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Michel Moreira af822a8024 fix(#4776): resolve the artifact-exists prompt under --auto (#4832)
* fix(#4776): resolve the artifact-exists prompt under --auto

/gsd-ui-phase <phase> --auto stopped at 'UI-SPEC.md already exists for
Phase {N}. What would you like to do?' whenever the file was on disk —
which is most often after an earlier run wrote the contract as a draft
and ended before its checker ran, exactly the state a re-run exists to
verify. Step 4 had no --auto arm; step 9.5 in the same file has had one
since it was added, which is how the drift went unnoticed.

Step 4 now auto-selects Skip: the existing UI-SPEC is left untouched and
the run proceeds to the checker. Skip is the only non-destructive choice
— Update re-runs the researcher, which rewrites the whole contract and
drops answers a person already recorded in it, and View exits without
verifying anything.

spec-phase.md's artifact-exists arm auto-selected 'Update it', which is
the same defect with the opposite sign: an unattended run regenerating a
spec nobody is watching. Per the decision recorded on #4776 — an
unattended run reuses an existing artifact rather than regenerating it —
it now auto-selects Skip and leaves the spec unchanged.

The max-revision-iterations escalation (Force approve / Edit manually /
Abandon) is deliberately untouched and pinned by a test: accepting
blocking findings is a decision a person makes.

Closes #4776

* chore(#4776): add changeset fragment

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ui-phase.md — --auto arm added to the existing-UI-SPEC branch (#4776)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: spec-phase.md — --auto arm reworded to reuse the existing SPEC (#4776)

* fix(#4776): extend the reuse-as-is --auto fix to the 3 sibling files

The PR's original scope claim -- that ai-integration-phase.md,
eval-review.md and ui-review.md were "scoped by triage to their own
issues" -- was false; no such issues existed, and it contradicted #4776's
own most recent (2026-09-16) triage comment, which explicitly widened the
fix to require all 5 files under one recommended fix.

Applies the same reuse-as-is pattern: ai-integration-phase.md mirrors
ui-phase.md's 3-way Update/View/Skip shape (auto-selects Skip);
eval-review.md and ui-review.md have only Re-audit/View (auto-selects
View, the only non-regenerating choice). None of the three had any prior
--auto handling at all -- each has exactly one AskUserQuestion call site
total, and it is the one this fix resolves, so an --auto run through any
of them no longer stalls anywhere.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ai-integration-phase.md — the --auto arm reusing an existing AI-SPEC is the deliverable (#4776)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: eval-review.md — the --auto arm reusing an existing EVAL-REVIEW is the deliverable (#4776)
Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: ui-review.md — the --auto arm reusing an existing UI-REVIEW is the deliverable (#4776)

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
2026-09-23 11:13:34 -04:00

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Fixed 4832

--auto no longer stops on an artifact that already exists — /gsd-ui-phase <phase> --auto blocked on "UI-SPEC.md already exists for Phase {N}" whenever the file was on disk, which is most often after an earlier run left an unverified draft, so a headless or board run stalled on a question nobody could answer. It now reuses the existing UI-SPEC untouched and proceeds to the checker. /gsd-spec-phase --auto had the opposite failure — it auto-selected "Update it" and regenerated a spec nobody was watching, discarding answers already recorded in it — and now also reuses it as-is. The same gap existed in three sibling commands with no prior --auto handling at all: /gsd-ai-integration-phase --auto now auto-selects Skip for an existing AI-SPEC, and /gsd-eval-review --auto / /gsd-ui-review --auto now auto-select View for an existing EVAL-REVIEW/UI-REVIEW instead of re-auditing. The max-revision-iterations escalation (Force approve / Edit manually / Abandon) still stops for a person under --auto, by design. (#4776)