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msd-core/tests/qa/result.cjs
Tom Boucher 33fd203ccd test(#2966): loop QA walk — drive real scenarios across all five loop steps (#2976)
* test(#2966): loop QA walk — drive real scenarios across all five loop steps

Adds a headless walk that carries accumulating project state across
discuss -> plan -> execute -> verify -> ship against one temp project,
layered over the existing tests/helpers.cjs runGsdTools substrate.

Findings carry severity. A violation breaks a stated contract and fails
the build; a smell is legal under today's implementation but structurally
questionable, is recorded, and never reddens CI. Without that split an
oracle set derived from current behavior can only ever confirm current
behavior -- the harness could not say "this works and is still wrong".

The end-to-end test asserts the walk produces at least one smell: a QA
harness that reports nothing on a first run against a real engine is far
more likely mis-specified than the engine is perfect. It deliberately does
not pin smell ids or counts, which would re-freeze current behavior.

First run against the real engine: 0 violations, 3 smell classes --
init returns agents_dir outside the project tree; smart-entry emits prose
unconditionally so routing cannot be asserted; state-snapshot reports a
missing STATE.md through a payload key with exit 0.

Also fixes tests/fixtures/index.cjs: createFixture with git:true and
planning:false staged nothing, so the commit failed with "nothing to
commit". That combination was unreachable until greenfield needed it.

Extends RULESET.TESTS.feedback-loop-convergence from estimation to the
loop itself. Design lock: docs/adr/2966-loop-qa-walk.md.

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

* test(#2966): wire fault injection, make perturbations discriminating

Independent review found tests/qa/mutations.cjs entirely unwired: 462
lines exercised only by their own unit tests, with no mutation hook in
the scenario DSL and no scenario applying one, while the module header
and the ADR described fault injection in the present tense. Dead code
documented as live.

Adds a `mutate` step field, three perturbation scenarios, and a wiring
detector: a self-test scenario whose expectations are known-false and
which MUST fail. The previous anti-vacuity check asserted only that the
walk produced a smell, which passes on well-known engine behavior
regardless of whether the harness wiring works.

First perturbation attempt produced zero signal -- progress does not
structurally parse ROADMAP.md, so a corrupted roadmap sailed through. A
perturbation that cannot fail is the same defect in a new costume.
Probes now target roadmap get-phase, and each mutated step runs a clean
baseline first so `mutationObserved` records whether the corruption
changed anything at all.

Also clears four review findings: classify() returned PROSE for exit-0
with empty stdout; `warnings` was structurally unpopulatable on the
success path (execFileSync discards it) and is now documented as
error-path-only; read-only-idempotence passed vacuously when asked to
check idempotence without the data to check it; the ADR miscounted the
oracles.

Discrimination matrix across 8 mutations x 6 commands: bom,
duplicate-phase-id and escaped-pipes are absorbed silently by every
probed surface, and progress / smart-entry / roadmap validate never
reacted to any mutation.

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

* test(#2966): add path-containment guard for scenario-supplied targets

Security review found scenario-supplied paths joined to the temp project
with no containment check. step.mutate.target and agent.write keys were
validated only as non-empty strings, so a target of ../../../../etc/hosts
reached fs.unlinkSync / fs.writeFileSync / fs.symlinkSync outside the
project. The symlink mutation was worst: it read the traversed file, wrote
a sibling copy, deleted the original and symlinked it back.

Not exploitable today -- all shipped scenarios target .planning/ROADMAP.md
and scenarios are repo-committed, not runtime input. Fixed anyway: it is a
live primitive any future scenario or copied helper can reach.

Adds tests/qa/paths.cjs with resolveWithin(): rejects absolute paths, NUL
bytes and empty input, normalizes separators unconditionally, and requires
containment by path segment so a sibling like <base>-evil is not treated as
inside. Non-existent targets resolve via nearest existing ancestor rather
than falling back to a lexical compare. Scenario load now rejects traversing
or absolute targets up front.

oracles.cjs previously carried its own copy of the containment logic; both
now share paths.cjs, since a duplicated containment check is exactly the
divergence class this repo calls out.

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

* test(#2966): complete trajectory corpus, report emission, boundary-aware oracle

Adds the remaining trajectories and drives all 11 mutations end-to-end.
20 scenarios, 72 steps, 0 violations, 25 smells.

