* fix(#3850): surface gaps_found VERIFICATION files in audit-uat cmdAuditUat admits `human_needed` OR `gaps_found`, but parseVerificationItems had a body only for the first and returned an empty array for the second — standing on a comment deferring to `plan-phase --gaps`, a different command audit-uat never reaches. Since cmdAuditUat pushes a file into `results` only when `items.length > 0`, a `gaps_found` report did not under-report: it vanished, taking its phase's `by_phase` row with it, so a clean-looking total gave the reader no cue anything was skipped. Eligibility now has one owner (the caller) and parseVerificationItems reports what the file says. The closed-entry filter could not be built on extractFrontmatter: its array-item parser keeps only each `- ` entry's FIRST line and has no notion of nested key/value objects, so an entry's `status:`/ `resolution:` siblings never reach its output and a closed entry is indistinguishable from an open one downstream. Rather than grow a competing object-list parser — or change extractFrontmatter, whose blast radius is every frontmatter consumer in the repo — this reads the raw segment BEFORE the flattening, via the existing anchored sliceTopLevelFrontmatterSegments, and hands it to the `## Gaps` machinery that already parses exactly this `- `-opened, indentation- continued shape. The human_needed path is byte-for-byte unchanged: same reader, same display names, same numbering, no resolved-entry filtering — pinned by a test and verified by identical CLI output on base and head. parseGapsItems keeps its narrower `status: resolved` rule so no *-UAT.md behaviour moves. Closes #3850 * chore(#3850): backfill changeset pr number for #3879 * fix(#3850): one parse per entry, one fence parser, one resolved-entry rule Adversarial review on #3879: B1, B2, M3, m5, m8 and n9. B1 — `sliceFrontmatterArrayEntries` hand-rolled a second frontmatter fence regex, which re-asserted the byte-0 rule #2977 removed: a BOM'd file (PowerShell 5.1 `>`/`Out-File` writes one by default) sliced nothing, so a `gaps_found` report vanished from the audit exactly as it did before this fix — this issue's own symptom, on a platform the repo already has a named defect class for. `extractFrontmatter`'s BOM+fence logic is now factored out as `frontmatterRegion` and shared. One fence parser, not two. B2 — the resolved-entry skip paired two DIFFERENT parsers by array index: `parseYamlRegion` is indent-blind, `splitGapsEntries` is indent-anchored. A block sequence written at its key's indent — ordinary, legal YAML — makes them disagree about entry count, and from the first disagreement every index names a different entry, so an OPEN entry inherits a CLOSED one's resolution and is silently dropped. That is the defect this PR exists to fix, reintroduced inside the fix. Display name and sibling fields now come from ONE parse of the raw slice; `frontmatterEntryDisplayName` applies `parseQuotedScalar` exactly as `parseYamlRegion` does, so the string is byte-identical to what `extractFrontmatter` produced. The flattened array remains the #2286 GATE, but is no longer the source of items. `sliceFrontmatterArrayEntries` also takes the LAST duplicate key, matching `parseYamlRegion`'s last-wins assignment. M3 — `frontmatterEntryToUatItem` is the single entry->UatItem mapper both readers use, rather than two copies differing only in `result`. m8 — closed entries are skipped on BOTH statuses. The earlier asymmetry cited an acceptance criterion #3850 does not contain: the issue has no AC section, and its suggested fix (2) states the skip unconditionally, naming a file with 14 of 16 entries resolved. That file is `human_needed`, so the asymmetry left the reporter's own scenario over-reporting by 14. m5 — `sliceTopLevelFrontmatterSegments`' contract doc names both consumers and says the column-0 boundary rule is now a cross-module contract. n9 — the vestigial bare block is gone and its body de-indented. Tests: the B1 BOM case, B2's nested-sequence and bare-bullet repros, a CRLF fixture (M4 — it survived by accident, now pinned) and the unified skip rule. Fail-first verified by running the new tests against the pre-fix build: the BOM, nested-sequence and unified-skip cases are red there. * fix(#3850): read the entries as objects, not as re-parsed display text Rebased onto `next`, which changed the ground this fix stood on. ADR-3473 §8.1 (#3881) replaced the hand-rolled frontmatter scanner with the vendored js-yaml: `parseQuotedScalar` and `parseYamlRegion` no longer exist, and an object entry now flattens to `test: A, resolution: R` rather than to its first line. The original mechanism existed ONLY to work around that lossy first-line flattening — it sliced the raw frontmatter segment and re-parsed each entry by hand so a `resolution:` sibling was visible at all. With a real parser upstream that workaround is obsolete, so it is deleted