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Garry Tan 008dd65b1f
v1.64.0.0 fix wave: full tracker audit — 90 fixes, 52 issues closed, ~50 community PRs absorbed (#2571)
* fix(hooks): nest freeze/careful permissionDecision under hookSpecificOutput

Claude Code ignores a top-level permissionDecision, so the /freeze deny and
/careful ask guards silently allowed everything. Nest both under
hookSpecificOutput with permissionDecisionReason, update the shape-blind
tests to pin the nested form, and document the constraint in both skill
templates (regen included).

Closes half of #1459 (freeze enforcement chain).

Contributed by @jawadakram20 (PR #2331; team-init hunk deferred to the
dedicated team-init fix).

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

* fix(team-init): required-mode hook blocks with nested schema + exit 2

The generated check-gstack.sh emitted a flat permissionDecision payload and
exited 0, which Claude Code ignores — required mode enforced nothing. The
generated hook now nests the deny under hookSpecificOutput and exits 2 so
the block holds even if the JSON schema drifts again. Adds a temp-repo
regression test that runs the generated hook under both installed and
missing-gstack homes.

Fixes #2413, #2296.

Contributed by @Masashi-Ono0611 (PR #2423).

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

* fix(careful): close three check-careful bypasses via real JSON extraction

The grep-based command extractor stopped at the first escaped quote, so any
quoted argument truncated the command before the pattern checks ran —
`git commit -m "wip" && rm -rf /` was silently allowed. Replace it with a
python3/node JSON parse that fails CLOSED on unreadable payloads, add an
IFS/base64-to-shell obfuscation tripwire, and stop multi-line commands from
riding the single-line safe-exception whitelist (line-based grep would have
approved `rm -rf /` when a later line matched node_modules — a hazard the
real newline decoding exposed).

Contributed by @wtamminga (PR #2426; the -R hunk was dropped — it landed in
v1.61.0.0 — and output shapes updated to the nested hookSpecificOutput form).

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

* fix(review,autoplan): require explicit run_in_background: false on specialist agents

Claude Code v2.1.198 made subagents run in the background by default, which
inverted the old "do not use the flag" guidance: review-army specialists and
autoplan dual voices silently launched in the background and the merge step
could proceed before they completed — regressing the #497 fix. The generated
guidance now instructs an explicit run_in_background: false, and a static
tripwire fails the free suite if the inert inverted phrasing ever returns to
any generated SKILL.md.

Fixes #2440.

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

* fix(investigate): anchor the scope-lock freeze hook on $HOME, not CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR

The investigate skill's PreToolUse hooks and Scope Lock probe resolved
check-freeze.sh via ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}, which does not exist when
frontmatter hooks run — the || exit 0 tail then failed open, so the debug
scope boundary silently never engaged (#1871 follow-up). Anchor all four
sites on $HOME/.claude/skills/gstack/ like careful/freeze, and add a static
test asserting no frontmatter command: line in the guard-family skills ever
references CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR again.

Fixes #2469; closes the last live half of #1459 together with the
freeze/careful hookSpecificOutput fix. The broader portable-install-root
rewrite stays #1882 (its own focused PR per the TODOS.md decision).

Reported with a fix by @maxpetrusenkoagent (PR #1873; absorbed narrowly —
the cwd-walk rewrite belongs to #1882).

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

* fix(redact): scan large diffs in line-aligned slices; stop digit-UUIDs matching as cards/phones

The prepush guard blocked any push whose added lines exceeded the engine's
1 MiB cap with engine.input_too_large — a size error naming no credential —
which trains people onto GSTACK_REDACT_PREPUSH=skip. Scan in 768 KiB
line-aligned slices instead (no pattern is multi-line, so a boundary cannot
bisect a secret); a single oversized line still goes to the engine intact and
fails closed. Also suppress card/phone matches whose span sits ENTIRELY
inside a UUID — digit-only UUID fixtures were 14 of 21 MEDIUM findings on an
ordinary branch, the noise level that stops people reading MEDIUM at all.

Fixes #2304.

Contributed by @luckywenapere (PR #2543).

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

* feat(redact): block Google OAuth client secrets and Telegram bot tokens at HIGH

GOCSPX-prefixed client secrets and <bot_id>:<35-char> Telegram tokens are
never-publishable credential shapes with unambiguous formats — both now
block at HIGH like the other live-format credentials.

Contributed by @francis-eye (PR #2357).

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

* fix(redact-prepush): resolve the real push base instead of EMPTY_TREE whole-repo scans

When the remote default branch is not main/master (or origin/HEAD is unset),
the merge-base guess failed and the hook fell back to scanning the ENTIRE
repository as added lines — re-attributing long-pushed secrets to the
current push and, on any real repo, tripping the engine byte cap so the push
blocked having scanned nothing. Derive the base from commits reachable from
no remote-tracking branch, keep the empty-tree path only for genuinely fresh
repos, and split the block message so an unscannable diff is reported as
"could not scan (fail closed)" rather than "credential found — rotate it".

Contributed by @stormeoio (PR #2398).

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

* fix(redact-prepush): preserve the trailing newline handed to chained pre-push.local

The chaining wrapper captured stdin with $(cat), which strips the trailing
newline — a chained shell hook built on `while read` then never entered its
loop for the final (usually only) ref line and exited 0, failing OPEN. Use
the printf-x sentinel so the byte-exact input reaches the chained hook, with
tests covering both the pass-through and the short-circuit paths.

Contributed by @francis-eye (PR #2358).

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

* fix(redact-prepush): close the ext-diff, header-lookalike, and ref-parse bypasses

Three ways the pushed diff escaped scanning: (1) a user-level diff.external
or textconv driver replaced the diff with its own output — zero '+' lines,
so the scan saw nothing (now --no-ext-diff --no-textconv); (2) an added
content line whose text begins with "++" renders as "+++…" and the blanket
header skip dropped it (now hunk-aware header detection); (3) a pre-push
ref line that failed to parse was silently skipped, leaving that ref
unscanned (now fails closed with the offending line named).

Minimal reimplementation of the two confirmed bypasses from PR #2498 by
@lubosxyz (the full PR overlaps the chunked-scan work absorbed separately),
plus the unparseable-ref hardening.

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

* fix(pair-agent): keep the ngrok authtoken out of the transcript and shell argv

The not-authed flow told the user to paste their ngrok authtoken into the
chat so the agent could run `ngrok config add-authtoken` — putting a live
credential in the transcript, tool-call argv, and anything the transcript
syncs to. The user now runs the auth command in their own terminal; the
agent only verifies via `ngrok config check`, and a pasted token triggers a
rotate-and-reauth instruction. A static test pins that no agent-run bash
fence ever contains add-authtoken again.

Fixes #2335.

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

* fix(update-check): crash emits CHECK_FAILED instead of reading as up-to-date

gstack-update-check signals "up to date" with SILENCE, and it runs under
set -e — so any unguarded mid-script failure exited quietly and was
indistinguishable from a current install. Observed live as a 45-release
silent-staleness incident. An ERR trap (with -E so it propagates into
functions) now emits a CHECK_FAILED sentinel naming the line and status,
and exits 0 so caller `|| true` guards can't eat it. Behavioral tests cover
both the crash and the healthy-silent paths; egress-receipt wiring is
untouched and still pinned by test/egress-receipt-wiring.test.ts.

Fixes #1974. (#2378's HEAD-SHA staleness half was already fixed on main by
the ls-remote + SHA-pinned VERSION resolution — close as already-fixed.)

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

* fix(deps): bump diff 7.0.0 → 9.0.0 (GHSA-73rr-hh4g-fpgx parsePatch DoS)

The advisory affects diff 6.x–8.0.2. The only API this repo uses is
Diff.diffLines (browse/src/snapshot.ts:571, browse/src/meta-commands.ts:728),
which is unchanged across the major hop; snapshot tests pass against 9.0.0.

Closes #1588.

Contributed by @genisis0x (PR #1599; VERSION collateral stripped, lockfile
regenerated fresh).

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

* ci(evals): skip eval jobs deterministically on fork PRs

Fork PRs never receive repository secrets, so every API-calling eval failed
at SDK auth — but only when Docker-cache luck let the jobs start at all,
making fork PRs randomly red or grey. Skip the eval and report jobs
explicitly for fork-origin PRs, keep the image BUILD (validates
Dockerfile.ci changes) without the push a fork token can't perform, and
leave full coverage for same-repo PRs, pushes, and dispatches.

Contributed by @andrey-esipov (PR #2345).

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

* fix(extension): deny token/port reads to content-script and foreign senders

background.js answered getPort — port, connected state, AND the browse
server auth token — to any sender that passed the type allowlist,
including content scripts running in web-page context and, behind only
the sender.id check, anything without extension-page provenance. The
getToken sender.tab restriction covered getToken alone, and only after
getPort had already handed out the token.

Single decision point now: extension/sender-auth.js classifies each
message type; the eight privileged types (getPort, setPort, getServerUrl,
getToken, fetchRefs, command, sidebar-command, getTabState) require an
own-extension-page sender (chrome-extension://<own id>/ URL, no
sender.tab, own sender.id). Denied senders get { error: 'unauthorized' }
and nothing else — never the token, never the port. Content-script flows
(elementPicked, pickerCancelled, inspectResult, openSidePanel) are
untouched, and the sidepanel/popup keep the getPort token field their
connect path reads. The policy mirrors the v1.63 server-side model:
AUTH_TOKEN is released only to the pinned extension Origin via
POST /extension-token, so the extension must not re-leak it to contexts
the server would never have trusted.

browse/test/extension-sender-auth.test.ts drives the real background.js
onMessage listener under a chrome stub with four sender shapes (own
extension page, own content script, foreign extension id, missing
sender.url) and pins that denied responses carry no token/port fields,
that a denied setPort never persists, that a denied command never
reaches the network, and that the inspector + tab-state flows keep
working. The helper is loaded via importScripts in the classic service
worker and require()-able from bun tests.

Contributed by @punksterlabs (PR #1822; reimplemented against the v1.63 POST /extension-token pinned-origin model).

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

* test(update-check): fixture links gstack-egress-lib.sh — all 38 tests failed on main

v1.63.0.0 made bin/gstack-update-check source bin/gstack-egress-lib.sh
unconditionally, but the test fixture's GSTACK_DIR only linked gstack-config
— every test died at the source line (0/38 pass on pristine main,
verified). The suite-truncation bug hid it: the runner was killed by an
earlier file's delayed process.exit before this file ran. Link the lib like
the real install layout the script assumes.

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

* fix(browse): capture active-tab state before close() — last-tab auto-create raced the close event

closeTab checked `tabId === this.activeTabId` AFTER awaiting page.close(),
but the page 'close' event handler can fire during that await and reassign
activeTabId — losing the race meant the last-tab auto-create never ran,
leaving the manager with zero tabs. Capture wasActive before closing, and
only reassign activeTabId when it no longer points at a live tab.

Part of the test-integrity repairs unmasked by the suite-truncation fix.

Contributed by @time-attack (PR #2230, browser-manager hunk).

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

* test(browse): delete the orphaned sidebar chat-queue suite; align sidebar-ux/tabs with the PTY-only sidebar

browse/test/sidebar-integration.test.ts tested the /sidebar-command queue
path ripped in v1.14 (34 references to removed endpoints — 11 permanent
failures masked by suite truncation). sidebar-ux.test.ts carried 73 failures
pinning the same dead surface (pickSidebarModel, ANALYSIS_WORDS); the trim
keeps its 108 live tests, including the background.js token/allowlist gates.
sidebar-tabs gets the two matching expectation updates.

Closes #2420, #1980.

Contributed by @time-attack (PR #2230, sidebar hunks; the
security-sidepanel-dom deletion was NOT taken — that suite pins the live
sidepanel DOM surface and passes).

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

* test(browse): align dual-listener and terminal-agent static guards with the current source

Two static-grep guards pinned superseded source shapes and failed once the
suite actually ran them: the tunnel dispatch gate is args-aware since the
--out disk-write ban (canDispatchOverTunnel takes command AND args), and
lazy PTY spawn routes through the maybeSpawnPty helper since v1.44. The
updated assertions pin the current, stricter shapes (open() never spawns;
the helper is the only spawnClaude caller).

Contributed by @time-attack (PR #2230, dual-listener + terminal-agent hunks).

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

* fix(test): remove all 8 delayed process.exit teardown bombs — the tier-1 gate can finally fail

bun test runs every file in ONE process, so a 500ms setTimeout(process.exit(0))
armed in afterAll fired mid-way through a LATER file and killed the entire
suite with exit 0 and no summary — only ~16 of 434 files ran, and every
downstream failure was invisible (observed live throughout this wave's
enumeration). Changes, all guarded by fault injection:

- Replace every delayed-exit teardown with a time-boxed close of the file's
  own browser (8 files across browse/ and design/); stub the daemon
  /shutdown timer instead of letting its unconditional process.exit tear
  the runner down.
- test/no-suicide-exit.test.ts: static tripwire — no *.test.ts may schedule
  a delayed process.exit again.
- test/exit-propagation.test.ts + fixtures: fault injection with REAL bun
  output proves the truncation shape (exit 0, no summary) and that
  scripts/test-free-shards.ts now detects it: a shard exiting 0 WITHOUT
  bun's final summary line is treated as FAILED (exit code alone is not
  evidence of completion).
- handoff: the three headed-mode integration tests are darwin-skipped with
  a pointer to the known macOS headed-launch breakage (#2242/#2554); they
  keep running on Linux CI. Un-skip in the browse-daemon wave.
- feedback-roundtrip: repair the handler call sites unmasked by the fix —
  handlers take (command, args, session, bm); passing the manager where a
  session belongs broke all six tests.
- user-slug-fallback: HOME isolation makes endpoint_hash deterministic.

Fixes #2421, #2435.

Contributed by @sneakygriff (PR #2172) with repairs from @time-attack
(PR #2230 feedback-roundtrip hunks); supersedes PR #2252 by @whd4 (same
defect, credited).

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

* test: include design/test/ in the free suite and the sharded runner

design/test was absent from both the package.json test globs and TEST_ROOTS
in scripts/test-free-shards.ts — its tests (including one of the teardown
bombs removed in the previous commit) never ran in any CI or local free
run, so design fixes could ship without their unit tests executing.

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

* fix(make-pdf): reject directories when resolving the browse binary

access(X_OK) is true for directories (they carry the execute/traverse
bit on POSIX and pass the Windows existence check too), so cwd-dependent
resolution could pick the ~/.claude/skills/browse alias DIRECTORY as the
browse binary. Every browse call then exited 4 with empty stderr, which
make-pdf surfaced as "Chromium failed to launch" against a perfectly
healthy Chromium (#2156). Guard isExecutable with statSync().isFile()
so only regular files qualify.

Contributed by @jwilk-hrep (PR #2538).

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

* fix(make-pdf): write browse-bound temp files under the safe-dirs allowlist

os.tmpdir() on macOS resolves to /var/folders/..., which fails browse's
safe-dirs validation ([/tmp, cwd]) since the v1.6.0.0 --from-file
tightening. Default PDF output (generate with no -o), the preview HTML,
tmpFile() scratch files, and setup's smoke-test fixture/output all wrote
there, so browse rejected the paths it was asked to read or write.
Export PAYLOAD_TMP_DIR from browseClient (the existing TEMP_DIR
convention: os.tmpdir() on Windows, /tmp elsewhere) and route
orchestrator.ts and setup.ts temp files through it.

Contributed by @lvthewah (PR #2505; the browse-binary directory guard
from that PR landed separately via PR #2538).

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

* fix(make-pdf): stop URLs swallowing smartypants placeholders

A bare autolinked URL (<a href="X">X</a>) has zero whitespace between
the URL text and its own closing tag. TAG_RE carves that </a> into a
NUL-delimited SMARTPANTS_PRESERVED placeholder BEFORE the URL pass
runs, and URL_RE's \S+ swallowed the adjacent placeholder into the URL
match. The restore pass is single-shot, so the inner placeholder never
restored: raw "SMARTPANTS_PRESERVED_N" text leaked into the rendered
link, the </a> vanished, and link-blue styling bled into the rest of
the document (#2084). Excluding the NUL sentinel (\u0000) from the URL
character class stops the match from crossing into an already-carved
zone.

Contributed by @marshaung (PR #2280; PR #2339 by @BrendaB24 covered the
same smartypants defect).

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

* fix(make-pdf): no blank first page when content precedes the first H1

Two paths put invisible content ahead of the first H1 and cost users a
blank page 1 (#1904):

- A visually-empty preamble (leading <style> block, HTML comment)
  became its own .chapter. That section took the `.chapter:first-of-type
  { break-before: auto }` exception, so the first real chapter inherited
  `break-before: page` and started on page 2. Non-rendering preambles
  now fold into the first real chapter (markup preserved, no page
  break); real text preambles keep their own chapter.
- Leading YAML frontmatter rendered as a literal paragraph of body text
  on its own first page (marked has no frontmatter awareness). It is
  now stripped before parsing; a `---` thematic break elsewhere is
  untouched.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1913).

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

* fix(browse): allow about:blank so a restarted daemon can initialise

The daemon opens its own first tab on about:blank, so blocking it in
validateNavigationUrl meant a restarted daemon could never recreate the
blank tab it starts from — and `browse newtab about:blank`, which
`make-pdf setup` runs as its Chromium smoke test, failed and surfaced
as "Chromium failed to launch" against a healthy browser.

Allow about:blank ONLY, never the about: scheme: about:blank has no
origin, loads nothing and runs nothing, while about:config and friends
are real surfaces. Exact href match (lower-cased, since the URL parser
normalises the protocol but not the opaque part), so about:blankfoo
stays blocked.

Contributed by @jwilk-hrep (PR #2537).

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

* fix(design): drop gpt-image-2 tool model that 400s under the gpt-4o orchestrator

The Responses API rejects pairing a gpt-4o orchestrator with an
image_generation tool spec'd as model: "gpt-image-2" (400
invalid_request_error), which took every design image call offline —
generate, variants, iterate (both threaded and fresh paths), evolve,
and /design-shotgun (#1771). gpt-image-2 is only valid under a gpt-5
orchestrator; with gpt-4o the tool must omit the model field (defaults
to gpt-image-1).

Remove the model field at all five call sites and add a static-grep
tripwire test (design/test/image-gen-pairing.test.ts) that fails CI if
any design/src module reintroduces the gpt-4o + gpt-image-2 pairing.
Re-enabling gpt-image-2 later requires bumping the orchestrator off
gpt-4o in the same diff, which the tripwire permits.

Contributed by @Pablosinyores (PR #1773).

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

* fix(design): variants AbortError message reports the real 240s timeout

generateVariant arms its abort at 240_000 ms but the AbortError branch
returned "Timeout (120s)" — off by 2x, so a user staring at the failure
could not tell whether to bump the timeout, retry, or drop the call.
Report the actual configured bound, and pin it with a test that forces
the abort path (fast-forwarding only the 240_000 ms timer) and asserts
the surfaced string matches.

Contributed by @vryahn (PR #1774).

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

* fix(memory-ingest): stop silently ingesting 0 pages — include gitignored staging, reconcile counts

Pages stage into ~/.gstack/.staging-ingest-*/ inside a repo whose .gitignore
is `*`, and gbrain import honours .gitignore — so it collected 0 files,
imported nothing, and the ingest still reported "written: N" from the STAGED
count while advancing state, meaning no future run ever retried. Three
layers now: (1) pass --include-gitignored (root cause); (2) if the installed
gbrain predates the flag, retry without it (subcommand --help is generic, so
the attempt is the only probe) with an upgrade pointer; (3) reconcile
gbrain's imported+unchanged accounting against the staged count and REFUSE
to advance state on a shortfall, naming the gitignore collision.

Fixes #2144, #2104.

Contributed by @gawievanblerk (PR #2560) and @Charles-Grant (PR #2486).

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

* fix(autoplan): task aggregator returned zero tasks on every run — jq scope bug

Inside ($commits | split("|") | ...) the "." context is the split ARRAY, so
the filter's bare .commit raised "Cannot index array with string" on every
record — and the 2>/dev/null swallowed it, so aggregation silently produced
zero tasks no matter how many the reviews emitted. Bind .commit to $c before
the pipe. Reproduced live before the fix; regenerated autoplan/SKILL.md.

Fixes #2018.

Contributed by @kkroo (PR #2416; regenerated against the current template).

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

* fix(session-update): un-wedge auto-upgrade — autostash over local patches, log the pull's real reason

On a normal install the tracked files ARE locally patched (skill-prefix
name rewrites, gbrain-refresh blocks), so the bare `git pull --ff-only`
refused on every run and auto-upgrade froze forever — observed as 308
consecutive PULL_FAILED entries with the reason discarded by 2>/dev/null.
Pull now runs --autostash (local patches ride over the update and pop back),
stderr is captured into the log so a genuine failure names its cause, an
autostash pop conflict recovers to a clean tree and re-renders the patches
(gstack-patch-names + gbrain-refresh, both idempotent), and a successful
pull re-renders them as a self-heal. Behavioral tests cover the wedge shape
and the reason logging.

Fixes #2566.

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

* test: raise the free-suite per-test timeout to 30s

bun's 5s default is fine for a file run solo, but the monolithic free suite
shares one process across 100+ files whose browser instances contend for
launch slots — Playwright tests that pass in isolation time out mid-suite.
30s matches the ceiling the enumeration runs used; the sharded runner
(test:free) is unaffected.

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

* fix(question-log): parse native AskUserQuestion answers — every native answer logged as __unknown__

Current Claude Code returns AskUserQuestion results as an OBJECT map keyed
by question text ({answers: {question: label}}); the hook only handled the
legacy array shapes, so 86% of live records carried user_choice __unknown__
— and the bin then scored every one as followed_recommendation false,
silently poisoning plan-tune metrics. Adds the object-map extraction (exact
+ whitespace-normalized + single-question pairing, multiSelect joins,
annotations as free_text), strips the (Recommended) suffix from BOTH sides
of the comparison, skips the computation entirely on extraction failure,
and logs unrecognized shapes to hook-errors.log instead of embedding them
in the record.

Fixes #2336, #2206.

Based on the working patch in #2336 by @yijisoo; suffix comparison fix
contributed by @chuchu2781 (PR #2400).

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

* fix(slug): canonicalize slash branches to dash form — review history stops splitting

Branch-name sanitization disagreed across gstack (four incompatible rules),
so reviews for the same slash-named branch landed in multiple files and the
ship dashboard missed entries. gstack-slug now canonicalizes / to - in one
place, and ship's review lookup routes through it; goldens regenerated
against the current templates.

Fixes #1127, #2550.

Contributed by @ShuratCode (PR #2465; duplicate fixes by @xrfael-dev and
two others in PRs #1851/#1699/#1621, credited).

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

* fix(slug): resolve the project root by marker walk-up — subdirectory sessions stop misfiling state

gstack-slug derived everything from pwd, so a session in a subdirectory got
the subdir's basename as its slug (or an outer monorepo's remote), misfiling
reviews/decisions/learnings under a phantom project — and the per-pwd cache
made the wrong answer permanent. The resolver now walks up from pwd:
outermost STRONG marker wins (.git, package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml,
Gemfile, go.mod, .project.yaml), weak content markers (README, LICENSE) catch
non-code project folders, deploy artifacts are deliberately not markers, and
GSTACK_PROJECT_SLUG remains the escape hatch. The cache self-heals on
mismatch. Main-side invariants preserved on top: the unconditional
[a-zA-Z0-9._-] re-sanitize before echo and slash→dash branch canonicalization.

Fixes #1125.

Contributed by @ajeenkya (PR #1702; rebased over the sanitize and
branch-canonicalization work that landed after it).

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

* fix(hooks): shared spawn-bin helper — all three AskUserQuestion hooks were inert on Windows

The plan-tune hooks resolved bin scripts via new URL(import.meta.url).pathname
(which doubles the drive letter on Windows: /C:/C:/...) and spawnSync'd
extensionless bash scripts directly (unrunnable without a shell association)
— so question logging, preferences, and the error fallback all silently
no-op'd on Windows, and /plan-tune collected no data. A single spawn-bin.ts
helper now owns bin resolution (fileURLToPath) and win32 bash routing for
every hook, with static tripwires so a future hook can't reintroduce the
raw pattern. This is the one Windows-spawn idiom for hook code.

Fixes #2356.

Contributed by @rafassousa (PR #2504; supersedes PR #2399 by @chuchu2781).

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

* feat(model-overlays): add fable-5, opus-4-8, and sonnet-5 overlays + resolver mappings

model-overlays/ had no entry for the current Claude generation, so every
session on a Claude 5 family or Opus 4.8 model fell through to the generic
claude.md nudges. Adds the three overlays with resolver mappings and
per-overlay tests; generated output for the default host is unchanged
(overlays activate by detected model).

Closes #2509.

Contributed by @chrisquorum (PRs #2246, #2243, #2247).

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

* fix(windows): grant icacls ACEs by *SID, not unqualified username

An unqualified username handed to icacls is ambiguous: on a machine whose
hostname equals the username (a common Windows setup), it resolves to the
MACHINE account instead of the user. Combined with /inheritance:r, that
leaves ~/.gstack with a single ACE matching nobody — the process that just
"secured" the directory locks itself out, and icacls still reports success.

Both icacls sites in the repo (restrictFilePermissions and
restrictDirectoryPermissions in browse/src/file-permissions.ts — the only
icacls call sites; setup has none) now grant via icacls' literal-SID form
`*<SID>`, resolved once per process from System32\whoami.exe (pinned to
System32 because a bare `whoami` under a bash-flavoured PATH picks up the
MSYS build, which rejects /user). Fallback when the SID can't be resolved
is the domain-qualified `USERDOMAIN\username` name, which is unambiguous
where the bare username was not.

Windows-only regression tests assert the hardened directory stays usable
by the calling process (readdir + write), which is exactly the check that
a not-toThrow assertion sailed past before.

Contributed by @asizux2 (PR #2479); the same defect was independently fixed by @Icandi40, @chiragborse1, @IntegriGit and @voltapix26.

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

* fix(windows): forward windowsHide through the bun-polyfill spawn shims

windowsHide is the one spawn option where Node's default is the opposite
of Bun's: Node shows the child's console window, Bun.spawn hides it.
The polyfill's spawn and spawnSync shims dropped the option entirely, so
the Node fallback path (dist/bun-polyfill.cjs) silently inverted the
behavior on the one platform the shim exists to serve — every watchdog
respawn of the terminal agent popped a visible bun.exe console window.

Three sites fixed:
- Bun.spawnSync shim: forwards windowsHide with Bun-matching default true
- Bun.spawn shim: same (stdio:'ignore' silences output but does NOT
  suppress the console window on Windows)
- spawnTerminalAgent in terminal-agent-control.ts: explicit
  windowsHide: true, so the Node fallback path behaves like Bun-native

An explicit windowsHide: false is honored at both shims. Three focused
tests pin the default-true, default-true-sync, and explicit-false paths
by intercepting child_process in a subprocess; the test file's require
path now uses forward slashes so it survives interpolation into a JS
string literal on Windows.

Supersedes PRs #2523, #2294 and #2290, which each covered a subset of
these sites.

Contributed by @jerrynicholsai (PR #2539); earlier fixes by @jwilk-hrep, @rroojrooj and @WimvandenHeijkant covered subsets of the same sites.

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

* fix(watchdog): signal-0 liveness, tick-scaled respawn guard, windowsHide

Three-bug chain behind the Windows terminal-agent leak (console window
strobing every 60s, one orphaned agent per watchdog tick until the box
ran out of committable memory):

1. isProcessAlive shelled out to `tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>"` on Windows
   with a 3s timeout. A Bun.spawnSync that hits its timeout still RETURNS
   with partial stdout, so the `.includes()` PID match read a LIVE agent
   as dead — killAgentByRecord skipped the kill, the watchdog respawned
   around the survivor, and every orphan slowed the next tasklist enough
   to produce the next false negative. Now: `process.kill(pid, 0)` on
   every platform (Node and Bun both map signal 0 to an OpenProcess
   existence check on Windows), with EPERM counted as alive. No
   subprocess, no timeout, no console window.

2. The respawn circuit-breaker was mathematically unreachable — verified
   in this tree: RESPAWN_GUARD_WINDOW_MS was a fixed 60_000 against a
   60_000ms default tick, and each tick pushes at most one respawn
   timestamp, so three pushes span ~120s and can never coexist inside a
   60s window (eviction is strict `>`, and setInterval drift plus
   per-tick work always ages the prior entry past the boundary). The
   guard could not fire at the default tick rate and a steady
   one-per-tick leak ran unbounded. The window now scales with the tick:
   max(60_000, tick * (RESPAWN_GUARD_MAX + 2)), so "3 crashes in quick
   succession → stop" holds at any tick value.

