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enhance(#3897): ADR-3473 §8.3 rungs 2-4 — runtime marker, derived Codex sandbox, short-form depends_on (#3941)
* test(#3897): failing-first coverage for §8.3 rungs 2-4 ADR-3473 §8.3 has four rungs; #3883/PR #3896 shipped the first. This pins the other three RED before any fix. Rung 2 — the install marker has four readers and resolveRuntime is not one. resolveRuntime resolves GSD_RUNTIME > config.runtime > 'claude' and reads no marker at all, while bin/install.js writes one (#2297) and FOUR hand-rolled readInstallRuntimeMarker copies exist: src/model-resolver.cts:65 (cached, with test seams), hooks/gsd-agent-isolation-guard.js:112, and TWICE in hooks/gsd-cursor-subagent-start.js at :346 and :355. Four copies of one rule. Fixtures and seam names mined from PR #3382 rather than re-derived; it implemented this rung and was closed "not on the merits". Rung 3 — the sandbox map, and the fallback that was the real defect. Measured across all 35 files in agents/, deriving workspace-write iff tools: declares Write or Edit: - all 11 CODEX_AGENT_SANDBOX entries derive to their mapped value exactly, zero disagreements — the map carries nothing the contract does not - 24 roles fall through `|| 'read-only'`, of which 16 declare Write or Edit So the map is redundant and the silent fallback is the defect. The maintainer chose to derive but hold those 16 at read-only pending the question of whether Codex enforces sandbox_mode or merely advises; HALT.md records it. T20 asserts the emitted sandbox_mode PER ROLE against a captured baseline, not in aggregate — an aggregate passes while one role silently widens, which is the proxy-instead-of-identity shape this repo names. T24 and T25 fail on a stale hold, so the hold list cannot rot into the subset map being deleted. Rung 4 — shortFormToId, recovered rather than invented. I nearly reported this as another wrong §8.3 claim: `git log -S shortFormToId` returns only documentation commits. That was the wrong instrument. Direct inspection of sdk/src/query/phase.ts at 11918dcc3^ shows five occurrences, and the tests match that code rather than a guess at its semantics — including first-write-wins on a duplicate short form. T43 asserts at the consumer's output: the emitted `waves` map from the real CLI, which pre-fix collapses to {"1":[...]} because every short-form edge is dropped. A unit assertion on resolveDependencyId would have passed throughout this defect's life. Observed RED, this tree: rung 2 11/11 fail — no marker rung, no seams rung 3 T23,T24,T25,T26,T30 fail; T28 fails (validate agents passes a TOML whose sandbox_mode disagrees — it checks presence only) rung 4 T42,T44 fail; T43,T49 fail with waves collapsed to a single wave 1 Green and staying green: T20/T21/T22/T27 as captured baselines, #3885's unresolvable-token warning and wave-verdict suppression, and #3785's display-mapping passthrough. If the third tier over-reaches, those go red — that is their job. Disclosed weakness: T45 (a canonical id with no dash is not short-form indexed) cannot be isolated behaviorally, because planMap always masks it. It is a non-crash boundary pin, weaker than the other rows, and is recorded as such rather than presented as equivalent. Design: .gsd/phase/feat-3897-adr3473-83-rungs/40-design.md Test matrix: .gsd/phase/feat-3897-adr3473-83-rungs/50-test-matrix.md Decision: .gsd/phase/feat-3897-adr3473-83-rungs/HALT.md Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * enhance(#3897): §8.3 rungs 2-4 — one marker reader, a derived sandbox, the third depends_on tier ADR-3473 §8.3 has four rungs. #3883/PR #3896 shipped the first. These are the other three. Rung 2 — the install marker had four readers, and resolveRuntime was not one. resolveRuntime resolved GSD_RUNTIME > config.runtime > 'claude' and read no marker, while bin/install.js writes one (#2297) and four hand-rolled readInstallRuntimeMarker copies existed: src/model-resolver.cts (cached, with seams), hooks/gsd-agent-isolation-guard.js, and twice in hooks/gsd-cursor-subagent-start.js. model-resolver's was already the house idiom, so it was promoted rather than replaced: src/runtime-slash.cts now owns it, and model-resolver plus both hooks delegate. The hooks reach it through ensureRuntimeBuild(), the seam lint-hooks-runtime-build-seam enforces. No import cycle existed - checked both directions before moving anything. The marker is the THIRD rung: env > project config > marker > 'claude'. N1 was checked rather than assumed, and my first reading of it was wrong. A marker holding an unknown name comes back essentially verbatim, which looked like a validation gap. Measured against the env rung with the same inputs - including "../../etc/passwd" and "claude;rm -rf /" - the two are identical, because they share resolveRuntimeNameFromCandidates. N1 asks for exactly that, and it is met. The residual (the shared normalizer normalizes shape, it does not validate against the known-runtime set) is pre-existing on the env rung and plausibly deliberate, since a new runtime should not need a code change. The marker also does not widen the trust boundary in any real sense: it lives inside the install tree beside the code, so anyone who can write it can write runtime-slash.cjs itself. Rung 3 — the map was redundant; the silent fallback was the defect. Measured across all 35 files in agents/, deriving workspace-write iff tools: declares Write or Edit: all 11 CODEX_AGENT_SANDBOX entries derive to their mapped value exactly, zero disagreements. The map carried nothing the contract did not already have, so it is DELETED rather than reconciled. What was actually broken is `|| 'read-only'`, which silently under-granted 24 of 35 roles. 16 of those 24 declare Write or Edit and would widen under derivation. Per the maintainer's decision (HALT.md), they are held at read-only pending the question of whether Codex enforces sandbox_mode or merely advises. Emitted TOML is therefore byte-identical for all 35 roles - asserted per role, not in aggregate, because an aggregate passes while one role silently widens. The hold list self-invalidates. A hold whose role no longer derives broader fails, and so does a hold naming a role with no agents/<name>.md. Without that it would rot into exactly the hand-maintained subset map being deleted, and this commit's own ledger claim would become false over time. Both cases were proved by injecting them and watching them throw. Two committed tests asserted the deleted map's existence and contents. They were pinning the thing being removed, so the tests moved rather than the production code: the 11 role-value pairs survive as a test-local PRE_3897_CODEX_AGENT_SANDBOX baseline, and the assertions now drive the real derivation against real agents/*.md. The coverage is preserved; only its source moved out of production code. validate agents gains checkCodexSandboxPosture, mirroring the existing checkCodexModelPosture: each installed TOML's sandbox_mode must equal the role's expected value, failing with role, expected and found. It previously checked file presence and manifest completeness only, so a TOML whose sandbox_mode disagreed passed. Rung 4 — shortFormToId, recovered rather than invented. I nearly reported this as another wrong §8.3 claim: git log -S returns only documentation commits. Wrong instrument. sdk/src/query/phase.ts at 11918dcc3^ carries five occurrences, and the implementation here matches that code rather than a guess at its semantics - including first-write-wins on a duplicate short form, deterministic from the sorted plan order. It resolves the bare plan number: depends_on: ["01"] now reaches 26-01-auth-hardening. That is a control-flow change, not a diagnostic one - plans that silently collapsed into a single wave 1 now execute in their declared waves, and execute-phase.md consumes those wave values. In-phase only, by construction: the map is built from this phase's rawPlans, so a same-named short form in another phase does not resolve. #3785's display-mapping passthrough and #3885's unresolvable-token warning and wave-verdict suppression are untouched and stay green. If the third tier had over-reached, those are what would have caught it. Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#3897): close a fail-open I introduced, and wire the posture check to its command Two blockers from review. Both are mine, and one is a security regression my own change created. 1. A held role could escape its hold by editing its own frontmatter. The Codex install loop set the sandbox identity from the agent's frontmatter `name:` field rather than from its filename, so the hold lookup keyed off a value the file itself declares: deriveCodexSandboxMode('gsd-doc-writer', <real file>) -> read-only deriveCodexSandboxMode('gsd-doc-writer-x', <same file, name: edited>) -> workspace-write deriveCodexSandboxMode('GSD-Doc-Writer', <same file, name: recased>) -> workspace-write What makes this a blocker rather than a nit is the DIRECTION. The deleted CODEX_AGENT_SANDBOX map had the identical lookup-key quirk, but it was an allowlist: an unmatched key fell back to read-only, which is safe. The new scheme derives workspace-write from the tool contract and uses the hold as a subtraction, so the same mismatch fails OPEN. I converted a fail-closed quirk into a fail-open one and did not notice; the isolated reviewer proved it by execution. Neither safety net caught it. validateCodexSandboxHolds only checks that <key>.md exists, never that a file's derived identity matches its key. checkCodexSandboxPosture looks the canonical source up by the installed TOML's filename, finds nothing for a renamed agent, and treats it as a custom non-roster agent — silently no violation. The identity is now the FILENAME STEM, which is what validateCodexSandboxHolds already validates and what an attacker editing frontmatter cannot change without renaming the file — at which point the existing validator catches it. The lookup is case-insensitive so a recase does not slip past either. The frontmatter name still drives the TOML body and filename, unchanged; only the sandbox identity moved. All 35 roster files were checked: name matches filename stem everywhere, so a stricter "they must agree or throw" invariant would have been safe against real content. It is deliberately NOT added — it would abort an install on a tampered file where emitting a correctly-derived read-only TOML is the safer outcome. Recorded as a fork rather than decided silently. 