fix(commands): stop assuming shell state survives between blocks

Dogfooding `plan` + `implement` against a throwaway config surfaced one root
defect with many arms: the command templates treat consecutive fenced blocks as
one shell. They are not. Every ```bash fence runs as its own Bash call in its own
process, so a variable set in one block is empty in the next, and `$$` is a
different PID (measured: 21710 vs 22109).

The planner agent confirmed the sharpest arm at runtime, reporting that
`Mode: $RAW_FLAG` "arrived literally unsubstituted" — `--raw` was documented in
three command files while being functionally dead. A machine sweep found the same
root in 20 places across 9 files, well past the two the written fasit predicted:

  - `$RAW_FLAG` read from non-shell agent prompts (analyze, plan, implement)
  - `$TMPFILE` read across blocks (tokens, manifest, whats-active,
    plugin-health) — each command could not read the file it had just written
  - `$GLOBAL_FLAG` across blocks (fix)
  - `$TODAY` never assigned in any block (campaign), passing
    `--reference-date ""` to a write CLI in six places
  - three `$$` temp paths handed to the Read tool (fix), which expands neither

All now follow the hardened drift.md pattern: a fixed literal path, or a
re-derivation inside each block that needs it.

Also fixed, all confirmed against ground truth rather than inferred:

  - `implement` printed a rollback ID it never captured (the timestamp lived only
    inside a command substitution) — the one message a user reads after a bad run
  - `plan` reported "No analysis results found" for valid sessions, because Read
    was pointed at a glob it cannot expand; now uses Glob and verifies the
    analysis report exists before spawning the agent
  - five phase commands wrote state.yaml with two of four required fields; since
    the agent writes all four, a follow-up write silently deleted the rest
  - `implement` promised rollback deletes created files; rollback deliberately
    leaves them (M-BUG-26 still open) — the doc, not the engine, was wrong
  - `implement` claimed a score delta with no pre-change measurement
  - `verifier-agent` was told to write a report it has no tool to write
  - dead `Task` tool name in always-loaded rule context; planner-agent template
    demonstrated the inline file content its own line 110 forbids

The sweeps land as tests/commands/command-shell-state-shape.test.mjs, verified
red before the fix and proven able to fail by reintroducing the defect. Two
existing tests asserted the old bash-block mechanism rather than the intent and
were updated. Suite 1449/0; frozen v5.0.0 snapshots and all scanner code
untouched.

Not fixed, deliberately: neither command scope-gates its actions to the audit
target. The generated plan included an edit to a real file under ~/.claude,
outside the throwaway target, because the skill/agent scanners are machine-wide.
That is a design change, not a side fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0195udHgCcFegzm7ecKku2Yc
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Kjell Tore Guttormsen 2026-08-01 20:12:17 +02:00
commit 09f817977c
17 changed files with 413 additions and 71 deletions

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@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ If already initialized, say so and stop (no clobber). Otherwise tell the user wh
then create it:
```bash
# Re-derive here: each fenced block is its own Bash call, so a TODAY set
# in an earlier block is empty by the time this one runs.
TODAY=$(date +%F)
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scanners/campaign-write-cli.mjs init \
--reference-date "$TODAY" \
--output-file ~/.claude/config-audit/sessions/campaign-write.json 2>/dev/null; echo $?
@ -170,6 +173,9 @@ at `~/.claude/config-audit/campaign-ledger.json`." Then suggest `add`.
them in one call (idempotent — already-tracked repos are skipped, not reset):
```bash
# Re-derive here: each fenced block is its own Bash call, so a TODAY set
# in an earlier block is empty by the time this one runs.
TODAY=$(date +%F)
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scanners/campaign-write-cli.mjs add <path1> <path2> ... \
--reference-date "$TODAY" \
--output-file ~/.claude/config-audit/sessions/campaign-write.json 2>/dev/null; echo $?
@ -194,6 +200,9 @@ roll-up stays meaningful. Two honest sources, in order of preference:
On approval:
```bash
# Re-derive here: each fenced block is its own Bash call, so a TODAY set
# in an earlier block is empty by the time this one runs.
TODAY=$(date +%F)
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scanners/campaign-write-cli.mjs set-status <path> <status> \
--reference-date "$TODAY" \
[--findings '{"critical":0,"high":0,"medium":0,"low":0}'] [--session <id>] \
@ -215,6 +224,9 @@ replaces, never accumulates), and **skips — never aborts on** — any repo tha
the user it will read each tracked repo's live config (a few seconds per repo), then on approval:
```bash
# Re-derive here: each fenced block is its own Bash call, so a TODAY set
# in an earlier block is empty by the time this one runs.
TODAY=$(date +%F)
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scanners/campaign-write-cli.mjs refresh-tokens \
--reference-date "$TODAY" \
--output-file ~/.claude/config-audit/sessions/campaign-write.json 2>/dev/null; echo $?
@ -235,6 +247,9 @@ not buried in a session dir. This step copies it there, byte-faithfully.
that carries an `action-plan.md` (i.e. `/config-audit plan` has run there). Run without `--write`:
```bash
# Re-derive here: each fenced block is its own Bash call, so a TODAY set
# in an earlier block is empty by the time this one runs.
TODAY=$(date +%F)
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scanners/campaign-export-cli.mjs --repo "<path>" \
--reference-date "$TODAY" \
--output-file ~/.claude/config-audit/sessions/campaign-export.json 2>/dev/null; echo $?
@ -255,6 +270,9 @@ no/corrupt ledger). Read `~/.claude/config-audit/sessions/campaign-export.json`
**On approval, write it** (the CLI does the faithful copy — do NOT hand-write the file):
```bash
# Re-derive here: each fenced block is its own Bash call, so a TODAY set
# in an earlier block is empty by the time this one runs.
TODAY=$(date +%F)
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scanners/campaign-export-cli.mjs --repo "<path>" --write \
--reference-date "$TODAY" \
--output-file ~/.claude/config-audit/sessions/campaign-export.json 2>/dev/null; echo $?