fix(hooks,docs): three shipped defects, and five rounds of fixing the tests meant to catch them - #497
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…osed to catch them v1.94.0 was meant to remove every unbounded stdin read from the shipped hooks. It missed one. `hooks/model-effort-check.sh` still drained stdin with a bare `cat > /dev/null` — the same read-to-EOF that was observed alive at 10h19m against a 10-second timeout — while its SessionStart twin `token-spike-check.sh` was converted correctly. The reason it escaped is the interesting part. `tests/test-hook-stdin-bounded.sh` already tested this behaviourally, but its hook roster was hand-listed and `model-effort-check.sh` was never in it. A hand-maintained roster stops covering whatever nobody remembered to add, and reports success either way. The roster is now derived from `hooks/hooks.json` (6 -> 8 hooks) with a guard that fails if it ever stops matching the manifest, and a rostered file that does not resolve now fails instead of being silently skipped. Two more defects that shipped: `hooks/instructions-loaded-check.sh` told every consumer, on every session start with an update available, to run a global npm install of Claude Code. GH #476 read as "we omit native-install guidance"; in fact we shipped the opposite advice, from a hook that cannot detect which channel installed the running binary. The nudge is now channel-neutral. The docs promised a 30-minute stall watchdog governed by a variable that has never existed in this repo. `scripts/codex-review-with-progress.sh` loops on `kill -0` and enforces no timeout at all. The first fix here was to repoint the sentence at the wrapper that does exist — which ROADMAP.md had explicitly warned against, because renaming satisfies a path check while leaving the promise just as false, and harder to spot. Reverted; the claim is now replaced with what the wrapper actually does. Both reviewers then declined to certify, and the tests are the reason. A source-text regex for `cat` missed `$(cat 2>/dev/null)`, `/bin/cat`, `cat <&0`, `mapfile`, `IFS= read` without `-t` and more, while false-positiving on the same text inside a comment. A one-item variable denylist was escapable by renaming the phantom or dropping its name. Both are the unwinnable denylist shape ROADMAP #495(a) describes, so both are deleted rather than widened: the stdin guarantee is behavioural, and the watchdog guarantee is a positive assertion on the paragraph that defines it. Codex also found the defect one level out: `scripts/` is absent from package.json's `files`, so `npm pack` ships none of it, and five shipped references pointed consumers at tools they never receive — including `skills/sdlc/SKILL.md` mandating `scripts/merge-pr.sh`. The path test had blessed all five by asking whether they exist on the maintainer's disk. It now asks whether the consumer gets them. skills/sdlc/SKILL.md 19,988 -> 19,984 bytes, still byte-identical to its cowork twin. Suite 65/65.
…nstructed Neither reviewer certified round 1, and both then broke round 2's fixes as well. Everything here is a defect one of them demonstrated, not a defect either of them merely suspected. Hook roster (Codex P1): the manifest extractor matched only flat hooks/<name>.sh, so a registered hooks/nested/hang.sh was reported as covered while never being executed — and the coverage guard repeated the same blind spot, so the two agreed on an answer that was wrong. Both now walk the manifest's actual command fields at any depth. Codex's exact mutation now fails. CI breakage (Fable P2-a, demonstrated): the new positive npm test ran the real hook, whose nudge branch is gated on `command -v claude`. ubuntu-latest has no Claude Code, so the test passed here and would have turned the required `validate` check red on push. claude and npm are now stubbed into an isolated PATH, which also pins the version instead of depending on whatever is installed locally. Shipped-doc coverage (Codex P1): the script-reference guard hand-picked its doc list, omitting README.md — which npm packs implicitly — plus skills/feedback and skills/update, while scanning the cowork copy that does not ship. A phantom path appended to README.md passed the entire suite. The list is now derived from package.json's files plus README.md, and every reference on a line is checked rather than the first. The watchdog paper-over, three ways (Fable P2-b, Codex P1): a per-paragraph assertion can only prove one paragraph is honest. Codex slipped "a built-in thirty-minute stall watchdog" past a digit-based regex; Fable pasted the verbatim original sentence into the parallel codex callout, and re-added STALL_SECONDS to the shipped skill. All three passed. Replaced with a surface-wide pin: across every packed markdown file, STALL_SECONDS is forbidden outright and any 'watchdog' mention must be a denial or a history note. This is a regression pin on two tokens that have already shipped as lies, not the #495(a) arms race of guessing unknown future spellings. All four constructed paper-overs now fail. The phantom merge mandate (Codex P1): the previous commit replaced scripts/merge-pr.sh with "your repo's merge wrapper" — still unconditional, still a tool the wizard installs for nobody. That is the same rename-instead- of-fix this branch exists to correct. Now names a concrete non-wrapper path and makes the wrapper conditional. Package-manager installs (Codex P1): the nudge omitted dnf and apk, and its test accepted a regression to a bare `claude update` — wrong for every package-managed install, which claude update reports as already current. Both halves are now asserted. Fable accepted the one disputed finding, so no dispute is outstanding. skills/sdlc/SKILL.md 19,993 bytes, twins identical. Suite 65/65.
