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Garry Tan a4daa352d6
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:54 -07:00
Garry Tan 25f101a1a6
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:54 -07:00
Garry Tan 2e25bfdefb
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:54 -07:00
Garry Tan d10aa39408
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:54 -07:00
Garry Tan b57c898dfb
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:54 -07:00
Garry Tan b8c4399afe
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:54 -07:00
Garry Tan 39ed173fdc
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:53 -07:00
Garry Tan 5f6266e012
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:53 -07:00
Garry Tan bbaf5068b0
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:53 -07:00
Garry Tan 15c9455a69
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:53 -07:00
Garry Tan f96fd46b1c
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:53 -07:00
Garry Tan 81659f9456
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:53 -07:00
Garry Tan d7ce124092
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:53 -07:00
Garry Tan 99e2718943
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:53 -07:00
Garry Tan bff69bb0a3
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:52 -07:00
Garry Tan 54612cb9e3
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:52 -07:00
Garry Tan 540847d038
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:52 -07:00
Garry Tan 031bb3689e
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:52 -07:00
Garry Tan 4f891303f2
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:52 -07:00
Garry Tan 7847fcf9ba
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:52 -07:00
Garry Tan 75cd221850
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:52 -07:00
Garry Tan b25f7dd4f3
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:51 -07:00
Garry Tan ac05284481
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:51 -07:00
Garry Tan 29a717211a
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:51 -07:00
Garry Tan 7b71a62e40
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:51 -07:00
Garry Tan de08279969
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:51 -07:00
Garry Tan 7ca68da785
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:51 -07:00
Garry Tan 420b2f730d
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:51 -07:00
Garry Tan e0bfc8fff5
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:51 -07:00
Garry Tan 3f176d2226
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:50 -07:00
Garry Tan 6694490c07
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:50 -07:00
Garry Tan 3aab765417
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:50 -07:00
Garry Tan f77bbe7091
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:50 -07:00
Garry Tan b3d477bbb5
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:50 -07:00
Garry Tan 2aec845c1e
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:50 -07:00
Garry Tan 6e2d0f62d8
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:50 -07:00
Garry Tan 2b96678f8a
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:49 -07:00
Garry Tan 5c9994a596
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:49 -07:00
Garry Tan 888603f570
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:49 -07:00
Garry Tan 57a211e4b0
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:49 -07:00
Garry Tan d77a2c8e58
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:49 -07:00
Garry Tan 69cc39c625
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:49 -07:00
Garry Tan d410142c2f
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:49 -07:00
Garry Tan 3fa7739689
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:48 -07:00
Garry Tan e684948efe
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>
2026-08-14 20:20:48 -07:00
Garry Tan 5084f85e00
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>
2026-08-14 15:38:16 -07:00
Garry Tan 7a7a83b73e
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>
2026-08-14 15:35:04 -07:00
Garry Tan 2918542c78
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>
2026-08-14 15:34:35 -07:00
Garry Tan 1d41ee3ab3
v1.63.0.0 feat: GStack 2 fork port wave — egress receipts, context-bill, sharded gate, /health fix (#2541)
* test(helpers): shared skill-census helper with three explicit counts

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

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

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

* fix(evals): stop the harness grading itself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* feat(evals): sharded paid tier runner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 619726a3d77d987a2e50151a5727b3faaaf5fc6a)

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 254ddc69fc5a0270fcc973e36b6a81766d835d2d)

* feat(security): shared shell receipt helpers

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 6d067dce2d4c8815dec98be551763c85a3671357)

* feat(security): receipt core shell sinks

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 3c60f699acceaf1c92a218874711e05fc17dca5d)

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 5677d618a48fcd0ae2b068bf868781d90f809cb5)

* feat(design): receipted fetch for OpenAI calls

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit c0e5ff6639414ac2fd98e8ac3affb51401746b55)

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

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit b8c5e2055b21ab72878b3e46f8047782ee65a11c)

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit ff69ceeafaf9c017d539b6ad77ff8f95b680b979)

* feat(cli): gstack-egress reader

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 9e24eca0f1069fea2ea69e7df4e9b256e93d59a3)

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

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit 675c19876b87ec927b555f5f64c7f93130b3de90)

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit c106fb36f768181b80c257e5cff1cde4f435f9c0)

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

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

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

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

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

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(cherry picked from commit e9a0b6847a2d17fe6656a4686b4efd0c8380eb09)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* docs: sweep drift that predates this release

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

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

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

Six findings, all verified against source before fixing:

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

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Garry Tan d078622b73
v1.62.0.0 feat: plan-mode auto-select at the review scope gate (#2533)
* fix(evals): align plan-eng/design plan-mode + finding-floor smokes to their declared periodic tier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* docs: update project documentation for v1.62.0.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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2026-08-12 11:12:28 -07:00