3. The tasklist probe popped a visible console per tick (no windowsHide).
   Removing the shell-out kills that site; the agent-spawn site itself
   already passes windowsHide: true (landed with the bun-polyfill
   windowsHide commit — PR #2414's terminal-agent-control.ts hunk is
   reconciled there rather than duplicated).

New browse/test/process-liveness-windows.test.ts pins all three: no
subprocess from the probe, a static tripwire against reintroducing
`tasklist` + `PID eq` liveness checks in src/, the spawnTerminalAgent
windowsHide + stdio contract, and the window-derived-from-tick
arithmetic. terminal-agent-watchdog.test.ts test 4 now pins the
window/tick relationship instead of the fixed literal that let this
ship. Also converts `new URL(import.meta.url).pathname` to
`import.meta.path` across the static-grep tests it touches — the
pathname form yields /C:/... on Windows and breaks path.resolve.

Contributed by @SYKhayyat (PR #2414).

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

* fix(terminal-agent): tie agent lifetime to its owning browse server PID

The terminal agent is intentionally detached so it survives the
short-lived CLI launcher, but its real owner is the persistent browse
server. If that server crashed or was killed before running normal
shutdown, the agent was adopted by PID 1 and lived forever (#2019).

spawnTerminalAgent now requires an ownerPid and exports it to the agent
as BROWSE_OWNER_PID; all three spawn sites pass the server PID (cli.ts
cold-start, cli.ts supervisor respawn, server.ts watchdog). The agent
polls the owner with signal 0 every 15s (GSTACK_TERMINAL_OWNER_WATCHDOG_MS
to tune) on an unref'd timer and, when the owner disappears, exits
through the SAME cleanup path as an intentional SIGTERM shutdown — now
re-entrancy-guarded and also removing the terminal-internal-token file
alongside the port file and agent record.

Runtime test spawns a real agent tied to a throwaway owner process,
kills the owner, and asserts the agent exits and its discovery files
(terminal-agent-pid, terminal-port) are gone.

Reconciled with the watchdog commit's spawnTerminalAgent contract test
(process-liveness-windows.test.ts now passes ownerPid and pins the
BROWSE_OWNER_PID env forwarding).

Closes #2019.

Contributed by @csarigoz (PR #2530).

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

* fix(windows): give the bun-polyfill spawn shim a real `exited` promise

Bun.spawn exposes `proc.exited` as a Promise resolving to the exit code.
The Node fallback shim (dist/bun-polyfill.cjs) returned no such field, so
every `await proc.exited` on the Windows path resolved instantly to
undefined — the Windows cookie picker (cookie-import-browser.ts races
proc.exited at three sites) read stdout before the child produced it and
silent-failed; browser-skill-commands and terminal-agent hit the same
class.

The shim now:
- drains stdout/stderr eagerly into capped in-memory buffers (Node's
  Readables are pull-based; without draining, a child writing past the
  OS pipe buffer blocks in write() and 'exit' never fires), replaying
  them as fresh single-shot Web ReadableStreams so reads work before or
  after awaiting exit;
- caps the buffer at 16 MB (GSTACK_SPAWN_MAX_BUFFER to override), still
  draining past the cap so a runaway child can't wedge or OOM;
- resolves `exited` with Bun-matching codes (exit code, 128+signal, 1 on
  spawn error) after both pipes finish, and resolves on 'error' too —
  Node fires 'error' without 'exit' when the binary is missing, which
  otherwise hangs the await forever.

Six tests pin exit codes, the read-after-exit ordering, spawn-failure
resolution, the buffer cap, and the large-output drain. Adapted to the
current test file (require path goes through the requirePath variable
from the windowsHide commit), and the 1 MB drain test's child now exits
in the write callback — on modern Node a pipe write past the OS buffer
is async and process.exit() straight after write() truncates at ~64 KB
even with a live reader, which fails the test for reasons unrelated to
the shim.

Contributed by @punksterlabs (PR #1743).

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

* fix(setup): BROWSE_BIN carries the .exe suffix on Windows

On Windows, `bun build --compile` emits browse.exe, but setup's
BROWSE_BIN pointed at the suffixless path — so the post-build gate
(`[ ! -x "$BROWSE_BIN" ]` → "browse binary missing") could never pass on
Windows even after a fully successful build, while the build step itself
reported success. Closes #2291.

Applied the PR's override after the IS_WINDOWS detection, and also to
the second BROWSE_BIN assignment the PR predates: the direct-Codex-
install migration path re-derives BROWSE_BIN from the migrated dir and
would otherwise drop the suffix again on Windows.

Contributed by @rroojrooj (PR #1714).

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

* fix(setup): link lib/ beside bin/ at all five host-install sites

bin/ scripts import shared modules via ../lib (gstack-learnings-log →
lib/jsonl-store.ts is the reported case), so any runtime root that
exposes bin/ without lib/ breaks 13 bin/ commands — learnings-log,
decision-log, telemetry and friends fail with "Cannot find module
.../lib/jsonl-store.ts" on every non-Claude install, silently from the
skills' perspective.

All five host-install sites now carry lib/ next to bin/, each through
the existing _link_or_copy helper (never raw ln — the static invariant
in test/setup-windows-fallback.test.ts enforces this):

- .agents sidecar (create_agents_sidecar asset loop)
- Codex runtime root (create_codex_runtime_root)
- Factory runtime root (create_factory_runtime_root)
- OpenCode runtime root (create_opencode_runtime_root)
- Kiro install block

New test/setup-runtime-lib-command.test.ts executes the real setup shell
for each root in a sandbox (both the symlink branch and the Windows copy
branch of _link_or_copy) and runs gstack-learnings-log end-to-end from
the installed root, asserting the learning lands in
~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/learnings.jsonl — plus a negative control
proving a bin-without-lib root fails exactly the way the bug report did.
gen-skill-docs.test.ts's setup-validation block pins the lib link at
every site. Cross-checked against PRs #2433, #2410 and #2198: all three
cover subsets of these sites; nothing they fix is missing here.

Contributed by @fedster99 (PR #2262); overlapping fixes by @gregario, @lsendel and @netkurt.

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

* fix(setup): ship supabase/config.sh with every host runtime root

Distinct from the lib/-beside-bin/ defect: gstack-telemetry-sync,
gstack-update-check, gstack-security-dashboard and
gstack-community-dashboard all source $GSTACK_DIR/supabase/config.sh to
resolve GSTACK_SUPABASE_URL, where GSTACK_DIR is the installed root
(parent of bin/). The [ -f ... ] guard means a root without the file
degrades SILENTLY — telemetry and update checks just stop resolving the
project URL on non-Claude installs. Closes #2215.

setup now links supabase/config.sh (file-level on purpose — migrations/
and functions/ are dev-only) via _link_or_copy at all five host-install
sites: the PR's four (Codex, Factory, OpenCode runtime roots + the Kiro
block) plus the .agents sidecar, whose bin/ resolves the same relative
path and which the PR predates covering.

The runtime-root test now asserts supabase/config.sh is present in
every built root, on both the symlink and Windows-copy branches.

Contributed by @jizusun (PR #2216).

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

* ci(windows): curate the fix-wave regression tests into the windows-latest run

The windows-free-tests curated set is derived (POSIX-fragility regex scan
+ explicit deny list), and two of this wave's Windows regression files
were auto-excluded on false-positive pattern hits:

- browse/test/file-permissions.test.ts tripped the POSIX-mode-bitmask
  pattern, but every `mode & 0o777` assertion is platform-guarded — and
  the file carries the win32-only icacls-by-SID regression tests, which
  can only ever execute on windows-latest.
- browse/test/terminal-agent-owner-watchdog.test.ts tripped the
  spawn(['bun','run',...]) pattern whose reason is the Playwright-bound
  browse server; it actually spawns terminal-agent.ts (fs/path/crypto +
  local helpers only, no Playwright at module scope), and the owner-PID
  orphan leak it pins was reported on Windows (#2019).

Adds a KNOWN_WINDOWS_SAFE force-include list (mirror of
KNOWN_WINDOWS_INCOMPATIBLE, each entry carrying its false-positive
rationale) consulted before the pattern scan, and makes the
owner-watchdog test's throwaway owner process Windows-portable
(process.execPath instead of `sleep`, which a bare runner may not have).

The wave's other new files need no wiring: process-liveness-windows and
the bun-polyfill windowsHide/exited tests pass curation automatically;
setup-runtime-lib-command self-skips on win32 by design (its Windows
branch is exercised by simulating IS_WINDOWS=1 under bash), so
force-including it would add a permanently-skipped file.

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

* fix(setup): register the SessionStart hook with a bash prefix on Windows

Windows can't execute an extensionless bash script directly — registering
the bare gstack-session-update path made the hook pop the "Select an app"
dialog on every session start (or silently never run), so team-mode
auto-upgrade was dead on Windows installs. Companion to the hooks'
spawn-bin routing: same defect class at the registration site.

Contributed by @NikhileshNanduri (PR #1813; VERSION/CHANGELOG collateral
stripped).

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

* fix(setup): stop piping gen:skill-docs through tail — generator failures were masked

setup piped doc generation through `tail -3`, so a generator crash kept the
pipe's exit 0 and installs completed "successfully" with broken or missing
SKILL.md files. Capture the real exit status at BOTH sites (the main
gen:skill-docs step and the gbrain-detected gen:skill-docs:user regen —
the second drifted in after the PR and its own test caught it), print the
tail for UX, and fail loudly.

Contributed by @DavidMiserak (PR #1898; VERSION/CHANGELOG collateral
stripped; extended to the second pipe site).

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

* fix(mktemp): move the X-run to the end of every temp-file template (BSD/busybox safe)

BSD mktemp (macOS) does not substitute an X-run that has a suffix after it:
`mktemp "$TMP_ROOT/codex-err-XXXXXX.txt"` creates a LITERAL
codex-err-XXXXXX.txt on the first call (exit 0) and every later call fails
with `mkstemp failed: File exists` — so /codex breaks from the SECOND run on
every Mac, masquerading as a model stall. busybox mktemp (Alpine) rejects the
template on the first run. Fixes #2091, #2370.

Union of both community fixes, compared at the diff level:
- PR #2372: all 11 source sites with a suffix after the X-run — codex
  SKILL.md.tmpl (5), claude SKILL.md.tmpl (3), bin/gstack-developer-profile
  (2, suffix folded into the prefix: .json.tmp.XXXXXX), and the office-hours
  codex pass in scripts/resolvers/review.ts (1).
- PR #2103: the second half of #2091 — bin/gstack-paths now strips the
  trailing slash from TMP_ROOT at the source (macOS $TMPDIR ends in `/`),
  plus runtime tests pinning that normalization.

New repo-wide tripwire in test/regression-issue2091-bsd-mktemp.test.ts:
every .tmpl, every SKILL.md, and every scripts/resolvers/*.ts is swept —
no mktemp template may carry a suffix after the X-run, with a self-test so
the detector can't be quietly blinded. Generated SKILL.md files regenerated
via gen:skill-docs in this commit.

Contributed by @ShuratCode (PR #2103) and @noron12234 (PR #2372); PR #2285 by @cathrynlavery covered a subset.

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

* fix(codex,review,ship): scope codex review with an explicit --base flag, never prompt text

`codex review` takes its scope ONLY from --base/--commit/--uncommitted. The
positional [PROMPT] is mutually exclusive with all three, and a prompt-only
`codex review "<text>"` silently falls back to the uncommitted working-tree
scope (verified on 0.144.1: it runs `git status --short; git diff` and
reviews that) — so the previous prompt-based scoping produced a
confidently-worded review of the WRONG changes and read "no changes" on a
clean tree. Every diff pass now invokes `codex review --base <base>` with no
prompt argument: /codex Step 2A default path, the /review structured pass,
and the /ship adversarial-section pass (all via scripts/resolvers/review.ts).

Custom review instructions keep their own `codex exec` path (the CLI rejects
prompt + scope flag together), with the filesystem boundary preserved there.
Two new Error Handling entries teach the failure shapes: the argv-parse
error, and the "review says no changes on a branch full of changes" symptom.

Tests updated to pin the new invariant instead of banning the fix: the old
assertions required the diff range in prompt text and banned the
`--base <base> -c '...'` substring, which the correct scoped form contains.
Also deletes test/fixtures/golden-ship-claude.md — a 2,565-line orphaned
fixture referenced by zero tests (the live goldens are in
test/fixtures/golden/, compared by test/host-config.test.ts); the factory
golden is refreshed from the regenerated output. Generated SKILL.md files
regenerated via gen:skill-docs in this commit.

Contributed by @fangearhq-boop (PR #2513).

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

* fix(review,ship): run the codex diff passes under the timeout wrapper (#1036)

The `_gstack_codex_timeout_wrapper` added in #1056 was wired into
codex/SKILL.md but never into the /review and /ship diff passes, which kept
running under a bare 5-minute Bash gate. An unwrapped stall returns no exit
code and no output, which downstream reads as "Codex reviewed and found
nothing" — a truncated pass silently became a clean bill. Measured on
codex-cli 0.145.0: a pass was killed at 287s of a 300s budget mid-tool-call,
and the same prompt completed in 336s.

Both passes in scripts/resolvers/review.ts (adversarial `codex exec` and the
structured `codex review --base` pass) now re-source gstack-codex-probe and
run under `_gstack_codex_timeout_wrapper 540`, with the Bash tool gate raised
to 600000 ms so the wrapper fires FIRST and a stall surfaces as a diagnosable
exit 124. The timeout guidance now says a timed-out pass is MISSING COVERAGE,
not a clean result, and points at the run's rollout log under
~/.codex/sessions/ for partial output. The stale "timeout doesn't exist on
macOS" claim is gone — the wrapper resolves gtimeout, then timeout, then runs
unwrapped, so it is safe without coreutils.

Static guards in test/codex-hardening.test.ts pin all three sites (resolver,
review/SKILL.md, ship/sections/adversarial.md): both calls wrapped, wrapper
budget strictly under the Bash gate, and no reappearance of the macOS claim
that steered these call sites away from the wrapper in the first place. The
Claude-output path guard in test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts now scrubs
~/.codex/sessions/ (a user-facing Codex CLI path, same class as the
~/.codex/logs/ exemption) before banning Codex host paths. Generated files
regenerated via gen:skill-docs; factory golden refreshed.

Contributed by @aegixx (PR #2379).

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

* fix(codex): sandbox the review path, fail the gate closed, order timeouts wrapper-first

Closes #2496, #2524, #2477 — three defects in the class "a guard that
reports success while doing nothing", all in codex/SKILL.md.tmpl:

(a) Review sandbox. The default `codex review` path was the only codex call
with no sandbox override, inheriting ~/.codex/config.toml's default — write
access on a trusted project — while Important Rules claimed read-only.
Top-level `codex review` has no -s/--sandbox flag (verified on 0.147.0), so
the invocation now pins `-c 'sandbox_mode="read-only"'`, the same form the
consult-resume path already uses.

(b) Fail-closed verdict gate. The old rule ("no [P1] found → PASS") could
not fail on the default path: native `codex review` output carries no
bracketed tags, and a non-zero exit, expired auth, timeout, or empty result
also contains no [P1] — all read as PASS. The gate is now an ordered,
fail-closed check: non-zero exit → FAIL; empty output → FAIL; [P0]/[P1]
(bracketed or codex's native labels) → FAIL with count; NO severity tags at
all → FAIL requiring a human read; PASS is only reachable through the
explicit tagged-advisory-only branch. [P0] is recognized as blocking, and
the review-log findings count includes it.

(c) Bash gate above the wrapper. Step 2A instructed `timeout: 300000` under
a 330s wrapper, and Challenge's 300s gate sat under a 600s wrapper — the
harness killed the call before the wrapper could emit its diagnosable
exit-124 message. Every Bash gate now sits strictly ABOVE its wrapper:
360000 over the 330s review wrapper, 660000 over the 600s challenge/consult
wrappers, with the ordering rationale stated at each site.

Also from #2477/#2524: a new Error Handling entry for the model-entitlement
400 ("The '<model>' model is not supported...") pointing at the `model =`
pin and `[notice.model_migrations]` in ~/.codex/config.toml and saying
exactly which override to retry with (-m for exec-based modes,
`-c model="..."` for review mode, which rejects -m); the Model & Reasoning
section no longer documents `-m` for `/codex review`.

Static assertions in test/codex-hardening.test.ts pin (a)-(c) across both
the .tmpl and the generated SKILL.md: every scoped review invocation carries
sandbox_mode="read-only" and never -s; the default-PASS sentence is banned
and the fail-closed branches are present; and per-section, every Bash
`timeout: N` is strictly greater than every wrapper budget, with 2A/2B/2C
all required to be inspected. Generated SKILL.md regenerated via
gen:skill-docs in this commit.

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

* fix(preamble): quoted tilde made Artifacts Sync and telemetry-finalize dead code in 49 skills

A tilde inside double quotes never expands, so the generated
`_BRAIN_SYNC_BIN="~/..."` assignments resolved to a literal ./~ path and
the Artifacts Sync + telemetry-finalize blocks silently no-op'd in every
skill that carried them (regression of #785). The preamble resolvers now
emit $HOME-based paths; all generated SKILL.md files regenerate identically
from the fixed templates, and a static tripwire fails the suite if a
quoted-tilde assignment ever reappears in generated output.

Fixes #1656, #1715.

Contributed by @jawadakram20 (PR #2333).

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

* fix(gen-skill-docs): stop the catalog trim chopping descriptions at embedded periods

The description-trim regex treated the first period as end-of-sentence, so
skill descriptions with embedded periods (e.g. file extensions, version
numbers) truncated mid-thought in the generated catalog — the discovery
surface every host loads. Trim now respects the full first sentence;
diagram's description regenerates to its intended text.

Contributed by @sneakygriff (PR #2171).

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

* fix(preamble): update_check:false gates the prose, not just the binary

Setting update_check:false stopped the update-check BINARY from running,
but every skill preamble still shipped the upgrade-handling instruction
prose unconditionally — burning tokens on instructions that could never
fire and confusing agents into probing for upgrades anyway. The resolver
now suppresses the upgrade-flow prose when the config disables checks.

Fixes #2001.

Contributed by @jc0d35 (PR #2022).

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

* fix(browse): sidebar Terminal — drop the duplicate WS subprotocol header, stop doubling CJK IME input

The terminal client passed the auth token as the WS subprotocol AND echoed
it in a second header, which some Chromium builds reject; and composition
events double-sent CJK input (each IME commit arrived once from the
composition handler and once from the data handler). One auth path, one
input path; also fixes the terminal-agent test that failed on clean main.

Contributed by @mindsurf0176 (PR #2515).

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

* fix(setup): -h/--help prints usage instead of running the installer

Asking setup for help RAN the full installer — Playwright download and all.
Standard help flags now short-circuit to usage.

Contributed by @saen-ai (PR #1219).

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

* fix(hosts): Codex-generated skills reference AGENTS.md, not CLAUDE.md

Codex reads AGENTS.md, but its generated skills still told agents to read
CLAUDE.md in 8 places — instructions Codex hosts cannot follow. The host
config now maps the memory-file name per host; all three ship goldens
refreshed from the regenerated output.

Contributed by @exGeni (PR #1996).

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

* fix(retro,ship): count tracked files for the test-file metric, not the working tree

The test-file count ran find over the working tree, sweeping untracked
build output — a Rails repo reported 623 test files when git tracks 17
(37x), skewing retro narratives and ship dashboards. Count via git ls-files
instead; includes the one-line Python-glob widening so non-JS repos stop
undercounting.

Fixes #2307, #1999.

Contributed by @joshRpowell (PR #2308).

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

* fix(land-and-deploy,gen): auto-merge diagnosis + CRLF-stable generation

Two small hardenings: land-and-deploy Step 4 no longer misdiagnoses a
failed `gh pr merge --auto` as a permissions problem when the real cause is
the merge-method mismatch the command names; and gen-skill-docs normalizes
CRLF at the template entry point so Windows checkouts with autocrlf produce
byte-identical generated output to CI instead of silently skipping the
\n-anchored transforms.

Contributed by @Jmeg8r (PR #2437) and @1ncludeSteven (PR #1051).

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

* fix(land-and-deploy): stop greedy sed from eating the URL scheme in deploy-config parsing

The deploy-config bootstrap parsed "Production URL: https://x.com" with
sed 's/.*: *//', which cuts at the LAST colon — the one in "https:" —
yielding "//x.com". Cut at the first ": " instead (s/^[^:]*: *//).

Resolver only; the generated land-and-deploy/SKILL.md regenerates from
this source in the docs lane.

Contributed by @briascoi (PRs #2555/#2493).

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

* fix(artifacts-init): honor the provider CLI's git_protocol instead of forcing SSH

gstack-artifacts-init unconditionally rewrote the push remote to SSH and
hard-failed setup for users whose gh/glab auth is HTTPS-only. Now:

- provider-created remotes follow `gh config get git_protocol` /
  `glab config get git_protocol` (HTTPS when unset — the gh default)
- explicit/existing/manual remotes keep their given protocol; unknown
  URL forms (local bare paths, file://, self-hosted) pass through
- new --push-protocol auto|https|ssh flag overrides the inference
- the unreachable-remote error names the actual protocol and points at
  --push-protocol instead of assuming a missing SSH key

Closes #1348.

Contributed by @time-attack (PR #2225).

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

* fix(browse): skip the .gitignore append when git already ignores .gstack/

ensureStateDir appended ".gstack/" to a tracked .gitignore even when git
already ignored the directory via global excludes, .git/info/exclude, or a
parent .gitignore — dirtying the working tree on every daemon start. Run
`git check-ignore -q -- .gstack/` first and return early when git says it's
covered; git-missing/not-a-repo/timeout all fall through to the existing
text-check append (the safe default).

Closes #2385.

Contributed by @gregario (PR #2430).

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

* fix(browse): guard browser.process() in resolveDisconnectCause

`.process()` only exists on browsers Playwright launched itself; a browser
from connectOverCDP() (or a test stub) has no such method, so the blind call
threw "browser?.process is not a function" inside the disconnect handler and
took down the daemon. Type-check the method before calling it and treat the
no-method case as no process handle.

Closes #2085.

Contributed by @elan2002 (PR #2434).

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

* fix(lib): narrow the override injection denylist to instruction-shaped phrases

The /override[:\s]/i pattern flagged any prose containing "override " or
"override:" — CLI flags (--port-override -1), tfvars notes, and plain
"you can override the default region" all tripped the injection guard.
Require an instruction-shaped continuation: "override (all)? previous |
prior | above | the rules/instructions/system prompt". Genuine attempts
like "Override: ignore all previous instructions" still block via the
ignore-previous pattern.

Closes #2401, #1934.

Contributed by @Masashi-Ono0611 (PR #2424); same fix independently by
@JonasFocus (PR #1940).

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

* fix(redact): stop the E.164 phone pattern flagging compact timestamps

Bare 14-digit runs like 20260727202423 (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS backup/log stamps)
matched the phone regex and produced MEDIUM PII findings. Reject a
separator-free 14-digit span whose fields parse as a plausible date-time;
real numbers carry a + or spacing, so phone coverage is unchanged.

Contributed by @abkrim (PR #2428).

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

* fix(design): create the OpenAI key file owner-only, closing the write-then-chmod race

saveApiKey wrote ~/.gstack/openai.json at the default umask and tightened to
0600 afterwards, leaving the API key briefly world-readable between write and
chmod (CWE-377/367). Pass mode 0o600 at create; the trailing chmodSync stays
as a backstop to tighten a pre-existing loose file.

Contributed by @bunlongheng (PR #2468).

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

* fix(config): make gstack-config key validation locale-independent

POSIX bracket ranges like a-z follow the active collation order; under GNU
grep with tr_TR.UTF-8 the range excludes the ASCII letter i, so every key
containing i (skill_prefix, explain_level, ...) was rejected as invalid.
Pin both get/set validators to LC_ALL=C, with a source-level tripwire test
since macOS BSD grep doesn't reproduce the bug.

Closes #2494.

Contributed by @Math1987 (PR #2506).

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

* fix(resolvers): stop env-var hosts from doubling $HOME in the binary fallback path

The browse/design/make-pdf setup resolvers built the fallback binary path as
"$HOME" + dir.replace(/^~/, ''), which is only correct for ~-rooted dirs.
Env-var hosts carry an absolute $GSTACK_* dir, so the generated fallback
became $HOME$GSTACK_.../browse — a path that never exists. New toShellPath()
in scripts/resolvers/types.ts expands ~ to $HOME and passes absolute
env-var dirs through untouched; all five call sites route through it.

Claude-host generated output is byte-identical, so no SKILL.md regeneration
is needed here.

Closes #2055.

Contributed by @simjak (PR #2056).

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

* fix(settings-hook): respect CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when resolving settings.json

gstack-settings-hook hardcoded $HOME/.claude/settings.json, so users running
Claude Code with a relocated CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR had hooks written to a config
file Claude never reads. Resolve ${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude} first;
the explicit GSTACK_SETTINGS_FILE override still wins.

Partial #349.

Contributed by @andrefogelman (PR #2239).

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

* fix(browse): dispatch a change event after fill for change-only validators

Playwright's Locator.fill() dispatches `input` but never `change`, so
frameworks that validate on change (AngularJS ng-change, debounced
strength/match checks) never saw the filled value — correct in the DOM,
failing the framework's own validation. `browse fill` now dispatches
`change` after the fill. Failing-first regression test with a
change-only password-match fixture included.

Contributed by @intelliot (PR #2475).

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

* fix(safety): unknown question-preference source exits the documented 2, not 1

The --write user-origin gate documents exit 2 as "rejected, do not retry"
(profile poisoning defense), but a source outside both the allowed and the
explicitly-rejected lists fell through to exit 1 — the generic validation
code callers treat as retryable. Unknown sources now exit 2 with the same
do-not-retry rejection message as the known non-user-originated ones.

Closes #2390.

Contributed by @gregario (PR #2429).

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

* fix(pr-title): stop duplicating the version prefix on bare-version titles

A title that was nothing but a version ("v1.2.3" — the form ship uses for
version-only bumps) matched neither the "v<NEW_VERSION> " literal case nor
the trailing-space strip regex, fell through to the prepend path, and came
out as "v1.2.3.4 v1.2.3" — which pr-title-sync.yml then wrote back via
gh pr edit. Handle the bare form in both the no-change case and the
prefix-strip regex, and emit a bare new version when nothing follows.

Closes #1886.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1887).

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

* fix(build): escape literal braces in the bun:sqlite stub regex

Perl >= 5.26 treats an unescaped literal `{` in a pattern as fatal
("Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal"), so build-node-server.sh
died at the bun:sqlite stub substitution on modern perl. Escape both
braces; the replacement output is unchanged.

Closes #2300.

Contributed by @nuga0718 (PR #2111).

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

* fix(config): preserve spaces in gstack-config values

get/list read values with awk '{print $2}' | tr -d '[:space:]', which
truncated any value containing spaces ("/Users/x/Conductor Workspaces"
came back as "/Users/x/Conductor") and set wrote the unfiltered raw value
on the append path. New read_config_value() strips only the "key:" prefix
and trailing whitespace (cut-style parse), and set appends the same
newline-stripped value the in-place edit path uses.

Closes #1782.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1783).

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

* fix(browse): recover a late-healthy detached daemon instead of a false "Server failed to start"

startServer spawns the daemon detached + unref'd, then polls health for a
fixed budget. On a loaded machine the budget can elapse in the gap between
the loop's last tick and the daemon becoming ready — the CLI reported
"Server failed to start within Ns" while the very next `browse status`
showed a healthy server. Add a final readState()+isServerHealthy() re-check
before the timeout throw, and make the budget env-overridable via
BROWSE_START_TIMEOUT (BROWSE_* tunable convention). Structural + behavioral
tests pin both invariants.

Closes #1846.

Contributed by @harjothkhara (PR #1847).

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

* fix(browse): daemon resilience on loaded machines — Bun conn errors, stop/restart flush, startup + git-root budgets

Four load-sensitivity fixes in the daemon lifecycle:

- sendCommand only recognized Node's ECONNREFUSED/ECONNRESET; the compiled
  CLI runs on Bun, which reports 'ConnectionRefused'/'ConnectionClosed'
  ("Unable to connect..."), so daemon crashes leaked the raw error and
  exited 1 instead of entering the busy-check/restart path. Match both.
- stop/restart called shutdown() inline, which exits before the HTTP
  response flushes — the CLI saw a dropped socket (and would now
  crash-retry a fresh daemon just to stop it). Defer shutdown ~100ms so
  the 200 lands first.
- Non-CI POSIX startup budget raised 8s -> 15s (cold Chromium measured
  ~5.7s at load avg 10; load 12+ blew the old budget while the detached
  daemon was still booting).
- getGitRoot's 2s git rev-parse timeout returned null under load (6.3s
  spikes measured), scattering state files across cwds into split-brain
  daemons. Raise to 8s, still bounded.

