 -> floor 56

Applied the registry's own rule, floor(score) - 1, and updated RATCHET_BASELINE
to match, since the ratchet test enforces equality.

planning-inspect sits well below the file's target of 80 and is the obvious
ratchet candidate as its tests improve. planning-command-router already exceeds
the target. The placeholder comment about floors pending measurement is removed
rather than left standing as a false statement.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 13:42:43 -04:00
Tom Boucher
cbd180c5cd test(#3147): bound the lint/changeset/docs cluster onto the process seam (#3181)
* test(#3147): bound the lint/changeset/docs cluster onto the process seam

Migrates 69 unbounded sync spawn sites across 24 files. Allowlist 73 to 49.

Two shared helpers move: tests/helpers/graphify.cjs (6 importing suites) and
tests/fixtures/index.cjs, whose three quoted-argument shell strings became
single argv elements rather than whitespace splits.

changeset-lint's throw-native git() helper routes to gitOrThrow; migrating it
to bare runGit would have silently swallowed a failure that is loud today.
ingest-docs goes the other way -- its catch never rethrew, it degraded failure
into data every call site asserts on, so throwIfFailed would have thrown where
the original returned. The design doc said otherwise and was corrected.

tsconfig-noemit runs a real tsc --noEmit and takes a bespoke 180000ms per the
ensure-runtime-build precedent, not the 30000ms build-hooks norm -- that norm
is for a file copy, and sizing against a label rather than the work is the
same error in the opposite direction.

* test(#3147): add toLegacyResult and settle review findings

The seam exposed a throwing adapter (throwIfFailed) but no non-throwing one,
so eight files independently re-derived the same unwrap back to the legacy
{status, stdout, stderr} shape. That is the third time this epic produced N
copies of one mechanism -- seven throw wrappers in Wave 1, fifty-two timeout
constants in Wave 2, eight result adapters here. The pattern is that whenever
the seam does not expose a mechanism, every suite re-derives it.

toLegacyResult now sits beside throwIfFailed, with its own tests.

Two sites are deliberately NOT converted: changeset-cli's runRender and
runRenderIn return {status, report, stderr} from parsed JSON and never a raw
stdout, so they are a different shape family. lint-legacy-dir-name keeps its
local GUARD_TIMEOUT_MS: 30000 matches the build norm numerically but bounds a
lint probe, not hooks bundling, and importing it would encode a coincidence
as a relationship.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-07 15:45:51 -04:00
Tom Boucher
9ac0dfad58 chore(#2929): generalize prompt-budget into the shared context-composer seam (#2958)
* test(#2929): capture prompt-budget parity corpus pre-refactor

Phase 2 of epic #1671 generalizes prompt-budget's trim ladder into a shared
context-composer seam. Its success condition is that review-prompt output does
not change, and the only authority on "did not change" is the behavior that
shipped before the refactor. Capture that behavior now, while it is still the
live implementation.

47 characterization cases, every `expected` value computed by executing the
current implementation rather than hand-authored — the independence
CONTRIBUTING.md "Fixture provenance (#2371)" asks for.

A corpus is only worth what it can detect, so this one was validated by
mutation rather than assumed. Five deliberate defects were injected and each
must be caught by at least one case:

  - the note reserve deducted unconditionally instead of only under pressure
  - the pressure test relaxed from `>` to `>=`
  - a no-op head-shrink still setting the shrunk flag
  - the per-plan floor dropped from the proportional share
  - drop order reversed

Two of those exposed real holes in the first cut of this corpus, and the cases
that close them exist because of it:

  - `>=` was caught by NOTHING. At exact cap the only trimmable fragment was a
    floored plan group, and the 1024-char floor absorbed the entire trim, so the
    mutation was byte-invisible. A3b/A3c put a droppable at exactly the cap,
    which makes the strict inequality observable as context kept vs omitted.

  - No case reached proportional-truncate at all — B6 and B7 both hard-failed
    the min-set pre-check first, leaving planTruncationPct at 0 across every
    case and the floor semantics entirely unexercised. Rebudgeted to 700 and
    1100 so the min-set fits and the truncate step is actually reached; they now
    record 40.20% and 48.80%.

The A4/A10 families sweep the pressure boundary from both sides, which is where
this function has regressed before: CONTEXT.md's
LEARNING.prompt-budget.boundary-gap records PR #3708 shipping two regressions
that only fired when the baseline sat inside the NOTE_RESERVE_TOKENS band,
because the suite paired a trivially-fitting budget with a trivially-overflowing
one and never sampled between them. A4 pins that nothing is trimmed from the cap
down to 81 tokens under it; A10 pins that pressure fires at +1. Together with
A3b/A3c they satisfy row (d) of RULESET.TESTS.boundary-coverage.fixtures.

