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Tom Boucher 7372d99a26 enhance(#2800): derive reviewer flag lists and gate reviewer lane docs across locales (#2882)
* chore(#2800): derive reviewer flag lists and gate reviewer lane docs across locales

The reviewer lane roster was hand-enumerated across five documentation
surfaces and three workflow files that had drifted apart: --kimi-code was
missing from all four translated COMMANDS.md mirrors, --coderabbit from
every workflow forwarding list, and --antigravity from FEATURES.md.

Adds checkReviewerDocsParity, a second pure gate deliberately separate from
checkReviewerLaneParity so a stale doc cannot make the runtime checker look
red. Workflows now derive their flag lists from a new review-lane flags
query instead of hand-enumerating them, which also retires the unanchored
grep that matched --agy inside --antigravity.

Documents the previously absent reviewer body and hostBehaviors field in
the capability manifest reference.

Closes #2800
Closes #2781
Closes #2272

* fix(#2800): key the docs parity table arm on first-cell position

Review found the flag arm was file-scoped, so the forwarding row that lists
every flag in its third cell satisfied it on its own. Deleting a lane's own
reviewer-table row -- the #2781 regression this gate exists to prevent --
therefore passed undetected.

Arm 4 keys on the FIRST table cell, which separates a lane row from the
forwarding row structurally and in every locale. Regression test included.

* fix(#2800): shape-filter the flags subcommand output

All three consumers read review-lane flags through an unquoted command
substitution so the output word-splits into loop items. Phase 2 admits
third-party overlay lanes, so an overlay flag containing whitespace would
inject a second loop item and one containing a glob would expand against
the cwd. Emit only well-formed flags so neither reaches the shell.

* fix(#2800): remove the regex length ceiling and count only prose mentions

Review found two real defects in the docs parity gate.

The never-throws contract was false: building a RegExp from a declared flag
or section title throws SyntaxError past ~100k chars, and Phase 2 admits
overlay lanes whose declared strings are untrusted in length. Every one of
these matches is literal, so String.includes replaces the regex outright,
which also deletes escapeLiteral and the llama.cpp escaping it existed for.

Arm 1 was context-blind: a flag mentioned only inside a fenced example or a
commented-out row counted as documented. Both are stripped before matching.

Also advertises all 13 lane flags in the argument-hint and corrects a stale
eleven-lane count in the slug grammar note.

* test(#2800): repoint the convergence suite off deleted workflow text

The derived flag loop deleted the literal per-flag grep lines four tests
matched on. Two of those failed loudly. The behavioral and property tests
failed SILENTLY instead: their end marker no longer resolved, so the parse
block extracted empty and both passed vacuously, and the property test's
gsd_run stub had a no-op default that hid it.

All now share one extractor and execute the real deployed block through a
gsd_run shim backed by the actual binary. The whitelist assertions become an
anti-parity check: re-adding a hand-written flag list must fail.

Also repairs two vacuous cases in the docs parity suite. The unreadable-doc
test called its own mock rather than the reader, and the integration test
bounded nothing, so a doc losing its marker would have been silently skipped
and still passed green.

* fix(#2800): run the derived flag loop after the launcher preamble

The remote matrix caught a real runtime bug, not a test artifact. In
autonomous.md and plan-review-convergence.md the launcher preamble that
defines gsd_run lives in a separate, LATER bash fence than the derived loop.
Each fence is its own shell, so gsd_run was undefined where the loop ran:
the command substitution yielded nothing and zero reviewer flags would have
been forwarded. Worse than the drift this epic fixes, and silent.

The whole CONVERGENCE_ARGS construction moves as one unit, because the
--max-cycles append sits between the loop and the preamble and would
otherwise have run against an uninitialized variable and then been dropped
by the relocated initializer.

Also documents all 13 lane flags in help/modes/full.md, which the repo gates
bidirectionally against each command's argument-hint.

* test(#2800): repoint the two converge suites off deleted flag literals

Both asserted workflow.includes('--codex') against the hand-enumerated list
the derived loop removed. They now assert the derivation itself, keep --all
and --text (convergence controls, still literal), and add an anti-parity
guard so re-adding a hardcoded list fails.