Contributed by @mplatts (PR #1732).

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

* fix(telemetry): ingest keeps error_message/failed_step instead of dropping them

The telemetry_events columns exist and bin/gstack-telemetry-log already
sends error_message + failed_step, but the Supabase ingest function dropped
both fields on insert — every error report arrived with no message and no
failing step. Map them through with the same bounded-length sanitization as
error_class (500/100 chars). The completion-status resolver now also passes
--error-message/--failed-step in the generated skill telemetry block, with
instructions to leave them empty on success.

Resolver only for the template side; generated SKILL.md files regenerate
from this source in the docs lane.

Contributed by @sunnnybala (PR #769).

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

* fix(browse): surface non-EEXIST errors in acquireServerLock instead of masking them

acquireServerLock caught every open failure as if the lock were held:
EACCES/EROFS/ENOENT surfaced as phantom "another process holds the lock"
(null return, no diagnostics), and a failed stale-lock read or unlink was
swallowed the same way. Each failure class now logs a coded, pathed
diagnostic: non-EEXIST open errors, holder-PID read errors (ENOENT retries
the acquire — the holder released between open and read), and stale-lock
unlink errors. Four-case unit test included.

Closes #1084.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1725); same fix independently by
@JiayuuWang (PR #1097).

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

* fix(paths): shell-quote gstack-paths output so eval round-trips values

gstack-paths emitted bare KEY=VALUE lines, so the documented
eval "$(gstack-paths)" re-parsed the values: backslashes were eaten as
escapes (Windows $TMP C:\Users\... became C:Users...) and a space
word-split the assignment, leaving the variable empty. Emit each value
with printf %q so eval round-trips byte-for-byte; plain POSIX paths are
unchanged. Round-trip regression tests cover backslashes, spaces, and
embedded quotes.

Closes #2374.

Contributed by @fangearhq-boop (PR #2376); same fix independently by
@yannickspiess (PR #1580).

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

* security(browse): drop .svg from the load-html extension allowlist

SVG is a script-capable format (inline <script>, event handlers, foreign
objects), so allowing it through load-html's HTML allowlist let a local
.svg execute script in the browse session context. The allowlist is now
.html/.htm/.xhtml only; regression test asserts .svg is rejected.

Contributed by @garagon (PR #1153).

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

* fix(benchmark): validate --timeout-ms as a positive integer

gstack-model-benchmark fed --timeout-ms straight through parseInt, so
"abc" became NaN and "0"/"-1" passed through — a NaN or non-positive
timeout silently disables the per-provider watchdog. Reject anything
that isn't a positive (optionally +-prefixed) safe integer with a clear
error and exit 1.

Closes #1726.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #1727).

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

* chore(fixtures): clean terminology in the security-bench replay fixture

Two spots in browse/test/fixtures/security-bench-haiku-responses.json
referred to real-world HVAC project naming; replace with the generic
"mechanical services" wording. Fixture stays valid JSON; replay tests
unchanged.

Contributed by @apex-system (PR #2131).

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

* ci: cancel superseded actionlint and skill-docs runs

actionlint.yml and skill-docs.yml trigger on both push and pull_request
with no concurrency group, so every push to an active branch left the
previous (now-obsolete) runs queued or running — twice per commit on
same-repo PR branches. Add the same cancel-in-progress concurrency
groups the heavier workflows already use, plus a free static tripwire
test that fails CI if a push+pull_request workflow ever ships again
without cancel-in-progress.

Contributed by @jbetala7 (PR #2053).

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

* fix(make-pdf): correct CJK rendering — NUL sentinel hardening, SC-first fonts, CJK quote context

Three CJK fixes in the PDF pipeline:

- smartypants strips stray input NULs up front so document text can never
  forge the U+0000 placeholder sentinel and leak a preserved-zone marker
  into the output.
- The CJK font stack led with Japanese families, so Simplified-Chinese
  text rendered han glyphs with JP variants. Lead with PingFang SC /
  Heiti SC / Noto Sans CJK SC / Source Han Sans SC before the JP
  fallbacks.
- Quote-smartening only recognized ASCII openers as "start of quote"
  context; the fullwidth colon and CJK brackets now count, so quotes
  after them curl the right way.

Contributed by @rssprivacy-commits (PR #2012).

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

* docs: regenerate skill output for the quick-win resolver changes

Regen for the deploy-config URL-scheme fix (utility resolver), telemetry
completion-status resolver, and $HOME-doubling binary-resolver fix; ship
goldens refreshed to match. Generated-output-only commit.

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

* fix(slug): cached identity is sticky — heal ONLY the provable subdir-cache bug shape

The walk-up rewrite recomputed the slug on every run and "healed" the cache
toward the fresh value, which broke the #2212 continuity contract: a project
that used gstack before adopting a git remote would be silently renamed to
the remote-derived slug, orphaning everything under ~/.gstack/projects/.
Cached identity now wins, with one precise exception: when the cached value
equals THIS pwd's basename while the walk-up proves pwd is not the project
root, the entry came from the pre-walk-up subdirectory bug (#1125) and is
recomputed. All four slug contracts pass together (repo-mode #2212,
walk-up #1125, sanitize, user-slug).

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

* fix(claude): stop false-blocking macOS keychain subscription auth in host detection

The /claude skill's auth probe only recognized env-var/API-key auth, so
macOS subscription installs (keychain-backed, where `claude -p` works fine)
were told they had no auth. Detection now uses host invocation.

Fixes #1890.

Contributed by @xing-qnex (PR #2411); PR #2548 by @shawnacalia covered the
keychain case.

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

* fix(setup): Ubuntu 26.04 Playwright platform detect + silence the codesign false alarm

Two small setup papercuts: the Playwright platform probe now recognizes
Ubuntu 26.04 instead of falling to the generic-Linux path, and macOS
installs stop warning about a codesign "failure" that was actually the
expected unsigned-adhoc path (the real signature check already gates
binary launch).

Contributed by @nuga0718 (PR #2113) and @lucascaro (PR #1758).

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

* fix(skills): land-and-deploy squash readback, next-version paths, embed-flags quoting

Three template one-liners: land-and-deploy reads the squash-merge result
from the merge commit instead of the stale branch tip; review/landing-report
/land-and-deploy templates call bin/gstack-next-version via its installed
path instead of a bare repo-relative one; setup-gbrain quotes
GBRAIN_EMBED_FLAGS so zsh word-splitting stops silently dropping
voyage-code-3 flags. Regenerated output included.

Contributed by @stormeoio (PR #2011), @rjmurillo (PR #1820) and
@trevorhstandridge (PR #1817).

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

* release: v1.64.0.0 — fix wave CHANGELOG, VERSION, deferred-wave TODOs

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

* test: refresh ship goldens for the telemetry error-field resolver output

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

* test(redact-prepush): assemble the fake AWS key at runtime — the literal blocked our own push

The hook's fixtures carried a live-format AKIA literal, and the repo's own
pre-push scanner (hardened in this wave) correctly blocked pushing it. The
placeholder-suppressed docs key would defeat the detection tests, so the
fixtures now concatenate the key at runtime: tests still exercise real
detection, and the pushed diff never contains a scannable credential shape.

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

* fix(slug): terminate the marker walk-up on dirname's fixed point — hung every bin on Windows

Under git-bash on Windows a mixed-form path walks C:/Users -> C: -> . -> .
forever: dirname's fixed point there is never "/", so the walk-up loop spun
and every bin that evals gstack-slug (learnings-log first among them) hung
until spawn timeout. Caught by windows-free-tests CI on the wave PR. Break
on the fixed point itself with a depth cap for exotic forms; regression
tests drive the extracted function with hostile path shapes under a hard
timeout.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 22:02:07 -07:00
Garry Tan 1d41ee3ab3
v1.63.0.0 feat: GStack 2 fork port wave — egress receipts, context-bill, sharded gate, /health fix (#2541)
* test(helpers): shared skill-census helper with three explicit counts

physicalSkillFiles (symlinked dirs included, root router included),
authoredSkills (realpath-deduped, router excluded), registryEntries
(what ./setup registers: unique frontmatter names + _gstack-command).

One counting authority for the hermetic seeder, context-bill ground
truth, and the catalog-budget test — connect-chrome's dir symlink and
the root router otherwise produce three subtly different hand-rolled
censuses. Ported-wave foundation (C11).

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

* fix(evals): stop the harness grading itself

findPreviousRun excluded only the file being written, by name, so every
suite compared against _partial-e2e.json — the current run's own
accumulator, relabelled with the current tier just before each flush.
That is why every block read '+$0.00, +0s, Stable run, no regressions.'
This harness has never been able to detect a regression, and reassuring
output that cannot fail is worse than none. In-progress runs are now
excluded by role, and a run with nothing to compare against says NO
BASELINE instead of claiming stability.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit f3140b5245221fff7fb9411c7ec07c2ca11587b5)

* refactor(evals): shared partial-run predicate + finalized-run lookup

isPartialEval(data, filename) is the one place that decides what counts
as an in-progress accumulator (the _partial flag OR a _partial-prefixed
filename), and findLatestFinalizedRun(evalDir, tier) is the one place
that finds the newest real run — scanning the eval dir plus one level of
shards/<slug>/ subdirs, where the sharded paid runner points each
shard's collector. skill-budget-regression.test.ts's hand-rolled
findLatestRun (flag-blind: a flagged-but-renamed accumulator passed its
name check) is replaced by the shared helper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit b55fcf6966366fd21a8cdc46de61aab6e1b1d100)

* feat(evals): register shipped skills for hermetic PTY children

Hermetic children get a config dir that deliberately seeds no skills —
right for children that install their own, fatal for the PTY family that
TYPES /office-hours or /plan-ceo-review: claude rejects the command as
Unknown before any model turn, so the plan-family gate smokes measure
nothing. hermeticSkillsConfigDir() is a second, opt-in config dir under
the same runRoot that mirrors ./setup's registration exactly (real dir
per registry name, SKILL.md + sections/ symlinks, frontmatter-name
resolution, _gstack-command root alias), driven by the shared
skill-census so connect-chrome's dir symlink collapses the same way
setup's idempotent overwrite does.

Ported from fork commit 03c4eca2, tree walk rewritten for the upstream
layout (top-level <skill>/SKILL.md dirs, no skills/ tree). Unit tests
are new: seed shape, census parity, symlink resolution, connect-chrome
collapse, idempotence, no-API-key seed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 93dae6107b30ce453a07c2d342b60262bba6ce0b)

* feat(evals): seedSkills opt-in for PTY slash-command tests + tripwire

Wire ClaudePtyOptions.seedSkills through launchClaudePty: when set (and
hermetic, and no per-test CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR override), the child gets
hermeticSkillsConfigDir() so typed /skill slash commands resolve instead
of dying as Unknown command before any model turn. Opted in at the three
runPlanSkill* helpers and the four direct-launch slash-command tests
(plan-design-with-ui, plan-ceo-mode-routing, autoplan-chain,
ship-idempotency).

New static tripwire (test/pty-skill-seeding-wiring.test.ts): any test
file that sends a slash command over the PTY must route through a
runPlanSkill* helper or pass seedSkills: true — an unseeded slash-command
test spends money and measures nothing. hermetic-wiring.test.ts now
blesses the repo-tree seeding path explicitly (config dir under runRoot,
symlinks into the repo checkout, never operator ~/.claude).

The CI "Register gstack skills for PTY smoke" step keeps a keep-me note:
container cross-mount symlinks defeat the TUI scanner and HOME is not
hermeticized, so the real-file copies there must survive this change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 63c52269daaffb833b3105ea9b4b99be6df8fec7)

* refactor(evals): single shared paid-test-set module

test/helpers/paid-test-set.ts is now the one definition of which test
files are paid (the exact globs package.json's test:gate expands).
scripts/test-free-shards.ts derives its free/paid exclusion from it
instead of a private regex list, dropping the dead
browse/test/security-review-fullstack.test.ts pattern (file no longer
exists). The sharded paid runner derives its enumeration from the same
module, so a file added to one list can no longer silently miss the
other.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit a7f36479a6a1f3656452370f5883371f3cb65623)

* feat(evals): env-driven lazy eval dir + shard-aware store and tooling

Importing eval-store no longer spawns the gstack-slug subprocess: the
module-level DEFAULT_EVAL_DIR constant is now a memoized defaultEvalDir()
resolved at collector construction. Resolution order: explicit
constructor arg, then GSTACK_EVAL_DIR, then slug detection — so the
sharded paid runner can point each shard child at its own
<evalDir>/shards/<slug>/ dir with plain env, no --preload.

Runs collected under a shards/ subdir record their slug in the eval
JSON (EvalResult.shard). findPreviousRun scans one shards/<slug>/ level
and prefers same-slug priors, so each shard baselines against its own
history instead of whichever shard flushed last. eval:list,
eval:summary, and eval:compare enumerate the same one level of shard
subdirs; eval:compare's no-arg mode also stops picking an in-progress
accumulator as the after-run.

eval-watch stays flat (documented follow-up): it tails a single dir for
live progress and gains nothing from per-shard baselines until the
runner emits a merged stream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit e1f53f7d9c7fe6b65877d843f2e25bd2e2d12ffd)

* feat(evals): sharded paid tier runner

scripts/test-paid-shards.ts runs the gate/periodic tier one Bun process
per test file, with an EXTERNAL wall-clock timeout that SIGKILLs the
shard's detached process group and an aggregate that distinguishes
passed / failed / timed-out / never-started — partial execution can no
longer read as a pass. Bun's native --shard/--isolate covers none of
this: no process-group kill (hung claude/codex PTY grandchildren
survive in-process isolation), no never-started taxonomy, no per-shard
env. Each shard child gets GSTACK_EVAL_DIR=<evalDir>/shards/<slug>/
(slug = test filename sans extension, stable across runs) so shard
baselines compare against their own prior runs.

Output classification lives in scripts/test-strict-output.ts (strict
exit-code derivation, incremental fail-line classifier, child signal
forwarding) so the runner and any future strict bun-test wrapper share
one implementation. Enumeration derives from the shared paid-test-set
module; tier exclusion fires only on an explicit whole-file
EVALS_TIER === '<other>' guard.

package.json gains test:gate:sharded / test:periodic:sharded, and
eval:bg:gate / eval:bg:periodic now run the sharded scripts with detach
timeouts sized to the worst case (gate: 49 shards x 30min / 4 jobs ~
6.2h -> 25200s; periodic: 59 -> 28800s).

test/paid-shards.test.ts pins enumeration, tier classification, and the
kill-and-continue property with a real busy-loop shard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5e76bd5931836257f896cedfe4e93912cb759c70)

* feat(security): hash-chained egress receipt ledger (core)

Port lib/egress-receipt from the v2 fork as TypeScript: writeReceipt
(sync, fail-closed via typed EGRESS_RECEIPT_FAILED), best-effort
writeOutcome, readLedger/listReceipts/verifyLedger, GSTACK_HOME ->
GSTACK_STATE_DIR -> ~/.gstack resolution, 0600 ledger under a 0700
security dir, and an mkdir spin lock (2.5s budget) with documented
>10s-mtime stale-lock reclaim.

Changes vs the fork:
- lastRawLine tail-reads the final 4KB instead of loading the whole
  ledger, so appends stay O(1) as the file grows.
- WARN-at-size: past 25MB writeReceipt emits one self-explanatory
  stderr warning per process (what the ledger is, how to inspect it,
  rotation TODO); verifyLedger gains a sizeWarning field. Rotation
  TODO carries the chain-genesis sketch (new generation's first record
  embeds the prior file's tail hash).

bin/gstack-egress-receipt is a bun script bridging shell callers:
write|outcome subcommands, exit 3 + EGRESS_RECEIPT_FAILED on stderr on
failure; --no-payload records sha256:null for git-class ops.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 619726a3d77d987a2e50151a5727b3faaaf5fc6a)

* chore(bin): delete dead brain-consumer/reader scripts

bin/gstack-brain-consumer and bin/gstack-brain-reader are byte-identical
dead scripts that POST the repo URL + a Bearer token to a /ingest-repo
endpoint gbrain removed (docs/gbrain-sync.md already documents the
removal in past tense). No live references remain; CHANGELOG mentions
are historical.

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(cherry picked from commit 254ddc69fc5a0270fcc973e36b6a81766d835d2d)

* feat(security): shared shell receipt helpers

bin/gstack-egress-lib.sh (sourced library, gstack-gbrain-lib.sh
precedent) provides _receipted_curl and _receipted_git: write the
egress receipt BEFORE the send via gstack-egress-receipt, hand curl the
SAME payload file via --data-binary @file so the receipt hash matches
the wire bytes exactly, then append a best-effort outcome. Per-call
fail policy: 'closed' refuses the send (return 3, problem/cause/fix
message on stderr) and 'open' warns and proceeds. Payload temp files
are consumed immediately per call — no EXIT traps, since callers like
gstack-telemetry-sync own their own EXIT trap and a sourced trap would
clobber it.

Tested end-to-end against a local Bun.serve listener: receipt sha256
equals the sha256 of the bytes the listener received, fail-closed
refusal never touches the network and carries the problem/cause/fix
stderr shape, fail-open warns and proceeds.

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(cherry picked from commit 6d067dce2d4c8815dec98be551763c85a3671357)

* feat(security): receipt core shell sinks

Wire the three core bash egress sinks through gstack-egress-lib.sh:

- gstack-telemetry-sync: the batch POST now writes the payload to a
  temp file, receipts those exact bytes fail-closed, and hands curl the
  SAME file. On refusal nothing is sent and the cursor does not
  advance, so the batch stays buffered for the next run. The HTTP
  status is recorded as the receipt outcome.
- gstack-update-check: fail-open receipts (warn + proceed) on the
  Supabase ping POST, both VERSION curls (via a local
  _receipted_version_fetch helper that skips non-network schemes), and
  git ls-remote. The ping receipt is written inside the backgrounded
  subshell, so it can never block the script's exit.
- gstack-brain-sync: fail-closed git-class receipts. The push receipt
  is written BEFORE the commit consumes the queue, so a refused receipt
  leaves the queue intact and the next run retries the whole drain
  (pinned by a new queue-intact-on-refusal test, including the
  problem/cause/fix refusal message shape). The retry-path fetch and
  retry push carry their own fail-closed receipts.

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(cherry picked from commit 3c60f699acceaf1c92a218874711e05fc17dca5d)

* feat(security): receipt TS module sinks + tunnel

writeReceipt (fail-closed, sha256:null — a subprocess or SDK owns the
wire bytes) before every TS-module network-bearing operation:

- bin/gstack-gbrain-sync.ts: before the gbrain code walk that ships
  repo content to the user's gbrain DB (may be remote Postgres). A
  refused receipt fails the stage with status refused-egress-receipt.
- bin/gstack-memory-ingest.ts: before the gbrain batch import of
  transcript pages. A refused receipt returns a system_error verdict
  without spawning the import.
- browse/src/server.ts: before both ngrok.forward call sites (start-up
  BROWSE_TUNNEL=1 path and the /tunnel/start endpoint). A receipt
  failure lands in the existing catch that tears the tunnel listener
  back down and refuses the start.

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(cherry picked from commit 5677d618a48fcd0ae2b068bf868781d90f809cb5)

* feat(design): receipted fetch for OpenAI calls

design/src/receipted-fetch.ts wraps every api.openai.com call: a
content-free egress receipt (sink design-openai, sha256 of the JSON
body — hash only, never the body) is written BEFORE the send. Polarity
is FAIL-OPEN: user-facing generation must not die because an audit log
hiccuped, so a receipt failure warns on stderr and the call proceeds.
Streams pass through untouched (response bodies returned as-is;
non-string request bodies receipted as sha256:null rather than drained
to hash).

All ten call sites converted with per-command payload classes:
generate, variants (injected fetchFn passes through), iterate (both
threaded and fresh paths), evolve (image + screenshot analysis), check,
diff, design-to-code, memory.

Unit-tested with injected fetch: receipt-before-send ordering, stream
passthrough, and fail-open on an unwritable ledger.

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(cherry picked from commit c0e5ff6639414ac2fd98e8ac3affb51401746b55)

* feat(security): receipt admin scripts + user git-ops (zero exceptions)

Wire the remaining shell egress through gstack-egress-lib.sh:

- gstack-gbrain-mcp-verify: both JSON-RPC probe POSTs (initialize +
  tools/list) receipted fail-closed via payload files (hash == wire
  bytes). A refused receipt lands in the NETWORK class — no send.
- gstack-security-dashboard / gstack-community-dashboard: the
  community-pulse GETs receipted fail-open (read-only stats must not
  break over an audit hiccup).
- gstack-gbrain-supabase-provision: api_call receipted fail-closed.
  Each retry attempt hands the helper a fresh copy of the body file
  (the helper consumes its payload). The receipt hashes the request
  body only — the PAT never reaches the ledger or any log. Refusal
  exits 8 without retrying.
- git-class sha256:null receipts, fail-open: gstack-artifacts-init
  (ls-remote, initial push, fetch/pull recovery, retry push),
  gstack-brain-restore (staging clone, existing-repo fetch),
  gstack-session-update (self-update pull).

gstack-team-init needs no wiring: every git clone in it is inside an
echoed instruction string, not an executed command.

The lib now self-locates with shell builtins only (no dirname), so
sourcing works under the whitelist-PATH test harnesses.

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(cherry picked from commit b8c5e2055b21ab72878b3e46f8047782ee65a11c)

* test(security): egress wiring tripwire + polarity contract

Static-grep tripwire pinning the egress-receipt wiring (threat model in
the header: the ledger is forensic observability of ATTEMPTED egress,
not an exfiltration control):

- Per-sink assertions: every wired TS module imports egress-receipt and
  calls writeReceipt; every wired shell sink sources
  gstack-egress-lib.sh with each network op under a receipt;
  ngrok-proximity check for server.ts; every design api.openai.com call
  routes through receiptedFetch.
- Absence assertions: the dead brain-consumer/reader scripts stay
  deleted (lstat, so a dangling symlink also fails).
- Polarity table pinned as data (fail-closed: brain-sync,
  memory-ingest, gbrain-sync, telemetry-sync, ngrok, mcp-verify,
  supabase-provision; fail-open: design-openai, update-check,
  dashboards, git-class user ops, context-bill --exact) plus per-file
  polarity spot-checks.
- NEW-SINK SCANNER with zero KNOWN_UNWIRED: sweeps bin/, lib/,
  scripts/, design/src, browse/src for curl, absolute-URL fetch(, and
  git remote ops (never local rev-parse/get-url; heredoc bodies and
  message strings excluded) and requires every hit to be receipted or
  in a REASONED exemption list where each entry carries its why.
  Preamble-generated skill prose documented out-of-scope in the header.
- Shebang tripwire: no bin/gstack-* file may carry a node shebang.

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(cherry picked from commit ff69ceeafaf9c017d539b6ad77ff8f95b680b979)

* feat(cli): gstack-egress reader

bin/gstack-egress (bun) — the auditor's view of the receipts ledger:

- list: one row per receipt (what gstack ATTEMPTED to send), with
  --since/--host/--sink filters and --json.
- verify: recompute the hash chain; exit 3 on tamper naming the first
  broken line; prints the sizeWarning when the ledger passes 25MB.
- grants: what CAN leave, built on the upstream config keys only
  (telemetry, artifacts_sync_mode, redact_repo_visibility,
  redact_prepush_hook via gstack-config get) — each grant names its
  file, key, and the exact revoke command.

CLI smoke tests spawn the real bin against a temp GSTACK_HOME,
including a broken-chain fixture asserting exit 3.

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(cherry picked from commit 9e24eca0f1069fea2ea69e7df4e9b256e93d59a3)

* feat(cli): context-bill — token bill-of-materials (stripped port)

lib/context-bill.ts, ported from the v2 fork and STRIPPED to the tiers
this repo's skills can exercise: ALWAYS-ON (per-skill frontmatter bytes
with dead-key and foreign-host-file flags), EAGER (SKILL.md + any
forced 'for every invocation' references), on-disk totals, --diff,
--budget, and --exact with the calibration table. The fork's
CONDITIONAL/TRANSITIVE/LAZY/FAST-PATH parsers understand only its
dispatcher layout and were dropped; the tier fields stay in the report
shape (empty/zero/null) so re-adding a parser is additive.
TOKEN_DIVISORS and their provenance docblock kept; --help notes
recalibration via --exact's calibration block.

Three upstream fixes over the fork:
(a) findSkillDirs treats the walk ROOT as a container — the repo root's
    router SKILL.md is billed AND its children are walked (the fork
    short-circuited and billed one skill); walkMd skips node_modules
    and dot-directories.
(b) installed-tree layout: subdirs that are their own repo checkout
    (a gstack/ clone inside ~/.claude/skills, detected by .git) are
    skipped, and directory symlinks (connect-chrome) are followed with
    a container-recursion cycle guard.
(c) ROUTER_KEYS widened to the upstream frontmatter contract {name,
    description, version, allowed-tools, triggers, preamble-tier}.

--exact writes an egress receipt (sink context-bill-exact, host
api.anthropic.com) BEFORE any count_tokens POST; if the receipt cannot
be written the run degrades to the offline estimate with a warning —
nothing is sent unrecorded. bin/gstack-context-bill is the bun shim.

Tests: fixture-tree ledgers, the three fixes, --diff/--budget exit
codes, --exact with injected fetch (envelope subtraction, receipt
ordering, fail-open degradation), CLI smoke test, and ground truth
against THIS repo via test/helpers/skill-census.ts.

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(cherry picked from commit 675c19876b87ec927b555f5f64c7f93130b3de90)

* test(catalog): aggregate discovery-surface budget with ratchet protocol

Every host loads every skill's frontmatter name + description at
discovery, every session. applyCatalogTrim in scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts
shapes each description and the 160KB per-file warn covers body size,
but nothing capped the aggregate frontmatter — the catalog could grow
one reasonable-looking description at a time. This test is that
enforcement layer.

Measures the catalog via test/helpers/skill-census.ts authoredSkills
(symlink-deduped, root router counted separately as the _gstack-command
alias line item): 53 skills + router = 4,420 bytes = 1,105
token-equivalents today, asserted <= 1,150 (~4% headroom). Per-skill
sub-cap of 260 bytes (largest today: design-consultation at 229), plus
a non-empty-description check.

Failure messages are self-service ratchets: they print the new total,
the delta, and the update protocol (bump the constant AND the
derivation comment in the same commit; trim instead of grow for
existing descriptions). Parser handles folded block scalars
(description: >-) for fork parity; import-free by design so it
survives generator refactors.

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(cherry picked from commit c106fb36f768181b80c257e5cff1cde4f435f9c0)

* fix(browse): extension token bootstrap moves to pinned-origin POST; /health carries no token

GET /health is now liveness/status only in every mode — both token
carve-outs (headed-mode disjunct AND chrome-extension:// Origin
disjunct) are removed. Token bootstrap is POST /extension-token on the
local listener: the Origin header must be exactly
chrome-extension://<GSTACK_EXTENSION_ID> and the Host header's hostname
must parse to 127.0.0.1 or localhost (parsed via new URL, never literal
equality — Host arrives as '127.0.0.1:34567'). Wrong origin/host → 403
with no detail. The tunnel surface 404s the endpoint (not in
TUNNEL_PATHS, verified by test).

The extension ID is pinned by a new "key" field (RSA public key) in
extension/manifest.json; browse/scripts/extension-id.ts reproduces the
ID derivation (first 16 bytes of SHA-256 of the DER public key, hex
mapped 0-9a-f → a-p). The private key is not committed anywhere —
unpacked/baked-in loads only need the public key.

Extension side: background.js bootstraps and refreshes the token via
POST /extension-token (403 → disconnected state); sidepanel.js direct
connect path does the same; sidepanel-terminal.js's dead /health token
fallback (read AUTH_TOKEN/authToken keys the server never sent,
hardcoded port) is replaced with the window.gstackAuthToken path.

MIGRATION NOTE: the manifest key pins the extension ID, so existing
installs' side-panel local state (saved port, snoozes) resets once —
explained in-product via a one-time notice (flag
gstack_id_migrated_v162). After upgrading the server, restart the
browser so the old service worker stops polling for a token GET /health
no longer serves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit e9a0b6847a2d17fe6656a4686b4efd0c8380eb09)

* docs: correct stale compiled-binaries claim; file three egress/eval follow-ups

CLAUDE.md's compiled-binaries section claimed browse/dist binaries are
tracked by git and appear as modified in git status — false since
64d5a3e4 (v0.11.16.0) untracked them, and actively harmful: it trained
agents to ignore dist binaries in git status. The section now states
the truth (untracked + gitignored; a dist binary in git status means
someone force-added it) and covers make-pdf/dist too.

TODOS.md gains the three follow-ups filed by the v1.62 port-wave
reviews: ledger rotation with chain-genesis records, launch-nonce
token bootstrap, and eval-watch shard-awareness.

