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msd-core/gsd-core/workflows/plant-seed.md
Tom Boucher 779f67cb11 fix(#4378): mint collision-free SEED-YYMMDD-xxx seed ids instead of a shared count (#4754)
* test(#4378): regression tests for collision-free seed ids

* fix(#4378): mint collision-free SEED-YYMMDD-xxx ids, not a shared count

plant-seed derived the next seed id from 'ls .planning/seeds/SEED-*.md | wc -l'.
.planning/seeds/ is shared but each worktree only sees what has merged, so two
workstreams planting before either merges computed the same id and git merged
both files silently.

The id is now the local date plus a 3-char random base36 suffix -- the shape
.planning/quick/ already uses -- computed from knowledge one worktree has alone,
with a same-day regen guard. deriveSeedIdentity learns the new canonical grammar
alongside legacy SEED-NNN (whose parsing never changes), the --enrich parser and
the filename-prefix fallback keep the full new-format id, and the docs that
state the filename shape move to it.

The prefix fallback previously truncated any non-pure-numeric id at
'SEED-<digits>' -- the same one-id-two-answers ambiguity the issue reports,
reproduced one level down.

* fix(#4378): harden seed id generation per adversarial review

- parse-idea: anchor the --enrich extractor to the flag and capture the
  complete id, uppercase-tolerant; a leftmost 'SEED-[0-9]+' truncated an
  uppercase or malformed suffix to its date and enriched an arbitrary
  same-day seed via head -1. Ambiguous and unmatched targets now fail
  closed instead.
- generate-seed-id: tolerate the expected SIGPIPE under pipefail, abort
  loudly when the suffix cannot be drawn (an empty suffix would collapse
  every seed's id to the bare date), and run the same-day regen guard as
  a find existence test (the 'ls <glob>' shape trips the #3409 drift
  guard and degenerates under a stray nullglob).
- deriveSeedIdentity: document the theoretical legacy/new grammar
  ambiguity (6-digit counter + 3-char base36 slug, no frontmatter).
- changeset: state the residual same-day collision bound instead of
  implying zero.

Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: plant-seed.md — the counting step became hardened date+random generation with explicit failure modes; growth is the failure handling, not duplicated logic

* fix(#4378): address standards and spec review findings

- tests: move the allow-test-rule marker to its suppression site (the
  file-header placement was inert per CONTRIBUTING site-scoping); add
  width-boundary coverage (5/7-digit dates, 2/4-char suffixes pin the
  documented branch behavior); add a writer-to-reader parity property
  that parses the mint widths out of the shipped workflow so the two
  grammar owners cannot drift; cover uppercase ids end-to-end in the
  reader.
- plant-seed.md: draw/retry restructured as one loop with a loud
  terminal failure; SEED_SUFX renamed SEED_SUFFIX; regen guard drops
  the redundant head -1; the ambiguity error no longer advises an
  impossible 'complete id' for duplicate legacy ids.
- commands.cts: refresh the cmdListSeeds comment still describing
  SEED-NNN as the only canonical form.
- changeset: drop the audit claim the spec axis showed to be an
  overstatement (audit's id display is filename-derived, pre-existing).
- remove a stray untracked artifact file swept into the tree.

* test(#4378): correct boundary expectations to the module's real branch behavior

The first matrix run on the boundary tests caught my hand-trace of the
regex branches, not a module defect: the slug regex's alternation
backtracks to the legacy branch whenever the canonical branch cannot
complete (so the slug is the remainder after the legacy numeric
prefix), and the 7-digit case fails the canonical branch at its 7th
digit before the dash. Pin the verified values.

* docs(#4378): backfill changeset PR number

* fix(#4378): audit seed identity uses the canonical grammar

Review of this PR found the audit surface publishing a fused filename
stem (SEED-081-region for SEED-081-region.md) where list-seeds reports
the canonical id -- one id, two answers across surfaces, the same
ambiguity class the issue files. scanSeeds now derives identity through
the SAME deriveSeedIdentity the list-seeds gate uses (frontmatter id,
then filename id-prefix, then stem), and audit-open acknowledge
resolves --seed-id by scanning for the derived identity, falling back
to the literal stem so callers scripted against pre-canonical output
keep working. Roll-in per the fix-inline rule: found during this PR's
review, same seed-identity seam.