2. checkCodexSandboxPosture was exported and never called. cmdValidateAgents (src/verify.cts) called checkAgentsInstalled and checkCodexModelPosture only; grep for the sandbox check in that file returned nothing. So criterion 3 — "validate agents fails on semantic drift, not only on missing files" — was unmet, and `validate agents` behaved exactly as before. That is ADR-3473 Decision 2's named shape: a declared policy with no executor. It also meant the T28 test asserted at the helper's return value while the COMMAND stayed broken — the ADR-3180 Decision 4(b) failure this epic exists to close, committed by me while enforcing it elsewhere in the same epic. Now wired as an additive `sandbox_posture` field beside `codex_posture`, following the sibling precedent exactly. Drift is report-only, not a non-zero exit, because that is what checkCodexModelPosture does — two sibling posture checks disagreeing about whether a violation is fatal would be its own defect. The choice is recorded in a comment rather than left implicit. A consumer-output test now drives the real CLI and asserts on the emitted JSON, and was shown failing before the wiring and passing after. Also corrected a stale artifact: the design's Known limit L1 still claimed rung 3 was not in this deliverable, written while it was halted and false once the maintainer unblocked it. Verified after both fixes: the three bypass probes all return read-only, the per-role table is 35/35 byte-identical, and both hold self-invalidation cases still throw. Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#3897): the marker rung, the derived sandbox, and the bare plan-number depends_on Reference: the runtime precedence ladder in docs/CLI-TOOLS.md gains the install marker rung; docs/COMMANDS.md documents validate agents' new sandbox_posture field; docs/reference/plan-md.md documents that depends_on accepts the bare plan number. Explanation: a docs/features fragment keyed id 3897, so it cannot collide with a concurrent PR hand-allocating a section number, regenerated into FEATURES.md. ADR-3473 §8.3 gains an ANSWER blockquote in the document's own correction style, recording what was measured and built against the section's 2026-08-26 correction - including the qualification that checkAgentsInstalled itself still checks presence only, and the semantic assertion lives in a sibling wired into validate agents rather than folded into it. No how-to. Both user-visible changes are zero-step: a non-Claude install resolving its own runtime, and plans executing in their declared waves, both happen without the user doing anything. docs/how-to/control-the-reported-host-runtime.md covers a DIFFERENT ladder (resolveReportedRuntime / agent_runtime) that this change does not touch, and was deliberately left alone rather than edited by association. No tutorial - nothing multi-step to walk through. docs/AGENTS.md unchanged: it documents Claude-side tools frontmatter, never Codex sandbox_mode, and the emitted tools contract did not change. The prompt layer documents depends_on only by example, not by schema, so nothing there needed editing - and few-shot-examples/plan-checker.md already showed depends_on: ['01'], which now actually resolves. Translated copies of plan-md.md are untouched; the project treats translations as community-maintained. Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#3897): move the sandbox derivation out of the installer, off the install path, and off a third parser The full suite came back with 26 failures across four files. Three distinct causes, mapped individually rather than assuming the first explained the rest. A. Requiring bin/install.js printed the GSD banner to stdout and corrupted `validate agents` JSON. Unexpected token '', "[36m ██"... is not valid JSON checkCodexSandboxPosture reached deriveCodexSandboxMode by lazily requiring bin/install.js, whose module load prints the ASCII banner. So the command emitted banner bytes before its JSON and every JSON consumer broke, including ten tests that predate this branch. src/ reaching into bin/ was backwards layering that happened to also be loud. The derivation now lives in src/codex-agent-toml.cts - the existing Codex TOML domain module, no new module and no six-gate ripple - and both bin/install.js and src/agent-install-check.cts import it. One owner, which is §8.3's rule applied to the fix for §8.3. B. The stale-hold throw fired on a legitimate partial source dir, and masked a security assertion. validateCodexSandboxHolds treated "this hold's .md is absent from the install SOURCE dir" as a stale hold and threw. A test fixture, or any partial install source, legitimately contains a couple of agents. Worse, it threw BEFORE the path-escape check, so a test asserting that a `../../evil` frontmatter name is rejected got my unrelated error instead of the traversal rejection it was written for. A fail-closed check of mine was hiding a real security check. The "no stale holds, shrink-only" invariant is a property of the repo's canonical agents/ roster, not of whatever directory an install happens to read. It is off the runtime path and enforced where it belongs, in the tests that already existed for it. A partial source dir now installs cleanly, and the evil-name case throws with its own escapes-configHome message again. C. T8 depended on ambient process.env state. The marker/env parity assertion round-tripped through live process.env. It now compares against resolveExplicitRuntime's already-exported dependency-injection parameter - deterministic and hermetic, same claim. Proven still falsifiable rather than assumed: with the marker rung's normalization temporarily bypassed the two rungs diverge ("codex\n../../etc/passwd" vs "codex-../../etc/passwd") and the assertion fails, then passes again once reverted. One correction folded in along the way. The first version of the move added private _extractFrontmatterAndBody/_extractFrontmatterField helpers to codex-agent-toml.cts - a THIRD copy of frontmatter extraction, where the graph already shows two (bin/install.js:2348, runtime-artifact-conversion.cts:893). Adding a third inside the epic whose thesis is one implementation per rule is not defensible. deriveCodexSandboxMode no longer parses anything: it takes (identity, toolsValue) and each caller supplies the tools value using the extractor it already has. Both helpers are deleted. The identity argument is still the filename stem, so the fail-open fix is untouched. Verified after all three: `validate agents --raw` emits parseable JSON with no banner and both posture fields; the four hold-bypass probes still return read-only; the per-role table is 35/35 byte-identical at 26 read-only / 9 workspace-write; the hold list is still 16. Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#3897): drop a dev-only transitive dep, make the derivation total, retire a stale fallback test Suite down to 7 failures from 26. Three more causes, mapped individually. A. My extractor import dragged in a script that does not exist in an installed tree. Cannot find module '../../../scripts/fix-slash-commands.cjs' Chain: src/agent-install-check.cts imported runtime-artifact-conversion.cjs, which requires command-roster.cjs, whose line 36 requires ../../../scripts/fix-slash-commands.cjs. That path exists in the repo and not in an install, so every test exercising a synthetic install dir died at module load. I picked that extractor for convenience without checking what it pulls in - the same mistake that produced the banner bug, one layer further out. agent-install-check now uses a single-purpose extractToolsLine on codex-agent-toml.cts. That is deliberately NOT a general frontmatter parser: we deleted those helpers a commit ago for good reason, and this reads one line. Verified from outside the repo root that requiring either module prints nothing and does not throw. B. A test pinned the deleted name-based fallback. 'defaults unknown agents to read-only' called generateCodexAgentToml with a fixture declaring tools: Read, Write, Edit. Under derivation an unknown agent with a writing contract correctly derives workspace-write - design row S6, a new writing role gets the contract, not the pin. The behavior it asserted was the silent fallback this rung deleted; identity no longer decides the sandbox. Replaced with two rows rather than a flipped string: no tools declared -> read-only (absence is not a grant), and Write/Edit declared -> workspace-write. Strictly more coverage than the row it replaces. C. The stale-hold check still threw per derivation call. Last commit took the roster-existence check off the install path, but deriveCodexSandboxMode itself still threw when a hold's role did not derive broader FOR THE CONTENT IT WAS HANDED - so it fired on any synthetic fixture for a held role. The throw is gone, and it cost nothing: if a held role's content does not derive broader, the hold pins read-only and derivation returns read-only anyway, so the hold is a no-op and there is nothing to fail about. The staleness invariant is a property of the real agents/ roster, and validateCodexSandboxHolds still enforces it there - confirmed against the real roster after the change, not assumed. deriveCodexSandboxMode is now total: every (identity, toolsValue) including undefined and null returns read-only or workspace-write, never throws. Verified: validate agents emits parseable JSON; the four hold-bypass probes return read-only; the per-role table is 35/35 at 26 read-only / 9 workspace-write. Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#3897): put the rung-3 decision in the shipped docs instead of pointing at an ignored path The ADR entry and the feature fragment both ended their rung-3 explanation with "see .gsd/phase/feat-3897-adr3473-83-rungs/45-decision-rung3-sandbox.md". That directory is gitignored (.gitignore:55), so the rationale for holding 16 roles at read-only was reachable only from the machine that produced it. A reader of the ADR got a pointer to nothing. Both now carry the reasoning inline: the criterion asks both that the sandbox derive from the declared tool contract and that no role gain a broader sandbox, and those cannot both hold, because a faithful derivation widens 16 roles the deleted map never listed and that fell through its silent read-only default. The resolution is derive-and-hold - the derivation owns the rule now, each hold is released as its enforcement question is answered, and a hold is reversible where a widened sandbox that turns out to be enforced is not. Checked before assuming this was a defect class: CONTEXT.md cites .gsd/phase/<slug>/40-design.md as its standard Design: provenance line in eight module entries, and four other shipped docs do the same. Citing a phase artifact is an established convention here, so those are left alone. What was wrong was specific to these two: they put load-bearing rationale behind the pointer instead of provenance. docs/FEATURES.md regenerated from the fragment via scripts/gen-features.cjs rather than hand-edited. Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#3897): close a fail-open, stop a silent mis-resolution, and read a declaration as a declaration Two orthogonal reviews on the shipped sha. Three of the findings are the same failure class this epic exists to close, committed inside it. 1. BLOCKER - the sandbox was decided for one identity and applied to another. bin/install.js derived sandbox_mode for the filename stem and then wrote the result to `${name}.toml`, where name comes from the file's own frontmatter. Make the two disagree and a HELD role's artifact goes wide: rename gsd-doc-writer.md -> gsd-doc-writer-v2.md, keep name: gsd-doc-writer -> stem is unheld, derives workspace-write, lands on gsd-doc-writer.toml add any gsd-*.md whose frontmatter name: is a held role -> clobbers that role's toml with workspace-write Both emit read-only on origin/next, because the deleted map was an allowlist and a miss fell back safe. This is a regression my change introduced. The previous review round moved the HOLD KEY off frontmatter to the filename stem and left the OUTPUT PATH on frontmatter; my own comment at install.js:6985 calls that value attacker-editable, four lines above the line that uses it as the filename. The decision is now made over BOTH candidate identities, most-restrictive wins: if either the stem or the emitted name is held, the mode is read-only. 2. MAJOR - hold matching was toLowerCase() only, so confusables escaped. Turkish dotted/dotless i, fullwidth, NFD, trailing space/NBSP/dot/newline, ./ and ../agents/ all slipped the hold and emitted workspace-write. Identities are now basenamed, trimmed of NBSP/zero-width/control characters, NFKC-normalized and lowercased - and anything still carrying a character outside [a-z0-9._-] is treated as suspicious and derives read-only. We do not enumerate confusables; every shipped roster file is ASCII, so refusing to widen on an identity we cannot recognize is fail-closed with no false positives on real content. 3. MAJOR - the short-form depends_on tier mis-resolved SILENTLY. shortFormToId keyed on the last dash-segment of any canonical id with no constraint that it is a plan number, so a phase holding 09-FIX-auth-PLAN.md made depends_on: ["auth"] bind at wave 2 with zero warnings. This is the worst shape in the epic: the unresolvable-token warning fires on a DROPPED token, so a MIS-RESOLVED one is invisible and the tool reports a confident wave assignment built from a wrong edge. A wrong edge is worse than a missing one. The segment must now match /^\d+$/, which is exactly the contract docs/reference/plan-md.md already documents. This tier was recovered verbatim from the retired SDK lineage, which carried the same defect; we are deliberately NOT preserving it bug-for-bug, and the comment says so, so the next reader does not "restore" it. 4. MAJOR - the derivation was reading a declaration as an absence. extractToolsLine read one line, so a YAML list-form tools: block returned only its first item. Two roster files use list form, and gsd-nyquist-auditor declares Write and Edit there - parsed as "- Read", found no write tool, and emitted read-only. Rung 3's headline claim is that sandbox_mode derives from the declared tool contract; that claim was false for 2 of 35 roles and materially wrong for 1. Reading a declaration as an absence is the silent-drop class this epic exists to close. Renamed extractToolsValue and taught it both shapes. gsd-nyquist-auditor now derives workspace-write and joins CODEX_SANDBOX_HOLDS as its 17th entry, per the standing derive-and-hold decision - so emitted TOML stays byte-identical at 26 read-only / 9 workspace-write while the hold list finally records every role that would widen. A previous pass declined this fix because it moved the count; that inverts the priority. Byte-identity is preserved THROUGH the hold, not by leaving a parser broken. Divergence check, because this is where that bug hides: both paths feeding sandbox derivation - install.js's emitter and checkCodexSandboxPosture - now route through the one extractor. The tools readers in runtime-artifact-conversion and install.js's other frontmatter call sites serve Claude-side emission and do not feed sandbox derivation. Also fixed, each real: the posture check's `found` used a naive whole-file regex where its own sibling uses the block-aware scanner, so prose inside developer_instructions produced a false violation; `found` skipped truncatePostureValue and leaked a 300-char value into validate agents output; deriveCodexSandboxMode's absolute never-throws claim was false for an object with a throwing toString; T49 could not falsify cross-phase leakage (its target phase had its own 01, so a globally-scoped map passed too); T20/N6 iterated a hardcoded table and pinned the FIXTURE size, so a 36th agent would be silently unchecked; three tests reimplemented the code they were testing instead of importing it; and T2-T4 deleted GSD_RUNTIME without restoring it. Verified: hold list 17, gsd-nyquist-auditor derives workspace-write unheld and emits read-only held, roster 35/35 at 26/9, depends_on ["auth"] no longer resolves while ["01"] still does, both identity-bypass cases and every confusable vector emit read-only. Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#3897): the hold list is 17, and the reason the 17th was missing The count read 16 because the derivation could not read the declaration it claimed to derive from: the tools reader was single-line, so a YAML list-form tools: block returned only its first item and gsd-nyquist-auditor's declared Write and Edit were read as an absence. Both the ADR entry and the feature fragment now carry the corrected count and the reason for it, rather than a silently updated number. Deriving from a declaration you cannot parse is not deriving, and a flattering count is worse than a wrong one because it looks settled. docs/FEATURES.md regenerated from the fragment. Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(#3897): backfill changeset pr number Refs #3897 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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enhance(#3881): one YAML parser — vendored js-yaml replaces the hand-rolled dialect (#3888)
* docs(#3881): answer §8.1's open question and correct three wrong premises ADR-3473 §8.1 carries a blocking open question with a forcing function: it must be answered before any implementation PR for the rule opens. Answered here as (a), a string-coercing adapter, with the measurement that settles it. The sequencing note bet that §8.8's schema would make (b) tractable. Measured against merged reality it does not: only 33 of extractFrontmatter's 78 non-test call sites read STATE.md, and two of the five compensating mechanisms §8.1 lists survive real types, leaving ~31 lines across 3 call sites as the actual prize. Also corrects three claims verified false while answering it. §8.1's justifying sentence names #3349 and #3360 as defects a real parser would fix; both are already fixed on next, confirmed by executing the compiled parser rather than reading it. The guard roster calls lint-frontmatter-scalar-broad-grep.cjs an expected casualty of this rule, but it guards shell grep idioms in workflow bash fences and never touches our parser. The same roster calls lint-vendored-deps.cjs reusable as-is; it is hardcoded to re2js throughout. The last two were caught by applying the rule this amendment records -- a factual claim in this ADR is a hypothesis until the implementing phase executes it -- on its first use. Refs #3881 * docs(#3881): record that §8.1's fork is ill-posed and (a) is not implementable An adversarial pass on the Phase 4 design established by execution that extractFrontmatter is not a YAML parser but a line-oriented scanner whose output is a function of raw source text. Four spellings of the same value collapse to one js-yaml tree but produce four distinct legacy strings, one of them mangled. No adapter over a tree can choose among outputs the tree does not distinguish, so fork (a) -- keep a string-coercing adapter so the existing contract holds -- cannot be built. For any document with a non-scalar value, (a) collapses into (b); about 26 percent of frontmatter-carrying documents have one. Also records three design defects and one new attack surface, all confirmed by execution: catching a parse failure and returning {} would delete the frontmatter block on the next write at eight call sites that conflate empty with unparseable; an empty value yields null where legacy yields {}, and reconstructFrontmatter omits null-valued keys, so the shipped state template's empty progress key would vanish; the #1882 truncation probe is parseYamlRegion itself rather than a pre-parse heuristic, so it cannot both stay unchanged and survive that deletion; and FAILSAFE_SCHEMA still resolves aliases, expanding seven lines to 22.8 MB. The rule is not deferred. The measurement is