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Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 d35c9c9e44 v0.45.0.0 feat(bootstrap): paste-in personal-agent install for Codex + Claude Code (#3975)
* docs(designs): agent-bootstrap plan + design docs (normative, review-absorbed)

The scrubbed, in-repo sources of truth for the gbrain bootstrap wave:
AGENT_BOOTSTRAP_DESIGN.md (product scope/sequencing) and
AGENT_BOOTSTRAP_PLAN.md (implementation; all review-finding IDs inlined).

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

* feat(bootstrap): format spec, question bank, identity templates, bundled assets

agent.json manifest (format_version 1, initialized sentinel) + machine-local
install receipt [CX2-1, CX2-12]; 12-question/6-required interview bank with
consent keys and a persist:false sink for the optional provider key [CX2-13];
ten {{TOKEN}} identity templates (generic, adapted to gbrain ops — gates call
recall/query/put_page, write-through-ops rule, keyless agent-authored facts,
silence contract); assets embedded compiled-binary-safe via file-type imports
[ENG-6].

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

* feat(bootstrap): runbook, README paste block, bootstrap guide, TODOS entries

BOOTSTRAP_FOR_AGENTS.md (agent-driven install runbook: CLI phase list is the
source of truth, never-invent rules, Codex approvals preflight, keyless posture,
failure-modes table, version stamp for the skew check); README gains the
full-agent paste block pinned to latest-stable inside the Claude Code/Codex
quick start (memory-only tier stays); docs/guides/bootstrap.md carries the full
install/security/consent/degradation/uninstall contract.

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

* docs(designs): spike instrument for the bootstrap wave (build order 0)

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

* feat(bootstrap): interview + render engines

Interview gate with read-back confirm-hash (any later answer change clears the
confirmation — the hostile single-batch case is structurally impossible),
per-answer provenance, caps + escaping at set time, config-sink routing for the
provider key; renderer with hard-fail token sweep, subordinate fencing of
principal input, never-clobber + backups, deterministic minimal mode for the
template repo, scaled byte floors. 58 unit tests.

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

* feat(bootstrap): private-repo lifecycle — repo create, attach, uninstall, run lock

gh-gated private repo creation with API-verified privacy (rate-limit distinct
from public), refuse-foreign-origin with attach as the sanctioned path, atomic
bootstrap mutex (pid liveness + age + token), receipt-keyed uninstall that
never wholesale-deletes the gbrain home and only offers --delete-brain for a
brain it created; read-only PGLite lock probe (never opens the engine).
54 unit tests, injectable exec seam throughout.

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

* feat(release): latest-stable ref, template-repo publish job, bootstrap CI guards

release.yml advances the latest-stable tag only after assets publish (the paste
block's permanent ref — copies in the wild never rot) and gains a PAT-gated
publish-template job verified against the vendored tree; two skip-graceful
guards (sanctioned-ref + runbook stamp; template/token bijection + placeholder
assertion + generator byte-diff) wired into verify; README + runbook re-admitted
to the CI cache hash; vendored deterministic template tree generated.

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

* feat(context): IPC v2 turn_context + 8KB assembly + visibility resolver + session identity

Discriminated-union IPC with handler map, protocol echo (stale-serve detection),
shared-secret gate, server-side source binding, per-kind budgets; turn-context
assembly (reflex pointers + volunteered pages + world-only hot facts) under a
data-not-instructions envelope trimmed to the harness's 10KB hook-output cap;
facts.default_visibility resolved through one helper at all four sites (explicit
caller wins, typos fail closed); typed sessionId threads _meta.session_id into
the hot-memory cache key. 50 new tests; 180 adjacent tests confirmed green.

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

* feat(persistence): secret-scan, gbrain sources push, durability unification

Pattern secret scanner (own runtime allowlist, redacted previews, corpus-write
redaction mode); sources push runs the whole scan→stage→commit→pull→push
sequence under one cross-platform lock (mkdir-atomic, pid+age+token) with a
deny-glob backstop, commit-first divergence-safe pull, refuse-unverifiable
visibility, and push-status telemetry; gbrain-home choke point unifies
GBRAIN_HOME semantics with config (0700); durability is parent-repo-aware and
rotates its push log at 0600. 35 new tests; 200 existing green.

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

* fix(sources): harden/pull gates accept sources inside a parent git repo

The bootstrap workspace registers brain/ (a subdirectory) as the source; the
durability core already resolves the repo root, so the command gates now check
inside-a-repo rather than .git-right-here [CX2-3].

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

* feat(serve): resident maintenance sweep + keyless capability probe

The lock-owning serve process now closes the persistence loop: startup (3s
post-connect, best-effort, unref'd) and idle (10-min quiet intervals through
the injectable timer seam) sweeps run facts-fence reconciliation, deterministic
link/timeline extraction over recent workspace pages, and spend-gated corpus
ingest (skipped keyless — agent-authored fences cover it). gbrain sweep --once
is the trusted CLI seam bootstrap verify uses. Capability probe renders the
honest keyless/keyed report. Full reuse of the cycle extractor + extract cores;
26 new tests, neighbors green.

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

* feat(hooks): engine-free gbrain hook command, settings writers, transcript parser

Four hook events (session-start digest + crashed-session recovery push,
user-prompt turn-context injection under an 800ms deadline and the 10KB cap,
stop buffers, session-end corpus write with redaction/retention/dedup +
best-effort push); structural JSON settings merger keyed by a _gbrain marker
(foreign hooks and permissions survive); dated host-spec registry; Claude Code
.jsonl parser as a spec-target with a scrubbed 7-shape fixture. Heartbeat is
counters-only by construction. 59 tests; zero engine modules in the import
graph.

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

* docs(bootstrap): cross-link the full-agent path from the connection docs

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

* feat(bootstrap): dispatcher, verify, status — the command assembled

gbrain bootstrap {status,interview,render,repo,hooks,verify,uninstall,attach}:
engine-free except verify (owns its engine, in-process sweep — no live-serve
conflict); phase list is the TS source of truth with install.jsonl telemetry
and the support blob; verify's fail-soft check suite covers the real write path
(put_page → write-through file → sweep → graph floor → recall), passes keyless,
persists snapshots, and ends with the first-run tour. cli.ts wired per the
three-touchpoint rule; doctor gains the bootstrap check group (silent on
machines with no bootstrap state). 28 new tests; 353 adjacent green.

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

* docs: KEY_FILES bootstrap cluster + CLAUDE.md dispatcher row (+ build:llms)

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

* test(bootstrap): e2e pins — hook-under-live-serve, attach, degraded modes, compiled binary, Docker harness

The permanent pins: a real serve holds the PGLite lock while the engine-free
hook completes (and a direct engine open provably throws LiveServeLockError);
stale-socket fail-open; machine-2 attach with marker-keyed hook repair;
decline-everything installs verify green with every degradation named; the
compiled binary renders bundled templates in an empty cwd. Offline Docker
harness (networkless, read-only) gated into heavy-tests.

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

* fix(bootstrap): register doctor check categories + system-of-record allow comments

The six bootstrap doctor checks join OPS_CHECK_NAMES; the sweep's batch link/
timeline inserts carry the explicit extract-path allow comments (the sweep IS
the extraction path for workspace pages).

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

* fix(test): shard wedge cap tracks suite growth (1500s -> 1800s)

At ~9000 tests a healthy shard finished at 1466s and two progressing shards
were false-killed at the old cap; 1800s restores ~25% headroom over the
slowest observed healthy shard. Real hangs still hit it.

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

* test(ci): cache-hash policy — README + runbook edits must invalidate [C2]

The old deny-list assertion predates the paste block; README.md and
BOOTSTRAP_FOR_AGENTS.md are policy-doc re-admissions now, so their edits must
change the hash (a paste-block edit shipping under a cached green was the C2
hole).

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

* fix(test): classify post-suite exit-hangs as warn-pass; file the leak forensics

A shard killed by the wedge watchdog with every assigned file started and zero
fail markers did all its work and leaked a handle at exit — pre-existing and
master-reproducible (P1 TODO carries the full bisect forensics). Bun's per-test
timeout turns a hung test into a (fail), so the classifier cannot mask one.

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

* fix(test): shard cap 2400s — the count-balanced heavy shard needs it under contention

Observed: the heavy shard still progressing 22s before an 1800s kill while
siblings finish at 1150-1550s (split balances file count, not weight). Filed
the load-sensitive WAL-repair flake (pre-existing, master's v0.42.75.0 wave).

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

* test(bootstrap): quarantine env-mutating suites to the serial lane

check-test-isolation R1: six new files mutate GBRAIN_HOME/env at module scope —
the serial lane (one process per file) is the guard's prescribed home for them.
All 114 tests pass post-rename.

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

* docs(readme): per-harness install sections — Codex, Claude Code, then OpenClaw/Hermes

Each harness gets its own complete paste-block section (desktop app first,
terminal noted — Claude Code CLI is the identical harness; Codex CLI works
pull-based today); the OpenClaw/Hermes platform path keeps equal weight with
its one-click deploys and INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS block intact; memory-only and
remote-connect tiers consolidated under 'Lighter ways in'. Supersedes the
review's D5 ordering by user direction; stale heading references updated.

