Phase 9 said 'append to ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/trekexecute-stats.jsonl; if it is not set, skip silently' - the Bash tool env never carries it. It now runs stats-append.mjs trekexecute with the record on stdin, the /trekbrief Phase 7 shape, and reports a written:false. The gates_mode_flag_override record was prose with no writer; it now has an event-emit block (fixed literal payload: --gates is a boolean flag) and a documented shape {ts, event, known_event, payload:{flag, signal_effort}}. Phase 8's three event blocks spliced ${PLAN_PATH} (set in an earlier Bash call that does not survive) and ${WAVE_COUNT} (never assigned) into a double-quoted payload, so a literal run printed payload-not-json, and the decline reason was operator free text in a shell argument. Payloads are now single-quoted with {plan-path} / {wave-count} placeholders and the literal label hold-for-review; each call runs on its own and a written:false is printed and passed. docs/architecture.md and the jsonl-schemas rows (writer, measured line_refs) follow.
Red: 7 of 7 new tests fail on the pre-fix text (Phase 9 writer + no 'skip silently', Phase 9 record lands, no bare ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/...jsonl target, no shell expansion in --payload, the three Phase 8 blocks land known events when run as written in a fresh shell, the written:false sentence, the override writer and shape).
Verify 198/198 (stats-landing, main-merge-gate, gates-flag-coverage, profile-stats-fields, plugin-root-resolution, doc-consistency, no-claude-code-launch). Suite 1383 (1381/0/2).
Voyage order 20261005T104513Z-1250514346, plan step 3/5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/trekbrief Phase 7 says the writer adds order_id / order_claimed_at /
order_reason (never typed by the model) and that the yardstick joins use on
order_id; the fixture row lists them in `fields`, EXPORT_DENYLIST names them,
and its stale line_ref (657-672) now reads 961-976; the allowlist header
names them as dropped; docs/architecture.md Stats explains them.
/trekbrief --approve now runs Phase 7 after a successful stamp, with fixed
values (mode "approve", 0 turns, brief_quality/research_topics/auto_research
from the brief's frontmatter, auto_result "manual", intent_approved true).
Valgt fordi PM 04.10 (point 3): fix the code, not the criterion - the
approval must leave the trekbrief record. Measured hole: okf-wiki v1-k has
brief-approved 04.10 17:12Z and trekplan 17:29Z, but only a 03.10 trekbrief
record with intent_approved false. CLAUDE.md, README.md and
docs/command-modes.md say so. The manual path is unchanged.
npm test 1309 -> 1362 (1360 pass / 0 fail / 2 skip).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
README claimed four security layers including scoped per-child tool
access (gone with the launched children), an auto-dispatched Phase 7.6
recovery session and a launch template; architecture.md still pointed at
launch.sh. They now describe what 6.0.0 does: session specs plus
orders.md, a recovery order for a session the user opens, three layers.
operations.md gets a status note instead of a rewrite (decision record).
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>
The annotation surface's provenance is now described as the pattern it
follows (pencil toggle, intent buttons, popover form, structured export)
rather than by naming a repository that no longer exists. Touches the
plugin/package descriptions, README, docs/architecture.md, the v5.0.3
CHANGELOG entry, and two comments in scripts/annotate.mjs and its test.
Retired-reference check: 12 hits in 7 files -> 0 (content and path names).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New lib/stats/stats-append.mjs: one record on stdin, appended to
<data dir>/<kind>-stats.jsonl. The data dir is CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA, else
~/.claude/plugins/data/voyage-ktg-plugin-marketplace (the yardstick's
default). A failed write exits 1 with a reason: reported, never silent.
/trekbrief Phase 7 and /trekplan Phase 12 now run it instead of
"append to ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/…; skip silently". intent-approval's
resolveApprovalDataDir delegates to the same resolver.
