* feat(annotate): add strict atomic result output
* feat(annotate): exit 2 for strict-gate usage and publication errors
Adopt the grep convention for the strict annotate gate's exit codes:
0 = approved, 1 = negative human outcome (annotated/dismissed under
--require-approval), 2 = the gate itself was misconfigured or could not
start/deliver a decision. Previously all usage/startup/validation
failures shared exit 1 with "reviewer did not approve", so callers could
not tell a denied review from a broken gate.
- parseStrictAnnotateOptions failures (bad flag combos, strict flags
outside annotate --gate --json) now exit 2
- --result-file preflight failures (missing parent, pre-existing or
dangling-symlink destination) now exit 2
- post-decision publication failures (destination raced into existence,
hard links unavailable, stdout write failure) now exit 2: they deliver
no decision record at all, so the code's own fail-closed handling
presents them as environment errors, never as a reviewer outcome --
and never approval, since only 0 means approved
- decision outcomes keep 0/1 exactly as before; signal deaths keep 128+n
- document the contract in AGENTS.md and the annotate-gates guide
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXkgsNucxDwAL4GdR4XYRk
* fix(annotate): exit 2 for strict-gate startup failures
The six startup-failure sites in the annotate path (missing path, unreachable
URL, empty folder, ambiguous name, missing/unsupported file, oversized file)
run after flag parsing and exited 1. Under --require-approval / --result-file,
1 is the "reviewer requested changes" signal, so a typo'd path made automation
misclassify a configuration error as a legitimate rejection.
Route those sites through exitAnnotateStartupFailure(), which picks its code
from the already-parsed strict options via the new pure helper
annotateStartupFailureExitCode(). Non-strict invocations still exit 1 with
byte-identical stderr; strict invocations exit STRICT_GATE_ERROR_EXIT_CODE (2).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H5KQWqXqjrPxyxUNso1QHS
* fix(annotate): emit the strict decision on stdout before publishing it
writeResultFile ran before the decision JSON reached stdout. On a filesystem
without hard links (exFAT, FAT32, most SMB/NFS, some container bind mounts)
publication fails deterministically, the catch exited 2 with nothing written
anywhere — and the reviewer's autosaved draft had already been deleted by the
feedback flow, so their completed decision was lost.
Emit the stdout record first, then publish the result file. Exit semantics are
unchanged: a publication failure still exits 2, but the decision has reached
stdout by then. Only a stdout write failure now leaves no record at all.
Correct the docs and comments that claimed exit 2 delivers no decision record:
it means the result *file* was not published. Also document the two publication
caveats: the 0600 mode is a no-op on Windows, and the atomic link/rename is not
followed by a parent-directory fsync, so publication is atomic but not
crash-durable.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H5KQWqXqjrPxyxUNso1QHS
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Co-authored-by: Michael Ramos <mdramos8@gmail.com>
Raúl