Round 7 (516dffa..45aa9e1, WARN: 12 MAJOR, 0 BLOCKER) and the fence defect
found while writing its review.md. Each fix began with a test that failed on
0f400d3 (v6.3.0); suite 2208 (2206/0/2), 14 tests more.
- Tests-only (operator 2026-10-11): the plan's Files: alone decides, and the
text says so (red-proof, trekexecute Sub-step B, step-implementer,
HANDOVER-CONTRACTS). red-proof no longer reads the step's diff, so a change
already in the tree when the step began no longer counts against it, and a
plan placed outside .claude/ reads the same. The round-6 test that had the
diff overrule the plan is rewritten to the new rule.
- The Files: reader keeps a plain file beside a backticked path
(", Dockerfile", "the CLI entry src/cli.mjs", "and Makefile"). Measured on
the 520 Files: fields in 182 plans: no field reads differently.
- Red proof reports a command its timeout killed as killed after the timeout,
not "could not start"; the release check tells a timeout from output past
its buffer and from another signal. One reading of a stop
(criteria-runner stoppedBy) for red proof, the criteria runner and the
release check.
- A trailing `# comment` is dropped in a backticked check too, and in a
command passed as written, so the words screened are the words run.
- The release check reads a relative --review in --repo.
- The 15-minute timeout is defined once (criteria-runner.mjs).
- The findings check reads each cited file once per validation.
- One isMain helper (lib/util/is-main.mjs) for every CLI: the 31 copies of
the realpath guard and the 20 modules still on the file:// guard, which
exited 0 having done nothing under a symlink or a path with a space.
- The Bash guard writes its no-one-to-ask refusal once, on a direct condition.
- The findings check ends a ```json block only at a fence on its own line, so
three backticks inside a JSON string no longer end it (also in 6.2.0).
- Brief-conformance notes: a test for test-lock green on exit 127 (it
passed at once; it fails when 127 is read as could-not-run); the prose now
names the git revision `@~1` as the one leading-@ exception.
Not changed: the example plan's steps 1-2 keep their tests-only warning
(operator decision 2026-10-09; the r5 test records it). Brief note 4 (a
Regression: whose runner is not installed goes to the fix rounds) is a
routing question for the operator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
voyage-lekerepo trial 2 (2026-10-08), report section A; the operator decided
they are fixed before the next release:
- A1: a /code-review finding whose category is simplification, efficiency,
style or readability enters as CODE_REVIEW_IMPROVEMENT (MINOR), not MAJOR.
- A2: recommended_action is the engine's own fix when transcribed, otherwise
a test-first step; never the failure scenario dressed as a remedy.
- A3: a /code-review finding outside the exact range it was given is declined
and listed, but no longer holds ALLOW back; /security-review's still does.
- A4: the manifest must_contain recipe uses grep -E -e ... -- so a pattern
like --sep is not read as an option.
- A5: indented sub-points belong to their criterion (counted), and a
criterion with sub-points and no command warns BRIEF_SC_SUBPOINTS.
- A6: a brief requiring bash 3.2 whose criterion runs plain bash warns
BRIEF_SC_BASH_NOT_PINNED; /trekbrief proposes /bin/bash.
- A7: the plan template's and /trekplan's checkpoints stage the step's files.
Tests fail on 5f9faee first (tests/lib/trial2-fixes.test.mjs, 11 of 14).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CLAUDE.md command table: each row from its owner (trekplan from order 3,
trekexecute from order 1, trekreview from order 5).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wave 1, order 3 (P3 plan mode as the start, P2 design as its own part, P9
plan side). Contracts K3-K6 for the later merges.
- plan_version 1.8 (1.7 plans stay valid): Test first on every step, one
End-to-end ("run the thing") step, optional Interface in / Interface out /
Review focus fields, a ceremony class in the header (absent =
architectural), and for architectural plans a ## Design part: module map
without cycles, architecture rules that name their enforcer and the step
that proves them, a requirements check asked as keep / change.
- K3 lib/validators/plan-gate.mjs: the critic verdict is recorded INSIDE the
plan (Claude Code's plan approval hands a hook only the plan file's text),
bound to the hash taken before the reviewers read it; 0 go / 1 stop / 2
could not run; at most 3 critic rounds, then stop and ask.
- K5 lib/verification/arch-rules.mjs: runs the target repo's own
dependency-cruiser or import-linter (installs nothing; 2 = not measured,
never green); --prove --rule shows pass -> fail on a planted violation of
that rule -> pass. Verified against dependency-cruiser 18.5.0 and
import-linter 2.15; madge 8.0.0 left out (missed a planted .mjs cycle).
- K6 lib/verification/plan-scope-sweep.mjs: changed files no step names.
- /trekplan Phases 8-10: design part, bounded critic loop, the gate before
"execute", a plan-mode path through ExitPlanMode (not yet run end to end
inside plan mode). plan-critic 10 -> 12 dimensions; scope-guardian checks
the ceremony.
- Fixed on the way: plan-validator and plan-review-dedup used the
file://argv[1] main guard (no-op under a symlink or a space); CRLF plans
failed every manifest; the dedup dropped finding severity.
Borrowed, credited in place: obra/superpowers, Kiro (docs), addyosmani/
agent-skills, mattpocock/skills, GitHub Spec Kit, bashebr/ai-native-sdlc,
Boris Cherny's public threads.
Suite 1497 (1495 / 0 / 2), 86 new tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/trekexecute no longer builds steps itself. Each plan step is built by one
fresh helper (new agent step-implementer: opus, effort high, no Agent tool)
and judged by one controller (a general helper on opus) that reads the
diff from a recorded start_sha and gives two verdicts, spec and quality.
Fix rounds go up, maximum 5: three fixes by a fresh helper, then back to
the plan, then to the operator. No cheaper-model ladder.
Proof is a command, never the model's word:
- lib/verification/red-proof.mjs: the step's test must fail at the start
point and pass at the result (exit 0/1/2; 2 is never green). Reproduces
the 02243c6 red-first measurement (6 of 55) through the shim fixture.
- lib/verification/test-integrity.mjs: the floor guard on the diff
(removed asserts, skipped/deleted tests, muted checks, stubs, loosened
thresholds). Over the last 150 commits: 149 clean, 1 real finding.
- lib/verification/done-line.mjs: DONE step N only when the test command
exits 0.
Test first is required from plan_version 1.8. The test lock (K8) is used
through its CLI and reported as not-locked while it is missing. A run
stops only on a closed list of four classes; every other call goes into a
decision log with its cost if wrong. Without a passing run-the-thing
criterion the result is not verified end to end, never green.
Handover 5 gains optional per-step start_sha, report_path, red_proof,
test_lock, fix_rounds (0-5) and run-level decisions and end_to_end; old
progress files still validate and resume.
No isolation on the helper: measured, a worktree-isolated subagent
branches from the default branch (02f320f), not the executor's HEAD
(2c89a6b), so it would miss the earlier steps.
Borrowings credited in commands/trekexecute.md ## Credits (Superpowers,
ai-native-sdlc, Kiro, GitHub Spec Kit, agent-skills, Cherny).
