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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 e3d7f49c74
feat(v1.10.1.0): overlay efficacy harness + Opus 4.7 fanout nudge removal (#1166)
* refactor: export readOverlay from model-overlay resolver

Needed by the overlay-efficacy eval harness to resolve INHERIT directives
without going through generateModelOverlay's full TemplateContext.

* chore: add @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk@0.2.117 dep

Pinned exact for SDK event-shape stability. Used by the overlay-efficacy
harness to drive the model through a closer-to-real Claude Code harness
than `claude -p`.

* feat(preflight): sanity check for agent-sdk + overlay resolver

Verifies: SDK loads, claude-opus-4-7 is a live API model, SDKMessage
event shape matches assumptions, readOverlay resolves INHERIT directives
and includes expected content. Run with `bun run scripts/preflight-agent-sdk.ts`.

PREFLIGHT OK on first run, $0.013 API spend.

* feat(eval): parametric overlay-efficacy harness (runner + fixtures)

`test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts` wraps @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk
with explicit `AgentSdkResult` types, process-level API concurrency
semaphore, and 3-shape 429 retry (thrown error, result-message error,
mid-stream SDKRateLimitEvent). Pins the local claude binary via
`pathToClaudeCodeExecutable`.

`test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts` holds the typed registry. Two
fixtures for the first measurement: `opus-4-7-fanout-toy` (3-file read)
and `opus-4-7-fanout-realistic` (mixed-tool audit). Strict validator
rejects duplicate ids, non-integer trials, unsafe overlay paths, non-safe
id chars, and missing overlay files at module load.

Adding a future overlay nudge eval = one fixture entry.

* test(eval): unit tests for agent-sdk-runner (36 tests, free tier)

Stub `queryProvider` feeds hand-crafted SDKMessage streams. Covers:
happy-path shape, all 3 rate-limit shapes + retry, workspace reset on
retry, persistent 429 -> `RateLimitExhaustedError`, non-429 propagation,
process-level concurrency cap, options propagation, artifact path
uniqueness, cost/turn mapping, and every validator rejection case.

* test(eval): paid periodic overlay-efficacy harness

`test/skill-e2e-overlay-harness.test.ts` iterates OVERLAY_FIXTURES,
runs two arms per fixture (overlay-ON, overlay-OFF) at N=10 trials with
bounded concurrency. Arms use SDK preset `claude_code` so both include
the real Claude Code system prompt; overlay-ON appends the resolved
overlay text. Saves per-trial raw event streams to
`~/.gstack/projects/<slug>/transcripts/` for forensic recovery.

Gated on `EVALS=1 && EVALS_TIER=periodic`. ~$3/run (40 trials).

* test: register overlay harness in touchfiles (both maps)

Entries for `overlay-harness-opus-4-7-fanout-toy` and
`opus-4-7-fanout-realistic` in E2E_TOUCHFILES (deps: model-overlays/,
fixtures file, runner, resolver) and E2E_TIERS (`periodic`). Passes
`test/touchfiles.test.ts` completeness check.

* fix(opus-4.7): remove "Fan out explicitly" overlay nudge

Measured counterproductive under the new SDK harness. Baseline Opus 4.7
emits first-turn parallel tool_use blocks 70% of the time on a 3-file
read prompt. With the custom nudge: 10%. With Anthropic's own canonical
`<use_parallel_tool_calls>` block from their parallel-tool-use docs:
0%. Both overlays suppress fanout; neither improves it.

On realistic multi-tool prompts (audit a project: read files + glob +
summarize), Opus 4.7 never fans out in first turn regardless of overlay.
Zero of 20 trials. Not a prompt problem.

Keeping the other three nudges (effort-match, batch questions, literal
interpretation) pending their own measurement. Harness is ready for
follow-up fixtures — add one entry to
`test/fixtures/overlay-nudges.ts` to measure any overlay bullet.

Cost of investigation: ~$7 total across 3 eval runs.

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.6.5.0)

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

* feat(eval): extend OverlayFixture with allowedTools, maxTurns, direction

Per-fixture tool allowlist unblocks measuring nudges that need Edit/Write
(e.g. literal-interpretation 'fix the failing tests' needs write access).
Per-fixture maxTurns lets harder prompts run longer without changing the
default. `direction` is cosmetic metadata for test output labeling.

Also adds reusable predicates and metrics:
- lowerIsBetter20Pct / higherIsBetter20Pct — 20% lift threshold vs baseline
- bashToolCallCount — count of Bash tool_use across the session
- turnsToCompletion — SDK-reported num_turns at result
- uniqueFilesEdited — Edit/Write/MultiEdit file_path set size

test/skill-e2e-overlay-harness.test.ts now threads fixture.allowedTools
and fixture.maxTurns through runArm.

* test(eval): 3 more overlay fixtures to measure remaining Claude nudges

Measures three overlay bullets that haven't been tested yet:

- claude-dedicated-tools-vs-bash — claude.md says 'prefer Read/Edit/Write/
  Glob/Grep over cat/sed/find/grep'. Fixture prompts 'list every TypeScript
  file under src/ and tell me what each exports' and counts Bash tool_use
  across the session. Overlay-ON should drop it by >=20%.
- opus-4-7-effort-match-trivial — opus-4-7.md says 'simple file reads
  don't need deep reasoning.' Fixture uses a trivial one-file prompt
  (config.json lookup) and measures turns_used. Overlay-ON should be
  <=80% of baseline turns.
- opus-4-7-literal-interpretation — opus-4-7.md says 'fix ALL failing
  tests, not just the obvious one.' Fixture seeds three failing test
  files with deliberately distinct failure modes and counts unique files
  edited. Overlay-ON should touch >=20% more files.

Adding a fourth fixture for any remaining overlay nudge is a single entry.
The harness is now proven on: fanout (deleted after measurement), dedicated
tools, effort-match, and literal-interpretation.

* fix(eval): handle SDK max-turns throw gracefully

Some @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk versions throw from the query
generator when maxTurns is reached, instead of emitting a result
message with subtype='error_max_turns'. The runner treated that as
a non-retryable error and killed the whole periodic run on the first
fixture that exceeded its turn cap.

Added isMaxTurnsError() detector and a catch branch that synthesizes
an AgentSdkResult from events captured before the throw, with
exitReason='error_max_turns' and costUsd=0 (unknown from the thrown
path). The metric function still runs against whatever assistant
turns were collected, so the trial produces a usable number.

Hoisted events/assistantTurns/toolCalls/assistantTextParts and the
timing counters out of the inner try so the catch branch can read
them. No behavior change on the success path or on rate-limit retry
paths.

* test(eval): bump maxTurns to 15 for claude-dedicated-tools-vs-bash

The prompt 'list every TypeScript file under src/ and tell me what
each exports' needs 1 turn for Glob + ~5 for Reads + 1 for summary.
Default maxTurns=5 was not enough; prior run threw from the SDK on
this fixture and tanked the whole periodic eval.

Bumping to 15 gives headroom. The runner now also handles max-turns
gracefully even if a future fixture underestimates, so this is belt
and suspenders.

* test(eval): Sonnet 4.6 variants of the 5 Opus-4.7 fixtures

Same overlays, same prompts, same metrics, `model: 'claude-sonnet-4-6'`.
Tests whether the overlays behave differently on a weaker Claude model
where baseline behavior is shakier. Sonnet trials cost ~3-4x less than
Opus so these 5 add ~$4.50 to a full run.

Measurement result from the first paired run (100 trials total,
~$14.55):

- **Sonnet + effort-match shows real overlay benefit.** With the overlay
  on, Sonnet takes 2.5 turns on a trivial `What's the version in
  config.json?` prompt. Without, it takes exactly 3.0 turns in all 10
  trials. ~17% reduction, below the 20% pass threshold but the signal
  is clean: overlay-ON distribution [2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3] vs overlay-OFF
  [3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3].
- All other Sonnet dimensions flat (fanout, dedicated-tools, literal
  interpretation). Same as Opus on those axes.
- Opus effort-match remains flat (2.60 vs 2.50, +4% slower with overlay).

Implication: model-stratified. The overlay stack helps Sonnet on some
axes where it does nothing on Opus. Wholesale removal would hurt Sonnet.
Per-nudge per-model measurement is the right move going forward.

* chore: bump version to 1.10.1.0

Updates VERSION, package.json, CHANGELOG header, and TODOS completion
marker from 1.6.5.0 to 1.10.1.0.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-23 18:42:58 -07:00
Garry Tan a81be53621
v1.10.0.0: fix AskUserQuestion cadence + Pros/Cons format upgrade (#1178)
* fix(preamble): reorder AskUserQuestion Format above model overlay + rewrite Opus 4.7 pacing directive

Root cause of plan-review regression (v1.6.4.0): model overlays rendered
ABOVE the pacing rule in every SKILL.md, so Opus 4.7 read "Batch your
questions" first and absorbed it as the ambient default. The overlay's
claimed subordination ("skill wins on pacing, always") didn't stick —
literal-interpretation mode reads physical order, not claimed hierarchy.

Part 1 of 4 (plan: ~/.claude/plans/system-instruction-you-are-working-polymorphic-twilight.md):

scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts
- Move generateAskUserFormat above generateModelOverlay in section array
- Comment explains why — prevents future refactors from silently reverting

model-overlays/opus-4-7.md
- Replace "Batch your questions" block with "Pace questions to the skill"
- New wording makes one-question-per-turn the default when the skill
  contains STOP directives; batching becomes the explicit exception

Regenerated 30 SKILL.md files via bun run gen:skill-docs.

Verified:
- With --model opus-4-7: Format renders at line 359, Model-Specific
  Patch at 373, "Pace questions" at 419 (Format comes first, overlay
  second, pacing directive intact).
- bun test passes.

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

* fix(plan-reviews): tighten STOP/escape-hatch directives across 4 templates

Part 2 of 4 (plan: ~/.claude/plans/system-instruction-you-are-working-polymorphic-twilight.md).