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* fix: pre-landing review fixes for the v2 port wave

Review army (checklist + 5 specialists) + coverage/plan audits on the
assembled branch. Genuine correctness/security/hygiene fixes:

- test-paid-shards: strictTestExitCode now receives expectedFiles on the
  real bun path, so a shard that runs fewer files than planned (harness
  crash, nothing loaded) with exit 0 is no longer recorded 'passed' — the
  invisible-non-execution class the runner exists to kill. Pinned by the
  new test/strict-output.test.ts (also covers the chunk-boundary classifier).
- test-paid-shards: EVALS_TIER env is validated (gate|periodic) like the
  --tier flag, so a typo can't self-skip every test and exit 0 green.
- package.json: test:periodic:sharded sets EVALS_ALL=1, restoring the
  full-tier semantics the pre-shard script had (CI already set it; local
  eval:bg:periodic silently under-measured without it).
- brain-sync.test: run() pins HOME to the temp home so gstack-artifacts-init
  stops writing/clobbering the operator's real ~/.gstack-artifacts-remote.txt
  every free-suite run; afterEach now also scrubs the current filename.
- egress-receipt: cap each receipt field at 512B so a serialized line always
  fits the 4KB tail-read window — a longer line would make the next append
  hash a truncated prior line and verifyLedger report a permanent false
  TAMPER. warnLedgerSize short-circuits before statSync once fired (append
  hot path).
- gstack-egress: import.meta.dir (Windows-safe) instead of new URL().pathname
  so grants doesn't silently report defaults on Windows; strip control chars
  from ledger-derived fields on render so a crafted receipt can't spoof the
  auditor's view.
- extension/background.js + CLAUDE.md: renumber the identity-pin migration
  refs v1.62 -> v1.63 (main claimed 1.62.0.0; this wave queue-advances).
- egress-receipt-wiring: pin lib/context-bill.ts unconditionally (both land
  together now); drop the dead RunShardsOptions.tier field.

All fix-affected test files green; gate failures triaged as external-env
(codex/gemini CLI drift) or pre-existing (hermetic-canary fails identically
on base). Deferred polish tracked in the PR body + decision store.

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.63.0.0)

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

* docs: file TODO to harden plan-design-with-ui PTY detection

The v1.63 seedSkills change made this gate test execute for the first
time; it reliably times out because its terminal scraper can't parse the
(correctly-rendered) scope-gate AskUserQuestion out of a spinner-mangled
PTY buffer. Shipped skill behavior is correct — test-harness limitation.

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* chore: re-slot release as v1.62.1.0 (PATCH per user)

Main claimed 1.62.0.0 while the wave was in flight; the user chose the
PATCH slot over queue-advancing MINOR. Renumbers the identity-pin
migration notice (now version-free flag name so a re-slot never orphans
an already-set flag), the CLAUDE.md /health note, the CHANGELOG heading,
and the TODOS section titles.

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* fix(test): stop hard-requiring the literal ok) case label in gbrain-refresh guards

The extractor grepped for 'ok)' but the case label grew to
ok|timeout|thin-client) (#1964, #2051), so the whole file errored on
import — the free suite's only red for months. The extractor now matches
any label starting with ok and its alternations; all 7 guard assertions
run again.

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* fix(test): hermetic-canary probes with ${VAR:-} so nounset shells can't fail success

The probe echoed bare $CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH — when scrubbing WORKS
the var is unset, and under a nounset shell the echo errors, failing the
canary exactly when isolation succeeds. Defaulted expansions assert
identically under any shell. Fails identically on base; fixed here.

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* fix(evals): absorb codex/gemini CLI drift; external-service tests go periodic-tier

- codex exec gains --skip-git-repo-check: newer CLIs refuse exec in an
  untrusted non-git dir (our temp skill dirs) — empirically verified.
- gemini: --skip-trust was removed in gemini-cli 0.34 (argv parse error);
  dropped from the session runner and the benchmark adapter. A present-
  but-unusable CLI (deprecated individual code-assist auth path) now
  classifies as SKIP, not a false adapter failure; the benchmark live
  smoke skips on auth/rate_limit error codes (environmental) while still
  failing on timeout/unknown (the drift classes it exists to catch).
- codex-e2e, gemini-e2e, and benchmark-providers gain the canonical
  whole-file EVALS_TIER === 'periodic' guard per CLAUDE.md tiering rule 3
  (external service -> periodic) — the sharded gate runner now excludes
  all three (gate: 45 -> 42 shards).

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* fix(evals): parse single-logical-line AskUserQuestions in the PTY runner

When the PTY reflows a boxed AUQ, ALL options land on ONE logical line
after stripAnsi — parseNumberedOptions parsed one option per line, found
only '1.', and the >=2 check failed forever while the correct question
sat on screen (plan-design-with-ui timed out this way twice, with the
rendered scope-gate AUQ visible in both failure buffers). The cursor
line is now parsed as a stream of ascending N. tokens; DEC cursor-
visibility residue is stripped before matching; plan-design-with-ui's
budgets grow to fit observed ~6min preamble+thinking latency. Pinned by
test/pty-auq-single-line.test.ts using the real failure buffers; all 142
existing parser-consumer unit tests still green.

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* chore: restore v1.63.0.0 (MINOR — user-confirmed final slot)

The wave ships new capability (egress receipts + two CLIs, sharded paid
runner, hermetic skill seeding) at ~8K lines — MINOR scale per the
scale-aware bump rules. Supersedes the brief v1.62.1.0 re-slot; the
version-free migration flag means no state churn from the renumber.

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* test: spell out AskUserQuestion in the PTY single-line fixture

Rename test/pty-auq-single-line.test.ts to
test/pty-askuserquestion-single-line.test.ts and expand the AUQ
abbreviation in identifiers and comments. House style writes
AskUserQuestion in full in filenames, identifiers, and comments.

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* docs: sync every doc surface with the v1.63 release

/document-release audit (4-lane, all claims verified against branch code):

- README: gstack-egress + gstack-context-bill rows in the standalone-binaries
  table; Privacy & Telemetry gains the receipted-egress bullet (attempted-
  egress framing per the shipped threat model).
- ARCHITECTURE: /health is liveness-only, POST /extension-token endpoint row
  + bootstrap mechanics paragraph; new Egress receipt ledger subsection under
  Security model; eval persistence covers the sharded runner, GSTACK_EVAL_DIR,
  and the finalized-run baseline rule.
- CLAUDE.md: sharded test scripts in Commands; sharded semantics in the
  detached-evals section; PTY skill seeding in the hermetic section; egress
  invariant block beside the other server-egress invariants; catalog-budget
  ceiling beside the 160KB token ceiling; project-tree entries for
  lib/egress-receipt.ts, lib/context-bill.ts, scripts/test-paid-shards.ts.
- CONTRIBUTING: seedSkills + live-tree seeding in the hermetic paragraph;
  sharded runner in detached runs; catalog-budget in the Tier 1 list.
- BROWSER: extension token bootstrap section, tunnel egress receipts section,
  identity-pin migration note in manual install.
- REMOTE_BROWSER_ACCESS: tunnel-start receipt bullet in the security model.
- gbrain docs: /sync-gbrain + brain-sync egress-receipt behavior documented;
  dead consumer-token instructions removed (consumer machinery deleted this
  release); new fail-closed refusal added to the error catalog.
- CHANGELOG: measured-vs-ceiling catalog numbers, contributor notes for the
  external-service tier move and the PTY single-line AskUserQuestion parser,
  release date.
- TODOS: /health token-distribution TODO resolved by this release, removed;
  port-wave follow-up sections re-labeled to the shipped version.

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* docs: sweep drift that predates this release

Surfaced by the /document-release audit; every fix verified against the
current binaries:

- gstack-brain-init was replaced by gstack-artifacts-init in v1.27.0.0
  (hard-delete, no compat shim), but README, USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK,
  docs/gbrain-sync.md, and docs/gbrain-sync-errors.md still instructed
  users to run it — command-not-found on every follow. Same sweep updates
  ~/.gstack-brain-remote.txt to the canonical ~/.gstack-artifacts-remote.txt
  (legacy name still honored on restore, noted where users copy the file).
- gbrain-sync-errors.md headings re-matched to the literal messages the
  binaries print today (the doc's whole value is grep-by-exact-message):
  'gstack-artifacts-init: ~/.gstack/ is already a git repo pointing at:',
  'Remote not reachable via SSH:', 'Failed to create or find ...'. The
  already-a-repo fix now leads with the command's own set-url suggestion.
- docs/gbrain-sync.md 'Under the hood' linked a plan file that does not
  exist in the repo; replaced with the decisions themselves.
- SIDEBAR_MESSAGE_FLOW startup timeline: /pty-session responds with
  {terminalPort, sessionId, attachToken, leaseExpiresAt} (v1.44 shape,
  verified at browse/src/server.ts:1860), not the retired
  {terminalPort, ptySessionToken} pair.

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* docs: fold the Codex accuracy review of the release docs

Six findings, all verified against source before fixing:

1. 'Every send writes a receipt' overclaimed — fail-open sinks proceed with
   a stderr warning when the receipt write fails, so a fail-open send can go
   unrecorded (lib/egress-receipt.ts:8-14). Descriptive prose now says so;
   the receipted framing keeps 'attempted'.
2. 'Receipts hash the request body' is wrong for subprocess-owned sends —
   git pushes record sha256: null (lib/egress-receipt.ts:71).
3. 'grants shows every consent in force' overclaimed — it reports the four
   standing config settings (bin/gstack-egress:139-181). Reworded in
   README, ARCHITECTURE, and the CHANGELOG entry.
4. 'Zero-exception scanner' vs reality: the new-sink scanner carries a
   reasoned SCANNER_EXEMPT list (user-directed fetches, probes, instruction
   strings, skill prose). CLAUDE.md now names it.
5. Error-catalog cause/fix for the receipt refusal: the writer mkdirs the
   ledger dir itself, so 'missing' isn't a cause and bare chmod fails when
   it is absent — cause reworded, fix is mkdir -p && chmod.
6. gbrain-sync first-run steps described the retired binary's behavior:
   default repo is gstack-artifacts-$USER, and init PRINTS the gbrain
   hookup command (never auto-executes; bin/gstack-artifacts-init:384-419).

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Co-authored-by: Sinabina <sinabina@Sinabinas-MacBook-Pro-4.local>
2026-08-14 09:28:56 -07:00
Garry Tan d078622b73
v1.62.0.0 feat: plan-mode auto-select at the review scope gate (#2533)
* fix(evals): align plan-eng/design plan-mode + finding-floor smokes to their declared periodic tier

The #2077 demotion of these four stochastic tests to 'periodic' was inert:
E2E_TIERS declared periodic but the files self-gated on EVALS_TIER === 'gate',
so they kept running in the blocking gate lane and never in the weekly lane.

Flip the four self-gates to 'periodic' (headers/describe labels updated), add
a free static tier-alignment invariant test (dep-list filename mapping;
unmapped self-gated files are reported, never silently skipped), and name the
two plan-mode test files in their own touchfiles dep lists so the invariant
binds for them.

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* feat(pty-runner): scope-gate question/auto-select detectors + observation flags

Two render-shape-anchored detectors (whitespace-squished, like the Pattern-4/5
collapsed-form handling): isScopeGateQuestionVisible requires the question text
PLUS option-body text (native AskUserQuestion renders numbered options, prose
fallback renders lettered — the option body appears in both; narration doesn't),
and isScopeGateAutoSelectVisible requires the announcement prefix PLUS the
selected-B token.

runPlanSkillObservation gains scopeGateQuestionObserved /
scopeGateAutoSelectObserved high-water flags (attached at every return path) so
paid smokes can assert gate behavior across the whole run instead of the lossy
2KB evidence tail. runPlanSkillFloorCheck no longer counts a scope-gate render
toward auqObserved (tail-scoped exclusion) — the floor measures FINDING-driven
questions, and the gate could fire inside the 3s pre-target window.

Unit fixtures pin clean/native/collapsed positives, narration negatives, and
the verbatim template announcement string (template rewording fails here first,
before the paid smokes degrade to vacuous asserts).

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* feat(plan-eng/design-review): auto-select B in plan mode at the scope gate

In plan mode the scope gate's "What should I review? A/B/C" question is pure
friction: there is no branch diff and the target is the plan being drafted.
Both gates gain an ordered exceptions block, checked BEFORE asking:

1. Plan mode → auto-select B: review the active plan (in context or pasted),
   announce it in one line ("Scope gate: plan mode — auto-selected B
   (reviewing <target>)") so the user can interrupt; an explicitly different
   user-named target still wins; no plan drafted yet → ask as normal.
2. User-named target (outside plan mode): explicit-only — a path, a pasted
   doc, or the literal words "branch diff". A passing mention is not naming;
   when in doubt, ask.

Outside plan mode with no explicitly-named target, nothing changes. Plan-mode
is checked FIRST because the PTY harness seeds drafts as pasted user messages
(claude-pty-runner.ts:1600) — ordering makes the seeded smokes deterministic.

Pinning: seeded plan-mode smokes assert no gate render + announcement rendered
(eng test 2; new design seeded test); plan-mode-no-op extends to eng/design
(bypass must not misfire outside plan mode; first question must be the gate)
plus a named-target case proving the pasted target is consumed; a drift-guard
asserts the two hand-duplicated exceptions blocks stay identical modulo the
two variant slots and carry the announcement string the detectors pin.

Skeleton ceilings ratcheted with comments (eng 68k, design 89k; eng union
ratio 1.08→1.09) — measured 67,006 B / 88,226 B after regen.

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* fix(autoplan): skip the scope gate when following loaded review skills

autoplan Step 3 reads plan-eng-review / plan-design-review SKILL.md verbatim,
and its section skip list omitted the scope gate — so autoplan ingested a
hard-STOP AskUserQuestion that contradicts its every-question-auto-decides
contract. One skip-list line fixes it; a static toContain pin in
skill-validation keeps the entry load-bearing.

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* docs: file scope-gate resolver-extraction TODO (eng-review D5 follow-up)

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* fix(pty-runner): positional floor exclusion, flag builder, outcome union, token tracking

Review-army + adversarial findings on the scope-gate observability work,
all verified before fixing:

- Floor check: acceptance scanned the CUMULATIVE buffer while the scope-gate
  exclusion scanned only the 1500-byte tail, so an early gate render satisfied
  the floor vacuously once ~1.5KB of output accumulated (found independently
  by 4 review passes; predicate reproduced). Acceptance now scans only content
  APPENDED after the first gate render (positional anchor), and the LLM-judge
  'waiting' shortcut no longer fires while the gate menu is the pending render.
- High-water flags are built once and spread at every return path — the
  hand-spread pattern had already drifted (judge-waiting return omitted two
  flags), which made must-stay-false asserts vacuous on those paths.
- isScopeGateAutoSelectVisible: tense-tolerant selected/selecting/selects
  token (must-be-TRUE asserts shouldn't fail semantically-perfect paraphrases)
  and quoted-occurrence rejection (a model verbatim-quoting the announcement
  while declining must not trip must-stay-FALSE asserts). Fixtures added for
  both directions.
- PlanSkillObservation outcome union gains 'wrote_findings_before_asking'
  (returned at runtime via classifyVisible but missing from the type).
- trackTokens/tokensObserved: cumulative-buffer token high-water for
  consumption asserts (the 2KB evidence tail is lossy and the plan-file
  fallback is unreachable outside plan mode).
- New scope-gate-floor unit pins (from the ship coverage audit): both gate
  render forms trip acceptance and exclusion; a genuine finding AUQ is not
  excluded; tail-scoping semantics pinned.

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* test(evals): harden no-op asserts, close tier-invariant fail-open holes, pin gate question strings

- no-op regression: gate-must-ask is now UNCONDITIONAL for eng/design (the
  outcome==='asked' conditional let a silent-bypass plan_ready run sail
  through); eng/design cases force --disallowedTools so the pinned prose
  shape is contractual rather than hoping native AUQ renders match; the
  named-target case uses trackTokens for consumption and lists
  wrote_findings_before_asking in its diagnostic throw branch.
- tier-alignment invariant: both quote styles matched; zero-self-gate,
  mixed-tier, and owning-keys-without-E2E_TIERS-entries are all REPORTED
  instead of silently skipped (the fail-open holes three reviewers found).
- drift-guard: the generated gate menus must carry the exact question/option
  strings the PTY question detector anchors on — free CI fails before the
  paid smokes can go vacuous on a menu reword.
- touchfiles: corrected the no-op cost note for CI concurrency + retry
  semantics.

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* fix(ci): register plan-eng/design-review skills in PTY eval containers

The extended plan-mode-no-op smoke invokes /plan-eng-review and
/plan-design-review, but the fresh CI containers registered only
office-hours and plan-ceo-review — both new runs would return
'Unknown command' and fail every PR's gate job (Codex structured
review P1, verified against evals.yml). Registration loops, the
dangling-target fail-fast list, and the frontmatter checks (now a
loop over the same skill list, so the lists can't drift) all cover
the two skills.

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* fix(plan-eng/design-review): harden scope-gate exceptions against injection and ambiguity

Adversarial-review wording fixes (Claude adversarial F1-F8 + Codex
cross-confirmation), applied to both gate templates + regen:

- Host-anchored mode signal: only the host's own system messages (plan-mode
  reminder or active plan file path) arm the auto-select; plan-shaped text
  inside pasted documents, tool results, or fetched pages does NOT count —
  injected content can't disarm the consent gate or nominate the target.
- Multiple plan candidates: the host-referenced plan file wins; still
  ambiguous means ask.
- The DIFFERENT-target override carries the passing-mention guard.
- Plan mode + explicitly named target + no drafted plan resolves to the
  named target instead of a contradictory re-ask.
- The numbered ask-path rules are qualified ('When no exception above
  applied:') so they no longer restate an unconditional MUST-ask that
  contradicts the exceptions.
- 'Whenever this gate does ask — in any mode — it is a hard STOP.'
- Shared preamble: 'any AskUserQuestion the skill fires is the workflow
  operating within plan mode' (was 'the first AskUserQuestion is the
  workflow entering plan mode', which framed the opposite of the bypass);
  regenerates every skill.
- Ceilings ratcheted with attribution: plan-eng union ratio 1.10,
  investigate 1.10 (the ~250B shared-preamble reword lands the
  closest-to-ceiling skill at 1.092).

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.62.0.0)

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* fix(pty-runner): active-render gate veto in the floor check + honest periodic-wiring docs

Codex re-review P2s on the fix wave, both verified:

- A finding AUQ rendering within TAIL_SCAN_BYTES of the gate (model waiting,
  no further output) was vetoed by the blanket tail exclusion until timeout.
  The veto is now ACTIVE-RENDER-aware: parseNumberedOptions anchors the last
  cursor menu, so only a pending GATE menu vetoes; the judge fallback shares
  the same check. Residual (documented): prose gate + prose finding inside
  one tail — floors run the native-menu path in practice.
- The four demoted periodic tests are not in evals-periodic.yml's explicit
  matrix (a named instance of the pre-existing periodic-orphans TODO), so
  they run locally/manually until the PTY-capable periodic job lands.
  CHANGELOG claim softened accordingly; TODO filed with the wiring recipe.

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* docs: update project documentation for v1.62.0.0

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* docs: apply codex doc-review fixes for v1.62.0.0

- CLAUDE.md: scope the tier-alignment invariant claim (mapped files
  enforced, unmapped files reported)
- docs/skills.md: document the plan-mode auto-select scope gate for
  /plan-eng-review and /plan-design-review
- evals.yml: fix stale comment (PTY smokes register four skills, not two)

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* test: refresh ship golden baselines for the plan-mode preamble reword

The generate-completion-status.ts wording change ('any AskUserQuestion the
skill fires…') intentionally regenerates every SKILL.md; the byte-compare
goldens carry the generator's output and refresh with it.

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* fix(ship): custom-hooks-path detection false-negatives on git worktrees

The pre-push guard's HOOKS_IN_GIT_DIR check compared the hooks dir against
--absolute-git-dir, which in a linked worktree is .git/worktrees/<name>
while hooks resolve to the COMMON .git/hooks — so every Conductor worktree
read as a 'custom hooks path' and the consented guard install was skipped.
Match against the resolved --git-common-dir too (with a /nonexistent
fallback so a failed resolution can't collapse the case pattern into
match-everything). Verified live: this worktree now reports yes (was no),
and the main checkout still reports yes. Goldens refreshed (--host all).

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* docs: changelog bullet for the worktree hooks-detection fix

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* fix(evals): give the plan-ceo plan-mode smoke real budget headroom

Measured 2026-08-11: a clean isolated pass took 295.7s against the 300s
inner budget (4s of margin) and the same test timed out at ~308s three
times under concurrent eval load — a budget-edge flake in the gate lane,
not a behavior regression (it passed isolated on both this branch and
main). Inner budget 300s -> 420s, outer bun timeout 360s -> 480s, and the
test file is now named in its own touchfiles dep list so the tier-alignment
invariant binds for it.

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* fix(evals): 300s budget floor for the two 90s design-consultation SDK tests

Root cause of PR #2533's e2e-design CI failure: design-consultation-preview
failed 3 attempts at 0 turns/$0.00/93s — the session was up but the model's
first completion queued past the 90s inner budget under concurrent API load
(11 matrix jobs; the sibling research test booted its first tool at 4s, so
this is API-side queuing, not CPU boot contention). The test was selected
only because touchfiles.ts is a global touchfile; the tested behavior is
untouched by this branch.

90s budgets cannot absorb one slow first completion. Both 90s tests in the
file move to the repo's saturated-runner standard (300s inner / 360s outer,
matching review-dashboard-via and retro-base-branch). Deliberately NOT
re-arming the runner's inner timer on first stream event: an audit found
~100 outer bun-timeout literals sized inner+30-60s that a re-arm would
silently break — the structural options are written up in TODOS.md.

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2026-08-12 11:12:28 -07:00
Garry Tan 94993f7401
v1.61.0.0 fix wave: guards failing open / silent failures (9 fixes, 4 community PRs absorbed) (#2472)
* fix(careful): warn on chained rm even when the last target is safe

The safe-exception block whitelisted rm -rf of build artifacts by
extracting targets with a single greedy match (.*rm ...), which only ever
inspects the LAST rm in the command. A chain like 'rm -rf /; rm -rf
node_modules' was therefore judged solely by its trailing safe target and
allowed without warning, waving through the destructive 'rm -rf /'.

Gate the shortcut to single rm invocations: when any shell separator
(; | & newline, incl. JSON-escaped \n/\r from the grep extraction path)
is present, fall through to the destructive-pattern check, which warns on
any recursive rm. Single-command artifact cleanups still allow.

Adds 3 regression tests covering semicolon and && chains in both orders.

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* harden(careful): substitution separators + capital -R recursive flag (#2039)

Two residual fail-opens in the same guard PR #2040 hardened, both verified
by executing the script pre-fix:

- rm -rf $(./wipe-all)/node_modules silently allowed: the substitution token
  ends in a whitelisted suffix and the safe-exception early exit skipped ALL
  downstream checks. $( and backtick now count as chain separators; plain
  $VAR expansion stays allowed.
- rm -R / silently allowed: both greps required a lowercase r in the flag
  cluster; capital -R is the documented BSD/macOS recursive flag. Both greps
  now match -[a-zA-Z]*[rR].

Six new tests: substitution x2 -> ask, capital-R x2 -> ask, rm -Rf
node_modules single-command -> still allowed, escaped-newline branch
(existing code, previously untested), and a pinned deliberate FP
(cd app && rm -rf node_modules -> ask) documenting the fail-closed
direction on chains.

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* fix(context-restore): prefer the current branch's own checkpoint (#2052)

All worktrees of a repo share one origin-derived slug, so they share one
`~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/checkpoints/` dir. `/context-restore` loaded the
newest checkpoint across the whole dir, so in one worktree it could silently
restore a *sibling worktree's* newer checkpoint.

Step 1 now orders candidates current-branch-first (read from each file's
`branch:` frontmatter), keeping other branches as a fallback. A branch is
checked out in at most one worktree, so this stops cross-worktree contamination
while preserving Conductor cross-branch handoff: when the current branch has no
checkpoint of its own, the full newest-first set is still used.

- scan the 200 newest before partitioning so a current-branch checkpoint sitting
  below a burst of sibling saves is still found; output still capped at 20
- non-git / detached HEAD / branchless legacy saves fall back to the old
  newest-first behavior (back-compat)
- +5 regression tests in context-save-hardening.test.ts (the #2052 bug case
  fails on the old pipeline); regenerated SKILL.md + proactive-suggestions.json

Fixes #2052

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* fix(gbrain): pass --confirm-destructive on drift re-register (#1985)

ensureSourceRegistered() handles match-but-different-path by removing the
old source then re-adding it at the new path. The remove was issued as
`gbrain sources remove <id> --yes`, but gbrain >= 0.42 gates `sources
remove` behind `--confirm-destructive` (`--yes` alone no longer suppresses
the data-loss prompt). The remove therefore fails with "To proceed, pass
--confirm-destructive", which ensureSourceRegistered surfaces as "source
registration failed" — aborting the entire /sync-gbrain code stage for any
already-registered source whose path has drifted. The memory and brain-sync
stages still pass, so the code index silently stops refreshing.

The orchestrator's own safeSourcesRemove() already passes
--confirm-destructive; this brings the lib helper in line with that
convention. Keeps --yes for older gbrain.

Tests: extend the fake gbrain shim in gbrain-sources.test.ts to simulate
the gbrain >= 0.42 guard (remove without --confirm-destructive exits 1),
update the drift re-register assertion, and add a regression test that
proves the drift path no longer throws. Both fail on main with the exact
"To proceed, pass --confirm-destructive" error and pass with the fix.

Fixes #1985

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* harden(gbrain-sources): route drift remove through #1734 guards + realpath drift check

Absorbing #2031 un-blocked a destructive remove that bypassed the #1734
data-loss guards: ensureSourceRegistered's drift path issued
`gbrain sources remove` directly, without the detectAutopilot +
decideSourceRemove checks every other remove routes through via
safeSourcesRemove. gbrain >= 0.42's own prompt was accidentally blocking
that path; with --confirm-destructive passed it is live again.

- Drift remove now refuses LOUDLY (throws, actionable message) while an
  autopilot is active or when decideSourceRemove disallows; a silent
  changed=false would hide the drifted registration.
- decideSourceRemove's extraArgs (--keep-storage when supported) propagate
  to the remove call, matching safeSourcesRemove.
- Drift is realpath-normalized before being declared: a symlink alias of the
  same directory (macOS /tmp -> /private/tmp) is a match, not drift — the
  probable cause of #1985's reporter hitting the remove on an unmoved repo.
- Drift fires a loud stderr line (old -> new path); perpetual drift in logs
  is the trigger for promoting #1985's reindex-in-place design.

Tests: autopilot-active refusal (no remove in call log), fail-closed refusal
on unreadable sources list, --keep-storage propagation, symlink-alias
no-drift; existing drift tests pin the guard probes so a live autopilot on
the dev machine can't flip them.

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* fix(developer-profile): exclude mode:resources rows from SESSION_COUNT, TIER, NUDGE_ELIGIBLE (#2067)

Every /office-hours run appends a mode:"resources" bookkeeping row alongside
the real session row, so --read double-counted sessions (~2x): tiers promoted
early and the builder-to-founder nudge armed prematurely. The file already
filtered resources rows for LAST_*/CROSS_PROJECT; the same realSessions
filter now feeds SESSION_COUNT/TIER, and the nudge predicate is the faithful
allowlist (mode === 'builder') so a future mode #4 fails closed instead of
re-opening this bug.

8 regression tests: count vs resources noise, tier boundaries both sides,
nudge false-with-noise / true-at-3-builders, cross-project trailing row.

Absorbed from PR #1991 by @mvann (fix + tests commits; the PR's version-bump
commit is superseded by this wave's consolidated release commit).

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* fix(hooks): passThrough() two-branch contract — never emit permissionDecision:'defer' (#2035, #2006)

Every AskUserQuestion died with "Tool result missing due to internal error"
on current Claude Code builds (Desktop 1.14271.0, CC 2.1.177). Root cause:
the question-preference-hook emitted permissionDecision:'defer' on every
pass-through path. 'defer' is a real PreToolUse value, but since CC v2.1.89
its semantics are "pause this tool call for external resumption" (headless
resume) — never "abstain". Interactive sessions have nothing to resume the
paused call, so the tool orphaned. Pre-2.1.89 builds ignored the unknown
value, which is why the hook worked when it shipped and broke later.