Tests: 1411 -> 1457 (1455 pass, 0 fail, 2 skipped).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ordre 5 (wave 1, P11 + P5), review_version 1.1.
- K7: `verdict: ALLOW | WARN | BLOCK` is required in review.md (strict
error, soft warning for 1.0 reviews). New CLI lib/review/verdict-gate.mjs:
0 = ALLOW/WARN, 1 = BLOCK, 2 = could not decide (never green); a verdict
greener than the file's own BLOCKERs or JSON block is exit 2. Realpath
main guard (the old file:// guard exits 0 under a symlink - measured).
- No finding is struck for length: succinctness trims only MINOR/SUGGESTION
text (catalogue tier), keeps BLOCKER/MAJOR whole, counts trims; the
coordinator lists what it declined to judge.
- Claude Code's /code-review and /security-review run as the engine via the
Skill tool (never --fix/--comment/--post/ultra); lib/review/engine-findings.mjs
turns their findings into a reviewer payload; two catalogue keys
(CODE_REVIEW_DEFECT, SECURITY_REVIEW_VULNERABILITY), catalogue 12 -> 14.
An engine that did not run forbids ALLOW.
- Every BLOCKER is written as a numbered `### Step R<n>` with its source
finding (strict error REVIEW_MISSING_REMEDIATION_STEP).
- P5: lib/review/recurrence.mjs - a finding class in two review.md files
(current + git history, no new store) becomes one proposal, routed by the
catalogue's memory_route; written only between Voyage markers in
.claude/rules/voyage-review-lessons.md under a size budget, CLAUDE.md gets
a pointer only; the operator approves every line (Phase 8.7).
- Workflow substrate: catalogue enum in step; a missing reviewer or engine
forbids ALLOW there too (it returned ALLOW on zero findings before).
- Fixtures review-run-A/B said WARN over a BLOCKER; now BLOCK.
Borrowed and credited in code: Superpowers (declined-to-judge), ai-native-sdlc
(cap only nits; mistake/fix/check), Spec Kit (managed block; converge steps),
Pocock (retro routing), Kiro (verdict file + gate; evidence per lesson),
Cherny (engine -> brief control order; review -> memory; budget).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/trekreview of 5680591..84a0621 (verdict WARN: 0 BLOCKER, 3 MAJOR, 1 MINOR,
1 MAJOR suppressed as unverified for length only). All closed red -> green:
- Suppressed MAJOR 1d0171a7 (verified live): Phase 8 spliced {plan-path}
into a single-quoted --payload. A lone quote broke the shell parse (event
lost, no written:false to report); a quoted pair ran a command
substitution and still reported written:true. event-emit now reads
`--payload -` from stdin and the three Phase 8 blocks pass the payload
through a quoted heredoc. Checked under bash and zsh.
- 570ba19b: the SC5 set-step extractor read line by line and never saw the
wrapped Step 0 sentinel (`blocked`); it now matches across the break and
the test asserts `blocked` is read.
- c69a865a: the Phase 9 line_ref in jsonl-schemas.md was 9 lines off. Both
trekexecute rows are now pinned to the exact span by a test.
- 0004fa23 (MINOR): the gates_mode_flag_override block says what to do on
written:false (print the reason, continue).
- emit() docstring no longer says failures are swallowed silently.
- 7ffaede5: chosen to KEEP the prose-only legacy `passed` tolerance, because
a public-plugin run started under the 6.1.0 prose would otherwise re-run
every finished step on resume; recorded as an accepted deviation in the
(local-only) brief. No code change.
Suite 1400 (1398/0/2), was 1393.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator rule (2026-10-05): standard is Opus 5.5 at reasoning effort High. Four retrieval agents (architecture-mapper, dependency-tracer, git-historian, task-finder) pinned effort: medium in frontmatter, which overrides the session level, so every /trekplan exploration ran part of its swarm below the floor. They came from fdd3ad8 on the premise that unpinned agents inherit high; e4e37f9 corrected that (unpinned inherits the session; Opus 5.5 defaults to medium), so the reason for medium was already gone. All four now pin high; the other agents keep following the session (operator's choice). docs/profiles.md (one bullet for the eight pinned agents), CLAUDE.md and README.md updated; the model-default sentence stays. Dated decision records and CHANGELOG untouched.
Red: 4 of 5 new tests fail on the pre-fix files - effort floor over all agents (offenders: the four), the four pin exactly high, no live doc says retrieval runs at medium (hits docs/profiles.md:76, CLAUDE.md:85, README.md:806), profiles.md names the four as high. Known-positive control green on arrival.
Verify 153/153 (agent-frontmatter, doc-consistency). SC9 probe: npm test green under a scratch HOME with CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA empty, nothing under its plugin data dir. Suite 1393 (1391/0/2).
The change is repo-true, not installed-true, until a release.
Voyage order 20261005T104513Z-1250514346, plan step 5/5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
order_id / order_claimed_at / order_reason on the five surfaces: (1) record
format = the writer (pinned in stats-landing), (2) Phase 7 prose with "the
writer adds", (3) the field-allowlist header names them as dropped and
TREKBRIEF_ALLOWED leaves them out, (4) the trekbrief-stats fixture row's
`fields` column + EXPORT_DENYLIST, (5) docs/architecture.md Stats. Plus: the
row's line_ref must contain the Phase 7 stats-append line (it said 657-672,
the line is at 958); /trekbrief --approve reaches Phase 7 with mode "approve"
(PM 04.10, point 3) and CLAUDE.md, README.md, docs/command-modes.md say so.
Red: 7 doc pins fail. Green on arrival: the yardstick-header pin (Step 6
already rewrote the header) and the otel DROP guard (the fields were never
allowlisted).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verified 2026-10-02 against code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config and
/sub-agents: opus -> Opus 5.5 and sonnet -> Sonnet 5.5 (both default
effort medium), fable -> Fable 5.1 (default high), and a subagent
without effort: inherits the session level. Seven tracked files still
say Opus 4.8 / Sonnet 4.6 / Fable 5. History keeps its names; a
known-positive control proves the query can find them there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator decision 27.09.2026: Voyage works the PM way, so nothing in it
starts Claude Code. Work that needs another session becomes an order plus
a starter line the user gives a session they open themselves; Voyage
never starts the session.
/trekexecute's multi-session path (Phase 2.6) now prepares one wave at a
time: worktree per session, then lib/util/session-orders.mjs writes one
order per session (worktree, steps, done-condition, starter) plus
orders/wave.json, and the run stops. Running the same command again reads
each session's progress file (status mode), merges sequentially with
push-before-cleanup as before, and prepares the next wave. Phase 2.5 skips
the destructive pre-flight while a wave is in flight. Phase 7.6 recovery is
handed over the same way. Hard rule 21: never start Claude Code.
Removed with it, because they existed only for launched children: the
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY billing check (and its dry-run line and Hard rule 1
exception), the hooks-fire version precheck, the safety preamble, the
scoped-tool/turn/budget flags, templates/headless-launch-template.md, the
decomposer's launch.sh (now orders.md), /trekplan's "launch", the README
billing and MCP tuning sections, and scripts/q3-cache-prefix-experiment.mjs
(an experiment that spawned the binary; its results stay in docs/).