Codex caught that v1.6.3.0's reasoning collapsed on Opus 4.7: the old
escape-hatch wording ("If no issues or fix is obvious, state what
you'll do and move on — don't waste a question") let the literal
interpreter classify every finding as having an "obvious fix" and skip
AskUserQuestion entirely. Reviews became reports.

Per-template hardening (16 sites total, verified by rg):

plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md.tmpl (13 sites):
- 12 inline STOP directives: replace the full escape-hatch clause with
  "zero findings → say so and proceed; findings → MUST call AskUserQuestion
  as a tool_use, including for obvious fixes."
- 1 Escape hatch bullet in CRITICAL RULE section: tightened.

plan-eng-review, plan-design-review, plan-devex-review (1 site each):
- Each template's Escape hatch bullet tightened to match the new CEO wording,
  adapted for each review's domain (issue/gap, decision/design/DX alternatives).

After regeneration: rg "don't waste a question" returns 0 across all
*SKILL.md.tmpl and *SKILL.md files. "zero findings, state" wording
present 16 times (matches prior count of escape-hatch sites).

bun test passes.

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

* feat(preamble): upgrade AskUserQuestion format to Pros/Cons decision brief

Part 4 of 4 (plan: ~/.claude/plans/system-instruction-you-are-working-polymorphic-twilight.md).

Every AskUserQuestion now renders as a decision brief, not a bullet list:
D-numbered header, ELI10, Stakes-if-we-pick-wrong, Recommendation, Pros/Cons
with / markers per option, closing Net: tradeoff synthesis.

scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts
- Full rewrite. Preserves prior rules (Re-ground, ELI10, Recommend,
  Completeness, Options) and adds:
  - D-numbering per skill invocation (model-level, not runtime state)
  - Stakes line (pain avoided / capability unlocked / consequence named)
  - Pros/Cons block with min 2  + 1  per option, min 40 chars/bullet
  - Hard-stop escape: " No cons — this is a hard-stop choice" for
    genuine one-sided choices (destructive-action confirmations)
  - Neutral-posture handling (CT1-compliant): (recommended) label
    STAYS on default option to preserve AUTO_DECIDE contract; neutrality
    expressed as prose in Recommendation line only
  - Net line closes the decision with a one-sentence tradeoff frame
  - Rule 11: tool_use mandate (prose "Question:" blocks don't count)
  - Self-check list before emitting

test/skill-validation.test.ts
- Update format assertions to check for new Pros/Cons tokens
  (Pros / cons:, Recommendation: <choice>, Net:, ELI10, Stakes if we
  pick wrong:, , ) across all tier-2+ skills
- Old "RECOMMENDATION: Choose" expectation removed (the new format uses
  mixed-case "Recommendation:" with no literal "Choose")

test/skill-e2e-plan-format.test.ts
- Add v1.7.0.0 format token regexes (PROS_CONS_HEADER_RE, PRO_BULLET_RE,
  CON_BULLET_RE, NET_LINE_RE, D_NUMBER_RE, STAKES_RE)
- Existing RECOMMENDATION_RE loosened to accept mixed-case "Recommendation:"
  (canonical v1.7.0.0 form) alongside all-caps (legacy). Tests are
  additive — the strict new-format gate is the upcoming cadence eval.

Regenerated 30 SKILL.md files via bun run gen:skill-docs.

Verified:
- bun test: 319 pass (1 pre-existing security-bench fixture oversize
  failure on main, unrelated — confirmed via git stash test on main HEAD)
- New format tokens render in all tier-2+ skills (plan-ceo-review,
  plan-eng-review, ship, office-hours verified)

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

* test: gate-tier units + periodic Pros/Cons evals for AskUserQuestion format

Part 3 of 4 (plan: ~/.claude/plans/system-instruction-you-are-working-polymorphic-twilight.md).

Gate-tier (E1, free, runs on every `bun test`):

test/preamble-compose.test.ts — pins the composition order
  Asserts AskUserQuestion Format section renders BEFORE Model-Specific
  Behavioral Patch in tier-≥2 preamble output. Covers claude default,
  opus-4-7 overlay, tier 2/3, and codex host. Catches any future edit
  to scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts that silently reverts the order.

test/resolver-ask-user-format.test.ts — pins the Pros/Cons contract
  14 assertions against generateAskUserFormat output: D<N>, ELI10,
  Stakes if we pick wrong:, Recommendation: <choice>, Pros / cons:,
  / markers, min 2 pros + 1 con rules, hard-stop escape exact
  phrase, neutral-posture CT1 rule ((recommended) label preserved for
  AUTO_DECIDE), Completeness coverage-vs-kind, tool_use mandate
  (rule 11), self-check list, D-numbering model-level caveat.

test/model-overlay-opus-4-7.test.ts — pins the pacing directive
  Asserts raw overlay file + resolved overlay output contain "Pace
  questions to the skill" and NOT "Batch your questions". Verifies
  INHERIT:claude chain still works (Todo-list, subordination wrapper),
  Fan out / Effort-match / Literal interpretation nudges preserved.
  Also asserts claude base overlay does NOT carry the Opus-specific
  pacing directive (no cross-contamination).

Periodic-tier (E2, Opus-dependent, ~$1-2/run):

test/skill-e2e-plan-prosons.test.ts — 4 cases extending v1.6.3.0 harness
  1. Format positive — every token present when plan has real tradeoff
  2. Hard-stop NEGATIVE — plan with genuine tradeoff must NOT dodge to
     "No cons — hard-stop choice" escape
  3. Neutral-posture NEGATIVE — plan where one option dominates must emit
     (recommended) label + "because <reason>", must NOT dodge to
     "taste call" / "no preference"
  4. Hard-stop POSITIVE — destructive-action plan may legitimately use
     the hard-stop escape

test/helpers/touchfiles.ts — entries for all new eval cases
  Dependencies: overlay, preamble.ts, generate-ask-user-format.ts, and
  the 4 plan-review templates. Diff-based selection triggers the evals
  whenever those files change. Also added entries for 7 expanded-coverage
  cases (ship, office-hours, investigate, qa, review, design-review,
  document-release) — test cases will land in follow-up PRs per skill.

Follow-ups noted in test file header:
- True multi-turn cadence eval (3 findings → 3 distinct asks) — current
  harness captures one $OUT_FILE per session; multi-turn capture needs
  new harness support.
- Expanded-coverage test cases for the 7 non-plan-review skills.

Verified:
- bun test: 349 pass (30 new + 319 baseline), 1 pre-existing security-bench
  oversize failure on main (unrelated, unchanged).

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

* test: regenerate golden fixtures + update ELI10 phrase check for v1.7.0.0

Pros/Cons format rewrite (6b99df9d) changed the resolver output across all
tier-2+ SKILL.md files. Three golden-file regression tests in
test/host-config.test.ts and one phrase-check test in test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts
were failing as expected.

- test/fixtures/golden/claude-ship-SKILL.md
- test/fixtures/golden/codex-ship-SKILL.md
- test/fixtures/golden/factory-ship-SKILL.md
  Regenerated via `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all` + cp into fixtures.

- test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts line 244: rename test from "ELI16 simplification
  rules" to "ELI10 simplification rules" and match the new phrase pattern.
  v1.7.0.0 uses "ELI10 (ALWAYS)" rather than legacy "Simplify (ELI10, ALWAYS)".

bun test: 744 pass, 1 fail (pre-existing security-bench fixture oversize,
unrelated to this branch).

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

* v1.7.0.0: plan reviews walk you through each issue with Pros/Cons

Restores AskUserQuestion cadence on Opus 4.7 (v1.6.4.0 regression) and
upgrades the format to a numbered decision brief — D<N> header, ELI10,
Stakes, Recommendation, per-option / bullets, Net: closing line.

Fix: composition reorder + overlay rewrite + 16-site escape-hatch hardening
across the 4 plan-review templates.
Feature: Pros/Cons format in the preamble resolver, inherited by every
tier-2+ skill automatically.

30 new gate-tier unit tests pin the format contract (runs in <100ms, $0).
4 new periodic-tier eval cases defend against escape-hatch abuse
(2 positive, 2 negative). Golden fixtures regenerated.

CEO + Eng + Codex reviews completed. 5 of 8 Codex findings incorporated;
CT2 (16 sites, not 31) and CT1 (AUTO_DECIDE contract break) were
load-bearing catches the primary reviews missed.

bun test: 774 pass, 1 fail (pre-existing security-bench oversize, unrelated).

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

* v1.10.0.0: bump VERSION (was v1.7.0.0, align with branch discipline)

Per user direction — jumping to 1.10.0.0 for versioning alignment.
No functional changes from the prior ship commit (5f038ab7). The
regression fix + Pros/Cons format are identical.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-23 18:25:34 -07:00
Garry Tan 69733e2622
fix(plan-reviews): restore RECOMMENDATION + Completeness split + Codex ELI10 (v1.6.3.0) (#1149)
* test: add AskUserQuestion format regression eval for plan reviews

Four-case periodic-tier eval that captures the verbatim AskUserQuestion
text /plan-ceo-review and /plan-eng-review produce, then asserts the
format rule is honored: RECOMMENDATION always, Completeness: N/10 only
on coverage-differentiated options, and an explicit "options differ in
kind" note on kind-differentiated options.

Cases:
- plan-ceo-review mode selection (kind-differentiated)
- plan-ceo-review approach menu (coverage-differentiated)
- plan-eng-review per-issue coverage decision
- plan-eng-review per-issue architectural choice (kind-differentiated)

Classified periodic because behavior depends on Opus non-determinism —
gate-tier would flake and block merges.

Test harness instructs the agent to write its would-be AskUserQuestion
text to $OUT_FILE rather than invoke a real tool (MCP AskUserQuestion
isn't wired in the test subprocess). Regex predicates then validate
the captured content.

Cost: ~$2 per full run.