Adds qa-report.json with per-step verdicts and a copy-pasteable repro
command, plus --keep / GSD_QA_KEEP=1 to preserve a failing tree. A repro
line for a tree that was not preserved is marked NOT RUNNABLE rather than
emitting a command pointing at a deleted directory.

monotonic-progress is now boundary-aware. Two scenarios had been trimmed
to stop the oracle complaining at a milestone rollover, which destroys the
signal the trajectory exists to produce. Evidence: counters legitimately
reset to zero at milestone complete, but the payload milestone_version
lags until a new ROADMAP.md is written. So the oracle now scopes by
milestone plus workstream, keeps a same-scope decrease as a violation, and
records a boundary crossing as a smell. Both scenarios walk the real
boundary again.

Standards review fixes: oracle findings now carry a structured subject so
tests assert on typed fields instead of substring-matching the free-form
detail string, resolveWithin throws a typed EPATHESCAPE error, and the
absolute-path predicate scenario.cjs had re-implemented now comes from
paths.cjs.

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

* test(#2966): fix silently-vacuous fixtures and guard the class

Every fixture carried its #2371 provenance comment BEFORE the frontmatter
block, and extractFrontmatter returns {} when anything precedes the opening
---. So every scenario reading status/phase/name was operating on an empty
object and reporting green. Nine fixtures repositioned; the comment stays,
it just moves below the closing ---.

Both UAT fixtures lacked a parser-recognized result block, so
evaluateUatPassed saw checks.length===0 and could never return passed:true.
The uat-fail-then-remediate scenario could not have proven a remediation.
Its expect block only inspected blockers, which is empty before AND after,
which is why the corpus never noticed. Both fixtures now carry real result
blocks and the scenario asserts passed and no_uat_artifacts on each side of
the flip.

The actual deliverable is the guard: a fixture-integrity block asserting
every fixture with a frontmatter shape parses to a non-empty object, that
every fixture carries its provenance marker, and that the two UAT fixtures
produce opposite verdicts through the real evaluateUatPassed. The first
guard written required --- at byte 0, which would never have fired on the
regression it exists to prevent; it was rewritten and proven by deliberately
re-breaking a fixture.

No engine defect here. no_uat_artifacts means no parsed check items, not no
UAT files, and it was reporting correctly on fixtures that had none.

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

* test(#2966): make the walk report — smell ratchet, baseline, CI job

The harness computed smells into a gitignored qa-report.json that nothing
read. In CI it surfaced nothing at all: violations failed the build, but the
half of the tool that says "this works and is still wrong" was inert. A QA
tool nobody hears is decoration.

Adds a ratchet on the same idiom this repo already uses three times over
(the regression-test-name allowlist, the emitted-drift acks, the size
baseline): a committed smell-baseline.json, per-PR acknowledgment fragments
under tests/qa/smell-acks/, and a ratchet script wired into CI.

The design invariant is preserved exactly. A smell still never fails a build
on its own merits. What fails is an UNACKNOWLEDGED NEW smell -- the absence
of a decision -- leaving an author two honest exits: fix it, or record a
fragment with a real reason. An empty reason is rejected. The baseline is
shrink-only, so a fixed smell must prune its entry. Violations remain
unacknowledgeable.

Fingerprints are composed only from stable fields (oracle id, scenario,
argv, subject discriminator) -- never temp paths, timestamps or counts.
Verified byte-identical across two runs in separate temp dirs; an unstable
fingerprint would have false-positived every CI run.

CI gains a qa-loop-walk job that runs the suite and the ratchet, uploads the
report with `if: always()` (it matters most when it failed), and renders a
summary a reviewer reads without downloading anything.

Also fixes the report runner invoking main() unconditionally on require, so
importing it double-ran every scenario and clobbered its own output.

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

* test(#2966): every smell terminates in a defect or a fixed detector

The baseline accepted a smell with a free-text reason. That is a mechanism
for designing smells in -- an allowlist nobody revisits. The harness is
brand new, so nothing it found is inherited legacy; every finding is a
FIRST finding. Each must now terminate in exactly one of two states:

  REAL           -> an assigned defect, entry carries the issue number
  FALSE POSITIVE -> the detector is wrong and gets fixed, never baselined

There is no third "accepted with a good explanation" state, so the ratchet
now requires a positive-integer `issue` on every entry. A reason may remain
as a human note but can never substitute. `--update` refuses to invent
issue numbers: a new smell is written with `issue: null` and a TODO, and
the next plain run rejects it, forcing triage rather than accumulation.