the deliverable and the re-scoping is recorded as an open question with a forcing function, per section 8's own rule. Refs #3881 * test(#3881): failing-first rows for block scalars, unicode keys and the missing #3594 matrix Creates tests/feat-3594-parser-adversarial-frontmatter.test.cjs, the file the fixture README instructs contributors to register fixtures in but which never existed. Section C: table-driven ownership check over tests/fixtures/adversarial/frontmatter/ so a fixture with no matrix entry fails loudly; six existing fixtures (duplicate-keys, crlf-mixed, unclosed-block, unicode-keys-and-values, null-byte-value, huge-bounded) each get the invariant its README states. B1 blockScalarValueIsNotTheBlockIndicator: parsing commands/gsd/add-tests.md must give argument-instructions the instruction text, not the literal '|'. RED today. B2 blockScalarDoesNotInventATopLevelKey: same parse must not produce a top-level Example key scraped from inside the block body. RED today. B3 unicodeKeyRoundTripsAsIs: the 相 key in unicode-keys-and-values.md must survive parsing; today it is silently dropped. RED today. Refs #3881 * chore(#3881): vendor js-yaml and generalize the vendored-deps guard to a manifest Packaging step for ADR-3473 §8.1: makes js-yaml available to gsd-core/bin/** without promoting it out of devDependencies (promoting broke every installed tree, #3496). gsd-core/bin/lib/vendor/js-yaml.cjs is a verbatim copy of node_modules/js-yaml/dist/js-yaml.js (the self-contained UMD dist bundle, not index.js), exposing load/dump/FAILSAFE_SCHEMA/YAMLException with zero require() calls of its own. src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts is hand-authored, not copied, because js-yaml ships no upstream .d.ts and @types/js-yaml is not installed. It is deliberately narrow, declaring only the four symbols in use, so anchors/aliases/custom types/loadAll are unreachable from typed code -- a compile-time enforcement of ADR-3473 §8.1's refusal to expand alias resolution for security reasons. Because it has no upstream counterpart it is excluded from the byte-compare. scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs is refactored from a script hardcoded to re2js into a table-driven VENDORED manifest (one row per package: upstream/vendored .cjs paths, optional .d.cts paths, twin kind upstream-verbatim vs hand-authored) so a second vendored package does not require a second hardcoded check block, per ADR-3473 §8.3 'one implementation per rule'. The four existing re2js checks (vendored .cjs vs node_modules, vendored .d.cts vs node_modules, src/vendor twin vs bin-side twin, devDependency version pin vs installed version) are preserved unchanged; verified pass/fail identical before and after the refactor, and the guard's ability to fail was re-proven with a deliberate one-byte append to both re2js.cjs and js-yaml.cjs, then restored. docs/INVENTORY.md and docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json (via gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write, run after build:lib) register vendor/js-yaml.cjs. gsd-core/bin/lib/vendor/README.md documents both vendored packages and the two twin kinds. Refs #3881 * feat(#3881): parse .planning frontmatter with the vendored js-yaml ADR-3473 §8.1: extractFrontmatter's read path is no longer a hand-rolled line scanner. parseYamlRegion, escapeDoubleQuoted, unescapeDoubleQuoted and parseQuotedScalar are deleted (not patched); parsing now goes through the vendored js-yaml (./vendor/js-yaml.cjs) under { schema: FAILSAFE_SCHEMA, json: true }. Everything js-yaml does not do is layered on top, in one place, carrying the seven design-doc consequences: 1. Empty value: a null js-yaml value is coerced to {} (matching legacy's own empty-value contract) so reconstructFrontmatter — which omits null-valued keys — still round-trips a bare `key:` line instead of deleting it. Verified live: progress: with no value survives parse -> reconstruct -> re-parse. 2. Unparseable no longer collapses to a bare {}: a new FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE Symbol (exported), keyed exactly like the existing #3257 FULL_LINE_COMMENTS channel, is carried on the {} returned for malformed/refused YAML. Invisible to Object.keys/entries/JSON.stringify/for-in, so the 70 call sites that never inspect it are unaffected; wiring the 8 hasFrontmatter sites to consult it is a separate change, not done here. 3. Non-scalar object-list items (the four spellings of `- test: a b` that js-yaml collapses into one tree shape) are rendered as a canonical `key: value[, key2: value2]` string per item, keeping the existing array-of-strings value SHAPE. A full corpus differential over all 1702 tracked markdown files found 11 residual divergences from the legacy parser (enumerated in the PR/report), most of them the parser now being MORE correct (a dropped quoted top-level key, the block-scalar/phantom-key defect, a dropped Unicode key). 4. The #1882 truncation probe still runs the one real parser, but derives its key count from js-yaml's own thrown error and mark.line when the whole region doesn't parse cleanly (the dominant real truncation shape: fence opened, well-formed keys, no closing fence). Verified against both the clean-parse and the exception-fallback path. 5. The #3257 comment channel now attributes each pending column-0 comment against js-yaml's own parsed top-level key list (matched by literal key text, in document order) instead of the legacy ASCII-only key regex, so a comment above a Unicode key attaches correctly. 6. Anchors, aliases and merge keys are refused outright (a raw-text pre-scan, since FAILSAFE_SCHEMA still resolves them) — corpus occurrences today: zero. A 7-line billion-laughs fixture is verified refused rather than expanded. 7. A literal U+0000 is swapped for a private-use sentinel before the parse and restored in every resulting string afterward, since js-yaml rejects NUL unconditionally under every schema. escapeDoubleQuoted is deleted and reimplemented via js-yaml's dump() (forced double-quoted style), with control-char hex escapes lowercased to keep serialized output byte-stable (#1779 emitted lowercase); it keeps its exported name and signature for its two other call sites (commands.cts, runtime-artifact-conversion.cts), which need no change. frontmatterDeepEqual, the comment channel, sliceTopLevelFrontmatterSegments, regenerateFrontmatterKey's guard, noOpObjectListSetError and parseMustHavesBlock are all unchanged — retiring them is fork (b) and is not this phase. Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): quote template placeholders and preserve unparseable frontmatter SECURITY.md/UI-SPEC.md/VALIDATION.md wrote frontmatter placeholders as bare {N}/{phase-slug}/{date}, which is valid YAML flow-mapping syntax under the vendored js-yaml parser, not the literal placeholder text intended. Quote them so they parse as strings. Wire the FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE Symbol (exported but unused) at the 8 call sites in state.cts/state-transition.cts that compute hasFrontmatter via Object.keys(extractFrontmatter(...)).length > 0 and reassemble the document without a frontmatter block when false. That check conflated 'no frontmatter' with 'unparseable frontmatter' (both parse to {}), so a document with a merge-conflict marker or refused alias in its frontmatter had that block silently dropped on write. Each site now preserves the exact raw bytes stripFrontmatter removed when the marker is set, leaving the genuinely-empty case unchanged. Refs #3881 * test(#3881): consequence and boundary coverage for the js-yaml migration Rows: A1 emptyValuedKeySurvivesAWrite, A2 unparseableDocumentKeepsItsFrontmatterBlock, A3 unparseableIsDistinguishableFromEmpty, A4 nonScalarValuesCanonicalize, A5 truncationProbeStillFiresOnAnOpenFence, A6 commentsStayOnTheirOwnKey, A7 anchorsAndAliasesAreRefused, A8 aliasExpansionCannotExhaustMemory, F1 UNTERMINATED_KEY_THRESHOLD boundary, F2 alias/nesting refusal bound, F3 frontmatter size boundary (huge-bounded.md + larger). Adds tests/fixtures/adversarial/frontmatter/anchor-alias-bomb.md and its entry in the feat-3594 fixture matrix. Refs #3881 * docs(#3881): document the vendored parser, correct a stale rationale, add a vendoring how-to Refs #3881 * docs(#3881): correct the frontmatter glossary entry Two errors in the entry as first written: it named parseYamlRegion as part of the read path when that function is deleted, and it recorded the eight hasFrontmatter call sites as unwired follow-on work when they were wired in e35ac2a2c. Also records the scope caveat that the CLI write path rebuilds the frontmatter block independently, so the marker binds at the transform layer. Refs #3881 * docs(#3881): record the semantic-migration decision and the counted guard ledger The maintainer chose the full semantic migration over splitting the rule into its own epic or patching the scanner, so section 8.1 is answered as "the fork was ill-posed and the migration is semantic" rather than as (a) or (b). Also replaces the pre-implementation guess that this phase would shrink the guard surface with the counted result: excluding vendored third-party lines the hand-maintained surface is net +307, and frontmatter.cts grew by 68 lines despite four functions being deleted, because the compatibility layer over js-yaml is larger than the scanner it replaced. Section 8.1's stated benefit is therefore not delivered as written; what improved is the kind of code maintained, not the amount. Decision 6 requires recording that rather than netting it away. Refs #3881 * chore(#3881): changeset for the vendored YAML parser migration Refs #3881 * test(#3881): golden parity, round-trip property and packaging coverage Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): refuse anchors structurally and fold in review findings ADR-3473 §8.1 review findings, addressed inline: Finding 1 (BLOCKER): refuseAnchorsAndAliases was a raw-line regex that matched only the bare-key spelling (key: &x). A quoted key ("a": &x), a flow mapping ({b: &x}) and a flow sequence ([&x, *x]) all define/use the SAME anchor mechanics while