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

* docs(readme): Codex as the recommended first step; OpenClaw/Hermes framed as-intended, high-cost

The install section now routes newcomers explicitly: Codex first
(subscription-priced, nothing to deploy), OpenClaw/Hermes as GBrain used the
way it was designed — always on, at real server + API cost.

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

* fix: doc-audit code chasers — broken recovery hints, stale op description, auto_link key

Four small code fixes surfaced by the markdown accuracy audit:
- doctor's auto-RLS recovery hint pointed at `apply-migrations --force-retry 35`,
  which cannot work (--force-retry targets the vX.Y.Z orchestrator registry, not
  the numeric schema MIGRATIONS array). Hint now points at the recreate SQL in
  docs/guides/rls-and-you.md; test pins against regression.
- v0_11_0 migration printed the same broken-mechanism class of hint
  (`config set minion_mode` writes DB config nothing reads); now names
  `apply-migrations --mode` + preferences.json, the real setter.
- submit_job's op description hardcoded a stale handler list; now points at
  registerBuiltinHandlers as the source plus the --follow discovery trick.
- `auto_link` added to KNOWN_CONFIG_KEYS: read by link-extraction, reconcile-links,
  and sweep, and documented as the off-switch in brain-ops/maintain, but the
  allowlist rejected `config set auto_link false`.

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

* docs: repo-wide accuracy + MECE reform from the 9-bucket markdown audit

A code-grounded audit of every markdown file (root, architecture, guides,
mcp, tutorials, docs-root, operations/eval/designs, skills, recipes) followed
by a fix wave with per-bucket ownership. Four classes of change:

Accuracy — every documented command/flag verified against src/ before writing:
dead commands replaced with working ones (pages purge-deleted, jobs watch
--follow, gbrain restore, import-based Obsidian flow, space-separated --scopes,
real thin-client recipes, working isolation verification, real supervisor
restart procedure, curl-based ngrok health check, real minion_mode setter);
count drift fixed with rot-proof phrasing (100+ ops, 50+ bundled skills via
skills/manifest.json, 140+ engine methods, KNOBS_HASH_VERSION pointer instead
of hardcoded versions); stale claims corrected (search-mode defaults, RETRIEVAL
pipeline order incl. autocut, sentinel rules, refusal-list mechanism, engine
snapshot, shard cap 2400s + EXIT-HANG classifier in TESTING.md, latest-stable +
publish-template documented in RELEASING.md as release.yml promises).

MECE — one home per concept, pointers elsewhere: test isolation → TESTING.md;
OAuth registration + --bind/--public-url lore → DEPLOY.md; mode bundles →
guides/search-modes.md (the home the CLAUDE.md dispatcher always promised);
merge contract → schema-packs.md; WAL ladder → ENGINES.md; quiet-hours →
quiet-hours.md; capture taxonomy → entity-detection.md; person-page taxonomy →
compiled-truth.md; brain-first protocol → brain-first-lookup.md; refresh
semantics → refresh-algorithm.md; KEY_FILES.md deduplicated (58 extension
entries merged, one entry per file); infra-layer.md rewritten as a pointer page.

Privacy — placeholder sweep across guides, docs, skills, and recipes per the
iron rule; per-release narration stripped from reference docs (current-state
prose only).

Bootstrap coverage — AGENTS.md pointer, RESOLVER routing row, INSTALL.md path,
tutorial cross-links, keyless-mode sections in spend-controls/headless-install.

skills.lock.json regenerated; llms.txt/llms-full.txt rebuilt. Gates: verify
36/36, typecheck clean, doctor 96/96, skills-integrity + resolver + build-llms
+ config-set + migrations all green.

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

* docs(readme): refresh production-brain stats to current brain-repo counts

155,795 pages / 24,589 people / 5,340 companies, counted from the brain
repo's current HEAD; the "100K-page brain" framing moves to 150K to match.
Cron-fleet count unchanged (its store lives on the deployment host, not in
the repos available for verification).

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

* fix(scan,push): modern OpenAI/Voyage key patterns, scan staged blobs not disk

- secret-scan matches sk-proj-/sk-svcacct-/sk-None- and pa- Voyage keys
  (the bare sk- pattern missed every current OpenAI key format).
- workspacePush stages first, then scans the staged index blobs via
  git cat-file, closing the scan-then-stage TOCTOU where a file changed
  between snapshot and commit shipped unscanned.
- shared binary-sniff helper, memoized glob regexes, atomic push-status
  write, and tests for pull_conflict + gitignored deny-match paths.

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

* fix(ci): regenerate flag registry for new commands, harden shard classifier + release token

- cli-flag-registry.generated.ts regenerated: bootstrap/hook/sweep and
  sources push --message/--allow-unverified-remote were missing, so the
  strict #2185 validator rejected real invocations and skipped the new
  commands entirely.
- EXIT-HANG shard classifier now requires every assigned file to have
  started before warn-passing a watchdog kill (was fail-open).
- release.yml passes TEMPLATE_REPO_PAT via http.extraheader, off the argv.
- compiled-binary e2e fails loud in CI instead of a silent permanent skip.

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

* fix(hook,sweep,ipc): non-blocking hook pushes, bounded sweep + cache, source-bound resolve

- session-start/session-end no longer run synchronous git + inline push
  inside their self-deadline; a detached child does the push and the hook
  returns immediately (blocked Claude Code startup for minutes on a dirty
  tree before).
- serve sweep drops the unbounded listAllPageRefs, resolves only candidate
  targets, claims corpus files atomically (no double-LLM-spend race), and
  caps the fence LIKE scan; heartbeat writes are O_APPEND with rare compaction.
- hot-memory cache evicts expired entries and bounds entry count (the key is
  caller-controlled via _meta.session_id).
- v1 resolve IPC honors boundSourceId like turn_context; turn-context runs
  its arms concurrently. doctor reads push/heartbeat thresholds from hook.ts.
- new tests: doctor bootstrap checks, hook push-gate + deadline, concurrent
  sweep claims, cache eviction, bound-source resolve.

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

* fix(bootstrap): origin-ownership gate, world visibility, collision-safe source id, consent + templates

- repo adoption requires an exact receipt repo_url match or authed-owner
  check (undefined repo_url was a wildcard); create verifies privacy BEFORE
  the first push.
- verify sets facts.default_visibility=world if unset, so agent-authored
  facts surface in per-turn context (they defaulted private before).
- source_id derives a path-hash suffix when 'workspace' is taken by another
  checkout; every consumer reads manifest.source_id.
- skipped HOOKS_CONSENT now declines (was falling through to default yes);
  --minimal refuses on an initialized manifest; tilde fences escaped.
- MCP registration pins --surface full; status hard-fails a public origin
  (template door); receipt writers guard against newer/corrupt receipts;
  uninstall only claims brain-deleted after a real rm.
- templates ship jobs disabled + provider-consent + support-relay lines;
  soul-audit re-runs over the shared interview bank. TODOS: 11 follow-ups.

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

* fix(security): close adversarial-review findings — scan fails closed, whole-PEM redaction, bound repo push

Cross-model adversarial pass (Claude + Codex) on the bootstrap wave:

- secret scan fails CLOSED: an unreadable, oversized, or binary staged blob
  now blocks the push (blocked_unscannable, exit 5) instead of committing
  unscanned; only a confirmed staged deletion is skipped. This was the
  headline "block secrets before they leave the machine" property failing open.
- private-key redaction spans the whole PEM block (header+body+footer), not
  just the header line — the base64 body no longer survives into the corpus
  the sweep sends to an extraction provider.
- bootstrap repo commits the workspace (secret-scan-gated) before the first
  push and verifies the remote actually received it, so a push-fail retry
  can't adopt an empty remote as success.
- privacy verify is re-bound to origin immediately before push (a concurrent
  origin rewrite between verify and push is refused).
- session-end corpus write is atomic and clears the stale ingested/in-progress
  sidecars so a resumed session's appended transcript is re-ingested.
- public-origin refusal enforced at render (not only status); MCP "already
  registered" is verified to target this workspace, not blessed blindly;
  verify probe cleanup scopes deletes to its own slugs, not a token substring;
  allowlist fingerprint floor raised 8→16 hex.

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

* v0.45.0.0 feat(bootstrap): paste-in personal-agent install for Codex + Claude Code

Turns a Codex or Claude Code session into a persistent personal agent:
interview-rendered identity files, a local PGLite brain, per-turn context via
serve IPC (Claude Code hooks / Codex pull protocol), session-triggered
persistence, and a private GitHub repo as the agent's portable body. Keyless-
first (the harness model is the LLM; one optional key adds embeddings +
extraction). New `gbrain bootstrap` command family + `gbrain hook` + `gbrain
sweep`; doctor bootstrap health checks; latest-stable distribution ref +
template-repo publish job. Opt-in, additive — existing installs untouched.

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

* fix: regenerate flag registry for security-fix flags; drop fabricated gbrain capabilities doc ref

CI caught two real failures under the merged state:
- the flag registry lagged the blocked_unscannable/exit-5 flags the security
  round added, tripping the #2185 freshness guard.
- headless-install.md described the keyless capability report as a
  `gbrain capabilities` command, which the #3502 doc-command resolver
  rejects — reworded to prose (the real surface is bootstrap verify's report).

