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`cmdVerifyKeyLinks` compiled `must_haves.key_links[].pattern` from plan frontmatter with `new RegExp()` and tested it against whole file contents, so a nested-quantifier pattern such as `(a+)+$` hung `verify-phase` indefinitely (CWE-1333). JavaScript has no regex-execution timeout.
Untrusted patterns now run on RE2 (re2js), whose match time is linear in input length — the class is closed by the engine, not by a heuristic screen. The screen lost in the ADR-0174 consolidation was deliberately NOT restored: it never worked, since `(a|a)*$`, `((a+))+$`, `(a+){2,}$` and `(a{1,3})+$` all evade it. A refused pattern's matcher returns false for every input, so it cannot report a match no matter what the caller does.
The engine is vendored at gsd-core/bin/lib/vendor/re2js.cjs because gsd-core/bin/** is copied into installed trees with no node_modules; runtime dependencies are unchanged. New ESLint rule local/no-external-require-in-bin enforces that invariant, which had been documented in a comment since the #3024/#2071 bug class and enforced nowhere.
Backreferences and look-around are unsupported by RE2 by construction — disclosed in a Changed changeset.
Closes #3477
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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must_haves.key_links[].pattern now uses RE2 syntax — backreferences and look-around are no longer supported in a key-links pattern, because they are the constructs that require a backtracking engine and cannot be evaluated in guaranteed linear time. A pattern using them is reported as pattern_neutralized: "unsupported" with the link marked unverified, rather than being silently matched as literal text. Ordinary patterns, including every example shipped in the docs, are unaffected. (#3477)