never matching that line shape, so the exact expansion the guard exists to stop went straight through unrefused (a 303-byte quoted-key bomb expanded to ~35.8MB). Replaced with js-yaml's own `load` `listener` callback, which reports `state.anchor` for every event belonging to an anchored node in every spelling, and throws from inside the callback to abort before any expansion (~1-2ms vs full expand-then-discard). A merge key with an alias is still refused (merge always requires a previously anchored node, so the alias itself trips the listener); a bare merge key with NO alias is no longer separately refused, documented as intentional: FAILSAFE_SCHEMA never resolves `!!merge`, so it carries no expansion risk. Table-driven tests added for all four bypass spellings + merge key, plus a quoted-key-spelled billion-laughs fixture registered in the adversarial matrix and README. Finding 2: src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts's docblock falsely claimed anchors/ aliases were "simply UNREACHABLE from typed code" through the twin. Corrected to state the truth: anchor/alias resolution is document-level `load` mechanics reachable through exactly the declared surface, and refusal is enforced at RUNTIME (Finding 1's listener), not by the type surface. Finding 3 (MAJOR): the null-byte sentinel (U+E000) round-trip was non-injective — restoreNullBytesDeep rewrote every U+E000 in the parsed tree back to NUL, including one the document author legitimately wrote, silently corrupting it. Now refuses outright whenever the raw region already contains U+E000 (consistent with the existing anchor/merge-key refusal path), making the substitution provably injective. Tests added for a real NUL alone (preserved), a pre-existing U+E000 alone (refused, not corrupted), and both together (refused, not merged into one byte). Finding 4 (MAJOR): scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs's `srcTwin` field was dead for a hand-authored row (only read inside the upstream-verbatim branch) — exactly how Finding 2's stale docblock drifted unnoticed. Added checkHandAuthoredTwin: every value-level export the twin DECLARES must be an actual own property of the vendored runtime module at require-time. Tests added, including a sensor that a declared-but-nonexistent export IS caught. Finding 5: the existingFm/hasFrontmatter/stripFrontmatter/fmPrefix/ unparseableFm/reassemble preamble, copy-pasted at 7 sites in state-transition.cts plus a sixth hand-inlined copy in state.cts's cmdStateCompletePhase, is now one exported helper (beginFrontmatterReassembly) every site routes through, including the hand-inlined one. Three call sites (beginPhaseCore, patchCore, updateCore) keep a literal `body = stripFrontmatter(content)` assignment alongside the helper call so scripts/lint-state-write-path-drift.cjs's single-hop backward scan (which does not chase aliases) still sees the strip; stripFrontmatter is pure/idempotent so the extra call changes nothing observable. Finding 6: corrected the frontmatter.cts docblock's stale "wiring is a separate change" claim (the 8 call sites are wired on this branch) and the changeset's backlink from (#3473) to (#3881). Finding 7: fixed the lint:ci failures blocking the gate — an @typescript-eslint/only-throw-error violation from throwing a bare Symbol as the anchor-detected signal (now a real Error subclass), unused-var warnings left over from the Finding 5 refactor, a lint-test-file-count cap exceeded by two migration-specific test files (allowlisted with justification), and the lint-state-write-path-drift false positive from Finding 5's helper (fixed above). tests/frontmatter-golden-parity.test.cjs:117's execFileSync already carried an explicit timeout; no change was needed there. Golden fixture: added a golden entry for the new anchor-alias-bomb-quoted.md fixture ({} — matches what the legacy line scanner would also produce, since it independently dropped every quoted top-level key). No other corpus document diverges: real .planning/ documents carry zero anchors/aliases/merge keys/U+E000 today. Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): fold in second-round review findings Finding 1 (BLOCKER): tests/frontmatter.test.cjs pinned the pre-migration ASCII-only key regex for the Unicode fixture; updated to require the 相 key's value now that js-yaml has no such restriction. Audited the rest of the file for other pre-migration pins (block scalars, quoted keys, flattened values, empty values, duplicate keys, unclosed blocks, null bytes) by execution against real fixtures; found none regressed. Finding 2: parseYamlRegion and escapeDoubleQuoted renamed to parseGuardedYamlRegion and escapeDoubleQuotedScalar in src/frontmatter.cts so no function still answers to the deleted hand-rolled scanner's name (ADR-3473 §8.1 "deleted, not patched"). escapeDoubleQuotedScalar's three external call sites (src/commands.cts, src/runtime-artifact-conversion.cts) updated in the same change — a mechanical rename, not an ADR-amendment matter. Finding 3 (BLOCKER): fixed a real crash and a silent data-loss bug found by execution. A top-level key named constructor/__proto__/toString/ valueOf/hasOwnProperty crashed reconstructFrontmatter (bracket read resolving an inherited Object.prototype member); a key literally named __proto__ was silently DROPPED entirely (bracket assignment on an ordinary {} invoked the inherited __proto__ setter instead of creating a data property). Fixed by building every parsed Frontmatter object with Object.create(null), and replacing an `in` check with hasOwnProperty.call in propagateCommentChannel. Added round-trip tests for all five hostile keys, each with its own leading comment. Finding 4 (MAJOR): escapeDoubleQuotedScalar's docstring falsely claimed full byte-stability across the migration. Verified by execution: BEL/NUL/ NEL/NBSP/LS/PS/BOM now emit YAML-named escapes instead of the old hex/raw- literal forms. Proved round-trip equivalence (each escape re-parses to the exact source codepoint) and corrected the docstring. Found and fixed a related real defect while verifying: a lone UTF-16 surrogate was emitted BARE (scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting didn't trigger), producing genuinely unparseable YAML that silently collapsed to {} on re-read — extended scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting to route surrogates through the quoted+escaped path. Finding 5 (MAJOR): countKeysBeforeTruncation went silent on 4 real truncation shapes (unquoted colon, open flow collection, mis-indented sibling key, refused anchor). Root cause: the mark-based prefix recovery excluded the very line whose key needed counting, and a mark-less refusal never entered the recovery branch at all. Fixed by taking the max of two lower bounds: the longest parser-verified line-prefix, and a raw-text count of key-shaped lines (reusing the same key-shape pattern this file already uses for isFrontmatterShaped). Extended test-matrix row A5 table-driven over all 4 regressed shapes. Finding 6: the design doc's claim that no test owned the #3594 adversarial fixture corpus was false — consolidation epic #1969 had already folded it into tests/frontmatter.test.cjs. An earlier commit on this branch re-created a standalone duplicate under that false premise; folded its genuinely-new coverage (fixture-ownership check, anchor-bomb fixtures, block-scalar B1/B2 rows) into frontmatter.test.cjs and deleted the duplicate file. Corrected the false claims in 40-design.md §3.3.1 and the ADR's §8.1 note, including the roadmap-sibling claim (no such file exists). Finding 7: the golden serializer sorted object keys, making it structurally blind to the key-order-parity invariant ADR-3473 §8.1 actually claims. Made it order-preserving and regenerated the golden fixture from a standalone compile of the legacy (pre-#3881) parser at ddde001af; the current parser matches it with zero undocumented divergences, confirming key-order parity genuinely holds. Extended row A2 table-driven across 6 of the remaining 7 transitionCore kinds (all pass) plus documented, by execution, a newly-discovered 8th-site regression: state.cts's cmdStateCompletePhase calls the same preservation helper but its result is clobbered by a later unconditional resync — filed as a distinct finding rather than fixed here (touches syncAndPreserveStateMd, outside this change's verified scope). Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): preserve unparseable frontmatter through the CLI write path Characterization (executed, before/after shown): case (b), not (a). The frontmatter FENCE survives — `state complete-phase` on a conflict-marked STATE.md returns success and a well-formed, freshly-derived frontmatter block, not a document with no frontmatter at all. But the block's actual content (the merge-conflict markers, and with them any signal to a human that the document was in conflict) is silently discarded and replaced. Root cause was two clobber sites, not one: 1. syncStateFrontmatter (src/state.cts) re-parses the already-preserved `transformedContent` from readModifyWriteStateMd, finds {} + the FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE marker, and unconditionally rebuilt a fresh frontmatter block from the body anyway. 2. Even after (1) is fixed, applyPostSyncPreservation's own postFm/applyStatePreservation/authoritativeFm-reassertion machinery re-extracts frontmatter from syncedContent, restores curated fields from the pre-write snapshot, and reconstructs a NEW block again — confirmed live via `state begin-phase`, which still lost the markers after fixing (1) alone. Both are now guarded by the same predicate (isUnparseableFrontmatter, checking FRONTMATTER_UNPARSEABLE): when the ORIGINAL frontmatter did not parse and the caller is not on ADR-3408 §8.3's closed "body wins" list, both functions return their input content unchanged rather than re-deriving over it. The closed list (cmdStateSync #905, /gsd-health --repair's REGENERATE_STATE, both routed only through writeStateMd, which never reaches applyPostSyncPreservation and passes sanctionedPermanentEmptyFallback=true to syncStateFrontmatter) is untouched — neither widened nor narrowed; verified by execution that `state sync` still overwrites the conflict-marked block exactly as before. Other verbs sharing the same readModifyWriteStateMd path were checked and were equally affected before this fix: state update, query state.patch, and state begin-phase all lost the conflict markers (RED, shown by execution), and all three now preserve them (GREEN). Covered table-driven in tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs's new A2b describe block, which drives the real CLI verbs via runGsdTools — not just the pure transitionCore layer the earlier A2 rows exercised — plus a control asserting state sync's body-wins contract is unchanged. Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): restore the parse surface's prototype and fix remote-runner failures Root cause of the bulk of the 88 remote-runner failures: extractFrontmatter/parseGuardedYamlRegion handed back Object.create(null) trees for prototype-pollution safety, but assert.deepStrictEqual compares prototypes, so every assertion against a plain object literal failed (57 frontmatter.unit.test.cjs + 5 frontmatter.test.cjs + others). Fixed by keeping the internal construction null-prototype (unchanged) and converting to a plain-prototype tree via Object.defineProperty (never bracket assignment, so __proto__/constructor/toString keys stay safe) at the parseGuardedYamlRegion/unparseableResult return boundary only; the internal FULL_LINE_COMMENTS Symbol channel is copied by reference, not recursed, so its own __proto__-safety is untouched. Per-class fixes: (1) bomAcrossArtifactTypes was the same prototype bug, no separate code change needed. (2) frontmatter-cli #1660: added objectListFieldWouldLoseData, a broader lossy-field detector alongside the existing byte-identical noOpObjectListSetError -- js-yaml's flattenObjectListItem now correctly includes every sub-key of an object-list item (a real bug fix over the legacy scanner, which silently dropped every field but the first), so a set that drops that now-included data is no longer byte-identical to the original and needs its own guard. (3) uat.test.cjs: updated the pinned expectation for the human_verification quote-stripping artifact -- js-yaml resolves quoting correctly where the legacy regex left an unbalanced quote; documented as an intentional, non-lossy behavior change. (4) smart-entry: added a fallback-only loadWithAmbiguousColonRepair so a column-0 key: value line whose value itself contains an unquoted colon (the #2571 hand-edited-STATE.md shape) round-trips instead of failing the whole frontmatter block closed. (5) frontmatter.unit.test.cjs bracket-array leniency: added a second fallback, repairMalformedInlineArrays, restoring the legacy scanner's tolerant inline-array handling (consecutive/blank commas, unclosed bracket) -- both repairs run ONLY after the primary parse already threw, so well-formed documents are unaffected. (6) prompt-injection-scan: src/frontmatter.cts had a literal U+FEFF BOM embedded in a comment illustrating the #2977 fix; replaced with the U+FEFF text escape. (7) eslint-glob-coverage: allowlisted the new src/vendor/js-yaml.d.cts vendored type declaration, same precedent as the existing re2js.d.cts entry. (8) frontmatter-golden-parity: git ls-files *.md now runs with -c safe.directory=* (process-scoped) so it survives the remote runner's dubious-ownership check without a persistent git config write. Refs #3881 * chore(#3881): backfill changeset PR number Refs #3881 * test(#3881): make golden parity resistant to unrelated tree churn A corpus-wide snapshot keyed to every tracked *.md file was coupled to mutable-by-design files: .changeset/*.md's pr:0 -> real-PR-number backfill is a required workflow step, not a parser change, yet it turned this suite red. Training people to 'just regenerate the golden' on that kind of failure defeats the point of the snapshot. Exclude .changeset/** from the golden corpus entirely, tolerate tracked *.md files with no golden entry (they postdate the capture) instead of failing on them, keep hard failures for a golden entry whose file has vanished from the tree and for any real parity divergence, and add a coverage floor so the enumeration cannot quietly degrade to comparing a handful of files. Golden regenerated by recompiling the legacy pre-migration parser (git show ddde001af:src/frontmatter.cts) standalone, independent of the current parser, over the same non-changeset corpus. Refs #3881 * test(#3881): make the parser golden hermetic instead of tree-keyed This repo merges ~21 commits/day; a 14-day sample measured 937 touches of the exact files (commands/gsd/*.md, gsd-core/workflows/*.md, agents/*.md, docs/*.md) the prior golden pinned by tracked path. Any PR editing one of those files' frontmatter for reasons unrelated to the parser (an argument-hint addition, an allowed-tools tweak) turned the suite red, and the reflex fix -- "regenerate the golden" -- overwrote the very snapshot meant to catch a real regression. Excluding .changeset/** was not enough; the design itself was wrong: a regression fixture must not be keyed to mutable repo paths, and a single 376-entry JSON every such PR touches is also a guaranteed merge-conflict surface. Rebuilt the fixture to carry its own documents: each of 51 entries stores a stable id, literal documentText (shrunk from a real ddde001af-era corpus document), and an expectedParse captured independently from the pre-migration legacy parser (git show ddde001af:src/frontmatter.cts, compiled standalone against its byte-identical sibling modules). The test reads no tracked path, shells out to no git command, and enumerates no tree -- a PR editing commands/gsd/help.md cannot affect it. Every entry's reconstruction was verified at capture time to reproduce both the current and legacy parser's output on the original document; 0 of 51 candidates were dropped by that check (1, the deliberately-unterminated unclosed-block.md adversarial fixture, has no closing fence to truncate at and is stored unshrunk). Kept the 5 documented DIVERGENCES rows (now diverges:true entries) and the D2 order-preserving structural serializer that keeps the comparison from passing vacuously; dropped the tree-enumeration helpers, the coverage floor, the post-capture-skip logic, and the vanished-file check -- all artifacts of the path-keyed design. Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): resolve vendored-deps paths independently of cwd shape Five rows in tests/lint-vendored-deps-manifest.test.cjs failed on windows-latest CI: the test passed absolute scratch-file paths into compareFiles()/checkRow(), whose helpers joined every input onto ROOT via path.join(ROOT, rel), producing garbage when the input was already absolute. It surfaced on windows-latest specifically because GitHub's Windows runners checkout the repo on a different drive than TEMP, so path.relative(REPO_ROOT, tmpFile) returned the absolute path unchanged (no relative traversal is representable across drives) rather than the relative form the test assumed. The remote gsd-test runner this repo gates pushes on is Linux-only and could never have caught this; GitHub CI's windows-latest job is the only signal that does, and it did. Fixed the helper itself (scripts/lint-vendored-deps.cjs's new resolvePath()) to treat an already-absolute input as absolute-in, absolute-out instead of silently mis-joining it, and updated the test to pass the scratch file's absolute path directly rather than relying on a relative conversion that is not always representable. Kept every mutation-sensor assertion intact and added coverage proving resolvePath is a no-op for relative inputs and correctly passes absolute ones through unchanged. Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): warn when state sync regenerates over unparseable frontmatter state sync (ADR-3408 §8.3's sanctioned regenerate path) correctly overwrites an unparseable frontmatter block per its 'body wins' contract — that overwrite behavior is unchanged here. The defect was the silence: synced:true/exit 0 gave no signal that the existing block (including git merge-conflict markers) could not be parsed and was destroyed, per ADR-3473 §8.5 ('a derived conclusion may not be reported as authoritative when the derivation dropped input it could not resolve') and §8.4 ('failure is a value'). Adds a gsd: warning — ... (#3881) line on stderr, matching the existing #3573 precedent, and surfaces the same disclosure in the JSON result's existing changes[] array so a machine consumer sees it too. Exit code and synced:true are left unchanged — sync did what its contract says. REGENERATE_STATE (/gsd-health --repair's sibling on the same sanctioned-regenerate list) is DESTRUCTIVE-risk and unconditionally refused by applyRepairs's dispatcher before runRepairAction ever runs (src/health-diagnostic.cts), so it is not a live path today and is not in scope for this fix. Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): exit non-zero when a state command returns an error Refs #3881 * chore(#3881): changeset for the state exit-code fix Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): honor the documented --project-dir flag Refs #3881 * revert(#3881): restore exit-0 result envelopes for state errors Reverts 9638f2936 and its changeset. The change was wrong and the revert is the correction. This repo distinguishes two error mechanisms deliberately. error() in src/io.cts writes to stderr and calls process.exit(1) -- the hard-failure path. output({error: ...