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

* docs: sync KEY_FILES + bootstrap plan to security-fix behavior

Cross-referenced the security-fix round against the reference docs and
corrected the drift those commits introduced:

- workspace-push.ts entry: stage-FIRST-then-scan order (the TOCTOU fix),
  fail-closed blocked_unscannable, and the sources-push status -> exit-code map.
- hooks.ts entry: MCP registration pins `serve --surface full`.
- hook.ts entry: session-start/session-end pushes run in a detached child
  (non-blocking); atomic corpus write clears stale sidecars.
- bootstrap.ts entry: render hard-refuses a public origin (template door).
- verify.ts entry: source_id collision resolution (workspace-<path-hash>).
- AGENT_BOOTSTRAP_PLAN as-shipped delta note for the scan/stage reorder.

llms bundle unchanged (KEY_FILES is link-only); build:llms and
test/build-llms.test.ts green.

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

* fix(ci): silence SC2016 on the intentional askpass literal in release.yml

The one-shot GIT_ASKPASS script must contain literal $1 and
$TEMPLATE_REPO_PAT so they expand when /bin/sh runs it at git's credential
prompt, not when the outer shell writes the file — single quotes are correct.
Add a scoped shellcheck disable so actionlint passes.

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

* fix(skills): declare 'bootstrap my data' trigger in cold-start frontmatter

The doc reform added 'bootstrap my data' to cold-start's RESOLVER.md row (to
disambiguate data-bootstrap from agent-bootstrap) but not to the skill's own
frontmatter triggers, tripping the RESOLVER↔frontmatter round-trip contract
(resolver.test.ts). Declare it; regenerate skills.lock.json.

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

* feat(bootstrap): default per-turn hooks + search mode ON without a prompt

Installing gbrain for your coding agent IS the consent for the behaviors that
make it work, so stop re-litigating them with install-time questions whose
"no" defeats the product:

- Per-turn hooks (Claude Code) install ON by default — no prompt. Off-ramps:
  `--no-hooks` at install, `GBRAIN_HOOKS=0` at runtime, `bootstrap uninstall`.
  The "hooks installed" line now surfaces the kill switch so default-on is
  never silent. A persisted HOOKS_CONSENT=no (interview --skip) still declines.
- Search mode defaults to `balanced` silently (nobody knows the modes at
  install; `gbrain search modes` changes it any time).
- MCP scope stays the ONE deliberate prompt — project vs user is a real
  cross-repo privacy choice, not friction.

Marks the two consents `silent: true` in the question bank (new QuestionSpec
field), rewrites the runbook phases so the agent no longer asks them, adds the
`--no-hooks` flag (+ registry regen), and adds default-on / opt-out tests.

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

* test(bootstrap): real end-to-end coverage — cross-session recall, per-turn content, Codex door, realistic corpus

Closes the seven e2e gaps a coverage audit surfaced: the plumbing was
well-unit-tested but the product claims ("Codex works, context shows up every
turn with real content, it remembers across restarts, machine two recovers,
Postgres works") were unproven end to end. Test-only wave — zero src changes.

- Hermetic synthetic corpus (test/fixtures/bootstrap-corpus/ + a loader helper):
  12 interlinked pages (52 edges, timelines), 12 world/private beliefs, 8 gold
  queries — curated from the gbrain-evals synthetic corpora, 100% placeholder
  names, so recall is asserted on a real multi-entity brain instead of a
  2-node self-planted probe.
- GAP1 magic moment: author a fact via the real write path, disconnect the
  engine, reopen against the same DB, recall it — a real session boundary, not
  verify.ts's same-connection SQL read-back. Plus a source-isolation assertion.
- GAP2 per-turn content: hook-under-serve Pin 1 now seeds a known fact and
  asserts its text lands in the injected block AND private beliefs never do
  (was: empty brain, empty_block accepted as a pass).
- GAP3 Codex door: assert the rendered AGENTS.md carries the Gate-3 brain-first
  pull protocol; make the fake codex shim implement `mcp get` so the [FIX7]
  target-verification can actually fail; the Docker cold-machine harness now
  exercises the hooks/MCP registration step instead of skipping it.
- GAP4 corpus recall: turn-context + verify graph-floor/qrels run on the real
  multi-entity brain with real edges.
- GAP5 attach: machine-two now re-ingests the cloned brain/ into a fresh DB and
  recalls a fact authored only on machine one — the multi-device payoff.
- GAP6 keyed + Postgres (env-gated): real embeddings prove semantic recall a
  paraphrase query can reach but keyless BM25 cannot; bootstrap verify drives a
  real Postgres engine (skipIf DATABASE_URL/keys absent).
- GAP7 persistence: session-end runs the REAL push (not the mocked seam) to a
  local bare remote and the remote receives the content; a planted secret is
  blocked at the gate; the 15-min cron installs and fires a scan-gated push.

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

* test(bootstrap): real-agent e2e — drive the actual claude + codex binaries end to end

Closes the audit's biggest gap ("no real harness ever drives a turn"). Adapts
gstack's PTY/headless agent harness to prove the bootstrap install + smoke work
against the REAL binaries, not PATH shims. Test/CI/docs only — zero src changes.

- test/helpers/agent-harness.ts: hermetic clean-room child env (ported from
  gstack; drops CONDUCTOR_/CLAUDE_/GSTACK_/MCP_/GBRAIN_, promotes
  GSTACK_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY→ANTHROPIC_API_KEY), real-binary resolvers + auth
  probes, headless `claude -p --output-format stream-json` and `codex exec
  --json` turn runners, a gbrain stdio MCP-config writer, and a keyless brain
  seeder. + a fixture-parse unit test (no binary needed).
- test/e2e/bootstrap-real-claude.serial.test.ts: real `gbrain bootstrap`
  install → REAL `claude mcp add` (verified via `claude mcp get`) → verify
  exit 0 → a real `claude -p --mcp-config --strict-mcp-config` turn that
  invokes mcp__gbrain__search and answers from the brain (proven: toolCalls
  include mcp__gbrain__search, final text carries the seeded fact).
- test/e2e/bootstrap-real-codex.serial.test.ts: same install with REAL `codex
  mcp add` into a real ~/.codex/config.toml + Gate-3 pull-protocol assertion,
  then a real `codex exec --json` turn surfacing the fact (MCP or the pull-
  protocol shell path). Bounded retry absorbs codex's occasional MCP-call
  cancellation without softening the fact-requiring assertion.
- Everything hermetic (temp HOME/CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/CODEX_HOME/GBRAIN_HOME;
  real ~/.codex auth copied read-only) and skipIf-gated so it self-skips
  cleanly where the binaries/auth are absent.
- heavy-tests.yml: gated `real-agent-e2e` job (nightly/label, never the PR
  shard; no-op on a runner without authed binaries).
- TODOS: compiled `gbrain` binary can't serve a PGLite brain (bun compile
  omits the WASM/extension payloads); harness falls back to `bun run` serve.

Verified against live claude 4.6 + codex 0.147.0: 15 pass / 0 fail; verify
36/36; typecheck clean.

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

* fix(ci): real-agent-e2e job — bash array + --timeout (actionlint SC2086 + bun-test-timeout guard)

The real-agent-e2e job's file loop used an unquoted $FILES (SC2086) and ran
`bun test` without --timeout (check-bun-test-timeout guard). Switch to a bash
array and add --timeout=600000 (real-agent turns are slow; the tests self-skip
without authed binaries so it's a no-op elsewhere).

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

* fix(pglite): embed WASM + extension assets so the compiled binary can serve

A `bun build --compile` gbrain binary could not `serve` a PGLite brain: the
compile bundles JS but not PGLite's runtime payload (pglite.wasm, initdb.wasm,
pglite.data, vector/pg_trgm tarballs), so `serve` on PGLite died with a
bunfs/ENOENT. Now the assets ride inside the binary.

- src/core/pglite-embedded-assets.ts: embeds the five assets via
  `import … with { type: 'file' }` (the ENG-6 idiom) and exposes
  getEmbeddedPgliteOptions() → { pgliteWasmModule, initdbWasmModule, fsBundle,
  extensions:{vector,pg_trgm} }. WASM/fsBundle are consumed as bytes; the two
  extension tarballs are materialized to a content-addressed temp file (atomic,
  size-verified reuse) because PGLite reads them via fs.createReadStream, which
  cannot read a /$bunfs path. Unconditional (works in bun-run and compiled),
  so no fragile mode branch.
- src/core/pglite-engine.ts: static-import getEmbeddedPgliteOptions (engine
  path stays static per the engine-dynamic-import invariant); spread into both
  PGlite.create sites (initial + WAL-repair retry). The bunfs classifier stays
  as a backstop but no longer fires for a correct binary.
- scripts/check-pglite-embedded.sh (+ smoketest): compiles a focused binary and
  asserts it boots PGLite, CREATE EXTENSION vector/pg_trgm, and round-trips a
  page — wired into `bun run verify` (now 37 checks), check:all, and
  check:pglite-embedded. Fail-soft only when compile is unavailable.
- agent-harness.ts probeCompiledPglite now passes → the real-agent e2e uses the
  fast compiled MCP server. TODOS: the P2 "can't serve PGLite" item is closed.

Verified: fresh compiled binary ran `search`/`query` against a PGLite brain and
returned the seeded row (no bunfs/ENOENT); verify 37/37; pglite-engine 120/0
source-mode; typecheck clean; engine-dynamic-import + parity guards pass.