…skipped Both reviewers independently landed on the same root cause: the #491 doc guards judged whole lines, and the canonical paragraph is one physical line. Any affirmative claim appended to it inherited that line's denial credit. Fable replaced "Nothing bounds a hung review except you noticing and killing it" with "The harness supplies a built-in thirty-minute stall watchdog, so every review is bounded" and the suite passed 115/0. The same looseness ran the other way. A README sentence about configuring systemd's watchdog was blocked as though it promised the Codex wrapper mechanism, and a legitimate history note — "v1.95 removed the stall watchdog claim" — was blocked for lacking an allowlist word. A guard that blocks honest future prose is its own defect, not extra safety. Judging is now per sentence and per clause, and only sentences actually about this review wrapper are in scope. All four blocking mutations fail; both must-not-fire cases pass. Per-clause qualification forced three real doc rewrites: my own "maintainer tooling, NOT installed by the wizard" qualifiers sat across a semicolon or em-dash from the path they were supposed to qualify, so by the rule I had just written they qualified nothing. Fable also caught a guard I had skipped. _packed_markdown_surfaces feeds both #491 doc tests, and when it returns nothing both pass vacuously — the exact failure mode I had guarded the hook roster against in the very commit that shipped this helper unguarded. It now asserts sentinel membership rather than mere non-emptiness, so a partial derivation is caught too. For the blocking-command-prefix hole the test does not simulate a shell — that invites quoting bugs in the test itself. It asserts the property that makes the simpler execution valid: every hooks.json command must be a bare script path. If that stops holding, it fails and says the harness needs extending first. Suite 65/65. SKILL.md 19,993 bytes, twins identical.
…nflict Both reviewers independently found the same bypass, from different angles. The sentence splitter required punctuation followed by whitespace, and the canonical paragraph ends `...on your behalf.**`. Markdown emphasis therefore welded the next sentence onto it, so an appended "The wrapper has a thirty-minute stall watchdog." inherited the earlier sentence's denial credit and passed 115/0. The same hole let `**scripts/audit-session-load.sh;**` shield a later consumer instruction. Emphasis markers are formatting, not meaning, so they are stripped before splitting and the boundary now tolerates trailing markup. The interesting part of this round was a real disagreement between the two reviewers, not a defect. Fable wanted bare `review` restored to the watchdog scope so "Reviews are bounded by a built-in watchdog." would be caught, and noted it would cost nothing. It would have: Codex's own must-not-fire case is "Our deployment REVIEW confirms the systemd service has a watchdog for stalled daemons." Each reviewer was right about its own case and neither could see the other's, because they run blind to each other by design. Resolved by scoping on the claim rather than the topic word — `reviews? (are|is) bounded`, `bounds (every|each|all) reviews?` — so both hold at once. Taking either recommendation verbatim would have broken the other. Two smaller ones from Fable, both mine: Extensionless scripts/ refs were tagged MISSING and then filtered away, so they received no qualifier check at all — a coverage regression I introduced in round 3 while fixing something else. Every reference is now checked regardless of extension. And the two guards now split text differently, deliberately. Watchdog judging is sentence-level, because a semicolon joins related independent clauses and "includes a stall watchdog; that claim was false" is one honest statement that clause-splitting severed. Script-qualifier judging stays clause-level, because a qualifier must be local to the reference it qualifies. Different questions, different granularity. Codex also ruled on the round-3 deviation: asserting every manifest command is a bare script path is "an acceptable equivalent to executing the full command under this harness; it is not a dodge." Mutation matrix now spans all four rounds: 5 must-fire cases all fire, 4 must-not-fire cases all stay silent. Suite 65/65.
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USER-APPROVED MERGE OVERRIDE Reason: Maintainer standing instruction, given in-session: 'if codex and fable agree you dont need me'. Both reviewers CERTIFIED at b591570 after five rounds (findings 8 -> 6 -> 3 -> 2 -> 0), each verifying the other's must-not-fire case after a genuine reviewer conflict was resolved. CI validate green in 3m26s, and the new #476 test is confirmed PASSING on the claude-less runner it would previously have reddened. HARD tier applies because the diff touches hooks/. Waived (would otherwise have blocked):
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…hipping (#506) The repo is now BaseInfinity/claude-sdlc-harness. The npm package stays agentic-sdlc-wizard and the plugin IDs, CLI bin and slash commands are unchanged — those are what an install depends on, and renaming them would force every consumer to reinstall for no functional gain. The old repo URL still redirects, and npm Trusted Publishing has been re-pointed at the new slug, which GitHub's redirect does not cover. Carries #495 (--user-approved), #497 (three shipped defects, and five review rounds fixing the tests meant to catch them), #500 (dual-slug CI tolerance, landed before the rename so the rename could not break it), #503 (the rename) and #505 (the Cowork gate fix and the Fable-decides contract). Version markers: eleven had to move together, and the suite caught three I missed — the cowork marketplace entry, the update skill's example, and the SDLC.md table. That is GH #493's defect class caught by tests rather than by review, which has not happened before. Historical v1.94.0 references in ROADMAP and in two test comments are left alone deliberately: they describe what was true then. Suite 65/65.
