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v1.75.0.0 feat: ponytail import wave — simplification review lens, arm benchmark, reuse ladder, instruction-tier digest - #2722
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…nal amended plan Reorder the pipeline to CEO -> Design (if UI scope) -> DX (if developer-facing scope) -> Eng. The old order (CEO -> Design -> Eng -> DX) let DX findings land AFTER the required gate signed off, so eng validated a stale plan. Accept-all semantics made explicit: every AskUserQuestion resolves to the recommended option; premises no longer pause the pipeline mid-run (clearly-wrong ones queue as User-Challenge items at the single Final Approval Gate). Eng's Codex voice now sees the DX consensus summary. New free static test pins the order; the chain E2E gains DX-between and Eng-terminal assertions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ens with ponytail's tag vocabulary New 8th Review Army specialist (DIFF_LINES > 100, --simplification force flag) hunting unrequested STRUCTURE only: delete/stdlib/native/speculative/shrink closed tags, one-line findings, lines_removable field. speculative: replaces ponytail's yagni: tag — we import the lens, not the posture; coverage stays sacred (Completeness Gaps owns it, suppressions inlined, shrink needs >=5 lines). Advisory carve-out in the merge step: advisory findings are excluded from quality_score and the findings-count header, render with an [ADVISORY] label, and are ASK-only in Fix-First. Zero-findings case prints the lens-scoped 'Simplification: lean already — nothing to cut.' from the PARENT (the specialist keeps the exact NO FINDINGS contract); with findings, the parent prints 'net: -N lines possible' summed from lines_removable. Tests: static pins for the carve-out + early-out contract (gen-skill-docs), two periodic e2e cases with planted fixtures — activation (over-build traps: hand-rolled Intl, one-impl abstract, dead config) and false-flag precision (a lean ETHOS 'choose A' diff must yield NO FINDINGS). Inspired by dietrichgebert/ponytail's /ponytail-review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… ponytail's ladder, completeness kept Tier-3+ skills gain a per-edit reflex the section only stated as research discipline: before writing new code, stop at the first rung that holds — repo helper, stdlib, native platform feature, installed dependency — then build the COMPLETE version of what remains. The closing clause is the explicit reconciliation with Boil the Ocean: the ladder governs structure, never coverage. Rungs 1/6/7 (YAGNI / one line / minimum that works) are deliberately NOT imported. Also ports ponytail's root-cause rule: one guard in the shared function beats a guard in every caller. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After completing work, skills report in a few short lines — what changed, what was skipped, what to watch — and cut any explanation that outgrows the change. Explicit exemptions protect every mandated output: decision briefs, completion-status blocks, user-requested explanations, and report-shaped skills' report formats (the report IS the work in /qa-only, /plan-*-review, /retro, /document-generate). Rationale is signal-to-noise, not tokens: ponytail's own benchmark shows terse prose alone doesn't cut cost (caveman arm: -20% LOC, +7% tokens), and independent replications found its 'skipped on purpose' essays ate the code savings. Includes a good/bad closer example pair per the model-overlay guidance that a positive example beats a 'don't be verbose' instruction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…, not 3-5KB Measured on the v1.71 render: --explain-level=terse saves exactly 2,611 bytes per tier-2+ skill. The old ~3-5KB claim predated the preamble restructuring. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s leave a joined trail When the user accepts an option that is BOTH Completeness <= 7 AND a durable-scope call, the decision ledger entry (gstack-decision-log, ceiling + upgrade trigger in the rationale) is the source of truth, and the agent marks each cut corner in code with gstack-shortcut(dec-<id>): <ceiling>, upgrade when <trigger> — same edit, no follow-up question, never agent-initiated. /retro Step 11.5 harvests markers into a debt ledger (grep || true — zero matches is the healthy case; skill installs and docs excluded), joins on the decision id so nothing double-counts, tags unlinked and no-trigger rot risks, and closes with 'N markers, M with no trigger.' /review suppressions: a marker with ceiling+trigger downgrades a would-be Completeness Gaps finding to acknowledged debt. Redaction test pins that the marker ships untouched (the ledger is the point) — it does not match the TODO(owner) hygiene shape. Format from dietrichgebert/ponytail's ponytail-debt; store inverted to gstack's existing decision ledger. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…adder + bounded closer) The golden-file regression test pins the rendered ship skill byte-for-byte; the WS3/WS7 preamble sections are deliberate changes, so the baselines re-capture per the goldens' own update protocol. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… agent host can read New agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md (1,765 bytes, hard 2,048-byte budget): gstack's ethos one-liners, the reuse ladder, and voice rules for hosts with no install arm — Zed, Amp, Jules, or any AGENTS.md-reading agent. Generated by scripts/gen-agents-digest.ts, auto-refreshed by gen:skill-docs, committed like llms.txt so setup's explainer arms can point at it before any toolchain exists. First line carries the gstack version as its own staleness nudge. Delivery is print-path + user-performed copy ONLY: setup never writes or overwrites a user's AGENTS.md (a test pins this — no cp/ln/mv/redirect into AGENTS.md anywhere in setup). openclaw and hermes explainer arms print the path; slate keeps routing to the full Claude install and gbrain ships from its own repo. HostConfig gains the optional install.instructionTier slot, declared by both instruction-tier hosts. README host table now matches what setup actually does. Inspired by dietrichgebert/ponytail's instruction-tier AGENTS.md fallback — one generated source, never per-host hand copies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…RSE A/B Removes the duplicate statements v1.71's compaction left in the AskUserQuestion Format section: the completeness rule restated in the prose triad, the auto-decide marker syntax stated twice, the Conductor-flakiness explanation stated twice, and the self-check's full triad restatement. Every verbosity floor and all 14 format pins stay (Layer 0 green). The gate this decision rested on ran before landing (new periodic skill-e2e-auq-repetition-cut-ab.test.ts, pre-cut ref 3263fff vs this render, same harness as auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab): POST 7/7 format elements, substance 5 — identical to PRE. No degradation; the load-bearing-repetition hypothesis did not hold for these duplicates. Net: -236 bytes per tier-2+ skill (~9.7KB corpus). Golden ship baselines re-captured for the deliberate change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ther gstack's behavioral layer earns its tokens
Ponytail's honest-benchmark method pointed at gstack itself: 3 build-shaped
tasks (native-platform over-build trap, CRUD endpoint, bug fix with planted
decoys) x 2 arms, real claude -p sessions, scored on the git diff left
behind. A research instrument, not a release gate — no assertion compares
arm scores.
Arms use the PROVEN project-scope pattern: the with-arm installs a
build-discipline skill (extracted reuse-ladder + bounded-closer content, not
whole-file copies) into the fixture's .claude/skills/ with a CLAUDE.md
routing line and an explicit invocation; a live spike confirmed claude -p
discovers and invokes project-scope skills via the Skill tool (3 turns,
exact-output probe). Fixtures are git init + local bare origin; diff capture
is three lines of git, no worktree machinery.
Failure taxonomy: zero-diff arms are VALID scored cells (deterministic
0/none, no API call), harvest failures record harvest:null, judge_error
cells are excluded from aggregates but named in the report — nothing drops
silently. armJudge: fixed sonnet judge, 0-3 unrequested-structure rubric,
must name the construct or say none, bounded retry-on-malformed; callJudge
gains optional temperature/max_tokens (defaults unchanged). recordE2E now
populates tokens_used for every E2E. Eval schema v2: harvest gains
{insertions, deletions, net}, tolerant reads keep v1 runs comparable.
Registered periodic in E2E_TIERS + touchfiles (with the auq-repetition-cut
A/B); periodic detach timeout raised to the new shard-census floor. Free
selftest (8 tests, zero API) pins fixtures, extraction, arm asymmetry, diff
capture, judge plumbing, and the retry bound.
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…ngs, schema pin, triad phrasing
Skeleton ceilings re-captured for the 17 carved skills the wave deliberately
grew (reuse ladder + bounded closer + shortcut trail, net of the gated -236B
AUQ cut), each with its measured size in the comment per the carve-guards
protocol. eval-store schema pin updated to v2 (harvest gains
insertions/deletions/net). The AUQ prose-triad keeps its pinned per-choice
phrasing ('explicit on EACH choice') while still deferring the score scale to
the canonical Format rule — the shipped cut is strictly closer to the pre-cut
text than the render that already passed the NOT-WORSE gate. Autoplan carve
anchors follow the Phase 2.5 renumbering. Golden ship baselines re-captured.
