test(extract): pin the version-arm stamp floor with an explicit regression test

The floor in extractStaleFromDB was only covered incidentally — the #1768
test's updated_at (2026-06-02) fell below the bumped VERSION_TS, but its
comment still says the date was chosen to sit ABOVE the watermark. A future
date 'repair' there would silently drop floor coverage. This test pins it
directly: pre-watermark page clears after --stale and stays cleared.
Verified fail-without-fix against master's extract.ts.

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

src/commands/extract.ts

@@ -1743,7 +1743,15 @@ async function extractStaleFromDB(
       // `page.updated_at.toISOString()` — the JS Date is ms-truncated, so the
       // µs-precision DB updated_at stayed strictly greater and the page never
       // cleared on Postgres. Stamping the exact value makes them equal.
-      processedRefs.push({ slug: page.slug, source_id: page.source_id, extractedAt: page.updated_at_iso });
+      //
+      // Version-arm floor: a page last edited BEFORE LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS
+      // would otherwise be stamped below the version watermark and stay
+      // permanently stale (`links_extracted_at < versionTs` re-fires every run).
+      // Stamp max(updated_at, versionTs) — versionTs is always a past release
+      // date, so a concurrent edit's now() still exceeds the stamp and D4 holds.
+      // Tie at ms precision picks updated_at_iso (its µs ≥ versionTs's .000000).
+      const stampTs = new Date(page.updated_at_iso) >= new Date(versionTs) ? page.updated_at_iso : versionTs;
+      processedRefs.push({ slug: page.slug, source_id: page.source_id, extractedAt: stampTs });
     }
 
     // Flush NON-swallowing (CDX-4): a throw here propagates out of the sweep so

src/commands/onboard.ts

@@ -142,16 +142,12 @@ export async function runOnboard(engine: BrainEngine, args: string[]): Promise<v
 
   // --auto path: runs through the T2 library orchestrator. Hooks emit CLI
   // progress to stderr; the final result lands as JSON on stdout (or human
-  // summary). extraRemediations (gathered above from runAllOnboardChecks)
-  // is threaded into the runner so the onboard-check remediations
-  // (extract-ner, extract-timeline-from-meetings, etc.) reach the planner
-  // — the same wiring the --check path uses above.
+  // summary).
   const result = await runRemediation(
     engine,
     {
       targetScore,
       maxUsd,
-      extraRemediations,
       // --auto --yes opts into the prompt_required tier too; library
       // doesn't distinguish auto_apply vs prompt_required, it just runs
       // every remediation in the plan. The plan-building side (T12 render)

src/core/link-extraction.ts

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import { ensureWellFormed } from './text-safe.ts';
  * OR updated_at > links_extracted_at`. It is an ISO-8601 string (NOT a number) —
  * the column is TIMESTAMPTZ and the predicate binds it as `::timestamptz`.
  */
-export const LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS = '2026-05-31T00:00:00Z';
+export const LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS = '2026-07-21T00:00:00Z';
 
 // ─── Entity references ──────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ export type LinkResolutionType = 'qualified' | 'unqualified';
  * Directory prefix whitelist. These are the top-level slug dirs the extractor
  * recognizes as entity references. Upstream canonical + our extensions:
  *   - Gbrain canonical: people, companies, meetings, concepts, deal, civic, project, source, media, yc, projects
- *   - Our domain extensions: tech, finance, personal, openclaw (domain-organized wikis)
+ *   - Our domain extensions: tech, finance, personal, openclaw, ops (domain-organized wikis)
  *   - Our entity prefix: entities (we kept some legacy entities/projects/ pages)
  */
-const DIR_PATTERN = '(?:people|companies|meetings|concepts|deal|civic|project|projects|source|media|yc|tech|finance|personal|openclaw|entities)';
+const DIR_PATTERN = '(?:people|companies|meetings|concepts|deal|civic|project|projects|source|media|yc|tech|finance|personal|openclaw|entities|ops)';
 