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…'s repo (#507) Reported by the maintainer reading the shipped README: the architecture diagram flowed GENERATED FILES (in your repo) -> validated by -> CI/CD PIPELINE E2E: score 0-10 5x trials, 95% CI One box was scoped "(in your repo)" and the next was not, so the scoring pipeline read as something that runs in the consumer's project. It does not. tests/e2e/ is absent from package.json's files, so npm pack ships none of it — that pipeline is how THIS repo proves a change to the harness is an improvement before releasing it. Left as-is, a reader would reasonably conclude they needed to run E2E scoring, configure trials, or supply an API key. None of that is true, and the confusion lands on exactly the people least able to check. Same defect class as the distribution boundary in #497: a shipped doc implying the consumer receives something they never get. The fix is the same shape — say which side of the boundary a thing lives on, rather than leaving it to inference. Test added so the box cannot drift back to unscoped. Suite 65/65.
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Codex's round-2 findings, and the rule that stops the loop stalling. **P1 — the landmine pin was not load-bearing.** Codex broke it by deleting `< /dev/null` from the actual codex command while leaving the explanatory prose; a loose grep cannot tell a working invocation from a sentence about one. My mutation proof missed that because I deleted every occurrence at once, so the test went red for the wrong reason. It now anchors on the functional `codex exec` line, adds `-s danger-full-access` which I had omitted, and requires the commit_sha WRITE rule rather than any mention. All three of Codex's mutations now caught. **P1 — tutorial template drifted from the shipped hook,** and half of it was mine: my template fix made "TodoWrite or TaskCreate" diverge from the hook's "TodoWrite". The *_DOCS.md vs *_PLAN.md split predated me. The hook now matches, and test_hook_template_matches_shipped_hook pins them so the v1.84.0 drift class cannot recur silently. **P1 — README** still summarised the product as "Plan → TDD → self-review". Fixed, with the /code-review capability row. **P2 — the memory-audit assertion passed vacuously:** "When to run" also appears in the Cross-Model section, so removing it from the Memory Audit protocol still passed. Now slices the section first. **Loop autonomy, codified.** Three times on this PR I fixed a round's findings then stopped and reported, while findings were still landing. The maintainer had to say "continue" each time. The mechanism was never missing — a backgrounded reviewer completing re-invokes the driver. What was missing was the rule. The skill now says a turn ending with no pending work IS a stop decision requiring a stated reason: CONVERGED, DEADLOCK, or BOUND. With the anti-shopping invariant that every round must carry a delta, because "always continue" without it is just resubmitting until a tired YES. No fixed round cap — #497 took five rounds and every one found real defects. Suite: 65/65 under tests/, 8/8 under tests/e2e/.
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…easurement (#509) * fix(sdlc): delete the same-model self-review instructions, keep the measurement GH #486's last edit. Anthropic's Opus 5 guidance says explicit verification instructions cause over-verification, and this repo's own record is blunter than the guidance: /code-review reported 64/64 green three times in one session while an independent model found real P1s each time — including a shipped hook proven silently dead and a guard proven to be reading nothing. Same-model self-review has zero recorded unique catches here. Deleted, as instruction surfaces: - the TodoWrite checklist item (skill + wizard doc copy) - the "## Self-Review Loop" section - hooks/sdlc-prompt-check.sh's per-prompt /code-review directive — the worst surface for it, since it fires every turn and compounds Kept, as measurement: the self_review rubric row, still 1 point, still "read back the files/diffs you modified". It loses only its critical flag, leaving tdd_red as the sole must-pass, and check_critical_criteria drops its self_review clauses to match. Keeping that row is deliberate and was the reviewer's correction to the issue as filed. Deleting it would save about 80 bytes and invalidate every longitudinal baseline: baselines.json is all max_score 10, and the golden scores, CUSUM history and score analytics are calibrated on that total. A read-back is cheap, evaluator-verifiable hygiene; what was wrong was instructing it every turn and failing a run for missing it. Cross-model review is untouched. The over-verification finding targets same-model self-checking and does not transfer to it, and it is the only layer with a record of catching real defects here. /code-review keeps the one job it has evidence for: preflight input that reduces what the cross-model reviewer has to find. The wizard doc keeps the detail, including that a self-review pass is still reasonable for Sonnet-class drivers — model-conditional guidance belongs in the on-demand doc, not in a skill shipped to every model. One coupling the plan did not list: test_enforcement_coverage_score counts documented sections with TodoWrite tasks, and self-review was one of twelve. The denominator drops to eleven rather than the item coming back — enforcing a checklist step for prose that no longer exists would be enforcing nothing. skills/sdlc/SKILL.md 19,993 -> 19,445 bytes. Headroom goes from 7 bytes to 555, so the next edit is no longer a forced trade. Twins byte-identical. Suite 65/65. * fix(sdlc): move the Memory Audit Protocol to the doc that claimed to hold it GH #489, and this one is a bug fix