config-audit/tests/commands/command-output-discipline.test.mjs
Kjell Tore Guttormsen acd1cf1248 fix(commands): stop writing files no later step can read, and payloads nobody asked for
Dogfooding the four read commands (posture, tokens, manifest, whats-active)
surfaced four defect classes, all in the seam between what a command template
promises and what the scanner behind it actually does.

M-BUG-40, fifth arm: posture wrote four temp files it could never read back.
#49 closed the $$/cross-block class in four commands, but posture survived it —
and so did the guard written to prevent exactly this. The guard compared each
$$ path to the block that created it, so a path written once and then read via
prose had no second occurrence to flag. Measured live: written from PID 21614,
read attempted from PID 23772. The invariant is now blanket (no $$ in any temp
path), which also caught fix.md and feature-gap.md.

M-BUG-43: 6 of 7 scanners write their payload to stdout when --raw/--json is
set even when --output-file was given, and the templates redirected only
stderr. Measured: posture 255 182 B, whats-active 35 922 B, drift 28 316 B,
manifest 23 825 B, tokens 8 768 B. fix and feature-gap never read the file they
wrote, so both recovered one letter grade from a quarter-megabyte dump.

tokens swallowed --json and --with-telemetry-recipe: documented, never
threaded, so --json returned the humanized payload where the docs promise
byte-stable v5.0.0 output.

M-BUG-42: manifest's render contract asked for {load}; the payload carries
loadPattern, so the Load column rendered blank for all 96 rows.

Four new tests (1449 -> 1453), each verified red before the fix. The
render-contract test checks {field} names against a live payload from a
fixture, since a hardcoded key list would drift. Frozen v5.0.0 snapshots
untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VGCk9o27eWo9uXLjkZTXEq
2026-08-01 20:40:07 +02:00