}) writes a JSON result envelope to stdout and returns normally with exit 0. The reverted commit converted 23 result-envelope sites into hard failures, which is a different contract, not a bug fix. tests/state-contract.test.cjs's errorPathDoesNotPublish asserts the envelope contract directly -- a failing command exits 0 with a JSON error envelope and must not publish state.json -- and the remote matrix run caught it along with four cases in the QA scenario walk. Thirteen tests in tests/state.test.cjs that the original commit rewrote were encoding that real contract, not the bug it claimed; they are restored. Whether an error envelope on stdout with exit 0 is the right CLI design is a genuine question, and it is section 8.4's rule ('failure is a value') with its own phase. It is not something to flip inside this PR. Refs #3881 * chore(#3881): backfill changeset PR number for the project-dir fix Refs #3881 * test(#3881): keep the frontmatter mutation shard inside its time budget The Stryker (frontmatter) shard hit the documented 15-minute (900s) shard cap. Root cause is NOT row-level spawn overhead (contrast the #2790/ core-utils precedent): the three shard test files' own logic runs in ~413ms total (356+30+27ms) with all 392 assertions passing. Instead, src/frontmatter.cts grew from ~825 to 1496 lines (+671/-187) migrating to the vendored YAML parser, proportionally growing the mutant count Stryker generates for gsd-core/bin/lib/frontmatter.cjs. Stryker's command runner bills the full 'node --test <3 files>' invocation once per mutant, and node:test's default per-file process isolation forks a child process for each of the three files on every one of those invocations — pure fork overhead multiplied by a much larger mutant population. Fix: scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED.frontmatter now declares isolation: 'none', and .github/workflows/mutation.yml passes --test-isolation=${{ matrix.isolation }} (defaulting to 'process' — i.e. unchanged behavior — for the other 8 shards, which were not individually audited for cross-file state leakage under shared-process execution). Measured locally via node:test's run() API on the exact 3-file set: isolation:'process' took ~593ms vs isolation:'none' ~478ms for the same 392 passing assertions. The true CI-shard number can only be confirmed on the GitHub Actions run (Stryker cannot run locally, and 'node --test' is hard-blocked in this environment). Refs #3881 * test(#3881): register the vendored-parser tests in the frontmatter mutation shard stryker.config.mjs's own rule ("Keep this list in sync with the tests arrays in scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED") was violated: #3881 grew src/frontmatter.cts from ~825 to 1496 lines but its new tests (tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs, tests/frontmatter-golden-parity.test.cjs, tests/frontmatter-roundtrip.property.test.cjs, and +167 lines in tests/frontmatter.test.cjs) were never added to the frontmatter shard's tests array, so Stryker's mutants in the new vendored-js-yaml adapter had nothing constraining them. PR #3888 measured 55.8% against the 65 floor (748 killed / 593 survived / 17 timeout) and the shard was separately cancelled at 15m04s against the 15-minute per-shard cap. Registers all four files (each earns its slot on evidence of a unique constraining assertion, documented inline), gives the shard a measured/projected 180-minute budget via a new per-module timeoutMinutes field threaded through mutation.yml's job-level timeout-minutes the same way isolation is threaded, and removes the prior isolation:'none' override (re-measured at this file-set size, its savings are within run-to-run noise, not worth the unaudited cross-file-state-leakage risk). Refs #3881 * feat(#3881): derive the mutation test list and ratchet the score floor Refs #3881 * test(#3881): ratchet five stale mutation floors and close the frontmatter gap Raised five module minScore floors per CI run 33012034388 (floor(achieved)-1): config-schema 75.51%->74, prompt-budget 88.95%->87, context-composer 79.92%->78, context-utilization 92.31%->91, active-workstream-store 87.42%->86. Updated both scripts/mutation-matrix.cjs COVERED entries and tests/mutation-matrix-ratchet.test.cjs RATCHET_BASELINE in the same diff per the ratchet's own contract. Closed the frontmatter shard's 63.03%-vs-65 gap with new behavioral tests in tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs, each paired with a documented near-miss: frontmatterDeepEqual's array-order/length/type-mismatch/key-order semantics (via spliceFrontmatter's no-op guard), scalarNeedsDoubleQuoting's leading/trailing-whitespace and dash/surrogate triggers (via reconstructFrontmatter), repairAmbiguousColonValues' already-quoted vs ambiguous-colon repair paths (via extractFrontmatter), and the null-byte sentinel round-trip surviving at region offset 1. Did not lower minScore. Refs #3881 * test(#3881): decouple the ratchet test from real module floors The CLI end-to-end rows in tests/mutation-score-ratchet.test.cjs hardcoded config-schema's real floor (52), which commit 973321541 legitimately ratcheted to 74 -- breaking a test pinned to the exact value the mechanism under test exists to change. Add an injectable --matrix seam to scripts/check-mutation-score-ratchet.cjs and point the CLI rows at a synthetic module + synthetic floor built via a temp fixture, so the rows are indifferent to any real module's floor moving while still exercising the same fail/pass behaviour. Refs #3881 * refactor(#3881): parse must_haves with the vendored parser and drop re-implemented leniency Refs #3881 * fix(#3881): restore the ambiguous-colon repair its hand-edited-STATE.md contract needs A tracked-document sweep of 910 *.md files cannot see this dependent: repairAmbiguousColonValues's one real caller is user hand-edited STATE.md content that never lives in this repo's tree, only on end users' machines, and is pinned by tests/smart-entry.unit.test.cjs. Restores the function plus its post-throw fallback path (loadWithAmbiguousColonRepair) only; repairMalformedInlineArrays and splitLegacyInlineArrayItems stay deleted, reverified against the full frontmatter test shard. Adds a frontmatter-level regression row in tests/feat-3881-yaml-parser-consequences.test.cjs so the dependency is visible where the function lives. Closes #2571 Refs #3881 --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> |
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enhance(#3883): route every slug call site through its canonical owner (#3896)
* docs(#3883): correct section 8.3 against the tree
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enhance(#3873): the STATE.md schema — one owner, generated artifacts (#3880)
* test(#3873): failing-first locale parity, plus tripwires for what must not move Pins ADR-3473 §8.8 at the artifact a reader actually sees. The English STATE.md reference carries a Status lifecycle section that is missing from all four translations — the section documenting the status enum whose clobbering is #3853. The test derives the heading set rather than hard-coding the missing one, and names the locale and the heading when it fails. Two tripwires that must pass today and after. The field-drift guard still catches a re-derived fallback ladder: §8.8 instructs deleting that script, and that instruction rests on a wrong premise about what it guards, so the test stops a future reader from deleting it on the ADR's word. And last_activity's label resolution is pinned to what ships today, because it is declared in one of the two tables this phase consolidates and not the other — the consolidation must not silently pick a side. The locale test buckets under docs rather than state, which is what it tests; that bucket is allowlisted with justification rather than folded into an unrelated docs suite. It reads only markdown, so it carries no allow-test-rule marker — a marker there would suppress nothing and would grow the unverified pool against its ceiling. Refs #3873 * feat(#3873): one schema owns the STATE.md key set, three tables become projections ADR-3473 §8.8. The key set was declared in four places that had to agree by hand and already did not: FIELD_CLASSIFICATION, FRONTMATTER_BODY_SOURCE, FRONTMATTER_KEY_TO_BODY_LABEL and buildStateFrontmatter's emit behavior. One frozen null-prototype schema now declares each key's type, enum, cardinality, source, preservation, body source, body label, accepted parse shapes and whether it is emitted unconditionally; the three tables are derived from it at module load. The projections are byte-identical to the literals they replace, key order included, and the parity tests compare against verbatim copies of today's tables rather than re-deriving both sides from the schema — a parity test fed from one source proves nothing, which is how a consolidation ships a changed policy under a green test. last_activity was the live disagreement: present in one table, absent from the other. The schema declares what ships today rather than the tidier answer, and a test pins it. The schema is a leaf module and owns the four field-policy types, re-exported from state-transition so existing importers are untouched — the same split health-diagnostic-types made to break a CJS require cycle. Refs #3873 * feat(#3873): generate the schema-derived regions, parity-check the prose tables ADR-3473 §8.8's generator half. gen-state-md-docs.cjs owns marked regions in the shipped template and all five reference docs, follows gen-features.cjs's fail-closed contract, and is wired into regen:derived and lint:generated-sync. The Status lifecycle section was missing from all four translations — the section documenting the status enum behind #3853 — and is now generated into every locale. Field cardinality is a new generated table: pure schema data, no prose, so nothing to lose. The Field-reference and Status-values tables are parity-CHECKED rather than generated. Their Purpose, When-populated and Matched-text columns are genuinely hand-translated per locale, and §8.8 itself says prose stays hand-translated; generating them from an English registry would overwrite four locales' translations on every write. The row set is checked against the schema instead, so a key added to one and not the other fails, which is what field drift actually means. Building that check found last_activity_desc undocumented in all five tables. Three keys the docs describe are absent from the schema — active_phase, next_action, next_phases. They are grandfathered by name, not by wildcard, so a fourth fails: a declared gap with a forcing function rather than a silent one. Refs #3873 * fix(#3873): declare what the parsers do, and close the shape-parity gap Two declarations in the new schema