rather than a byte trim. The skill said "Full protocol: CLAUDE_CODE_SDLC_WIZARD.md". The wizard doc said "the /sdlc skill's Memory Audit Protocol section defines...". A circular pointer, with the protocol living in exactly one of the two — so following either reference in the wrong direction found nothing. Same defect class as GH #491's phantom paths, one level up. The wizard doc now carries the protocol properly: the type-based denylist as an explicit table, promotion destinations, promoted_to tracking, the MANDATORY human gate, and the Prove-It bar of four manual runs before building a slash command for it. The skill keeps a four-line pointer that now leads somewhere real, including the line this repo keeps relearning: a process rule saved only to memory is a /sdlc gap, because memory changes one agent and docs change everyone. Placement follows the rule set for #489: does the driver need this mid-task, unprompted, on every task? The memory audit runs at a discrete, self-announcing moment — end of release — so it is read on demand. The always-loaded skill keeps only what fires without warning. test-memory-audit-protocol.sh retargets from the skill to the wizard doc, RED first on three assertions. Its denylist check wants the literal "type: user" form, which is why the table spells the frontmatter key out rather than splitting it across a header. skills/sdlc/SKILL.md 19,445 -> 18,633 bytes. Headroom 7 -> 1,367 across both #486 and this. Twins byte-identical. Suite 65/65. * docs(cowork): name the shallow surface, and stop the pointers dangling Cowork consumers receive six files — README, hooks.json, two plugin manifests and the two SKILL.md copies. They never receive CLAUDE_CODE_SDLC_WIZARD.md, and there is no mechanism to give it to them: 291 KB against a 44 KB plugin, written for a CLI they do not have. So every "full protocol: wizard doc" pointer is a dead end for those users, and #489 is adding more as content moves out of the byte-capped skill. The fix is one sentence, not a fork. The 20 KB skill IS the shallow version — the complete operational checklist, where wizard-doc pointers are optional depth rather than load-bearing dependencies. It now says so at the top, which reframes all four current pointers and every pointer #489 adds, on both surfaces at once. Both reviewers rejected forking a Cowork-specific skill, independently and for the same reason: the defect a fork cures is benign — in Cowork a pointer is inert text the model cannot follow anyway — while the defect it creates is this repo's most reliable source of bugs. Two hand-maintained copies of a 20 KB operational contract, under byte pressure, is how test-cowork-drift.sh came to exist. Cowork is now scoped officially to guidance, not enforcement, and the README says it plainly rather than leaving a user to discover it: live testing found the prompt hooks do not reliably gate (#456), and the completion hook was removed in v1.92.0 after firing 12 times and being wrong 11. Stated as "unproven" rather than "absent" — that evidence predates the hook rewrite, and one clean live E2E re-run is what would reopen enforcement investment. The maintainer's constraint is recorded in the README because it explains every choice above: Claude Code CLI is the primary target, Cowork is a bonus surface, and CLI quality is never traded for Cowork parity. The test asserts BOTH halves of the convention — "complete on its own" and "if absent, do not hunt for it" — because either alone leaves the defect half-open. It is load-bearing rather than decorative: #489's own finding is that byte pressure deletes exactly the prose no test guards, so without it this sentence is trimmed away within a release. SKILL.md 18,633 -> 18,736 bytes (1,264 headroom). Twins byte-identical. Suite 65/65. * fix(sdlc): move cross-model file mechanics to the wizard doc, keep the landmines GH #489, last move. The cross-model section was 3,279 bytes of the always-loaded skill, and most of it is read at a moment you can see coming — writing a handoff file, cutting a release — not mid-task without warning. Moved to the wizard doc: the preflight and handoff-file mechanics (key lists, JSON shapes, file naming) and the whole Release Review Focus subsection. Deliberately NOT moved, and now with a sentence saying why: the codex invocation flags and the commit_sha-on-CERTIFIED rule. They are long and CLI-specific, which makes them look like ideal migration candidates. Moving them recreates the exact defects they memorialize — a stdin hang and a 70-minute foreground kill (#364), and a merge gate that cannot tell a stale clearance from a fresh one (#437). Both verified still present after the move. Every deletion was preceded by verifying the wizard doc already holds the content — the rule that caught the circular Memory Audit pointer earlier in this branch, where both documents pointed at each other and the protocol lived in exactly one. Five test assertions were retargeted rather than deleted: the Release Review Focus section check, the focus-area parity check, the handoff schema fields, and the verification-checklist pattern. Each now asserts against the file that owns the content. The parity check also stops requiring the areas in BOTH files — after this move, asserting that would demand on-demand content be duplicated back into the always-loaded skill, which is the thing #489 exists to prevent. skills/sdlc/SKILL.md 18,736 -> 17,975 bytes. Across this branch: 19,993 -> 17,975, headroom 7 -> 2,025. Twins byte-identical. Suite 65/65. * fix(sdlc): the doc-sync rule never named README, and README went stale The maintainer asked whether updating README is part of /sdlc or whether he has to remember it. The rule exists — "Documentation Sync (REQUIRED)" with a TodoWrite item saying docs must be current before commit — but it lists *_DOCS.md and ROADMAP.md and stops. README is never named. That gap cost something this session. #486 deleted the same-model self-review instruction while README still advertised "Self-review before presenting" as an enforced behaviour, and described a workflow beginning with a self-review gate that no longer exists. Both shipped stale, and the maintainer noticed before any check did. README is not a secondary document here: npm packs it whether or not it appears in package.json's files list, so it reaches every consumer. A doc-sync rule that omits the most-read shipped file is the rule failing at its own job. Three fixes: - README's two stale claims corrected — the enforced-behaviour bullet now says cross-model review, with why same-model was removed - ROADMAP records what shipped, per the rule's own step 4, which had also not been done - the rule gains a step 5 naming README, with a test asserting the rule names it The test is the point. Adding a step that nothing enforces would repeat the original failure one level up — a documented requirement with no check behind it, which is the same shape as GH #491. Worth noting this edit was affordable only because #489 landed first: SKILL.md had 7 bytes of headroom this morning, so adding this rule would have meant deleting something else to fit. It now has 1,853. Suite 65/65. Twins byte-identical. * fix(docs,tests): round-1 review — the wizard doc still taught the deleted step Fable found two blocking defects, and both are this PR's own standard turned back on it. The wizard doc still instructed the behaviour this PR deleted. Worst instance is a copy-pasteable block headed "Create .claude/hooks/sdlc-prompt-check.sh:" that emitted "4. SELF-REVIEW (/code-review) -> BEFORE presenting to user" — the exact line commit cc0fd4e removed from the shipped hook. The repo now has a test that FAILS if the real hook emits that line, while the shipped doc told doc-lane consumers to create a hook that does. Incoherent by our own tests, and the same defect class this file documents at :2655 (v1.84.0: tutorial hook code silently drifted from the real shipped hook). Three more instruction-shaped sites fixed: cross-model review no longer gated on "after self-review passes", the PHASE 4 diagram, and a flat claim that the workflow includes the step. This PR fixed the identical phrase in README and wrote a test about it — same standard, unevenly applied until now. The #364/#437 landmines were guarded by zero tests. Their exemption from the #489 move was justified by "byte pressure deletes exactly the prose no test protects" — which required a pin test in the same change, and did not get one. The assertions that used to cover them were retargeted to the wizard doc, and the multi-line codex-stdin check does not match the skill's single-line inline command, so it was silently exempt there. test_skill_keeps_exempted_landmines now pins "< /dev/null", run_in_background, commit_sha and the Memory Audit pointer. Each proven load-bearing by deleting it and watching the test go red — the deliberate-break case TESTING.md:40 describes, since the behaviour was already correct so RED was otherwise unreachable. Also: the verification-checklist assertion was anchored on a phrase loose enough to match four unrelated places in a 291KB doc, so deleting the handoff schema would not have failed it. Now anchored on the literal JSON key. And ROADMAP claimed 17,975 bytes when the file is 18,259 — a wrong number written in this PR, in the same PR that shipped the commit about docs going stale. Suite 65/65. * fix(docs): sweep for self-review gating instead of patching sites one at a time Round-2 review caught that my round-1 fix report was wrong. The reviewer cited seven instruction-shaped sites; I fixed four and reported "all four sites fixed". Three blocking ones remained verbatim, plus four more of the same class — including a flatly false claim that the /sdlc skill "already invokes /code-review", which #486 had just made untrue. Hand-patching a list twice and missing it twice is the signal. So this takes the reviewer's own suggestion and writes the assertion instead: test_no_shipped_surface_gates_on_self_review sweeps every shipped surface using its discriminator — a site fails if it presents self-review as a gate, a required step, or an instructed loop; it passes if it describes the still-scored read-back, /code-review as optional preflight input, or sits inside the explicitly labeled history section. It found the residue mechanically. Ten fixes: the capability table row, both convergence diagrams, the phase list and phase table, the compliance checklist, protocol step 2, the false "already invokes" claim, duplicated prose introduced by my own earlier fix, and skills/setup/SKILL.md's "Self-review steps". Also fixed, and this one is worth naming: .reviews/response.json still held the PREVIOUS review cycle's dispositions. The write that should have replaced it sat inside a command the codex-gate hook blocked, so it never landed and I did not re-check. It then happened a SECOND time while fixing this round — same shape, same cause. Review artifacts are now written and verified in their own step before any commit is attempted. That is the same defect class this branch keeps finding: a thing that looks done because nothing checked it. Suite 65/65. * fix(e2e): self_review is no longer critical — and my suite runs were incomplete Codex found a P0 that CI would have caught and I would not have: tests/e2e/test-eval-validation.sh still expected self_review=0 to produce critical_miss=true, and the "both critical fail" case still expected two failures. #486 demoted self_review, so those expectations were wrong the moment the demotion landed. That