/trekresearch's deep-research pre-gate no longer runs the binary for its
version; the post-hoc check was already the authoritative guard.
Chose orders + starters over in-session subagents because the order's done
criterion asks for exactly that, and because /trekexecute disallows the
Agent tool on purpose (Hard rule 10); reopening that is a separate change.
Gate: 54 -> 0 hit lines outside EXEMPT. npm test 1250 (1245 pass, 0 fail,
5 skipped: 3 are the retired-reference scan without its local list).
verify.sh 7/0. The fixture run (tests/lib/session-orders.test.mjs) writes
two orders and wave.json for wave 1 and leaves a trap binary untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`origin` is a public mirror. Comments in tracked test files named the internal
review mechanism by its role rather than the measurement they came from; the
same class as the frozen file's overclaim fixed in 83d82f1. Replaced with what
they actually are: a re-measurement on a named commit, with the date.
The one remaining occurrence is the assertion that FORBIDS those phrases in
tests/fixtures/end-state-frozen.json - a guard has to spell out what it guards.
Suite 1161 (1159/0/2). Comment-only change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured 2026-09-18: nine ordinary shapes of a plan's `## Verification`
section parsed to zero criteria - an untagged fence, a ```text fence, a
markdown table, `## Verification (acceptance)`, `## Verification:`,
`### Verification`, an unclosed fence earlier in the document. Every one came
out as `0 of 0`, NOT OK, exit 1, and Phase 7 then forbade `result: completed`
without anyone being told that the FORMAT, not the code, was the problem.
"The section is empty" and "I cannot read this format" are different facts.
Three changes, one hole:
- The runner reports `NO_CRITERIA` with a source line (`plan.md:NN`) when the
section is there and nothing in it parsed, and names the two forms it does
read. Same for a brief's `## Success Criteria`, so the evidence block the
conformance reviewer gets says which of the two it is looking at rather than
showing an empty table.
- Phase 7 says it out loud instead of failing silently: report the source line
and the two forms, and say that the plan is what failed there, not the run.
- `/trekplan` now pins what it produces to what the runner reads: the heading
is exactly `## Verification`, the criteria are a bullet whose first
backticked span is the command or a shell-tagged fence, and the command must
be one the allowlist runs. A doc-consistency test holds the writer and the
reader together, so a runner that learns a new form must update the source.
Honest about the round trip: the two round-trip tests were GREEN on arrival -
the template already writes the bullet form the runner reads. What was missing
was not the format but the PIN: `/trekplan` mandated neither the heading string
nor the format, so a plan could satisfy the command's own instructions and
still parse to nothing. The tests now hold that.
Red first: 5 of the 7 new tests failed before the change (3 NO_CRITERIA, 2
doc-consistency); the 2 round-trip tests are guards, and said so above.
Suite 1161 (1159/0/2). Gate unchanged: defects 0 of 7, intact, exit 1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A denylist in front of /bin/sh is whack-a-mole. Measured 2026-09-18, end to
end through both screens: 5 of 11 named evasions ran with real effect - a
`command` prefix reached git, an escaped `rm` inside a shell fence deleted a
directory, `find -delete` deleted a file, `>|` and `tee` wrote outside the
working tree, a python one-liner deleted the whole tree - and 19 of 28 got
past the refusal list on its own. Every quoting, aliasing and indirection form
of the shell is another mole.
So the screen is now an ALLOWLIST. A criterion runs only when its first word
is a known test runner (npm test, npm run <script package.json declares>,
node --test, vitest, jest, pytest, python -m pytest, uv run pytest,
cargo test, go test, make test, bash <script under tests/>, a read-only git
subcommand) AND the command carries no shell operator and no newline.
Everything else is NOT RUN with the reason said out loud: never run, and never
reported as a failure either - an absent measurement is not a finding. That
also closes the smaller hole in the same file: a bare word a sentence merely
names (`whoami`, `login`, `package.json`) is no longer executed, because it is
not a runner.
REFUSED_BY_POLICY is gone with the list that produced it; a command outside
the allowlist is `unrunnable`, which in plan mode still fells the run and in
brief mode is reported to the reviewer as an absent measurement.
What the allowlist deliberately does NOT do, said in the file and in the
reviewer's rubric: it is not a sandbox. `npm test`, `npm run <script>` and
`make test` run whatever the repo's own package.json/Makefile says they run,
including a script that pushes - that is the repo's responsibility. And it
rejects honest commands too: an env prefix, a project's own binary, anything
piped. A check that needs one of those is declared through
`bash tests/<script>.sh`, the documented way in.
Red first: 6 of the new tests fail against the previous runner (measured with
an always-allow shim so the module still loads), including the end-to-end one
where the canary directory was deleted and files were written outside the
tree. The fixtures move from `true`/`false` to two allowlisted shell fixtures,
because `false` is no longer a runner - the fail case must still be a real
non-zero exit, not an unrun criterion.
Suite 1148 (1146/0/2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/trekreview passed --cwd and trekexecute Phase 7 did not, so the same criterion
could resolve two ways in the two phases (PM checkpoint 2026-09-18, MINOR).
It stopped being cosmetic with the refusal list: --cwd is the boundary a write
is measured against, so leaving it unset silently moves that boundary to
whatever the process cwd happens to be. Both phases now resolve
CRITERIA_CWD="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"
- one form, with a fallback, so a repo-less checkout falls back instead of
passing an empty --cwd. Pinned in tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs.
Red first: the new pin failed on both phases before this change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"The first backtick span is the command" is right for a plan, whose template
puts the command first, and wrong for a brief, whose criterion usually opens
by NAMING the thing under discussion. Measured 2026-09-18 on the repo's own
example brief: 5 of 6 criteria FAILED, 3 of them parse artifacts - `--verbose`
run as a command gave exit 2 ("invalid option"), `tests/` gave exit 126 ("is a
directory"). The rubric reads a FAILED result as decisive, so each one became
a BROKEN_SUCCESS_CRITERION BLOCKER about prose.
looksLikeCommand() screens the span by SHAPE only - no filesystem lookup, so a
span parses the same everywhere. Refused: a leading flag, a directory, a token
carrying quotes/braces/prose, and a lone relative path with a slash (an
explicit ./, ../, / or ~/ still runs, as do env-var prefixes). A refused span
is `unrunnable` with reason `not-a-command` - its own outcome, never FAILED,
and it never reaches a shell.
It deliberately does NOT scan on to a later span. "The first span that LOOKS
like a command" invents commands out of prose: in that same example brief it
would have run `whoami` and `login`, two real binaries a sentence happens to
name. An absent measurement is honest; a guessed one is not.
The shape check applies to prose spans only. Inside a shell-tagged fence the
author has already declared shell, so `[ -f x ] || exit 1` still runs.
The rubric follows: a NOT RUN result is never on its own a finding. The
Partial row now describes half-built DELIVERED CODE, and the reviewer gets a
table of the three reason strings - no-command, placeholder, not-a-command -
with what each says about the sentence rather than about the code.