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

* fix(plan-reviews): restore RECOMMENDATION + split Completeness by question type

Opus 4.7 users reported /plan-ceo-review and /plan-eng-review stopped
emitting the RECOMMENDATION line and per-option Completeness: X/10
scores. E2E capture showed the real failure mode: on kind-differentiated
questions (mode selection, architectural A-vs-B, cherry-pick), Opus 4.7
either fabricated filler scores (10/10 on every option — conveys nothing)
or dropped the format entirely when the metric didn't fit.

Fix is at two layers:

1. scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts splits the old
   run-on step 3 into:
   - Step 3 "Recommend (ALWAYS)": RECOMMENDATION is required on every
     question, coverage- or kind-differentiated.
   - Step 4 "Score completeness (when meaningful)": emit Completeness: N/10
     only when options differ in coverage. When options differ in kind,
     skip the score and include a one-line explanatory note. Do not
     fabricate scores.

2. scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts updates
   the Completeness Principle tail to match. Without this, the preamble
   contained two rules (one conditional, one unconditional) and the
   model hedged.

Template anchors reinforce the distinction where agent judgment is most
likely to drift:

- plan-ceo-review Section 0C-bis (approach menu) gets the
  coverage-differentiated anchor.
- plan-ceo-review Section 0F (mode selection) gets the kind-differentiated
  anchor.
- plan-eng-review CRITICAL RULE section gets the coverage-vs-kind rule
  for every per-issue AskUserQuestion raised during the review.

Regenerated SKILL.md for all T2 skills + golden fixtures refreshed. Every
skill using the T2 preamble now has the same conditional scoring rule.

Verified via new periodic-tier eval (test/skill-e2e-plan-format.test.ts):
all 4 cases fail on prior behavior, all 4 pass with this fix.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.6.2.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: add Codex eval for AskUserQuestion format compliance

Four-case periodic-tier eval mirrors test/skill-e2e-plan-format.test.ts
but drives the plan review skills via codex exec instead of claude -p.

Context: Codex under the gpt.md "No preamble / Prefer doing over listing"
overlay tends to skip the Simplify/ELI10 paragraph and the RECOMMENDATION
line on AskUserQuestion calls. Users have to manually re-prompt "ELI10
and don't forget to recommend" almost every time. This test pins the
behavior so regressions surface.

Cases:
- plan-ceo-review mode selection (kind-differentiated)
- plan-ceo-review approach menu (coverage-differentiated)
- plan-eng-review per-issue coverage decision
- plan-eng-review per-issue architectural choice (kind-differentiated)

Assertions on captured AskUserQuestion text:
- RECOMMENDATION: Choose present (all cases)
- Completeness: N/10 present on coverage, absent on kind
- "options differ in kind" note present on kind
- ELI10 length floor (>400 chars) — catches bare options-only output

Cost: ~\$2-4 per full run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(preamble): harden AskUserQuestion Format + Codex ELI10 carve-out

Follow-up to v1.6.2.0. Codex (GPT-5.4) under the gpt.md overlay
treated "No preamble / Prefer doing over listing" as license to skip
the Simplify paragraph and the RECOMMENDATION line on AskUserQuestion
calls. Users had to manually re-prompt "ELI10 and don't forget to
recommend" almost every time.

Two layers:

1. model-overlays/gpt.md — adds an explicit "AskUserQuestion is NOT
   preamble" carve-out. The "No preamble" rule applies to direct
   answers; AskUserQuestion content must emit the full format
   (Re-ground, Simplify/ELI10, Recommend, Options). Tells the model:
   if you find yourself about to skip any of these, back up and emit
   them — the user will ask anyway, so do it the first time.

2. scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts — step 2
   renamed to "Simplify (ELI10, ALWAYS)" with explicit "not optional
   verbosity, not preamble" framing. Step 3 "Recommend (ALWAYS)"
   hardened: "Never omit, never collapse into the options list."

All T2 skills regenerated across all hosts. Golden fixtures refreshed
(claude-ship, codex-ship, factory-ship). Updated the ELI10 assertion
in test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts to match the new wording.

Codex compliance to be verified empirically via test/codex-e2e-plan-format.test.ts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: fix Codex eval sandbox + collector API

Two test infrastructure bugs in the initial Codex eval landed in the
prior commit:

1. sandbox: 'read-only' (the default) blocked Codex from writing
   $OUT_FILE. Test reported "STATUS: BLOCKED" and exited 0 without
   a capture file. Fixed: sandbox: 'workspace-write' for all 4 cases,
   allowing writes inside the tempdir.

2. recordCodexResult called a non-existent evalCollector.record()
   API (I invented it). The real surface is addTest() with a
   different field schema. Aligned with test/codex-e2e.test.ts
   pattern.

With both fixed, the eval now actually measures Codex AskUserQuestion
format compliance. All 4 cases pass on v1.6.2.0 with the gpt.md
carve-out: RECOMMENDATION always, Completeness: N/10 only on coverage,
"options differ in kind" note on kind, ELI10 explanation present.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.6.3.0)

Adds the Codex ELI10 + RECOMMENDATION carve-out scope landed after
v1.6.2.0's Claude-verified fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-23 07:25:20 -07:00
Garry Tan 656df0e37e
feat(v1.5.2.0): Opus 4.7 migration — model overlay, voice, routing (#1117)
* feat(v1.5.2.0): Opus 4.7 migration — model overlay, voice, routing

Adapts GStack skill text for Claude Opus 4.7's behavioral changes per
Anthropic's migration guide and community findings.

Key changes:

model-overlays/claude.md:
  - Fan out explicitly (4.7 spawns fewer subagents by default)
  - Effort-match the step (avoid overthinking simple tasks at max)
  - Batch questions in one AskUserQuestion turn
  - Literal interpretation awareness (deliver full scope)

hosts/claude.ts:
  - coAuthorTrailer updated to Claude Opus 4.7

SKILL.md.tmpl:
  - Expanded routing triggers with colloquial variants ("wtf",
    "this doesn't work", "send it", "where was I") — 4.7 won't
    generalize from sparse trigger patterns like 4.6 did
  - Added missing routes: /context-save, /context-restore, /cso, /make-pdf
  - Changed routing fallback from strict "do NOT answer directly" to
    "when in doubt, invoke the skill" — false positives are cheaper
    than false negatives on 4.7's literal interpreter

generate-voice-directive.ts:
  - Added concrete good/bad voice example — 4.7 needs shown examples,
    not just described tone. "auth.ts:47 returns undefined..." vs
    "I've identified a potential issue..."

Regenerated all 38 SKILL.md files. All tests pass.

* refactor(opus-4.7): split overlay, align routing, fix trailer fallback

Follow-up to wintermute's initial Opus 4.7 migration commit (addresses
ship-quality review findings before v1.6.1.0 release).

Overlay split (model-overlays/):
  - Move 4 Opus-4.7-specific nudges (Fan out, Effort-match, Batch your
    questions, Literal interpretation) from claude.md into new
    opus-4-7.md with {{INHERIT:claude}}
  - claude.md now holds only model-agnostic nudges (Todo discipline,
    Think before heavy, Dedicated tools over Bash)
  - Prevents Opus-4.7-specific guidance leaking onto Sonnet/Haiku
  - Uses existing {{INHERIT:claude}} mechanism at
    scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts:28-43

scripts/models.ts:
  - Add opus-4-7 to ALL_MODEL_NAMES
  - resolveModel: claude-opus-4-7-* variants route to opus-4-7,
    all other claude-* variants continue to route to claude

scripts/resolvers/utility.ts:
  - Update coAuthor trailer fallback: Opus 4.6 -> Opus 4.7
    (fallback was missed in the initial migration commit)

scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-routing-injection.ts:
  - Align policy with new SKILL.md.tmpl: soft "when in doubt, invoke"
    instead of hard "ALWAYS invoke... Do NOT answer directly"
  - Replace stale /checkpoint reference with /context-save +
    /context-restore (skills were renamed in v1.0.1.0)
  - Expand route coverage to match full skill inventory:
    /plan-devex-review, /qa-only, /devex-review, /land-and-deploy,
    /setup-deploy, /canary, /open-gstack-browser,
    /setup-browser-cookies, /benchmark, /learn, /plan-tune, /health

scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-voice-directive.ts:
  - Voice example closing: "Want me to ship it?" -> "Want me to fix it?"
  - Preserves directness while routing through review gates

SKILL.md.tmpl:
  - Add routing triggers for skills that were missing from the list:
    /plan-devex-review, /qa-only, /devex-review, /land-and-deploy,
    /setup-deploy, /canary, /open-gstack-browser,
    /setup-browser-cookies, /benchmark, /learn, /plan-tune, /health
  - Within Opus 4.7 overlay, added scope boundary to
    "Literal interpretation" nudge ("fix tests that this branch
    introduced or is responsible for")
  - Added pacing exception to "Batch your questions" nudge so skills
    that require one-question-at-a-time pacing still win

Follow-up commit will regenerate SKILL.md files + update goldens.

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

* chore(opus-4.7): regenerate SKILL.md files + update golden fixtures

Mechanical consequence of the preceding source changes (overlay split,
routing alignment, voice example, routing expansion). No behavior change
beyond what that commit introduced.

- 36 SKILL.md files regenerated via bun run gen:skill-docs
- 3 golden fixtures updated (claude, codex, factory ship skill)

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

* test(routing): assert slash-prefixed skills + new policy + current names

Align gen-skill-docs.test.ts routing assertions with the remediated
routing-injection output:

- Expect '/office-hours' slash-prefixed form (matches SKILL.md.tmpl style)
- Add test asserting /context-save + /context-restore references
  (guards against stale '/checkpoint' name regression)
- Add test asserting "When in doubt, invoke the skill" soft policy
  (guards against "Do NOT answer directly" hard policy regression)

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

* test(binary-guard): replace xargs-per-file loops with fs.statSync + mode filter

The "no compiled binaries in git" describe block had two flaky tests:

- "git tracks no files larger than 2MB" timed out at 5s regularly because
  it spawned one `sh -c` per tracked file via `xargs -I{}` (~571 shells
  on every run, ~11s locally).
- "git tracks no Mach-O or ELF binaries" ran `file --mime-type` over every
  tracked file (~3-10s, flaky near the timeout).