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

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2026-08-11 16:42:11 -07:00
Garry TanandTime Attakc 48618bd4bf feat(ci): publish GitHub releases so binary self-update can work (#3521) (#3573)
Co-Authored-By: Time Attakc <89218912+time-attack@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-01 19:55:28 +08:00
Garry TanandClaude Fable 5 a81f7e05e8 v0.42.43.0 feat(context): push-based context (#2095) + teardown-exit hardening (#2084) (#2175)
* fix(cli): exit deliberately after bounded teardown instead of riding the 10s backstop (#2084)

Root cause: bounded teardown (endPoolBounded, #2015) RESOLVES, but lingering
sockets — embedding-provider fetch keep-alive, PgBouncer txn-mode sockets the
bound raced past — keep Bun's event loop alive, so every `gbrain query` paid
a flat 10s tax exiting via the hard-deadline force-exit banner.

Three changes, one contract:

- flushStdoutThenExit (cli-force-exit.ts): when main() resolves and the
  command is not a daemon, exit deliberately — after stdout AND stderr drain
  (writableLength===0, 'drain'-event + poll loop, 2s unref'd guard for a
  blocked pipe). Incident #1959 (force-exit truncating piped stdout) is the
  regression class; pinned by a 256KB real-pipe subprocess test.

- drainThenDisconnect (cli.ts): ONE owner-disconnect helper at all 8 sites
  (op-dispatch, CLI_ONLY fall-through, search dashboard, doctor remediation
  x3, ze-switch, dream, read-only timeout path). Drains the background-work
  registry, then disconnect (best-effort), bounded by the 10s unref'd
  hard-deadline — which is now armed around the TEARDOWN window only, not
  before the op handler (the old placement would have force-killed any op
  slower than 10s). Closes the filed TODOS P3 drain-hoist: six sites
  previously skipped the drain entirely and had no hang timer at all.

- Inner process.exit sweep: mid-handler exits in engine-owning/output-bearing
  paths (status, friction, claw-test, smoke-test, eval cross-modal /
  takes-quality replay / conversation-parser / whoknows-thin, status-thin)
  become process.exitCode + return so they flow through the drains and the
  flush-exit. Pre-engine usage/parse/refusal exits stay as-is.

BrainRegistry.disconnectAll deliberately unchanged: zero production callers
in src/, per-engine disconnects already bounded, and the kernel reclaims
sockets on exit (src/core/timeout.ts doctrine).

DAEMON_COMMANDS gains 'watch' ahead of the #2095 push transport.

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

* test(e2e): PgBouncer transaction-mode pooler in CI + teardown e2e (#2084)

Three consecutive waves (#1972#2015#2084) fixed pooler-teardown bugs
verified only against one production deployment — CI had no transaction-mode
pooler and could never see the class. Now it can:

- docker-compose.ci.yml: `pgbouncer` service (transaction pooling) fronting
  postgres-1, mirroring the production split-pool topology (direct :5432 +
  pooled :6543). AUTH_TYPE=plain (pg16 SCRAM verifiers need the plaintext
  password in the userlist) + IGNORE_STARTUP_PARAMETERS for the
  statement_timeout/idle_in_transaction_session_timeout startup params
  gbrain's client sets (the Supabase pooler whitelists the same).
- test/e2e/pgbouncer-teardown.test.ts: schema + fixture via the DIRECT url
  into a dedicated `gbrain_pgbouncer` database (never races shard TRUNCATEs),
  then spawns the real CLI against the POOLED url and asserts: exit 0,
  stdout intact (the #1959 truncation class), and NO
  "did not return within 10000ms — force-exiting" banner (pre-#2084 it
  printed on 100% of query-shaped ops on this topology). Class bound, not
  exact timing. Skips gracefully without GBRAIN_PGBOUNCER_URL.
- scripts/ci-local.sh: threads GBRAIN_PGBOUNCER_URL +
  GBRAIN_PGBOUNCER_DIRECT_URL into all three e2e phases.

Verified live: both tests green against pgbouncer 1.25.2 in transaction mode.

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

* feat(schema): context_volunteer_events table (v116) — push-context feedback log (#2095)

One row per page the brain volunteers (op / reflex / watch channels).
"Used" is DERIVED, never written: pages.last_retrieved_at > volunteered_at
(the existing bumpLastRetrievedAt write-back is the open/cite signal), so
there is no second tracking path. session_id/turn are nullable
caller-supplied attribution; rationale is a deterministic template string,
never raw conversation text.

- Migration v116 (idempotent) + mirrors in src/schema.sql +
  src/core/pglite-schema.ts + regenerated schema-embedded.ts (regen also
  folds in pre-existing comment-only drift from the v114 links edits).
- src/core/context/volunteer-events.ts: insertVolunteerEvents (ONE
  multi-row parameterized INSERT — never per-row awaited round-trips) +
  purgeStaleVolunteerEvents (90-day GC, returns 0 on pre-v116 brains).
- Dream cycle purge phase prunes stale events alongside op_checkpoints /
  brainstorm checkpoints / batch-retry audit files.
- RLS on Postgres comes from the v35 auto_rls_on_create_table event
  trigger (the same mechanism that covered v110 page_aliases and v115
  op_checkpoint_paths); the volunteer Postgres e2e pins it.
- No ::jsonb anywhere; no bootstrap probe needed (nothing references the
  table pre-creation; writers guard with try/catch).

Tests: v116 shape + columns + indexes + live insert/purge round-trip on
PGLite (test/migrate.test.ts, 161 pass); schema-bootstrap-coverage green.

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

* feat(context): multi-turn window extraction + confidence-scored volunteer core (#2095)

- entity-salience.ts: extractCandidatesFromWindow(turns) — runs the existing
  per-turn extractor across the last N turns (oldest→newest), merges by the
  normalizeAlias form with occurrence/newest-turn/user-mention metadata, and
  orders by salience (recency > frequency > user-role) so the MAX_CANDIDATES
  cap drops stale assistant chatter, not the entity the user just named.
  Closes the filed assistant-introduced-entities recall TODO; true pronoun
  coreference (never-named antecedents) stays out of scope.

- retrieval-reflex.ts: ReflexPointer gains source_id + arm + confidence +
  matchedNorm. ARM_CONFIDENCE (alias 0.9 / title 0.8 / slug-suffix 0.6)
  lives next to the arm definitions so identity and score can't drift.
  Arm-2 provenance is classified in JS (codex D8 — the combined OR can't
  report which predicate matched). Federated sourceIds[] scope (alias arm
  loops per source; arm 2 uses source_id = ANY — no engine-interface
  change). Suppression gains 'slug-only' mode (codex D7, REQUIRED for
  windowing): the legacy title-whole-word rule would suppress every entity
  merely MENTIONED in a prior window turn, breaking the feature by
  construction — slugs only enter context when a pointer/page was actually
  surfaced. Default stays 'slug-and-title' for the window=1 legacy path.

- volunteer.ts (new): parseWindow (lenient user:/assistant: prefixes, CRLF,
  unprefixed → one user turn), volunteerContext (zero-LLM: extract →
  resolve → +0.05 multi-turn/newest-turn boost → min_confidence 0.7 gate →
  cap 3/5; deterministic rationale strings, never raw conversation text),
  and volunteerUsageStats (per-arm/channel precision from the
  last_retrieved_at join, labeled approximate — 5-min throttle false
  negatives, unrelated-read false positives; codex D9).

Tests: 35 green across volunteer-context (window parsing, pronoun follow-up
via assistant-introduced entity, confidence gating, slug-only suppression,
takes-fence privacy, multi-source scope, caps, stats join math) +
retrieval-reflex back-compat + resolve-ipc.

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

* feat(ops): volunteer_context op — CLI (stdin) + MCP, drained event sink (#2095)

New read-scope op on the contract surface (CLI `gbrain volunteer-context`
with stdin → window, MCP tool for free): takes a rolling conversation
window, returns confidence-gated page pointers with rationales + synopses.
`window` is optional-unless-stats (validated in the handler, codex D9);
`stats: true` returns the volunteered-vs-used precision summary, labeled
APPROXIMATE (the 5-min last-retrieved throttle and unrelated reads both
bias the join). Source scope threads through sourceScopeOpts — federated
grants narrow the volunteer to the granted sources.

Event logging is fire-and-forget through a new `volunteer-events`
background-work sink (volunteer-events.ts, mirrors last-retrieved: tracked
dangling promise set + bounded drain + snapshot-drop on timeout so a
long-lived process never accumulates ghosts). ONE batched INSERT per call,
drained on every exit path by the commit-1 drain hoist; failure never
fails the op (pinned by an injected failing-engine test).

cli formatResult renders both shapes (pointer lines with confidence/arm/
rationale; the stats summary with per-arm precision).

Tests: op contract surface, window-required validation, sink round-trip
with session_id/turn attribution, failing-engine fail-open, federated
grant scoping, stats mode (26 green on PGLite) + a real-Postgres e2e
proving the op + sink + stats join AND that context_volunteer_events has
RLS enabled (keeps the auto-RLS event-trigger mechanism honest for v116).