Not covered, stated for the record: a multi-token span whose first token is a
non-executable file (`tests/golden/login.stdout --check`) still runs, and a
criterion whose command is real but whose binary is absent still reports the
shell's exit 127 - that is a true measurement of a missing binary, not a
parse artifact.
Red first: 4 runner tests + 1 doc-consistency pin failed before this change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rubric required `brief-conformance-reviewer` to classify a Success
Criterion as Full only when "its verification command/test exists and passes".
Its tools are `Read`, `Glob`, `Grep`. It cannot run anything, so "passes" was
either guessed from the command's mere existence or quietly downgraded to
"exists" — a BLOCKER-tier rule key resting on an impression.
The reviewer stays read-only — a reviewer that executes the code it reviews is
not an independent reviewer. The command does the running instead:
- `/trekreview` Phase 4.5 runs the brief's `## Success Criteria` commands
through `lib/verification/criteria-runner.mjs --brief --evidence` and captures
the block as `sc_evidence_block`, pasted verbatim into the reviewer prompt in
Phase 5. The exit code does not stop the review — a failing criterion is
exactly what the review exists to find.
- `formatCriteriaEvidence` builds that block in code: one row per criterion with
the command, the exit code and the first output line. Chose a code-built block
over an orchestrator-written summary so the orchestrator cannot narrate a pass
that never happened.
- The rubric now judges the supplied result: `PASS` supports Full, `FAILED` /
`BLOCKED` is `Broken` with the exit code cited, and `NOT RUN` is the absence
of a measurement — never evidence in either direction.
- Phase 4.5 is skipped in `quick` mode: that mode does not launch the
conformance reviewer, so there is nobody to hand the result to.
Red first: seven tests in `tests/lib/criteria-runner.test.mjs` against a
committed brief fixture whose three criteria pass, fail, and are prose-only.
The two doc pins were verified red against the pre-fix files (rubric asked
"exists and passes"; no Phase 4.5; the block reached nobody).
Suite: 1117 (1115/0/2), up 9.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A trekplan's `## Verification` section is where the brief's success criteria
land. Phase 7 opened with "**Skip for trekplans.**", and only the multi-session
wave path (Phase 2.6 Step 3) ran master verification. A plan executed in ONE
session therefore reported `completed` without ever running the criteria it was
measured against — the executor's own belief was the only evidence.
The check now exists as code, not as an instruction:
- `lib/verification/criteria-runner.mjs` parses the criteria an artifact
DECLARES (a plan's `## Verification`, a brief's `## Success Criteria`), runs
each command, and returns a verdict built from exit codes. Fail-closed
throughout: a placeholder, a prose-only criterion, or an unavailable screen
is `unrunnable`/`blocked`, never `passed`. A plan with no `## Verification`
section exits 1 — a plan that promises no end-to-end check cannot be reported
as verified.
- Every command is screened through the plugin's own PreToolUse denylist
(`hooks/scripts/pre-bash-executor.mjs`) before it reaches a shell. Chose
invoking that hook over its documented stdin protocol rather than copying its
rules, because a command spawned from node never passes through the Bash tool
and so the hook cannot fire by itself — this keeps exactly one denylist.
- Phase 7 is now "Exit / verification check": session specs run the exit
condition, trekplans run the criteria runner. Phase 4's entry-condition skip
for trekplans stands — a plan carries no entry condition; the exit side is
not symmetrical.
- A failing criterion FELLS the run: `plan_verification.status != "passed"`
forbids `result: completed`. That is clause 2 of the stop-signal contract,
now enforced on the single-session path too.
Red first: `tests/lib/criteria-runner.test.mjs` (26 tests) against two committed
fixture plans, one of which declares a criterion that fails on purpose. The
doc pin in `tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs` guards the wiring — a capability
no phase calls is the same defect wearing a lib/ file; verified red against the
pre-fix Phase 7 (skip present, runner absent, no fell-the-run clause).
Suite: 1108 (1106/0/2), up 27 from 1081.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
D-07 had been closed on CLAUDE.md alone. The same false claim lived on elsewhere:
- README.md's "Switch the planning model" said four commands default to opus.
- The same README section offered a sed recipe for `model: opus` frontmatter lines, which
0 of 7 command files have.
- commands/trekresearch.md said "the orchestrator runs on Opus".
Since v5.9.0 no command pins model:, so the orchestrator follows the session model.
- README: the section now says how it actually works. You pick the orchestrator's model with
the session model (`claude --model sonnet` or `/model`). Sub-agent models are resolved at
the spawn sites: brief phase_signals, then profile phase_models, then the agents/*.md pins
as fallback. `--profile economy` still moves the sub-agents to Sonnet.
- trekresearch Launch rules: "Use model: "opus" for all sub-agents" contradicted the same
file's own three-layer resolution, which v5.9.0 wired into the spawn sites and the file
documents in Phase 1 and Hard rules -> Cost. The rule now injects
`phase_signal_result.model` with agent frontmatter as the fallback, and says the
orchestrator follows the session model. Nothing changes under the default premium
profile: it still resolves to opus. The engine=swarm note now names the resolved-model
injection as the anchor, instead of the removed literal.
- Two doc-consistency pins were written first and failed before this change:
- no opus-orchestrator claim in README/CLAUDE.md/trekresearch, and no `^model: opus$`
recipe;
- the Launch rules name `phase_signal_result.model` and carry no blanket opus rule.
- Not touched: the follow-up agent in the default-off STORM phase still says model: "opus".
That is part of an experiment whose fate is an operator decision.
End-state gate D-07: open -> closed. Defects 3 -> 2 of 7 (D-03, D-04 remain, by design);
registry integrity intact. Suite 1081 (1079/0/2), run on a clean export of the index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two "High-effort behavior (v5.1.1)" pins still described the rules as
"Decision B + gemini-bridge" and "contrarian-researcher + gemini-bridge
always-on". Both became wrong in 1ca48e0: trekplan's Pass 2 is now
"unavailable, skipped" and trekresearch forces only contrarian-researcher.
npm test stayed green throughout, and that is the point. The pins match on the
heading regex, not on their own message, so a stale message can never fail
them — and this file is structurally excluded from the S95 live-surface
scanner, because the S95 block is itself full of the word it bans everywhere
else. The blind spot is now written into the S95 comment rather than left for
the next reader to rediscover: when the high-effort rules change, these two
messages have to be re-read by hand.
Suite 1041 (1039/0/2), unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
gemini-bridge is dropped by operator directive (three repetitions). The drop is
permanent, not a wait-for-SDK-upgrade state, so the change clears every LIVE
surface that could still steer a run toward the agent and leaves the historical
record alone.