RED probe: pre-fix audit published seed_id SEED-081-region-becomes /
slug 081-region-becomes for a legacy seeded file; post-fix SEED-081 /
region-becomes, matching list-seeds.

* test(#4378): probe timeout uses the class norm after windows-lane timeout

The windows conformance shard failed its bounded sh -c probes at the
local 5000ms bound (cold sh.exe spawn under shard load) while the
identical code passed this PR's two earlier windows waves. The probe
now uses PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS from the class-norm module instead of a local
override, per the helpers/timeouts.cjs convention.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-09-15 11:41:29 -04:00

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Capture a forward-looking idea as a structured seed file with trigger conditions. Seeds auto-surface during /gsd:new-milestone when trigger conditions match the new milestone's scope.

Seeds beat deferred items because they:

  • Preserve WHY the idea matters (not just WHAT)
  • Define WHEN to surface (trigger conditions, not manual scanning)
  • Track breadcrumbs (code references, related decisions)
  • Auto-present at the right time via new-milestone scan

One-shot capture: the seed file is written immediately from the idea text alone. Trigger / Why / Scope are optional enrichment — they can be provided now or added later. The file is never gated behind questions.

Parse `$ARGUMENTS` for the idea summary.

First, check for an enrich flag:

if echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -qE '\-\-enrich[[:space:]]+SEED-[0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9]{3})?'; then
  # Anchor on the flag and capture the COMPLETE id — uppercase-tolerant, since
  # the docs display SEED-YYMMDD-XXX. A leftmost `SEED-[0-9]+` would truncate
  # an uppercase or malformed suffix to its date and enrich an arbitrary
  # same-day seed (#4378 review).
  ENRICH_MATCH=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-enrich[[:space:]]+SEED-[0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9]{3})?' | head -1)
  ENRICH_TARGET=${ENRICH_MATCH##*[[:space:]]}
  SEED_FILE=$(ls .planning/seeds/${ENRICH_TARGET}-*.md 2>/dev/null) || true
  if [ -z "$SEED_FILE" ]; then
    echo "ERROR: no seed file matches '$ENRICH_TARGET' in .planning/seeds/." >&2
    exit 1
  fi
  if [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$SEED_FILE" | grep -c .)" -gt 1 ]; then
    echo "ERROR: '$ENRICH_TARGET' matches multiple seed files — duplicate legacy ids cannot be disambiguated by a longer id, so rename the duplicates; for new-format ids re-run with the complete id:" >&2
    printf '%s\n' "$SEED_FILE" >&2
    exit 1
  fi
  # Skip to enrich-seed step — do not prompt for $IDEA
else
  if [ -n "$ARGUMENTS" ]; then
    IDEA="$ARGUMENTS"
  else
    # Ask only when no arguments at all
    # What's the idea? (one sentence)
    IDEA="<user response>"
  fi
fi

If $ENRICH_TARGET is set, skip straight to the enrich-seed step. Do not set $IDEA and do not run create-seed-dir, generate-seed-id, write-seed, collect-breadcrumbs, commit-seed, or confirm.

If $ARGUMENTS is non-empty and contains no --enrich flag, treat the full value as $IDEA (no prompt).