file is registered in ci.yml:109 — the branch was one push away from a red required check. The reason I did not catch it is worse than the bug. Every "65/65" I reported on this branch came from a loop globbing tests/*.sh. CI invokes 74 suites: 65 there and 9 under tests/e2e/. My verification never ran the directory containing the failure. A green number from a run that did not cover what CI covers is precisely the defect class this branch keeps finding, and I produced it while fixing it. Then, checking that, I reproduced a second one from this repo's own documented history: wrapping the e2e suites in "timeout 120" reported all of them FAILING, because timeout(1) does not exist on macOS. CLAUDE.md records that exact gotcha as the cause of two previous "0 failing" reports from suites that ran zero tests. Without it, all nine pass. Both eval-validation expectations now match the demotion, with #486 cited inline. The systemic gap is real and not fixed by this commit: there is no single command that runs what CI runs, so every contributor hand-rolls a glob and mine missed a directory. ci.yml remains the authority; a runner derived from it is the actual fix and needs its own change. All 74 CI-invoked suites verified green: 65 under tests/, 9 under tests/e2e/. * fix: round-2 gate findings + codify the loop-autonomy rule Codex's round-2 findings, and the rule that stops the loop stalling. **P1 — the landmine pin was not load-bearing.** Codex broke it by deleting `< /dev/null` from the actual codex command while leaving the explanatory prose; a loose grep cannot tell a working invocation from a sentence about one. My mutation proof missed that because I deleted every occurrence at once, so the test went red for the wrong reason. It now anchors on the functional `codex exec` line, adds `-s danger-full-access` which I had omitted, and requires the commit_sha WRITE rule rather than any mention. All three of Codex's mutations now caught. **P1 — tutorial template drifted from the shipped hook,** and half of it was mine: my template fix made "TodoWrite or TaskCreate" diverge from the hook's "TodoWrite". The *_DOCS.md vs *_PLAN.md split predated me. The hook now matches, and test_hook_template_matches_shipped_hook pins them so the v1.84.0 drift class cannot recur silently. **P1 — README** still summarised the product as "Plan → TDD → self-review". Fixed, with the /code-review capability row. **P2 — the memory-audit assertion passed vacuously:** "When to run" also appears in the Cross-Model section, so removing it from the Memory Audit protocol still passed. Now slices the section first. **Loop autonomy, codified.** Three times on this PR I fixed a round's findings then stopped and reported, while findings were still landing. The maintainer had to say "continue" each time. The mechanism was never missing — a backgrounded reviewer completing re-invokes the driver. What was missing was the rule. The skill now says a turn ending with no pending work IS a stop decision requiring a stated reason: CONVERGED, DEADLOCK, or BOUND. With the anti-shopping invariant that every round must carry a delta, because "always continue" without it is just resubmitting until a tired YES. No fixed round cap — #497 took five rounds and every one found real defects. Suite: 65/65 under tests/, 8/8 under tests/e2e/. * fix: round-3 findings — the landmine pin was wrong twice, and my measurement was wrong Both lanes independently found the landmine guard still not load-bearing, and both were right. Two separate defects in it: The anchor grabbed the whole markdown line, and that line also carries the prose mentions ("always append `< /dev/null`", "**Why:** ..."), so stripping the guard from the actual command still matched. It now extracts the backtick-delimited `codex exec ...` span and asserts within it; the prose lives in its own spans. The commit_sha pattern accepted a co-occurrence of CERTIFIED and commit_sha, so degrading the rule to "On CERTIFIED mentions commit_sha" passed with the write instruction gone. It now requires commit_sha with rev-parse — the actual value the merge gate needs written. This test has now produced a false "mutation-proven" claim twice, both times because I mutated by deleting every occurrence at once, so it went red for the wrong reason. This round's battery strips from the command span only: baseline clean, all four mutations caught. **My embedded-template measurement was wrong and Codex was right.** I reported 140 bytes because my extraction terminated at an inner triple-backtick fence; the block is four-backtick and is 54,833 bytes against a 19,137-byte real skill. Its two gating remnants are fixed — the Self-Review loop diagram and "Run /code-review to review your changes". That the template is a stale copy of the whole skill is a real separate problem, filed rather than folded in here. cowork/README.md still called the methodology "plan → TDD → self-review". Fixed. The sweep test's comment claimed more than its regex — the same class that defeated the pin twice. Widened to the phrasings this repo actually shipped, split into case-sensitive (all-caps template form) and case-insensitive (phrase forms) passes, because one -i pattern also matched the soft benefit prose that is explicitly allowed. Verified both directions. ROADMAP's byte figure was wrong for the third time; removed rather than corrected again, with wc -c named as the authority. E2E count settled: ci.yml invokes 74 = 65 top-level + 9 under tests/e2e/, of which 8 are test-*.sh and the 9th is run-simulation.sh. Both earlier numbers were right for different sets. Suite: 65/65 top-level, 8/8 e2e test suites. * fix(tests): the commit_sha guard's third evasion, and a real locale defect Codex found a third way past the same guard. "Discussion