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

* feat(context): reflex consumes the rolling window + ambient-channel logging (#2095)

The default-on retrieval reflex now extracts entities from the last N turns
(retrieval_reflex_window_turns, default 4; env
GBRAIN_RETRIEVAL_REFLEX_WINDOW_TURNS; window=1 reproduces the legacy
current-turn-only behavior exactly). assemble() passes the recent
user/assistant turns (hard cap 12); the reflex slices to the configured
window. Assistant-introduced entities and "what did she invest in?"
follow-ups whose antecedent was NAMED in the window now surface pointers —
the issue's "zero agent-initiated queries" success criterion on the
ambient path.

Under windowing, suppression switches to slug-only (codex D7): the legacy
title-whole-word rule would suppress every entity merely MENTIONED in a
prior window turn, breaking the feature by construction. Slugs only enter
prior context when a pointer/page was actually surfaced, so
already-surfaced pages still suppress. The suppression mode flows through
all three resolver rungs (host opts, serve IPC request, direct Postgres).

Ambient-channel feedback (codex D11): the server-side resolver paths
(serve IPC + direct Postgres) log volunteered pointers with
channel: 'reflex' through the drained volunteer-events sink, so
`gbrain volunteer-context --stats` measures the default-on path where most
volunteering happens. Host-injected resolvers (no gbrain engine) can't
log — documented gap. Precision gates, 1.5s ceiling, fail-open, and the
pointer cap are unchanged.

Tests: prev-assistant-turn entity fires; window=1 legacy parity; slug-only
vs already-surfaced suppression; throwing resolver stays fail-open
(16 green).

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

* feat(cli): gbrain watch — push transport over stdin (#2095)

The issue's headline: the brain volunteers pages as the conversation flows,
instead of waiting to be asked. `some-transcript-feed | gbrain watch` reads
turns line-by-line ('user:'/'assistant:' prefixes set the role; unprefixed
lines are user turns), keeps a rolling window (--window-turns, default 4),
and streams confidence-gated pointers with rationales to stdout (--json for
JSONL). Session dedupe rides the core's slug-only suppression — a slug is
volunteered at most once per session. Events log on channel 'watch' with
session_id + turn through the drained sink.

Lifecycle: watch BLOCKS in the stdin iteration (like `jobs work`) — an
interactive TTY stays alive until Ctrl-C/Ctrl-D, piped input ends at EOF —
so it is deliberately NOT in DAEMON_COMMANDS (reverts the commit-1
placeholder): when main() resolves the work is over, the CLI_ONLY finally
drains volunteer events via drainThenDisconnect, and the entrypoint
flush-exit ends the process. Keeping it in the daemon set would have made
the piped EOF path hang on lingering sockets — the exact #2084 class.
SIGINT closes the stream and flows through the same drain path instead of
killing mid-write. Per-turn resolution failures are fail-open (the stream
never dies on a transient DB error).

Full wiring (eng-review D12): CLI_ONLY + CLI_ONLY_SELF_HELP (WATCH_HELP) +
THIN_CLIENT_REFUSED_COMMANDS (thin clients use the volunteer_context MCP
op) + main --help entry.

Tests: 18 green — help, per-turn volunteering + clean EOF return, rolling
window via assistant-introduced entity, session dedupe, --json shape with
turn attribution, channel-watch event rows, --min-confidence gate, CRLF/
blank tolerance, daemon-gate semantics. Live smoke: piped `gbrain watch`
on a fresh PGLite brain exits 0 at EOF with no force-exit banner.

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

* docs: KEY_FILES + push-context guide + TODOS for the #2084/#2095 wave

- docs/architecture/KEY_FILES.md (current-state): context entries gain the
  window extractor, arm provenance/confidence, suppression modes, volunteer
  + volunteer-events modules; background-work entry now lists FIVE sinks and
  the drainThenDisconnect owner-disconnect contract; new entries for
  src/core/cli-force-exit.ts (the exit contract) and src/commands/watch.ts.
- docs/guides/push-context.md (new): the three channels (reflex/op/watch),
  the confidence model, CLI usage, config keys, and the approximate-stats
  caveat. Linked from CLAUDE.md's reference map.
- CLAUDE.md: ops line mentions volunteer_context + the guide link;
  bun run build:llms regenerated in the same commit (freshness test green).
- TODOS.md: #2095 deferrals filed (SSE push channel, policy skill + doctor
  check, structured messages[] param); the #1981 entity-detection TODO
  narrowed (window extraction covered assistant-introduced entities +
  named-antecedent follow-ups); the drain-hoist P3 marked DONE by the
  #2084 wave.

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

* test(e2e): truncate context_volunteer_events in setupDB (#2095)

The new feedback-log table wasn't in ALL_TABLES, so volunteered-event rows
persisted across e2e runs on a reused database and poisoned count/stats
assertions in volunteer-context-postgres on the second run. No FK to pages
(slug join), so position before pages is for hygiene only.

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

* fix(cli): own the exit verdict — never trust ambient process.exitCode (#2084)

Caught by the full unit suite: `gbrain apply-migrations` on PGLite started
exiting 99. Root cause: PGLite's Emscripten runtime writes the WASM
backend's proc_exit status into process.exitCode (initdb at create-time,
the postmaster at close-time — `exitCode=status` in pglite's dist), and
the writes land ASYNCHRONOUSLY, outside any snapshot/restore window around
create/close (a guarded attempt verified this). The pre-#2084 success path
never read process.exitCode, so the pollution was invisible; the new
deliberate flush-exit propagated it faithfully.

Fix: gbrain records its own verdict. setCliExitCode(n)/getCliExitCode() in
cli-force-exit.ts — every gbrain-owned exit-code assignment routes through
the setter (still mirrored to process.exitCode for outside readers), and
both exit paths (entrypoint flushStdoutThenExit + the drainThenDisconnect
hard-deadline backstop) read the getter. Swept all assignment sites:
cli.ts (op error, friction, claw-test, smoke-test, eval runners, status,
import errors) + reindex/transcripts/brainstorm/frontmatter/autopilot.

Also updates the v0.42.20 structural pins to the drainThenDisconnect shape
(ordering invariant asserted INSIDE the helper + >=8 helper call sites,
superseding the two-inline-pairs assertion).

Verified: apply-migrations spawn test green; `init --migrate-only` exits 0;
an errored op still exits 1.

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

* test: re-pin the teardown-arming invariant at its post-#2084 home

Master's v0.42.41.0 triage wave and the #2084 wave fixed the same
pre-armed-timer bug independently; the merge keeps #2084's shape (arming
inside the shared drainThenDisconnect helper, covering all 8 exit paths).
The structural pin now asserts the same invariant — no pre-try arming;
gated, unref'd, before-drain, cleared — at the helper.

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

* test: coverage for ambient reflex-channel logging + watch window/cap flags

Ship coverage audit (85%, gate PASS) named five gaps; the two substantive
cheap ones close here: the codex-D11 logChannel='reflex' path now has a
behavioral pin (events land on channel 'reflex' through the drained sink;
no logChannel → no events), and gbrain watch's --window-turns / --max-pages
flags are exercised (turn-1 attribution under window=1; cap to one page).
Remaining flagged-not-blocking: the wallclock-timeout branch (untestable
without >10s real-clock flake — same rationale as the arming pin),
formatResult's volunteer case (module-private), and the cycle purge wiring.

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

* test: close the remaining plan-audit gaps — formatResult rendering + watch SIGINT

formatResult exported for tests (same import-safety contract as cliAliases);
test/cli-format-volunteer.test.ts pins the pointer lines, empty-gate message,
and approximate stats summary. test/watch-command.test.ts gains a real
subprocess SIGINT test: piped stdin that never reaches EOF, SIGINT mid-stream,
assert exit 0 with no force-exit banner — the drain-then-exit lifecycle under
the actual signal, not just the shared exit path.

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

* fix: doctor's FAIL verdict was zeroed by the owned exit — sweep stragglers + class pin

The merged-state suite caught it: doctor --fast --json reported FAIL but
exited 0. Master's v0.42.41.0 brought raw `process.exitCode =` writes
(doctor.ts hasFail ternary, extract.ts) that the #2084 verdict-owning exit
silently zeroes — getCliExitCode() deliberately never reads ambient
process.exitCode (the PGLite-Emscripten pollution defense), so any setter
that bypasses setCliExitCode reports success on failure.

Swept both sites and added the structural class pin: a test greps src/ for
raw `process.exitCode =` outside cli-force-exit.ts, so the next merge that
introduces one fails loudly instead of lying about exit codes.

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

* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.42.43.0)

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

* test: quarantine the watch SIGINT subprocess test to the serial lane

The parallel unit shards flake on concurrent CLI subprocess spawns (failed
at 7ms in-suite, green solo) — same isolation rationale as
apply-migrations-pglite-spawn.serial.test.ts and #2141's R3 quarantine.

