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msd-core/tests/autonomous-converge.test.cjs
Tom Boucher 8fc88f663d fix(#3210): gate unmet preconditions as blocking-human; cap blocker retries at needs_human (#3528)
* fix(#3210): gate unmet preconditions as blocking-human and cap blocker retries at needs_human

* chore(#3210): add changeset fragment for PR #3528

* fix(#3210): restore blocking-human carve-out and CRLF-safe split

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 23:01:30 -04:00

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// allow-test-rule: source-text-is-the-product
// The autonomous command and workflow markdown are runtime-loaded contracts.
// Checking their text verifies the shipped slash-command behavior.
'use strict';
const { describe, test } = require('node:test');
const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
const fs = require('node:fs');
const path = require('node:path');
const { runNode } = require('./helpers/process-seam.cjs');
const { throwIfFailed } = require('./helpers/git-fixture.cjs');
const { PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS } = require('./helpers/timeouts.cjs');
const REPO_ROOT = path.join(__dirname, '..');
const COMMAND_PATH = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'commands', 'gsd', 'autonomous.md');
const WORKFLOW_PATH = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'gsd-core', 'workflows', 'autonomous.md');
const COMMANDS_DOC_PATH = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'docs', 'COMMANDS.md');
const HOW_TO_PATH = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'docs', 'how-to', 'run-phases-autonomously.md');
const TOOLS = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'gsd-core', 'bin', 'gsd-tools.cjs');
// #2994: fragmentization moved the five converge-gated regions out of the host
// autonomous.md into dedicated step files (state:plan-strategy-converge) —
// see docs/reference/workflow-fragments.md. Tests that assert on this moved
// content read the step file directly rather than the host.
const STEP_FAIL_FAST_PATH = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'gsd-core', 'workflows', 'autonomous', 'steps', 'converge-fail-fast.md');
const STEP_DISPATCH_BG_PATH = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'gsd-core', 'workflows', 'autonomous', 'steps', 'converge-dispatch-bg.md');
const STEP_DISPATCH_INLINE_PATH = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'gsd-core', 'workflows', 'autonomous', 'steps', 'converge-dispatch-inline.md');
const STEP_LOOP_PATH = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'gsd-core', 'workflows', 'autonomous', 'steps', 'converge-loop.md');
function read(filePath) {
return fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8');
}
describe('autonomous --converge flag (#711)', () => {
test('command advertises --converge and documents --cross-ai as alias', () => {
const command = read(COMMAND_PATH);
assert.match(
command,
/^argument-hint:.*--converge/m,
'autonomous command should advertise --converge in argument-hint',
);
assert.match(command, /--cross-ai/, 'autonomous command should document --cross-ai alias');
assert.match(
command,
/workflow\.plan_review_convergence=true/,
'autonomous command should mention the existing convergence feature gate',
);
});
test('workflow parses converge aliases into a plan strategy', () => {
const workflow = read(WORKFLOW_PATH);
assert.match(workflow, /PLAN_STRATEGY="local"/, 'workflow should default to local planning');
assert.match(workflow, /PLAN_STRATEGY="converge"/, 'workflow should opt into converge planning');
assert.match(workflow, /converge\|cross-ai/, 'workflow should accept --converge and --cross-ai');
});
test('workflow fails fast when convergence is requested but disabled', () => {
// #2994: this check lives in the converge-fail-fast step file now
// (state:plan-strategy-converge) — the host only carries the gated
// conditional-read stub.
const workflow = read(WORKFLOW_PATH);
const step = read(STEP_FAIL_FAST_PATH);
assert.match(
workflow,
/gsd:section id="converge-fail-fast" when="state:plan-strategy-converge"/,
'workflow should gate the fail-fast check behind state:plan-strategy-converge',
);
assert.match(
step,
/config-get workflow\.plan_review_convergence/,
'converge-fail-fast step should check workflow.plan_review_convergence before planning',
);
assert.match(
step,
/gsd config-set workflow\.plan_review_convergence true/,
'converge-fail-fast step should print the enable command instead of silently downgrading',
);
});
test('workflow routes planning through plan-review-convergence when enabled', () => {
// #2994: the converge dispatch/loop bodies live in dedicated step files
// now (state:plan-strategy-converge) — only the local-planning fallback
// remains inline in the host.
const workflow = read(WORKFLOW_PATH);
const dispatchInline = read(STEP_DISPATCH_INLINE_PATH);
const loop = read(STEP_LOOP_PATH);
const dispatchBg = read(STEP_DISPATCH_BG_PATH);
assert.match(
dispatchInline,
/Skill\(skill="gsd-plan-review-convergence", args="\$\{PHASE_NUM\} \$\{CONVERGENCE_ARGS\}"\)/,
'inline converge dispatch step should call gsd-plan-review-convergence',
);
assert.match(
loop,
/Skill\(skill="gsd-plan-review-convergence", args="\$\{PHASE_NUM\} \$\{CONVERGENCE_ARGS\}"\)/,
'default converge loop step should call gsd-plan-review-convergence',
);
assert.match(
dispatchBg,
/Run plan convergence for phase \$\{PHASE_NUM\}: Skill\(skill=\\"gsd-plan-review-convergence\\"/,
'interactive converge mode should dispatch plan convergence in the background agent',
);
assert.match(
workflow,
/Skill\(skill="gsd-plan-phase", args="\$\{PHASE_NUM\}"\)/,
'local planning path should remain available for default autonomous runs',
);
});
test('workflow forwards reviewer flags and max cycles to convergence', () => {
const workflow = read(WORKFLOW_PATH);
// Non-lane convergence controls remain hand-written literals in the workflow.
const convergenceControls = ['--all', '--text'];
// Reviewer lane flags that were formerly hand-enumerated in the workflow text.
// They must now be DERIVED at runtime via `gsd_run review-lane flags`, not listed.
const formerlyHardcodedLaneFlags = [
'--codex',
'--gemini',
'--claude',
'--opencode',
'--ollama',
'--lm-studio',
'--llama-cpp',
];
// The literal-absence guard below excludes '--claude': the runtime-launcher
// preamble legitimately contains an unrelated "npx ... --claude --local"
// install-runtime flag, so a substring match on '--claude' would false-positive
// against that literal, not against a re-added reviewer-flag list.
const antiParityLaneFlags = formerlyHardcodedLaneFlags.filter((flag) => flag !== '--claude');
assert.match(workflow, /CONVERGENCE_ARGS/, 'workflow should build convergence pass-through args');
assert.match(
workflow,
/gsd_run review-lane flags/,
'workflow should derive reviewer flags from the review-lane roster instead of hand-listing them',
);
for (const flag of convergenceControls) {
assert.ok(workflow.includes(flag), `workflow should pass through ${flag}`);
}
assert.match(workflow, /--max-cycles/, 'workflow should pass through --max-cycles N');
// Anti-parity guard (deliberately inverted polarity): the whole point of the
// review-lane-flags derivation is that reviewer lane flags are declared ONCE
// (in the review-lane roster) and never hand-listed again in workflow prose.
// If a future edit re-adds a hardcoded reviewer-flag list here, that is the
// regression this test exists to catch — so this assertion must FAIL when
// any of these flags reappear as literals in the workflow text.
for (const flag of antiParityLaneFlags) {
assert.ok(
!workflow.includes(flag),
`workflow should NOT hand-enumerate reviewer lane flag ${flag}; it must be derived via review-lane flags`,
);
}
// Behavioral coverage: prove the roster the workflow derives from actually
// yields the flags this test used to hardcode, so the derivation is not vacuous.
const laneFlagsResult = runNode([TOOLS, 'review-lane', 'flags'], { timeoutMs: PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS });
throwIfFailed(laneFlagsResult, `node ${TOOLS} review-lane flags`);
const laneFlags = laneFlagsResult.stdout.split('\n').filter(Boolean);
for (const flag of formerlyHardcodedLaneFlags) {
assert.ok(laneFlags.includes(flag), `review-lane flags should include ${flag}`);
}
});
test('docs show autonomous convergence usage', () => {
const commandsDoc = read(COMMANDS_DOC_PATH);
const howTo = read(HOW_TO_PATH);
assert.match(commandsDoc, /--converge/, 'COMMANDS.md should document --converge');
assert.match(commandsDoc, /--cross-ai/, 'COMMANDS.md should document --cross-ai alias');
assert.match(howTo, /\/gsd-autonomous --only 4 --converge/, 'how-to should show single-phase converge usage');
});
});
describe('autonomous verification deferral contract', () => {
test('workflow records explicit deferred states instead of silently advancing (#1525)', () => {
const workflow = read(WORKFLOW_PATH);
assert.match(workflow, /verification_deferred_human/);
assert.match(workflow, /verification_deferred_gaps/);
assert.match(workflow, /Deferred Verification/);
assert.match(workflow, /gsd:verify-work \$\{PHASE_NUM\}/);
assert.match(workflow, /gsd:plan-phase \$\{PHASE_NUM\} --gaps/);
assert.match(
workflow,
/\| \$\{PHASE_NUM\} \| verification_deferred_human \| \/gsd:verify-work \$\{PHASE_NUM\} \|/,
'human deferral must persist the exact deferred STATE row',
);
assert.match(
workflow,
/\| \$\{PHASE_NUM\} \| verification_deferred_gaps \| \/gsd:plan-phase \$\{PHASE_NUM\} --gaps \|/,
'gap deferral must persist the exact deferred STATE row',
);
assert.doesNotMatch(
workflow,
/Human validation deferred` and proceed to iterate step/,
'human-needed deferral must not silently proceed to the next phase',
);
assert.doesNotMatch(
workflow,
/Gaps deferred` and proceed to iterate step/,
'gap deferral must not silently proceed to the next phase',
);
assert.match(
workflow,
/Skip deferred phases on autonomous re-entry/,
'reruns must explicitly skip deferred verification phases',
);
assert.match(
workflow,
/Deferred Verification \(Skipped on Re-entry\)/,
'workflow should surface skipped deferred phases and their resume commands',
);
});
test('workflow runs normal transition post-processing after passed verification (#1526)', () => {
const workflow = read(WORKFLOW_PATH);
const passedIdx = workflow.indexOf('**If `passed`:**');
const transitionIdx = workflow.indexOf('transition.md', passedIdx);
const iterateIdx = workflow.indexOf('Proceed to iterate step', passedIdx);
assert.ok(transitionIdx > passedIdx, 'passed verification must invoke transition.md');
assert.ok(
transitionIdx < iterateIdx,
'normal transition post-processing must run before autonomous iterates',
);
});
test('workflow reads canonical verification status before human-needed promotion (#1522)', () => {
const workflow = read(WORKFLOW_PATH);
const waitIdx = workflow.indexOf('After execute, read canonical verification');
const humanNeededIdx = workflow.indexOf('**If `human_needed`:**', waitIdx);
const promoteIdx = workflow.indexOf('set VERIFICATION frontmatter `status: passed`', humanNeededIdx);
const section = workflow.slice(waitIdx, humanNeededIdx);
assert.ok(waitIdx !== -1, 'workflow must document the post-execution verification read');
assert.ok(humanNeededIdx > waitIdx, 'human_needed branch must follow verification status read');
assert.ok(promoteIdx > humanNeededIdx, 'human_needed branch must contain the promotion action');
// #2589: the verification read uses the native --pick flag (no jq dependency).
// String-based check (not a regex literal) so the assertion stays robust to
// shell metacharacters in the snippet and parses cleanly under espree.
assert.ok(
section.includes('VERIFY_STATUS=$(gsd_run query verification.status "${PHASE_DIR}" --pick status 2>/dev/null || true)'),
'autonomous must route human validation through canonical verification.status via the native --pick flag',
);
assert.doesNotMatch(
section,
/grep "\^status:"/,
'autonomous must not route stale human_needed reports from raw frontmatter',
);
});
test('workflow discovers incomplete phases from canonical verification projection (#1522)', () => {
const workflow = read(WORKFLOW_PATH);
const discoverStart = workflow.indexOf('<step name="discover_phases">');
const discoverEnd = workflow.indexOf('</step>', discoverStart);
const iterateStart = workflow.indexOf('<step name="iterate">');
const iterateEnd = workflow.indexOf('</step>', iterateStart);
const discoverStep = workflow.slice(discoverStart, discoverEnd);
const iterateStep = workflow.slice(iterateStart, iterateEnd);
assert.match(discoverStep, /INIT_MANAGER=\$\(gsd_run query init\.manager\)/);
assert.ok(
discoverStep.includes('if [[ "$INIT_MANAGER" == @file:* ]]; then INIT_MANAGER=$(cat "${INIT_MANAGER#@file:}"); fi'),
'autonomous discovery must dereference large init.manager payloads before parsing',
);
assert.match(discoverStep, /phase_complete !== true/);
assert.match(discoverStep, /verification_status !== "passed"/);
assert.match(discoverStep, /STATE_CONTENT=\$\(cat \.planning\/STATE\.md 2>\/dev\/null \|\| true\)/);
assert.match(discoverStep, /drop any phase whose number appears in the deferred-phase map/);
assert.doesNotMatch(discoverStep, /ROADMAP=\$\(gsd_run query roadmap\.analyze\)/);
assert.doesNotMatch(discoverStep, /disk_status !== "complete"/);
assert.match(iterateStep, /INIT_MANAGER=\$\(gsd_run query init\.manager\)/);
assert.ok(
iterateStep.includes('if [[ "$INIT_MANAGER" == @file:* ]]; then INIT_MANAGER=$(cat "${INIT_MANAGER#@file:}"); fi'),
'autonomous iteration must dereference large init.manager payloads before parsing',
);
assert.match(iterateStep, /phase_complete !== true/);
assert.match(iterateStep, /verification_status !== "passed"/);
assert.match(iterateStep, /STATE_CONTENT=\$\(cat \.planning\/STATE\.md 2>\/dev\/null \|\| true\)/);
assert.match(iterateStep, /drop deferred phases from the autonomous queue/);
});
});
// ─── Issue #3210: bounded blocker retries, needs_human escalation ────────────
//
// handle_blocker's "Fix and retry" path had no attempt ceiling across
// invocations and no automatic escalation to a terminal needs_human state, so
// a non-converging blocker (e.g. an operator gate the executor cannot satisfy)
// looped indefinitely. Regression coverage lives here because this file owns
// the autonomous.md host-workflow contract.
describe('issue #3210: autonomous handle_blocker has a retry ceiling with needs_human escalation', () => {
function stepOf(content, name) {
const open = `<step name="${name}">`;
const from = content.indexOf(open);
assert.ok(from !== -1, `step "${name}" not found`);
const to = content.indexOf('</step>', from);
assert.ok(to !== -1, `step "${name}" has no closing tag`);
return content.slice(from, to);
}
test('handle_blocker bounds "Fix and retry" attempts per phase step', () => {
const step = stepOf(read(WORKFLOW_PATH), 'handle_blocker');
assert.match(
step,
/\b3\b.*retr|\bretr.*\b3\b|RETRY_COUNT|retry (ceiling|limit|count)/i,
'handle_blocker must track a bounded retry count for the same phase step instead of ' +
're-presenting "Fix and retry" indefinitely (#3210)'
);
});
test('handle_blocker auto-escalates to a terminal needs_human halt once the ceiling is exceeded', () => {
const step = stepOf(read(WORKFLOW_PATH), 'handle_blocker');
assert.match(
step,
/needs_human/,
'once the retry ceiling is exceeded, handle_blocker must halt autonomously in a terminal ' +
'needs_human state (surfacing the unmet items) instead of looping or asking again (#3210)'
);
});
});