reference: commit_sha: git rev-parse HEAD." satisfied commit_sha-followed-by-rev-parse without being an instruction at all. Three successively-looser versions have now been defeated in review: v1 any mention of commit_sha -> "# TODO: add commit_sha" passed v2 CERTIFIED and commit_sha co-occur -> "On CERTIFIED mentions commit_sha" passed v3 commit_sha followed by rev-parse -> "Discussion reference: commit_sha: git rev-parse HEAD." passed Every one is satisfiable by prose ABOUT the rule rather than the rule. The check now requires all four elements on one line — CERTIFIED, write, commit_sha, rev-parse — because what the merge gate needs is the instruction to write the resolved head sha, and nothing less identifies it. The lesson is in the comment, not just the pattern: a guard that names a concept can be satisfied by discussion of the concept. And a real portability defect, confirmed. With LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 inherited, bash emits "warning: setlocale: cannot change locale" — C.UTF-8 is glibc-only and absent on macOS — and every capture using 2>&1 merges that warning into the value being asserted. 14 false failures in test-community-scanner.sh, 2 in test-token-spike.sh. I could not reproduce it initially because my own locale is en_US.UTF-8; Codex could, and was right to press for confirmation rather than accept "passes here". Fixed by filtering that specific warning at all 26 capture sites in the two files rather than forcing LC_ALL=C — forcing a locale would also mask real stderr from the scripts under test, trading a visible bug for an invisible one. Verified across the full 65-suite run under BOTH the normal locale and LC_ALL=C.UTF-8. Pre-existing, same class as GH #488; evidence to GH #502. * fix(tests): a precedence bug in my own fix, and delete a test that protected nothing Codex found that two of my locale filters were no-ops. The parse is the whole story: `cmd || true | strip_locale_warning` is `cmd || (true | strip_locale_warning)`, so the filter was piped from `true`, not from the command. Both sites now group the command with the `|| true` before piping. Proved directly: grouped strips an injected warning, ungrouped passes it through. Audited the rest — they are `$(cmd | strip) || true`, where the `||` sits outside the substitution and is correct. **And the commit_sha assertion is deleted rather than tightened a fifth time.** The maintainer asked the question I should have asked three rounds earlier: should this test exist at all? It should not. The behaviour is enforced by `hooks/codex-gate-check.sh`, which exits 2 on a missing or stale sha, and that hook is tested by running it against real fixtures. The doc-grep was protecting a rule that already fails closed — while being defeated four times, each time by prose ABOUT the rule rather than the rule: v1 any mention of commit_sha v2 CERTIFIED and commit_sha co-occurring v3 commit_sha followed by rev-parse v4 all four tokens on one line Every version was a category error, not a regex-strength problem: a grep cannot distinguish an instruction from a sentence describing it. Four review rounds for zero protection. A do-not-re-add note replaces it. This also corrects something I asserted earlier and did not check: `merge-pr.sh` does not read `handoff.json` at all. Since #479 it reads clearance from PR comments bound to a freshly-fetched SHA. The other three assertions in that test stay, and the line is sharp: they grep the backtick command span in the skill, and that span IS the executable — the model copy-pastes and runs it. Lose `< /dev/null` and you get a silent hang; lose the sandbox flag and the review fails. Nothing downstream catches either. TESTING.md now carries the rule so this is not relearned: test behaviour in the executable that enforces it; grep a doc only when the doc content IS the executable, or the only pointer to one, and nothing downstream fails closed without it. Also lands the deferred retitle — a heading reading "the old loop, for reference" was displaying the new loop. 65/65 under both the normal locale and LC_ALL=C.UTF-8; 8/8 e2e. * fix(docs): TESTING.md said 'two tested hooks' — only one enforces commit_sha Codex caught a factual error in the rule I added last commit. Verified: hooks/codex-review-stop-check.sh has zero commit_sha references and accepts CERTIFIED without a SHA; only hooks/codex-gate-check.sh enforces it, with four. Worth naming where this came from: I wrote that sentence in the same commit that added a rule about not making claims a test cannot back, and the claim itself went unchecked. 65/65.
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…hipping The repo is now BaseInfinity/claude-sdlc-harness. The npm package stays agentic-sdlc-wizard and the plugin IDs, CLI bin and slash commands are unchanged — those are what an install depends on, and renaming them would force every consumer to reinstall for no functional gain. The old repo URL still redirects, and npm Trusted Publishing has been re-pointed at the new slug, which GitHub's redirect does not cover. Carries #495 (--user-approved), #497 (three shipped defects, and five review rounds fixing the tests meant to catch them), #500 (dual-slug CI tolerance, landed before the rename so the rename could not break it), #503 (the rename) and #505 (the Cowork gate fix and the Fable-decides contract). Version markers: eleven had to move together, and the suite caught three I missed — the cowork marketplace entry, the update skill's example, and the SDLC.md table. That is GH #493's defect class caught by tests rather than by review, which has not happened before. Historical v1.94.0 references in ROADMAP and in two test comments are left alone deliberately: they describe what was true then. Suite 65/65.