Only prompt for the idea when $ARGUMENTS is empty and no enrich target is present. Store the response as $IDEA.

```bash mkdir -p .planning/seeds ``` ```bash # Seed id: date + 3 random base36 chars (the `.planning/quick/` shape). # NO shared counter: `.planning/seeds/` is shared, but each worktree only sees # what has merged — counting files collides across parallel workstreams (#4378). # Residual bound: two workstreams planting the same day before either merges # can still draw the same suffix (~1 in 46,656 per pair) — the same bound the # `.planning/quick/` scheme accepts. SEED_DATE=$(date +%y%m%d) SEED_ID="" for _SEED_ATTEMPT in 1 2; do # `|| true`: `tr` reads an infinite stream, so `head -c` closing the pipe # takes SIGPIPE — harmless (head already has its 3 bytes) but fatal under # pipefail. SEED_SUFFIX=$(LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-z0-9' </dev/urandom | head -c 3) || true if [ ${#SEED_SUFFIX} -ne 3 ]; then echo "ERROR: could not draw a random id suffix (is /dev/urandom available?)" >&2 exit 1 fi SEED_ID="SEED-${SEED_DATE}-${SEED_SUFFIX}" # Same-day regen guard, written as a find existence test (never `ls `: # under a stray nullglob that shape silently degenerates — #3409 drift guard). [ -z "$(find .planning/seeds -maxdepth 1 -name "${SEED_ID}-*.md" -print 2>/dev/null)" ] && break done if [ -n "$(find .planning/seeds -maxdepth 1 -name "${SEED_ID}-*.md" -print 2>/dev/null)" ]; then echo "ERROR: could not draw an unused seed id after 2 attempts" >&2 exit 1 fi ```

Generate slug from idea summary.

Write `.planning/seeds/{SEED_ID}-{slug}.md` immediately with sensible defaults:
  • trigger_when: default is "when relevant" — the seed will surface during any new-milestone scan; the user can narrow it later via --enrich
  • scope: default is "unknown" — the user can update it via --enrich
---
id: {SEED_ID}
status: dormant
planted: {ISO date}
planted_during: {current milestone/phase from STATE.md, or "unknown" if not in a GSD project}
trigger_when: when relevant
scope: unknown
---

# {SEED_ID}: {$IDEA}

## Why This Matters

_To be filled in. Run `/gsd:capture --seed --enrich {SEED_ID}` to add context._

## When to Surface

**Trigger:** when relevant

This seed will surface during `/gsd:new-milestone` when the milestone scope matches.

## Scope Estimate

**Unknown** — run `/gsd:capture --seed --enrich {SEED_ID}` to estimate effort.

## Breadcrumbs

_No breadcrumbs collected yet._

## Notes

_Captured via one-shot seed capture. Enrich with trigger, why, and scope at your convenience._
After writing the file, search the codebase for relevant references:

Extract one or two key terms from $IDEA (the most distinctive noun or phrase) and store as $KEYWORD.

# Derive a single keyword for breadcrumb search.
# Lower-case, strip punctuation, take the first token longer than 2 chars.
KEYWORD=$(printf '%s' "$IDEA" \
  | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' \
  | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '\n' \
  | awk 'length > 2 {print; exit}')
KEYWORD="${KEYWORD:-seed}"  # fallback to literal "seed" if extraction yields nothing
# Find files related to the idea keywords ($KEYWORD derived from $IDEA)
grep -rl "$KEYWORD" --include="*.ts" --include="*.js" --include="*.md" . 2>/dev/null | head -10

Also check:

  • Current STATE.md for related decisions
  • ROADMAP.md for related phases
  • todos/ for related captured ideas

If any breadcrumbs are found, update the Breadcrumbs section of the seed file. Store relevant file paths as $BREADCRUMBS.

```bash _GSD_SHIM_NAME="gsd-tools.cjs"; _GSD_RUNTIME_ROOT="${RUNTIME_DIR:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)}"; GSD_TOOLS="${_GSD_RUNTIME_ROOT}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}"; _gsd_at() { for _p; do if [ -f "$_p" ]; then GSD_TOOLS="$_p"; return 0; fi; done; return 1; }; if _gsd_at "${_GSD_RUNTIME_ROOT}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${_GSD_RUNTIME_ROOT}/.claude/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${_GSD_RUNTIME_ROOT}/.codex/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}"; then gsd_run() { node "$GSD_TOOLS" "$@"; }; elif unset -f gsd_run; _G="$(command -v gsd_run)"; then GSD_TOOLS="$_G"; gsd_run() { "$GSD_TOOLS" "$@"; }; elif _gsd_at "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${CURSOR_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.cursor}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${GEMINI_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.gemini}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${COPILOT_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.copilot}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${WINDSURF_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.codeium/windsurf}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${AUGMENT_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.augment}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${TRAE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.trae}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${QWEN_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.qwen}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${CODEBUDDY_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.codebuddy}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${CLINE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.cline}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${GROK_AGENTS_HOME:-$HOME/.agents}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${ANTIGRAVITY_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.gemini/antigravity}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${OPENCODE_CONFIG_DIR:-${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/opencode}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}" "${KILO_CONFIG_DIR:-${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/kilo}/gsd-core/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME}"; then gsd_run() { node "$GSD_TOOLS" "$@"; }; else echo "ERROR: gsd-tools.cjs not found at $GSD_TOOLS and gsd_run is not on PATH. Run: npx -y @opengsd/gsd-core@latest --claude --local" >&2; exit 1; fi; GSD_IDENTITY_STATUS=unverified; case "$(gsd_run runtime-identity --raw 2>/dev/null || true)" in '{"packageName":"@opengsd/gsd-core"'*'}') GSD_IDENTITY_STATUS=ok;; esac; export GSD_IDENTITY_STATUS; [ "$GSD_IDENTITY_STATUS" = ok ] || echo "WARNING: \"$GSD_TOOLS\" did not prove it is @opengsd/gsd-core - it is either a different package or an @opengsd/gsd-core older than the runtime-identity verb. See docs/how-to/diagnose-a-foreign-gsd-tools.md" >&2; if [ -n "${CLAUDE_ENV_FILE:-}" ] && [ -n "${GSD_TOOLS:-}" ]; then printf "export PATH='%s':\"\$PATH\"\n" "${GSD_TOOLS%/*}" >> "$CLAUDE_ENV_FILE" 2>/dev/null || true; fi RESPONSE_LANGUAGE=$(gsd_run query config-get response_language --raw --default "" 2>/dev/null || echo "") gsd_run query commit "docs: plant seed — {$IDEA}" --files .planning/seeds/{SEED_ID}-{slug}.md ```

