* 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
* feat(annotate): preserve notes on structured approval
* test(pi): use exact annotate outcome import
* 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
* fix(annotate): parse linked docs with the render-side frontmatter rule on export
buildCompleteAnnotateFeedback re-parsed each linked document with
parseMarkdownToBlocks(entry.markdown) — no options, so frontmatter
stripping defaulted on. The render side parses with
{ frontmatter: shouldStripFrontmatter(path) }.
For plain-text linked docs (.yaml/.json/.toml/…) a leading `---` is real
content, not frontmatter: a multi-document YAML opens with it. Stripping
it on the export side shifted every block id, so ordinary Send Feedback
and deny emitted wrong `(line N)` labels — or dropped them entirely when
the annotation's block no longer existed.
Pass the same shouldStripFrontmatter(filepath) option at the export call
site so both sides agree.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H5KQWqXqjrPxyxUNso1QHS
* fix(annotate): carry the message scope through approve-with-notes
/api/feedback forwards selectedMessageId and feedbackScope; /api/approve
dropped them. Pi resolves the anchor message from those fields, so notes
delivered on the approve path anchored to the last message instead of the
one the reviewer picked in a multi-message annotate-last session — while
Send Feedback in the same session anchored correctly.
Forward both fields on the approve path in the Bun and Pi servers, and
have the client build the approval body with the same scope resolution
Send Feedback uses (extracted as getFeedbackMessageScope so the two can
no longer drift).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H5KQWqXqjrPxyxUNso1QHS
* docs(annotate): tell agents an approval may carry notes
The skill and slash-command files still described `"decision": "approved"`
as "acknowledge and stop", with no mention of the feedback field the gate
can now attach — so an agent reading them would silently drop the
reviewer's approval notes.
Update the Claude core/claude skills, the Copilot commands, the Gemini
annotate command, and the annotate command reference so the approved
branch names the optional feedback field and says what to do with it:
carry it into subsequent work, do not treat it as a change request.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H5KQWqXqjrPxyxUNso1QHS
* docs(annotate): document the real approvedWithNotes default
The default annotate.approvedWithNotes template is
`{{contextBlock}}{{feedback}}`, not `{{context}}` on its own line, and
{{contextBlock}} was missing from the variable table entirely.
Show the actual default, add {{contextBlock}} to the variable table, and
explain why the default prefers it: it collapses to nothing for message
annotations instead of leaving a stray blank line.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H5KQWqXqjrPxyxUNso1QHS
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Co-authored-by: Michael Ramos <mdramos8@gmail.com>
Two agent command-surface cleanups. Both remove only the command entry points; all underlying infrastructure stays.
1. /plannotator-status (Pi): removed — it echoed phase/plan-file/progress on
demand, but that state is already shown ambiently (status bar + live
checklist widget). The phase/checklist state machine is untouched.
2. /plannotator-archive (all agents): removed the command/skill entry points
across every surface — Claude/Codex/Kiro skills, Pi, OpenCode (handler +
dispatch + cli-bridge + embedded + stub), Droid, the Kiro agent prompt, all
three installers, docs, marketing, and the CI deprecated-command guard. The
installers also gained a stale-skill cleanup so upgraders drop a previously
installed plannotator-archive skill.
Kept (infrastructure) — archive browsing stays available in-review via the
sidebar: the `plannotator archive` CLI subcommand (apps/hook/server), the
mode:"archive" server path + /api/archive endpoints, ArchiveBrowser/useArchive,
the sidebar Archive tab, sessions.ts "archive" mode, and ~/.plannotator/plans
storage.
Verified: bun test scripts/install.test.ts → 72 pass; pi-extension typecheck +
build:opencode pass; repo-wide residual scan clean; KEEP-set integrity
confirmed; one orphaned import (opencode commands.ts) caught in self-review and
removed.
Sergiy Dybskiy