Live surfaces cleared: agents/gemini-bridge.md deleted; trekresearch (bridge
launch block, --local help, high-effort always-on pair, stats record,
degradation list), trekplan, trekbrief, research-orchestrator (mode table,
agent table, prompting block, summary line), README (feature prose, mode table,
agent prose, mermaid EXTERNAL node, conditional legend, optional-MCP
requirement, --local section), CLAUDE.md, settings.json (the whole
trekresearch.geminiBridge block), both templates, architecture.md,
command-modes.md.
trekplan high-effort Adversarial Pass 2 now degrades EXPLICITLY: it emits its
section with status "unavailable, skipped" instead of failing or vanishing. A
high-effort plan carrying no Pass 2 marker is indistinguishable from one whose
Pass 2 crashed, which is the failure mode this wording exists to prevent.
gemini_used is deliberately KEPT as a vestigial trekresearch stats field pinned
to false. Removing it would break the observability export schema for existing
consumers, and the directive was about the agent, not the field.
Not touched: CHANGELOG history and the measurement/decision docs keep their
gemini references. They record what a past version did or what was measured
then; rewriting them is the same defect class as bumping a version string
inside a measurement doc.
Driven test-first. Five new pins in tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs, verified
RED before the edits, including a KNOWN-POSITIVE CONTROL asserting the
historical records still DO carry gemini references — so the empty result on
live surfaces is a measurement and not a broken query (Verifiseringsloven
ansikt 4). Agent inventory 24 -> 23 (20 spawnable + 3 orchestrator reference
docs); the <example>-block floor moves 34 -> 32 because an agent legitimately
left the inventory, not because examples went missing from a surviving one.
Docs: docs/T1-cc26-delegated-orchestration.md §8 item 3 claimed both the §6
synthesis-agent PoC and the §5 bake-off were "designed but unbuilt". That was
written in S7 and falsified the same afternoon by S12, which ran the §6 PoC and
recorded Δ main-context (faithful flow) = 0.0%, NEGATIVE. The stale wording is
what caused the settled PoC to be re-ordered as new work on 2026-09-02, so it is
struck rather than deleted and §6 gained a RUN AND DECLINED status block. The
finding is structural, not stochastic: Phase 5 spawns the exploration swarm
foreground (trekplan.md:158,338-341), so the outputs are already resident in
main before Phase 7 — delegating only the Phase-7 digest evicts nothing.
Also measured 2026-09-03 (CC 2.1.259): claude -p --output-format stream-json
runs on subscription auth with no ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and now emits a
subagent_stats block, so S12's environment-block premise is half stale. Recorded
in §8 item 4. It lowers the cost of §5; it changes nothing about §6.
Suite 1041 (1039/0/2), up from 1036 by exactly the five tests added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
D-census (order 6242020304, from .claude, 2026-08-20/21) measured that
registry.npmjs.org/voyage answers 200 with someone else's package: "Advanced
HTTP Routing System for Node.js" (NEURS/voyage, v0.0.1, 2022). This manifest
declared `"name": "voyage"` with no `private` flag, so nothing stopped an
accidental `npm publish` against a name we do not own - and publishing is
one-way.
This manifest is test tooling for a Claude Code plugin distributed through the
marketplace catalogue (`ref: vX.Y.Z`), never through npm. The sibling
non-package manifests (okr, repo-mailbox, repo-standard) all carry
`private: true`; voyage was the exception.
Operator decision S93: option A (set `private: true`), not option B (scope the
name to `@<org>/voyage` for a future publish) - there is no publishing plan,
so B would only defer the same choice.
Tests first (Iron Law): tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs pins
`pkg.private === true`, seen red (actual `undefined`) before the manifest
change.
New baseline: 1025 tests, 1023 pass / 0 fail / 2 skip (was 1024: 1022/0/2).
No `npm publish` in any form, no version bump, no tag, no catalogue change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude Code 2.1.218 changed /deep-research to start only when invoked
manually; from there the Skill tool refuses a model invocation outright
with `disable-model-invocation` (measured in a real `--engine deep-research`
run 2026-09-01 18:32Z - the SC3 fallback to swarm held). The engine was
built against 2.1.196 and the prose still promised a path Claude Code has
removed ("requires Claude Code 2.1.154+").
The flag is KEPT as an additive opt-in that never hard-fails. Prose only:
no lib/ change, no adapter-contract change, no default change, no version
bump.
- commands/trekresearch.md: flag bullet states the closed window
`2.1.154 <= CC < 2.1.218`; the pre-gate gained an UPPER ceiling (still a
numeric comparison, not a string one) that skips straight to the fallback
with reason `disable-model-invocation`; step 3 names the Skill-tool
refusal as a known failure manifestation; step 4 lists the reason tokens.
- docs/command-modes.md + README.md: same window, one sentence each, on the
reference row itself.
- CHANGELOG.md: Unreleased/Docs entry.
Tests first (Iron Law): tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs gained a pin
requiring 2.1.218 + disable-model-invocation on all three surfaces, on both
reference rows, and in both load-bearing regions of the command (flag
bullet + pre-gate). Seen red on all three surfaces before the prose change.
tests/commands/trekresearch-engine.test.mjs unchanged and green.
New baseline: 1024 tests, 1022 pass / 0 fail / 2 skip (was 1023: 1021/0/2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
akashic-intelligence lost /trekplan Phase 9 twice to reviewer agents that
never returned. Reproduced here and measured: the cause is the Agent tool's
`name` parameter, not the agent definitions.
Passing `name` does not label a subagent - it changes its kind. The spawn is
recorded as taskKind "in_process_teammate" (spawnDepth 0) instead of a real
subagent (spawnDepth 1). A teammate's final assistant text is not a return
value; it reaches the parent only if the teammate itself calls
SendMessage(to: "main"). plan-critic and scope-guardian declare
tools: [Read, Glob, Grep] - no SendMessage - so as teammates they are
structurally incapable of returning, whatever the prompt says.
Denominators: named 0/5 returned; named + explicit SendMessage 1/1; unnamed
3/3 (plan-critic and scope-guardian each returned full findings + the JSON
block in ~110s). Model override 2/2 non-returning, so the override is not
the variable. All 5 named agents produced correct final text in their
transcripts - only delivery failed, and that output is recoverable on disk.
The defect is a harness behaviour, so it is documented rather than silently
worked around: docs/agent-return-channel-defect.md carries the mechanism,
every denominator, the two broken queries that nearly became facts, the
unmeasured cells, and a recommended working shape for consumers (use agents,
drop `name`; do not fall back to inline review, which costs the dedup step).
Prevention is pinned, TDD red->green: the four spawning commands each state
the rule and name the mechanism, and doc-consistency derives the spawning set
from the command files so the pin cannot go vacuous.
Suite 1013 (1011/0/2), +5 from baseline 1008.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014MfB5Ecp8vvGyou8uFGxBV
The Phase 4.5 amendment to the Independence hard rule crosses that rule
deliberately, and the crossing is defensible: bounded to Phase 4.5 and the
Phase 5 loop, the initial swarm stays blind, and it resolves a tension the
brief created itself by asking for exactly this mining of Phase-4 output.
The defect was the compensating-control claim. query-privacy-gate.mjs was
named as THE control for the crossing, but it inspects outbound query
CONTENT for paths, repo identifiers and secret-shaped strings. It cannot
prevent a local finding from steering an external agent's question. It
compensates the EGRESS risk; the BIAS risk was left with no control while
the text read as though it had one.
