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+/**
+ * Live codex CLI flag-semantics smoke for `codex exec resume`.
+ *
+ * Closes the gap left by #1270's regex-only assertion against codex/SKILL.md.
+ * That regex catches the SKILL.md regressing back to `-C/-s` flags, but it
+ * does not catch the codex CLI itself flipping flag semantics again. This
+ * test probes the live `codex exec resume --help` output and asserts the
+ * surface the gstack /codex skill depends on.
+ *
+ * Skips silently when codex is not on PATH, so dev machines without codex
+ * installed never see this fail. CI lanes that run with codex installed
+ * (the periodic-tier eval runners) will exercise it.
+ */
+
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
+import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+
+const codexPath = spawnSync('which', ['codex'], { encoding: 'utf-8' }).stdout.trim();
+const codexAvailable = codexPath.length > 0;
+
+describe.skipIf(!codexAvailable)(
+  'codex exec resume — flag semantics (live CLI smoke; closes #1270 regex-only gap)',
+  () => {
+    test('codex exec resume --help mentions sandbox_mode as a -c config key', () => {
+      const result = spawnSync('codex', ['exec', 'resume', '--help'], {
+        encoding: 'utf-8',
+        stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+        timeout: 10_000,
+      });
+      const helpText = (result.stdout || '') + '\n' + (result.stderr || '');
+      // The /codex skill builds resume invocations with `-c 'sandbox_mode="read-only"'`.
+      // If codex stops accepting `-c sandbox_mode=...` for the resume subcommand,
+      // every resume invocation through gstack starts failing.
+      expect(helpText).toMatch(/-c\b|--config\b|sandbox_mode/i);
+    });
+
+    test('codex exec resume --help does NOT advertise -C as a top-level flag', () => {
+      const result = spawnSync('codex', ['exec', 'resume', '--help'], {
+        encoding: 'utf-8',
+        stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+        timeout: 10_000,
+      });
+      const helpText = (result.stdout || '') + '\n' + (result.stderr || '');
+      // The whole point of #1270 was that `codex exec resume` rejects `-C <dir>`.
+      // If the help text starts listing `-C` again, the SKILL.md guidance to
+      // drop `-C` is wrong and the surrounding `cd "$_REPO_ROOT"` workaround is
+      // unnecessary. Either way, /codex needs an update.
+      // Allow `-C` to appear in flag descriptions or option-name strings as long
+      // as it isn't presented as a flag of the `resume` subcommand. The cheapest
+      // signal: the `Options:` block (or first-column flag list) should not
+      // contain a literal `-C ` flag entry on its own line.
+      const optionLines = helpText
+        .split('\n')
+        .map((l) => l.trimStart())
+        .filter((l) => /^-[A-Za-z],?\s/.test(l) || /^--[A-Za-z]/.test(l));
+      const hasTopLevelDashC = optionLines.some((l) => /^-C[\s,]/.test(l));
+      expect(hasTopLevelDashC).toBe(false);
+    });
+  },
+);