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

* docs: update project documentation for v0.42.43.0

Post-ship doc verification against the release diff (#2095 push-based
context + #2084 superset hardening), with a cross-model doc review:

- push-context.md: version tag corrected to v0.42.43.0; per-call knobs
  now cover prior_context/days and watch's flag surface accurately;
  feedback-log writes described as best-effort; synopsis fence-strip
  described as unconditional.
- CLAUDE.md: stale operation count (~47 -> ~90); volunteer_context
  release reference corrected to v0.42.43.0.
- KEY_FILES.md: ci-local entry rewritten to current topology (4-shard
  parallel default, four Postgres services, transaction-mode PgBouncer
  + GBRAIN_PGBOUNCER_URL/_DIRECT_URL exports); stale E2E file counts
  dropped from the selector entry.
- TESTING.md: inventory entries for the new #2084 structural pins
  (cli-exit-verdict-pin, cli-pipe-truncation), the push-context test
  suite (volunteer-context, watch-command, watch-sigint.serial,
  cli-format-volunteer), migrate v117 coverage, and the two new E2E
  files (pgbouncer-teardown env gating, volunteer-context-postgres RLS
  pin); check:all row corrected (not a superset of verify).
- AGENTS.md + RELEASING.md: ci:local descriptions updated to the
  sharded + pooler topology.
- CHANGELOG (wording only, entry preserved): "retrieved" instead of
  "opened" for the used-signal, pooler scoped to the local CI gate,
  feedback log labeled best-effort.
- llms-config.ts: index the new push-context guide; bundles
  regenerated (build:llms) and freshness test green.

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

* docs(test): correct the v116 reference — the table shipped as migration v117

* fix: pre-landing review hardening — federated alias parallelism, trust-boundary clamps, shared protocol helpers (#2095)

Five specialist reviewers (testing/maintainability/security/performance/
data-migration) on the reconciled diff; every finding applied:

Performance: the alias arm now resolves all granted sources CONCURRENTLY
(a federated caller paid M sequential RTTs per turn — ~355ms at 5 sources
cross-region, inside the reflex's 1.5s budget); watch's session dedupe is
O(1) Set membership instead of a monotonically growing priorContext string
(O(T²) over a long-lived session); getWindowTurns iterates from the tail
(per-turn cost no longer grows with session length); the resolver's
provenance maps fold into the existing candidate pass.

Security: volunteer_context clamps caller-supplied attribution at the trust
boundary — session_id capped at 256 chars (a read-scoped token could bank
~1MiB TEXT per request, retained 90 days), turn logged only when a safe
integer (a non-integer threw inside the batched INSERT and silently dropped
the whole batch). The privacy comments now state precisely what rationale
may contain (the matched entity's surface form — which by construction
resolved to an existing alias/title/slug — never free conversation text).

Maintainability: TURN_PREFIX_RE + formatVolunteeredPage exported from
volunteer.ts and shared by watch/cli (the two surfaces can no longer
drift); volunteerEventRowsFrom is the single VolunteerEventRow assembly
site for all three channels; watch's window default now honors the same
retrieval_reflex_window_turns config knob the reflex reads; the stale
pre-v116 comments swept to pre-v117.

Testing: the two flake-class CRITICALs fixed (pipe test asserts the
backstop banner instead of a cold-CI-hostile 9s wall bound; the SIGINT test
waits on watch's new machine-readable ready line instead of a fixed 15s
sleep — 2.5s and deterministic now); new coverage for the sink's timeout
branch + ghost-reference drop, watch per-turn fail-open, untrusted knob
clamps (min_confidence/max_pages/days), window-cap ordering (newest user
mention survives), serve-IPC suppression passthrough + channel=reflex
logging, windowTurnCount edge semantics, and structural pins for the sink
registration + cycle purge wiring. The exit-verdict pin's grep is now
operator/whitespace-tolerant.

Deferred with TODOs: resolver index shapes for the per-turn query;
batched first-prune after a long dream-cycle gap.

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

* fix(context): red-team hardening — pre-cap dedupe, delivery-side reflex logging, window clamp

Four red-team findings on the #2095 push-context surface:

- RT1 starvation: watch's session-dedupe Set filtered AFTER volunteerContext's
  cap, so a recurring already-pushed entity burned cap slots every turn and
  starved fresh pages behind it. VolunteerOpts.excludeSlugs now skips inside
  the pointer loop BEFORE the confidence gate and the cap.
- RT3 honest stats: reflex-channel event logging moved from inside the
  resolver to the DELIVERY point — serve's resolve-IPC onDelivered hook fires
  only after the response write succeeds, and buildReflexAddition logs only
  after the per-turn timeout admits the block. A block the client's 250ms
  budget abandoned was never injected and no longer counts as volunteered.
  (logChannel resolver opt removed; logDeliveredReflexPointers is the seam.)
- RT5 unbounded window: --window-turns is clamped to [1, 64] so a config typo
  can't reintroduce the re-scan-everything-per-turn cost class.
- RT2/RT4 documented + filed: PGLite watch connection monopoly (WATCH_HELP,
  push-context guide, TODO to route watch via serve IPC); host-resolver
  suppression contract at ResolveEntitiesFn (TODO for a capability gate).

Tests: starvation guard (watch + volunteerContext unit), window clamp floor +
ceiling, delivery-side logging (helper writes channel=reflex through the
drained sink; bare resolver writes nothing; empty list no-op), IPC wiring test
rewired to onDelivered. KEY_FILES.md + push-context.md updated; build:llms run.

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

* fix(context): env-plane window knob works config-less; harden two gateway-state-leak victims

Three CI-only check failures, two root causes:

1. windowTurnCount ignored GBRAIN_RETRIEVAL_REFLEX_WINDOW_TURNS when
   loadConfig() returned null (no config file AND no DATABASE_URL — a clean
   CI shard with no brain). loadConfig drops its env→config mapping in that
   case, so the documented escape hatch silently died and the window fell
   back to 4 → windowed extraction widened when the test set window=1 →
   prior-turn entity leaked. Fixed: read the env var directly in
   windowTurnCount, mirroring reflexEnabled's direct process.env read. This
   is a real product bug, not just a test artifact — any config-less host
   using the env hatch was affected. Regression test pins it.

2. sync-cost-preview + doctor-federation-health failed only IN-SHARD: a
   sibling test configured a non-legacy (ZeroEntropy 1280-d / $0.05) gateway
   and never reset it. The legacy-embedding preload only restores the
   OpenAI/1536 default when the gateway slot is EMPTY, so a non-empty foreign
   config survives into the next file — and a file's beforeAll runs BEFORE
   the preload's restoring beforeEach, so federation-health built a
   vector(1280) column and its 1536-d fixture hit CheckExpectedDim. My new
   test files reshuffled the deterministic file→shard assignment, exposing
   this latent ordering bug. Hardened both victims to establish the gateway
   state they assert (sync-cost-preview resets to the unconfigured fallback;
   federation-health pins legacy 1536 before initSchema) so they're
   order-independent. Verified against a simulated leaker run before them.

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

* test(context): use withEnv() in the window env-hatch test (test-isolation guard)

The regression test added in 82cc7fff mutated process.env directly, which
check:test-isolation (R1) forbids — use the withEnv() helper that restores on
exit, same as the rest of this file. Behavior identical; guard green.

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

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2026-06-14 09:32:58 -07:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.8 d4211f4176 v0.42.11.0 feat(skillopt): held-out eval gate, honest receipts, ENFORCE + ablation opts (#1759)
* feat(skillopt): wire held-out gate, honest receipts, ENFORCE + ablation opts

Wire the F11 held-out gate into the orchestrator at checkpoint acceptance
(runHeldOutGate was dead code); parse + thread --held-out through CLI, batch,
fleet, background job, and the run_skillopt MCP op. Populate the real
receipt.baseline_sel_score (was hardcoded 0) and add a final-test eval
(test_score + baseline_test_score) via a shared scoreSkillOnTasks primitive.
Fix the --no-mutate proposed.md write (was a stub) and enforce maxRuntimeMin.

D16 ENFORCE in core mutation policy (assertBundledMutationHeldOut): mutating a
bundled skill in place requires a non-empty (>=5), benchmark-disjoint held-out
set or hard-refuses. Add three eval-internal ablation opts (reflectMode,
disableValidationGate, optimizerMode='one-shot-rewrite') recorded in the
receipt + audit; ROLLOUT_SUCCESS_THRESHOLD named constant.

Security: run_skillopt MCP op validates skill_name (kebab-only) and confines
caller-supplied benchmark/held-out paths to the skills dir for remote callers.

* test(skillopt): held-out gate, ENFORCE, one-shot rewrite, runtime + receipt honesty

New test/skillopt/rollout.test.ts (rollout had zero coverage). Held-out ENFORCE
unit cases + one-shot-rewrite fence handling (whole-response unwrap, embedded-fence
preserved, error path). E2E: F11 held-out BLOCKS/ALLOWS, bundled no-mutate write,
reflectMode/disableValidationGate/optimizerMode, maxRuntimeMin abort, receipt
baseline/test-score honesty, held-out/benchmark disjointness, D2 no-DB-pollution.

* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.42.9.0)

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

* docs: document skillopt held-out gate + bundled mutation requirement for v0.42.9.0

Wire --held-out into the skill-optimizer SKILL.md, guide flags/safety tables, and
the tutorial's bundled-skill step: mutating a bundled skill in place now requires
--allow-mutate-bundled AND --held-out (>=5 benchmark-disjoint tasks) or it
hard-refuses. Add the --held-out flag row + F11 held-out gate to the guide; update
the receipt contract to the honest baseline/test-score fields.