Both risks are now stated separately with the control that actually bears on
each:
Bias - structural, not a gate. The initial external swarm stays blind, so
an independent baseline exists BEFORE anything crosses; the
crossing only ADDS to that baseline; and at effort: high - the only
effort at which any of this runs - contrarian-researcher is forced
always-on, so the brief always carries an adversarial
counter-evidence pass over the result the crossed queries fed.
Egress - query-privacy-gate.mjs, unchanged, with its non-overridable
hard-block tier.
Fixed at both sites: the Hard rules entry and the Phase 4.5 paragraph that
repeated the same attribution.
A doc-consistency pin now fails if the amendment names the privacy gate as
the compensating control again, and requires it to name both
contrarian-researcher and the egress framing - so the two cannot quietly
re-merge.
Review finding 4888ae847240142933469d70bafb6a9c23b7b2eb (MINOR).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LuGhWAbWyRFBFeemfhxoVv
CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA is empty in the Bash tool's process env, and the Phase 5
bash snippet is the cap's only caller. resolveLedgerPath() returned null there
and allowTurn() failed closed, so the budget gate denied turn 1 of every real
run: the loop this delivery exists to bound could never spend a turn, and the
pre-registered measurement could not be run at all.
resolveDataRoot() is now the single root for everything the loop writes --
CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA when the harness sets it, ~/.claude/voyage when it does
not. Three consumers resolve through it, which is the point: the cap ledger,
the PreToolUse hook's scope-marker lookup, and the command's bash snippets.
A writer and a reader that resolved the root separately are what made the
enforcement hook allow unconditionally in every real run while CLAUDE.md and
docs/architecture.md called it enforcing.
Same root cause, same commit:
- Marker write and remove now share ONE absolute-path guard and one root; the
write requires a non-empty CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID before composing the path
(unset, the marker was named `.json`, which no lookup matches and no TTL
sweep cleans up).
- The per-turn gates resolve VOYAGE_ROOT with a plugin-cache fallback and
reserve exit 2 for "gate could not run". Interpolating an empty
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} ran `node /lib/...` -> exit 1, which the contract read
as "privacy gate says no" -- an unsatisfiable rewrite loop no query could
clear.
Two now-unreachable deny branches are removed rather than left as dead safety
claims (allowTurn's no_plugin_data_dir; the hook's uncountable-ledger deny).
The fail-closed stance stays where it is still real: a ledger that cannot be
WRITTEN denies the turn.
Verified end-to-end through the real bash snippets and the real hook with both
variables stripped and HOME sandboxed: marker written under the fallback root,
8 turns spent, 9th denied, hook exits 2, and exits 0 again after removal.
Note: the fallback exit-2 branch fires against the installed v5.9.1 cache,
which predates lib/util/research-loop-cap.mjs -- correct behaviour, and it
clears when the plugin is reinstalled.
Review findings 2670c10a, fbd6d534, 93550dfb.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011vPSXe88qp5aqWUqbDNWoF
CLAUDE.md claimed both STORM phases go inert when the flag is unset. Only
Phase 5 did: the flag check lives in research-loop-cap.mjs, and Phase 4.5
never invokes the cap — it was gated on effort: high alone. At high effort
with the flag unset, discovery still mined Phase-4 output and mutated the
dimension list, so `dimensions` diverged from `dimensions_baseline` and the
decline branch was unreachable for half the mechanism.
The code was the deviator, so the guard is fixed rather than the claim: the
Phase 4.5 skip-guard now names both conditions, with the reason inline.
Three surfaces scoped the flag to "the loop" and are corrected with it
(README, docs/command-modes, docs/architecture), plus the orchestrator phase
map. CLAUDE.md's claim is now true, but its stated MECHANISM was not — Phase
4.5's inertness comes from its own guard, not from the cap module — so that
sentence is corrected too.
New doc-consistency pin: the flag must be documented as gating both phases on
all four reference surfaces. Review finding 00a3af1a.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011vPSXe88qp5aqWUqbDNWoF
pre-agent-cap.mjs (S78) enforces the Phase 5 loop bound only while a scope
marker exists for the calling session. Nothing wrote that marker, so the hook
shipped correct but latent. Phase 5 now writes it at loop start and removes it
on all three exits.
- Write: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/trekresearch-loop-scope/<session_id>.json with
{runId, startedAt}, keyed by CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID. Verified 2026-08-12 that
this equals the session_id on the hook's PreToolUse payload.
- runId must be the same --run-id the ledger is counted under; a mismatched id
counts zero turns and enforces nothing.
- Fail-soft on write: the hook is defence in depth, research-loop-cap.mjs stays
the gate. Report and continue. The reverse (skipping the budget gate because
a marker exists) stays forbidden.
- Removal on every exit, load-bearing on the exhausted one: the hook keeps
denying WebSearch/WebFetch/Task while the marker is there, and Phase 6 spawns
agents. Crash is covered by the hook TTL, not by cleanup - stated as such
rather than claiming cleanup covers it.
- Marker written in Phase 5, not Phase 4.5: 4.5 mines already-retrieved Phase-4
results and spends no loop turns, so scoping there widens the window for
nothing. Pinned by a test.
Six pins in tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs derive the directory name from
SCOPE_DIRNAME in the hook and the payload fields from marker.runId/startedAt,
so drift in either direction fails. hooks/scripts/pre-agent-cap.mjs untouched.
Verified end-to-end with the snippets as shipped: marker written -> hook allows
under budget, denies 8/8 at budget, allows again after removal; removal is
idempotent; unset CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA takes the fail-soft branch.
Suite 937 (935/0/2, baseline 931 + 6).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R77nGJjZ1hqjAQQHefFdnc
The economy profile's cross-tier Jaccard floor (0.55) rests on parked-synthetic
fixtures; empirical Step-17 calibration is v4.2-budget-gated ($60–120,
unauthorized). Fork resolved as label-not-calibrate: the experimental status,
previously prose-only in docs/profiles.md, now lives in the profile data and is
machine-checked. No new user-facing capability — honest labeling + a guard.
- lib/profiles/economy.yaml: add `experimental: true` (with rationale comment).
- lib/validators/profile-validator.mjs: recognize `experimental` as an OPTIONAL
boolean; non-boolean → PROFILE_INVALID_ENUM. Absent ⇒ tier is stable
(premium/balanced unaffected, profile_version stays 1.0 — additive).
- README.md + docs/operations.md + docs/profiles.md: flag the `economy` table
row "⚠ Experimental (uncalibrated Jaccard floor)".
- tests/synthetic/profile-jaccard-calibration.md + analysis §6/§10 + backlog
plan §S34: cross-reference the marker; mark V30/S34 done.
+5 tests (739 → 744, 742/2/0): economy declares experimental:true; premium and
balanced do not; validator rejects non-boolean experimental; every profile-doc
economy row is flagged; the flag tracks the calibration's parked-synthetic
status (must drop in the same change that lands real calibration).