Both were pre-existing — not caused by any recent change — but showed up
as red in every local `bun test` run and masked legit failures in the
same suite.

Rewrites:

- 2MB test: `fs.statSync(f).size` in a filter. Millisecond-fast.
- Mach-O test: pre-filter to mode 100755 files via `git ls-files -s`,
  then batch-invoke `file --mime-type` once across all executables.
  With zero executables tracked, the `file` invocation is skipped.

Test suite: 320 pass, 0 fail, 907ms (was ~12.7s with 2 fails).

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

* test(team-mode): give setup -q / setup --local tests a 3-minute budget

./setup runs a full install, Bun binary build, and skill regeneration.
On a cold cache it takes 60-90s, comfortably above bun test's 5s default.
Both "setup -q produces no stdout" and "setup --local prints deprecation
warning" have been flaky-to-failing for a while with [5001.78ms] timeouts.

The test logic was fine, the budget wasn't. Bumped both to 180s via the
third-arg timeout.

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

* test(opus-4.7): E2E eval for fanout rate + routing precision

Closes the measurement gap flagged by the ship-quality review: "zero
tests exercise Opus 4.7 behavior; every skill-e2e hardcodes 4.6."

Two cases, both pinned to claude-opus-4-7:

1. Fanout rate (A/B)
   - Arm A: regen SKILL.md with --model opus-4-7 (overlay ON, includes
     "Fan out explicitly" nudge).
   - Arm B: regen SKILL.md with --model claude (overlay OFF, only
     model-agnostic nudges).
   - Prompt: "Read alpha.txt, beta.txt, gamma.txt. These are independent."
   - Measure: parallel tool calls in first assistant turn.
   - Assert: arm A >= arm B.

2. Routing precision (6-case mini-benchmark)
   - 3 positive prompts that should route (wtf bug, send it, does it work)
   - 3 negative prompts that match keywords but should NOT route
     (syntax question, algorithm question, slack message)
   - Assert: TP rate >= 66%, FP rate <= 33%.

Cost estimate: ~$3-5 per full run. Classified as periodic tier per
CLAUDE.md convention (Opus model, non-deterministic). Runs only with
EVALS=1 env var, touchfile-gated so unrelated diffs don't trigger it.

Test plan artifact at
~/.gstack/projects/garrytan-gstack/garrytan-feat-opus-4.7-migration-eng-review-test-plan-20260421-230611.md
tracks the full specification.

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

* refactor(opus-4.7): rewrite fanout nudge to show parallel tool_use pattern

The original fanout nudge told 4.7 to "spawn subagents in the same turn"
and "run independent checks concurrently" in prose. An E2E eval on
claude-opus-4-7 reading 3 independent files showed zero effect: both
overlay-ON and overlay-OFF arms emitted serial Reads across 3-4 turns.

Rewrite follows the same "show not tell" principle the PR introduced for
voice examples. The nudge now includes a concrete wrong/right contrast
showing the exact tool_use structure:

  Wrong (3 turns):
    Turn 1: Read(foo.ts), then wait
    Turn 2: Read(bar.ts), then wait
    Turn 3: Read(baz.ts)

  Right (1 turn, 3 parallel tool_use blocks in one assistant message):
    Turn 1: [Read(foo.ts), Read(bar.ts), Read(baz.ts)]

Applies to Read, Bash, Grep, Glob, WebFetch, Agent, and any tool where
sub-calls don't depend on each other's output.

Effect on test/skill-e2e-opus-47.test.ts fanout eval: unchanged (both
arms still 0 parallel in first turn via `claude -p`). May land better in
Claude Code's interactive harness, where the system prompt + tool
handlers differ. Tracked as P0 TODO for follow-up verification in the
correct harness.

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

* test(opus-4.7): tighten ambiguous /qa routing prompt

"does this feature work on mobile? can you check the deploy?" was too
vague — a reasonable agent asks "which feature?" via AskUserQuestion
instead of routing to /qa. That's not a routing miss, it's an under-
specified prompt.

Replaced with "I just pushed the login flow changes. Test the deployed
site and find any bugs." — concrete subject + clear QA verb.

Result: pos-does-it-work went from MISS to OK, routing TP rate 2/3 -> 3/3.

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

* test(opus-4.7): rewrite scratch-root helper + add afterAll cleanup

First run of the Opus 4.7 eval exposed two test-setup gaps that made
results misleading:

- Only the root gstack SKILL.md was installed. Claude Code does
  auto-discovery per-directory under .claude/skills/{name}/SKILL.md, so
  without individual skill dirs the Skill tool had nothing to route to.
  Positive routing cases all failed.
- `claude -p` does not load SKILL.md content as system context the way
  the Claude Code harness does. The overlay nudges in SKILL.md were
  invisible to the model, so the fanout A/B could not actually differ.

New `mkEvalRoot(suffix, includeOverlay)` helper, modelled on the pattern
in skill-routing-e2e.test.ts:

- Installs per-skill SKILL.md under .claude/skills/ for ~14 key skills
  so the Skill tool has discoverable targets.
- Writes an explicit routing block into project CLAUDE.md.
- When includeOverlay is true, inlines the content of
  model-overlays/opus-4-7.md into CLAUDE.md too. This is what makes the
  fanout A/B observable in `claude -p`: arm ON gets the overlay in
  context, arm OFF does not.

Plus an afterAll that re-runs gen-skill-docs at the default model so
the working tree is not left with opus-4-7-generated SKILL.md files
after the eval finishes (would break golden-file tests in the next
`bun test` run otherwise).

With this setup in place: routing went from 3/3 FAIL to 3/3 PASS
(correct skill or clarification in every positive case, zero false
positives on negatives). Fanout A/B is now a fair comparison; still
shows 0 parallel in both arms under `claude -p` (tracked as a P0 TODO
for re-measurement inside Claude Code's harness, where fanout may land
differently).

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

* docs(todos): verify Opus 4.7 fanout nudge in Claude Code harness (P0)

v1.6.1.0 shipped a rewritten "Fan out explicitly" nudge with a concrete
tool_use example. Under `claude -p` on claude-opus-4-7, the A/B eval
showed zero parallel tool calls in the first turn for both arms
(overlay ON and OFF). Routing verified 3/3 in the same harness, so the
gap is specific to fanout and likely to `claude -p`'s system prompt +
tool wiring.

This TODO closes the measurement loop the ship-quality review flagged:
re-run the fanout A/B inside Claude Code's real harness (or a faithful
replica) before landing another Opus migration claim.

P0 because it is a ship-quality commitment from the v1.6.1.0 release
notes, not a nice-to-have.

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

* chore(release): v1.6.1.0 — Opus 4.7 migration, reviewed

Bump VERSION + package.json from 1.6.0.0 to 1.6.1.0. New CHANGELOG
entry describing the ship-quality remediation of PR #1117:

- Overlay split (model-agnostic claude.md + opus-4-7.md with INHERIT)
- Routing-injection aligned with SKILL.md.tmpl ("when in doubt" policy,
  current skill names, full skill inventory)
- utility.ts trailer fallback updated
- Voice example closes through review gate instead of ship-bypass
- Literal-interpretation nudge bounded to branch scope
- Batch-questions nudge has explicit pacing exception
- First Opus 4.7 eval: routing verified 3/3, fanout A/B unverified
  under `claude -p` (tracked as P0 TODO for next rev)
- Pre-existing test failures fixed: fs.statSync binary guard, 180s
  setup timeout, golden-file updates

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

* test(opus-4.7): key touchfile entries by testName, not describe text

TOUCHFILES completeness scan in test/touchfiles.test.ts expects every
`testName:` literal passed to runSkillTest to appear as a key in
E2E_TOUCHFILES. The previous entries were keyed by the outer describe
test names ("fanout: overlay ON emits...") rather than the inner
testName values ('fanout-arm-overlay-on', 'fanout-arm-overlay-off'),
which failed the completeness check.

Switched both E2E_TOUCHFILES and E2E_TIERS to use the two fanout arm
testNames as keys. The routing sub-tests use a template literal
(`routing-${c.name}`) which the scanner skips, so they inherit selection
from file-level changes to the opus-4-7.md / routing-injection.ts paths
already covered by the fanout entries.

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

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feat(v1.3.0.0): open agents learnings + cross-model benchmark skill (#1040)
* chore: regenerate stale ship golden fixtures

Golden fixtures were missing the VENDORED_GSTACK preamble section that
landed on main. Regression tests failed on all three hosts (claude, codex,
factory). Regenerated from current preamble output.

No code changes, unblocks test suite.

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

* feat: anti-slop design constraints + delete duplicate constants

Tightens design-consultation and design-shotgun to push back on the
convergence traps every AI design tool falls into.

Changes:
- scripts/resolvers/constants.ts: add "system-ui as primary font" to
  AI_SLOP_BLACKLIST. Document Space Grotesk as the new "safe alternative
  to Inter" convergence trap alongside the existing overused fonts.
- scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts: delete duplicate AI slop constants block
  (dead code — scripts/resolvers/constants.ts is the live source).
  Prevents drift between the two definitions.
- design-consultation/SKILL.md.tmpl: add Space Grotesk + system-ui to
  overused/slop lists. Add "anti-convergence directive" — vary across
  generations in the same project. Add Phase 1 "memorable-thing forcing
  question" (what's the one thing someone will remember?). Add Phase 5
  "would a human designer be embarrassed by this?" self-gate before
  presenting variants.
- design-shotgun/SKILL.md.tmpl: anti-convergence directive — each
  variant must use a different font, palette, and layout. If two
  variants look like siblings, one of them failed.

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

* feat: context health soft directive in preamble (T2+)

Adds a "periodically self-summarize" nudge to long-running skills.
Soft directive only — no thresholds, no enforcement, no auto-commit.