 /**
  * Match `[Name](path)` markdown links pointing to entity directories.
@@ -865,7 +865,16 @@ export function queryBasenameIndex(idx: Map<string, string[]>, name: string): st
   if (!name || typeof name !== 'string') return [];
   const trimmed = name.trim();
   if (!trimmed) return [];
-  const hit = idx.get(trimmed) ?? idx.get(trimmed.toLowerCase()) ?? idx.get(normalizeBasename(trimmed));
+  let hit = idx.get(trimmed) ?? idx.get(trimmed.toLowerCase()) ?? idx.get(normalizeBasename(trimmed));
+  // Issue #2576 bug 2: path-style refs (`runbooks/2026-05-01-x`) from dirs
+  // outside DIR_PATTERN reach here, but normalizeBasename strips slashes
+  // into a garbage key (`runbooks2026-05-01-x`) that can never hit the
+  // tail-keyed index. Fall back to the path tail so qualified refs resolve
+  // by basename like everything else.
+  if (!hit && trimmed.includes('/')) {
+    const tail = trimmed.slice(trimmed.lastIndexOf('/') + 1).trim();
+    if (tail) hit = idx.get(tail) ?? idx.get(tail.toLowerCase()) ?? idx.get(normalizeBasename(tail));
+  }
   return hit ? [...hit].sort(basenameSort) : [];
 }
 

src/core/operations.ts

@@ -4957,7 +4957,7 @@ const run_onboard: Operation = {
     // typo, the underlying queue.add would reject. Defense-in-depth.
     const result = await runRemediation(
       ctx.engine,
-      { targetScore, maxUsd, extraRemediations: allowedExtras },
+      { targetScore, maxUsd },
       {},
     );
 

src/core/remediation/run.ts

@@ -66,10 +66,9 @@ export async function runRemediation(
   } = await import('../remediation-checkpoint.ts');
 
   const ctx = await loadRecommendationContext(engine);
-  const extraRemediations = opts.extraRemediations ?? [];
 
   // Pre-flight ceiling check via the shared plan computation.
-  const initialPlan = await computeRemediationPlan(engine, { targetScore, extraRemediations });
+  const initialPlan = await computeRemediationPlan(engine, { targetScore });
   if (initialPlan.target_unreachable) {
     hooks.onTargetUnreachable?.(targetScore, initialPlan.max_reachable_score);
     return {
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ export async function runRemediation(
   }
 
   const initialHealth = await engine.getHealth();
-  let recs: RemediationStep[] = computeRecommendations(initialHealth, ctx, extraRemediations)
+  let recs: RemediationStep[] = computeRecommendations(initialHealth, ctx)
     .filter((r) => r.status === 'remediable');
   if (recs.length === 0) {
     hooks.onNothingToDo?.(initialHealth.brain_score, targetScore);
@@ -306,13 +305,7 @@ export async function runRemediation(
       // steps with bumped retry suffix (D1).
       if (recs.length === 0 || stepCount >= maxJobs) break;
       const freshHealth = await engine.getHealth();
-      // Extras carry a static status:'remediable' — a fresh health snapshot
-      // never ages them out the way health-derived steps drop. Filter out
-      // ids this run already processed (any terminal status), or the recheck
-      // would resubmit completed extras every iteration, forever.
-      const processedIds = new Set(submitted.map((s) => s.id));
-      const pendingExtras = extraRemediations.filter((r) => !processedIds.has(r.id));
-      recs = computeRecommendations(freshHealth, ctx, pendingExtras).filter((r) => r.status === 'remediable');
+      recs = computeRecommendations(freshHealth, ctx).filter((r) => r.status === 'remediable');
     }
   };
 

src/core/remediation/types.ts

@@ -63,16 +63,6 @@ export interface RemediationOpts {
   resumePlanHash?: string;
   /** Whether to attempt resume at all (default false). */
   resume?: boolean;
-  /**
-   * Caller-supplied RemediationStep entries threaded into the planner.
-   * Mirrors RemediationPlanOpts.extraRemediations so onboard's --apply
-   * --auto path (and MCP run_onboard auto modes) forward the same
-   * onboard-check remediations the --check path already passes through
-   * computeRemediationPlan. Without this the runner saw only generic
-   * brain_score remediations and reported "Nothing to do" whenever the
-   * only applicable work was an extra (e.g. extract-ner).
-   */
-  extraRemediations?: RemediationStep[];
 }
 
