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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188 lines
7.9 KiB
JavaScript
/**
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* Session #49 — command-template shell-state shape tests.
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*
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* Dogfooding the `plan` + `implement` chunk surfaced one root defect with
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* several arms: **command templates assume shell state survives between
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* fenced blocks.** It does not. Every ```bash fence is executed as its own
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* Bash tool call, in its own process:
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*
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* - A variable assigned in block N is empty in block N+1.
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* - `$$` (the PID) differs between calls, so a `/tmp/foo-$$.json` path
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* created in one block can never be reconstructed in a later one.
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* - The Read tool expands neither shell variables nor `$$` nor globs; it
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* takes one literal path.
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*
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* Measured arms at the time of writing (all fixed by the accompanying commit):
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* - `$RAW_FLAG` referenced inside a (non-bash) agent-prompt fence in
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* analyze.md, plan.md, implement.md — the agent received the literal
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* string `$RAW_FLAG`, confirmed at runtime by the planner-agent itself.
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* - `$TMPFILE` referenced across blocks in manifest.md, tokens.md,
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* whats-active.md, plugin-health.md.
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* - `$GLOBAL_FLAG` across blocks in fix.md.
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* - `$TODAY` across blocks in campaign.md (6 sites).
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* - `$$` temp paths referenced outside their creating fence in fix.md.
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* - plan.md asked the Read tool to expand
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* `~/.claude/config-audit/sessions/*_/state.yaml`.
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*
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* The hardened pattern already present in drift.md is the target shape: a
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* fixed literal temp path, repeated literally in every block that needs it.
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*/
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import { test } from 'node:test';
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import { strict as assert } from 'node:assert';
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import { readFile, readdir } from 'node:fs/promises';
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import { resolve, dirname } from 'node:path';
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import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
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const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
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const COMMANDS_DIR = resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', 'commands');
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/** Shell variables supplied by the environment, not by a prior block. */
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const AMBIENT = new Set([
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'CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT', 'ARGUMENTS', 'HOME', 'PATH', 'PWD', 'USER', 'TMPDIR',
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]);
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async function commandFiles() {
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const entries = await readdir(COMMANDS_DIR);
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return entries.filter((e) => e.endsWith('.md')).sort();
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}
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/**
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* Parse fenced blocks. Returns { lines, blockIndexOf(lineIdx) } where
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* blockIndexOf returns -1 for prose outside any fence.
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*/
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function parseFences(content) {
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const lines = content.split('\n');
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const blocks = [];
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let open = null;
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lines.forEach((line, i) => {
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const m = line.match(/^\s*```(\w*)/);
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if (!m) return;
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if (open === null) open = { lang: m[1], start: i };
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else {
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blocks.push({ lang: open.lang, start: open.start, end: i });
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open = null;
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}
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});
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const blockIndexOf = (i) => blocks.findIndex((b) => i > b.start && i < b.end);
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return { lines, blocks, blockIndexOf };
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}
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/** Strip `#` comments from a bash line so the test never matches its own prose. */
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function stripComment(line) {
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const h = line.indexOf('#');
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return h === -1 ? line : line.slice(0, h);
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}
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test('Shell state: no variable is referenced outside the block that assigned it', async () => {
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const violations = [];
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for (const name of await commandFiles()) {
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const content = await readFile(resolve(COMMANDS_DIR, name), 'utf-8');
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const { lines, blocks, blockIndexOf } = parseFences(content);
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const assignedIn = new Map();
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lines.forEach((raw, i) => {
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const m = stripComment(raw).match(/^\s*([A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*)=/);
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if (!m) return;
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const bi = blockIndexOf(i);
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if (bi < 0) return;
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if (!assignedIn.has(m[1])) assignedIn.set(m[1], new Set());
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assignedIn.get(m[1]).add(bi);
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});
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lines.forEach((raw, i) => {
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const line = stripComment(raw);
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const bi = blockIndexOf(i);
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const re = /\$\{?([A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*)\}?/g;
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let m;
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while ((m = re.exec(line)) !== null) {
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const v = m[1];
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if (AMBIENT.has(v)) continue;
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// Skip the assignment site itself (`FOO=$FOO...` right-hand side is fine).