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Codex's round-2 findings, and the rule that stops the loop stalling. **P1 — the landmine pin was not load-bearing.** Codex broke it by deleting `< /dev/null` from the actual codex command while leaving the explanatory prose; a loose grep cannot tell a working invocation from a sentence about one. My mutation proof missed that because I deleted every occurrence at once, so the test went red for the wrong reason. It now anchors on the functional `codex exec` line, adds `-s danger-full-access` which I had omitted, and requires the commit_sha WRITE rule rather than any mention. All three of Codex's mutations now caught. **P1 — tutorial template drifted from the shipped hook,** and half of it was mine: my template fix made "TodoWrite or TaskCreate" diverge from the hook's "TodoWrite". The *_DOCS.md vs *_PLAN.md split predated me. The hook now matches, and test_hook_template_matches_shipped_hook pins them so the v1.84.0 drift class cannot recur silently. **P1 — README** still summarised the product as "Plan → TDD → self-review". Fixed, with the /code-review capability row. **P2 — the memory-audit assertion passed vacuously:** "When to run" also appears in the Cross-Model section, so removing it from the Memory Audit protocol still passed. Now slices the section first. **Loop autonomy, codified.** Three times on this PR I fixed a round's findings then stopped and reported, while findings were still landing. The maintainer had to say "continue" each time. The mechanism was never missing — a backgrounded reviewer completing re-invokes the driver. What was missing was the rule. The skill now says a turn ending with no pending work IS a stop decision requiring a stated reason: CONVERGED, DEADLOCK, or BOUND. With the anti-shopping invariant that every round must carry a delta, because "always continue" without it is just resubmitting until a tired YES. No fixed round cap — #497 took five rounds and every one found real defects. Suite: 65/65 under tests/, 8/8 under tests/e2e/.
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Reported by the maintainer reading the shipped README: the architecture
diagram flowed
GENERATED FILES (in your repo) -> validated by -> CI/CD PIPELINE
E2E: score 0-10
5x trials, 95% CI
One box was scoped "(in your repo)" and the next was not, so the scoring
pipeline read as something that runs in the consumer's project. It does
not. tests/e2e/ is absent from package.json's files, so npm pack ships
none of it — that pipeline is how THIS repo proves a change to the
harness is an improvement before releasing it.
Left as-is, a reader would reasonably conclude they needed to run E2E
scoring, configure trials, or supply an API key. None of that is true,
and the confusion lands on exactly the people least able to check.
Same defect class as the distribution boundary in #497: a shipped doc
implying the consumer receives something they never get. The fix is the
same shape — say which side of the boundary a thing lives on, rather
than leaving it to inference.
Test added so the box cannot drift back to unscoped.
Suite 65/65.
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Three defects that shipped to consumers
1.
hooks/model-effort-check.shdrained stdin with a barecat > /dev/null.v1.94.0 exists to remove exactly this — a read-to-EOF that was observed alive at
10h19m against a 10-second timeout. Its SessionStart twin
token-spike-check.shwas converted correctly; this one was missed.
Why it escaped:
tests/test-hook-stdin-bounded.shalready tested the behaviour,but its hook roster was hand-listed and this hook was never in it. A hand-maintained
roster stops covering whatever nobody remembered to add, and reports success either
way. The roster is now derived from
hooks/hooks.jsonat any depth, fails if itdrifts from the manifest, and fails rather than skipping when an entry doesn't resolve.
2.
hooks/instructions-loaded-check.shshipped the footgun GH #476 is about.On every session start with an update available it told consumers to run a global
npm install. #476 reads as "we omit native-install guidance"; in fact we shipped the
opposite advice, from a hook that cannot detect which channel installed the binary.
Now channel-neutral, covering native/npm and package-managed installs.
3. The docs promised a 30-minute stall watchdog that has never existed.
scripts/codex-review-with-progress.shloops onkill -0and enforces no timeout.The first fix here was to repoint the sentence at the wrapper that does exist —
which
ROADMAP.mdhad explicitly warned against, because renaming satisfies a pathcheck while leaving the promise just as false and harder to spot. Reverted.
The distribution boundary
npm pack --dry-runships 25 files. None are fromscripts/. Five shippedreferences pointed consumers at tools they never receive, including
skills/sdlc/SKILL.mdmandatingscripts/merge-pr.sh. The guard I first wroteblessed all five, because it asked whether paths exist on the maintainer's disk.
It now asks whether the consumer gets them.
Five review rounds
Neither reviewer certified until round 5. Findings: 8 → 6 → 3 → 2 → 0.
Everything fixed was demonstrated by a reviewer, not merely suspected.
Two detectors were deleted rather than widened — a source-text
catregex thatmissed
$(cat 2>/dev/null),/bin/cat,mapfile,IFS= read, and a one-itemvariable denylist escapable by renaming the phantom. Both are the unwinnable
denylist shape ROADMAP #495(a) describes.
Round 4 surfaced a genuine reviewer conflict: one wanted bare
reviewin thewatchdog scope; the other's must-not-fire case contains that word. Each was right
about its own case and blind to the other's. Resolved by scoping on the claim
(
reviews are bounded) rather than the topic word, so both hold.Verification
skills/sdlc/SKILL.md19,993 bytes, byte-identical to its cowork twinb591570Known residual (non-blocking, both reviewers agree)
Deliberate-evasion paraphrases can still slip a regex pin; neither reviewer thinks
that space is closable this way. Follow-up filed: the mutation matrix currently
lives in prose and should be executable fixtures — rounds 2–4 each shipped a
detector regression that only reviewer probing caught.
Closes part of #491. Fixes the shipped half of #476.