Two facts the corpus establishes that the design notes had wrong:

  - "" and null sections are NOT distinguished. applyBudget uses truthy checks
    throughout, so an empty-string section is treated as absent: not rendered,
    not dropped, never recorded in `omitted`. B13b pins this while the ladder is
    actively trimming, where only the non-empty `research` is dropped.

  - Sizing matters. B12/B13 were first written at a budget where both hard-failed
    the min-set check and returned "", so comparing them compared two empty
    strings and proved nothing.

Committed as its own commit, ahead of the refactor, and regenerated against the
pre-refactor implementation, so the oracle is demonstrably independent of the
change it will adjudicate.

Refs #2929

* refactor(#2929): extract the context-composer seam from prompt-budget

Epic #1671 needs prompt-budget's budget-trimming logic for a second consumer —
per-runtime artifact emission — but it is walled inside the cross-AI review
pipeline. Lift it into a shared seam so later phases can call it, without
changing what the review pipeline emits.

ADR-1671 specifies the composer as "priority + binary-search cutoff to a
per-runtime budget". Read against the code it generalizes, that contract cannot
express the thing being generalized. applyBudget is not a cutoff: it is a fixed
five-step ladder in which each section carries its own shrink strategy, and only
three of its eight sections are ever dropped. PROJECT.md is head-shrunk to N
lines; plans are proportionally tail-truncated with a per-plan 1024-byte floor;
instructions and roadmap are never touched at all. A cutoff composer sorts by
priority and discards the tail — it has no way to say "shrink this one",
"truncate that one but never below 1 KB each", or "these three are the only
droppables, in this order". Building to the literal contract and routing
prompt-budget through it would have silently changed review-prompt output, which
is the one outcome this phase forbids.

So shrink strategies are the core abstraction here, and cutoff becomes one
strategy among them — the right one for per-runtime emission in Phases 3-4, not
for this ladder. That is an elaboration of the ADR's intent, not a departure
from it, and ADR-1671 is updated to say so.

Three decisions worth stating:

  - The composer DECIDES; the caller RENDERS. composeWithinBudget returns a plan
    of surviving fragments and never a string. assemblePrompt's rendering is
    prompt-shaped (`## Roadmap`, `### <file>`, the note in position two), and
    owning it in the composer would force emission to adopt prompt-shaped
    rendering. The split is what lets one seam serve both consumers.

  - The budget unit is INJECTED via `measure(text)`. prompt-budget passes its
    chars/4 estimator; emission will pass a byte counter, which ADR-1671 requires
    for emission caps. The existing code converts a token budget to a character
    budget with a hardcoded `* 4`; that assumption is now an explicit
    `charsPerUnit` inverse, which is precisely what a byte unit needs in order to
    reuse this.

  - The entry point is `composeWithinBudget`, not `applyBudget`. That name
    already exists twice — src/prompt-budget.cts and src/graphify.cts, the latter
    being an unrelated graph-edge budget. A third would make every symbol search
    in this repo ambiguous, and it already misresolves: preflight and impact
    queries for "applyBudget" return graphify's.

Behavior is unchanged and proven so: all 47 characterization cases reproduce
byte-identically, and the corpus is mutation-validated rather than merely green
(see the preceding commit). prompt-budget.cts drops from 436 to 343 lines and
from eighteen mutable accumulators to two, both inside a helper copied verbatim.

estimateTokens deliberately stays in prompt-budget and keeps its exact math:
src/phase-estimation.cts re-exports it as measureTokens, and CONTEXT.md pins
plan estimates and recorded actuals to that same scale, so moving or changing it
would silently break the calibration loop.

Refs #2929

* docs(#2929): document the context-composer seam and amend ADR-1671

Adds the INVENTORY row, the CONTEXT.md glossary entry (a PR gate for new
domain modules), and a mutation-matrix entry for the new module.

The ADR amendment is the substantive part. ADR-1671 specified the composer as
"priority + binary-search cutoff to a per-runtime budget". Implementing Phase 2
established that a cutoff alone cannot express the function the platform
generalizes, so the ADR now records shrink strategies as the core abstraction
with cutoff as one strategy among them, reserved for per-runtime emission in
Phases 3-4. Recording it in the ADR matters because Phases 3-6 are planned
against that contract and would otherwise be planned against a mechanism that
does not work.