Chose a stdin heredoc over a --json argument because a JSON record in a
shell argument breaks on quotes in task text. Only trekbrief and trekplan
are rewired (økt 2's countable form needs exactly those two); the other
commands' stats prose is unchanged and docs/architecture.md says so.
Red a358059 7/7 → green 7/7. Suite 1208: 1206 pass / 0 fail / 2 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <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>
The bounded-cost NFR asks for explicit ceilings on BOTH axes - max
conversation turns and max discovered dimensions. The turn axis got
MAX_CONV_TURNS, a ledger-backed reader and a PreToolUse enforcer. The
discovery axis got one sentence in Phase 4.5 prose ("append candidates only
while the whole list stays at or below maxDimensions: 8") with no constant
of its own, no reader, and no test that a run exceeding it is caught. That
is the brief_reviewer_iter_cap shape the operator decision warned about: a
cap nothing reads.
checkDimensionCeiling() is the reader, exposed on the CLI as
--check-dimensions N (exit 0 within, exit 1 rejected), and Phase 4.5 step 3
now calls it once the final list is settled instead of merely describing the
bound.
Three deliberate choices:
- The ceiling IS MAX_TOTAL_DIMENSIONS, the constant that sizes the turn
budget. Both axes read one settings.json:16 value, so they cannot end up
enforcing different numbers - a second constant is how that drift starts.
- An unreadable count is REJECTED ('abc', null, undefined, {}, -1, NaN,
non-integers). A cost ceiling that waves through what it cannot measure is
not a ceiling.
- --check-dimensions requires no run id, effort or VOYAGE_STORM_ENABLED.
Phase 4.5 never calls the budget gate - that is why its skip-guard reads
the flag directly - so the ceiling check must not inherit the gate's
preconditions.
The mitigation the review already verified still holds and is unchanged:
MAX_TOTAL_DIMENSIONS bounds actual retrieval cost regardless of how many
dimensions discovery appends. What was missing was anything that FAILS on a
list over the bound, and now a run over it is rejected by exit code.
Review finding 96a3ee51152dfe72aca703f771843f2f3639e7b6 (MINOR).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LuGhWAbWyRFBFeemfhxoVv
allowTurn() appends BEFORE the turn runs, so during granted turn N the
ledger holds N records. The hook denied at `used >= budget`, which blocked
every tool call of the FINAL granted turn: the primitive granted B turns
and the harness permitted B-1. Worse, an exhausted run therefore always
terminated through an exit-2 tool denial instead of the graceful "cap
exhausted" exit at commands/trekresearch.md - and the prose says in as
many words that exit 2 is not exit 1, so the model was pushed out through
the one exit it is told NOT to treat as a cap.
The review recommended denying at `used > budget`. Taken alone that fixes
the count and breaks the hook: once the O_EXCL claim (previous commit)
makes a breached ledger impossible, `granted > budget` can no longer fire,
and the case this hook exists for - the loop consults the gate, is denied,
and issues the tool call anyway - would be allowed. A deny branch that
cannot be reached is a dead security claim, which is the same thing S82
removed two of rather than leave standing.
So the denial itself became a record. allowTurn() appends a tombstone
{runId, exhausted: true} when it denies for budget, and the hook denies on
the tombstone. Both properties now hold at once:
granted == budget, no tombstone -> turn B is in flight -> ALLOW
tombstone present -> the gate already said no -> DENY
granted > budget -> breached, any cause -> DENY
A tombstone is not a turn: readLedger reports {granted, exhausted}
separately so it can never consume budget. allowTurn short-circuits on an
existing tombstone, so a hammered gate neither re-walks every slot nor
grows the ledger. The tombstone write is best effort on purpose - the
denial is already the correct answer, so a ledger that cannot take the
record must not turn a denial into a grant.
The parallel-boundary test now asserts GRANTED turns rather than raw
ledger lines, because the denied callers legitimately add tombstones.
Review finding 8eb53458ac3efec778094f9f03b09e1cc1077a09 (MINOR).