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

* fix(gateway): AI SDK v6 toolLoop compat — multi-turn tool calls work again

The ai@6.x bump tightened ModelMessage + tool-schema validation, which
silently broke every multi-turn tool loop. Both `gbrain skillopt` rollouts
and production background `subagent` jobs route through `chat()`/`toolLoop`
and crashed the moment the model called a tool ("messages do not match the
ModelMessage[] schema" / "schema is not a function"). Surfaced end-to-end
by the SkillOpt real-LLM eval.

Three fixes:
- chat(): wrap tool defs with the SDK's `jsonSchema()` helper instead of a
  bare `{jsonSchema}` object (v6 asSchema() treated the bare object as a
  thunk and threw).
- chat(): new exported pure `toModelMessages()` converts gbrain's
  provider-neutral ChatMessage[] into v6 ModelMessage[] — tool results ride
  a dedicated `role:'tool'` message with structured `{type,value}` output;
  null output preserved as json null. Load-bearing for the production
  subagent path, not just skillopt.
- rollout.ts: replace the inline params→schema mapper (dropped `items` on
  array params) with the shared `paramDefToSchema` single source of truth.

Pinned by test/gateway-model-messages.test.ts (8 cases). Folds into the
open v0.42.9.0 PR (#1759) — these complete the eval-readiness wave by
making skillopt actually run against a live model.

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

* fix(skillopt): budget no-pricing for Haiku silently scored every rollout 0

Surfaced by the SkillOpt real-LLM eval (Track B). Two coupled bugs that made
a budget-capped Haiku run report a vacuous "0/N" measurement in ~2ms with
zero LLM calls — indistinguishable from a real deficient-skill score:

1. Claude Haiku 4.5's canonical dateless id (`claude-haiku-4-5`) was missing
   from anthropic-pricing.ts (only the dated `-20251001` was present). With
   `--max-cost` set, BudgetTracker.reserve() threw no_pricing on the FIRST
   chat() of every rollout. Added the dateless entry (sonnet already had its
   dateless form).
2. runValidationGate swallowed that BUDGET_EXHAUSTED error — runWithLimit
   settled it as {ok:false}, which the gate turned into median:0. A pricing/cap
   crash became a fake score. The gate now scans settled results for
   isMustAbortError() and re-throws so the caller aborts loudly; ordinary
   (non-abort) rollout errors still fail-open to 0 (judge-hiccup posture kept).

Pinned by test/skillopt/validate-gate-abort.test.ts (3 cases). Folds into the
open v0.42.9.0 PR (#1759).

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

* fix(ci): llms-full.txt over size budget — drop what-schemas-unlock from full bundle

The toolLoop + budget bug-fix annotations grew CLAUDE.md, pushing llms-full.txt
to 756KB over the 750KB FULL_SIZE_BUDGET (the `build-llms > size budget` test
failed, failing the `test` CI job). CLAUDE.md stays inlined by design (it's the
point of the one-fetch bundle), so per the budget comment's own guidance ("ship
with includeInFull=false exclusions") this excludes docs/what-schemas-unlock.md
(15.4KB value-explainer, not load-bearing operational reference) from
llms-full.txt; it stays linked in llms.txt. Bundle now 740KB with ~9KB headroom.
No budget bump — 750KB is near the ~190k-token-context fit ceiling.

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

* chore(ci): re-admit policy docs into ci-cache-hash before doc relocation

docs/**/*.md is deny-listed from the CI cache hash (test-irrelevant). The
CLAUDE.md restructure moves test/release POLICY into docs/TESTING.md +
docs/RELEASING.md, which DO carry contracts the test suite reads. Without
re-admitting them, a policy-only edit would produce the same cache hash and
skip the test shard that runs the build-llms + doc-history guards (false-pass).

Adds an ALLOW_PATTERNS re-admit step after the deny, scoped to the named
policy docs (not a blanket docs un-deny). Lands FIRST, before any doc moves.

Pinned by 3 new cases in test/scripts/ci-cache-hash.test.ts: TESTING.md +
RELEASING.md edits MUST change the hash; docs/guide.md still must not.

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

* refactor(docs): relocate Key files / thin-client / Testing out of CLAUDE.md (verbatim)

CLAUDE.md had grown to 592KB / ~147k tokens auto-loaded every session (~77% of
the llms-full.txt single-fetch bundle). The per-file index was append-only by
mandate. This is the exact thin-dispatcher-vs-fat-blob anti-pattern gbrain exists
to fix, so CLAUDE.md becomes a thin orientation + resolver that points at
on-demand docs.

This commit is the VERBATIM move (content-preserving — the next commit compresses):
- docs/architecture/KEY_FILES.md   <- ## Key files + the calibration key-files
  cluster + Schema Cathedral v3 impl detail
- docs/architecture/thin-client.md <- ## Thin-client routing
- docs/TESTING.md                   <- ## Testing
- ## Commands DROPPED (18 'added in vX.Y' history blocks; current surface is
  gbrain 0.41.38.0 -- personal knowledge brain

USAGE
  gbrain <command> [options]

SETUP
  init [--pglite|--supabase|--url]   Create brain (PGLite default, no server)
  migrate --to <supabase|pglite>     Transfer brain between engines
  upgrade                            Self-update
  check-update [--json]              Check for new versions
  doctor [--json] [--fast]            Health check (resolver, skills, pgvector, RLS, embeddings)
  integrations [subcommand]          Manage integration recipes (senses + reflexes)

PAGES
  get <slug>                         Read a page
  put <slug> [< file.md]             Write/update a page
  delete <slug>                      Delete a page
  list [--type T] [--tag T] [-n N]   List pages

SEARCH
  search <query>                     Keyword search (tsvector)
  query <question> [--no-expand]     Hybrid search (RRF + expansion)
  ask <question> [--no-expand]       Alias for query

IMPORT/EXPORT
  import <dir> [--no-embed]          Import markdown directory
  sync [--repo <path>] [flags]       Git-to-brain incremental sync
  sync --watch [--interval N]        Continuous sync (loops until stopped)
  sync --install-cron                Install persistent sync daemon
  export [--dir ./out/]              Export to markdown
  export --restore-only [--repo <p>] Restore missing supabase-only files
        [--type T] [--slug-prefix S] With optional filters

FILES
  files list [slug]                  List stored files
  files upload <file> --page <slug>  Upload file to storage
  files upload-raw <file> --page <s> Smart upload (size routing + .redirect.yaml)
  files signed-url <path>            Generate signed URL (1-hour)
  files sync <dir>                   Bulk upload directory
  files verify                       Verify all uploads

EMBEDDINGS
  embed [<slug>|--all|--stale]       Generate/refresh embeddings

LINKS
  link <from> <to> [--type T]        Create typed link
  unlink <from> <to>                 Remove link
  backlinks <slug>                   Incoming links
  graph <slug> [--depth N]           Traverse link graph (returns nodes)
  graph-query <slug> [--type T]      Edge-based traversal with type/direction filters
        [--depth N] [--direction in|out|both]

TAGS
  tags <slug>                        List tags
  tag <slug> <tag>                   Add tag
  untag <slug> <tag>                 Remove tag

TIMELINE
  timeline [<slug>]                  View timeline
  timeline-add <slug> <date> <text>  Add timeline entry

TOOLS
  extract <links|timeline|all>       Extract links/timeline (idempotent)
        [--source fs|db]             fs (default) walks .md files; db iterates engine pages
        [--dir <brain>]              brain dir for fs source
        [--type T] [--since DATE]    filters (db source)
        [--dry-run] [--json]
  publish <page.md> [--password]     Shareable HTML (strips private data, optional AES-256)
  check-backlinks <check|fix> [dir]  Find/fix missing back-links across brain
  lint <dir|file> [--fix]            Catch LLM artifacts, placeholder dates, bad frontmatter
  orphans [--json] [--count]         Find pages with no inbound wikilinks
  salience [--days N] [--kind P]     v0.29: pages ranked by emotional + activity salience
  anomalies [--since D] [--sigma N]  v0.29: cohort-based statistical anomalies (tag, type)
  transcripts recent [--days N]      v0.29: recent raw .txt transcripts (local-only)
  dream [--dry-run] [--json]         Run the overnight maintenance cycle once (cron-friendly).
                                     See also: autopilot --install (continuous daemon).
  check-resolvable [--json] [--fix]  Validate skill tree (reachability/MECE/DRY)
  report --type <name> --content ... Save timestamped report to brain/reports/

BRAIN (capture / ideate / explore — v0.37/v0.38)
  capture [content] [--file PATH]    Single entrypoint for getting content into the brain
        [--stdin] [--slug s] [--type t]   Inline content / file / stdin; writes to inbox/ by default
        [--source ID] [--quiet|--json]    Multi-source brains: route to a non-default source
  brainstorm <question> [--json]     Bisociation idea generator (hybrid search + far-set + judge)
        [--save|--no-save] [--limit N]
  lsd <question> [--json]            Lateral Synaptic Drift: inverted-judge brainstorm
        [--save|--no-save] [--limit N]    rewarding far-from-obvious + axiomatic inversions

SOURCES (multi-repo / multi-brain)
  sources list                       Show registered sources
  sources add <id> --path <p>        Register a source (id = short name, e.g. 'wiki')
  sources remove <id>                Remove a source + its pages
  sync --all                         Sync all sources with a local_path
  sync --source <id>                 Sync one specific source
  repos ...                          DEPRECATED alias for 'sources' (v0.19.0)