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…call-supervised sandboxes GSTACK_FREE_JOBS overrides the computed shard count (the free runner's analogue of the paid runner's EVALS_JOBS). On Vercel sandboxes, PID 1 installs a seccomp filter whose supervisor spuriously fails access(2) for busy processes — measured: 200/200 git-init probes fail 'Cannot access work tree: Permission denied' while the suite runs at 6 shards, 0/200 idle; statx succeeds while access fails on the same path in the same process. One serial mega-shard maximizes per-process pressure and fails too; 2 shards is the measured sweet spot. GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1 (default OFF — dev boxes should see flakes) re-runs attributed failures once, serially, capped at 5 files; a clean retry downgrades to a loud FLAKY-PASS naming the offenders, a repeat failure stays red, timeouts and unattributed failures never retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d test files Local path validation now accepts os.tmpdir() alongside the classic /tmp (new TEMP_DIRS in platform.ts): on macOS os.tmpdir() is /var/folders/..., and TMPDIR-honoring CI/sandbox environments point it elsewhere entirely — both are legitimate scratch space. Remote file serving (TEMP_ONLY) stays pinned to TEMP_DIR alone; no change to the exfil boundary. commands.test.ts drops 41 hardcoded /tmp literals for a tmpp() helper on os.tmpdir() (two message assertions now reference the same variable), and path-validation's symlink-escape test targets /etc/hosts instead of /etc/crontab — the target must EXIST for realpath to resolve the link (a dangling target falls back to the link's own path and passes vacuously), and /etc/crontab is absent on Amazon Linux. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
resolve-user-slug and endpoint hashing exited 127 on Amazon Linux (shasum is a macOS/perl tool). New _sha256_hex helper prefers sha256sum and falls back to shasum, matching gstack-verify-gate's existing pattern; both call sites converted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…gured Without the guard, git DWIMs the literal 'origin' as an ssh host/path; on hosts whose transport launders exit codes the probe 'succeeds' with zero branches and the allocator silently sees an empty queue — the exact duplicate-allocation failure (#2545) fetchGitClaimed exists to prevent. git remote get-url origin gates the probe; absence falls through to the existing local-refs path with its staleness warning. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… the suite green Measured failure taxonomy for Vercel/Conductor sandboxes (missing /dev/fd, 64M /dev/shm, seccomp-supervisor access(2) EACCES under load, uid-1000 processes with FULL capabilities defeating chmod-denial tests, no X server, no git identity, Conductor git-shim exit-code laundering) plus the idempotent script that treats all of it and seeds the run recipe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…review # Conflicts: # bin/gstack-config # browse/test/path-validation.test.ts # package.json # test/helpers/carve-guards.ts
…tract the function standalone The merge kept a branch-local _sha256_hex helper; main's v1.72 landed the same portability fix inline WITH tests that extract sha8_of()'s text and run it under a shim-only PATH — a helper call can't satisfy that shape. Adopt the landed implementation at both hash sites. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…aky-retry list The empty-shard early return omitted the (required) failingFiles field — tsc TS2741 — feeding undefined into the flaky-retry flatMap. Also drop the dead 'else if (worst !== 0)' guard (the enclosing if already pins it). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ts digest agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md embeds VERSION in its first line and is byte-freshness-gated (test/agents-digest.test.ts + Skill Docs Freshness CI), but nothing in the release path regenerated it — every version-bumping ship of this repo would land red. write now spawns the repo's own generator when present (agentsDigest true/false/null in the output JSON), and ship's evidence gate allow-lists the digest alongside VERSION/package.json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…est path $(pwd) printed a nonexistent path when setup ran from any other directory; both arms now share one print_instruction_tier() using SOURCE_GSTACK_DIR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ladder lockstep The print-path-only guard now catches tee/install/rsync/dd/truncate, >> appends, and laundered variable-destination writes. New test ties the digest's hand-rendered reuse-ladder text to the preamble resolver so an edit to either fails CI instead of shipping drift. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… docs The Step 11.5 grep matched documentation mentions (dec-<id>, dec-*) in checklists, resolver sources, and convention tests, reporting phantom debt rows on gstack itself. A trailing filter kills placeholder forms; prose tells the agent to discard convention-quoting hits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without this, simplification (all-advisory by construction) would log findings:0 every run and auto-gate itself into permanent silence after 10 dispatches. The advisory carve-out governs score and header only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Harvest diffs against the recorded seed SHA (origin/main is movable by an agent that commits AND pushes; a recorded SHA is not). - Fixtures get a node_modules .gitignore and the git wrapper a 64MB maxBuffer, so a vendored-dependency arm is scored instead of killing the cell. - The judge diff cap is a named constant with loud truncation (log + judge_reasoning suffix). - Judge prompt block markers carry a per-call random sentinel, so a diff containing a faked closing marker cannot escape the data block. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ts decision id resolves in the ledger Cross-model catch (Claude adversarial + Codex agreed): any diff author could fabricate a marker and silence Completeness review of that gap. Reviewers now resolve the dec-id via gstack-decision-search; an orphan marker is reported as a forged suppression, not honored as debt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…amend the plan and re-run Eng The final gate offered B2 (respond to User Challenges) but the option handler table omitted it, leaving accepted challenges with no amendment or Eng re-review path. B2 now walks challenges one at a time; an accepted one amends the plan and re-runs Eng (the gate always reviews the final plan), sharing D's 3-cycle cap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rrectness before LOC The plan's metric order is diff-quality FIRST, but cells never ran the fixtures' own run-tests.js, so a refusal, a broken implementation, and working code were indistinguishable in aggregates (Codex adversarial catch). Tasks with an oracle declare checkCmd; every cell records checks=pass|fail|none in the report line and eval store. Selftest pins the oracle declarations and that the planted bug fails its own check pre-fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…gest trust envelope honestly A failed digest regen warned and moved on — ship now instructs re-running the generator and staging the digest with the bump (the freshness check stays red otherwise). The 'no-op everywhere else' phrasing oversold safety: the step now names what executes and why that is inside the envelope Step 5 already opened (the repo's own test suite). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ncation defeated the loud-failure contract '2abc' silently became 2 and '3.7' became 3 despite the error text claiming a positive-integer requirement. Strict /^\d+$/ pre-check; both shapes pinned. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…f gate, non-interactive sudo - The /conductor/bin/git patch writes tmp-then-rename with a .orig backup — a concurrently spawned git can never exec a truncated shim. - Xvfb running-check looks for the :99 socket, not any-display pgrep. - Xvfb install is dnf-gated so non-dnf distros degrade to a warning instead of aborting the remaining fixes under set -eu. - The bashrc /dev/fd restore uses sudo -n || true — no password prompt at every shell start on non-passwordless machines. - BASH_COMPAT=50 keeps heredoc bodies off the bash pipe window. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…idens the local allowlist TEMP_DIRS honors os.tmpdir() at daemon start; a daemon launched with TMPDIR=/ would have trusted the whole filesystem for local path validation for its lifetime. Subprocess pins cover /, $HOME, cwd-ancestor rejection and that a benign distinct TMPDIR (the sandbox recipe's $HOME/tmp) stays honored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…laration made load-bearing; ratchet re-capture - The ls-remote zero-heads warning no longer accuses an empty remote of running a laundering shim. - instructionTier.rulesFile now must equal the generator's DIGEST_RELPATH (and setup must print it) — the declaration fails with the real path instead of lying silently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