Goal: self-awareness during /qa, /investigate, /cso etc. If you notice
yourself going in circles, STOP and reassess instead of thrashing.

Codex review caught that fake precision thresholds (15/30/45 tool calls)
were unimplementable — SKILL.md is a static prompt, not runtime code.
This ships the soft version only.

Changes:
- scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts: add generateContextHealth(), wire into
  T2+ tier. Format: [PROGRESS] ... summary line. Explicit rule that
  progress reporting must never mutate git state.
- All T2+ skill SKILL.md files regenerated to include the new section.
- Golden ship fixtures updated (T4 skill, picks up the change).

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

* feat: model overlays with explicit --model flag (no auto-detect)

Adds a per-model behavioral patch layer orthogonal to the host axis.
Different LLMs have different tendencies (GPT won't stop, Gemini
over-explains, o-series wants structured output). Overlays nudge each
model toward better defaults for gstack workflows.

Codex review caught three landmines the prior reviews missed:
1. Host != model — Claude Code can run any Claude model, Codex runs
   GPT/o-series, Cursor fronts multiple providers. Auto-detecting from
   host would lie. Dropped auto-detect. --model is explicit (default
   claude). Missing overlay file → empty string (graceful).
2. Import cycle — putting Model in resolvers/types.ts would cycle
   through hosts/index. Created neutral scripts/models.ts instead.
3. "Final say" is dangerous — overlay at the end of preamble could
   override STOP points, AskUserQuestion gates, /ship review gates.
   Placed overlay after spawned-session-check but before voice + tier
   sections. Wrapper heading adds explicit subordination language on
   every overlay: "subordinate to skill workflow, STOP points,
   AskUserQuestion gates, plan-mode safety, and /ship review gates."

Changes:
- scripts/models.ts: new neutral module. ALL_MODEL_NAMES, Model type,
  resolveModel() for family heuristics (gpt-5.4-mini → gpt-5.4, o3 →
  o-series, claude-opus-4-7 → claude), validateModel() helper.
- scripts/resolvers/types.ts: import Model, add ctx.model field.
- scripts/resolvers/model-overlay.ts: new resolver. Reads
  model-overlays/{model}.md. Supports {{INHERIT:base}} directive at
  top of file for concat (gpt-5.4 inherits gpt). Cycle guard.
- scripts/resolvers/index.ts: register MODEL_OVERLAY resolver.
- scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts: wire generateModelOverlay into
  composition before voice. Print MODEL_OVERLAY: {model} in preamble
  bash so users can see which overlay is active. Filter empty sections.
- scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts: parse --model CLI flag. Default claude.
  Unknown model → throw with list of valid options.
- model-overlays/{claude,gpt,gpt-5.4,gemini,o-series}.md: behavioral
  patches per model family. gpt-5.4.md uses {{INHERIT:gpt}} to extend
  gpt.md without duplication.
- test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts: fix qa-only guardrail regex scope.
  Was matching Edit/Glob/Grep anywhere after `allowed-tools:` in the
  whole file. Now scoped to frontmatter only. Body prose (Claude
  overlay references Edit as a tool) correctly no longer breaks it.

Verification:
- bun run gen:skill-docs --host all --dry-run → all fresh
- bun run gen:skill-docs --model gpt-5.4 → concat works, gpt.md +
  gpt-5.4.md content appears in order
- bun run gen:skill-docs --model unknown → errors with valid list
- All generated skills contain MODEL_OVERLAY: claude in preamble
- Golden ship fixtures regenerated

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

* feat: continuous checkpoint mode with non-destructive WIP squash

Adds opt-in auto-commit during long sessions so work survives Claude
Code crashes, Conductor workspace handoffs, and context switches.
Local-only by default — pushing requires explicit opt-in.

Codex review caught multiple landmines that would have shipped:
1. checkpoint_push=true default would push WIP commits to shared
   branches, trigger CI/deploys, expose secrets. Now default false.
2. Plan's original /ship squash (git reset --soft to merge base) was
   destructive — uncommitted ALL branch commits, not just WIP, and
   caused non-fast-forward pushes. Redesigned: rebase --autosquash
   scoped to WIP commits only, with explicit fallback for WIP-only
   branches and STOP-and-ask for conflicts.
3. gstack-config get returned empty for missing keys with exit 0,
   ignoring the annotated defaults in the header comments. Fixed:
   get now falls back to a lookup_default() table that is the
   canonical source for defaults.
4. Telemetry default mismatched: header said 'anonymous' but runtime
   treated empty as 'off'. Aligned: default is 'off' everywhere.
5. /checkpoint resume only read markdown checkpoint files, not the
   WIP commit [gstack-context] bodies the plan referenced. Wired up
   parsing of [gstack-context] blocks from WIP commits as a second
   recovery trail alongside the markdown checkpoints.

Changes:
- bin/gstack-config: add checkpoint_mode (default explicit) and
  checkpoint_push (default false) to CONFIG_HEADER. Add lookup_default()
  as canonical default source. get() falls back to defaults when key
  absent. list now shows value + source (set/default). New 'defaults'
  subcommand to inspect the table.
- scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts: preamble bash reads _CHECKPOINT_MODE
  and _CHECKPOINT_PUSH, prints CHECKPOINT_MODE: and CHECKPOINT_PUSH: so
  the mode is visible. New generateContinuousCheckpoint() section in
  T2+ tier describes WIP commit format with [gstack-context] body and
  the rules (never git add -A, never commit broken tests, push only
  if opted in). Example deliberately shows a clean-state context so
  it doesn't contradict the rules.
- ship/SKILL.md.tmpl: new Step 5.75 WIP Commit Squash. Detects WIP
  count, exports [gstack-context] blocks before squash (as backup),
  uses rebase --autosquash for mixed branches and soft-reset only when
  VERIFIED WIP-only. Explicit anti-footgun rules against blind soft-
  reset. Aborts with BLOCKED status on conflict instead of destroying
  non-WIP commits.
- checkpoint/SKILL.md.tmpl: new Step 1.5 to parse [gstack-context]
  blocks from WIP commits via git log --grep="^WIP:". Merges with
  markdown checkpoint for fuller session recovery.
- Golden ship fixtures regenerated (ship is T4, preamble change shows up).

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

* feat: feature discovery flow gated by per-feature markers

Extends generateUpgradeCheck() to surface new features once per user
after a just-upgraded session. No more silent features.

Codex review caught: spawned sessions (OpenClaw, etc.) must skip the
discovery prompt entirely — they can't interactively answer. Feature
discovery now checks SPAWNED_SESSION first and is silent in those.

Discovery is per-feature, not per-upgrade. Each feature has its own
marker file at ~/.claude/skills/gstack/.feature-prompted-{name}. Once
the user has been shown a feature (accepted, shown docs, or skipped),
the marker is touched and the prompt never fires again for that
feature. Future features get their own markers.

V1 features surfaced:
- continuous-checkpoint: offer to enable checkpoint_mode=continuous
- model-overlay: inform-only note about --model flag and MODEL_OVERLAY
  line in preamble output

Max one prompt per session to avoid nagging. Fires only on JUST_UPGRADED
(not every session), plus spawned-session skip.

Changes:
- scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts: extend generateUpgradeCheck() with
  feature discovery rules, per-marker-file semantics, spawned-session
  exclusion, and max-one-per-session cap.
- All skill SKILL.md files regenerated to include the new section.
- Golden ship fixtures regenerated.

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

* feat: design taste engine with persistent schema

Adds a cross-session taste profile that learns from design-shotgun
approval/rejection decisions. Biases future design-consultation and
design-shotgun proposals toward the user's demonstrated preferences.

Codex review caught that the plan had "taste engine" as a vague goal
without schema, decay, migration, or placeholder insertion points. This
commit ships the full spec.

Schema v1 at ~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/taste-profile.json:
- version, updated_at
- dimensions: fonts, colors, layouts, aesthetics — each with approved[]
  and rejected[] preference lists
- sessions: last 50 (FIFO truncation), each with ts/action/variant/reason
- Preference: { value, confidence, approved_count, rejected_count, last_seen }
- Confidence: Laplace-smoothed approved/(total+1)
- Decay: 5% per week of inactivity, computed at read time (not write)

Changes:
- bin/gstack-taste-update: new CLI. Subcommands approved/rejected/show/
  migrate. Parses reason string for dimension signals (e.g.,
  "fonts: Geist; colors: slate; aesthetics: minimal"). Emits taste-drift
  NOTE when a new signal contradicts a strong opposing signal. Legacy
  approved.json aggregates migrate to v1 on next write.
- scripts/resolvers/design.ts: new generateTasteProfile() resolver.
  Produces the prose that skills see: how to read the profile, how to
  factor into proposals, conflict handling, schema migration.
- scripts/resolvers/index.ts: register TASTE_PROFILE and a BIN_DIR
  resolver (returns ctx.paths.binDir, used by templates that shell out
  to gstack-* binaries).
- design-consultation/SKILL.md.tmpl: insert {{TASTE_PROFILE}} placeholder
  in Phase 1 right after the memorable-thing forcing question so the
  Phase 3 proposal can factor in learned preferences.
- design-shotgun/SKILL.md.tmpl: taste memory section now reads
  taste-profile.json via {{TASTE_PROFILE}}, falls back to per-session
  approved.json (legacy). Approval flow documented to call
  gstack-taste-update after user picks/rejects a variant.

Known gap: v1 extracts dimension signals from a reason string passed
by the caller ("fonts: X; colors: Y"). Future v2 can read EXIF or an
accompanying manifest written by design-shotgun alongside each variant
for automatic dimension extraction without needing the reason argument.

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

* feat: multi-provider model benchmark (boil the ocean)

Adds the full spec Codex asked for: real provider adapters with auth
detection, normalized RunResult, pricing tables, tool compatibility
maps, parallel execution with error isolation, and table/JSON/markdown
output. Judge stays on Anthropic SDK as the single stable source of
quality scoring, gated behind --judge.

Codex flagged the original plan as massively under-scoped — the
existing runner is Claude-only and the judge is Anthropic-only. You
can't benchmark GPT or Gemini without real provider infrastructure.
This commit ships it.

New architecture:

  test/helpers/providers/types.ts       ProviderAdapter interface
  test/helpers/providers/claude.ts      wraps `claude -p --output-format json`
  test/helpers/providers/gpt.ts         wraps `codex exec --json`
  test/helpers/providers/gemini.ts      wraps `gemini -p --output-format stream-json --yolo`
  test/helpers/pricing.ts               per-model USD cost tables (quarterly)
  test/helpers/tool-map.ts              which tools each CLI exposes
  test/helpers/benchmark-runner.ts      orchestrator (Promise.allSettled)
  test/helpers/benchmark-judge.ts       Anthropic SDK quality scorer
  bin/gstack-model-benchmark            CLI entry
  test/benchmark-runner.test.ts         9 unit tests (cost math, formatters, tool-map)

Per-provider error isolation:
  - auth → record reason, don't abort batch
  - timeout → record reason, don't abort batch
  - rate_limit → record reason, don't abort batch
  - binary_missing → record in available() check, skip if --skip-unavailable

Pricing correction: cached input tokens are disjoint from uncached
input tokens (Anthropic/OpenAI report them separately). Original
math subtracted them, producing negative costs. Now adds cached at
the 10% discount alongside the full uncached input cost.

CLI:
  gstack-model-benchmark --prompt "..." --models claude,gpt,gemini
  gstack-model-benchmark ./prompt.txt --output json --judge
  gstack-model-benchmark ./prompt.txt --models claude --timeout-ms 60000

Output formats: table (default), json, markdown. Each shows model,
latency, in→out tokens, cost, quality (when --judge used), tool calls,
and any errors.

Known limitations for v1:
- Claude adapter approximates toolCalls as num_turns (stream-json
  would give exact counts; v2 can upgrade).
- Live E2E tests (test/providers.e2e.test.ts) not included — they
  require CI secrets for all three providers. Unit tests cover the
  shape and math.
- Provider CLIs sometimes return non-JSON error text to stdout; the
  parsers fall back to treating raw output as plain text in that case.

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

* feat: standalone methodology skill publishing via gstack-publish

Ships the marketplace-distribution half of Item 5 (reframed): publish
the existing standalone OpenClaw methodology skills to multiple
marketplaces with one command.

Codex review caught that the original plan assumed raw generated
multi-host skills could be published directly. They can't — those
depend on gstack binaries, generated host paths, tool names, and
telemetry. The correct artifact class is hand-crafted standalone
skills in openclaw/skills/gstack-openclaw-* (already exist and work
without gstack runtime). This commit adds the wrapper that publishes
them to ClawHub + SkillsMP + Vercel Skills.sh with per-marketplace
error isolation and dry-run validation.

Changes:
- skills.json: root manifest with 4 skills (office-hours, ceo-review,
  investigate, retro) each pointing at its openclaw/skills source.
  Each skill declares per-marketplace targets with a slug, a publish
  flag, and a compatible-hosts list. Marketplace configs include CLI
  name, login command, publish command template (with placeholder
  substitution), docs URL, and auth_check command.
- bin/gstack-publish: new CLI. Subcommands:
    gstack-publish              Publish all skills
    gstack-publish <slug>       Publish one skill
    gstack-publish --dry-run    Validate + auth-check without publishing
    gstack-publish --list       List skills + marketplace targets
  Features:
    * Manifest validation (missing source files, missing slugs, empty
      marketplace list all reported).
    * Per-marketplace auth check before any publish attempt.
    * Per-skill / per-marketplace error isolation: one failure doesn't
      abort the batch.
    * Idempotent — re-running with the same version is safe; markets
      that reject duplicate versions report it as a failure for that
      single target without affecting others.
    * --dry-run walks the full pipeline but skips execSync; useful in
      CI to validate manifest before bumping version.

Tested locally: clawhub auth detected, skillsmp/vercel CLIs not
installed (marked NOT READY and skipped cleanly in dry-run).

Follow-up work (tracked in TODOS.md later):
- Version-bump helper that reads openclaw/skills/*/SKILL.md frontmatter
  and updates skills.json in lockstep.
- CI workflow that runs gstack-publish --dry-run on every PR and
  gstack-publish on tags.

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

* refactor: split preamble.ts into submodules (byte-identical output)

Splits scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts (841 lines, 18 generator functions +
composition root) into one file per generator under
scripts/resolvers/preamble/. Root preamble.ts becomes a thin composition
layer (~80 lines of imports + generatePreamble).

Before:
  scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts  841 lines

After:
  scripts/resolvers/preamble.ts                                   83 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts            97 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-upgrade-check.ts            48 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-lake-intro.ts               16 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-telemetry-prompt.ts         37 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-proactive-prompt.ts         25 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-routing-injection.ts        49 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-vendoring-deprecation.ts    36 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-spawned-session-check.ts    11 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts          16 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts     19 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-repo-mode-section.ts        12 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-test-failure-triage.ts     108 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-search-before-building.ts   14 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts       161 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-voice-directive.ts          60 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-context-recovery.ts         51 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-continuous-checkpoint.ts    48 lines
  scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-context-health.ts           31 lines

Byte-identity verification (the real gate per Codex correction):
- Before refactor: snapshotted 135 generated SKILL.md files via
  `find -name SKILL.md -type f | grep -v /gstack/` across all hosts.
- After refactor: regenerated with `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all`
  and re-snapshotted.
- `diff -r baseline after` returned zero differences and exit 0.

The `--host all --dry-run` gate passes too. No template or host behavior
changes — purely a code-organization refactor.

Test fix: audit-compliance.test.ts's telemetry check previously grepped
preamble.ts directly for `_TEL != "off"`. After the refactor that logic
lives in preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts. Test now concatenates all
preamble submodule sources before asserting — tracks the semantic contract,
not the file layout. Doing the minimum rewrite preserves the test's intent
(conditional telemetry) without coupling it to file boundaries.

Why now: we were in-session with full context. Codex had downgraded this
from mandatory to optional, but the preamble had grown to 841 lines and
was getting harder to navigate. User asked "why not?" given the context
was hot. Shipping it as a clean bisectable commit while all the prior
preamble.ts changes are fresh reduces rebase pain later.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.19.0.0)

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

* chore: trim verbose preamble + coverage audit prose

Compress without removing behavior or voice. Three targeted cuts:

1. scripts/resolvers/testing.ts coverage diagram example: 40 lines → 14
   lines. Two-column ASCII layout instead of stacked sections.
   Preserves all required regression-guard phrases (processPayment,
   refundPayment, billing.test.ts, checkout.e2e.ts, COVERAGE, QUALITY,
   GAPS, Code paths, User flows, ASCII coverage diagram).

2. scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts Plan Status
   Footer: was 35 lines with embedded markdown table example, now 7
   lines that describe the table inline. The footer fires only at
   ExitPlanMode time — Claude can construct the placeholder table from
   the inline description without copying a literal example.

3. Same file's Plan Mode Safe Operations + Skill Invocation During Plan
   Mode sections compressed from ~25 lines combined to ~12. Preserves
   all required test phrases (precedence over generic plan mode behavior,
   Do not continue the workflow, cancel the skill or leave plan mode,
   PLAN MODE EXCEPTION).

NOT touched:
- Voice directive (Garry's voice — protected per CLAUDE.md)
- Office-hours Phase 6 Handoff (Garry's voice + YC pitch)
- Test bootstrap, review army, plan completion (carefully tuned behavior)

Token savings (per skill, system-wide):
  ship/SKILL.md           35474 → 34992 tokens (-482)
  plan-ceo-review         29436 → 28940 (-496)
  office-hours            26700 → 26204 (-496)

Still over the 25K ceiling. Bigger reduction requires restructure
(move large resolvers to externally-referenced docs, split /ship into
ship-quick + ship-full, or refactor the coverage audit + review army
into shorter prose). That's a follow-up — added to TODOS.

Tests: 420/420 pass on gen-skill-docs.test.ts + host-config.test.ts.
Goldens regenerated for claude/codex/factory ship.

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

* fix(ci): install Node.js from official tarball instead of NodeSource apt setup

The CI Dockerfile's Node install was failing on ubicloud runners. NodeSource's
setup_22.x script runs two internal apt operations that both depend on
archive.ubuntu.com + security.ubuntu.com being reachable:
1. apt-get update (to refresh package lists)
2. apt-get install gnupg (as a prerequisite for its gpg keyring)

Ubicloud's CI runners frequently can't reach those mirrors — last build hit
~2min of connection timeouts to every security.ubuntu.com IP (185.125.190.82,
91.189.91.83, 91.189.92.24, etc.) plus archive.ubuntu.com mirrors. Compounding
this: on Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) "gnupg" was renamed to "gpg" and "gpgconf".
NodeSource's setup script still looks for "gnupg", so even when apt works,
it fails with "Package 'gnupg' has no installation candidate." The subsequent
apt-get install nodejs then fails because the NodeSource repo was never added.

Fix: drop NodeSource entirely. Download Node.js v22.20.0 from nodejs.org as a
tarball, extract to /usr/local. One host, no apt, no script, no keyring.

Before:
  RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | bash - \
      && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs ...

After:
  ENV NODE_VERSION=22.20.0
  RUN curl -fsSL "https://nodejs.org/dist/v${NODE_VERSION}/node-v${NODE_VERSION}-linux-x64.tar.xz" -o /tmp/node.tar.xz \
      && tar -xJ -C /usr/local --strip-components=1 --no-same-owner -f /tmp/node.tar.xz \
      && rm -f /tmp/node.tar.xz \
      && node --version && npm --version

Same installed path (/usr/local/bin/node and npm). Pinned version for
reproducibility. Version is bump-visible in the Dockerfile now.

Does not address the separate apt flakiness that affects the GitHub CLI
install (line 17) or `npx playwright install-deps chromium` (line 33) —
those use apt too. If those fail on a future build we can address then.

Failing job: build-image (71777913820)

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* chore: raise skill token ceiling warning from 25K to 40K

The 25K ceiling predated flagship models with 200K-1M windows and assumed
every skill prompt dominates context cost. Modern reality: prompt caching
amortizes the skill load across invocations, and three carefully-tuned
skills (ship, plan-ceo-review, office-hours) legitimately pack 25-35K
tokens of behavior that can't be cut without degrading quality or removing
protected content (Garry's voice, YC pitch, specialist review instructions).

We made the safe prose cuts earlier (coverage diagram, plan status footer,
plan mode operations). The remaining gap is structural — real compression
would require splitting /ship into ship-quick vs ship-full, externalizing
large resolvers to reference docs, or removing detailed skill behavior.
Each is 1-2 days of work. The cost of the warning firing is zero (it's
a warning, not an error). The cost of hitting it is ~15¢ per invocation
at worst, amortized further by prompt caching.

Raising to 40K catches what it's supposed to catch — a runaway 10K+ token
growth in a single release — without crying wolf on legitimately big
skills. Reference doc in CLAUDE.md updated to reflect the new philosophy:
when you hit 40K, ask WHAT grew, don't blindly compress tuned prose.

scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts: TOKEN_CEILING_BYTES 100_000 → 160_000.
CLAUDE.md: document the "watch for feature bloat, not force compression"
intent of the ceiling.

Verification: `bun run gen:skill-docs --host all` shows zero TOKEN
CEILING warnings under the new 40K threshold.

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* fix(ci): install xz-utils so Node tarball extraction works

The direct-tarball Node install (switched from NodeSource apt in the last
CI fix) failed with "xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory" because
Ubuntu 24.04 base doesn't include xz-utils. Node ships .tar.xz by default,
and `tar -xJ` shells out to xz, which was missing.

Add xz-utils to the base apt install alongside git/curl/unzip/etc.

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* fix(benchmark): pass --skip-git-repo-check to codex adapter

The gpt provider adapter spawns `codex exec -C <workdir>` with arbitrary
working directories (benchmark temp dirs, non-git paths). Without
`--skip-git-repo-check`, codex refuses to run and returns "Not inside a
trusted directory" — surfaced as a generic error.code='unknown' that
looks like an API failure.

Benchmarks don't care about codex's git-repo trust model; we just want
the prompt executed. Surfaced by the new provider live E2E test on a
temp workdir.

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* feat(benchmark): add --dry-run flag to gstack-model-benchmark

Matches gstack-publish --dry-run semantics. Validates the provider list,
resolves per-adapter auth, echoes the resolved flag values, and exits
without invoking any provider CLI. Zero-cost pre-flight for CI pipelines
and for catching auth drift before starting a paid benchmark run.

Output shape:
  == gstack-model-benchmark --dry-run ==
    prompt:     <truncated>
    providers:  claude, gpt, gemini
    workdir:    /tmp/...
    timeout_ms: 300000
    output:     table
    judge:      off

  Adapter availability:
    claude: OK
    gpt:    NOT READY — <reason>
    gemini: NOT READY — <reason>

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* test: lite E2E coverage for benchmark, taste engine, publish

Fills real coverage gaps in v0.19.0.0 primitives. 44 new deterministic
tests (gate tier, ~3s) + 8 live-API tests (periodic tier).

New gate-tier test files (free, <3s total):
- test/taste-engine.test.ts — 24 tests against gstack-taste-update:
  schema shape, Laplace-smoothed confidence, 5%/week decay clamped at 0,
  multi-dimension extraction, case-insensitive matching, session cap,
  legacy profile migration with session truncation, taste-drift conflict
  warning, malformed-JSON recovery, missing-variant exit code.
- test/publish-dry-run.test.ts — 13 tests against gstack-publish --dry-run:
  manifest parsing, missing/malformed JSON, per-skill validation errors
  (missing source file / slug / version / marketplaces), slug filter,
  unknown-skill exit, per-marketplace auth isolation (fake marketplaces
  with always-pass / always-fail / missing-binary CLIs), and a sanity
  check against the real repo manifest.
- test/benchmark-cli.test.ts — 11 tests against gstack-model-benchmark
  --dry-run: provider default, unknown-provider WARN, empty list
  fallback, flag passthrough (timeout/workdir/judge/output), long-prompt
  truncation, prompt resolution (inline vs file vs positional), missing
  prompt exit.

New periodic-tier test file (paid, gated EVALS=1):
- test/skill-e2e-benchmark-providers.test.ts — 8 tests hitting real
  claude, codex, gemini CLIs with a trivial prompt (~$0.001/provider).
  Verifies output parsing, token accounting, cost estimation, timeout
  error.code semantics, Promise.allSettled parallel isolation.
  Per-provider availability gate — unauthed providers skip cleanly.

This suite already caught one real bug (codex adapter missing
--skip-git-repo-check, fixed in 5260987d).

Registered `benchmark-providers-live` in touchfiles.ts (periodic tier,
triggered by changes to bin/gstack-model-benchmark, providers/**,
benchmark-runner.ts, pricing.ts).

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* fix(benchmark): dedupe providers in --models

`--models claude,claude,gpt` previously produced a list with a duplicate
entry, meaning the benchmark would run claude twice and bill for two
runs. Surfaced by /review on this branch.

Use a Set internally; return Array.from(seen) to preserve type + order
of first occurrence.

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* test: /review hardening — NOT-READY env isolation, workdir cleanup, perf

Applied from the adversarial subagent pass during /review on this branch:

- test/benchmark-cli.test.ts — new "NOT READY path fires when auth env
  vars are stripped" test. The default dry-run test always showed OK on
  dev machines with auth, hiding regressions in the remediation-hint
  branch. Stripped env (no auth vars, HOME→empty tmpdir) now force-
  exercises gpt + gemini NOT READY paths and asserts every NOT READY
  line includes a concrete remediation hint (install/login/export).
  (claude adapter's os.homedir() call is Bun-cached; the 2-of-3 adapter
  coverage is sufficient to exercise the branch.)

- test/taste-engine.test.ts — session-cap test rewritten to seed the
  profile with 50 entries + one real CLI call, instead of 55 sequential
  subprocess spawns. Same coverage (FIFO eviction at the boundary), ~5s
  faster CI time. Also pins first-casing-wins on the Geist/GEIST merge
  assertion — bumpPref() keeps the first-arrival casing, so the test
  documents that policy.

- test/skill-e2e-benchmark-providers.test.ts — workdir creation moved
  from module-load into beforeAll, cleanup added in afterAll. Previous
  shape leaked a /tmp/bench-e2e-* dir every CI run.

- test/publish-dry-run.test.ts — removed unused empty test/helpers
  mkdirSync from the sandbox setup. The bin doesn't import from there,
  so the empty dir was a footgun for future maintainers.

- test/helpers/providers/gpt.ts — expanded the inline comment on
  `--skip-git-repo-check` to explicitly note that `-s read-only` is now
  load-bearing safety (the trust prompt was the secondary boundary;
  removing read-only while keeping skip-git-repo-check would be unsafe).

Net: 45 passing tests (was 44), session-cap test 5s faster, one real
regression surface covered that didn't exist before.

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* docs: surface v0.19 binaries and continuous checkpoint in README

The /review doc-staleness check flagged that v0.19.0.0 ships three new CLIs
(gstack-model-benchmark, gstack-publish, gstack-taste-update) and an opt-in
continuous checkpoint mode, none of which were visible in README's Power
tools section. New users couldn't find them without reading CHANGELOG.

Added:
- "New binaries (v0.19)" subsection with one-row descriptions for each CLI
- "Continuous checkpoint mode (opt-in, local by default)" subsection
  explaining WIP auto-commit + [gstack-context] body + /ship squash +
  /checkpoint resume

CHANGELOG entry already has good voice from /ship; no polish needed.
VERSION already at 0.19.0.0. Other docs (ARCHITECTURE/CONTRIBUTING/BROWSER)
don't reference this surface — scoped intentionally.

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* feat(ship): Step 19.5 — offer gstack-publish for methodology skill changes

Wires the orphaned gstack-publish binary into /ship. When a PR touches
any standalone methodology skill (openclaw/skills/gstack-*/SKILL.md) or
skills.json, /ship now runs gstack-publish --dry-run after PR creation
and asks the user if they want to actually publish.

Previously, the only way to discover gstack-publish was reading the
CHANGELOG or README. Most methodology skill updates landed on main
without ever being pushed to ClawHub / SkillsMP / Vercel Skills.sh,
defeating the whole point of having a marketplace publisher.

The check is conditional — for PRs that don't touch methodology skills
(the common case), this step is a silent no-op. Dry-run runs first so
the user sees the full list of what would publish and which marketplaces
are authed before committing.

Golden fixtures (claude/codex/factory) regenerated.

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* feat(benchmark-models): new skill wrapping gstack-model-benchmark

Wires the orphaned gstack-model-benchmark binary into a dedicated skill
so users can discover cross-model benchmarking via /benchmark-models or
voice triggers ("compare models", "which model is best").

Deliberately separate from /benchmark (page performance) because the
two surfaces test completely different things — confusing them would
muddy both.

Flow:
  1. Pick a prompt (an existing SKILL.md file, inline text, or file path)
  2. Confirm providers (dry-run shows auth status per provider)
  3. Decide on --judge (adds ~$0.05, scores output quality 0-10)
  4. Run the benchmark — table output
  5. Interpret results (fastest / cheapest / highest quality)
  6. Offer to save to ~/.gstack/benchmarks/<date>.json for trend tracking

Uses gstack-model-benchmark --dry-run as a safety gate — auth status is
visible BEFORE the user spends API calls. If zero providers are authed,
the skill stops cleanly rather than attempting a run that produces no
useful output.