Working the 21 existing entries through that rule found 16 were my own
detectors being wrong:

value-hygiene (10) flagged $.agents_dir, a field whose entire contract is
to point at the install tree outside any project. Fixed with a leaf-key
allowlist of contractually-external fields, verified as the only such key
in the init payload. Genuinely unexpected out-of-project paths still smell.

monotonic-progress (6) fired on legitimate boundary crossings -- milestone
v1.0 to v2.0, workstream beta to alpha -- and on one payload carrying no
scope fields at all, where a change cannot even be known. Scope changes now
reset silently and scope-less observations are skipped. The same-scope
decrease remains a violation; that is the real invariant and is regression-
guarded.

The five survivors are real and now tracked: soft-error-exit-zero (#2980),
untyped-success (#2979). Baseline 25 -> 5.

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

* test(#2966): keep the ratchet out of the tarball, unpin the qa CI job

The remote matrix returned failed -- 3 unique failures, identical on
node22 and node24, both root causes in this branch's own diff.

The ratchet lives under scripts/, which ships in the npm tarball, and it
requires three modules under tests/, which does not. In a published
install it is MODULE_NOT_FOUND at load. This is exactly the class the
#2858 guard was added to catch, and it caught it. Fixed the way #2858
fixed the same shape for its own repo-only CI script: a targeted files[]
negation, so the ratchet stays in the repo for CI and out of the tarball.
Not solved by moving or inlining the required modules -- the ratchet must
keep using the same code the harness uses, or the two drift.

Verified both directions: the script is no longer in the pack list, and
build-hooks.js, fix-slash-commands.cjs and gen-capability-registry.cjs are
all still shipped. Over-negating there would have broken installs, since
bin/install.js requires them.

The qa-loop-walk job also carried CI_REBASE_BASE_SHA copied from a
neighbouring job without the paired GSD_EMITTED_BASE, which the #2854
invariant forbids by name: diverging them makes the differential compare a
tree against a baseline from a different commit. The job runs only the qa
suite and the ratchet and invokes no emitted-attribution test, so it needs
no rebase-pinned base at all -- the step was removed rather than paired.

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

* test(#2966): stop monotonic-progress going blind on scope-less payloads

The full remote suite caught a false NEGATIVE I introduced while fixing a
false positive. Silencing the boundary-crossing noise had made the oracle
skip ANY observation lacking milestone fields -- so a minimal payload like
{total_summaries: n} produced no violation at all, and the oracle stopped
catching the exact defect it exists to catch. For a QA tool that is
strictly worse than the noise it replaced.

Scope is only indeterminate when the two observations DISAGREE about
having it:

  both scoped, same scope, decrease -> VIOLATION
  both scoped, different scope      -> reset silently
  NEITHER scoped, decrease          -> VIOLATION   (the regression)
  mixed                             -> skip the comparison

Implementing the mixed case surfaced a second blind spot: advancing the
reference point on a skipped pair lets a scope-less observation sitting
between two same-scope ones mask a real decrease. Mixed now leaves the
reference untouched. All four branches carry explicit coverage; only one
did before, which is why this shipped.

The self-test that failed was right and the code was wrong, so the code
moved. Corpus behavior is unchanged: still 5 smells, 0 new, 0 stale, 0
violations.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 16:13:28 -04:00