described intended behavior rather than actual — the defect class this epic exists to end, committed inside the epic. Both were caught by executing the parsers instead of reading their docstrings. current_plan.acceptedShapes claimed ['N', 'N of M']. Standalone, the hybrid shape errors; the path that looks like support is parseInt truncating '2 of 5' to 2 and discarding the rest. Narrowed to ['N']. The parser is deliberately NOT fixed here: that is #3784 and PR #3791 is already doing it. When #3791 lands this row must widen, and the shape test will go red until it does — the schema and the parser cannot drift apart quietly, which is what §8.8's checked-not- generated rule is for. STATUS_LIFECYCLE_ENUM claimed to be the closed set status can hold. normalizeStateStatus passes unrecognized prose through unchanged, so it is not closed at runtime. The seven members are the canonical values it maps onto; the docstring now says that and the test asserts the real lenient contract. Closes the acceptance item that a test asserts the parsers accept exactly the declared shapes: the check is table-driven over every row carrying acceptedShapes, guarded against passing vacuously on an empty set, and fails loudly if a future row has no registered driver. Adds the unwired-label throw and the fast-check property that every projection agrees with its schema row. Refs #3873 * fix(#3873): keep the shipped template's frontmatter first, and make row 27 able to fail The remote matrix caught 12 failures with one cause. Making the template's frontmatter a generated region wrapped it in its own yaml fence ahead of the markdown fence, so extractFileTemplate and readShippedStateTemplateBody — which both match the single markdown block — found the heading first, not the frontmatter. That breaks the contract every new project's STATE.md is created from: bug #21 and epic #1969 B8 pin that the File Template block starts with frontmatter and carries gsd_state_version. The markers now sit inside the single markdown fence, so the fence opens before the frontmatter and the region still ends ahead of the heading. Same layout as before this phase, with markers embedded rather than a second fence. Row 27 existed to catch exactly this and did not, because it was writer-seeded: it asserted against the generator's own output shape, so it passed on the broken template. It now parses the fence the way production does and was verified to fail against the broken shape before being trusted against the fixed one. A test that would not have caught the bug it exists to prevent is worse than no test. The emitted-attribution failure was separate and the fragment was the wrong remedy: gsd-core/templates/state.md self-attributes under a verbatim-copy identity rule, so a diff touching it needs no acknowledgment. Fragment deleted rather than left explaining nothing. Refs #3873 * docs(#3873): how to change the STATE.md schema The phase gate was right and my docs artifact was wrong. I listed lint:generated-sync as the second enablement step, which is a verification command dressed as one, and then claimed a one-step sequence owed no how-to. The real sequence is build:lib then regen:derived, and the ordering is a trap: the generator reads the COMPILED schema, so regenerating before building regenerates against the previous schema and commits artifacts that look plausible while disagreeing with the code just written. A reference table cannot carry an ordering dependency; that is what the how-to test is for. The page covers adding, changing and removing a key, every reason code the check emits and what to do about each, what is generated versus hand-translated and why the two prose-bearing tables are parity-checked instead of generated, adding a language, and the three grandfathered keys. Indexed from docs/README.md. Refs #3873 * chore(#3873): backfill changeset PR number --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> |
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enhance(#3871): the state transaction — mandatory snapshot, open()/rebuild() (#3874)
* test(#3871): failing-first regressions for the dropped curated progress block Pins ADR-3473 §8.6 / #3756 at the consumer's output: state record-session and state add-decision on an archived-milestone project drop the curated progress frontmatter entirely, exit 0, and report nothing. Reproduced against the real CLI before writing the tests, not inferred from the issue text. Also adds the unit-level probe that applyStatePreservation's preserve-always row is inert on a resyncing write, and an over-preservation guard that an empty project is never inflated. Refs #3871 * feat(#3871): make the STATE.md pre-write snapshot mandatory via open()/rebuild() ADR-3473 §8.6. StatePreservationInput's nullable preFm and the always-present preFmSnapshot were the same extractFrontmatter call, one of them nulled on resync — a policy flag baked into a snapshot. Both collapse into a single StateTransaction whose snapshot cannot be absent: openStateTransaction() applies preservation, rebuildStateTransaction() does not, and both carry the snapshot because the reporting phase needs it either way. An absent snapshot is now a construction failure; an empty one stays legal, because that is what a document with no parseable frontmatter honestly has. writeStateMd requires a rebuild transaction, which types ADR-3408 §8.3's closed exception list at both call sites (state sync, health --repair) instead of matching them as strings in a ratcheted baseline. Fixes the dropped curated progress block: an all-zero or absent derived total set is an unmeasured scan, not a measurement, so the curated block stands. Also fixes two defects surfaced while building — preserve-always reported a mutation even when it restored an identical value, and it re-entered the curated object by reference, which would alias the snapshot the next phase diffs against. Refs #3871 * fix(#3871): close the three remaining subsumed defects and restore the arm the type does not replace Review of the first two commits found four things. The guard shrink deleted the seam-bypass axis whole, but only its writeStateMd( arm became redundant. Its other arm catches a call site re-assembling syncStateFrontmatter + applyPostSyncPreservation instead of the owned composition, which the transaction type does not make unrepresentable and which #3469 found live. Restored as findCompositionBypasses, terminal rather than ratcheted. Three of the four issues this phase claims were untouched. All three are the epic's own shape and are fixed at the seam: current_phase_name is reasserted from the curated value when the caller names none, and cmdStateJson stops carrying a hand-maintained list parallel to FIELD_CLASSIFICATION and projects it instead. The construction failure that is the point of this phase had no test. Every enumerated matrix row now has one, including the measured-versus-unmeasured coercion boundary and a seeded property that no curated key is ever dropped. ADR-3473 §8.6 said the guard 'keeps only its raw-write check'. Verified against next: there was no raw-write check, and four other checks it does not name. Amended in place with the evidence. ARCHITECTURE.md separately advertised a preservation policy the code had deleted. Refs #3871 * fix(#3871): do not let the unmeasured-scan rule block an explicitly-requested resync The remote matrix caught over-preservation, the failure this phase's own negative space says must not happen. state update Progress re-derives the block from the body the caller just rewrote; on a project with no phase dirs the derivation yields zero totals, the unmeasured rule read that as 'the scan measured nothing', and the stale curated percent was restored over the resync the user asked for. preserve-always already said what the missing condition was: never overwrite unless the caller explicitly names this field. explicitProgressField carries it and is derived from shouldResyncStateProgress, not set by hand at a call site, so it cannot drift from what the caller asked for. Two defects found in the same mechanism and fixed with it. readModifyWriteStateMd enumerates its option keys, so a new option was silently dropped rather than rejected. And the raw-write axis captured its first argument up to the first comma, which lands inside a nested path.join, so a write to a STATE.md literal was invisible to it — the prove-it-can-fail test caught that one immediately. No test assertion was weakened; all three frontmatter rows encode #3242, #1969 B3 and #1972 and stand unchanged. Refs #3871 * docs(#3871): record why the raw-write check is kept, not why it was named The amendment justified findRawStateWrites as 'written because §8.6 requires it to exist', which is cargo-culting the contract and would have been the wrong reason to keep anything. The real reason is that writeStateMd acquires the STATE.md lockfile and a raw fs.writeFileSync acquires nothing, so this is a lock bypass and lost-update is the #500/#905/#1230 family — and after this phase it is the one reachable path into the file that nothing else covers. Also records why ADR-3408 §8.6's deletion of the 'clear' policy is not the precedent it looks like: 'clear' was dead vocabulary in a closed enum, this is coverage of a reachable path. Refs #3871 * chore(#3871): backfill changeset PR number --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> |
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docs(#3473): ADR-3473 — enforcement by construction, one owner per invariant (Phase 0) (#3870)
Phase 0 of epic #3473 ships this ADR alone. Every rule in §8 carries a status of Enforced or Required — Phase N. §8.1–§8.5 state the epic's B1–B5 criteria as contract rules with no phase assigned yet. §8.6–§8.8 assign Phases 1–3 to the STATE.md family that ADR-3180 and ADR-3408 left between them: the write seam's unvalidated input, its classification-excluded reporting, and the schema transcribed by hand into nine artifacts. Derivation authority is explicitly NOT in scope here — it lands as ADR-3180 Amendment 8, generalizing §7.5's already-locked sentence. Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |