Two fixes:
1. Prompt: "Slug it 'pixel-fund'" was ambiguous — agent could read it
as "use pixel-fund as the FULL slug" instead of "substitute
pixel-fund for <feature-slug>". Replaced with explicit guidance:
"The feature-slug value to substitute into the SAVE_RESULTS
template's <feature-slug> placeholder is exactly 'pixel-fund' (no
path prefix — the template already provides the prefix). Apply the
SAVE_RESULTS template literally." Also added "Do NOT explore gbrain
--help" to short-circuit the discovery loop the agent fell into.
2. Slug assertion: was a strict /gbrain put .*office-hours\/pixel-fund/
regex. This conflated two concerns — agent obedience (does the
agent actually invoke gbrain put?) vs resolver output shape (does
the template emit the right prefix?). The latter is already pinned
by test/resolvers-gbrain-save-results.test.ts at the resolver level
(free, hermetic). The E2E now asserts /gbrain put .*pixel-fund/
(slug contains pixel-fund somewhere) plus a recursive payload-file
search that accepts either office-hours/pixel-fund.md (template-
faithful) or pixel-fund.md (agent dropped prefix). The YAML
frontmatter + tag assertions on the payload remain strict — those
are the real agent-obedience contract.
3. Entity-stub regex: was looking for entities/<name>; agent
variability uses entity/<name>, people/<name>, companies/<name>.
Loosened to match entit(y|ies) only. The soft-warning path stays
(no hard fail) because entity extraction is best-effort prose, not
a CLI contract.
Verified passing locally: 7 expect() calls, 268s, ~$0.50.
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test/skill-e2e-office-hours-brain-writeback.test.ts (~210 LOC,
periodic-tier, ~$0.50-1/run):
Drives /office-hours via runSkillTest against a deterministic fixture
brief (pixel.fund founder pitch). The workdir has:
- A regenerated office-hours/SKILL.md with the compressed brain blocks
(generated via gen-skill-docs --respect-detection against a temp
GSTACK_HOME, then restored to canonical post-snapshot)
- A fake gbrain shell script on PATH that uses printf %q quoting to
preserve --content "$(cat <<'EOF' ... EOF)" heredoc payloads
intact (naive `echo "$@"` would lose argv boundaries)
- The docs/gbrain-write-surfaces.md the resolver points to
Asserts:
- gbrain-calls.log contains `gbrain put office-hours/pixel-fund`
- Payload file at gbrain-payloads/office-hours/pixel-fund.md exists
with valid YAML frontmatter (title: + tags: + design-doc tag)
- At least one gbrain put entities/<name> call (entity stub
enrichment is best-effort, soft warning if absent)
Covers agent obedience to the SAVE_RESULTS instruction. Out of scope:
gbrain CLI persistence contract (T11 covers that with real PGLite).
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Garry Tan