Operator decision: tombstone over the literal recommended_action.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LuGhWAbWyRFBFeemfhxoVv
countTurns-then-appendFileSync is read-then-write. N callers that all
observe used == budget-1 all decide to grant, and the bound is exceeded
by N-1. The comment above allowTurn asserted "Append-only: never
read-modify-write" and named the concurrent case - Phase 4.5/5 may spawn
several agents in a single message - as the reason it had to be. The
decision path was exactly what the comment denied, so the concurrency
claim had nothing under it.
Each grant now creates <data root>/trekresearch-loop-claims/<runId>-<slot>.claim
with flag 'wx' (O_CREAT|O_EXCL) before appending. The kernel picks the
winner per slot, slot numbers are bounded by the budget, and each can be
created exactly once - so total grants for a run cannot exceed the budget
however many callers arrive together. The ledger count now only says
where to start looking for a free slot.
Two of the three tests are deterministic and do not race anything: they
assert the invariant directly by pre-creating claims, including the state
a mid-append competitor leaves behind (ledger 7, slots 1-8 claimed, budget
8 -> deny). That matters because the third test - six real concurrent shim
processes at the boundary - passed even BEFORE the fix, since process
startup jitter serialised them. A race test that passes by luck is not
evidence, so it ships as a real-world regression guard next to the two
that are.
Stated rather than left to be discovered: claim files are empty, at most
budget per run, and never cleaned - the same standing as the ledger, which
also grows for the life of the data root. Reusing a runId across runs, or
two runIds colliding after filename sanitisation, both deny a turn, which
is the safe direction for a budget control.
Review finding 3994491ef1fdba6e0e3645b5b713cbdbdeb2b328 (MINOR).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LuGhWAbWyRFBFeemfhxoVv
An unreadable ledger returned 0 from countTurns in BOTH the primitive and
the hook, so a run whose ledger existed but could not be read (EISDIR,
EACCES, EIO) was handed the full budget again on every call - unbounded.
research-loop-cap.mjs argues against exactly that three lines above the
code that did it, and its missing-DIRECTORY case already failed closed.
The unreadable-FILE case now agrees with it.
Only ENOENT still counts as zero turns spent: that is the legitimate
first-turn state, and the reason this cannot just throw on any read
failure.
The hook no longer carries its own countTurns. It imports the primitive's
exported readLedger(), the same way it already resolves the data root
through resolveDataRoot() - a reader and a writer with private copies of
the counting rule is how a hook ends up enforcing a different bound than
the gate it backs. In scope + cannot count now exits 2 with a message
that says counting failed, not that the budget is spent.
Fail-closed stays scoped to the loop: a test pins that an unreadable
ledger in an OUT-of-scope session still exits 0, because a PreToolUse
hook that over-blocks bricks every session on the box.
Also dropped the existsSync pre-check before the read - readFileSync's
own ENOENT carries the same information without a second syscall that
can disagree with the read that follows it.
Review finding 5e1c6230f48ead38fa77cd8f4b06bfdc2b5b7bbf (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
Replace the ASCII pipeline figure in README with two Mermaid diagrams —
the full pipeline (all 7 commands + 7 handover contracts) and agents per
phase — and add a "Primitives per step" decision-matrix to
docs/architecture.md, pointed to from README.
Corrects prior prose: /trekexecute spawns no sub-agents; Phase 5 swarm is
6 fixed + 2 conditional; cross-cutting = 7 hook scripts incl. Stop->OTEL.
Both diagrams validated with mermaid-cli 11.12.0 (render clean);
node --test 756/0 fail (doc-consistency pins intact).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017AkavgP4v6QT1x8aZtRa9S
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
Pre-trekexecute snapshot of in-progress CLAUDE.md/SKILL.md edits and
extracted docs/ files. Captured as one commit so /trekexecute claude-design
can run against a clean working tree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