The fix is the two-branch pass-through contract:
- no context -> exit 0 with EXACTLY empty stdout
- memory nuggets present -> hookSpecificOutput with hookEventName +
  additionalContext ONLY (the documented shape; plan-tune Layer 8 memory
  injection ships through this branch and keeps working)

defer() is renamed passThrough() so the function says what it does, and
docs/spikes/claude-code-hook-mutation.md's protocol contract (cited by the
hook header) is corrected in the same commit — it taught '"defer" — let
permission flow continue' and was the reintroduction vector.

Test contract rewritten in the same commit (13 assertions across 3 files,
verified fail-first against the unfixed hook): pass-through paths assert
exact-empty stdout (a garbage/partial write cannot slip past an
optional-chained parse), the nugget path asserts permissionDecision is
ABSENT while additionalContext survives, and a new tripwire asserts no
non-deny path ever puts the string "permissionDecision" on stdout. The
deny (auto-decide) and Conductor prose-redirect paths are unchanged.

Deployment: no migration needed — settings.json points at the absolute
bash shim which execs the .ts live; /gstack-upgrade delivers the fix.

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* fix(one-way-doors): unify credential noun net + wire it into the runtime (#2024)

Library fix: revoke/reset/rotate now share ONE noun alternation (api key,
token, secret, credential, access key, password) with optional plural s?.
Pre-fix leaks: "reset my secret", "reset my access key", "revoke my secret"
(mismatched per-verb lists) and every plural form ("rotate the credentials",
"revoke all tokens" — \b(...)\b cannot match a trailing s).

Runtime wiring — the regexes could never fire in production before:
- gstack-question-preference --check gains --summary-stdin: the question
  text pipes via stdin (never argv — summaries carry quotes/newlines/shell
  metacharacters) and feeds isOneWayDoor alongside the id, so an ad-hoc
  destructive question with a stored never-ask preference now forces
  ASK_NORMALLY. Empty/absent stdin keeps exact id-only semantics.
- question-preference-hook falls back to classifyQuestion(question text)
  when the registry lookup misses, so unregistered destructive questions
  pass through to a human instead of auto-deciding.
- question-tuning resolver prose shows the piped form (SKILL.md regen lands
  in the wave's release commit).

Tripwires (verified fail-first): full verbs x nouns x singular/plural matrix
with the #2024 repro rows, benign-summary no-over-match rows, stdin
transport survival (quotes/newlines), empty-stdin fail-safe, and hook
fallback both directions (destructive -> pass-through, benign -> deny).

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* fix(design): loud integer-flag contract for --count/--retry/--timeout (#2032)

design variants --count abc silently generated ZERO variants and exited 0:
parseInt(NaN) flowed through Math.min into the generation loop bound. The
same NaN class was live on the two sibling flags in the same file:
--retry abc made generate() a silent no-op (attempt <= NaN never true, null
output, exit 0) and --timeout abc killed the serve board ~immediately
(setTimeout(NaN)).

New design/src/flag-utils.ts: parseIntFlag (pure, unit-testable) +
normalizeIntFlag (CLI wrapper). Contract matches the --viewports precedent
(error loudly on nonsense — these commands spend real image-API money, a
silent fixup hides typos from calling agents): undefined -> default; bare
flag/empty/non-integer ("3.7" rejected, not truncated)/below-min -> exit 1
with usage hint; above-max -> clamp with stderr warning. --count normalizes
at the variants() consumption site so programmatic callers are covered, with
the ceiling derived from STYLE_VARIATIONS.length instead of a magic 7; the
CLI passes the raw flag through (a pre-parseInt would truncate "3.7").

Tripwires live in test/design-flag-utils.test.ts — deliberately under test/,
not design/test/, which is invisible to the bun test glob, TEST_ROOTS, and
every workflow (wiring design/test/ into CI is a captured TODO).

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* fix(gbrain): thin-client state — remote-MCP brains no longer classify as broken-config (#2051)

A thin client (remote-HTTP MCP brain, no local engine by design) probed
`gbrain sources list`, which gbrain's dispatch guard REFUSES on thin clients
(exit 1, no recognized error string), so the classifier fell to its
defensive broken-config default and every suppression gate silently hid
brain-aware blocks from exactly the users on a shared team brain.

New 'thin-client' state, detected PRE-probe from gbrain's own remote_mcp
config marker via the existing gbrainConfigPath() helper (mirrors gbrain's
isThinClient(); honors GBRAIN_HOME; zero network, immune to error-string
drift), with a /thin[- ]client/ stderr backstop in the probe catch. Remote
reachability is deliberately NOT probed by the classifier — that is the
#1964 pathology; gbrain calls degrade gracefully at use time, and the detect
JSON says so honestly (gbrain_thin_client: {probed: false}).

The state is admitted at every suppression gate — gstack-gbrain-detect
--is-ok (drives setup + gbrain-refresh), gen-skill-docs' detection override,
gstack-config gbrain-refresh — while the sync stages (code/memory/dream)
SKIP with an accurate reason: code indexing runs on the brain server, memory
syncs via the remote brain's artifacts pull. The two consumer classes need
opposite answers, which is why this is a distinct state and not a
skip-the-probe special case. sync-gbrain Step 1.5 and setup-gbrain prose
route thin-client to proceed, never into broken-config remediation.

detectMcpMode secondary generalization: url-match against the config's
remote_mcp.mcp_url (deterministic — gbrain mounts at the generic /mcp path)
-> name pattern gbrain[-_]* -> stdio command token; gbrain_mcp_mode stays a
3-value enum.

Tripwires: end-to-end --is-ok exits 0 on a thin-client fixture AND still
exits 1 on broken-config (the gate didn't widen); pre-probe + stderr-fallback
classifier paths; 4 detectMcpMode identification cases incl. a non-matching
url that must NOT false-positive.

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* release: v1.60.0.0 — regen SKILL.md, VERSION, CHANGELOG, TODOS follow-ups

- Regenerate all SKILL.md from templates (question-tuning --summary-stdin
  prose from #2024, context-restore branch preference from PR #2054,
  sync-gbrain/setup-gbrain thin-client prose from #2051) + llms.txt.
- VERSION + package.json -> 1.60.0.0 (bin/gstack-next-version, queue-aware:
  #1815 claims 1.59.0.0, #2213 claims 1.59.1.0).
- CHANGELOG release summary + itemized entry crediting @jbetala7 (x3) and
  @mvann.
- TODOS.md: three eng-review follow-ups (design/test CI wiring + documented
  pre-existing retry-after flake, /context-save worktree identity, gbrain
  reindex-in-place conditional on the new drift log).

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* fix(resolvers): compress --summary-stdin preamble prose to fit parity budget; re-bless ship goldens

The v1.57.7.0 parity suite caps investigate's generated size at 1.09x
baseline; the #2024 question-tuning prose (duplicated into every tier->=2
skill) tipped it to 1.092. Compressed to a single inline command + short
pointer (the full rationale lives in bin/gstack-question-preference's
header and the one-way-doors module docs). Ship goldens re-blessed against
the final resolver text (conscious template-change acknowledgment, per the
golden-file regression contract).

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

* fix(e2e): office-hours-spec-review turn budget fits the carved skill layout (#2473)

The test failed deterministically with error_max_turns at 9 turns on main
and this branch alike (CI attempt logs + local main repro). Root cause from
the failing transcript: the Spec Review Loop content is carved out of
office-hours/SKILL.md into office-hours/sections/, so the agent needs
discovery hops (grep SKILL.md -> ls sections/ -> read the section) before it
can write — 8 tool turns + the closing text turn = 9 > the 8-turn budget,
which predates the carve. Observed failures wrote a CORRECT summary on tool
turn 8 and died on the closing turn.

maxTurns 8 -> 12. Verified: PASS locally post-fix (7 turns this run — the
extra headroom absorbs discovery-path nondeterminism).

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

* fix(e2e): review-dashboard-via session budget survives runner contention (#2473)

The test failed on CI (and its baseline run) with the timeout signature:
0 turns, $0.00, exactly 183s, 3/3 attempts — the spawned claude -p session
never emitted a single stream event before the 180s inner timeout. The
file's tests run concurrently on one runner; session startup queues behind
sibling sessions, and this test had the tightest budget in the file (the
240s-budget tests in the same job passed). A clean local run takes 270s
wall for 4 turns, confirming 180s was too tight even without contention.

Inner timeout 180s -> 300s; outer bun timeout 240s -> 360s to keep headroom
over the inner budget. Verified: PASS locally post-fix (4 turns, 270s).

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

* fix(e2e): retro-base-branch session budget survives runner contention (#2473)

Same class as review-dashboard-via, one test over in the same file: /retro
is a long multi-step flow whose clean pass measures 225-239s — a coin flip
against the 240s inner budget. First CI run passed at 225s; the rerun timed
out at the 240s line on all 3 attempts (exitReason "timeout"); the local
verification run passed at 239s, ONE second under the old cap.

Inner timeout 240s -> 360s; outer bun timeout 300s -> 480s for headroom.
Verified: PASS locally post-fix (17 turns, 239s).

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

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Co-authored-by: Jayesh Betala <jayesh.betala7@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Vann <9221873+mvann@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-08 09:28:45 -07:00
Garry Tan 960c3a8d6c
v1.60.2.0 fix: free-suite drift on dev machines (eval-list cwd, gemini regex, observability floor) (#2470)
* fix(test): eval-list CLI spawns from neutral cwd so slug detection can't dodge the fixture store

getProjectEvalDir() probes cwd-relative .claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-slug;
with cwd=ROOT on a dev machine the self-symlink makes it succeed, routing reads
to an empty project-scoped dir instead of the seeded legacy ~/.gstack-dev/evals.
Neutral cwd + absolute script path fails both probes deterministically — same
behavior as CI.

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

* fix(test): case-insensitive remediation-hint match for reworded Gemini NOT-READY message

The message now leads with 'Export GEMINI_API_KEY...' (free-tier OAuth
deprecation); the old pattern only knew lowercase 'export'.

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

* fix(test): observability check 11 floor 6 -> 5 after shell-free spawn removed promptFile unlink

aa3bd6f0 deleted the prompt temp file (and its /* non-fatal */ marker) when it
dropped shell interpolation. The invariant — every runner I/O path wrapped
non-fatally — still holds at the 5 remaining sites, now named in the comment.

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

* docs(todos): P1 — free-suite exit code masked by in-process force-exits

Five browse test files setTimeout(() => process.exit(0), 500) inside the shared
bun process; the suite can exit 0 before the summary with real failures masked.
Receipts + fix path filed.

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

* chore(release): v1.60.2.0

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 15:08:12 -07:00
Joshua France a3259400a3
Merge pull request #2264 from time-attack/time-attack/wave-test-infra-isolated-review
fix: harden test infrastructure and iOS device QA
2026-07-14 18:33:46 -07:00
t 4ad55e2eef Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into time-attack/wave-test-infra-isolated-review 2026-07-14 16:51:31 -07:00
Joshua France 2beb636f7c
Merge pull request #2234 from time-attack/time-attack/issue-2194-pglite-lock
fix(gbrain): distinguish PGLite locks from malformed config
2026-07-14 16:47:26 -07:00
Joshua France 050abc7aae
Merge pull request #2222 from time-attack/fix-brain-trust-policy-reject
fix(gstack-config): accept @local endpoint ids for brain_trust_policy
2026-07-14 16:46:17 -07:00
Joshua France 15c069631b
Merge pull request #2221 from time-attack/fix-gstack-issue
fix(benchmark): gemini stream-json content/stats parse (#2159)
2026-07-14 16:38:04 -07:00
Joshua France e284c8e0cd
Merge pull request #2218 from time-attack/plan-daily-gstack-pr
fix(repo-mode): reuse canonical cached project slug (#2212)
2026-07-14 16:35:41 -07:00
t 7efb596ced docs(ios-qa): document regeneration and device verification flow 2026-07-14 16:35:30 -07:00
t c378074ab7 fix(ios-qa): recover device tunnels safely after relaunch 2026-07-14 16:35:30 -07:00
t 145fe2d4d1 fix(ios-qa): make SwiftUI device taps observable and reliable 2026-07-14 16:35:30 -07:00
t 8e25d1583d fix(ios-qa): generate app-owned bridge accessors deterministically 2026-07-14 16:35:30 -07:00
Joshua France 490c5ad8ba
Merge pull request #2227 from time-attack/fix/basic-ftp-cve-2026-39983
fix(deps): pin basic-ftp to 5.3.1 to fully clear CVE-2026-39983 and 3 sibling HIGH advisories
2026-07-14 16:34:24 -07:00
Joshua France bf6e823f2f
Merge pull request #2228 from time-attack/case-insensitive-domain-blocklist
fix(browse): case-insensitive exfiltration-domain blocklist matching (#2190)
2026-07-14 16:32:52 -07:00
t ea648b7dff fix(careful): fail closed for compound recursive deletes 2026-07-14 12:56:22 -07:00
t a2a447a117 fix(safety): classify credential actions consistently 2026-07-14 12:56:10 -07:00
t 239d73afc4 fix(hosts): validate suppressed resolver names 2026-07-14 12:56:10 -07:00
t 0b869898ed fix(ios-qa): make generated Swift manifests valid on first run 2026-07-14 12:56:09 -07:00
t 1aa5283ddd fix(gbrain): canonicalize remotes with trailing slashes 2026-07-14 12:56:09 -07:00
t 7e23aecfc5 fix(gbrain): parse nested context query filters 2026-07-14 12:56:08 -07:00
t 45d0fb2b54 fix(eval): validate eval list limit 2026-07-14 12:56:08 -07:00
t aa3bd6f042 fix(test-harness): spawn claude without shell interpolation 2026-07-14 12:56:07 -07:00
t 5cb8761d36 fix(test-harness): measure first response on first NDJSON line 2026-07-14 12:56:07 -07:00
Sinabina cbf8a2bec2 fix(gbrain): classify PGLite connect locks 2026-07-10 16:51:16 -07:00
t 279fda4dc5 fix(browse): case-insensitive exfiltration-domain blocklist matching
urlBlocklistFilter compared URLs against the exfiltration blocklist with
case-sensitive substring checks, so an uppercased sink (https://WEBHOOK.SITE/x)
bypassed the guard and reached the scoped browser agent. Normalize the page URL
and extracted content URLs to lowercase before comparing, and make URL
extraction scheme-insensitive so HTTPS:// links are still caught.

Fixes #2190

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 14:39:32 -07:00
t 8b53302983 test(deps): tripwire that no basic-ftp < 5.3.1 resolves in bun.lock
Parses package.json overrides + every resolved basic-ftp specifier in bun.lock
(including nested paths like get-uri/basic-ftp) and fails if any is below 5.3.1.
Deterministic and offline. Fires on the pre-fix tree (basic-ftp@5.2.0) and would
also catch a direct-dependency-only bump that leaves a nested vulnerable copy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 13:58:07 -07:00
t f55e27097c fix(deps): override basic-ftp to 5.3.1 to clear CVE-2026-39983 + 3 sibling HIGH advisories
basic-ftp reaches the tree only transitively:
  puppeteer-core > @puppeteer/browsers > proxy-agent > pac-proxy-agent > get-uri > basic-ftp

Versions <= 5.3.0 carry four HIGH advisories, all fixed in 5.3.1:
- GHSA-chqc-8p9q-pq6q (CVE-2026-39983) FTP command injection via CRLF
- GHSA-6v7q-wjvx-w8wg incomplete CRLF protection (USER/PASS + MKD bypass)
- GHSA-rpmf-866q-6p89 DoS via unbounded multiline control-response buffering
- GHSA-rp42-5vxx-qpwr DoS via unbounded memory in Client.list()

Pin via a bun `overrides` entry rather than a phantom direct dependency.
Overriding forces every basic-ftp in the tree to 5.3.1, including get-uri's
nested copy; `bun audit` then reports zero basic-ftp advisories (total 37 -> 33,
HIGH 13 -> 9). A direct-dependency bump leaves get-uri/basic-ftp at the
vulnerable version and audit still flags all four.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 13:58:07 -07:00
Sina db149a6162 fix(gstack-config): accept @local endpoint ids for brain_trust_policy
endpoint-hash returns "local" for stdio/PGLite, but validators only
allowed hex suffixes, so setup-gbrain could not persist trust policy.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-07-10 11:21:19 -07:00
Sina c7e182baa2 fix(benchmark): skip-trust for headless gemini + drop release metadata
Pass --skip-trust so temp/untrusted workdirs work in headless
benchmarks (mirrors Codex --skip-git-repo-check). Revert VERSION,
CHANGELOG, and package.json bumps — leave release bookkeeping to
maintainers / /ship, matching community PR practice.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-07-10 10:38:46 -07:00
Sina 5d93ce278d test(benchmark): full post-CLI gemini e2e + GEMINI_API_KEY auth path
Exercise resultFromGeminiStream against current stream-json fixtures
(including empty-success hardening). Recognize GEMINI_API_KEY and map
IneligibleTierError to auth — personal OAuth free-tier is no longer
supported by gemini CLI.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-07-10 09:38:06 -07:00
Sina f155481b78 chore: bump version and changelog (v1.60.2.0)
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-07-10 09:28:48 -07:00
Sina 58e9881d6e fix(benchmark): parse current gemini stream-json content/stats shape
GeminiAdapter was reading message.text and result.usage, so current CLI
content/stats events produced empty $0 success rows. Accept content with
an assistant role guard, stats token fallbacks, init model, and treat
empty exit-0 output as an error (#2159).

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-07-10 09:28:48 -07:00
Sina 8aab6dfb7e fix(repo-mode): reuse canonical cached project slug (#2212)
gstack-repo-mode was re-deriving slugs from origin and writing twin project dirs; consume gstack-slug's cached sanitized slug instead.
2026-07-10 03:09:13 -07:00
Garry Tan 7c9df1c568
chore(release): v1.60.1.0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 23:49:09 -07:00
Garry Tan 80d944a2df
docs(todos): periodic CI matrix covers 9 of ~66 e2e files — file the coverage decision
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 23:49:09 -07:00
Garry Tan 88dec06907
fix(test): autoplan-dual-voice sandbox registers skills + assertions read real stream-json
Root cause of months of silent local failure: the sandbox copied skill dirs to
the repo root, but claude >= 2.x resolves slash commands strictly from
registered skills, so /autoplan short-circuited with 'Unknown command' (0
turns, ~1s) on every attempt. Install /autoplan + review skills at
project-level .claude/skills/ (same pattern as skill-routing-e2e).

Also: the transcript filter matched entry.type === 'tool_use', a shape that
never appears at the top level of raw stream-json, so assertions only ever saw
the final result text; filter on assistant/user events instead. Hang
protection accepts the Phase 1 review dispatch (Agent/Task tool call carrying
review instructions) as progress evidence, since full Phase 1 completion is
15+ min of subagent work. Budget raised to 10 min / 40 turns.

Invisible in CI: the file is in neither evals.yml nor evals-periodic.yml
matrices (coverage decision filed in TODOS.md).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 23:49:09 -07:00
Garry Tan bb4de3926f
fix(test-harness): return promptly when a timed-out child leaves pipe-holding orphans
proc.kill() only signals the sh -c wrapper; the claude child survives as an
orphan that inherited our stdout/stderr pipes, blocking the stream drain until
it exits (observed: a 600s spawn timeout stretching to 1431s and tripping bun's
per-test timeout with no result). On timeout, cancel the stdout reader; race
the stderr drain against child exit + 5s grace. Streamed transcript lines
survive the cancel, so callers still get their evidence.

Regression test: test/session-runner-timeout.test.ts (fake claude spawns a
pipe-holding orphan; fails in 30s without the fix, passes in 8s with it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 23:49:09 -07:00
Garry Tan 11de390be1
v1.58.5.0 feat: first-run activation scaffold + gstack router front door (#2078)
* feat: first-run activation — project-aware scaffold, router front door, onboarding nudges

Adds the activation system that drives a new install toward a concrete first move:
- bin/gstack-first-task-detect: local-git+filesystem repo classifier emitting one
  validated enum bucket (greenfield/code_<lang>/branch_ahead/dirty_default/clean_default),
  portable timeouts, fail-safe empty output.
- generate-first-run-guidance.ts: unified preamble section — first-run project-aware
  scaffold + returning-session plan->review->ship tip, gated on a persistent .activated
  marker and never run in headless. Detection wired lazily in generate-preamble-bash.ts.
- SKILL.md.tmpl: top-level gstack skill is now a pure router (browse body removed; it
  lives in /browse), routing any request and sending browser/QA work to /browse.
- setup: first-move nudge on first install. office-hours: closing handoff that launches
  the next review via the Skill tool.
- telemetry-ingest: accept onboarding/first_task_scaffold_shown/handoff/route event types.

* test: cover first-run detection + repoint browse-content assertions to /browse

- New unit tests for every detection bucket, the eval-safe enum contract, and the
  first-run gating (test/preamble-first-task-scaffold.test.ts); periodic E2E that runs
  the detector through the real harness (test/skill-e2e-first-task-scaffold.test.ts).
- Repoint browse-content assertions (gen-skill-docs, audit-compliance, skill-validation,
  LLM-judge eval) from the root skill to browse/SKILL.md following the router split;
  add a regression pinning that the router carries no browse body.
- Register first-task-scaffold touchfiles + periodic tier; bump parity/carve size caps
  ~1-2KB per skill for the shared first-run-guidance preamble section.
- Refresh ship golden fixtures for the preamble addition.

* chore: regenerate SKILL.md + llms.txt for first-run activation

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.58.5.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): repoint bws skillmd-* setup-block assertions to browse/SKILL.md

The skillmd-setup-discovery / -no-local-binary / -outside-git E2E tests extracted
the `## SETUP`→`## IMPORTANT` browse binary-discovery block from the root SKILL.md.
P2 moved that block to browse/SKILL.md (end anchor is now `## Core QA Patterns`),
so the slice came back empty and the `browse/dist/browse` guard failed. Repoint to
browse/SKILL.md. Verified: 7/7 e2e-browse pass locally.

* fix(test): tolerate skill-discovery race in PTY plan-mode smoke

The e2e-pty-plan-smoke suite (office-hours / plan-mode-no-op) failed in CI with
`Unknown command: /office-hours` (claude exited ~10s) while passing locally. Root
cause: a cold CI container's overlay-FS scan of the symlinked ~/.claude/skills
registry finishes AFTER the runner's 8s boot grace, so the first `/skill` send
reaches claude before the skill is indexed and is rejected as unknown. The runner
gave up on the first "Unknown command:" line.

runPlanSkillObservation now re-sends the skill command up to 3x (6s apart),
re-marking the buffer each time so stale scrollback can't re-trip the check,
before concluding the skill is genuinely unregistered. A real dangling-symlink /
missing-skill still surfaces as 'exited' (after retries), preserving the original
diagnostic. Pure-helper contract unchanged: 95/95 unit tests pass.

This is a pre-existing harness bug (fails identically on #2077's own branch, which
introduced the suite) surfaced while shipping the activation feature.

* debug(ci): temporarily instrument pty-smoke skill discovery

Capture claude version, env, registry tree, and a claude -p discovery probe to
pin why /office-hours isn't discovered in CI (retries proved it's not a race).
Temporary — revert once the registry fix is identified.

* chore: revert pty-smoke harness experiments (race-retry + CI debug step)

Diagnosis is conclusive and the experiments aren't the fix, so restore the
harness to its original state (net-zero diff vs main for both files).

What the CI debug step proved: `claude -p` returns READY — claude v2.1.187 fully
DISCOVERS /office-hours from the symlinked registry. Only the interactive PTY TUI
rejects it as "Unknown command" (and it received the full command text). So the
e2e-pty-plan-smoke failure is a claude 2.1.187 interactive-TUI regression (skills
discovered by `claude -p` aren't exposed as TUI slash commands), pre-existing in
the #2077 harness and failing identically on its own origin branch — unrelated to
this activation PR. The race-retry can't help (the TUI genuinely lacks the
command); the debug step also tripped actionlint (shellcheck SC2012). Both reverted.

* fix(ci): copy SKILL.md as real files in pty-smoke registry (cross-mount symlink)

The e2e-pty-plan-smoke suite failed with "Unknown command: /office-hours" in CI
while passing locally. Root cause (proven, not guessed): claude 2.1.187's
interactive-TUI skill scanner does not follow the /github/home -> /__w cross-mount
symlink the registry used for per-skill SKILL.md. Evidence: a CI debug step showed
`claude -p` discovered the skill (printed READY), and a local macOS repro with the
identical symlinked registry recognized /office-hours — isolating the failure to
the container's cross-mount symlink, not registration content, claude version,
duplicate names, or a race.

Fix: register the per-skill SKILL.md + sections as REAL copies (same mount as
$HOME) so the TUI reads them directly. The gstack root stays a symlink — the
preamble's runtime bash resolves bin/* and sections/* through it and bash follows
cross-mount symlinks fine.

* fix(ci): guard rm expansion in pty-smoke registry (shellcheck SC2115)

* fix(ci): also register pty-smoke skills project-scoped (cwd/.claude/skills)

The real-file user-dir registration still left the TUI rejecting /office-hours in
the container. claude's interactive TUI surfaces /slash commands from the PROJECT
dir (<cwd>/.claude/skills); the smokes run with cwd=$REPO whose .claude/skills is
gitignored (absent on a fresh CI checkout), so the user-dir registry feeds
`claude -p` (READY) but not the TUI. Populate $REPO/.claude/skills with real
SKILL.md + sections copies (no gstack symlink there — it would point at its own
parent; runtime paths use the user-dir gstack symlink).

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-25 09:42:45 -07:00
Garry Tan 9fd03fae9e
v1.58.4.0 fix: high-priority community bug wave + PTY plan-mode smoke gate (#2077)
* fix(gbrain): stop forcing GBRAIN_PREPARE on transaction-mode poolers (#1965)

buildGbrainEnv auto-set GBRAIN_PREPARE=true whenever DATABASE_URL targeted
port 6543, and the /sync-gbrain capability check exported it for the rest
of the skill run. Both had the semantics inverted: gbrain auto-disables
prepared statements on transaction-mode poolers because they break every
write there ("prepared statement does not exist"); GBRAIN_PREPARE=true is
gbrain's documented override for SESSION-mode poolers on 6543, not a
requirement for transaction mode. The #1435 search symptom the auto-set
worked around was fixed gbrain-side.

Remove both force-sets. A caller-set GBRAIN_PREPARE (either value) still
passes through untouched, preserving the session-mode-on-6543 escape hatch.
isTransactionModePooler stays exported.

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

* fix(gbrain): classify probe timeout as its own status; sync proceeds instead of skipping (#1964)

The 5s engine probe misclassified healthy-but-slow engines (cold Supabase
pooler connections measured at 6.9-10.7s) as broken-config, so /sync-gbrain
silently skipped code+memory and told the user their config was malformed.

- New "timeout" status: probe killed at the deadline with no recognized
  stderr pattern. Default deadline is now 15s, overridable via
  GSTACK_GBRAIN_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS (tests set 300ms against a fake that
  sleeps 2s).
- Sync stages PROCEED on timeout with a stderr warning naming the env knob;
  a genuinely-dead engine surfaces its real error at the first operation
  instead of a false config diagnosis.
- Consistency everywhere "ok" gated behavior: gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok
  exits 0 on timeout, and gen-skill-docs' detection gate accepts it, so a
  slow engine no longer silently suppresses brain-aware features.
- Status cache: key now includes the effective probe timeout (raising it
  invalidates a cached timeout) and GBRAIN_HOME; config detection honors
  GBRAIN_HOME so relocated-home users stop being misclassified as
  missing-config.

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

* fix(bins): cygpath-normalize SCRIPT_DIR for bun imports; surface learnings-log errors (#1950)

Under Windows git-bash, pwd yields a POSIX path (/c/Users/...) that Bun on
Windows cannot resolve as an ES module specifier. gstack-learnings-log
interpolates SCRIPT_DIR into a bun -e import, so every invocation died with
"Cannot find module" — and 2>/dev/null swallowed the error, silently
dropping every AI-logged learning for Windows users.

- 3-line cygpath -m guard in gstack-learnings-log and gstack-question-log
  (which gains the same import shape in the next commit). Matches the
  duplicated IS_WINDOWS convention in setup; no shared shell lib exists.
- learnings-log adopts question-log's set +e / TMPERR capture pattern
  wholesale: validation errors now print to stderr. The old
  `if [ $? -ne 0 ]` check was dead code under set -euo pipefail — the
  script exited at the failing assignment before reaching it.
- New test/bin-windows-bun-import-paths.test.ts: static invariant (any
  bash bin interpolating $SCRIPT_DIR into a bun -e import must carry the
  guard) + behavioral end-to-end run invoked via `bash <bin>` — added to
  the windows-free-tests workflow list so the conversion is proven on the
  only platform where the bug exists.

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

* fix(question-log): dedupe INJECTION_PATTERNS via lib/jsonl-store (#1934)

bin/gstack-question-log carried a local copy of the injection-pattern list,
so pattern fixes to lib/jsonl-store.ts never propagated — including the
/override[:\s]/i false-positive fix arriving via community PR #1940.
Import the shared hasInjection instead (enabled by the previous commit's
cygpath guard). question-log also gets the lib's stricter superset
(human:, disregard, from-now-on, approve-all patterns).

Tests pin the contract in a #1940-order-independent way: an "Override:
ignore all previous instructions" header is rejected, "prose overrides the
deterministic table" is accepted, and a static invariant keeps local
INJECTION_PATTERNS duplicates out of the bin.

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

* fix(security): community-pulse + both dashboards never report fake zeros (#1947)

The security-signaling surface failed open at three layers — every failure
mode read as a reassuring "0 attacks" / "0 installs":

- community-pulse edge function: supabase-js returns {data,error} without
  throwing, and all five queries discarded `error` — a DB outage produced
  real-looking zeros via the SUCCESS path, and the catch (also returning
  zeros with HTTP 200) was unreachable for query failures. Every query now
  destructures and throws; the catch serves the stale cache (marked
  "stale": true) when one exists, else 503 {"error":"pulse_unavailable"}.
  Success responses carry "status":"ok" so clients can distinguish
  authoritative data from legacy backends. NOTE: the edge function deploys
  out-of-band (supabase functions deploy community-pulse).
- gstack-security-dashboard: captures the HTTP status; non-200 / network
  failure / error body / missing section → "unknown — backend error";
  jq missing → "unknown — install jq" (the lossy grep fallback broke on
  nested arrays and under-reported attacks as zero — removed); a 200
  without the new marker shows figures with an "unverified (legacy
  backend)" note. Also fixes a latent display bug: the TOTAL grep matched
  the digit 7 inside "attacks_last_7_days" and misreported every count.
- gstack-community-dashboard: same class — curl || echo "{}" plus
  grep || echo "0" printed "Weekly active installs: 0" on any failure.
  Now "unknown — backend error (HTTP N)".

test/security-dashboard-fallback.test.ts pins the matrix (200+marker,
200-legacy, 503, network failure) x (jq present, jq absent) for both bins:
"unknown" states never render as 0.

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

* fix(telemetry): redact error_message spans before they leave the machine (#1947)

error_message was uploaded with only quote/newline escaping — stack traces
and failed-API errors can embed credentials, private paths, and hostnames,
and the sync path strips only _repo_slug/_branch.

New lib/redact-engine.ts export redactFindingSpans(): replaces EVERY
finding's span with <REDACTED-{id}> regardless of tier (applyRedactions is
the interactive PII-only path and exits nonzero on credential findings, so
it can't serve machine egress). Returns null when a span can't be located —
callers drop the whole payload rather than risk a leak.

gstack-telemetry-log pipes error_message through it at LOG time, so the
local JSONL at rest is clean too; surrounding text survives for crash
triage. FAIL CLOSED: bun missing, engine error, or non-JSON-string output
all null the field. Tests pin: embedded ghp_ token → <REDACTED-github.pat>
with context intact; redactor unavailable → null; raw bytes on disk never
contain the token.

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* fix(redact): prepush guard fails closed on git failure; /ship owns hook install (#1946)

Two gaps closed:

1. Fail closed. The git() helper returned "" on ANY non-zero exit or
   maxBuffer overflow (status null), addedLinesFor produced an empty
   string, and the push sailed through unscanned — fail-open on exactly
   the oversized-diff case where a large secret-bearing blob is most
   likely. The diff call now uses a strict variant that throws; main
   blocks with a clear message naming the GSTACK_REDACT_PREPUSH=skip
   escape valve. Probe calls (symbolic-ref, rev-parse, merge-base) keep
   the permissive helper — their failures are normal control flow.

2. Install path. The hook was installed by nothing ("opt-in, installed by
   nothing" was the issue's words). ./setup runs in the gstack checkout —
   the wrong repo for a per-project hook — so it gets a one-line hint
   only. /ship owns per-repo install: config redact_prepush_hook=true +
   hook missing → silent install (consent already given); config unset +
   no ~/.gstack/.redact-prepush-prompted marker → one-time machine-wide
   AskUserQuestion offer, answer persisted. ship/SKILL.md regenerated in
   this same commit (check-freshness bisect discipline).

Tests: unscannable diff (bogus SHAs) → exit 1 + valve named; empty-but-
successful diff → exit 0; static asserts pin setup as hint-only and the
ship template as the installer surface.

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* feat(redact): six new credential patterns — GitLab, HuggingFace, npm, DigitalOcean, Bearer, GCP SA (#1946)

Coverage gaps from the #1946 security review, including token types for
tooling gstack itself drives (glab):

HIGH (block): gitlab.token (glpat-/glptt-/gldt-), huggingface.token (hf_),
npm.token (npm_), digitalocean.token (dop_v1_), gcp.service_account (the
JSON-escaped "private_key" form that dodges pem.private_key's literal-block
match when minified, confirmed by "private_key_id" proximity).

MEDIUM (warn): auth.bearer — the most FP-prone shape in the set (docs are
full of "Authorization: Bearer <token>"), so it requires header-context
proximity and the same entropy>=3.0 + placeholder validator recipe as
env.kv. "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" never fires; calibration over coverage,
per the cries-wolf principle.

All shapes are linear-time; test/redact-pattern-lint.test.ts covers them
automatically. Engine tests add positive + placeholder-negative cases per
pattern.

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

* test: coverage-audit additions for the fix wave

Ship Step 7 gap-fill (all passing, 248 tests across the touched suites):
memory + dream stage probe-timeout proceeds, gbrain-detect override paths,
stale-flag passthrough, 200-body-missing-.security fail-closed case,
telemetry redaction edges, and credential-pattern edge cases.

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

* fix: pre-landing review fixes

Review army findings (1 critical, auto-fixed with regression tests):

- CRITICAL (security specialist, verified live): redactFindingSpans spliced
  only the regex capture span, and pem.private_key / gcp.service_account
  capture just the BEGIN-header — the key body survived "redaction" and
  shipped via telemetry. Marker-only patterns now drop the whole payload
  (null, fail closed). Overlapping spans (Bearer+JWT on the same bytes) are
  coalesced before splicing so stale offsets can't leave partial secret
  bytes behind.
- gitStrict: drop the dead `|| r.status === null` disjunct (null !== 0
  already covers it); add the signal-kill/null-status regression test the
  docstring promised.
- security-dashboard human mode flags stale snapshots ("figures may be out
  of date") instead of presenting frozen counts as current.
- community-dashboard marker check uses jq when available — the grep-only
  variant misclassified whitespaced/reserialized bodies as legacy.
- telemetry fail-closed test now shadows bun with a failing stub
  (deterministic on any host layout); stale "five status cases" describe
  title renamed.

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* fix: adversarial review fixes (Claude + Codex cross-model passes)

Both adversarial passes ran against the wave; every FIXABLE finding landed
with a regression test:

- probeTimeoutMs clamps to >=1ms: a fractional override floored to 0, and
  execFileSync treats timeout:0 as NO timeout — the probe that exists to
  bound hangs could hang forever (found by both models independently).
- /ship silent hook install now requires the hooks dir to live inside
  .git: with core.hooksPath (husky's COMMITTED .husky/), the chaining
  installer would have renamed the team's committed pre-push and written a
  machine-local wrapper into the working tree (found by both models).
- gstack-config gbrain-refresh accepts the "timeout" status — the last
  consumer still gating on literal "ok" (Codex); gstack-gbrain-detect's
  config-derived fields honor GBRAIN_HOME so the detection JSON can't
  report status ok alongside config_exists false (Codex).
- prepush: a remote sha absent locally (shallow clone / stale fetch) falls
  back to the merge-base/empty-tree range — scans MORE, never blocks a
  legitimate push into training users toward --no-verify.
- dashboards: curl's own 000 no longer doubles to "HTTP 000000"; the
  community dashboard flags stale snapshots like the security one; array
  sections parse via jq (the sed/grep loops truncated at the first ']');
  the no-jq marker grep tolerates whitespace.
- telemetry: multi-line redactor output nulls the field instead of
  corrupting the JSONL record; setup's hint fires only when the config key
  is genuinely unset (an explicit false is a recorded decline); the /ship
  prompt marker honors GSTACK_HOME.

Kept as designed (cross-model tension noted): Bearer stays MEDIUM in the
prepush gate — a HIGH Bearer would block every docs example; the entropy
validator can't eliminate that FP class, and MEDIUM warns visibly.

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.57.11.0)

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

* docs: P1 TODO — eval harness live progress + incremental persistence

Root-caused during this ship: a killed eval run was indistinguishable from a
healthy one for hours (per-file output buffering across mega test files, no
incremental eval-store writes, no honest liveness signal). Full context and
starting points in the entry.

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

* test: fix operational-learning E2E fixture — copy lib/jsonl-store.ts

Pre-existing breakage, proven on main: gstack-learnings-log has imported
lib/jsonl-store.ts (shared injection patterns) since v1.57.5.0 / #1910, but
the fixture copies only the bin scripts — the bin exits 1 before writing
anything, on main silently (stderr swallowed) and on this branch loudly
(the #1950 error-surfacing made the four-day-old failure visible). A real
install always ships bin/ and lib/ together; the fixture now does too.
Verified: the fixture-shaped invocation writes the learning (exit 0) with
lib present, exits 1 on both main and this branch without it.

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

* fix(ios-qa): isolate E2E tests under --concurrent (3 real races)

The ios-qa E2E file failed intermittently under `bun test --concurrent`
(the eval harness default). Three distinct shared-state races, all fixed:

1. Shared pidfile: a module-level `workDir` reassigned in beforeEach was
   clobbered by parallel tests, so concurrent daemons collided on the same
   pidfile and the loser returned `already_running`. Each test now gets its
   own dir via makeWorkDir().
2. process.env path globals: tests set GSTACK_IOS_AUDIT_PATH /
   _ATTEMPTS_PATH / _ALLOWLIST_PATH on the shared process env; concurrent
   tests stomped each other's audit/attempts destinations. Threaded
   auditPath/attemptsPath/allowlistPath through DaemonOptions (and
   mintForCaller) as explicit args — env is no longer load-bearing.
3. afterEach cleanup race: the per-test cleanup drained a shared dir array,
   so the first test to finish deleted still-running tests' workDirs
   mid-assertion. Moved to afterAll (cleans once, after all settle).

Verified: 5/5 clean full-suite runs at --max-concurrency 15 (was
intermittent); daemon unit suite 91/91; daemon source compiles. The paths
default to the env-derived locations when options are omitted, so the
production CLI path is unchanged.

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* test(pty): pin spawned claude to EVALS model chain (default claude-sonnet-4-6)

launchClaudePty spawned the interactive `claude` TUI with no --model flag, so
the child inherited the operator's ~/.claude/settings.json model. On a
slow-thinking model that meant 5+ min of extended thinking on empty plan-mode
context, timing out the plan-mode smoke tests regardless of contention. Pin the
model via opts.model ?? EVALS_MODEL ?? 'claude-sonnet-4-6' — byte-identical to
session-runner.ts:144, so PTY and `claude -p` evals always agree.

Pushed before extraArgs (last flag wins, so a per-test --model still overrides).
Placement leaves the spawn region byte-stable for a clean merge with the
in-flight hermetic-env branch. Plumbed model through the three plan-skill
wrappers. Static-grep tripwires guard the pin, its fallback chain, the
before-extraArgs ordering, and all three wrapper forwards.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(pty): detect markdown bold-bullet prose AUQs (fixes office-hours smoke)

office-hours auto-mode renders its mode question as `- **Building a startup**`
markdown bullets (office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl:102) with no letter/number marker.
isProseAUQVisible only matched `A)`-style lettered or `1.`-style numbered
options, so the question went undetected: the model surfaced it at ~2m19s
(well under the 300s budget) but the harness kept scoring the run "working"
off the spinner glyphs and timed out — a false timeout on a question that was
already on screen.

Add Pattern 3: when an interrogative line ('?') is present AND 3+ bold-bullet
markers (`- **`) appear in the 4KB tail, classify as a prose AUQ. Bold is the
discriminator vs incidental prose bullets; the line anchor is dropped (stripAnsi
can collapse option lines) and the existing `❯ 1.` cursor gate still defers to a
live native list. Wires through the existing classifyVisible 'asked' path and the
timeout high-water-mark, so office-hours now classifies 'asked' instead of
'timeout'. Five unit cases: the office-hours render passes; no-'?', <3-bullet,
plain-bullet, and native-cursor cases stay false.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(pty): detect stripAnsi-collapsed prose AUQs + judge spinner-precedence

The plan-eng/plan-design plan-mode + finding-floor smokes timed out even when
the skill HAD rendered a complete prose AskUserQuestion and was waiting: the PTY
strips cursor-positioning escapes, collapsing the option newlines/spaces so
"A) ..." arrives as "A(recommended)" / "-B:" and "Reply with A, B, or C" as
"ReplywithA,B,orC". Every line-anchored detector (Patterns 1-3) returns false on
those bytes, so proseAUQEverObserved never latched and the run timed out on a
question that was already on screen.

Add Pattern 4/5: a two-signal collapsed-form detector — a reply/recommendation
marker (space-insensitive "reply with [A-D]", "Recommendation:", or
"(recommended)") AND 2+ distinct A-D letters each punctuated by ) : or (. The
conjunction is what separates a real AUQ from incidental report prose; verified
true on the verbatim failing-run buffers where Patterns 1-3 return false.

Also fix the Haiku judge spinner bias: of 614 verdicts, 569 were 'working' and
95 of those noted a question was visible — Claude Code keeps the spinner
animating at an idle prose decision, so the judge coin-flipped. Add a precedence
override: when an option list AND a Recommendation/Reply instruction are both
visible, classify WAITING even with spinner glyphs. Kept the strict dual-signal
gate (never option-list-alone) so auto-decide-preserved doesn't flip.

5 unit tests pin the two-signal contract (2 true on real collapsed bytes, 3
false guards). 90 -> 95 pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(plan-review): ask-first scope gate for plan-eng + plan-design review

On an empty/cold invocation, plan-eng-review and plan-design-review would dive
straight into repo exploration (plan-eng) or a 7-pass mockup+audit (plan-design)
and only ask the user much later, if at all. plan-ceo-review already asks first
via an unconditional Step-0 gate and behaves well; these two did not.

Add a hard-STOP scope gate as the FIRST operational instruction in each skill
(above the design-doc check / pre-review audit / mockup defaults it explicitly
overrides): the first tool call must be AskUserQuestion confirming the review
target, before any git/Read/Grep/Glob/Bash or mockup generation. Under
--disallowedTools the options render as plain column-0 lettered prose with a
Recommendation + "Reply with A, B, or C" line so the answer is detectable.

This is correct cold-start UX (confirm what to review before grinding a full
review on nothing) and it is the product half of the plan-mode smoke fix; the
harness collapsed-form detector is the deterministic half that catches the ask
however it renders. Templates + regenerated SKILL.md (default variant).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(tiers): reclassify stochastic plan-eng/plan-design ask-first smokes as periodic

plan-eng-review and plan-design-review run a long explore/audit before their
first AskUserQuestion, so whether the plan-mode + finding-floor smokes reach a
terminal outcome within the 300s/600s budget depends on stochastic ask-first
compliance (measured ~50-67%/run even with the hardened gate). Per the
"non-deterministic -> periodic" tiering rule, move the four affected smokes
(plan-eng/plan-design review-plan-mode + finding-floor) to periodic.

The deterministic harness fix (collapsed-form detector + judge precedence) and
the ask-first gate lift these from always-failing to mostly-passing and are the
real product+harness improvements; periodic monitoring tracks the rate weekly
without blocking PRs on an LLM coin-flip. plan-ceo/plan-devex ask-first reliably
and stay gate-tier.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(evals): gate the deterministic PTY plan-mode smokes in CI

The real-PTY plan-mode smokes never ran in CI — the gate was local-only. Add an
e2e-pty-plan-smoke matrix suite running the two deterministically-reliable ones
(office-hours-auto-mode, plan-mode-no-op) so a regression there blocks PRs. The
stochastic plan-eng/plan-design ask-first smokes stay periodic (touchfiles
E2E_TIERS) and are not CI-gated.

A fresh CI container has no ~/.claude.json, so the spawned interactive `claude`
would wedge on the onboarding + API-key-approval dialog. Add a scoped seed step
(hasCompletedOnboarding + key approval, its own ANTHROPIC_API_KEY env) before the
run — mirrors what the hermetic E2E child env seeds. Per-suite timeout override
(35 min) via matrix.suite.timeout so the PTY suite has headroom for --retry 2
without bumping the other 12 suites. Report runner count 12 -> 13.

Validate via workflow_dispatch before relying on the gate (PTY-in-CI is new).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(evals): install gstack skill registry for the PTY smoke suite

The first dry-run of e2e-pty-plan-smoke failed: the spawned interactive `claude`
printed "Unknown command: /plan-ceo-review". .claude/skills is gitignored, so a
fresh CI checkout has no gstack skill registry and the TUI can't resolve
/office-hours or /plan-ceo-review.

Add a Register step (scoped to the suite, after Seed, before Run) that mirrors
setup's --no-prefix user-scoped registry minimally: $HOME/.claude/skills/gstack
-> repo (resolves the preambles' absolute ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/* and
<skill>/sections/* paths) + per-skill SKILL.md/sections symlinks for the two
skills these tests invoke. HOME is /github/home in this container and the runner
adds no HOME/CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR override (no hermetic mode), so $HOME is the right
anchor — the Seed step already proved claude reads it. No ./setup (binary build
+ Chromium + fonts + /dev/tty prompt); SKILL.md + bin/ + sections/ are committed.

Self-validating: fails the step loudly on a dangling symlink or missing
`name:` frontmatter, so a moved target surfaces here instead of as a silent
35-min "Unknown command" timeout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.58.4.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 07:15:19 -07:00
Garry Tan a861c00cfa
v1.58.3.0 feat: gbrowser anti-detection Layer C stealth (#2047)
* feat: Layer C stealth — chrome.*, Notification, per-install hardware, toString Proxy (gbrowser T1+T3+D6)

Three additions stacked into the existing applyStealth() init script
to close the visible automation tells that today push GBrowser users
into Google's /sorry/index captcha and similar:

T1 — Strip Playwright's automation default args:
  --enable-automation                              (kills "Chrome is being
                                                    controlled" infobar)
  --disable-popup-blocking, --disable-component-update,
  --disable-default-apps                           (Patchright's list — each
                                                    is a documented tell)

  Now centralized in STEALTH_IGNORE_DEFAULT_ARGS export, used by BOTH
  launchHeaded() and handoff() (the headless → headed re-launch path).

D6 — Drop "GStackBrowser" UA branding suffix:
  Real Chrome's UA ends `Safari/537.36`, not `Safari/537.36 GStackBrowser`.
  The branded suffix was a high-entropy classifier for any vendor that
  grep'd UA for known automation/test-browser strings. Branding still
  lives in the wrapper .app name + Dock icon + tray — does not need
  to leak via the UA string for the product to be "GBrowser." Resolves
  the "looks like Chrome but identifies as GStackBrowser" contradiction
  codex review #18 flagged.

T3 — Layer C init-script additions in stealth.ts:

  1. Function.prototype.toString Proxy (must run first). Wraps every
     patched getter / function in a WeakSet so they report
     `function NAME() { [native code] }` at every recursion depth,
     defeating the depth-3+ integrity check
     (fn.toString.toString.toString().includes('[native code]')).

  2. window.chrome.runtime / chrome.app / chrome.csi / chrome.loadTimes
     restoration with full enum shape (OnInstalledReason, PlatformArch,
     PlatformOs, etc.) + method bodies. Real Chrome ships these; their
     absence is universally checked. Vendor research (gbrowser plan
     deep-dive on Cloudflare + DataDome) confirmed both vendors probe
     this shape directly.

  3. Notification.permission aligned to 'default'. The existing inline
     addInitScript already spoofs permissions.query({name:'notifications'})
     to return 'prompt' — Notification.permission being 'denied' while
     Permissions returns 'prompt' is a cross-source inconsistency that
     detectors flag specifically.

  4. Per-install hardware values via GSTACK_HW_CONCURRENCY /
     GSTACK_DEVICE_MEMORY env vars (set by gbd's host_profile.go from
     system_profiler + sysctl). Reporting real host values within the
     Chrome shape avoids the cross-user GBrowser fingerprint cluster
     that hardcoded defaults would create. Codex review #10 flagged
     hardcoding as creating contradictions across Apple Silicon / Intel
     / UA-CH architecture.

  5. Selenium 25-global cleanup + PhantomJS + NightmareJS + Watir +
     Playwright (__pwInitScripts, __playwright__binding__) static-name
     deletion. The inline block continues to handle the dynamic
     cdc_/__webdriver/__selenium/__driver prefixes.

D7 (codex correction) kept: still do NOT fake navigator.plugins or
navigator.languages. Synthesizing those triggers MORE consistency
flags from modern fingerprinters than letting Chromium surface them
natively.

Test coverage:
- 15 new tests in stealth-layer-c.test.ts covering: launch-flag
  exports, script structure, toString-Proxy installs first, every
  spoof present, hardware values interpolated from input (not
  hardcoded), Selenium global cleanup spot-check, no GStackBrowser
  leak in stealth payload, backwards-compat exports preserved.
- All 8 existing stealth-webdriver tests still pass.
- All 2 existing browser-manager-unit tests still pass.

For GBrowser specifically: this is the gstack-side half of Phase 1 / T1
+ T3 + D6 in the anti-detection plan. The gbrowser repo's submodule
pointer bump will land alongside this.

* feat: buildGStackLaunchArgs — Pack 1 cmdline-switch construction for gbrowser

New stealth.ts export that turns the GSTACK_* env vars (already populated
by gbrowser's gbd from host_profile.go) into the --gstack-* cmdline
switches the Pack 1 Chromium patches read at WebGL getParameter,
NavigatorUA::userAgentData, NavigatorConcurrentHardware::hardwareConcurrency,
and NavigatorDeviceMemory::deviceMemory time.

Wired into all three launchArgs sites: launch() (headless), launchHeaded()
(real product path), and handoff() (headless → headed re-launch).

Mapping:
  GSTACK_GPU_VENDOR      → --gstack-gpu-vendor
  GSTACK_GPU_RENDERER    → --gstack-gpu-renderer
  GSTACK_PLATFORM        → --gstack-ua-platform (with mapping:
                            MacARM/MacIntel → macOS, Win32 → Windows,
                            Linux x86_64 → Linux)
  GSTACK_GPU_CHIPSET     → --gstack-ua-model
  GSTACK_HW_CONCURRENCY  → --gstack-hw-concurrency
  GSTACK_DEVICE_MEMORY   → --gstack-device-memory

Each switch is emitted only when its env var is non-empty — empty
values fall through to the patch's "no override" path, which returns
the real Chromium native value. Safe to ship on Chromium builds
without the Pack 1 patches applied (zero behavior change).

The patches themselves live in the gbrowser repo at chromium/patches/
{webgl-vendor-spoof,ua-client-hints-stealth,worker-navigator-stealth}.patch.
Both halves (gstack arg construction + gbrowser C++ patches) must
land + Chromium rebuild before the spoof reaches the WebGL/UA-CH/
hardware accessors. Currently dormant until then.

Tests (browse/test/stealth-layer-c.test.ts):
  7 new buildGStackLaunchArgs cases — empty env, all-populated, partial,
  platform mapping (MacARM/MacIntel/Win32/Linux), unrecognized platform
  fallthrough, vendor-with-spaces escape-safety.
  All 32 stealth/browser-manager tests pass.

For GBrowser specifically: gstack-side half of the Pack 1 flag plumbing.
gbrowser repo will bump the submodule pointer to this commit, then re-run
bun run test/anti-bot/evidence-run.ts to verify creepjs's "33% headless"
score drops after Pack 1 + Chromium rebuild.

* feat: buildGStackLaunchArgs adds --gstack-suppress-prepare-stack-trace

Pack 2 / B11 flag plumbing for the new
error-preparestacktrace-stealth.patch in gbrowser/chromium/patches/.

Always emit --gstack-suppress-prepare-stack-trace unless the caller
explicitly sets GSTACK_CDP_STEALTH=off in the environment. Off by
default in patch behavior (no-op without the C++ patch), so this is
safe on stock Playwright Chromium too.

Closes the Cloudflare canary trick where a page sets
Error.prepareStackTrace and watches for it to fire during CDP
serialization of a logged Error object.

Tests:
  All 33 stealth/browser-manager tests pass. New cases:
  - GSTACK_CDP_STEALTH=off disables suppression
  - empty env still emits the always-on flag (count=1)
  - all-populated env now emits 7 flags (was 6)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): enable Chromium sandbox on headed launchPersistentContext

Mirrors v1.40.0.1 from main lineage (PR #1617). Cherry-picked onto
gbrowser-anti-detection so the GBrowser submodule can consume the fix
without waiting for main to merge.

Playwright auto-adds --no-sandbox whenever chromiumSandbox !== true
(playwright-core/lib/server/chromium/chromium.js:291-292). The headless
chromium.launch() site set the option; the two headed sites
(launchHeaded() and handoff()) did not. Every headed launch on macOS
and Linux showed Chromium's yellow "unsupported command-line flag:
--no-sandbox" infobar.

shouldEnableChromiumSandbox() centralizes the Win32 / CI / CONTAINER /
root heuristic that previously lived only in the headless path's
explicit --no-sandbox push at :225. All three launch sites now use the
helper, and six unit tests pin the policy across darwin, linux, win32,
CI, CONTAINER, and root.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* v1.40.0.2 fix(browse): Cmd+Q on managed Chromium stops triggering supervisor respawn

Three browser.on('disconnected') handlers in browse/src/browser-manager.ts
(launch, launchHeaded, handoff) each exited with a non-zero code on every
disconnect, regardless of cause. Process supervisors that consume our exit
code (gbrowser's gbd HealthMonitor in cmd/gbd/health.go) treated user
Cmd+Q identical to a Chromium crash and respawned with exponential
backoff, so the visible browser kept reappearing after the user closed it.

Add resolveDisconnectCause(browser) that reads the underlying ChildProcess
exitCode + signalCode (waiting up to 1s for the exit event if the
disconnected event fired first). Exit code 0 + no signal = clean user
quit; anything else = crash, signal-kill, or OOM.

Wire the resolver into all three disconnect handlers:
- launch() (headless): clean → exit 0, crash → exit 1 (was always 1)
- launchHeaded() (headed): clean → exit 0, crash → exit 2 (was always 2)
  onDisconnect() cleanup callback still runs in both cases.
- handoff() (re-launch): same as launch() via the helper.

Preserve the per-path crash codes (1 vs 2) so any supervisor that
differentiated headed vs headless crashes keeps working.

Seven new unit tests in browse-manager-unit.test.ts cover the resolver
across already-exited, signal-killed (SIGSEGV / SIGKILL), async exits,
and null-browser inputs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): apply stealth on every launch path + share automation-artifact cleanup

handoff() built cmdline args but never called applyStealth, so a handed-off
browser had no JS stealth (no webdriver mask, no chrome.* shape, no toString
proxy). And the cdc_/Permissions cleanup shim lived inline in launchHeaded()
only, so headless launch() reported Notification.permission='default' without
the matching permissions.query='prompt' answer — the exact cross-source
inconsistency the shim exists to prevent.

Move the cleanup into AUTOMATION_ARTIFACT_CLEANUP_SCRIPT inside applyStealth so
all three launch paths (launch, launchHeaded, handoff) get identical stealth,
and call applyStealth(newContext) in handoff() before restoreState() navigates.

A static tripwire in browser-manager-unit.test.ts fails CI if any launch path
drops the applyStealth call again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): make --gstack-suppress-prepare-stack-trace opt-in, not default-on

buildGStackLaunchArgs() pushed the flag unless GSTACK_CDP_STEALTH=off, i.e.
on-by-default — contradicting its own comment ("off by default, only for
gbrowser builds"). The switch is read by a C++ patch that only exists in
gbrowser; on stock Playwright Chromium it is an unknown switch.

Flip to opt-in: emit only when GSTACK_CDP_STEALTH is on/1/true. gbd opts in by
exporting GSTACK_CDP_STEALTH=on; stock installs leave it unset so the flag
never reaches a Chromium that wouldn't understand it. Comment now matches code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(browse): correct stale stealth comments

The file-level stealth.ts docstring claimed "we DON'T fake navigator.plugins"
while the same file now ships EXTENDED_STEALTH_SCRIPT, which does fake plugins
when GSTACK_STEALTH=extended. Clarify that Layer C (the always-on default)
doesn't fake plugins and the opt-in extended mode does, as the documented
"actively lies, may break sites" escape hatch.

Also fix the launch()/launchHeaded() comments that said "mask navigator.webdriver
only" — applyStealth (Layer C) also restores window.chrome.*, aligns
Notification.permission, and sets per-install hardware.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(browse): runtime + extended-mode coverage for the stealth blend

The stealth tests were all static string-shape assertions; nothing executed
the script in a real page. Add real-Chromium runtime checks via applyStealth +
page.evaluate:

- Layer C runtime: window.chrome.* rich shape, Notification.permission='default'
  paired with permissions.query notifications='prompt' (guards the shim now
  running on every path), and patched getters reporting [native code].
- Per-install hardware: navigator.hardwareConcurrency/deviceMemory reflect the
  GSTACK_* env profile.
- Extended-mode blend: navigator.plugins is faked when GSTACK_STEALTH=extended,
  Layer C still wins window.chrome.runtime, and navigator.webdriver stays false
  (own-prop getter survives extended's prototype delete).
- Persistent-context (launchHeaded/handoff) parity now uses a page created
  AFTER applyStealth — the old test checked pages()[0], which predates the init
  script, so webdriver was false only via the launch arg, not Layer C.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): handoff() + launchHeaded() spread the shared STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS

handoff() built its launch args from only ['--hide-crash-restore-bubble',
...buildGStackLaunchArgs()], omitting STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS — so a handed-off
browser kept the --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled tell that
launch() and launchHeaded() strip. launchHeaded() also hardcoded the flag as a
literal. Both now spread the shared constant, so the AutomationControlled flag
lives in one place across all three launch paths.

Tripwires: STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS spread into >= 3 sites (no inline literal) and
STEALTH_IGNORE_DEFAULT_ARGS wired into both persistent-context paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(browse): drop dead HostProfile.platform, export test internals

HostProfile.platform was set by readHostProfile but never read by
buildStealthScript — the platform spoof is owned by the UA-CH cmdline switch in
buildGStackLaunchArgs (which reads GSTACK_PLATFORM directly). Remove the dead
field. Export readHostProfile and AUTOMATION_ARTIFACT_CLEANUP_SCRIPT so their
clamp/shape invariants can be unit-tested. Correct the stale "25 Selenium
globals" count comment and note the extended cdc_ scan is redundant-but-retained
for standalone use.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(browse): cover readHostProfile clamp, toString depth-3, chrome.* calls

Pre-landing review coverage gaps:
- readHostProfile clamps 0/negative/NaN/missing env to 8 (a deviceMemory=0 or
  NaN would be a glaring bot tell) — now asserted.
- toString proxy survives the depth-3 recursion trick
  (fn.toString.toString.toString().includes('[native code]')), the headline
  claim that was only tested at depth-1.
- chrome.csi() and chrome.loadTimes() are invoked (not just typeof-checked) and
  runtime.connect() throws the native-shaped "No matching signature" error.
- AUTOMATION_ARTIFACT_CLEANUP_SCRIPT static shape (cdc_/__webdriver strip +
  notifications->prompt) as a hermetic backup for the live-Chromium pairing test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(browse): recreateContext() re-applies stealth (closes 4th un-stealth path)

useragent and viewport --scale route through recreateContext(), which rebuilds
the BrowserContext via newContext() — a fresh context with no init scripts. It
never called applyStealth, so a routine useragent/viewport-scale command
silently dropped webdriver masking, window.chrome.* shape, hardware spoof, and
the cdc/Permissions cleanup on every restored page. Caught by the cross-model
adversarial review (Codex) after the Claude pass and eng review missed it.

Both the main and fallback paths now call applyStealth before any page is
created. The launch-path tripwire is raised to >= 4 sites and now asserts the
recreateContext() body specifically, so the regression class can't recur.

Also documents the load-bearing trust assumption on buildGStackLaunchArgs /
readHostProfile (GSTACK_* must be gbd-sourced, never page/remote data — the
injection-safety argument depends on it) and the notifications-permission
spoof tradeoff.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.58.3.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: sync browser stealth docs to Layer C (v1.58.3.0)

BROWSER.md "Stealth scope" still described the default as navigator.webdriver
masking only; Layer C is now the always-on default across all four
context-creation paths. Update the stealth-scope prose, the "What GStack
Browser means" blurb (stock-Chrome UA, no GStackBrowser suffix, captchas can
still get through at the CDP layer), the stealth.ts source-map line, and the
env-vars table (GSTACK_STEALTH, GSTACK_CDP_STEALTH, GSTACK_GPU_*, GSTACK_PLATFORM,
GSTACK_HW_CONCURRENCY/GSTACK_DEVICE_MEMORY + the explicit --gstack-* switches and
ignoreDefaultArgs stripping). Correct the stale "narrows to navigator.webdriver
masking only" premise on the open CDP-patch TODO (the TODO itself stays open —
the CDP-protocol layer is still unaddressed).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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2026-06-18 10:45:05 -07:00
Garry Tan c7ae63201a
v1.58.1.0 feat: hermetic local E2E + Conductor prose AskUserQuestion (#2004)
* feat: add shared call-time isConductor() helper

Single source of truth for Conductor host detection in TS consumers
(CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH / CONDUCTOR_PORT). Reads the passed env at
call time, not a module-load snapshot, so unit tests can pin the env
inline without Bun --preload (esm-hoist-breaks-env-pin-bootstrap).

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

* test: harden question-preference-hook harness against ambient Conductor env

runHook copied all of process.env into the hook subprocess, so running the
suite inside Conductor (CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH/PORT set) would leak those
markers. Strip them so the existing cases deterministically characterize
NON-Conductor behavior before the Conductor branch lands. Baseline: 15 pass.

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

* feat: PreToolUse hook denies AskUserQuestion in Conductor, redirects to prose

Conductor disables native AskUserQuestion and routes through a flaky MCP
variant that returns '[Tool result missing due to internal error]'. The
hook now denies any AUQ call in a Conductor session and instructs the model
to render a prose decision brief instead (transport avoidance, not preference
enforcement) — firing for one-way doors too, with a typed-confirmation
requirement for destructive paths.

Precedence: never-ask auto-decide still wins (user already settled those);
Conductor prose is the fallback for everything else; non-Conductor behavior
is byte-for-byte unchanged. Restructured the per-question loop to compute
eligibility without early-returning so the Conductor branch can run as the
fallback while preserving memoryContext on every exit.

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

* feat: Conductor renders AskUserQuestion decisions as prose by default

In Conductor, native AskUserQuestion is disabled and the MCP variant is
flaky, so skills now render every decision as a plain-text prose brief the
user answers by typing a letter — proactively, not as a failure reaction.

- Preamble emits CONDUCTOR_SESSION, gated on != headless so eval/CI inside
  Conductor still BLOCKs instead of rendering prose to nobody.
- AskUserQuestion Format gains a Conductor-default-prose rule (auto-decide
  preferences still apply first; prose decisions log via gstack-question-log
  since PostToolUse never fires), a one-way/destructive typed-confirmation
  rule, and a typed-reply continuation protocol for split chains.
- Regenerated all SKILL.md + ship golden fixtures; bumped affected carve
  skeleton caps to absorb the always-loaded additions.

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

* feat: deploy the Conductor AskUserQuestion hook (setup + upgrade migration)

The PreToolUse hook only delivers its Conductor-prose guarantee if it's
installed, but setup skips hook registration in non-interactive (conductor/CI)
setups. Two fixes so layer 3 actually deploys:

- setup: treat a Conductor workspace as an implicit opt-in for the PreToolUse
  hook on the silent fall-through (never overriding an explicit opt-out).
- migration v1.58.0.0: re-register the hook for existing Conductor installs on
  /gstack-upgrade, idempotent and respecting plan_tune_hooks=no.

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

* test: E2E for Conductor prose + fix auto-decide-preserved GSTACK_HOME bug

- New skill-e2e-conductor-prose (periodic): Conductor env + plan-eng-review
  surfaces a prose decision brief, not a silent skip. Header documents this is
  end-to-end behavior coverage; the deterministic Conductor guard is the
  question-preference-hook unit test (the PTY harness can't register the MCP
  variant — Codex #10).
- Fix the pre-existing bug in auto-decide-preserved: it seeded the never-ask
  preference under GSTACK_HOME=tmpHome but never passed GSTACK_HOME into the
  PTY run, so the spawned claude read the real ~/.gstack and the preference
  was inert (Codex #9). Now passes GSTACK_HOME + CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH to
  prove auto-decide still wins over the Conductor prose redirect.
- Register both in touchfiles (periodic tier).

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

* v1.58.0.0 feat: Conductor renders AskUserQuestion decisions as prose

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

* test: strip ambient Conductor env in memory-cache-injection hook harness

Same dev-in-Conductor leak fixed for question-preference-hook: this suite's
runHook copies process.env, so running it inside Conductor flipped the
defer-path memoryContext assertions into the [conductor] prose deny. Strip
CONDUCTOR_* so the cases characterize non-Conductor behavior. (CI is headless,
so this only bit local Conductor runs.)

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

* feat: gstack-detach — run agent eval/bench jobs in their own session

Long agent-run jobs (30-60 min evals, benchmarks) die when the harness sends
SIGTERM to a background task's process group on turn boundaries / monitor
stops / interruptions (observed: 'script test:gate terminated by signal
SIGTERM'). gstack-detach runs the command in a fresh session (python3
os.setsid, or setsid on Linux, nohup fallback) so a group SIGTERM can't reach
it, and wraps it in caffeinate -i on macOS so idle-sleep can't kill it either.
Returns immediately; caller polls the logfile. Secrets stay in env, never argv.

The guard test pins the contract: the command runs in a different process
group than the caller and outlives the launching shell.

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

* feat: eval:bg* scripts — detached eval runs for agents

Agent-facing convenience scripts that launch the eval suites through
gstack-detach so a harness SIGTERM can't kill a long run. eval:bg (diff-based),
eval:bg:all, eval:bg:gate, eval:bg:periodic — each returns immediately and
streams to /tmp/gstack-evals.log for polling. The plain test:evals / test:e2e
scripts stay foreground for humans.

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

* docs: CLAUDE.md — agents must run long evals via gstack-detach

Codifies the detached-execution default: agent-launched eval/benchmark runs go
through bin/gstack-detach (or the eval:bg* scripts) so a harness SIGTERM or
macOS idle-sleep can't kill a 30-60 min run, then poll the log with a
death-aware watcher. Humans keep foreground scripts.

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

* feat: harden gstack-detach against all four eval-infra killers

The basic bash detach fixed SIGTERM but a real run on a shared dev box hit
three more killers: cross-worktree API saturation (15-way concurrency x a
sibling worktree mass-timed-out the suite), a silent hang (periodic bun died
with no exit marker), and shared-/tmp log contamination (a concurrent
worktree's agent output bled into the log). Rewrite as a portable python3 tool
that bakes in all four fixes:

- fork + setsid: SIGTERM-proof (own session, survives harness polite-quit)
- caffeinate -i on macOS: no idle-sleep death
- --lock NAME (fcntl, machine-wide): concurrent worktrees SERIALIZE instead of
  saturating the shared model API
- run-scoped default log (~/.gstack-dev/eval-runs/<label>-<slug>-<branch>-<ts>-<pid>):
  no cross-worktree collision/contamination
- --timeout watchdog + a guaranteed '### gstack-detach EXIT=<code> ###' sentinel
  on every terminal path: no silent hang, finished-vs-died always detectable

Guard test pins all four: detached pgid differs + outlives launcher, run-scoped
log path, watchdog EXIT=timeout, and lock serialization (second run WAITS).

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

* feat: eval:bg* use run-scoped logs + machine lock + watchdog

Drop the shared /tmp/gstack-evals.log path (the cross-worktree collision that
contaminated a live run) for gstack-detach's run-scoped default, and add the
machine-wide gstack-evals lock (concurrent worktrees serialize, no API
saturation) plus per-tier watchdog timeouts (60/90/120 min). Each eval:bg*
prints its run-scoped log path to poll.

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

* docs: wire detached-eval guidance into /ship + correct CLAUDE.md flags

- /ship eval step (sections/tests.md): long eval suites launch via gstack-detach
  (own session, machine lock, EXIT sentinel) so a turn boundary can't kill a
  30+ min run mid-ship — the exact failure observed during this branch's ship.
- CLAUDE.md: correct the now-stale /tmp reference; document the --lock (serialize
  worktrees, no API saturation), --timeout watchdog, run-scoped log, and the
  guaranteed EXIT sentinel the poller breaks on.

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

* refactor: extract pure promotedEnv() from conductor-env-shim

Single source of truth for GSTACK_* key promotion semantics. The ambient
promoteConductorEnv() becomes a wrapper; behavior-preserving. Needed by the
hermetic env builder which must not mutate process.env.

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

* feat: hermetic child-env builder for E2E runners

Allowlist scrub (basics/network/named-auth kept; CONDUCTOR_*, CLAUDE_*,
GSTACK_*, MCP_*, GBRAIN_*, operator credentials dropped), per-runner
extraAllow, overrides merge last, EVALS_HERMETIC=0 byte-identical escape
hatch read at call time (ESM-hoist safe). Sync memoized singleton temp dirs
(<runRoot>/.claude keeps the extractPlanFilePath contract), seeded
.claude.json for non-interactive first run, pid-aware GC of crashed runs.
19 free unit tests.

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

* feat: session-runner spawns hermetic children + isolation canaries

claude -p children now get the allowlist-scrubbed env and a gated
--strict-mcp-config (EVALS_HERMETIC=0 restores operator env AND args).
Two gate-tier canaries make the clean room falsifiable: hermetic-canary
asserts env redirect + scrub + zero MCP servers + nonzero API-key cost
from the Bash tool_result (never model prose); hermetic-sentinel plants a
poisoned operator config (user CLAUDE.md + MCP server) and proves the
child cannot see it. Empirically verified on claude 2.1.175: print mode
needs no seed config (the seed serves the PTY path); the child CLI sets
CLAUDECODE for its own tools, so that scrub is pinned in unit tests, not
E2E. hermetic-env.ts joins GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES.

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

* feat: PTY runner spawns hermetic claude sessions

launchClaudePty children get the allowlist-scrubbed env, a gated
--strict-mcp-config, and the session exposes hermeticConfigDir for
forensics (hermetic plan files live under <dir>/plans/ and still match
extractPlanFilePath via the /.claude dir-name contract). Seeded trust
state covers repo-cwd sessions; the 15s trust-watcher stays as fallback.
Verified foreground via the plan-mode-no-op gate test.

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

* feat: codex/gemini runners spawn hermetic children

Same allowlist scrub as the claude runners, with each provider's auth
surface re-admitted via extraAllow (codex: OPENAI_API_KEY/CODEX_* plus
its tempHome .codex copy; gemini: GEMINI_*/GOOGLE_* with real HOME for
~/.gemini auth). The gemini spawn previously inherited the full operator
env with no env property at all.

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

* feat: agent-sdk-runner spawns hermetic children via complete Options.env

The historical 'env: breaks SDK auth' failure was partial-env replacement:
Options.env replaces the child's entire environment, so objects lacking
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY killed auth. Passing the complete hermetic env (key +
PATH + redirected CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/GSTACK_HOME) works — validated live
via query() with a Bash tool call (success, real cost, Conductor vars
scrubbed). Per-test opts.env merges last; ambient key mutation still
works because the builder reads process.env at call time.

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

* test: static tripwire pins hermetic wiring in all five runners

Free-tier invariants: every runner builds child env via hermeticChildEnv,
no raw ...process.env spread at any spawn site, --strict-mcp-config gated
on isHermeticEnabled in both claude runners, and no test callsite passes
the operator env into a runner's override parameter (scoped to runner
calls — unit tests spawning gstack bin scripts directly are exempt).
Mirrors the terminal-agent-pid-identity / server-embedder-terminal-port
tripwire idiom.

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

* test: refresh codex/factory ship goldens with detached-eval block

a38089aa added the gstack-detach guidance to the ship template and
updated the claude golden; the codex and factory goldens missed the same
16-line block. Regenerated via bun run gen:skill-docs.

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

* docs: hermetic local E2E is the default; retire stale SDK env warning

CLAUDE.md now documents the hermetic clean room (allowlist scrub, fresh
seeded CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, temp GSTACK_HOME, --strict-mcp-config),
EVALS_HERMETIC=0 as the debug escape hatch, and replaces the 'never pass
env: to runAgentSdkTest' rule with the verified mechanism (partial-env
replacement was the failure; complete env is safe).

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

* fix: operational-learning fixture copies lib/jsonl-store.ts with the bin

gstack-learnings-log imports $SCRIPT_DIR/../lib/jsonl-store.ts (hasInjection,
v1.57.5.0) — copying only the bin scripts into the temp fixture broke the
script with exit 1 since then. Latent because diff-based selection rarely
runs this test; surfaced when hermetic-env.ts joined GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES and
selected everything. Reproduced outside the hermetic env to confirm blame.

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

* fix: ios-qa daemon scenarios use unique pidfiles under --concurrent

All scenarios shared join(workDir, 'daemon.pid') through a module-scope
workDir binding that beforeEach reassigns mid-flight under bun --concurrent.
First daemon claims; siblings get already_running against the test process's
own always-alive pid and fail in milliseconds — the failure mode seen at
15-way gate concurrency. Per-claim unique pidfiles keep the single-instance
semantics under test.

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

* fix: workflow judge re-appends body-carved sections after the marker slice

runWorkflowJudge appended sections/*.md before slicing startMarker..endMarker.
That handles skills that moved their MARKERS into sections (plan-eng,
plan-design) but not document-release, which keeps its markers in the
skeleton and carved the workflow BODY (Steps 2-9 -> sections/release-body.md)
AFTER the endMarker — so the slice dropped it and the judge scored
completeness 2 ('Steps 2-9 are in an external file'). Now any carved section
the marker window excluded is re-appended, so the judge sees the full
workflow the agent executes. document-release: completeness 2->5, clarity
3->4. ship/plan-ceo/plan-eng/plan-design judges unchanged (their section
content is already inside the slice, so the head-dedup skips re-append).

Pre-existing since the v1.57.0.0 carve (#1907); surfaced now because
hermetic-env.ts is a global touchfile that selects every llm-judge test.

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

* harden: hermetic temp-dir GC grace window + half-seed cleanup

Codex adversarial review (ship) flagged two temp-dir lifecycle edges:
- GC deleted any dead-pid dir; PID reuse could delete a freshly-created dir
  whose original pid exited and was recycled to a live process. Now requires
  BOTH a dead pid AND mtime older than a 1h floor.
- A seed-write failure after mkdir left an unseeded dir named with our live
  pid that this process's GC skips, leaking until exit. Now the partial dir
  is torn down before the (still loud) rethrow.

Two findings left as-is by design: HOME stays allowlisted (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
wins for claude; codex/gemini need ~/.codex|~/.gemini auth; FS sandbox is
TODOS.md:454 scope; the hermetic-sentinel canary proves config isolation),
and PTY extraArgs --mcp-config is a deliberate caller opt-in like env overrides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: document hermetic-by-default E2E + eval:bg detached runs in CONTRIBUTING

The Testing & evals section now tells contributors that local E2E runners
spawn children through a sealed clean room (allowlist-scrubbed env, seeded
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, temp GSTACK_HOME, --strict-mcp-config) so local signal
matches CI, with EVALS_HERMETIC=0 as the escape hatch. The eval-tools list
gains the eval:bg* detached-run scripts (gstack-detach: SIGTERM-proof,
caffeinate-wrapped, machine-locked, run-scoped logs, EXIT= sentinel).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: sync package.json to 1.58.1.0

The merge took main's package.json (1.58.0.0); gstack-version-bump repair
fixed the working tree but the change was left uncommitted. Without this the
committed tree disagrees with VERSION and CI's version-match test fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: regenerate diagram SKILL.md with Conductor prose preamble

The diagram skill (new from main) was missing the Conductor-session prose
AskUserQuestion blocks that gen-skill-docs propagates to every SKILL.md.
Pure generated output; reproduced by bun run gen:skill-docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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2026-06-14 11:40:57 -07:00
Garry Tan 14fc0866d9
v1.58.0.0 feat: diagram + multi-format document engine (mermaid, excalidraw, single-file HTML, DOCX) (#1990)
* docs(todos): P3 content-hash diagram render cache for make-pdf

Deferred from the diagram-engine eng review (Codex outside-voice D7):
repeat make-pdf runs re-render every fence; cache keyed on fence source +
bundle version once multi-diagram docs make it worth building.

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

* feat(diagram-render): offline mermaid+excalidraw render bundle for browse

Single self-contained page (dist/diagram-render.html, 9.2MB, committed per
eng-review D2) exposing __renderMermaid / __mermaidToExcalidraw /
__excalidrawToSvg / __rasterize / __probeImage through browse load-html +
js --out. Render contract per D3: securityLevel strict, per-fence ids,
print-css font lock, htmlLabels off (canvas-taint-safe). Deterministic
build (same sha twice); drift test pins dist == BUILD_INFO == package.json
pins and rebuild-reproducibility when toolchain matches. Spike-proven
offline: flowchart + sequence SVG, editable .excalidraw scene, 300dpi PNG.

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

* feat(diagram-render): __downscaleRaster for print-resolution image normalization

Data-URI rasters re-encode in their own format (JPEG stays JPEG at q0.9 —
PNG-encoding photos bloats them) at an explicit target pixel width. Used by
make-pdf's pre-pass for the 300dpi content-box ceiling (eng-review D4).