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* docs: v1.3.0.0 — complete CHANGELOG + bump for post-1.2 scope additions

VERSION 1.2.0.0 → 1.3.0.0. The original 1.2 entry was written before I
added substantial new scope: the /benchmark-models skill, /ship Step 19.5
gstack-publish integration, --dry-run on gstack-model-benchmark, and the
lite E2E test coverage (4 new test files). A minor bump gives those
changes their own version line instead of silently folding them into
1.2's scope.

CHANGELOG additions under 1.3.0.0:
- /benchmark-models skill (new Added)
- /ship Step 19.5 publish check (new Added)
- gstack-model-benchmark --dry-run (new Added)
- Token ceiling 25K → 40K (moved to Changed)
- New Fixed section — codex adapter --skip-git-repo-check, --models
  dedupe, CI Dockerfile xz-utils + nodejs.org tarball
- 4 new test files documented under contributors (taste-engine,
  publish-dry-run, benchmark-cli, skill-e2e-benchmark-providers)
- Ship golden fixtures for claude/codex/factory hosts

Pre-existing 1.2 content preserved verbatim — no entries clobbered or
reordered. Sequence remains contiguous (1.3.0.0 → 1.1.3.0 → 1.1.2.0 →
1.1.1.0 → 1.1.0.0 → 1.0.0.0 → 0.19.0.0 → ...).

package.json and VERSION both at 1.3.0.0. No drift.

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* docs: adopt gbrain's release-summary CHANGELOG format + apply to v1.3

Ported the "release-summary format" rules from ~/git/gbrain/CLAUDE.md
(lines 291-354) into gstack's CLAUDE.md under the existing
"CHANGELOG + VERSION style" section. Every future `## [X.Y.Z]` entry
now needs a verdict-style release summary at the top:
1. Two-line bold headline (10-14 words)
2. Lead paragraph (3-5 sentences)
3. "Numbers that matter" with BEFORE / AFTER / Δ table
4. "What this means for [audience]" closer
5. `### Itemized changes` header
6. Existing itemized subsections below

Rewrote v1.3.0.0 entry to match. Preserved every existing bullet in
Added / Changed / Fixed / For contributors (no content clobbered per
the CLAUDE.md CHANGELOG rule).

Numbers in the v1.3 release summary are verifiable — every row of the
BEFORE / AFTER table has a reproducible command listed in the setup
paragraph (git log, bun test, grep for wiring status). No made-up
metrics.

Also added the gbrain "always credit community contributions" rule to
the itemized-changes section. `Contributed by @username` for every
community PR that lands in a CHANGELOG entry.

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* chore: remove gstack-publish — no real user need

User feedback: "i don't think i would use gstack-publish, i think we
should remove it." Agreed. The CLI + marketplace wiring was an
ambitious but speculative primitive. Zero users, zero validated demand,
and the existing manual `clawhub publish` workflow already covers the
real case (OpenClaw methodology skill publishing).

Deleted:
- bin/gstack-publish (the CLI)
- skills.json (the marketplace manifest)
- test/publish-dry-run.test.ts (13 tests)
- ship/SKILL.md.tmpl Step 19.5 — the methodology-skill publish-on-ship
  check. No target to dispatch to anymore.
- README.md Power tools row for gstack-publish

Updated:
- bin/gstack-model-benchmark doc comment: dropped "matches gstack-publish
  --dry-run semantics" reference (self-describing flag now)
- CHANGELOG 1.3.0.0 entry:
  * Release summary: "three new binaries" → "two new binaries".
    Dropped the /ship publish-check narrative.
  * Numbers table: "1 of 3 → 3 of 3 wired" → "1 of 2 → 2 of 2 wired".
    Deterministic test count: 45 → 32 (removed publish-dry-run's 13).
  * Added section: removed gstack-publish CLI bullet + /ship Step 19.5
    bullet.
  * "What this means for users" closer: replaced the /ship publish
    paragraph with the design-taste-engine learning loop, which IS
    real, wired, and something users hit every week via /design-shotgun.
  * Contributors section: "Four new test files" → "Three new test files"

Retained:
- openclaw/skills/gstack-openclaw-* skill dirs (pre-existed this PR,
  still publishable manually via `clawhub publish`, useful standalone
  for ClawHub installs)
- CLAUDE.md publishing-native-skills section (same rationale)

Regenerated SKILL.md across all hosts. Ship golden fixtures refreshed
for claude/codex/factory. 455 tests pass.

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* docs(CHANGELOG): reorder v1.3 entry around day-to-day user wins

Previous entry led with internal metrics (CLIs wired to skills, preamble
line count, adapter bugs caught in CI). Useful to contributors, invisible
to users. Rewrote the release summary and Added section to lead with
what a day-to-day gstack user actually experiences.

Release summary changes:
- Headline: "Every new CLI wired to a slash command" → "Your design
  skills learn your taste. Your session state survives a laptop close."
- Lead paragraph: shifted from "primitives discoverable from /commands"
  to concrete day-to-day wins (design-shotgun taste memory, design-
  consultation anti-slop gates, continuous checkpoint survival).
- Numbers table: swapped internal metrics (CLI wiring %, test counts,
  preamble line count) for user-visible ones:
    - Design-variant convergence gate (0 → 3 axes required)
    - AI-slop font blacklist (~8 → 10+ fonts)
    - Taste memory across sessions (none → per-project JSON with decay)
    - Session state after crash (lost → auto-WIP with structured body)
    - /context-restore sources (markdown only → + WIP commits)
    - Models with behavioral overlays (1 → 5)
- "Most striking" interpretation: reframed around the mid-session
  crash survival story instead of the codex adapter bug catch.
- "What this means" closer: reframed around /design-shotgun + /design-
  consultation + continuous checkpoint workflow instead of
  /benchmark-models.

Added section — reorganized into six subsections by user value:
  1. Design skills that stop looking like AI
     (anti-slop constraints, taste engine)
  2. Session state that survives a crash
     (continuous checkpoint, /context-restore WIP reading,
     /ship non-destructive squash)
  3. Quality-of-life
     (feature discovery prompt, context health soft directive)
  4. Cross-host support
     (--model flag + 5 overlays)
  5. Config
     (gstack-config list/defaults, checkpoint_mode/push keys)
  6. Power-user / internal
     (gstack-model-benchmark + /benchmark-models skill — grouped and
     pushed to the bottom since it's more of a research tool than a
     daily workflow piece)

Changed / Fixed / For contributors sections unchanged. No content
clobbered per CLAUDE.md CHANGELOG rules — every existing bullet is
preserved, just reordered and grouped.

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* docs(CHANGELOG): reframe v1.3 entry around transparency vs laptop-close

User feedback: "'closing your laptop' in the changelog is overstated, i
mean claude code does already have session management. i think the use
of the context save restore is mainly just another tool that is more in
your control instead of opaque and a part of CC." Correct. CC handles
session persistence on its own; continuous checkpoint isn't filling a
gap there, it's giving users a parallel, inspectable, portable track.

Reframed every place the old copy overstated:

- Headline: "Your session state survives a laptop close" → "Your
  session state lives in git, not a black box."
- Lead paragraph: dropped the "closing your laptop mid-refactor doesn't
  vaporize your decisions" line. Now frames continuous checkpoint as
  explicitly running alongside CC's built-in session management, not
  replacing it. Emphasizes grep-ability, portability across tools and
  branches.
- Numbers table row: "Session state after mid-refactor crash: lost
  since last manual commit → auto-WIP commits" → "Session state
  format: Claude Code's opaque session store → git commits +
  [gstack-context] bodies + markdown (parallel track)". Honest about
  what's actually changing.
- "Most striking" interpretation: replaced the "used to cost you every
  decision" framing with the real user value — session state stops
  being a black box, `git log --grep "WIP:"` shows the whole thread,
  any tool reading git can see it.
- "What this means" closer: replaced "survives crashes, context
  switches, and forgotten laptops" with accurate framing — parallel
  track alongside CC's own, inspectable, portable, useful when you
  want to review or hand off work.
- Added section: "Session state that survives a crash" subsection
  renamed to "Session state you can see, grep, and move". Lead bullet
  now explicitly notes continuous checkpoint runs alongside CC session
  management, not instead.

No content clobbered. All other bullets and sections unchanged.

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* docs(CHANGELOG): correct session-state location — home dir by default, git only on opt-in

User correction: "wait is our session management really checked into
git? i don't think that's right, isn't it just saved in your home
dir?" Right. I had the location wrong. The default session-save
mechanism (`/context-save` + `/context-restore`) writes markdown
files to `~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/checkpoints/` — HOME, not git.
Continuous checkpoint mode (opt-in) is what writes git commits.
Previous copy conflated the two and implied "lives in git" as the
default state, which is wrong.

Every affected location updated:

- Headline: "lives in git, not a black box" → "becomes files you
  can grep, not a black box." Removes the false implication that
  session state lands in git by default.
- Lead paragraph: now explicitly names the two separate mechanisms.
  `/context-save` writes plaintext markdown to `~/.gstack/projects/
  $SLUG/checkpoints/` (the default). Continuous checkpoint mode
  (opt-in) additionally drops WIP: commits into the git log.
- Numbers table row: "Session state format" now reads "markdown in
  `~/.gstack/` by default, plus WIP: git commits if you opt into
  continuous mode (parallel track)." Tells the truth about which
  path is default vs opt-in.
- "Most striking" row interpretation: now names both paths. Default
  path = markdown files in home dir. Opt-in continuous mode = WIP:
  commits in project git log. Either way, plain text the user owns.
- "What this means" closer: similarly names both paths explicitly.
  "markdown files in your home directory by default, plus git
  commits if you opt into continuous mode."
- Continuous checkpoint mode Added bullet: clarifies the commits
  land in "your project's git log" (not implied to be the default),
  and notes it runs alongside BOTH Claude Code's built-in session
  management AND the default `/context-save` markdown flow.

No other bullets or sections touched. No content clobbered.

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