If response_language is set: All user-facing output of this workflow — narration between tool calls, status updates, progress notes, findings, questions, prompts, and explanations — MUST be presented in {response_language}. Technical terms, code, file paths, and subagent prompts stay in English — only user-facing output is translated.

```text ✅ Seed planted: {SEED_ID}

"{$IDEA}" File: .planning/seeds/{SEED_ID}-{slug}.md

Trigger and scope are set to defaults. Run /gsd:capture --seed --enrich {SEED_ID} to add trigger conditions, rationale, and scope estimate at your convenience.

This seed will surface automatically when you run /gsd:new-milestone.

</step>

<step name="enrich-seed">
**Optional enrichment — only run this step when `--enrich` flag is present.**

If `--enrich` flag is in `$ARGUMENTS`:
- `$ENRICH_TARGET` and `$SEED_FILE` are already set by `parse-idea`. Derive `$SEED_ID` from `$ENRICH_TARGET` (e.g. `SEED_ID="$ENRICH_TARGET"`). If `$SEED_FILE` is empty, `parse-idea` has already failed closed (no seed matches the id), so this step is never reached with an unresolved target.
- Ask focused questions to build a complete seed:


**Text mode (`workflow.text_mode: true` in config or `--text` flag):** Set `TEXT_MODE=true` if `--text` is present in `$ARGUMENTS` OR `text_mode` from init JSON is `true`. When TEXT_MODE is active, replace every `AskUserQuestion` call with a plain-text numbered list and ask the user to type their choice number. This is required for non-Claude runtimes (OpenAI Codex, Antigravity, etc.) where `AskUserQuestion` is not available.

```text
AskUserQuestion(
  header: "Trigger",
  question: "When should this idea surface? (e.g., 'when we add user accounts', 'next major version', 'when performance becomes a priority')",
  options: []  // freeform
)

Store as $TRIGGER.

AskUserQuestion(
  header: "Why",
  question: "Why does this matter? What problem does it solve or what opportunity does it create?",
  options: []
)

Store as $WHY.

AskUserQuestion(
  header: "Scope",
  question: "How big is this? (rough estimate)",
  options: [
    { label: "Small", description: "A few hours — could be a quick task" },
    { label: "Medium", description: "A phase or two — needs planning" },
    { label: "Large", description: "A full milestone — significant effort" }
  ]
)

Store as $SCOPE.

Update the seed file's frontmatter and sections with the gathered values:

  • Set trigger_when: {$TRIGGER}
  • Set scope: {$SCOPE}
  • Fill in ## Why This Matters with {$WHY}
  • Fill in ## When to Surface trigger detail
  • Fill in ## Scope Estimate elaboration

Commit the update:

gsd_run query commit "docs: enrich seed ${SEED_ID} — trigger + why + scope" --files "$SEED_FILE"

Confirm:

✅ Seed enriched: ${SEED_ID}
Trigger: {$TRIGGER}
Scope: {$SCOPE}

<success_criteria>

  • Seed file created in .planning/seeds/ in one step, no questions required
  • Frontmatter includes status, trigger_when (default: "when relevant"), scope (default: "unknown")
  • File is written BEFORE any optional enrichment questions are asked
  • Committed to git
  • User shown confirmation with file path
  • Optional --enrich path available for adding trigger, why, scope post-capture </success_criteria>