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/**
* Session #50 — command-template output-discipline tests.
*
* Dogfooding the four read commands (`posture`, `tokens`, `manifest`,
* `whats-active`) surfaced three defect classes that all live in the same
* seam: what a command template PROMISES versus what the scanner behind it
* actually does.
*
* 1. M-BUG-43 — a scanner invoked with `--raw`/`--json` writes the payload
* to stdout *even when `--output-file` is set*
* (`token-hotspots-cli.mjs:137`, `manifest.mjs:293`,
* `whats-active.mjs:60`, `posture.mjs:101`, `drift-cli.mjs`,
* `plugin-health-scanner.mjs`). The command templates redirect only
* stderr, so the payload lands in the transcript. Measured on this repo:
* posture 255 182 B, whats-active 35 922 B, drift 28 316 B,
* manifest 23 825 B, tokens 8 768 B. `.claude/rules/ux-rules.md` rule 1
* says NEVER show raw JSON — and a plugin that exists to cut token cost
* must not dump a quarter-megabyte to report one grade.
*
* 2. Flags documented in a command's prose that never reach any shell
* (`tokens.md`: `--json`, `--with-telemetry-recipe`). The scanner
* supports them; the template silently swallows them. Same "green is
* worse than an error" shape as the arg-sink class.
*
* 3. Render contracts that name a field the scanner never emits
* (`manifest.md` asked for `{load}`; the payload carries `loadPattern`),
* so the column the command's own prose calls the whole point renders
* blank for every row.
*
* Test 3 runs the real scanners against a fixture rather than asserting
* against a hardcoded key list — a hardcoded list drifts, a live payload
* cannot.
*/
import { test } from 'node:test';
import { strict as assert } from 'node:assert';
import { readFile, readdir, mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises';
import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
import { promisify } from 'node:util';
import { resolve, dirname, join } from 'node:path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
const ROOT = resolve(__dirname, '..', '..');
const COMMANDS_DIR = join(ROOT, 'commands');
const FIXTURE = join(ROOT, 'tests', 'fixtures', 'marketplace-medium');
async function commandFiles() {
const entries = await readdir(COMMANDS_DIR);
return entries.filter((e) => e.endsWith('.md')).sort();
}
/** Strip `#` comments so the tests never match their own explanatory prose. */
function stripComment(line) {
const h = line.indexOf('#');
return h === -1 ? line : line.slice(0, h);
}
/** Yield [lineNumber, line] for lines inside ```bash fences only. */
function bashLines(content) {
const out = [];
let open = null;
content.split('\n').forEach((line, i) => {
const m = line.match(/^\s*```(\w*)/);
if (m) {
open = open === null ? m[1] : null;
return;
}
if (open === 'bash') out.push([i + 1, line]);
});
return out;
}
/** Yield lines inside ```markdown fences — the render contracts. */
function markdownFenceLines(content) {
const out = [];
let open = null;
content.split('\n').forEach((line) => {
const m = line.match(/^\s*```(\w*)/);
if (m) {
open = open === null ? m[1] : null;
return;
}
if (open === 'markdown') out.push(line);
});
return out;
}
test('Output discipline: a scanner asked for --output-file never also prints to stdout', async () => {
// The rule is blanket and needs no per-scanner allowlist: if the command
// asked for the payload in a FILE, the same invocation must not let it reach
// the transcript. Invocations with no --output-file are out of scope — there
// the payload has nowhere else to go (e.g. `drift --save`, 112 B).
const violations = [];
for (const name of await commandFiles()) {
const content = await readFile(join(COMMANDS_DIR, name), 'utf-8');
for (const [lineNo, raw] of bashLines(content)) {
const line = stripComment(raw);
if (!/node \$\{CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT\}\/scanners\//.test(line)) continue;
if (!line.includes('--output-file')) continue;
const rawish = /--json\b|--raw\b|\$RAW_FLAG/.test(line);
if (!rawish) continue;
// Mask `2>` so a stderr redirect is never mistaken for a stdout one.
const masked = line.replace(/2>/g, '2@');
if (/(^|\s)>\s*\S+/.test(masked)) continue;
violations.push(
`${name}:${lineNo} runs a scanner in raw/json mode with --output-file but never redirects stdout — the payload lands in the transcript`,
);
}
}
assert.deepEqual(violations, [], `Unredirected scanner payloads:\n${violations.join('\n')}`);
});
test('Flag threading: every flag documented in prose reaches a shell', async () => {
// A flag the user is told to pass must arrive somewhere. Two legitimate
// destinations exist: a bash fence (threaded to the scanner) or a documented
// control-flow branch handled by the model. The allowlist below carries only
// the second kind, each verified by reading the code:
// posture --drift / --plugin-health : step 5 runs *different* scanners
// fix --dry-run : dry-run is fix-cli's DEFAULT and the
// flag is an explicit no-op alias
// (`scanners/fix-cli.mjs:18-21`)
// knowledge-refresh --no-candidates : skips a web-poll step; never a CLI flag
// manifest/whats-active --json : served by `cat` of the payload, whose
// content is byte-identical to --raw
// (both scanners document --raw as a
// no-op; verified by diffing payloads)
const PROSE_HANDLED = new Set([
'posture.md:--drift',
'posture.md:--plugin-health',
'fix.md:--dry-run',
'knowledge-refresh.md:--no-candidates',
'manifest.md:--json',
'whats-active.md:--json',
]);
const violations = [];
for (const name of await commandFiles()) {
const content = await readFile(join(COMMANDS_DIR, name), 'utf-8');
const bash = bashLines(content).map(([, l]) => l).join('\n');
const documented = new Set();
for (const line of content.split('\n')) {
const m = line.match(/^\s*[-*]\s+`(--[a-z][a-z0-9-]*)`/);
if (m) documented.add(m[1]);
}
for (const flag of documented) {
if (bash.includes(flag)) continue;
if (PROSE_HANDLED.has(`${name}:${flag}`)) continue;
violations.push(`${name} documents \`${flag}\` but no bash fence ever passes it`);
}
}
assert.deepEqual(violations, [], `Flags dropped between docs and shell:\n${violations.join('\n')}`);
});
test('Render contract: every {field} in a render fence exists in the real payload', async () => {
// Derived values the model computes rather than reads. Kept deliberately
// short — every entry here is a field the render fence does NOT get from the
// scanner, so a long list would hollow out the test.
const DERIVED = new Set(['rank']);
const CASES = [
{ command: 'manifest.md', scanner: 'manifest.mjs', args: [] },
{ command: 'tokens.md', scanner: 'token-hotspots-cli.mjs', args: [] },
{
command: 'whats-active.md',
scanner: 'whats-active.mjs',
args: ['--verbose', '--suggest-disables'],
},
];
const dir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'ca-render-'));
try {
const violations = [];
for (const { command, scanner, args } of CASES) {
const outFile = join(dir, `${scanner}.json`);
await execFileAsync('node', [
join(ROOT, 'scanners', scanner), FIXTURE, '--output-file', outFile, ...args,
]);
const payload = JSON.parse(await readFile(outFile, 'utf-8'));
const keys = new Set();
const walk = (node) => {
if (Array.isArray(node)) node.slice(0, 5).forEach(walk);
else if (node && typeof node === 'object') {
for (const k of Object.keys(node)) {
keys.add(k);
walk(node[k]);
}
}
};
walk(payload);
const content = await readFile(join(COMMANDS_DIR, command), 'utf-8');
const refs = new Set();
for (const line of markdownFenceLines(content)) {
const re = /\{([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_.]*)\}/g;
let m;
while ((m = re.exec(line)) !== null) refs.add(m[1]);
}
for (const ref of refs) {
if (DERIVED.has(ref)) continue;
if (ref.endsWith('.length')) {
// `{foo.length}` is a count of a collection — assert the collection
// itself exists, since that is the part the scanner owns.
const base = ref.slice(0, -'.length'.length).split('.').pop();
if (!keys.has(base)) {
violations.push(`${command}: {${ref}} — no \`${base}\` collection in the payload`);
}
continue;
}
const leaf = ref.split('.').pop();
if (!keys.has(leaf) && !keys.has(ref)) {
violations.push(`${command}: {${ref}} is never emitted by ${scanner}`);
}
}
}
assert.deepEqual(violations, [], `Render fields the scanner never emits:\n${violations.join('\n')}`);
} finally {
await rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
}
});