Closes the balance backlog (4/4, S31–S34). claude plugin validate green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
Balance-backlog S33 (DOC, non-breaking). The D1–D3 forks resolved conservatively
(balance-backlog-plan.md), collapsing the model + observability work into a
documentation record. Three deliverables, all doc-only, no code/frontmatter change:
- V35 (doc half): the "24 agents" headline is reconciled to its honest split —
21 spawnable (one dormant: synthesis-agent, Δ≈0) + 3 orchestrator reference
docs (planning-/research-/review-orchestrator document the inline /trek*
workflow; not spawned). Each orchestrator header now declares itself a
"reference document, not a spawnable capability". README + CLAUDE.md state the
split; counts in the new pins are DERIVED from agents/ so they survive reword.
- D2 (V32 rationale): docs/observability.md gains a "Why direct export rather
than a native collector" section — direct export keeps the path / SSRF /
field-allowlist guards in audited in-process code (the S21 hardening) instead
of re-hosting a collector; textfile mode remains the collector escape hatch.
- D3 (kept-opus): docs/voyage-vs-cc-balance-analysis.md §10 decision record —
opus on V09 (glue), V35 (dormant), V11 (retrieval), V16 (mechanical), V08
(researchers) was reconsidered for sonnet and KEPT (pin 40d8742 firm).
No agent frontmatter changed — tests/lib/agent-frontmatter.test.mjs is the
structural model source-of-truth and is untouched (diff is description-only:
model: opus + tools lists unchanged, no Agent tool granted). No Handover-1
change; no exporter/gemini-bridge removal. Non-breaking, no version bump.
tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs: +5 S33 pins (inventory split derived from
agents/; synthesis-agent dormant; orchestrator relabel; observability D2
rationale; analysis-doc D1–D3 record). Tests 739 (737 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail),
bar `node --test`; `claude plugin validate` green (1 accepted warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
Balance-backlog S32 (CODE+AUDIT). Audited whether the brief interview and the
research / exploration / reviewer swarms ride NATIVE Claude Code primitives or
hand-roll their own engine. Finding: all five ALREADY delegate natively — no
re-implementation, so no command-file change. Documented the principle + a
standing regression guard instead.
- V01 (trekbrief Phase 3): Q&A turn-taking is `AskUserQuestion` (line 144 / step
4); the "selection rule" is section-selection POLICY, not a hand-rolled menu.
- V07 (research interview): `AskUserQuestion`, one-at-a-time.
- V08/V11/V24 (research / exploration / reviewer swarms): parallel `Agent`
fan-out in a single message ("in parallel … single message" / "via the Agent
tool — one message, multiple tool calls"). Policy layers (dimensions/schemas/
triangulation, typed roles/effort/scaling, 12-key rule catalogue/no-cross-feed/
dedup) cleanly separated from the engine.
- docs/architecture.md: new cross-cutting principle note "delegate the engine,
keep the policy" recording the native primitives, the per-command policy, and
the audit verdict.
- tests/lib/doc-consistency.test.mjs: +3 S32 pins (architecture note present;
each swarm command lists Agent + mandates single-message parallel spawn;
trekbrief Phase 3 delegates to AskUserQuestion). Guards engine creep-back.
No command-file edits (all native). No model/frontmatter change (D3 firm). No
Handover-1 change. Non-breaking. Tests 734 (732 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail), bar
`node --test`; `claude plugin validate` green (1 accepted warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md was the lone source that called plan_version a
frontmatter field. The plan template (templates/plan-template.md:21) emits it
ONLY in the prose "Generated by" header line; brief-generated plans carry no
frontmatter at all (the sole frontmatter block, source_findings, is
trekreview-only and additive). planning-orchestrator.md:228 ("metadata line
below the title"), the parser (lib/parsers/plan-schema.mjs, S26), and the
plan-schema.test.mjs comment all already say prose. The contract was the
outlier — the deferred doc-side closure the S26 commit named as scope to avoid
then ("a 3-file doc reconciliation").
Operator-chosen direction (Option A + A1): correct the contract to the
artifact, doc-only — NOT move the field to frontmatter (which would alter every
plan's shape and fight the trekreview-only frontmatter design). A1 keeps the
standardized "Frontmatter schema" heading, corrects the row, and notes the real
(optional, trekreview-only) source_findings frontmatter.
Three surgical spots in HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md:
- versioning table: `plan_version` (frontmatter) → (plan header line)
- Handover 4 "Frontmatter schema": no-required-frontmatter note + Location
column locating plan_version in the "Generated by" header line + parser ref
- Handover 5 progress.json: "Mirrors plan's frontmatter" → "Mirrors the plan
header's plan_version"
TDD (red first): new doc-consistency pin asserts the contract no longer labels
plan_version a (frontmatter) field, drops "Mirrors plan's frontmatter", and
positively locates it in the plan header line. Red on the old wording (L15 +
L264), green after the edits.
Scope: only HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md + the one pin. Template/orchestrator/parser/
examples untouched (already correct). Example-01's bare-line emission drift is
noted out-of-scope for a possible later item.
Tests: 729 (727 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail; live `node --test`, = 728 baseline +1).
plugin validate passes (1 accepted CLAUDE.md-at-root warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
operations.md:15 + command-modes.md described an autonomy surface that does
not exist in code. Truth-pass against lib/util/autonomy-gate.mjs (the source
of truth) closes three false claims found while auditing the autonomy surface
in S21 (devils-advocate-results.md S21b forward-pointer):
F1 (MAJOR) — fabricated state machine. operations.md claimed
`idle → approved → executing → merge-pending → main-merged`; only `idle`
exists. Real states: idle → gates_on|auto_running → paused_for_gate →
completed (events: start/phase_boundary/resume/finish).
F2 (MINOR) — event-emit.mjs does NOT "record each transition"; it emits 3
named lifecycle events (brief-approved, main-merge-gate, user_input) and
is decoupled from the pure, no-I/O autonomy-gate.
F3 — `--gates {open|closed|adaptive}` is false: the CLI shim + all 4 command
docs take a BOOLEAN `--gates {true|false}`. open/closed/adaptive is a
DERIVED gates_mode policy, /trekexecute-only, mapped from the brief effort
signal (low→open, standard→adaptive, high→closed; trekexecute.md:1562/74/75).
Operator-chosen fix (S24): boolean-true representation + a gates_mode policy
note, applied to BOTH operations.md and command-modes.md (4 rows) — same
false-claim class, fixed in one pass (fix-errors-found-in-scope).
TDD: doc-pin in doc-consistency.test.mjs imports STATES from autonomy-gate.mjs,
forbids the fabricated names + the flag-enum, requires the real states. Red
first (failed on "merge-pending"), green after the truth-pass.
Tests: 725 (723 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail). plugin validate passes (1 accepted
CLAUDE.md-at-root warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
Phase 9's dedup hand-off was broken on two layers, both surfaced by the S22
dogfood: (a) plan-critic + scope-guardian (Read/Glob/Grep, no Write) were told
to write /tmp/*-out.json the dedup helper reads — they cannot; (b) even with
Write, their Output format emits markdown, not the helper's
{agent,findings:[{file,line,rule_key,text}]} schema. readJsonOrNull then
swallowed the absent files -> a silent empty merge that discarded every finding.