The mutation-matrix entry is not bookkeeping. Stryker scores per module against
a named .cjs, so relocating the ladder out of prompt-budget.cjs would leave the
extracted code unmeasured while prompt-budget's own score floated free of the
logic it used to cover. context-composer gets its own entry at the same floor.

Refs #2929

* test(#2929): pin the effectiveBudget rounding mode in the parity corpus

An isolated correctness review found a real blind spot: mutating
`Math.floor` to `Math.round` in the effectiveBudget calculation failed ZERO of
the 47 corpus cases. Every (budget, safetyMarginPct) pair in the generator
happened to produce a whole number, so floor, round and ceil all agreed and the
rounding mode was entirely unpinned by a corpus whose whole job is to pin
observable behavior.

Three cases fix that by straddling the .5 boundary:

  A11  95 * 0.90  = 85.5   floor 85, round 86  -> the two disagree
  A12  97 * 0.90  = 87.3   floor and round agree; ceil (88) does not
  A13  93 * 0.85  = 79.05  same guard at a non-multiple-of-10 margin, so the
                           margin arithmetic is exercised and not just the budget

A11 alone catches the round mutation; all three catch ceil. Regenerated against
the pre-refactor implementation (`git show 9557f8552:src/prompt-budget.cts`), so
the expanded corpus keeps the independence property the original capture had.

The corpus is now mutation-validated against seven injected defects, every one
caught: unconditional note reserve, `>` relaxed to `>=`, no-op head-shrink
setting its flag, the truncate floor ignored, drop order reversed, and both
rounding-mode changes.

Refs #2929

* feat(#2929): flexReserve floors and the byte-stable isolate prefix

Two of issue #2929's "Done when" items were unimplemented rather than deferred,
and an isolated review flagged them alongside my own audit. Both are part of
ADR-1671's composer contract, so shipping the seam without them would have left
Phases 3-4 building against a contract that does not exist yet.

flexReserve is a per-fragment floor in measure units that every strategy must
respect, which is what makes it different from the pre-existing floorChars: that
one is a chars-denominated detail of proportional-truncate alone and is retained
unchanged. A floored fragment is never dropped, is never head-shrunk below its
floor, and raises its own proportional cap. A fragment already smaller than its
floor is untouchable outright. Metadata gains `floored`, listing the ids whose
floor actually prevented a trim — a guarantee no caller can observe is a
guarantee no test can hold you to.

isolate marks the byte-stable canonical prefix the ADR calls for: never trimmed,
never dropped, but still counted, because a prefix excluded from accounting
would silently under-count real context. Metadata gains `isolatePrefix` so a
caller can hash or assert on the exact bytes. Declaring an isolate fragment
after a non-isolate one throws: a prefix that is not at the front is not a
prefix, and accepting it would make the cross-runtime stability claim
meaningless.

Adds tests/context-composer.test.cjs for the exact new semantics and
tests/context-composer.property.test.cjs for the five invariants, including the
budget-monotonicity property the issue names explicitly. Both are registered in
the mutation matrix, since coverage does not migrate with relocated code.

prompt-budget uses neither feature, and its output is unchanged: all 50 corpus
cases still reproduce byte-identically.

Refs #2929

* chore(#2929): allowlist the prompt-budget parity suite

The parity corpus needs its own test file and that makes prompt-budget a
three-file module against a limit of two. The lint offers consolidation or an
allowlist entry with justification; the entry is the right call here.

Consolidation would mean folding the characterization suite into
prompt-budget.test.cjs, which is the one thing that should not happen to it. The
parity suite is a distinct concern with a distinct lifecycle: it is generated
rather than hand-written, it is named by scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs as its own
scoring target, and its failure means something categorically different from a
unit-test failure — not "this behavior is wrong" but "observable output moved".
Burying it inside a general unit file would obscure exactly that signal.

The allowlist is an identity ratchet, so this entry pins today's three exact
filenames: adding a fourth still fails, and dropping back to two requires
removing the entry.

Refs #2929

* fix(#2929): register the new module with two gates it was missing

The remote matrix caught three defects that no local check could, because the
local runner is blocked in this repo and these suites had therefore never
executed. Eight failures, identical on node22 and node24, so nothing
environment-shaped.

Two are the new-module ripple. A net-new src/*.cts lands in six places and this
change had reached four of them — .gitignore, INVENTORY, the manifest, and the
CONTEXT.md glossary — while missing the ESLint ignore list (tsc OUTPUTS must not
be linted; repo-invariants asserts linted-xor-ignored) and the mutation ratchet
baseline (a deliberate review-visible mirror of the matrix floors, which every
COVERED module must carry). Both are now registered, the ratchet at the same
floor of 66 the matrix declares.