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'use strict';
/**
* result.cjs — the typed `RunResult` IR for the loop QA walk.
*
* WHY THIS FILE EXISTS
* ────────────────────
* `CONTRIBUTING.md` → "Prohibited: Raw Text Matching on Test Outputs" forbids
* asserting on a child process's stdout/stderr text, and
* `RULESET.TESTS.no-source-grep.tmp-file-traps` forbids reading tmp files the
* SUT wrote. An oracle therefore may never look at raw output. This module is
* the single place where raw bytes are turned into a typed value; everything
* downstream asserts on `kind` and on parsed fields, never on prose.
*
* The classification is deliberately strict (Postel inverted): every observed
* shape gets an explicit `kind`, so oracles need no leniency. Leniency in an
* oracle is how a QA tool reports green on a broken engine.
*
* Every KIND below corresponds to a shape the real CLI actually produces; each
* was observed against `gsd-tools`, not imagined. See
* `.gsd/phase/test-2966-loop-qa-walk/40-design.md` for the behavior table.
*/
const fs = require('node:fs');
/**
* Frozen classification of a single `gsd-tools` invocation.
*
* Tests assert on these constants, never on their string values, so renaming a
* value is a one-line change here rather than a sweep through the suite.
*/
const KIND = Object.freeze({
/** exit 0, stdout parsed as JSON (object OR scalar OR array). */
JSON: 'json',
/** exit 0, stdout non-empty but not JSON — an untyped success. NOT an error. Requires non-empty stdout. */
PROSE: 'prose',
/** exit 0, no stdout payload. NOT a crash. stderr may still carry warnings. */
EMPTY: 'empty',
/** exit 0, stdout JSON carrying an `error` key — the documented soft-failure idiom. */
SOFT_ERROR: 'soft-error',
/** exit 1, last stderr line parsed as `{ok:false,reason,message}`. */
STRUCTURED_ERROR: 'structured-error',
/** exit 1, stderr present but not parseable as the structured envelope. */
UNSTRUCTURED_ERROR: 'unstructured-error',
/** exit code outside {0,1}. */
UNEXPECTED_EXIT: 'unexpected-exit',
/** subprocess exceeded its timeout — degraded, never fatal to the walk. */
TIMEOUT: 'timeout',
});
/**
* `io.cjs` `output()` diverts payloads above this many characters to a temp
* file and writes `@file:<path>` to stdout instead. A classifier that does not
* know this reports NOT-JSON for perfectly healthy commands as soon as a
* scenario's payload grows past the threshold.
*/
const FILE_POINTER_PREFIX = '@file:';
/**
* Parse text as JSON, returning a sentinel rather than throwing.
*
* @param {string} text
* @returns {{ ok: true, value: unknown } | { ok: false }}
*/
function tryParseJson(text) {
if (typeof text !== 'string' || text.trim() === '') return { ok: false };
try {
return { ok: true, value: JSON.parse(text) };
} catch {
return { ok: false };
}
}
/**
* Return the last non-empty line of a stream.
*
* Load-bearing: `gsd-tools` writes operator warnings to stderr *before* the
* structured error envelope — e.g.
* `gsd-tools: warning: unknown config key(s) in .planning/config.json: …`
* followed by `{"ok":false,…}`. Parsing the whole stderr blob therefore fails
* on a command that is in fact conforming. During research this exact shape
* produced a false positive against `review-lane`, which is why this function
* exists instead of a bare `JSON.parse(stderr)`.
*
* @param {string} text
* @returns {string} last non-empty line, or '' when there is none
*/
function lastNonEmptyLine(text) {
if (typeof text !== 'string') return '';
const lines = text.split('\n');
for (let i = lines.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
const line = lines[i].trim();
if (line !== '') return line;
}
return '';
}
/**
* Resolve stdout that may be an `@file:` pointer into the payload text.
*
* IO failure here is reported, never thrown: a walk that dies because a
* pointee vanished tells you nothing about the engine under test.
*
* @param {string} stdout
* @param {{ readFileSync?: typeof fs.readFileSync }} [io] injection seam for
* fault tests — `chmod 0o000` is a no-op under root and is banned.
* @returns {{ text: string, pointer: string | null, unreadable: boolean }}
*/
function resolveFilePointer(stdout, io = {}) {
const readFileSync = io.readFileSync || fs.readFileSync;
const trimmed = typeof stdout === 'string' ? stdout.trim() : '';