The lost pass-through proof is replaced with a real one: every flag the
tests used to hardcode is asserted present in the actual roster emitted by
the binary, which is the property the old assertion was protecting.

* test(#2800): acknowledge the workflow byte growth from the derived flag loop

* chore(#2800): backfill changeset pr number to 2882

* fix(#2800): strip HTML comments to a fixed point in the parity gate

CodeQL js/incomplete-multi-character-sanitization (high) on PR #2882: the
single-pass <!--...--> strip can leave a live <!-- behind, so a join-trick
construction smuggles a commented-out row past the gate and it counts as
documented. Not an injection risk here since nothing is rendered, but it is
the exact false pass this helper exists to prevent.

Strips to a fixed point, then treats any surviving opener as unterminated so
the multi-line branch closes it on a later line. Terminates because every
pass strictly shortens the string.

* test(#2800): pin the comment-smuggling regression with a real reproducer

The obvious fixture for this class does not reproduce it: <!--<!---->-->
leaves a dangling --> rather than a live <!--, and is caught either way, so
it would have passed with and without the fix. The join-trick construction
(<!- + <!--DUMMY--> + -...-->), the <scr<script>ipt> shape, genuinely
regresses on the single-pass strip and is what the test now uses.

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Co-authored-by: Test <test@example.com>
2026-07-30 19:14:13 -04:00

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Capability matrix reference

Generated file — do not edit by hand. This matrix is generated from the capability registry by scripts/gen-capability-matrix.cjs and kept honest by a drift guard (tests/capability-matrix-sync.test.cjs runs --check). Any manual edit is overwritten on the next generation run. To change a capability's declared metadata, edit the corresponding capabilities/<id>/capability.json and run node scripts/gen-capability-matrix.cjs --write.

See also: ADR-1244 — Capability manifest fields — The capability trust model


Column definitions

Column Description
id Canonical capability identifier; unique across first- and third-party capabilities. Reserved prefixes: gsd-, gsd-core-, anthropic-.
role feature — extends what the loop does; runtime — adapts GSD to a specific AI runtime/IDE; reviewer — declares a cross-AI reviewer lane (ADR-2782). A capability may be both a runtime and a reviewer.
tier core — always active; standard — active when the runtime supports it; full — opt-in or runtime-specific.
engines.gsd Semver RANGE expressing host-version compatibility. A hard gate at install and at load. — means the capability declares no range.
extension points The loop points this capability registers hooks into (from the registry's byLoopPoint index). — means it registers none (typical for runtime capabilities, whose job is surface emission).
hook kinds Which of step, contribution, gate the capability's hooks use. — means none.
source first-party — ships with GSD Core; third-party — installed from an external source via gsd capability install.

On versions. This matrix intentionally omits a per-capability version column. First-party capabilities are versioned in lockstep with the GSD Core package (their capability.json version always equals the GSD release version), so a per-row version would simply repeat the package version and churn the committed file on every release. The stable host-compatibility signal — engines.gsd — is shown instead. A third-party capability's exact version is recorded in the per-runtime ledger (.gsd-capabilities.json) at install time.


Native (first-party) capabilities

First-party capabilities are implicitly trusted: they ship as part of the GSD Core package and are stamped with the package version at release (per ADR-1244 D6). They are not subject to the consent or integrity-pin flow applied to third-party capabilities.

Feature capabilities (role: feature) — 20

Feature capabilities extend what the loop does — contributing research, planning, execution, verification, or ship artefacts at the loop extension points.