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

* feat(make-pdf): diagram pre-pass — mermaid/excalidraw fences render as vector SVG; local images inline as data URIs

```mermaid / ```excalidraw fences extract to placeholder tokens, render in
one diagram-render bundle tab per run (reset contract: bundle page reloads
after any render error), and substitute back as accessible <figure> blocks
with the raw source preserved in a comment. Render failures produce a loud
red diagnostic block, never silent raw code. render=false keeps a fence as
code; title="..." becomes the aria-label and caption.

Local images now actually render: page.setContent loads at about:blank
(tab-session.ts:194), so relative paths silently 404'd before. The pre-pass
resolves them against the markdown's directory, inlines as data URIs, probes
intrinsic dimensions from the bytes (pure-TS PNG/JPEG/GIF/WebP/SVG sniffing),
and downscales rasters wider than 2x the content box at 300dpi. Remote URLs
warn (offline posture, --allow-network exempts); missing files get a visible
placeholder; --strict hard-fails both for CI pipelines.

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

* test(make-pdf): diagram pre-pass unit suite + e2e render gates

34 unit tests (fence extraction incl. nested/tilde/unclosed/render=false,
info-string parsing, slot substitution, diagnostic/figure escaping + SVG
script strip, byte-level dimension probing across 5 formats, content-box
math, image inlining incl. strict/remote/missing/data-URI paths). E2E gate
proves through the compiled binary: both fences render as vector text
(id-collision check), raw mermaid ships only via render=false, broken fence
yields the diagnostic block, and the relative fixture image rasterizes to
colored pixels (CRITICAL regression for the about:blank image fix).
--strict exits non-zero on a missing image.

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* feat(make-pdf): width directives + conservative auto-landscape via CSS named pages

`![a](x.png){width=full|<pct>|<dim>}` and `{page=landscape|portrait}`
suffixes translate to data-gstack-* attrs in render() (before the sanitizer,
which keeps data- attributes; unrecognized brace groups stay visible text).
Default width rule needs no code: intrinsic CSS-px capped at the content box,
never upscaled — figure img max-width owns it.

Auto-landscape promotes a block to `@page wide { size: <pagesize> landscape }`
only when aspect >= 1.8 AND intrinsic width > 2.5x the content box (~1600px on
letter) AND diagram provenance (rendered fences) or a whole-word alt token
(diagram|architecture|flowchart|chart|graph) for plain images. {page=...}
forces or vetoes; fence info strings accept page=... too. preferCSSPageSize
is passed to Chromium only when a promotion exists, so every other document
prints exactly as before. False negatives are cheap; false positives feel
broken (eng-review P4, Codex challenge accepted).

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

* test(make-pdf): width-policy unit suite + landscape e2e gate with negative fixtures

24 unit tests weighted toward the false-positive guards: wide screenshot
without an alt hint stays portrait, sub-threshold and tall images stay
portrait, deterministic 1560/1561px boundary, whole-word alt matching
('photographic' must not match 'graph'), page=portrait veto beats every
heuristic, diagnostic blocks never promote. E2E gate asserts pdfinfo
per-page boxes through the compiled binary: exactly 3 of 5 fixture blocks
get landscape pages (alt-hinted image, directive-forced image, wide sequence
diagram) while the unhinted screenshot and the veto'd diagram stay portrait —
plus the --toc combo proving TOC and named-page landscape coexist.

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

* feat(make-pdf): --to html|docx output formats

--to html writes the assembled self-contained document directly (no print
round-trip): inline vector diagrams, data-URI images, zero network
references, plus an @media screen layer for browser reading. --to docx is
the content-fidelity export (eng-review P8): html-to-docx@1.8.0 (exact pin;
pure JS, bun-compile-verified) maps headings/tables/code/lists; diagrams and
SVG images rasterize at 300dpi of the content-box width via the render tab;
diagnostic figures convert to plain p/pre so the converter can't silently
drop an error. --format keeps its page-size-alias meaning; --to is the
output format, and the CLI says so when confused.

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* test(make-pdf): format gate — html no-network-refs + docx zip content checks

HTML: zero src/href network refs, no script/link tags, inline SVG diagrams,
data-URI images, screen layer, diagnostic survives. DOCX: valid OOXML zip
(document.xml + Content_Types), >=2 PNG media (diagram raster + fixture
image), headings + render=false source + diagnostic text in document.xml,
no leaked mermaid source from rendered fences. Plus --to validation UX.

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* feat(diagram): /diagram skill — English in, editable diagram triplet out

New skill: agent authors mermaid from the user's description and renders the
triplet through the offline diagram-render bundle in the browse daemon —
.mmd source (the single source of truth), editable .excalidraw (opens at
excalidraw.com, round-trips back through re-render), and SVG + PNG. Flowcharts
convert to fully editable scenes; other mermaid types render with an explicit
upstream-converter limitation note. Never ships an unrendered source file;
offline is the contract (no CDN fallback). Inventory rows in AGENTS.md +
docs/skills.md; generated SKILL.md + llms.txt via gen:skill-docs.

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

* test(diagram): paid E2E pair — gate triplet contract + periodic authoring judge

diagram-triplet (gate, deterministic functional): a fresh claude -p agent
following the skill extract must emit a parseable triplet — graph LR/TD in
.mmd, excalidraw scene with >3 elements, SVG markup, PNG magic bytes.
Verified live: pass, $0.17, 58s. diagram-authoring-quality (periodic,
LLM-judged): faithfulness/labels/size rubric with a diagnostic-path cap,
floor 6/10. Verified live: pass at exactly 6 with substantive critique.
Touchfiles select both on diagram/** and lib/diagram-render/** changes;
tier split per E2E_TIERS rules (eng-review D5).

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

* test(diagram): register /diagram in the skill coverage matrix

Gate: triplet contract + structural floor; periodic: authoring-quality judge.

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

* feat(make-pdf): typography scale-up, zero image truncation, landscape vertical centering

Dogfooding round on the repo README surfaced four output-quality bugs:

- Type was too small everywhere: body 11→12pt, h1 22→26pt, h2 15→18pt,
  cover title 32→56pt with poster spacing, cover meta 10→13pt, TOC 11→12pt
  with tighter leading, code 9.5→10.5pt, tables 10→11pt.
- Zero image truncation, ever: the max-width cap was figure-scoped, but
  markdown images render as <p><img> — a 1850px GitHub screenshot ran off
  the page edge. Global img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; } cap.
- hyphens: auto put real 'dif-\nferent' breaks into the PDF text layer the
  moment 12pt made lines wrap (combined-gate caught it). Clean copy-paste
  is the product contract; left-aligned rag doesn't need hyphenation →
  hyphens: manual.
- Promoted landscape blocks now vertically center. CSS flex/min-height
  centering fragments into phantom empty landscape pages in Chromium
  (bisected: min-height at ANY value; 3 promotions printed 5 pages), so
  image-policy computes an inline margin-top from each block's known
  aspect ratio against the landscape content box instead — fragmentation
  handles margins fine. .page-wide also drops its explicit break-before/
  after (the page-name change already breaks on both sides).

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* test(make-pdf): pin zero-truncation invariant, typography floor, centering math

Global img cap pinned as a regex invariant (the figure-scoped-cap regression
class); typography floor (12pt body, 56pt cover, 12pt TOC); .page-wide must
NOT carry min-height/flex (the phantom-landscape-page regression class);
centering margin math verified both ways (2400×1000 image → 1.38in,
2050×600 viewBox diagram → 1.93in, page-filling directive block → no margin).

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* docs: diagram + multi-format documentation across README, make-pdf skill, and how-to guide

README gains /make-pdf (Publisher) and /diagram (Diagram Maker) rows in the
sprint table. make-pdf's skill doc — the agent-facing contract — gains Core
patterns for mermaid/excalidraw fences (title/render=false/page= options),
the image policy ({width=}/{page=} directives, zero-truncation, conservative
auto-landscape), --to html|docx, and --strict, plus the --to vs --format
disambiguation in Common flags. New docs/howto-diagrams-and-formats.md is
the user-facing walkthrough: fences, directives, formats, /diagram triplet,
the mermaid racetrack trick, troubleshooting.

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* test(make-pdf): fill ship-audit coverage gaps — downscale, reset contract, excalidraw fence, WebP

Ship coverage audit found 9 gaps (85%); this fills the 2 HIGH + 3 MEDIUM and
most LOW. diagram-gate fixture gains a 4200px incompressible photo (the only
live coverage of __downscaleRaster AND the 64KB chunked jsViaBuffer eval
transport — asserted via the downscale stderr warning), an ```excalidraw
scene fence rendered through exportToSvg (vector labels + caption in
pdftotext, no leaked scene JSON), and the broken fence MOVED BETWEEN the two
mermaid fences so the second diagram rendering proves the D6.2 reset
contract end-to-end. New coverage-gaps.test.ts (16 tests): mock-tab reset
contract (exactly one reload, post-failure fence renders), excalidraw
fail-fast diagnostic without a bundle call, rasterize error fallbacks
(figure/tag kept, never silent), WebP VP8/VP8L/VP8X byte parsers,
landscapeContentBox a4/asymmetric margins, bare-token slot fallback,
resolveBundlePath env override + error shape, screenCss media scoping.

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

* fix(make-pdf): pre-landing review wave — fence fidelity, injection hardening, Windows paths, transport rework

Review army (6 specialists + red team) findings, all fixed:

- Indented fences replay byte-for-byte and indented diagram fences are NOT
  extracted (red-team conf-9: the pre-pass reconstructed fences at column 0,
  splitting any list containing fenced code — every ordinary document).
- String.replace $-pattern injection killed at every seam: substituteSlots,
  mergeStyle, img/src rewrites all use function replacements (a diagram label
  containing $' duplicated the document tail).
- Big-expression transport reworked: browse `eval <file>` (one spawn, any
  size, Windows-safe) replaces the 64KB chunked window-buffer eval — fixes
  the per-chunk spawn cost, the char-vs-byte argv units, AND the Windows
  32,767-char command-line ceiling in one move.
- Staged-bundle trust: content verified by hash even when the file exists,
  and the rename-failure path re-hashes the survivor (sticky-bit /tmp EPERM
  would otherwise ride a pre-planted file past the check).
- Windows drive-letter img srcs (C:/x.png) reach the local-path branch
  instead of being swallowed as unknown URL schemes.
- DOCX rasterize-failure now embeds the decoded source as visible text —
  returning the figure made diagrams vanish silently (converter drops svg).
- Fence source preserved as base64 data-gstack-source attribute (the comment
  encoding corrupted every '-->' arrow); decodeFigureSource() round-trips.
- inlineLocalImages memoizes per path; file:// uses fileURLToPath; preview
  prints a divergence note for fences/local images; --to docx strips the
  watermark div and warns about print-only flags; TOC links resolve in
  html/docx (heading ids assigned); waitForExpression sleeps instead of
  busy-spinning; escapeHtml/svg-dims deduped to single definitions;
  typography stragglers (blockquote 12pt, footnotes 10pt, 42em screen
  measure); bundle BUILD_INFO gains srcSha256 for no-node_modules drift
  detection; MAX_TARGET_PX shared guard.

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* ci: make-pdf gate covers the diagram-render bundle; bundle pinned to LF

make-pdf-gate.yml paths gain lib/diagram-render/** and the drift test (a
bundle-only PR previously skipped every render gate AND no CI lane ran the
drift check at all). .gitattributes pins dist html/json to LF so Windows
autocrlf can't break the hash-pinned bundle.

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* test(make-pdf)+feat(diagram): review-wave test pins + skill transport hardening

Tests: indented-fence byte-for-byte replay + no-extraction-in-lists,
drive-letter local-path routing, $-pattern slot immunity, base64 source
round-trip ('A --> B' exact), existing-style merge preservation, DOCX
rasterize-failure surfaces source, srcSha256 + font-stack drift guards,
landscape veto asserted as some-portrait/no-landscape (layout-order-proof),
judge rubric cap lowered to 5 so it actually fails, vacuous error-shape test
removed honestly, tmpdir cleanup.

/diagram skill: base64 transport (template literals corrupted backticks/${
in sources), content-addressed staging with hash verification, and --tab-id
pinned on every browse call so a concurrent /qa session can't be clobbered.

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

* feat(make-pdf): out-of-tree image reads warn; --strict makes them fatal (D8.1)

Local CLI semantics stay (absolute paths and ../ still inline, like pandoc),
but never silently: an agent PDF-ing untrusted markdown can't quietly embed a
file from outside the input directory into a shareable document without a
visible warning, and --strict pipelines hard-fail. Two unit tests. Also:
TODOS.md gains the deferred e2e-harness dedup entry (D8.2).

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

* fix: pre-existing test failure in skill-e2e-bws operational-learning

Root cause was the fixture, not model behavior: gstack-learnings-log gained
an import of lib/jsonl-store.ts in the v1.57.5.0 injection-sanitization wave,
but the test copies only bin/ scripts into its sandbox — the inline bun
import failed and the script exited 1 before writing, on every run, on main
too (reproduced at a5833c41). Fixture now stages lib/jsonl-store.ts beside
bin/; verified deterministically (script exits 0, learning written) and via
the paid test (1 pass).

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

* fix(make-pdf): adversarial-review wave — offline posture enforced, symlink-aware confinement, bounded reads

Codex adversarial + structured review findings:

- Remote images are now BLOCKED with a visible placeholder instead of
  warn-and-keep — leaving the tag meant Chromium fetched the URL at print
  time anyway, so the offline posture was a lie (tracking pixels and
  internal-URL probes ran without --allow-network).
- The out-of-tree read check compares REAL paths: a symlink inside the input
  dir pointing at ~/.ssh/... passed the string-prefix check, including under
  --strict. Ordered after the existence check (realpath of a missing file
  false-positives on macOS /var → /private/var).
- Image reads are bounded BEFORE reading: statSync first, non-regular files
  (fifo/device/dir) and >64MB files degrade to placeholders instead of
  hanging or exhausting memory; malformed percent-encoding (foo%zz.png)
  degrades to missing-image instead of crashing decodeURIComponent.
- browse shell-outs get a 120s timeout — a wedged daemon or hostile mermaid
  source fails the run instead of hanging it.
- TOC entries link to the heading's ACTUAL id (pre-id'd raw-HTML headings
  previously got dead #toc-N links); per-side margins compose into the CSS
  @page shorthand so a landscape promotion flipping preferCSSPageSize no
  longer silently reverts --margin-left/right to defaults (Codex P2).
- The image memo is a typed object — literal NUL-byte separators had made
  diagram-prepass.ts register as binary to text tooling.

Codex structured review GATE: PASS (no P1).

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.58.0.0)

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

* docs: sync make-pdf image-policy docs with final shipped behavior (v1.58.0.0)

The docs wave (87594420) predated the final review-wave commits, so two
docs drifted from shipped behavior:

- make-pdf/SKILL.md.tmpl + generated SKILL.md: remote images are BLOCKED
  with a visible placeholder (not warned-and-kept); out-of-tree reads
  (including via symlink) warn and --strict makes them fatal; --strict
  also covers oversized (>64MB) and non-regular files; troubleshooting
  entry now names the actual "[remote image blocked]" symptom.
- docs/howto-diagrams-and-formats.md: same corrections in the image
  section, CI section, and troubleshooting.
- README.md: docs/howto-diagrams-and-formats.md added to the Docs table
  (was unreachable from any entry-point doc).

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

* docs: apply Codex doc-review findings for v1.58.0.0

Cross-model doc review (Codex, read-only) checked the v1.58.0.0 docs
against the shipped code. Fixes:

- howto + make-pdf SKILL: diagram source is preserved base64 in a
  data-gstack-source attribute, not an HTML comment (-- in mermaid
  arrows would corrupt a comment); fences must start at column 0;
  fence options example gains page=portrait; --to html "zero network
  refs" qualified (--allow-network deliberately keeps remote tags).
- /diagram description, README + docs/skills.md rows: the hand-drawn
  aesthetic belongs to the .excalidraw artifact; rendered SVG/PNG use
  mermaid's clean neutral theme (lib/diagram-render entry.ts pins
  theme: "neutral").
- CHANGELOG v1.58.0.0 wording: --strict coverage lists all five fatal
  classes (missing/remote/out-of-tree/oversized/non-regular); fences
  are vector SVG in pdf+html, 300dpi PNG in docx; hand-drawn claim
  scoped to the .excalidraw file.
- lib/diagram-render/README: Page API table gains __downscaleRaster.

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2026-06-12 15:38:53 -07:00
Garry Tan a5833c413f
v1.57.10.0 feat: Codex review default-on across review/ship/plan/docs (#1966)
* feat(config): make codex_reviews the master switch for all Codex review

Broaden the codex_reviews doc to describe it governing /review, /ship,
/document-release, plan reviews, and /autoplan. Reject invalid values on
set (preserving the existing value) so a typo can never silently flip
paid Codex calls on or off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(review): Codex review default-on across review/ship/plan/docs

Add a shared codexPreflight() helper (constants.ts) that, in one bash
block, reads codex_reviews, sources gstack-codex-probe, checks install +
auth, and echoes a single canonical mode (ready/not_installed/not_authed/
disabled). All Codex resolvers route through it.

- generateCodexPlanReview: opt-in question removed; the outside voice now
  runs automatically (default-on), falling back to a Claude subagent when
  Codex is missing/unauthed. Cross-model tension still gates on user
  approval (sovereignty preserved).
- generateAdversarialStep: probe-based availability (install AND auth),
  distinct not-installed vs not-authed guidance; 200-line structured-review
  threshold unchanged.
- generateCodexDocReview (new, wired via CODEX_DOC_REVIEW): reviews the
  release's docs against the shipped diff range, informational + an explicit
  apply-fixes decision point, never auto-edits.
- autoplan Phase 0.5 now honors codex_reviews=disabled so the switch is
  truly global.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(docs): regenerate SKILL docs + refresh ship golden

Output of gen:skill-docs for the Codex-default-on resolver/template
changes. Refreshes the factory-ship golden fixture (codex-host output
unchanged — resolvers strip for the codex host).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(infra): widen size-budget guards for default-on Codex outside-voice

The codexPreflight() block + CODEX_MODE branch prose (replacing the
smaller opt-in question) grows plan-ceo/eng/devex-review and review by
5-7% over baseline. Each bump carries a comment justifying it as
intentional capability, not slop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: guard Codex default-on + config reject-on-set

skill-validation: assert plan reviews no longer carry the opt-in question
and render the default-on outside-voice, document-release carries the doc
review, and the codex host strips all of it.

gstack-config: codex_reviews defaults to enabled, accepts enabled/disabled,
and rejects an invalid value while preserving the existing one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): align gstack-config tests with defaults-fallback behavior

Three tests (last touched v0.13.7.0) asserted get/list print empty for
unset keys, but gstack-config falls back to the documented defaults table
(get returns the default, list shows the active-values block). Update the
assertions to the real behavior and split out an unknown-key case that does
still return empty. Pre-existing red, unrelated to codex review.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* v1.57.10.0 feat: Codex review default-on across review/ship/plan/docs

Codex cross-model review now runs by default on /review, /ship, all four
plan reviews, /document-release, and /autoplan, governed by one master
switch (codex_reviews, default enabled). Plan-review outside voice is
default-on; /document-release gets a new Codex doc-vs-diff audit; every
call site detects install AND auth and falls back to a Claude subagent
with a clear reason. Disable everything with:
gstack-config set codex_reviews disabled

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2026-06-10 21:14:58 -07:00
Garry Tan 8241949357
v1.57.9.0 feat: source-clean gbrain render (dev-setup --out-dir + machine-wide gbrain-refresh) (#1951)
* feat(gbrain-detect): add --is-ok live-detection exit-code gate

Single source of truth for 'is gbrain usable'. Runs live detection (never
reads the possibly-stale gbrain-detection.json) and exits 0 iff status is ok,
so setup, bin/dev-setup, and gstack-config can gate brain-aware rendering on
one shared check instead of re-grepping the JSON.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(gen-skill-docs): add --out-dir with surgical section-path rewrite

--out-dir <abs-dir> mirrors the Claude skill tree (SKILL.md + sections) into a
separate directory instead of writing in place, and rewrites the literal
section-base path (~/.claude/skills/gstack/<skill>/sections/) in generated
content to point at the out-dir. The rewrite is surgical: only /sections/ paths
move; bin/, browse/, docs/ references stay pointed at the global install.
Global extras (proactive-suggestions.json) are skipped in out-dir mode. Default
(no flag) behavior is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(dev-setup): render gbrain :user variant to an untracked workspace dir

Stops the dev/Conductor workspace from dirtying tracked SKILL.md source. setup
honors GSTACK_SKIP_GBRAIN_REGEN (passed inline by dev-setup, never exported) and
skips the in-place :user regen; detection is still persisted (PID-unique tmp so
concurrent workspaces can't clobber it). dev-setup instead renders the :user
variant into .claude/gstack-rendered (gitignored, per-workspace) and repoints
the workspace SKILL.md symlinks at it, so the workspace gets brain-aware blocks
while the worktree stays canonical. dev-teardown removes the render.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(dev-skill): refresh the untracked brain-aware render on template change

After the default in-place regen (which keeps the worktree canonical and runs
validation), also re-render the :user variant into .claude/gstack-rendered when
it exists, so live template edits reflect at the workspace's runtime. Never
creates the render dir during plain template dev.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(gstack-config): gbrain-refresh renders brain-aware blocks into the install

Extends gbrain-refresh to render the :user variant into the global install
(~/.claude/skills/gstack) so every project's Claude sessions get brain-aware
blocks, not just the gstack dev workspace. Guarded against mutating the wrong
directory: the target must exist, not be a symlink (a symlinked install points
at a dev worktree), and look like a real gstack clone (VERSION + package.json).
Idempotent and self-documenting. CLAUDE.md's deploy section now notes that
'git reset --hard' reverts the blocks and to re-run gbrain-refresh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: cover gstack-gbrain-detect --is-ok + dev-skill render refresh

Fills the two automated-coverage gaps from the eng review: --is-ok exit-code
gate (no-cli -> nonzero, healthy -> 0, plus an agrees-with-JSON no-skew check
reusing the deterministic fake-gbrain harness) and a static tripwire that
dev-skill re-renders the :user variant into the workspace render dir only when
it already exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.57.9.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: document brain-aware dev-setup render for v1.57.9.0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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2026-06-09 22:29:23 -07:00
Garry Tan 421460f03a
v1.57.8.0 feat: browse js/eval --out render-to-file (canonical Chromium for offline rendering) (#1929)
* feat(browse): js/eval --out render-to-file with write-capability gate

Add --out <file> / --raw to js and eval so an evaluate result is written
straight to disk (base64 data URLs auto-decoded to bytes, charset-validated
before decode, parent dirs created) instead of serialized back through the
CLI. --out is modeled as a per-invocation WRITE: it requires write scope, is
never dispatchable over the pair-agent tunnel (canDispatchOverTunnel now
consults args), and counts as a mutation for watch-mode and tab-ownership.
Shared parseOutArgs/hasOutArg/resultToString helpers keep the handler and the
gate in sync. Tests cover the parser, render-to-file paths, and tunnel guards.

* docs(browse): offline render mode + canonical-Chromium guidance

Document the blessed offline-render path (headless, no proxy/Xvfb): visual
output via screenshot --selector, bytes a function returns via js --out.
Add the puppeteer->browse cheatsheet row, a "don't bundle your own Chromium"
note (browse skill + CONTRIBUTING), and the --out/--raw command descriptions.
Regenerate browse/SKILL.md, SKILL.md, and gstack/llms.txt from the templates.

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.59.1.0)

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* docs: document js/eval --out render-to-file in BROWSER.md reference (v1.59.1.0)

The js and eval reference rows in BROWSER.md drifted: every other reference
surface (SKILL.md, gstack/llms.txt, browse/SKILL.md) already shows the new
[--out <file>] [--raw] flags from v1.59.1.0, but the complete browser
reference still showed the pre-feature signatures. Add the flags plus the
WRITE-capability / no-tunnel note so the reference matches what shipped.

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* chore: re-version 1.59.1.0 -> 1.57.8.0 (natural PATCH from 1.57.7.0)

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Garry Tan 1626d4857b
v1.57.7.0 feat: GSTACK REVIEW REPORT always declares unresolved decisions (#1916)
* fix(plan-devex-review): add missing gstack-review-log step

plan-devex-review carried the EXIT PLAN MODE GATE but never wrote a
review-log entry, so the gate's 'review log was called' check was
structurally unsatisfiable and the Review Readiness Dashboard / GSTACK
REVIEW REPORT had no plan-devex-review data to read. Add a Review Log
section before the dashboard read, logging the devex fields the report
parser already expects (status, scores, product_type, tthw, persona,
competitive_tier, unresolved, commit).

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* feat(review): make unresolved-decisions status mandatory in GSTACK REVIEW REPORT

The report's UNRESOLVED line was optional ('omit if empty') and the EXIT
PLAN MODE GATE only checked it 'if applicable', so a plan could ship with
no statement about open decisions at all — a missed ambiguity read
identically to a clean plan. Now every report ends with a mandatory
unresolved-decisions status as its final line: either the exact unbolded
sentinel 'NO UNRESOLVED DECISIONS', or a '**UNRESOLVED DECISIONS:**' block
of bullets. The gate blocks ExitPlanMode unless that final line is present.

generatePlanFileReviewReport: current-review items are listed from context;
prior reviews contribute an aggregate count computed as latest-fresh-row-
per-skill minus the current run (no double-count, dashboard 7-day window).
generateExitPlanModeGate: check #3 is now blocking with no 'if applicable'
escape; bolded sentinel does not satisfy it.

Tests: static guard in gen-skill-docs.test.ts asserts the mandatory status
across all six report consumers and the gate across gate-bearing skills;
skill-e2e-plan.test.ts asserts the written report's final line is the
status (and fixes a stale 'four review rows' -> five-row prompt).

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* refactor(review): compress unresolved-status prose to fit parity budget

After merging origin/main (v1.57.3.0), plan-devex-review exceeded the 1.05x
parity ratio vs the v1.53.0.0 baseline. Rather than rebase the baseline,
compressed the new prose to stay under the cap honestly: the report's
unresolved-status block (~32 -> ~9 lines) and the EXIT PLAN MODE GATE's
final-line check (~7 -> ~5 lines), plus the plan-devex-review review-log
step. All load-bearing rules and the exact gate-checkable tokens are
preserved; the static guards in gen-skill-docs.test.ts still pass.

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* test: regenerate stale ship golden fixtures (#1909 follow-up)

#1909 (v1.57.3.0) added the always-loaded PR-title-version rule to ship's
template and committed the regenerated ship/SKILL.md, but did not refresh the
three ship golden fixtures, leaving the golden-file regression test red on
main. Regenerate them from current output. The diff is purely #1909 content:
the PR-title invariant line plus a previously-unresolved ${ctx.paths.binDir}
placeholder that current generation correctly resolves. No feature content
from this branch leaks into ship (ship does not consume the review report
resolvers).

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* fix(plan-devex-review): restore TIMESTAMP fill instruction in review-log

Adversarial review caught that compressing the devex review-log block dropped
the TIMESTAMP substitution guidance the three sibling plan-review skills carry.
A literal "timestamp":"TIMESTAMP" parses as JSON but is an unparseable date,
so the Review Readiness Dashboard's 7-day freshness window silently drops the
plan-devex-review row (and the report's prior-review aggregation loses it).
Restore the one-line instruction. Also: the plan-review-report E2E now derives
its last-line check from the report slice, not the whole file, so a mis-placed
report surfaces the real trailing content in the failure message.

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* test(parity): rebase parity baseline v1.53.0.0 -> v1.57.7.0

The v1.53 anchor is four minor versions stale. v1.54-v1.57 (ship/plan carving,
carve-guards, AUQ prose fallback, the cross-session decision-log preamble) plus
this branch's mandatory unresolved-decisions status line pushed the three
plan-review skills past the 5% ratchet even after exhaustive compression. The
new baseline captures current UNION sizes (skeleton + sections/*.md, matching
what parity-harness measures) so the per-skill 1.05 ratio keeps catching future
bloat. The frozen v1.44.1 integrity anchor and the v1.47 size-budget baseline
are untouched.

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* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.57.7.0)

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2026-06-08 21:17:18 -07:00
Garry Tan 9cc41b7163
v1.57.6.0 fix wave: 8 community bugs (4 security guards failing open) (#1911)
* fix(ship): adversarial subagent no longer trips usage-policy denial on own security fixtures (#1899)

The Claude adversarial subagent in /review and /ship was told to "think like an
attacker" over the full diff. When the diff includes the repo's own security
regression fixtures (real attack payloads, by design), reasoning adversarially
over that material triggered Anthropic's real-time usage-policy safeguards and
the subagent call was denied — blocking the review.

Fix at the prompt's source of truth (scripts/resolvers/review.ts {{ADVERSARIAL_STEP}}):
- Authorized-defensive-testing framing: declares this is the maintainer's own repo
  and that attack-pattern strings inside test/fixture paths are the project's own
  regression corpus to analyze, not material to expand on.
- Fixture summary-mode diff: full content for non-fixture source, --stat/--name-status
  for test/fixture files, so raw exploit bytes aren't fed into adversarial reasoning.
  The subagent must state fixtures were reviewed in summary mode (no silent coverage cut).

Reported by @bmajewski. Regenerated review/SKILL.md + ship/sections/adversarial.md.

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* fix(redact): detect modern sk-proj-/sk-svcacct-/sk-admin- OpenAI keys (#1868)

openai.key (HIGH/block) used /\b(sk-(?:proj-)?[A-Za-z0-9]{32,})\b/, which stops
at the first - or _ in the body. Modern OpenAI project/service-account/admin keys
use base64url bodies containing - and _, so they never reached the 32-char run and
produced ZERO findings — a HIGH credential failing open through /spec, /ship, /cso,
and /document-*.

Replace with explicit alternation, bare vs prefixed (not a globally-optional prefix,
which would match malformed sk--... or separator-less sk-projabc...):
  sk-{proj,svcacct,admin}- + [A-Za-z0-9_-]{20,}  |  sk-[A-Za-z0-9]{32,} (legacy)

Tests: the three previously-missed shapes now block; FP guards pin that hyphenated
prose and malformed sk- strings do NOT match (HIGH tier blocks, so calibration matters).

Reported by @jbetala7.

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* fix(redact): reject malformed --max-bytes instead of silently disabling the size guard (#1824)

The oversize check is designed to fail CLOSED, but a malformed --max-bytes turned
it fail-OPEN. bin/gstack-redact did parseInt(maxBytes,10) and passed it straight
through; parseInt("foo") is NaN. The engine guarded with `opts.maxBytes ?? DEFAULT`,
and ?? does not catch NaN, so `byteLen > NaN` was always false and the fail-closed
block never fired. A negative value made `byteLen > -5` always true, blocking
everything.

Two layers:
- bin/gstack-redact validates the RAW string (parseInt accepts "123abc"->123,
  "1.5"->1): require /^\d+$/ and > 0, else exit 1 with a clear message.
- lib/redact-engine.ts hardens the fallback to Number.isFinite && > 0 else the
  default cap — a guardrail so the engine never silently runs uncapped even if a
  bad value reaches it directly.

Tests: NaN and negative both fall back to the default cap (oversize still blocks);
CLI rejects garbage/negative with exit 1.

Reported by @jbetala7.

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* fix(learnings): cross-project trust gate is an allowlist, not a denylist (#1745)

gstack-learnings-search --cross-project is documented as an allowlist — foreign
learnings load only when user-stated/trusted, to stop one project's AI-generated
learnings from injecting into another project's reviews. It was implemented as a
denylist: `if (isCrossProject && e.trusted === false) continue`. Any row where
`trusted` is missing/undefined (legacy rows from before the field existed,
hand-edited rows, rows from other tools) passed `undefined === false` → false →
admitted. Those rows leaked across projects.

Flip to `e.trusted !== true`. Test: a foreign row with no `trusted` field is now
excluded (true still included, false still excluded).

Reported by @jbetala7.

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* fix(safety): one-way-door classifier catches "rotate ... password" (#1839)

scripts/one-way-doors.ts is the secondary safety net for ad-hoc AskUserQuestion
ids with no registry entry; a false negative auto-approves a destructive op. The
revoke and reset credential patterns both include `password`, but the rotate
pattern omitted it, so the most common phrasing ("rotate the database password")
classified as a reversible two-way question.

Add `password` to the rotate alternation so all three verbs are parallel. New test
covers rotate+password, the revoke/reset/rotate parallel, and rotate's other nouns.

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* fix(review): route .mjs/.cjs/.mts/.cts changes to the backend reviewer (#1810)

gstack-diff-scope backend detection matched only *.ts|*.js. Modern Node ships
backend code as ESM (.mjs) / CommonJS (.cjs) and explicit-module TS (.mts/.cts);
none matched any category, so a PR touching only those files reported no backend
scope and the Review Army skipped the backend reviewer.

Add the four module extensions to the backend case. Test covers all four.

Reported by @jbetala7.

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* fix(brain-cache): loadMeta tolerates malformed _meta.json without crashing (#1879)

loadMeta returned the parsed JSON verbatim. A valid JSON file that lacked the
last_refresh map made three consumers (isStale, cmdInvalidate, refreshEntity)
throw a TypeError dereferencing meta.last_refresh — the sibling last_attempt was
already guarded, last_refresh wasn't.

Fix in loadMeta:
- Shape-guard: JSON.parse can return null/array/string/number; non-object → fresh meta.
- Normalize ONLY the dereferenced maps (last_refresh, last_attempt).
- Deliberately do NOT default schema_version/endpoint_hash. Leaving them absent
  makes schemaVersionMismatch()/endpointSwitched() force a rebuild (missing
  identity = mismatch = safe); defaulting them would suppress cache invalidation
  and trust a stale file of unknown provenance.

Tests: missing last_refresh no longer throws; null/array/primitive treated as cold;
missing schema_version forces rebuild instead of a trusted warm hit.

Reported by @jbetala7.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(skills): anchor guard/freeze/careful hook paths so they survive CC 2.1.162 (#1871)

The PreToolUse frontmatter hooks for guard, freeze, and careful invoked
`bash ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/.../check-*.sh`. Claude Code 2.1.162 no longer populates
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} in the skill-hook execution env, so it expanded to empty and
every Edit/Write/Bash ran `bash /...` and errored — breaking the safety skills
entirely.

Frontmatter hooks run before any skill-body bash, so no runtime-resolved variable
can fix this; the command must be a path that's valid at hook time. Anchor to the
installed checkout: $HOME/.claude/skills/gstack/{careful,freeze}/bin/check-*.sh,
where the scripts actually live. ($HOME is expanded by the hook shell.)

Reported by @omariani-howdy. Regenerated the three SKILL.md from templates.

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* chore: v1.58.0.0 — fix-wave release notes, VERSION bump, #1882 TODO

CHANGELOG entry for the 8-fix safety wave (#1899, #1868, #1824, #1745, #1839,
#1810, #1879, #1871). VERSION + package.json to 1.58.0.0 (MINOR — coordinated
multi-file safety fixes on top of main's 1.57.3.0). #1882 filed as the top
TODOS.md item (scoped out of this wave per decision; host-config change touching
all 52 skills, distinct from the #1871 hook fix).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(learnings): strip backticks from #1745 comment inside the bun -e block

The #1745 trust-gate fix added an explanatory comment containing backticks
(`=== false`) and the JS block is a double-quoted `bun -e "..."` bash string, so
bash command-substituted the backtick contents on every cross-project search —
polluting stderr with "command not found" and leaving a latent shell-injection /
source-corruption surface in a security gate. Caught by the wave's own adversarial
review (#1899 framing working as intended). Reworded the comments to avoid backticks
and dollar-paren entirely; the gate logic is unchanged.

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* test(golden): refresh ship golden baselines (#1899 prompt + main's PR-title line)

The three ship golden fixtures were stale: main's v1.57.3.0 added the always-loaded
PR-title invariant to ship/SKILL.md but did not regenerate the goldens (the golden
regression test fails on main too), and the codex golden still carried an unresolved
${ctx.paths.binDir} token. Regenerated from the current generated ship skills, which
also picks up this wave's #1899 adversarial-prompt framing (inlined for codex/factory).

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2026-06-08 06:39:38 -07:00