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const eq = line.indexOf('=');
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if (/^\s*[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*=/.test(line) && line.indexOf(m[0]) < eq) continue;
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const where = assignedIn.get(v);
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if (!where) {
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violations.push(`${name}:${i + 1} $${v} is never assigned in any block`);
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} else if (bi < 0) {
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violations.push(
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`${name}:${i + 1} $${v} referenced in prose/agent-prompt — no shell expands it there`,
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);
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} else if (!where.has(bi)) {
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const lang = blocks[bi].lang || 'none';
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violations.push(
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`${name}:${i + 1} $${v} referenced in block ${bi} (lang=${lang}) but assigned only in block(s) ${[...where].join(', ')} — separate Bash calls, separate processes`,
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);
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}
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}
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});
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}
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assert.deepEqual(violations, [], `Cross-block shell-variable references:\n${violations.join('\n')}`);
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});
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test('Shell state: no $$ temp path is referenced outside the block that created it', async () => {
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const violations = [];
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for (const name of await commandFiles()) {
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const content = await readFile(resolve(COMMANDS_DIR, name), 'utf-8');
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const { lines, blockIndexOf } = parseFences(content);
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const firstSeen = new Map();
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const scan = (raw, i, cb) => {
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const re = /(\/tmp\/[A-Za-z0-9._-]*\$\$[A-Za-z0-9._-]*)/g;
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let m;
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while ((m = re.exec(stripComment(raw))) !== null) cb(m[1], i);
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};
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lines.forEach((raw, i) => scan(raw, i, (p) => {
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if (!firstSeen.has(p)) firstSeen.set(p, { blk: blockIndexOf(i), line: i + 1 });
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}));
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lines.forEach((raw, i) => scan(raw, i, (p) => {
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const origin = firstSeen.get(p);
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if (origin.line === i + 1) return;
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const bi = blockIndexOf(i);
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if (bi < 0) {
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violations.push(`${name}:${i + 1} ${p} referenced in prose — the Read tool cannot expand $$`);
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} else if (bi !== origin.blk) {
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violations.push(
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`${name}:${i + 1} ${p} referenced in block ${bi} but created in block ${origin.blk} — $$ is a different PID there`,
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);
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}
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}));
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}
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assert.deepEqual(violations, [], `Unresolvable $$ temp paths:\n${violations.join('\n')}`);
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});
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test('Read tool: never asked to expand a glob', async () => {
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const violations = [];
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for (const name of await commandFiles()) {
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const content = await readFile(resolve(COMMANDS_DIR, name), 'utf-8');
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content.split('\n').forEach((raw, i) => {
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// Only flag when the glob is the *object* of a Read instruction, i.e.
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// "Read tool on `<glob>`" / "Read `<glob>`". Prose that merely explains
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// that Read cannot expand a glob is the fix, not the defect — matching
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// any co-occurrence on the line would flag this repo's own warning text.
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const m = raw.match(/\bRead(?:\s+the)?(?:\s+tool)?\s+(?:tool\s+)?on\s+`([~/][^`]*)`|\bRead\s+`([~/][^`]*)`/);
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if (!m) return;
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const path = m[1] ?? m[2];
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if (!path.includes('*')) return;
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violations.push(`${name}:${i + 1} Read tool pointed at a glob \`${path}\` — use Glob`);
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});
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}
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assert.deepEqual(violations, [], `Read-tool glob misuse:\n${violations.join('\n')}`);
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});
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test('state.yaml: phase commands name all four fields the rule requires', async () => {
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// .claude/rules/state-management.md mandates current_phase, completed_phases,
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// next_phase, updated_at after EVERY phase. A command that writes the file
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// while naming only two fields silently drops the other two.
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const REQUIRED = ['current_phase', 'completed_phases', 'next_phase', 'updated_at'];
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const violations = [];
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for (const name of await commandFiles()) {
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const content = await readFile(resolve(COMMANDS_DIR, name), 'utf-8');
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if (!/Update\s+`?state\.yaml`?|Update state/i.test(content)) continue;
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const missing = REQUIRED.filter((f) => !content.includes(f));
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if (missing.length) {
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violations.push(`${name} updates state.yaml but never names: ${missing.join(', ')}`);
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}
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}
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assert.deepEqual(violations, [], `Incomplete state.yaml contracts:\n${violations.join('\n')}`);
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});
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