rather than repaired: `sliceFrontmatterArrayEntries`, `frontmatterEntryDisplayName`, the `splitGapsEntries`/`extractGapEntryFields` reuse and the second fence regex are all gone. `frontmatter.cts` instead exposes `frontmatterObjectListEntries(content, key)` — the same parse `extractFrontmatter` runs (same BOM strip, same byte-0 fence, same anchor/alias and sentinel guards, same ambiguous-colon repair), stopping one step before the display flattening. `flattenObjectListItem` is exposed alongside it so a caller deriving a display name produces the byte-identical string `extractFrontmatter` would have. That collapses the review's blockers into properties of the parse rather than things this fix has to get right: - B1 (BOM) — shares `extractFrontmatter`'s strip; verified through the CLI. - B2 (index pairing) — there is no second reader. Display name and sibling fields come from one object. - M3 (duplicate mapper) — one `frontmatterEntryToUatItem` for both readers. - M4 (CRLF) — js-yaml's, not ours; verified through the CLI. Also confirmed on the rebased base, per review: #3850 still reproduces on `next` after #3707 landed (`total_files: 0`, `total_items: 0` on a `gaps_found` fixture), so this PR is still doing work #3707 did not do. Nothing was dropped as redundant. One behaviour note: `entryField` returns a present value verbatim and treats only whitespace-only as absent. Trimming would rewrite an author's `truth:` on its way to becoming the display name. * fix(#3850): keep every frontmatter list entry at its own row Review round 3's Blocker. `frontmatterObjectListEntries` filtered its result to objects, and filtering COMPACTS: `parseHumanVerificationItems` then numbered the survivors by their position in the compacted array. On a list mixing object and non-object entries the non-object rows disappeared outright and the rest were renumbered — #3850's own vanishing-row defect, reached through entry SHAPE instead of file STATUS. Base never had it: it walked the display array, so every row surfaced at its own position. Renamed to `frontmatterListEntries` and it no longer filters (the name now matches what it returns). Deciding what a non-object entry MEANS is a caller's judgement; dropping it is nobody's. Both readers now walk the DISPLAY array — one element per row, the array #2286 already gates on — and consult the parsed array only for "does this entry carry a closure field?". `parsedEntriesFor` owns that pairing and checks the two lengths agree before trusting an index; all-null is the correct degradation, since over-reporting a closed row is recoverable and closing the wrong one is not. Names stay byte-identical to base for every entry shape, including a nested sequence (`[nested]`, not `["nested"]`). Same class closed in the gaps reader: a non-object `gaps:` entry surfaced nothing at all and now surfaces as `unknown`, which is this module's documented fail-safe direction (`parseGapsItems`) on a false-negative bug. Also restores the shared fence parser round 2 accepted. The ADR-3473 rebase dropped `frontmatterRegion` and left the BOM strip and byte-0 fence rule inlined twice; `extractFrontmatter` now routes through it, so "one fence parser" is enforced rather than asserted in a comment. Minors: `frontmatterEntryToUatItem`'s dead `forcedResult` option deleted and its "shared by both readers" comment corrected — it has one call site, and the two readers differ deliberately, each mirroring its own established sibling (`parseGapsItems` vs #2286). Documented at the divergence. Tests: `B2` asserted a name substring, so it passed while the row was mis-numbered and would have passed through outright loss; it now asserts positions and count. B2b pins the reviewer's 6-entry mixed fixture verbatim, B2c the survivors' file positions across skipped rows, B2d the gaps reader. All four fail-first against the reviewed head; 332/332 green with the fix. * fix(#3850): make status authoritative, and let the two gaps readers agree Round 4 review, all five findings. Major. `isFrontmatterEntryResolved` treated a non-empty `resolution:` as closure regardless of `status:`, so `status: failed` + `resolution: "attempted retry, still failing"` vanished from the report — the silently-vanishing-item defect #3850 exists to close, reached by field combination instead of file status. Closure is now per key, because the two keys have different conventions and one rule cannot serve both: `gaps:` `status: resolved` only, byte-identical to the rule `parseGapsItems` applies to a `## Gaps` markdown section, so one authored entry cannot read closed in one reader and open in the other. `human_verification:` a bare `resolution:` still closes, since that is how verifier-written entries record it — but a readable `status:` that contradicts it wins. A single unified rule was the first draft and is wrong: it closes a frontmatter `gaps:` entry carrying `resolution:` and no `status:`, which `parseGapsItems` surfaces, and `parseVerificationGapsItems`' own docstring claims it mirrors that reader's fail-safe status handling. The contradiction guard is not a judgment call about YAML. It is the rule this codebase already applies to the same field pair: `validateResolution` (probe-core.cts) rejects a populated `resolution:` on a non-resolved status outright — "a populated payload is an authoring mistake ... Reject it so the mistake surfaces." A reporter cannot throw, so it surfaces the item. Minor 1. Direct unit tests for `frontmatterListEntries` and `flattenObjectListItem` in `tests/frontmatter.unit.test.cjs`, the file that historically co-changes with `frontmatter.cts`. They were reachable only through `uat.cts`' readers before. Minor 2. `parsedEntriesFor`'s degrade-to-all-null branch is asserted directly. Verified unreachable through content rather than assumed: both readers enter through `frontmatterRegion`, `extractFrontmatter`'s only extra argument gates a warning, and `normalizeParsedValue`'s `value.map` is 1:1. It is a drift alarm for a future edit to either parser, so the helper is exported for tests rather than left as the one unpinned branch. Minor 3. The vestigial `const skipResolved = true` and its dead conditional are gone. Minor 4. `frontmatterEntryToUatItem` no longer reads `test:`. A `gaps:` entry has no `test:` in its vocabulary — the template's entries carry truth/status/reason/artifacts/missing — so it was speculative support for a field the shape does not have, and it collided with the 1..N row numbers `parseHumanVerificationItems` assigns by array position. Not reading it makes the collision impossible; an offset would have rewritten an authored value, against `entryField`'s verbatim contract. Docs, changeset and the dispatcher docstring all stated the unconditional rule and are corrected — three prior rounds here were comment/code drift. Fail-first proven: restoring the universal rule reddens all three new unit tests and both rewritten properties. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H3eK225hgcnEDZsnmtaP1U --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
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| id | title | group |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | Verification Debt Tracking | Infrastructure Features |
Command: /gsd-audit-uat
Purpose: Prevent silent loss of UAT/verification items when projects advance past phases with outstanding tests. Surfaces verification debt across all prior phases so items are never forgotten.
Components:
1. Cross-Phase Health Check (progress.md Step 1.6)
Every /gsd-progress call scans ALL phases in the current milestone for outstanding items (pending, skipped, blocked, human_needed, gaps_found). Displays a non-blocking warning section with actionable links.
A verification report counts as outstanding under EITHER terminal non-passing status: human_needed contributes its human_verification: entries, and gaps_found contributes both its human_verification: and its gaps: entries, excluding any already closed. What counts as closed is per key: a gaps: entry closes on status: resolved and nothing else — the same rule the ## Gaps markdown reader applies, so one authored entry cannot read closed in one reader and open in the other — while a human_verification: entry also closes on a bare resolution: field, provided no status: contradicts it (#3850).
2. status: partial (verify-work.md, UAT.md)
New UAT status that distinguishes between "session ended" and "all tests resolved". Prevents status: complete when tests are still pending, blocked, or skipped without reason.
3. result: blocked with blocked_by tag (verify-work.md, UAT.md)
New test result type for tests blocked by external dependencies (server, physical device, release build, third-party services). Categorized separately from skipped tests.
4. HUMAN-UAT.md Persistence (execute-phase.md)
When verification returns human_needed, items are persisted as a trackable HUMAN-UAT.md file with status: partial. Feeds into the cross-phase health check and audit systems.
5. Phase Completion Warnings (phase.cjs, transition.md)
phase complete CLI returns verification debt warnings in its JSON output. Transition workflow surfaces outstanding items before confirmation.
Requirements:
- REQ-DEBT-01: System MUST surface outstanding UAT/verification items from ALL prior phases in
/gsd-progress - REQ-DEBT-02: System MUST distinguish incomplete testing (partial) from completed testing (complete)
- REQ-DEBT-03: System MUST categorize blocked tests with
blocked_bytags - REQ-DEBT-04: System MUST persist human_needed verification items as trackable UAT files
- REQ-DEBT-05: System MUST warn (non-blocking) during phase completion and transition when verification debt exists
- REQ-DEBT-06:
/gsd-audit-uatMUST scan all phases, categorize items by testability, and produce a human test plan