Round 5 (v6.2.0..d37e538, WARN: 11 MAJOR, 2 MINOR). The patching did not
converge (the same two places every round), so the operator chose a
structural fix on 2026-10-11. Each change behind a test that failed first.
- A check runs with no shell. criteria-runner's runCommand starts the runner
with the very words the screen checked (spawnSync(words[0], words.slice(1)),
without NODE_TEST_CONTEXT); Phase 7 criteria, Regression: (its exec copy is
gone, MINOR 0e98d5c7), proof of red, the done line and the test lock all
run through it. No quote, glob, tilde or variable can rewrite a checked
word any more. The screen stays and says why: a word that means something
else in a shell (quote, backslash, $, brace, leading ~) is refused; a glob
reaches only node --test, which expands its own patterns (sh read
`tests/.?/` as `tests/../`); no path climbs out with .. or starts at /;
a word starting with @ is refused (pytest reads @file as more arguments).
- The K6 plan-file sweep has v6.2.0's own Files: reader again (516dffa):
backticked paths, and plain words only in a field without them. The
shared reader from round 3 planned directories a description named and
dropped paths v6.2.0 planned. fieldPaths stays for the tests-only check,
with a path test on spans (`parse()`, `p.parse()` are no paths), plain
descriptions ignored when the field has backticked paths, dotfiles,
backslash paths and glued spans read.
- Skill frontmatter reads a value as YAML does: trailing space is nothing,
and a comment ends a plain value, a flow list or a block indicator
(`model: opus # pinned`). A comment that cuts a plain description, or is
the whole value, is still a hazard.
- release-check reads the diff with --no-renames: a test moved into an
allowed place after the review shows as removed.
- The example plan's step 2 heading no longer says "must FAIL initially";
steps 1-2 keep the tests-only warning (operator 2026-10-09, 73262b6).
Open: MINOR c1fef1ad (one shared isMain helper) is not in this round.
Measured: 0 of 463 Files: fields with backticked paths (520 fields in 182
plans across the marketplace repos) carry another path-like word.
Suite 2185 (2183/0/2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator 2026-10-09: step 6 of examples/01-add-verbose-flag only added a
test for behaviour step 5 delivered - the pattern PLAN_STEP_TESTS_ONLY
warns on. It now lands in step 5 (Verify: the new test, red before the
wiring; Regression: the stability harness), the help-text step becomes
step 6, and progress.json follows (6 steps). Steps 1-2 (golden capture and
stability harness, tests of today's behaviour that cannot be red) keep
the warning; a step type for them is a wave 3 question.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1. A step of only tests can never be proven red. One reading,
stepTestsOnly (lib/parsers/plan-schema.mjs, test paths from the new
lib/util/test-path.mjs): the plan validator warns PLAN_STEP_TESTS_ONLY,
red-proof --plan/--step adds tests_only to a not-red-at-base, and
/trekexecute and the step helper send such a step straight up to the
plan instead of into fix rounds that cannot succeed. /trekplan, the plan
template and plan-critic (dimension 8, still 12) say the test belongs in
the step that builds the behaviour.
2. Timing tests under load: the hook helper's kill limit is 30 s and per
call overridable; SC #14 passes on the fastest of up to three runs
against the same 800 ms limit (tests/helpers/timing.mjs).
3. The example plan's On failure lines open with a K11 word.
4. /trekreview saves the reviewer's whole answer for the findings check and
names FINDING_PROSE_LINE_OUT_OF_RANGE (error: re-ask; warning: report).
5. The criteria runner's commands run without NODE_TEST_CONTEXT
(commandEnv, moved to lib/util/command-env.mjs).
6. The resolver returns effort only when the brief's phase signal sets one;
the four commands said it always did.
Also: the K2 hook tests used fixed session ids in a per-user temp dir, so
two suites running at once took each other's approval records; the ids are
now unique per run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