Fix (operator-chosen A'): keep the reviewers read-only; make the hand-off run.
- plan-review-dedup.mjs gains a --stdin mode reading {plan_critic,scope_guardian};
malformed stdin exits non-zero so a broken hand-off surfaces loudly instead of
collapsing into a silent empty merge. File mode + its tests are untouched.
- plan-critic.md + scope-guardian.md now emit a trailing machine-readable `json`
findings block (the inline hand-off; no Write tool needed).
- trekplan.md + planning-orchestrator.md Phase 9 rewritten in lockstep: extract
both blocks, pipe via heredoc into --stdin. No temp files, portable, no
pathguard dependency.
TDD: malformed-stdin test failed first (CLI ignored stdin -> exit 0 = the bug),
green after impl. New S23 doc-pin asserts both docs use --stdin (not the dead
/tmp paths) and both agents declare the json block. Suite 724 (722/2/0); live
HEAD baseline was 720, not the stale 705 STATE carried forward.
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S21 = devil's-advocate blind spot #2 (security/safety), operator scope
"security-core": fix genuine defects, honestly record the rest.
SSRF fix (CWE-918). validateOtlpEndpoint classified the host by literal
string match. Decimal/hex/octal/trailing-dot encodings are already caught
(the WHATWG URL parser canonicalizes them), but IPv4-mapped IPv6 literals
(::ffff:127.0.0.1, ::ffff:192.168.x, ::ffff:169.254.169.254) render as
::ffff:HHHH:HHHH and matched neither the loopback set, the RFC-1918 regex,
link-local, nor HARD_BLOCKED_HOSTS — they passed over https and would reach
loopback / private / cloud-metadata, defeating the comment's "PERMANENTLY
block metadata" promise. Added mappedV4() to decode the embedded IPv4
(dotted + hex-pair forms) and classify on it. TDD: 4 tests failing-first —
mapped loopback/RFC-1918/metadata rejected (metadata stays HARD_BLOCKED even
with VOYAGE_OTEL_ALLOW_PRIVATE=1), mapped public ::ffff:8.8.8.8 still valid
(no over-block). Threat model narrow (endpoint is operator-set env; export
opt-in; a brief cannot set env).
Survivor #18 honest-residual. T2-bakeoff §3 "Classifier interference: 0"
read as satisfied, but the auto/bypass-mode re-run that matters for headless
trekreview was never run (mode is operator-set, not settable in-session) —
footnoted, not gating. Per recommendation #9, moved to an OPEN RESIDUAL
(untested), guarded by a new doc-consistency pin.
Audit record. ## S21 resolution block in devils-advocate-results.md
dispositions all four sub-questions: SSRF (fixed), hooks-block (verified;
advisory-rail residuals: Write-only matcher, Bash-redirect, regex gaps — by
design), malicious-brief-headless (catastrophe-blocked, exfil NOT blocked —
inherent limit). S21b flagged (NOT done): operations.md:15 mis-describes
autonomy-gate.mjs state machine + --gates table.
Test count: real baseline 700 (698 pass / 2 skip), NOT 715 — the node:test
headline carried in S20 commit msgs was stale/miscounted (census figures
were correct). Now 705 (703 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail); census behavior
601->605, doc-pins 71->72, total 672->677.
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Operator directive (same as S20-fix): a real error must be fixed, not
carried as "flagged, out of scope". docs/operations.md §Custom profiles
made three claims that contradict findProfilePath (resolver.mjs:57-78):
- custom profiles created in lib/profiles/<custom>.yaml — that is the
BUILT-IN dir; custom profiles live in voyage-profiles/
- "custom profiles override built-ins of the same name" — the built-in
is resolved FIRST and wins; a custom file cannot shadow it
- "lookup is alphabetical with <custom> taking precedence" — resolution
is by directory order (built-in -> repo-root voyage-profiles/ ->
~/.claude/voyage-profiles/), never alphabetical
Corrected to match the code and the behavior already pinned by
profile-application.test.mjs SC #8 (custom = new name, voyage-profiles/,
repo-root > home).
TDD: anti-false-claim doc-consistency pin written failing-first, then
prose fixed. Suite 714->715 (713 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail); census
doc-pins 70->71, total 671->672.
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Follow-up to e7a58b0 (S20). Operator directive: errors found during a
task must always be fixed, not flagged out-of-scope. The three
orchestrator reference docs (review/research/planning) carried a
pre-pinning "Cost: Use Sonnet for all sub-agents" rule that contradicts
the operator-pinned all-opus reality (40d8742 — all 24 named agents are
model: opus, guarded by agent-frontmatter.test.mjs). The authoritative
command (trekresearch.md) was already correct.
Corrected all three to mirror trekresearch.md: sub-agents use their
pinned model: frontmatter (currently opus); a phase_signals model signal
or the active --profile (e.g. economy) overrides per-phase. Legitimate
sonnet uses (economy profile, low-effort path) are per-phase overrides,
not a blanket default — left untouched. The two "(Sonnet, Explore)"
ad-hoc follow-up/deep-dive hints are outside the 24-agent pinning and
align with the global "Sonnet for retrieval" model strategy — left as-is.
TDD: anti-false-claim doc-consistency pin written failing-first (3 hits)
in doc-consistency.test.mjs, then the prose fixed. Suite 713->714
(712 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail); census doc-pins 69->70, total 670->671.
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Closes devils-advocate audit §Top changes #8 (MINOR×MED). Reports the
behavior-test count separately from the doc-consistency prose-pin count so the
cited total no longer oversells behavior coverage, and removes the clearest
reword-fragile redundancies. Conservative scope (operator-chosen): no genuine
regression guard dropped.
1. Suite census (report separately). lib/util/test-census.mjs +
tests/lib/test-census.test.mjs walk tests/**/*.test.mjs and bucket top-level
test() declarations into behavior vs doc-consistency-pins (bucket per file,
regex PIN_FILE_RE), asserting the two sum to the total so neither can drift
silently. Split emitted as a t.diagnostic: behavior=601 doc-consistency-pins=69.
Metric = top-level declarations; node:test's runtime total counts subtests
too and is therefore >= it.
2. Conservative prune (3 tests, each provably subsumed):
- "trekexecute.md still parses v1.7 plan schema" — tautological OR-chain;
real coverage = the plan_version:1.7 template pin + plan-validator /
plan-schema behavior tests.
- "CLAUDE.md mentions all six pipeline commands" — hardcoded six-string list
subsumed by the filesystem-driven "commands table mentions every
commands/*.md file" structural pin.
- "CLAUDE.md mentions /trekcontinue command" — same subsumption.
Each removal leaves an in-place note (why + where coverage lives).
3. doc-consistency.test.mjs header now documents the structural-invariant vs
prose/existence-pin distinction so new pins land in the right kind.
TDD: census test written failing-first (ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND before
lib/util/test-census.mjs existed). Suite 699->698 (696 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail):
-3 prune +2 census. plugin validate passes (1 accepted warning).
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