The third was a test asserting an outcome it had made impossible. It set
budget:1 alongside a 400-char required fragment, so the group budget came out at
-99 and the proportional-truncate step was skipped entirely — the deliberate
"non-positive group budget is skipped, never clamped" rule inherited from the
original ladder. Nothing was trimmed, and the test then asserted a truncation.
Rebudgeted so the step actually runs, with the arithmetic written out in a
comment so the next reader does not have to re-derive why 120 rather than 80.

Fixing that surfaced a genuine bug in the composer. `floored` is documented as
recording fragments whose flexReserve prevented a trim that would otherwise have
happened, but the push sat in the else-branch of "content did not change", so it
only fired when nothing was trimmed at all. A fragment truncated to a
reserve-raised cap has also had a trim prevented — 40 characters' worth in the
test above — and was silently absent from the field that exists to make the
guarantee observable. The condition was already right; it was in the wrong
branch. Now recorded on both paths: a drop prevented outright, and a truncation
capped higher than the share alone would have allowed.

Parity is unaffected — prompt-budget never sets flexReserve, so the branch is
unreachable from every corpus path, and all 50 cases still match.

Refs #2929

* chore(#2929): backfill changeset PR number (#2958)

* chore(#2929): correct the corpus case count in the changeset fragment

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-07-31 23:03:13 -04:00
Tom Boucher
98866a0c69 feat(#1187): per-module Stryker mutation-score ratchet (ADR-456 80% floor) (#1200)
* feat(#1187): per-module mutation-score ratchet + graduate core-utils

ADR-456's 80% mutation floor was unenforceable as a single global break=50:
4 of 6 covered modules sit at 63-79% and forcing them to 80 would require
brittle exact-string assertions on equivalent string-literal mutants (a
Goodhart's-Law trap). Instead, each covered module declares a minScore floor
(locked at its measured score, TARGET 80) enforced per CI shard via
stryker --break, ratcheting up over time without brittle tests.
- mutation-matrix.cjs: minScore per module + TARGET_MUTATION_SCORE=80, emitted
  in the matrix; require.main guard + exports for testability.
- mutation.yml: per-shard --break <minScore>.
- stryker.config.mjs: global break 50->60 as a local backstop (CI uses minScore).
- Graduated core-utils (measured 77.5%, floor 75).
- context-utilization 79.5->92.3% via behavioral killers (state classification
  outputs + error-value contract, not exact-string matches) -> minScore 80 (TARGET).
- ratchet-integrity guard test (28 cases).

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

* fix(#1187): pass mutation break via MUTATION_BREAK env (no stryker --break flag)

Adversarial review caught that Stryker 9.x has no --break CLI flag, so the
per-shard 'stryker run --break <minScore>' errored out every mutation shard.
Read the per-module floor from process.env.MUTATION_BREAK in stryker.config.mjs
and set it per shard via env in mutation.yml. Red-green verified: MUTATION_BREAK=99
exits 1, =80 exits 0. Also make the ratchet guard monotonic (RATCHET_BASELINE
floors; lowering a floor now fails the guard unless the baseline is edited).

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

* fix(#1187): fail closed on bad MUTATION_BREAK + monotonic ratchet baseline

Code review: Number(env)||60 failed OPEN — an empty/invalid MUTATION_BREAK
(e.g. a future module missing minScore -> matrix expands to '') silently
degraded the shard to break 60, letting a high-floor module regress undetected.
resolveMutationBreak() now returns 60 only when the env is truly unset (local
backstop) and THROWS on present-but-empty/non-numeric/out-of-range (fail closed);
stryker.config.mjs imports it via createRequire. Also make RATCHET_BASELINE an
equality mirror (=== not >=) so any floor change is explicit in review and no
floor can be silently lowered. Tests: 46 (incl resolveMutationBreak cases).

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

* fix(#1187): recalibrate config-schema/prompt-budget floors to CI scores

First CI mutation run failed two shards: the floors were set from local Stryker
runs whose TIMEOUTS were counted as kills (env-variable), inflating scores. CI
runs with timeout~0, so the real deterministic scores are lower:
- config-schema: local 69.7% -> CI 54.55% (5 local timeouts vanished) -> floor 52
- prompt-budget: local 99.6% -> CI 68.33% (239 local timeouts vanished) -> floor 66
Calibrate floors from CI (the documented source of truth) and record the lesson
in the comment so future floors aren't set from timeout-inflated local runs.
Baseline updated to match. The other 5 shards passed (deterministic CI scores
above their floors).

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 08:25:41 -04:00