CODE INDEXING (v0.19.0 / v0.20.0 Cathedral II)
  code-def <symbol> [--lang l]       Find the definition of a symbol across code pages
  code-refs <symbol> [--lang l]      Find all references to a symbol (JSON-first)
  code-callers <symbol>              Who calls this symbol? (v0.20.0 A1)
  code-callees <symbol>              What does this symbol call? (v0.20.0 A1)
  query <q> --lang <l>               Filter hybrid search to one language (v0.20.0)
  query <q> --symbol-kind <k>        Filter to symbol type (function|class|method|...) (v0.20.0)
  reconcile-links [--dry-run]        Batch-recompute doc↔impl edges (v0.20.0)
  reindex-code [--source id] [--yes] Explicit code-page reindex (v0.20.0)
  sync --strategy code               Sync code files into the brain

JOBS (Minions)
  jobs submit <name> [--params JSON]  Submit background job [--follow] [--dry-run]
  jobs list [--status S] [--limit N]  List jobs
  jobs get <id>                       Job details + history
  jobs cancel <id>                    Cancel job
  jobs retry <id>                     Re-queue failed/dead job
  jobs prune [--older-than 30d]       Clean old jobs
  jobs stats                          Job health dashboard
  jobs work [--queue Q]               Start worker daemon (Postgres only)

ADMIN
  stats                              Brain statistics
  health                             Brain health dashboard
  history <slug>                     Page version history
  revert <slug> <version-id>         Revert to version
  features [--json] [--auto-fix]     Scan usage + recommend unused features
  autopilot [--repo] [--interval N]  Self-maintaining brain daemon
  config [show|get|set] <key> [val]  Brain config
  storage status [--repo <path>]     Storage tier status and health
        [--json]                     (git-tracked vs supabase-only)
  serve                              MCP server (stdio)
  serve --http [--port N]            HTTP MCP server with OAuth 2.1
    --token-ttl N                    Access token TTL in seconds (default: 3600)
    --enable-dcr                     Enable Dynamic Client Registration
    --public-url URL                 Public issuer URL (required behind proxy/tunnel)
  call <tool> '<json>'               Raw tool invocation
  version                            Version info
  --tools-json                       Tool discovery (JSON)

Run gbrain <command> --help for command-specific help. + the per-command KEY_FILES entries; content stays in git)

CLAUDE.md gains: a Reference map (resolver), a Maintaining section (the
anti-disease rule), and a Cross-cutting invariants subsection under Architecture
so the must-never-violate rules (trust fail-closed, sourceScopeOpts isolation,
JSONB trap, engine parity, contract-first, migrations, multi-source) still
auto-load after the index moved out.

Result: CLAUDE.md 592KB -> 61KB; llms-full.txt 740KB -> 210KB (new docs link-only
until compressed). build-llms drift + budget test green; verify 29/29 green.
The pre-move content is recoverable at git show <this^>:CLAUDE.md.

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

* refactor(docs): compress relocated docs to current-state + add recurrence guard

Compresses the verbatim-relocated reference docs from append-only release-history
to current-state-only (the disease cure), then makes recurrence structurally
impossible via a CI guard.

Compression (fan-out subagents + adversarial verify, audited mechanically):
- KEY_FILES.md 453KB -> 356KB; TESTING.md 42KB -> 38KB; thin-client.md already clean.
- 393/393 entries preserved; every src/test/scripts path from the verbatim original
  survives (mechanical comm-check); zero bolded **v0. markers remain.
- Conservative ratio (~22%) because the content is invariant-dense — correctness
  over brevity. Dropped: **vX.Y.Z (#NNN):** clauses, codex/review tags, contributor
  credits, PR-numbers-as-ids, pre-fix/then/was-now history deltas. Kept: every
  exported symbol, invariant, and Pinned-by reference. Verbatim original recoverable
  at git show <relocation-commit>:docs/architecture/KEY_FILES.md.

Recurrence guard (scripts/check-key-files-current-state.sh, wired into verify + check:all):
- HARD: bans the bolded **v0.<digit> marker in the reference docs (scoped — plain
  'as of pgvector 0.7' prose is fine, no false positives).
- HARD: CLAUDE.md size cap (90KB; currently 61KB) — the structural backstop.
- Pinned by test/scripts/check-key-files-current-state.test.ts (7 cases).

Content contracts (test/build-llms.test.ts, +5 cases per codex outside-voice):
CLAUDE.md keeps inline ship IRON RULES (version format, document-release,
never-hand-roll); AGENTS.md keeps its boot order; llms indexes the new docs;
KEY_FILES stays link-only (not inlined).

Privacy: scrubbed the relocated 'wintermute/chat/' source-boost examples + the
literal harvest-lint regex to generic placeholders (legitimate in allowlisted
CLAUDE.md; genericized for the new public docs per the privacy rule).

Reverts the 284c50a4 band-aid: re-inlines docs/what-schemas-unlock.md now that the
restructure freed ~530KB of bundle headroom (llms-full.txt 740KB -> 225KB).

verify 30/30 green (incl. new check:doc-history).

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

* refactor(docs): relocate verbose release process to docs/RELEASING.md

The highest-/ship-risk commit (isolated so it can revert alone). Moves the verbose
release + contributor procedure out of CLAUDE.md, keeping every ship-critical IRON
RULE inline so /ship + /document-release (which read CLAUDE.md) cannot regress.

Moved to docs/RELEASING.md: pre-ship test requirements; the CHANGELOG-branch-scoped
+ CHANGELOG voice + release-summary template; the 'To take advantage of vX' block
spec; version migrations + migration-is-canonical; schema state tracking; GitHub
Actions SHA maintenance; PR-descriptions-cover-the-branch; community-PR-wave;
checking-out-PRs-from-garrytan-agents.

Kept INLINE in CLAUDE.md (ship-critical IRON RULES — do NOT move):
- the Version-locations table (5-file sync) + the 3-line consistency audit
- Conductor branch=workspace
- Post-ship /document-release (MANDATORY)
- Privacy + Responsible-disclosure rules (Privacy also anchors the check-privacy
  allowlist — the only place allowed to name the fork)
- PR-title-version-first
- never-hand-roll-ship (Skill routing)
Plus a new ## Releasing pointer ('Before any ship, read docs/RELEASING.md in full')
and a resolver row.

CLAUDE.md 61KB -> 39KB (592KB -> 39KB overall, 93% cut; ~9k tokens auto-loaded vs
~147k). CLAUDE.md size-gate tightened 90KB -> 60KB. The content-contract tests pin
that the inline IRON RULES (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.MICRO, document-release, hand-roll
ship) did NOT move out. The moved ranges carry no banned fork name, so RELEASING.md
needs no privacy allowlist entry. verify 30/30; bundle 225KB -> 204KB.

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

* docs(changelog): note CLAUDE.md restructure in v0.42.9.0

The CLAUDE.md thin-resolver restructure (592KB → 39KB) rides in this
release; record it under the existing v0.42.9.0 For-contributors section.
No version bump — v0.42.9.0 is unreleased and already allocated to this PR.

* fix(ci): ci-cache-hash re-admit matched a literal \t, a no-op on GNU grep

The policy-doc re-admit (75992b77) put `\t` inline in the ALLOW patterns
passed to `grep -E`. BSD grep (macOS local) treats `\t` as a tab so it
worked locally; GNU grep (Ubuntu CI) treats it as literal `t`, so nothing
re-admitted and docs/TESTING.md / docs/RELEASING.md stayed deny-listed —
the two policy-doc tests failed on CI shard 6 (1097 pass / 2 fail).

Build ALLOW_RE with `printf '\t(%s)'` so the tab is a real byte, identical
in construction to DENY_RE (line 117), which the CI log shows matches
correctly on GNU grep. End-to-end: editing docs/TESTING.md now flips the
hash; a normal docs/*.md add still does not (deny stays scoped).

* fix(skillopt): feed the scorer's success criteria to the optimizer

Surfaced by the SkillOpt real-LLM eval (Track B). The reflect step was shown
only a pass/fail score and the agent transcript — never WHAT the benchmark
judge rewards. On a skill judged by structure (e.g. "must include a
Confidence: line") the optimizer proposed plausible-but-off edits ("close with
a synthesis") that never satisfied the literal check; every candidate scored 0
on D_sel, the validation gate rejected them all, and the skill text never
changed (optimized === baseline === 0).

Fix: render each benchmark Judge (rule checks / llm rubric / qrels) into
plain-English criteria via new exported describeJudge / describeJudges, and
thread them into the reflect prompt (a SUCCESS CRITERIA block) for both the
loop reflect calls and the one-shot-rewrite path. The orchestrator computes the
distinct criteria across train+sel+test once. The optimizer system prompt now
instructs it to satisfy the criteria through genuine content, never empty
keywords — reward-hacking stays defended by the independent held-out gate
(cat32 confirms the gate catches a keyword-stuffing hack).

End-to-end this took a deficient skill from 0.00 to 1.00 on a held-out set it
never trained on. Pinned by test/skillopt/reflect.test.ts (describeJudge per
kind, describeJudges dedup, criteria present/absent in the prompt). Folds into
the open v0.42.9.0 PR (#1759).

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

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