skillify HOME-override gate red (pre-existing, proven on main), the auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab branch-local ref, eval-store harvest union, evidence digest allow-path scoping, and the WS6-2 dead-frontmatter live-host verification deferral. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… v1.73 release-step prose The --regen-digest trust-envelope paragraph (Step 12) and the evidence-gate digest note (Step 16) grew the ship skeleton past the previous 75,420 ceiling. Re-measured per the deliberate-change protocol. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- README.md, docs/skills.md, AGENTS.md: /autoplan phase order corrected to CEO → design → DX → eng (eng always last); /review rows note the advisory simplification lens - docs/PROJECT_STRUCTURE.md: add agents-digest/, gen-agents-digest.ts, sandbox-doctor.sh, test-free-shards.ts to the annotated tree - CONTRIBUTING.md: document GSTACK_FREE_JOBS, GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY, and the sandbox-doctor one-command fixer in the Tier 1 test section Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- README.md: host table gains the OpenClaw explainer arm row (setup has the arm; the table claimed to match setup) - docs/skills.md: /review completeness-gaps section documents the gstack-shortcut(dec-<id>) acknowledged-debt suppression and orphan-marker flagging; /autoplan deep-dive states the recommended-option default with the 6 principles as tie-breakers - CONTRIBUTING.md: host count 8 -> 10 (Hermes, GBrain), supported-hosts list completed - docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md: sandbox recipe says to source ~/.bashrc after the doctor seeds it; GSTACK_FREE_JOBS wording fixed from "caps" to "overrides in either direction" (matches the un-clamped runner) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The version gate caught a live queue collision (its whole job); same MINOR bump level, next free slot per bin/gstack-next-version. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… are POSIX-only CI exposed two wrong assumptions in the new temp-dirs tests, neither a product bug: - The remote-serving asymmetry test assumed a distinct os.tmpdir() lies OUTSIDE TEMP_DIR, but the free-shard runner nests each child's TMPDIR inside /tmp on CI — a file there is under TEMP_DIR, so serving it remotely is legitimate. The test now pins the actual exfil boundary on every topology (a cwd project file is locally readable, never remotely servable) and branches the os.tmpdir() case on nested-vs-outside. Reproduced locally with TMPDIR=/tmp/nested-tmp before fixing. - The untrustable-TMPDIR subprocess probes set TMPDIR, which Windows os.tmpdir() ignores (reads TEMP/TMP) — and on Windows TEMP_DIR is DEFINED as os.tmpdir(), so the fixed+movable two-dir topology the guard filters does not exist there. Probes now skip on Windows with that rationale; the benign-TMPDIR assertion compares realpaths. Verified under all three POSIX topologies: TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp (outside), TMPDIR=/tmp/nested-tmp (CI shard shape), TMPDIR unset (identical). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
path.join built it with backslashes on Windows, so the wiring test's string comparisons against setup and hosts/*.ts (which carry the forward-slash literal) could never match there — windows-free-tests red. path.join(root, DIGEST_RELPATH) at the write site normalizes fine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ndbox restart The 4G remount does not survive restarts; a reverted 64M shm made the multi-tab browse handoff test fail consistently under suite concurrency (observed live: two consecutive full-run failures, green in isolation, green again after remounting). Same guarded arithmetic as the doctor body. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two-part fix for the gen-skill-docs-out-dir isolation-pin failure: - cookie-import-browser built its scratch cookie DBs inside the TRACKED browse/test/fixtures/ dir (created in beforeAll, deleted in afterAll), so they flash as untracked files mid-run — a concurrent shard's porcelain snapshot caught the window on Windows. The DBs now live in a per-run tmpdir; zero source-tree writes. - gen-skill-docs-out-dir is the free suite's only LIVE porcelain-snapshot test, so it joins TREE_MUTATING (the serial quiet window): any concurrent transient tree-write can race it, and its own spawned render rewrites llms.txt/agents-digest in place (idempotent on a fresh tree). The race is pre-existing; this branch's +5 test files reshuffled shard composition and exposed it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…r speed (#2721) * fix(ci): free-tests lane actually runs the make-pdf e2e gates The 9 make-pdf/test/e2e gate tests probe make-pdf/dist/pdf, browse/dist/browse, and the diagram-render bundle, then self-skip when absent. The required free-tests lane never built any of them, so the gates silently skipped on Linux for their entire life (verified: 9 of 14 skip, exit 0). make-pdf-gate.yml's justification for deleting its Linux leg claimed the free lane covered this — it didn't. - new build:gates script: exactly the three artifacts the gates probe (full bun run build compiles five binaries; ~60-90s tax on the only required check is not warranted) - free-tests.yml: build:gates step + poppler-utils + fonts-noto-color-emoji (fonts must precede the first browse daemon launch — Chromium snapshots fontconfig at startup; verified live: a warm daemon renders tofu, a fresh one embeds NotoColorEmoji) - make-pdf/test/e2e/ci-prereqs.test.ts: GSTACK_EXPECT_BINARIES=1 (set by the workflow) inverts the skip polarity in CI — dropping the build step or poppler fails the lane instead of re-opening the silent-skip hole Pre-flight: all 9 gates green on Linux locally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): kill the three zero-test eval jobs (hollow green) - delete the vestigial e2e-codex / e2e-gemini matrix rows: both files are whole-file periodic-tier, so with no row tier: they ran ZERO tests and reported green on every PR (~2 min of runner each, pure false confidence; the periodic lane owns those suites) - e2e-pty-plan-smoke gains tier: gate — its two files are whole-file describeE2ETier('gate'), so the job burned ~7 min of container setup then skipped every describe - KNOWN_TIER_UNSET burned down to empty; the ratchet stays armed so a future row/file tier mismatch fails the suite instead of shipping hollow green Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): least-privilege permissions + fork-safe concurrency keys - evals.yml / evals-periodic.yml evals jobs: explicit contents:read + packages:read (container-image pull) and persist-credentials:false — the jobs that execute PR-authored code with three provider API keys ran on the repo-default token grant with the token written into .git/config - permissions blocks for the 4 workflows that had none (skill-docs, make-pdf-gate, windows-free-tests, windows-setup-e2e) - fork-safe concurrency keys: actionlint, skill-docs, make-pdf-gate, windows-setup-e2e switch from head_ref to PR-number keying — a bare branch name carries no fork prefix, so same-name branches from two forks shared one group and cancelled each other's runs Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): one bun version everywhere + drift tripwire Lanes disagreed four ways: 1.3.13 (free-tests, windows, Dockerfile.ci), latest (quality-gate, make-pdf-gate), unpinned (skill-docs, version-gate — setup-bun installs latest), 1.3.10 (.gitlab-ci.yml). Different Bun versions change the runner output shapes the strict classifiers regex-match, spawn semantics, and shell parsing — a lane on a different Bun tests a different product; Dockerfile.ci's own comment records this class biting once already (silent 1.3.13/1.3.14 drift). All surfaces pinned to 1.3.13; test/bun-version-drift.test.ts scans every workflow setup-bun stanza + Dockerfile.ci + .gitlab-ci.yml and fails on any mismatch or unpinned stanza. skill-docs also gains --frozen-lockfile (was bare bun install). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(ci): bind the three-way image-tag hashFiles() expressions evals.yml, evals-periodic.yml, and ci-image.yml each compute the CI image tag from hashFiles('.github/docker/Dockerfile.ci', 'bun.lock', 'patches/**') — synced by comment only (TODOS.md 'CI three-way image-tag drift'). If one input list drifts, that workflow computes a different tag for the same content: eval lanes silently rebuild the image every run, or ci-image prebuilds a tag nobody looks up. The test extracts each tag-computation site and fails on any mismatch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): ci-image stops rebuilding the identical image every ship - package.json out of the trigger paths: the tag hash deliberately excludes it (version bumps every ship), so every merge rebuilt and re-pushed the IDENTICAL tag (~2m26s for zero content change); patches/** added (it IS a tag input) - manifest existence check (mirrors evals.yml): tag already exists → skip the build - concurrency group: two rapid main pushes raced pushing the same :latest/:buildcache tags - cron staggered 06:00→04:00 Monday: it shared the exact minute with evals-periodic, which could race a half-pushed tag or duplicate the build - timeout-minutes: 30 (was unbounded → 360-min default for a hung docker build) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): quality-gate drops the 74s full-history checkout fetch-depth:0 cost 74 of the job's 92 seconds; the three gates it feeds take ~12s combined. Shallow checkout + exact-SHA fetches for the diff's base/head (an exact-SHA fetch, not a guessed depth — long-lived branches and merge queues still resolve), with a --deepen fallback for push events whose 'before' is unusable. timeout right-sized 20→10 min. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): small-lane batch — timeouts, right-sizing, windows cache warm-start - timeout-minutes on the 6 remaining unbounded jobs (actionlint 5, skill-docs 10, version-gate 10, make-pdf-gate 15, pr-title-sync 5, evals build-image 15) — a hung step sat on GitHub's 360-min default - right-size measured-over-long timeouts: dependency-review 10→5, windows-setup-e2e 15→10 - dependency-review: 2-core runner (28s API call on an 8-core box) and drop .github/workflows/** from its trigger paths (workflow edits have no dependencies to review) - windows caches gain restore-keys: a lockfile bump paid the 26s/43s restore for a guaranteed cold miss Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): scope GSTACK_HOME to each file's execution window Five files assigned process.env.GSTACK_HOME at module scope. Shard processes evaluate sibling modules before running their tests, so the assignment leaked into every other file in the shard — the damage was already visible in defensive workarounds (relink.test.ts:28 'fresh install test saw a neighbor's skill_prefix'; cdp-e2e's own comment documents a sibling's temp dir baked into artifacts). Pattern: save original, assign in beforeAll, restore in afterAll (cdp-e2e already restored but still assigned at load — its window now matches the others). GSTACK_TELEMETRY_OFF and GSTACK_PROJECT_SLUG get the same treatment where they rode along. Victim files' defenses stay in place (cheap insurance). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: tripwire against module-scope GSTACK_HOME assignments Column-0 assignment of GSTACK_HOME / GSTACK_STATE_ROOT in any tracked *.test.ts fails with the file:line and the fix (beforeAll + afterAll restore). Kills the cross-file env-leak class the previous commit swept. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): e2e-harness-audit derives its skill census from disk The hand-maintained 39-name SKILL_GLOBS list had drifted to 39 of 54 SKILL.md.tmpl on disk. No live gap today (none of the 15 unlisted skills is interactive), but the next interactive skill would have landed unguarded with zero signal. The audit now walks top-level dirs for SKILL.md.tmpl (statSync so symlinked dirs like connect-chrome count), so new skills are in scope the commit they appear. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): judges honor the eval-model resolution chain + real 429 backoff callJudge inlined GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE || sonnet, silently ignoring the global GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL override every other eval call site honors via lib/eval-model.ts. New 'judge' kind in DEFAULTS (sonnet — the D1a pin-on-regressors calibration stands; model CHOICE unchanged) and callJudge resolves through it: explicit arg > GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL_JUDGE > GSTACK_EVAL_MODEL > default. 429 handling upgraded from one fixed 1s retry (reliably lost races at CI concurrency) to three jittered exponential retries (~1s/4s/16s), honoring the server's retry-after when present. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): the two expect(true) paid stubs become test.todo skill-e2e-spec-execute (600s budget) and skill-llm-eval-spec (300s) reported PASS on every periodic run while asserting nothing. Deleting them would remove the periodic-tier selector surface they exist to register (diff-based selection for spec/ changes), so they become test.todo — reported as todo/skip, never pass — with the v1.1 implementation specs kept in-file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): reactivate 5 quarantined browse tests (2 security) extension-sender-auth's two privileged-message denial tests (content script + missing sender.url — the extension's security boundary) and snapshot's three skips were quarantined 'pre-existing' failures. Root cause: machine-local state on the quarantining dev machines — the test and gate code are byte-identical between the quarantining commit (410b492) and HEAD, and all five pass deterministically on a clean checkout (68/68 across both files, multiple runs). No assertions weakened, no product changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): activate the 4 paid test files that could never run anywhere carve-section-loading, codex-e2e-plan-format, codex-e2e-recommendation-substance, and llm-judge-recommendation gated on EVALS/tier (free suite loads them as describe.skip) but their names fell outside PAID_TEST_GLOBS, so no paid lane ever selected them — net execution zero, forever. The existing matrix tripwire filtered on isPaidTestFile() first, so it was blind to exactly this class (the same bug that hid the pre-split monolith's gate tests for ~8 releases). - PAID_TEST_GLOBS: codex-e2e* + skill-llm-eval* wildcards (replacing exact names) + llm-judge-recommendation + carve-section-loading; package.json's six test-script glob lists mirrored - codex-e2e-plan-format gains the explicit periodic tier gate its siblings carry (external-service rule) — without it the sharded runner's no-guard default would spawn Codex in the gate tier per PR - eval:bg:periodic --timeout 32400→37800: the census growth pushed the periodic worst case to 35910s; the old value had 270s of headroom BEFORE this change and would now kill healthy runs mid-flight - new test/paid-orphan-tripwire.test.ts: any EVALS/tier-gated test file outside the globs fails the free suite (reasoned SCANNER_EXEMPT for the gate helpers + meta-tests) — the class-killer - paid-shards pins updated: the four orphans now assert INSIDE the census Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): restrictDirectoryPermissions warns and skips symlinked dirs Closes the Windows Free Tests red: recent lane failures showed a platform-unguarded POSIX mode-bit assertion ('Expected: 493' — a symlink-skip test) from PR-branch variants; the KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE force-include reason ('mode-bitmask hits are POSIX-branch only') did not hold for that shape, and main had neither the guard nor the behavior. - product: lstat first; a symlinked dir gets a warning and a skip on both platforms — chmod AND icacls dereference the link, so restricting through a symlink hardens an unvetted target (and /inheritance:r could lock out its real owner). All callers already treat hardening as best-effort (try/catch). - test: the symlink regression test, platform-aware — symlinkSync in the house try/catch skip pattern (Windows runners without Developer Mode can't create symlinks), mode-bit assertion guarded off win32, behavior assertions (no throw, warning text, target readable) everywhere; POSIX still proves the skip (0o755 unchanged, not 0o700) - KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE reason updated to the now-true premise 20/20 pass on Linux. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): unique tmp dirs for plan artifacts + audited live-repo cwd sites Six paid PTY tests wrote their expected plan artifact to a FIXED shared /tmp path ('/tmp/gstack-test-plan-<mode>.md') and rmSync'd it in finally — under --retry 1, EVALS_JOBS>1, or two concurrent worktrees, a sibling's cleanup deletes this run's artifact and the D19 'agent did not produce expected plan file' assertion fires spuriously. Each test now mkdtemps its own dir, interpolates the unique path into the agent prompt (fixture-sourced prompts get a replaceAll + drift guard that throws if the fixture's literal ever moves), and cleans up its own dir. The 18 cwd:-into-the-live-repo sites were audited: all deliberate (skill registry + hermetic pre-trusted dir, in-repo gen renders, git history reads, slug resolution) — each now carries a '// LIVE-REPO CWD: <reason>' comment so the next audit can tell deliberate from accidental. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): trim the seven over-wall 1700s timeouts to the 1500s physical ceiling 1,700,000ms (28.3 min) exceeded every wall these tests run inside: the 25-min CI job timeout and the 1800s sharded-runner wall (which also leaves --retry 1 zero room for a second attempt). Budget above the wall is fiction, not headroom — a test that actually used it produced a job-level kill (no bun summary, no artifact) instead of a clean per-test timeout. No recorded p95 exists for this family (they are being retiered to periodic in the re-platform wave); the trim stops at the physical ceiling rather than guessing lower. Final policy lands in the Wave-2 eval-budgets constants module. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(gen): main() guard — importing gen-skill-docs no longer regenerates the tree The generator's whole body executed at module load, so any import of it (test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts pulls assertSinglePreamble via require(); test/catalog-trim.test.ts imports helpers) regenerated all 71 SKILL.md in place — the root cause of half the TREE_MUTATING serial-shard entries (hazard class #2532). The body now lives in an exported main(): number behind if (import.meta.main). Semantics preserved exactly: failure exits are immediate (matching the old top-level process.exit), success leaves the event loop to drain so the llms.txt fire-and-forget IIFE finishes its write, and the module stays synchronous/require()-able. Proofs: byte-identical --host all output (git status clean), --dry-run stale-tree still exits 1 (the skill-docs freshness lane depends on it), and the new test/gen-skill-docs-import-purity.test.ts pins load-time purity via a subprocess probe (mtime-based, so a dirty worktree can't false-fail). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(gen): --out-dir renders every host, outputs-only --out-dir was Claude-host-only (gen-skill-docs.ts:842), which forced the codex/factory-regenerating tests (gen-skill-docs, skill-validation, host-config) to mutate the live tree — the reason they sit in the TREE_MUTATING serial shard. The flag now mirrors ALL outputs into the out-dir: external-host trees (.agents/.factory/... via processExternalHost), external section files, openclaw docs, and gstack/llms.txt (a catalog-mode render must never rewrite the tracked index). OUTPUTS ONLY — inputs (templates, sections/, host configs) are always read from ROOT, so an empty out-dir can never feed the render. rewriteSectionBase stays Claude-only (external hosts have their own path grammar). Proofs: in-place --host all is byte-identical (tree clean); --host all --out-dir <mkdtemp> renders the full multi-host tree with ROOT untouched; gen-skill-docs-out-dir tests + 415/415 gen-skill-docs.test.ts green (bin/dev-setup's claude rendering byte-compat). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evals): every E2E key's dep list names its own declaring test file 129-of-177 keys omitted their own test file, so editing only a test's prompt or assertions selected NOTHING — the changed test never ran on the change that changed it. 135 keys self-registered (110 E2E + 25 LLM-judge), resolved by strict declaration evidence (testName:/ testIfSelected/judge call sites), with skill-name false positives excluded. e2e-tier-alignment's warn-only branch for unregistered files is now a hard failure with a 4-entry KNOWN_UNREGISTERED ratchet (template- literal testNames, fail-open-safe) + a burn-down test so the set only shrinks. Selection sanity: a one-file diff on skill-e2e-qa-workflow now selects its 4 tests (was 0); skill-llm-eval 0 → 25. Known follow-ups (filed): 15 E2E + 2 judge PHANTOM keys select tests that exist nowhere; codex-e2e-plan-format's testIfSelected names have no map keys (run-all only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(evals): ratchet the 8 newly-visible gate-matrix gaps The self-registration sweep made these eight files' gate-tier keys visible to the census for the first time — their gate tests run in NO CI lane today (pre-existing hole, newly measurable). Ratcheted into KNOWN_MATRIX_GAPS with the burn-down note: the paid-lane re-platform runs every gate file by construction and retires this ratchet class. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): duration-aware LPT shard packing for the free suite Hash sharding balances file COUNTS (1.15x spread) but not cost — the Playwright-launching files landed 4/3/4/1/2/1 across 6 shards, giving a measured 28s–97s shard spread and ~40s of idle tail on every run. Full-suite mode now packs by recorded per-file durations (longest-processing-time-first) when the committed seed scripts/free-test-durations.json exists. - ONE store, no overlay: the seed is refreshed occasionally via the new --record-durations mode (each file timed in its own child — exact, and immune to bun's stream buffering, where silent passers print no header to timestamp); GSTACK_FREE_TEST_DURATIONS overrides the path for experiments; CI never records - seed is a hint: missing → silent hash-shard fallback; corrupt (bad merge) → one warning + fallback; unknown files → 75th-percentile pessimism so a surprise long-runner can't recreate the tail - packed shards get duration-aware walls (max(base, predicted x 3)) — LPT decouples count from cost BY DESIGN, so the 5s/file heuristic would undersize a shard holding few expensive files - one log line per shard (files + predicted seconds) so packing regressions are diagnosable from any run log - the --shard CI-matrix path is untouched: stable hash indices are its contract - successor note in-code: bun >=1.3.14 ships native --timings/--shard LPT — swap this packer when the repo unpins 1.3.13 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): decouple slop:diff from bun run test; quality-gate runs it per PR 'bun run test' silently appended up to two 120s npx slop-scan runs plus a git worktree add/remove after the suite (2>/dev/null || true) — invisible in the documented '~90-100s' timing and pure friction in the pre-commit loop. Decoupling is not coverage removal: quality-gate.yml now runs slop:diff on every PR (advisory, matching its in-repo 'never blocking' contract), and /review already invokes it explicitly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): eval-budgets timeout tiers + fit/ceiling policy test Five named tiers (JUDGE 120s / CAPTURE 300s / CAPTURE_LONG 600s / PTY 900s / PTY_LONG 1200s) replace hand-ratcheted sprawl (46x300s, 46x120s, 44x360s, 44x180s, 27x240s, 19x150s, 13x420s, 12x600s...), much of it inflated to paper over the old 40-way in-shard concurrency that the sharded runner's 1-file-per-shard model kills. Policy test pins: every tier fits the shard wall minus 120s overhead (the structural fix for budgets-above-the-wall fiction), tiers stay ordered, and no paid literal exceeds PTY_LONG x1.25 — oversized tests get split, not budgeted past the wall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): shared runBin helper for bin-script unit tests ~36 free test files each carry a near-identical local run() (spawnSync + utf-8 + {status, stdout, stderr}) differing only in env composition, cwd, and timeout. runBin absorbs the invariant core; options carry the variance (gstackHome sets BOTH GSTACK_HOME and GSTACK_STATE_DIR — the config-precedence trap several locals rediscovered independently; home for $HOME-anchored bins; input/trim/timeout/maxBuffer). Free-test-only by design so it never becomes a de facto global touchfile. Migration of the 36 call sites lands separately (mechanical batches). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): runBin trim assertion — trim shapes stream ends, not interior Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(test): mechanical sweep — 298 paid-test timeouts onto eval-budget tiers 69 files, both shapes (trailing bun-test budgets and runner timeout/timeoutMs options), ROUND-UP ONLY so nothing that passed can start failing: 75 → JUDGE_MS, 137 → CAPTURE_MS, 74 → CAPTURE_LONG_MS, 9 → PTY_MS, 3 → PTY_LONG_MS. Raw >=60s literal count in the paid scope: 395 → 97, of which 51 are non-timeout noise (fixture dates, run IDs) and 46 are enumerated justified holds (comment-carrying calibrated budgets, poll-loop constants, utility spawn waits, and the seven physical-ceiling 1_500_000 sites). The eval-budgets policy ratchet keeps the residue from regrowing. Known collapse: where an inner runner budget and its enclosing test budget now share a tier, the old stagger is gone — an overrun surfaces as a bun test timeout instead of a graceful runner timeout (diagnosability trade, not a correctness one). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: coverage fill — 95 tests for six zero-coverage surfaces - eval CLI family (eval-list/compare/summary + eval-select smoke): the primary interface to eval results had no tests; isolation via a fake gstack-slug under a mkdtemp HOME (the scripts' real resolution path — they do NOT honor GSTACK_EVAL_DIR; only EvalCollector does). Pinned current behavior: eval-list does NOT exclude _partial runs (documented improvement candidate) - slop-diff (runs on every /review + quality-gate): fixture git repo + first-on-PATH npx stub (never downloads real slop-scan); no-diff early exit, missing-scanner fallback, fingerprint line-insensitivity, merge-base worktree scan - bin/gstack-code-intelligence CLI arg surface (lib was covered, the 284-line CLI wasn't): select/consent/suggest/index/search gating; pinned: --help routes to usage failure exit 1 (no handler) - browse media-extract: the page.evaluate callback exercised in-process against a mock DOM (no exports added) — lazy-src fallback chain, HLS/DASH detection, bg-image url() parsing, 500-element cap - browse session-cookie-store: factory contract (cookieName/ttlMs/ maxSessions eviction, cross-store isolation, mint→validate round-trip); store is in-memory — no fs cases exist - lib/version-source direct unit tests (gstack-version-bump.test.ts spawns the bin, never imports the lib): parse/format/cmp/bump coercion, npm 4→3 translation, #2501 mangled-JSON regression class All hermetic (mkdtemp homes, runBin child isolation); windows curation correctly partitions the six. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(test): first runBin migration batch (3 of ~36 run() duplicates) explain-level-config, benchmark-cli, evidence move onto the shared helper; each file's remaining special-case spawnSync sites (raw-buffer probes, env-scrub probes) stay put deliberately. 55/55 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(evals): paid shards spool to disk + shared runShardChild lifecycle - runPaidShard no longer buffers whole 30-min stream-json streams in RAM (x concurrent jobs): every byte tees to a per-shard log file (slug-named, path printed at START for mid-run inspection and on the FAILED terminal line); failures print a 64KiB tail read back from disk; passing shards stay quiet (the file is the record) — the free runner's proven contract. Classification unchanged: the strict classifier still sees every byte first. - the ~35 duplicated spawn/group-kill/wall-timer/finally-reap lines move into runShardChild in test-strict-output.ts (detached-per- platform spawn, signal forwarding, SIGKILL group kill at the wall, drain-before-verdict); designed so the free runner can migrate later - expectedFiles drift fixed toward ENFORCEMENT: the injected-command exemption is gone — a fake command exiting 0 without bun's terminal summary now reads FAILED (pinned: silent-pass → failed) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(evals): parent-computed selection propagates to shard children The sharded runner computed diff selection once, then each of its 48-73 children recomputed it at module load — including, on touchfiles-diff branches, a per-child bun subprocess evaluating the old data file (20s timeout each). The parent now serializes {version, selected, reason} as EVALS_SELECTION_JSON into the shard env; e2e-helpers adopts it at load. Fail-open preserved: any parse/shape violation → ONE stderr warning + local recompute; absent env → silent local compute (non-sharded entrypoints unchanged). Drift test pins parent→child round-trip to identical selection decisions plus the malformed/absent cases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): kill the four worst fixed sleeps (300s/30s/30s/20s) - watchdog.test: the 20s blind wait for one production parent-watchdog tick becomes BROWSE_PARENT_WATCHDOG_INTERVAL_MS=250 (new env knob in server.ts, NaN-safe, production default unchanged) + polls for the boot line and the tick's stay-alive log — strictly stronger (the old form never proved a tick observed the parent death). 24s → 3.6s. - stop-dead-daemon / terminal-agent-owner-watchdog: the 300s/30s stand-in child lifetimes become stdin-EOF-bound — the child can never self-exit mid-test on a slow runner (spurious-failure class) and self-reaps instantly if the test dies (no 300s orphans). Node-compat stdin APIs (owner-watchdog runs on the Windows lane). - browser-skill-commands: the sleeper fixture's 30s self-time becomes 8s (no stdin pipe exists in runToFiles) — far above the 1s product timeout it must outlive, below the test ceiling, so a timeout-kill regression fails on clean assertions instead of an opaque bun timeout; added: stdout must NOT contain 'done'. 45/45 green across the four files + server tripwires. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gen-skill-docs + catalog-trim leave the serial mutator shard gen-skill-docs.test.ts's 15 in-place generator spawns now render into mkdtemp out-dirs (gitignored-artifact reads repointed; the handshake scan's silent console.warn degrade became a hard assertion); its tracked-tree reads (freshness dry-run, SKILL.md content pins) stay reads. catalog-trim needed no change beyond the earlier main() guard — its import is now side-effect-free (pinned by the import-purity test). Both TREE_MUTATING entries deleted in this commit, per the transition rule: an entry leaves in the same commit as the file's last in-place write. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): skill-validation renders codex host into an out-dir Its 3 in-place --host codex regeneration sites collapse into one module-level --out-dir render; assertions untouched. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): host-config self-provisions goldens (ordering dependency severed) Its goldens were 'produced by gen-skill-docs.test.ts' with a when-missing beforeAll fallback that wrote the live tree — an inter-test ordering dependency the serial shard hid. It now renders codex+factory UNCONDITIONALLY into its own out-dir and reads goldens only from there (the Claude golden deliberately keeps reading tracked ship/SKILL.md — a read; out-dir claude renders repoint section-base paths by design). TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): gbrain-detection-override drops mutate-then-git-restore regenAndSnapshot renders --host claude --out-dir <mkdtemp> (+ --respect-detection) and snapshots probes from the out-dir. The git-restore machinery is deleted outright — it restored only PROBE_FILES of the 71 files each call wrote, so a stale tree kept the other 68 dirty (the partial-restore bug), and its 'no output-path arg' comment had been false since --out-dir landed. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): catalog-mode-full renders to out-dir; restore machinery deleted The full-catalog smoke no longer rewrites all 71 SKILL.md then regenerates to restore (with its 'CRITICAL: failed to restore' prayer path) — it renders into a mkdtemp and additionally asserts tracked ship/SKILL.md is byte-unchanged. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): idempotency proof strengthens to two-out-dir recursive diff Two renders into two separate out-dirs, EVERY file diffed byte-for-byte (claude-only and --host all; normalization only for each dir's own sanctioned section-base repoint; presence-sanity lists guard against a vacuous empty-dir pass) — strictly stronger than the old in-place double-regen that sampled 5 files. TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): spec-template-sync compares an out-dir render, not an in-place one TREE_MUTATING entry deleted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): the serial tree-mutating shard dissolves — TREE_MUTATING is empty Zero mutators remain (all eight render into out-dirs now), so the four ratchet READERS (parity caps, size budgets, carve parity/ordering) get a quiet tree by construction in any shard and rejoin the parallel phase. The ~35-40s serial tail on every full-suite run is gone. The mechanism stays: a future test that genuinely must write shared artifacts in place earns an entry with a reason and is serialized again; the census pin still fails on renamed keys. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(gen): out-dir byte-identity + tree-clean pins for external hosts codex render: porcelain unchanged AND out-dir gstack-ship/SKILL.md byte-identical to a fresh in-place render (+openai.yaml presence); --host all render: exit 0, porcelain unchanged, claude + .agents + .factory + llms.txt + openclaw docs all present in the out-dir. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(test): commit the initial free-test durations seed (496 files) Recorded via --record-durations on a quiescent tree: 479s serial total, p50 92ms / p90 1.8s / max 31.4s — the top-heavy cost shape LPT packing exists for. A hint, not a contract: refresh opportunistically with bun run test:free --record-durations. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(evals): planner/executor/report modes — the CI re-platform surface One PLANNER computes diff selection + the slice plan ONCE and writes a manifest (--emit-plan <path> --slices K); K executors consume it (--plan <path> --slice i), never self-selecting, and write slice-result artifacts; a REPORT reconciles results against the manifest (--report <dir>) fail-closed: a slice whose artifact never landed is a FAILURE, a planned shard nobody reported fails, wrong-slice/duplicate/cross-tier results fail. Kills per-slice selector divergence and hollow-lane aggregation at the root. - hollow-shard guard: under EVALS_ALL, exit 0 with ZERO executed tests (bun's 'Ran N tests' now captured by the classifier — additive) is 'passed-empty' and fails the run; selective runs keep it 'passed' with one warning (in-file diff/tier self-skips are legitimate there); unknown counts are never guessed hollow - retry parity: --retry 1 default + RETRY_OVERRIDES literals for the three files whose old matrix rows earned retries: 2 (stale entries pinned against disk) - live smoke: gate plan = 48 shards across 6 slices; report mode exits 1 on a fabricated missing slice, 0 when complete Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ci): sliced paid lane (planner -> 6 executors -> fail-closed report) The parity-phase re-platform: evals.yml gains a second, sliced lane driven by scripts/test-paid-shards.ts — the SAME engine local eval:bg:gate uses, so CI and local share one selection engine. - plan-slices: ONE planner (fetch-depth 0 — the only job needing history) emits the manifest; selection fails open to run-all, never per-slice (the divergence class is structurally dead) - eval-slices: 6-way matrix consuming the manifest; PTY seed + skill-registration steps run unconditionally (idempotent — a sliced lane cannot key them on suite names); aggregate spawn budget 6 x EVALS_JOBS=2 x EVALS_CONCURRENCY=2 = 24 lane-wide (the matrix's 40-way per row queued session startup behind 39 siblings — the timeout-flake family root); slice results + spooled shard logs uploaded as artifacts - slices-report: reconciles slice artifacts against the manifest FAIL-CLOSED via --report — a slice whose artifact never landed, or a planned shard nobody reported, is a failure, not an absence - sequenced needs: evals so provider concurrency never doubles while both lanes coexist; the matrix + its ratchets are deleted after demonstrated parity (intersection + expected-additions comparison) - workflow_dispatch gains evals_all (default true) for parity runs and post-merge smokes — a dispatch can never silently select zero Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(ci): weekly periodic lane runs EVERY periodic test + gate census backstop evals-periodic.yml re-platforms onto the sharded runner: planner manifest → 6 executor slices → FAIL-CLOSED report. This IS the coverage contract: all ~70 periodic-tier files weekly (EVALS_ALL=1), killing the silent-rot class where a hard-coded 9-file matrix left ~57 files running NOWHERE (the autoplan E2E rotted invisibly for months). - test/helpers/periodic-exclude-data.ts: reasoned exclusions in their OWN literals file (deliberately not touchfiles-data — map-diff evaluates old versions of that file standalone). Every entry carries reason + tracking with a re-entry condition; the runner surfaces each exclusion per run; policy test pins real-file + non-empty fields. Initial: ship-idempotency + brain-privacy-gate (documented-red, never green) and skill-e2e-ios (manual hardware). The TODOS 'sidebar E2E trio' turned out already deleted — only tombstone tests remain. - gate-census job: weekly EVALS_ALL gate-tier run — PR lanes are diff-billed, so without this the full gate census might never execute anywhere; with the hollow-shard guard it is a census-health check (exit 0 + zero executed tests fails), not just a test run. - failure notification is a concrete gh issue UPSERT (one tracking issue, commented per red week — never issue-per-week spam), with issues:write scoped to the report job. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: TESTING_INTERNALS covers the 2026-08 runner overhaul LPT-packed free suite + --record-durations, the emptied TREE_MUTATING mechanism, the sharded paid runner as the single selection engine, CI planner/executor/report with the fail-closed report and hollow-shard guard, the weekly coverage contract + exclusions policy, and the eval-budgets timeout tiers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(CLAUDE.md): testing prose matches the overhauled runners - bun run test: duration-packed shards + --record-durations; the trailing serial tree-mutating shard no longer exists - two-tier system: the sliced CI lanes (one engine local+CI), the weekly all-periodic coverage contract + exclusions, the gate census - periodic detach timeout 32400 → 37800 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): close the absorbed test-infra items, file the overhaul follow-ups Closed with receipts: the periodic coverage contract (implemented as full weekly coverage + exclusions), the eval-harness observability P1 (verified already landed: heartbeat, incremental _partial persistence, live stderr + eval-watch), and the sidebar trio (already deleted — tombstones remain). Filed: matrix deletion after parity, the required-check maintainer decision, browse /tmp-namespace hardening, PTY boot-readiness waits, the single typed test registry, bun-native LPT swap, runBin/free-runner migrations, eval-list partial exclusion, phantom key cleanup, duration-weighted slicing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.73.0.0: test/CI overhaul — green means green, suites restructured for speed Version + release notes for the audit-and-overhaul branch: every silently-skipping or never-running test class fixed and tripwired, the free suite duration-packed with the serial mutator shard dissolved, the paid lane re-platformed onto the sharded runner (planner/slices/ fail-closed report, parity phase), the weekly all-periodic coverage contract, eval-budget timeout tiers, and 95 new coverage tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): first-live-run fixes — executor history + two environment-blind assertions The sliced lane's first run (PR #2721) did its job: the planner and report worked, the manifest governed, and every failure had a name. Three were fixable on the spot: - executor + gate-census checkouts get fetch-depth: 0 — files with SELF-derived selection (the LLM-judge map, routing) walk git at module load, and selection is deliberately fail-closed on git errors, so the shallow checkout crashed those shards ('ambiguous argument main...HEAD'). The manifest still governs WHICH shards run. - landscape --toc gate: the exact toBe(3) landscape-page count was font-metric-dependent (3 on Amazon Linux, 2 on ubuntu CI — the same disease the file's own page-index comment warns about). Now a comparative invariant: --toc must not CHANGE the landscape count vs a baseline render. - paid-run-manifest parse test builds its manifest under EVALS_ALL so it never walks git (proven with GIT_DIR=/nonexistent). Remaining first-run failures are newly-exposed rot in gate files that had never executed in CI (skillify D1 refusal, session-intelligence context-restore, one tpa-apple-ban retry flake) — being probed separately; they are the lane WORKING, not the lane failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): file the three first-execution findings from the sliced lane's live run Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v1.74.0.0: queue-advance — #2722 claims the v1.73.0.0 slot The version gate caught a live queue collision (its whole job); same MINOR bump level, next free slot per bin/gstack-next-version. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): per-shard CHROMIUM_PROFILE — the collision class duration packing exposed Nine test files launch in-process persistent contexts or daemons that default to the SHARED ~/.gstack/chromium-profile. Two concurrent shard processes on one profile dir kill each other's browser — observed live on CI once duration packing recomposed shards: handoff's launchPersistentContext died 'Target page, context or browser has been closed' (--user-data-dir=~/.gstack/chromium-profile in the call log) while a sibling shard's daemon logged 'Chromium process crashed'. Hash sharding had masked the collision by chance placement; handoff passes standalone everywhere. Fix at the runner, not per file: each shard child gets CHROMIUM_PROFILE=<shard-state>/chromium-profile (the documented env knob, same isolation idea as the existing per-shard TMPDIR). Files within a shard run serially, so sharing the per-shard profile is safe; config.test's resolution-order tests save/restore the env around their assertions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): landscape --toc gate asserts promotion PRESENCE, not counts Two rounds of CI receipts: the exact toBe(3) was font-metric-coupled (3 on Amazon Linux, 2 on ubuntu), and the baseline-comparison repair then failed 2-vs-3 across renders SECONDS apart in one CI job while the sibling no-toc test saw 3 — per-render image-promotion timing makes any count assertion here a coin flip. The sibling test owns exact promotion counts; this test's actual invariant is that --toc does not break the promotion machinery: >=1 landscape page + the TOC rendered. Also drops the second render (halves the test's runtime). Flaky per-render image promotion itself is worth its own look — noted in TODOS with these receipts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): file the per-render image-promotion nondeterminism (receipts from PR #2721) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): per-FILE Chromium profiles for the nine in-process launcher files Completes the profile-isolation work: the per-shard CHROMIUM_PROFILE stopped cross-shard kills; these nine files launch in-process persistent contexts and could still collide with a lingering daemon a sibling file spawned on the SAME shard profile. Each now scopes a mkdtemp profile via beforeAll/afterAll (the module-scope-tripwire-safe pattern), cleaned up per file. All nine green solo and in combined runs, except the pre-existing commands+snapshot pairing — proven identical WITH and WITHOUT these edits (baseline receipts) — which is the daemon-lifecycle follow-up now extended in TODOS with this session's receipts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(browse): Chromium-crash exit is daemon-only — embedded launches never kill their host handleChromiumDisconnect unconditionally process.exit()ed. Correct for the standalone daemon (its supervisor/user must notice); suicidal when a TEST launches BrowserManager in-process: a mid-suite Chromium death exited the whole bun shard with no terminal summary — the exact truncation class the strict runner flags (observed live: CI shard 1 on eb23329 died at cache-concurrent-refresh right after a daemon-spawning gate test; with this fix the same pairing runs to completion and REPORTS instead of dying). The standalone entrypoint opts in via markDaemonProcess() under server.ts's import.meta.main gate — the same embedder contract its signal handlers already use (gbrowser phoenix keeps its own handlers). Embedded contexts now get the disconnect log line and continue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): context-restore assertion is evidence-based, not prose-matching The test failed twice per run in TWO CI cycles while passing locally 4/4: the prompt said 'present the content' and the check grepped the FINAL message for exact phrases — local runs quoted the file, CI runs paraphrased ('the most recent context is from branch-b...') and the substring check lost the coin flip. - prompt now demands machine-checkable output: the newest file's '## Working on:' heading VERBATIM + a literal 'RESTORED: <filename>' marker (the mtime-scramble and cross-branch subject matter untouched) - assertion ordered strongest-first: RESTORED marker → legacy content phrases → tool-call corroboration (Read/Bash input naming the newer file, credited ONLY when the older file was never read — a both-files run must still present the right one) - the older-file negative got STRONGER: an explicit RESTORED marker naming the older file fails even if wintermute words appear elsewhere - sibling scan: context-recovery-artifacts got the additive prompt-side treatment only (quote the matched literals verbatim); its lenient 1-of-6 assertion deliberately unchanged 3/3 consecutive local green with all evidence classes firing (marker=true, content=true, toolNewer=true, toolOlder=false). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): skillify family — HOME==cwd broke project-skill registration Root cause (forensically pinned from stream-json init events + a kill-after-init probe): with HOME set EQUAL to the child's cwd, claude resolves <cwd>/.claude/skills as the PERSONAL skills directory and the seeded project-tier skills never register — the Skill tool returned 'Unknown skill'. The provenance-refusal test then improvised a refusal whose wording missed the regex (the deterministic CI+local red); the happy-path and approval-reject siblings passed only because their agents self-recovered by Reading SKILL.md manually — silently not exercising the Skill-tool path at all. All three tests now use HOME=<workDir>/home (a fresh subdir keeps the override's intent: child ~/.gstack writes land in the assertable sandbox, without the cwd collision). Refusal test additionally: a 'not registered/unknown skill' tripwire (a not-loaded skill can never pass as a refusal) and the refusal regex now matches assistant text only — the skill BODY echoed into the transcript contains the exact refusal message, so the old full-surface match could pass vacuously once the skill loaded. Sibling disk assertions sweep both $HOME/.gstack and cwd .gstack roots (positives and negatives). Verified paid: refusal 2x consecutive green with the skill's EXACT message rendered ('Launching skill: skillify' in-transcript), then the full file 5/5 green (~$1.35) with both siblings driving real Skill calls (25-27 turns each). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(TODOS): two of three first-execution findings fixed (skillify family, context-restore) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): context-restore gets a private home — the REAL root cause was fixture sharing The evidence-based assertion fix was treating a symptom. The slice artifact's embedded transcript showed the CI agent restoring 20260829-context-save-skill-test.md — the checkpoint the SIBLING context-save test wrote into the SHARED gstackHome checkpoints dir, which by filename-prefix ordering genuinely IS the newest. The agent behaved CORRECTLY; the test's fixture set was open to concurrent sibling writes, and bun --concurrent ordering differs between CI (save finished first) and local (restore listed first) — the entire local-green/CI-red split explained. The restore test now uses its own .gstack-restore-home (the whole home moves, not just the handed path — an agent deriving the dir from GSTACK_HOME/projects/<slug> must land in the closed set too). Full file 4/4 paid green with all evidence flags firing. Also: the on-failure shard-log artifact glob uploaded nothing — the Fix-bun-temp step points TMPDIR at /home/runner/.cache, so the spool lands there, not /tmp. Both eval workflows now glob both locations (this gap is why diagnosing THIS failure required digging transcripts out of the slice-results artifact). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(evidence): carry the real index mtime onto gstack-wtree's temp copy The stat-cache seed (cp of the real index) stamped the temp index "now", which defeats git's racy-git protection: an entry is only re-hashed when its cached mtime is not older than the index file itself, so a same-size rewrite landing in the same second as the last real index write looked non-racy, kept its stale stat-cache entry, and vanished from the fingerprint — evidence stayed FRESH after a source change. This is the CI flake in test/evidence.test.ts "allow-paths carve-out" (sub-second alignment on fast runners: expected STALE exit 1, got FRESH exit 0). touch -r restores the original index timestamp, reinstating the exact racy window git itself uses. Deterministic regression pin in test/review-log.test.ts reproduces the miss with pinned zero-nsec timestamps (fails on the old script, passes now); receipts: manual probe shows the fresh-stamped copy returning the clean tree for a same-size 'hello'→'howdy' rewrite while the mtime-carried copy detects it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): landscape gate bounds the promotion count instead of pinning 3 The alt-hinted image promotion rides the per-render measurement race already filed in TODOS (2-vs-3 landscape pages on renders seconds apart — CI receipts from PR #2721, now reproduced locally). Pin the two deterministic promotions as the floor and the three promotable blocks as the ceiling (anything above 3 means the veto leaked); the veto/portrait assertions remain exact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
…review # Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md # TODOS.md # VERSION # docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md # package.json # scripts/test-free-shards.ts # test/helpers/llm-judge.ts # test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts
…main The v1.73.0.0 slot this branch claimed was superseded when #2721 merged; same MINOR level relative to main per the versioning invariant. CHANGELOG entry renumbered (1.73.0.0 was branch-internal and never landed on main), digest restamped via --regen-digest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…dictions don't transfer across machines The committed duration seed is recorded on fast CI; a syscall-supervised sandbox replays the same files 2-4x slower. Observed post-merge: a 253-file shard predicted ~242s was wall-killed at its predicted-x3 725s wall while genuinely progressing (the old count heuristic guaranteed 1265s). Packed walls may be looser than the count floor, never tighter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
The ponytail import wave: everything worth stealing from the ponytail code-minimalism ruleset, imported without its build-less posture (Completeness governs coverage; the ladder governs structure). Plan: 8 workstreams, approved via CEO → outside-voice ×3 → Eng → DX reviews (40 findings absorbed pre-implementation).
Review army: simplification lens (WS1)
delete:/stdlib:/native:/speculative:/shrink:), advisory end to end: excluded from quality score and findings header, ASK-only in Fix-First,[ADVISORY]labels, parent-printednet: -N lines possiblefooter,Simplification: lean already — nothing to cut.zero-findings line. Precision-guarded by a false-flag fixture eval. Dogfooded on this branch's own diff:net: -37 lines possible.gstack-shortcut(dec-*)markers suppress Completeness findings only when the decision id resolves in the ledger — an orphan marker is reported as a forged suppression (cross-model adversarial catch).Behavioral preamble (WS3, WS7, WS6)
Arm benchmark (WS2) — periodic research instrument, not a gate
claude -psessions; staged diff judged 0–3 for over-engineering; per-cell functional oracle (checks=pass|fail|none) so refusals, broken code, and working code stay distinguishable; full failure taxonomy (judge_error surfaced, zero-diff cells valid); per-call random sentinels around untrusted diffs; harvest against a recorded seed SHA immune to commit-and-push disobedience; free selftest runs on every PR (test/arm-benchmark-selftest.test.ts).Shortcut-debt ledger (WS4)
gstack-shortcut(dec-<id>); /retro Step 11.5 harvests, joins on decision ids, tagsunlinked/no-triggerrot; markers survive the redaction engine (pinned).Instruction-only host tier (WS5)
agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md; setup explainer arms print its script-anchored path; setup can never write a user's AGENTS.md (tripwire covers cp/ln/mv/tee/install/rsync/dd/truncate, >> and laundered variable-destination writes); digest ladder text is lockstep-pinned to the preamble resolver; README host table fixed to match setup./autoplan Eng-terminal reorder (WS8)
test/autoplan-phase-order.test.ts.Release-path integrity (found by this ship's own review army)
gstack-version-bump write --regen-digest(explicit opt-in, never presence-sniffed code exec) regenerates the version-stamped digest in the same mutation — without this, every future release commit of this repo failed the freshness CI check. Ship + land-and-deploy evidence gates allow-list the digest. Proven live by this branch's own v1.75.0.0 bump.Test-runner + sandbox (infrastructure)
GSTACK_FREE_JOBS(digits-only, loud on garbage) and opt-inGSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1serial retry for syscall-supervised sandboxes; retry vetoes on ANY unattributable failure evidence (headerless failures, unhandled errors, truncated runs); empty shards carryfailingFiles: [].scripts/sandbox-doctor.sh: one idempotent command makes a Vercel/Conductor cloud sandbox run the suite green (atomic git-shim patch + backup, loud on pattern drift, :99-socket Xvfb detection, dnf-gated installs, survives missing /dev/shm).gstack-next-versiondistrusts laundered git twice over: origin-unconfigured guard AND a configured origin advertising zero heads falls back to local refs with a warning (both shim shapes pinned by PATH-shim regression tests).TEMP_DIRSportability with the remote-serving TEMP_ONLY asymmetry test-enforced; an untrustable TMPDIR (/,$HOME, cwd ancestor) is ignored.Caught up to main (v1.74.0.0, the perth-v2 test/CI overhaul) and rebumped to v1.75.0.0 per the queue invariant. Merge integration fixes:
callJudgecombines main's eval-model routing with this branch's judge opts; the agents-digest hook honors main's--out-diroutputs-only rule; and duration-packed shard walls keep the historical per-file floor (the committed duration seed is recorded on fast CI — a syscall-supervised sandbox replays the same shard 2-4x slower and was wall-killed at predicted×3 while genuinely progressing).Test Coverage
Tests: 568 → 573 files (+5 new: 4 coverage files + the freed arm-benchmark selftest). Coverage gate: PASS (85%, min 60 / target 80).
Pre-Landing Review
Full review army (checklist + 7 specialists + red team), 3 cycles to convergence, then a cross-model adversarial pass. 45+ findings, 5 critical — all fixed on-branch:
--regen-digestopt-in ingstack-version-bump write; evidence gates allow-list the digest.writeis side-effect-free; trust envelope documented.FreeShardOutcome.failingFilesmissing on the empty-shard path (api-contract, tsc receipt) → fixed + pinned.unattributedFailuresveto + mixed-shard/truncation pins.Plus ~30 informational fixes (setup path anchoring, retro grep placeholder filtering, touchfiles dep gaps, autoplan B2 handler, sandbox-doctor hardening set, TMPDIR trust guard, digest↔resolver lockstep pin, laundering-warning wording). Skipped with rationale: 3 simplification advisories (ASK-only by the lens's own contract; user not present mid-run — preserved in the review log), eval-store harvest union (TODOS), evidence allow-path scoping (TODOS). PR Quality Score at convergence: 10/10 (advisories excluded per the carve-out this PR ships).
Design Review
No frontend files changed — design specialist returned NO FINDINGS; design review skipped.
Eval Results
Gate tier (86 tests, 47 shards, sharded paid runner): 46/47 shards passed (~$4).
skillify-provenance-refusal, is pre-existing with receipts: reproduced on origin/main @ b5a951e in the same environment (FAIL → FAIL, identical 2-turnUnknown skill: skillifytranscripts). Root cause: claude CLI 2.1.237 sessions with an envHOMEoverride never discover project-scope.claude/skills. Filed as a P1 TODO (gate hygiene).Adversarial (always-on): Claude subagent ✓ (11 findings), Codex adversarial ✓ (7 findings, 220K tokens — required installing bubblewrap and running with codex-side sandbox bypassed in this disposable VM; clean
git statusverified after). Codex structured review: unavailable in this sandbox (its file-reading helper hard-requires codex's bundled bwrap;codex reviewhas no sandbox flag) — missing coverage for that one pass, not a clean bill. High-confidence cross-model agreements (forgeable shortcut markers, digest trust envelope, retry masking) all addressed above.Scope Drift
Scope Check: CLEAN
Intent: import ponytail's structure-discipline mechanisms per the approved 8-workstream plan; make the cloud sandbox run the suite green; ship.
Delivered: the 8 workstreams + sandbox-green infrastructure + ship-time review fixes scoped to files this branch introduced or touched.
Plan Completion
COMPLETION: 43/50 verified (37 DONE + 6 CHANGED with goals met), 1 DEFERRED with ledger receipt, 4 post-ship checks, 0 NOT DONE.
eval:compare; WS1 specialist-stats after ~10 real reviews; manual/retrowith seeded markers; manual/autoplanrun on a live host.Verification Results
Skipped — no dev server (CLI/prompt toolkit; no plan verification section requiring a browser).
TODOS
No TODO items completed in this PR. Filed 5 follow-ups: skillify HOME-override gate red (P1, pre-existing), auq-verbose-vs-carved-ab branch-local ref (P2, same fragility class this PR fixed in its sibling), WS6-2 dead-frontmatter live-host verification (P2), eval-store harvest discriminated union (P3), evidence-gate digest allow-path scoping (P3).
Documentation
Post-ship doc audit for v1.75.0.0 (2 commits:
4217d120,74549cee).Doc diff preview:
gstack-shortcut(dec-<id>)acknowledged-debt suppression and orphan-marker flagging.agents-digest/,scripts/gen-agents-digest.ts,scripts/sandbox-doctor.sh,scripts/test-free-shards.ts.GSTACK_FREE_JOBS,GSTACK_FREE_RETRY_FLAKY=1, and the sandbox-doctor one-command fixer; host count fixed 8 → 10.source ~/.bashrcafter the doctor seeds env;GSTACK_FREE_JOBSwording fixed from "caps" to "overrides in either direction".Cross-model doc review: Codex probed ready but failed at runtime in this sandbox (missing
bwrap); the Claude-subagent fallback reviewed docs vs the shipped diff — 6 verified findings applied, 3 rejected after verification.Documentation Debt
/reviewsimplification lens — reference coverage only; the docs/skills.md/reviewdeep-dive has no explanation subsection. Fill via/document-generate.Decisions taken autonomously (Conductor cloud session, no operator mid-run)
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