id role tier engines.gsd extension points hook kinds source
ai-integration feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, verify:pre step, contribution, gate first-party
assumption-delta feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre contribution first-party
audit feature full >=1.6.0 — — first-party
broken-windows feature full >=1.7.0 ship:pre gate first-party
claude-orchestration feature full >=1.7.0 plan:post, execute:wave:pre contribution first-party
code-review feature full >=1.6.0 execute:post step first-party
drift feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, execute:wave:post gate first-party
external-job feature full >=1.7.0 plan:post, execute:wave:post contribution first-party
gap-analysis feature standard >=1.6.0 plan:post gate first-party
graphify feature full >=1.6.0 — — first-party
intel feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre step first-party
mempalace feature full >=1.6.0 discuss:pre, discuss:post, plan:pre, plan:post, execute:wave:post, verify:post, ship:post step, contribution first-party
nyquist feature full >=1.6.0 verify:post step first-party
pattern-mapper feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre step first-party
profile-pipeline feature full >=1.6.0 — — first-party
research feature standard >=1.6.0 plan:pre step first-party
schema-gate feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre contribution first-party
security feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, verify:post, ship:pre step, contribution, gate first-party
tdd feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, execute:post contribution, gate first-party
ui feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, execute:wave:post, verify:post step, gate first-party

Runtime capabilities (role: runtime) — 19

Runtime capabilities adapt GSD to a specific AI runtime or IDE — emitting skills, agents, hooks configuration, and surface files for that host. They typically register no loop hooks (their primary responsibility is surface emission), so their extension-point and hook-kind cells are —.

id role tier engines.gsd extension points hook kinds source
antigravity runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
augment runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
claude runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
cline runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
codebuddy runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
codex runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
copilot runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
cursor runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
hermes runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
kilo runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
kimi runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
kimi-code runtime core >=1.7.0 — — first-party
opencode runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
pi runtime core >=1.7.0 — — first-party
qwen runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
trae runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
vscode runtime core >=1.7.0 — — first-party
windsurf runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
zcode runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party

Reviewer capabilities (role: reviewer) — 5

Reviewer capabilities declare a cross-AI reviewer lane — one external CLI or model endpoint /gsd:review hands a plan to (ADR-2782 D3). They are not install targets: they emit no skills, agents, hooks or surface files, so their extension-point and hook-kind cells are —. A host that is also a reviewer (Claude, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Qwen, Antigravity) keeps one manifest and appears under runtime above, carrying its lane alongside its runtime body; only lanes that GSD never installs into appear here.

Because a lane receives the plan text, requirements, research findings and CONTEXT.md decisions, it is a disclosed executable surface and is consent-gated at install like any other — see the trust model.

id role tier engines.gsd extension points hook kinds source
coderabbit reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party
gemini reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party
llama-cpp reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party
lm-studio reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party
ollama reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party

Third-party capabilities

This matrix is the first-party catalogue: it is generated from the committed registry and therefore lists only the capabilities that ship with GSD Core. Installed third-party capabilities are NOT written into this committed file. Once a user installs one via gsd capability install <spec> it enters the runtime registry overlay (ADR-1244 D2); the overlay-aware view of what is installed on a given machine is gsd capability list (see the gsd capability command reference), which reports first-party and installed third-party capabilities together using the same column fields described below, with source = third-party.

Column values for third-party rows

Column Value
id As declared in capability.json. Must not use reserved prefixes (gsd-, gsd-core-, anthropic-).
role feature, runtime, or reviewer, as declared.
tier core, standard, or full, as declared.
engines.gsd Range from capability.json; verified at install and at each load.
extension points The loop points the capability registers into, validated against the known 12 identifiers.
hook kinds step, contribution, and/or gate as declared. Disclosed in the consent summary at install.
source third-party

Community registry

Whether GSD operates or advertises a central community registry of third-party capabilities is TBD/TBA (PRD). The matrix mechanic and all manifest fields ship regardless of that decision; URL/git/npm/tarball import does not depend on a central registry.


Manifest field reference

The fields below are defined in capability.json and govern how a capability appears in this matrix. For the full schema, see ADR-1244 D1 and the capability manifest reference.

Field Required Type Purpose
version Yes semver string Capability version. The registry rejects manifests without it.
engines.gsd Recommended semver range Host-version compatibility gate. Enforced at install and load.
compatVersions No object: cap-version → gsd-range Graceful-downgrade table for sources that enumerate versions (git tags, registry, npm).
integrity No sha512-<base64> SHA-512 digest of the fetched bundle. Verified before extraction when present; mismatch aborts.
provenance No { sourceRepo, commit } Source provenance; populated in CI for first-party/curated capabilities.