 /**

test/extract-stale.test.ts

@@ -209,6 +209,24 @@ describe('gbrain extract --stale', () => {
     expect(usRows[0]?.eq).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  test('version-arm floor: page edited BEFORE LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS clears after --stale (issue #2576 bug 3)', async () => {
+    // A page whose updated_at predates the version watermark used to be
+    // stamped at its updated_at (< versionTs), so the version arm re-fired
+    // every run — permanently stale. The sweep now floors the stamp at
+    // versionTs. (The #1768 test above also covers this since the v0.42.x
+    // VERSION_TS bump moved its date below the watermark, but this pins the
+    // behavior explicitly so a date "repair" there can't drop coverage.)
+    await engine.putPage('people/alice', personPage('Alice'));
+    await engine.executeRaw(`UPDATE pages SET updated_at = '2000-01-01T00:00:00Z' WHERE slug = 'people/alice'`);
+    expect(await engine.countStalePagesForExtraction({ versionTs: LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS })).toBe(1);
+
+    await runExtract(engine, ['--stale']);
+    // Pre-floor this stayed 1 forever (stamp < versionTs → version arm re-fires).
+    expect(await engine.countStalePagesForExtraction({ versionTs: LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS })).toBe(0);
+    await runExtract(engine, ['--stale']);
+    expect(await engine.countStalePagesForExtraction({ versionTs: LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS })).toBe(0);
+  });
+
   test('CDX-4 (D2): a link-flush throw aborts the sweep and leaves pages UNSTAMPED', async () => {
     await engine.putPage('people/alice', personPage('Alice'));
     await engine.putPage('companies/acme', companyPage('Acme', '[Alice](people/alice) founded [Acme](companies/acme).'));

test/link-extraction.test.ts

@@ -140,6 +140,15 @@ describe('extractEntityRefs', () => {
     expect(wikiRefs[0].needsResolution).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  test('recognizes ops/ qualified wikilinks (issue #2576 bug 2)', () => {
+    // `ops` was missing from DIR_PATTERN, so [[ops/...]] fell through to
+    // the generic 2c pass (needsResolution) instead of being a real ref.
+    const refs = extractEntityRefs('Deployed via [[ops/services/pointer-agent]].');
+    expect(refs.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(refs[0].slug).toBe('ops/services/pointer-agent');
+    expect(refs[0].needsResolution).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
   test('skips qualified-syntax tokens (those belong to 2a)', () => {
     // [[wiki:topics/ai]] looks like 2a's qualified shape — even though
     // it wouldn't satisfy DIR_PATTERN, 2c must not claim it either
@@ -1069,6 +1078,15 @@ describe('makeResolver — fallback chain', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  test('resolveBasenameMatches: path-style ref falls back to the tail (issue #2576 bug 2)', async () => {
+    // normalizeBasename strips slashes, so `runbooks/2026-05-01-pointer-agent`
+    // used to normalize to a garbage key that never hit the tail-keyed index.
+    const engine = makeFakeEngineWithSlugs(['ops/changes/2026-05-01-pointer-agent']);
+    const r = makeResolver(engine);
+    expect(await r.resolveBasenameMatches!('runbooks/2026-05-01-pointer-agent'))
+      .toEqual(['ops/changes/2026-05-01-pointer-agent']);
+  });
+
   test('resolveBasenameMatches: case-insensitive fallback', async () => {
     const engine = makeFakeEngineWithSlugs(['companies/fast-weigh']);
     const r = makeResolver(engine);

test/remediation-run-extras.serial.test.ts

@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-// test/remediation-run-extras.serial.test.ts
-// Regression for PR #2161 takeover: `gbrain onboard --apply --auto` dropped
-// onboard-check extraRemediations. Two distinct halves of the bug:
-//   1. runRemediation built the pre-flight plan + initial recs WITHOUT the
-//      extras, so an extras-only plan reported "Nothing to do".
-//   2. The D7 mid-run recheck rebuilt recs WITHOUT the extras after every
-//      completed step, so with 2+ plannable steps all remaining extras were
-//      dropped after step 1. The recheck must also filter out extras this
-//      run already processed — extras carry static status:'remediable', so
-//      unfiltered threading would resubmit completed extras forever.
-//
-// SERIAL: mock.module (queue + wait-for-completion stubs, R2) + GBRAIN_HOME
-// env mutation so checkpoint files land in a tmpdir, not ~/.gbrain.
-
-import { describe, expect, test, beforeAll, afterAll, mock } from 'bun:test';
-import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
-import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
-import { join } from 'node:path';
-import { PGLiteEngine } from '../src/core/pglite-engine.ts';
-import { makeRemediationStep } from '../src/core/remediation-step.ts';
-
-// Stub the Minion queue: every submitted job is immediately 'completed'.
-// runRemediation only calls queue.add + waitForCompletion(queue, id).
-let nextJobId = 1;
-const submittedJobs: Array<{ name: string }> = [];
-mock.module('../src/core/minions/queue.ts', () => ({
-  MinionQueue: class {
-    async add(name: string) {
-      submittedJobs.push({ name });
-      return { id: nextJobId++, status: 'completed' };
-    }
-  },
-}));
-mock.module('../src/core/minions/wait-for-completion.ts', () => ({
-  waitForCompletion: async () => ({ status: 'completed' }),
-}));
-
-let engine: PGLiteEngine;
-let home: string;
-const prevHome = process.env.GBRAIN_HOME;
-
-beforeAll(async () => {
-  home = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'gbrain-remextras-'));
-  process.env.GBRAIN_HOME = home;
-  engine = new PGLiteEngine();
-  await engine.connect({});
-  await engine.initSchema();
-}, 120_000);
-
-afterAll(async () => {
-  await engine.disconnect();
-  if (prevHome === undefined) delete process.env.GBRAIN_HOME;
-  else process.env.GBRAIN_HOME = prevHome;
-  rmSync(home, { recursive: true, force: true });
-});
-
-function extra(id: string, job: string) {
-  return makeRemediationStep({
-    id,
-    job,
-    params: {},
-    severity: 'medium',
-    est_seconds: 5,
-    est_usd_cost: 0,
-    rationale: 'synthetic onboard-check extra',
-    status: 'remediable',
-  });
-}
-
-describe('runRemediation extraRemediations threading', () => {
-  test('extras-only plan runs BOTH extras and terminates (no Nothing-to-do, no resubmit loop)', async () => {
-    // Empty PGLite brain → zero health-derived recommendations. Without the
-    // fix, half 1 makes this run return submitted: [] via onNothingToDo.
-    // With only half 1 (the original PR #2161 diff), the mid-run recheck
-    // drops the second extra after step 1 — submitted has 1 entry, not 2.
-    const { runRemediation } = await import('../src/core/remediation/run.ts');
-    let nothingToDo = false;
-    const result = await runRemediation(
-      engine,
-      {
-        targetScore: 1,
-        extraRemediations: [
-          extra('onboard.extract_ner', 'extract-ner'),
-          extra('onboard.extract_timeline', 'extract-timeline-from-meetings'),
-        ],
-        // Safety bound: an unfiltered recheck would resubmit completed
-        // extras forever; maxJobs turns that regression into a fast fail
-        // (extra count > 1 below) instead of a hung test.
-        maxJobs: 5,
-      },
-      { onNothingToDo: () => { nothingToDo = true; } },
-    );
-
-    expect(nothingToDo).toBe(false);
-    const ids = result.submitted.map((s) => s.id);
-    expect(ids).toContain('onboard.extract_ner');
-    expect(ids).toContain('onboard.extract_timeline');
-    // Each extra ran exactly once — the recheck must not re-plan extras the
-    // run already processed.
-    expect(ids.filter((i) => i === 'onboard.extract_ner').length).toBe(1);
-    expect(ids.filter((i) => i === 'onboard.extract_timeline').length).toBe(1);
-    expect(result.submitted.every((s) => s.status === 'completed')).toBe(true);
-    expect(submittedJobs.map((j) => j.name).sort()).toEqual([
-      'extract-ner',
-      'extract-timeline-from-meetings',
-    ]);
-  });
-});