if (!trimmed.startsWith(FILE_POINTER_PREFIX)) {
return { text: stdout, pointer: null, unreadable: false };
}
const pointer = trimmed.slice(FILE_POINTER_PREFIX.length);
try {
return { text: readFileSync(pointer, 'utf-8'), pointer, unreadable: false };
} catch {
return { text: '', pointer, unreadable: true };
}
}
/**
* Classify a raw invocation into the typed IR.
*
* Precedence is deliberate and asserted by the test matrix:
* timeout > unexpected exit > exit 1 (error family) > exit 0 (success family)
* An exit-1 run with a healthy-looking stdout payload is still an error — the
* exit code outranks the payload.
*
* CLASSIFICATION KEYS OFF STDOUT, NOT STDERR (exit-0 family): whether a
* successful run is EMPTY, PROSE, JSON, or SOFT_ERROR depends solely on the
* (file-pointer-resolved) stdout payload. stderr on the exit-0 path is never
* used to pick a `kind` — including when stdout is empty and stderr is not —
* it is only ever surfaced through `warnings` (see below).
*
* @param {{ exitCode: number|null, stdout: string, stderr: string, timedOut?: boolean, argv?: string[] }} raw
* @param {{ readFileSync?: typeof fs.readFileSync }} [io]
* @returns {{
* kind: string, exitCode: number|null, argv: string[],
* json: unknown, err: object|null, pointer: string|null,
* warnings: string[],
* }}
* `warnings` is populated only when the substrate actually supplied stderr
* text — today that means the exit-1 (error) family, since `loop-walk.cjs`'s
* `run()` discards stderr on a clean exit (`execFileSync` swallows it). See
* the JSDoc on `warnings` usage in `tests/qa/loop-walk.cjs` `run()` for the
* full explanation; do not build an oracle assuming success-path stderr is
* observable through that substrate.
*/
function classify(raw, io = {}) {
const argv = Array.isArray(raw.argv) ? raw.argv : [];
const stderr = typeof raw.stderr === 'string' ? raw.stderr : '';
const base = { exitCode: raw.exitCode, argv, json: null, err: null, pointer: null, warnings: [] };
if (raw.timedOut) return { ...base, kind: KIND.TIMEOUT };
if (raw.exitCode !== 0 && raw.exitCode !== 1) return { ...base, kind: KIND.UNEXPECTED_EXIT };
const stderrLines = stderr.split('\n').map((l) => l.trim()).filter((l) => l !== '');
if (raw.exitCode === 1) {
// Warnings are every stderr line except the last: the last line is
// consumed below as the candidate structured-error envelope, so it is
// not itself a warning.
const warnings = stderrLines.slice(0, Math.max(0, stderrLines.length - 1));
const parsed = tryParseJson(lastNonEmptyLine(stderr));
const envelope = parsed.ok && parsed.value !== null && typeof parsed.value === 'object'
&& parsed.value.ok === false && typeof parsed.value.reason === 'string';
return envelope
? { ...base, kind: KIND.STRUCTURED_ERROR, err: parsed.value, warnings }
: { ...base, kind: KIND.UNSTRUCTURED_ERROR, warnings };
}
// exit 0: no envelope is ever parsed out of stderr, so every stderr line is
// a warning candidate — none of it is consumed the way exit-1's last line is.
const warnings = stderrLines;
const resolved = resolveFilePointer(raw.stdout, io);
if (resolved.unreadable) {
return { ...base, kind: KIND.UNSTRUCTURED_ERROR, pointer: resolved.pointer, warnings };
}
const text = typeof resolved.text === 'string' ? resolved.text : '';
// Classification keys off STDOUT ONLY: a non-empty stderr with empty stdout
// is still EMPTY (see module header + KIND.EMPTY docstring above), and the
// stderr content is preserved in `warnings`, never dropped.
if (text.trim() === '') return { ...base, kind: KIND.EMPTY, warnings };
const parsed = tryParseJson(text);
if (!parsed.ok) return { ...base, kind: KIND.PROSE, pointer: resolved.pointer, warnings };
// `typeof null === 'object'`, and an array is an object too — both must fall
// through to JSON rather than be probed for an `error` key.
const isPlainObject = parsed.value !== null
&& typeof parsed.value === 'object'
&& !Array.isArray(parsed.value);
const kind = isPlainObject && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(parsed.value, 'error')
? KIND.SOFT_ERROR
: KIND.JSON;
return { ...base, kind, json: parsed.value, pointer: resolved.pointer, warnings };
}
module.exports = {
KIND,
FILE_POINTER_PREFIX,
classify,
lastNonEmptyLine,
resolveFilePointer,
tryParseJson,
};