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Tom Boucher 36375513b9 feat(#3840): generate docs/FEATURES.md from per-feature fragments (#3845)
* feat(#3840): generate docs/FEATURES.md from per-feature fragments

docs/FEATURES.md was hand-maintained, and every feature PR wrote into two
shared mutable cells: the '### N.' heading whose integer was hand-allocated at
authoring time, and the hand-maintained table of contents. Concurrent PRs all
picked the same next integer, and two PRs adding differently numbered features
still collided on the TOC. #3831 was renumbered 165 -> 166 -> 167 -> 168 across
successive rebases, each collision also costing a full matrix verification run
because the sha-keyed pass marker dies with the rebase.

Mechanism: one fragment per feature at docs/features/<slug>.md carrying
id/title/group (and an optional order) in frontmatter, consolidated by
scripts/gen-features.cjs --write|--check into a marker-delimited region of
docs/FEATURES.md that holds BOTH the TOC and every section body. Group headings
and their order are derived too - a group sorts by its lowest-ordered member -
so there is no shared registry to edit either; optional per-group prose lives in
docs/features/_groups/<slug>.md. A contributor adds exactly one new file.
Wired into regen:derived and lint:generated-sync alongside the eight existing
generators, matching gen-adr-index.cjs's CLI shape and typed-REASON reporting.

Migration froze all 168 existing numbers verbatim: identical section set,
identical order, identical bodies. Two defects found in the tree are fixed
inline rather than carried forward - the '## Related' block had been spliced
into the middle of the document, orphaning §142's Reference line, and four
inbound anchors were already broken on next (FEATURES.md#runtime-identity in
two files, and #143-spec-phase-edge-completeness-probe off by one). Since the
repo has no link checker, --check now validates every inbound
FEATURES.md#anchor by resolved target, so that class cannot ship silently
again; locale FEATURES.md files resolve elsewhere and stay out of scope.

Refs #3840

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

* fix(#3840): carry upstream §69 delta into its fragment and harden the generator

Review found section 69 missing '[--strict]' and REQ-STATE-05/06 versus
origin/next. Root cause was a stale base, not extraction loss: those lines
landed in 394bf384b (#3844) AFTER this branch forked at 63abcface, and
'git diff 63abcface origin/next -- docs/FEATURES.md' is exactly that hunk.
Merging origin/next auto-applied the hunk into the GENERATED region, which
--check immediately reported as stale; the delta is now carried in
docs/features/statemd-consistency-gates.md and regenerated from there.

--write is now fail-closed. It previously rendered the region even with
violations outstanding, warning only on stderr and exiting 0, so a
'--write && git commit' chain could commit a FEATURES.md carrying two
colliding sections. It now refuses and exits 1; --force is the explicit
override and says so in the report. The test that pinned the old behavior now
pins the refusal, plus the --force override and its scoping.

Marker forgery is rejected at two layers. A fragment body containing
'<!-- FEATURES:START' or '<!-- FEATURES:END' is a typed
body_forges_region_marker violation (fragments and group notes alike), and
spliceIntoFeatures anchors the end boundary with lastIndexOf instead of
indexOf, so a marker that reaches the document by any other route can only
make the generated region grow, never shrink. Matching is on marker PREFIXES,
so a decorated variant comment cannot slip past.

Symlinked corpus entries are refused with a typed dirent_not_regular_file
rather than read. A fork PR could otherwise commit docs/features/evil.md as a
symlink to any readable path and have the generator inline those bytes into
the committed docs/FEATURES.md on the next regen.

Equivalence re-verified with a method that cannot cancel out. The first
check extracted both operands with the same body-normalising helper, so
anything that helper dropped was dropped on both sides. The replacement runs
two independent passes: a global content-line multiset diff with no
per-section logic at all (0 gained, 19 lost, all 19 the stale hand-written
mini-TOC links this change deliberately deletes), and a per-section
byte-exact body diff carrying a coverage assertion that fails loudly per file
when the extractor accounts for fewer lines than the file contains. That
assertion caught two blind spots in the checker itself. 168/168 sections
present, order identical, one intended body difference (§142 regains the
Reference line orphaned by the misplaced '## Related' block).

Refs #3840

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

* chore(#3840): backfill changeset PR number

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

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 22:49:00 -04:00

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161 Verify-Command Path Grounding v1.7.0 Features

Command: /gsd-plan-phase (automatic), gsd-tools check verify-command-paths <N> (#2401)

Behavior: A planner authoring a per-task <automated> verify command has no line of sight to whether the path it just wrote actually resolves, and gsd-plan-checker had no deterministic way to check — so it hand-reasoned the filesystem and, in the motivating case, prescribed two successively-wrong replacement paths (the second citing a package.json that did not exist). Two changes close that:

  1. Prior-command inheritance. The nearest prior phase's <automated> commands are surfaced to the planner as prior_verify_commands, at every context window. Cross-phase enrichment was previously gated on context_window >= 500000; at 200k the planner re-invented the command and got it wrong. This payload is a handful of one-liners, so it is never gated.
  2. A deterministic probe. gsd-tools check verify-command-paths <N> resolves each <automated> command's target directory and reports whether it exists and holds the manifest the command needs. /gsd-plan-phase runs it before the plan-check pass and hands the JSON to the checker, which acts on severity instead of guessing.

It never executes command text. PLAN.md is model-authored, so running it from the checker would be arbitrary code execution — and would trigger the real lint/build as a side effect. The probe only resolves paths and stats directories; a package.json it finds is read for script names only.

Why a recognizer, not a shell parser. Interpreting shell would mean maintaining a bad shell. Exactly two forms are grounded — a leading cd <literal> chain and npm --prefix <literal> — and any path carrying a variable, glob, substitution, or ~ returns unresolvable, which is a warning and never a blocker. The parser's incompleteness is the specification: it degrades to "cannot prove" rather than growing features. Refusing to guess is the fix, not a limitation of it.

It reports, it never prescribes. The payload carries the target that failed and what was missing; there is deliberately no suggestion field. Choosing the replacement is the planner's job — and the planner now has the prior phase's proven command to reach for.

Not findings: a target an earlier task in this phase creates (pending_creation), a command with no cd/--prefix at all, and the Nyquist MISSING — Wave 0 … sentinel, which Dimension 8 owns.

Known limits:

  • Only cd <literal> and npm --prefix <literal> are recognized. pushd, make -C, yarn --cwd, pnpm -C, and cargo --manifest-path report unresolvable.
  • Verdicts are relative to the checker's project root. Under parallel worktree execution the executor's root differs, so a bare ancestor climb (cd ../..) is reported outside_root as a warning rather than asserted about.
  • script_missing is advisory only — this phase may be adding the script — so a genuinely mistyped npm script still reaches the executor.

See Resolve verify-command path findings and gsd-tools check verify-command-paths.