## Summary
- pin and materialize an exact colocated Gas City and official Beads
toolchain without editing installed binaries
- add deterministic isolated bootstrap, recovery, teardown, exact
workspace binding, and tracked .gitignore preservation
- add bead-native Mayor, plan review, isolated Codex/Claude workers,
binding Validators, rejection-to-Mayor rescope, fenced Refinery,
integration validation, qualification, and protected PR delivery
- make the local quick release gate deterministic after CLI cleanup
## Validation
- fresh GC-managed Codex Sol verdict: PASS (verdict
d1a1e03808b4605e49cc97423c7570b04d581c9ee1fad9aa8f1daf6e72d6f0ef)
- focused GC executor/factory/projection suite: PASS (32 packet + 77
factory + 4 projection + 21 bootstrap tests, plus doctors and static
contracts)
- teardown suite: 7/7 PASS
- local-ci-fast: PASS
- exact v16 mixed-provider live canary: Terra and Opus 4.8 workers in
parallel, opposite-family candidate validators, Opus Refiner, Sol
integration validator, all lifecycle beads closed, clean managed
teardown
## Scope
The follow-on Fable 5 Mayor/Refiner, Sol-every-bead validation, and Luna
support-worker topology is deliberately not part of this historical v16
baseline; it will build on this foundation in a separate bead program.
age-yxl gated source references/** divergence but left SKILL.md-body divergence
ungated (the residual it filed). Same silent-staleness: a source SKILL.md body
edit with a stale twin is masked by a regen hash bump.
validate-codex-generated-artifacts.sh now requires a real non-marker twin
content change when a source SKILL.md *body* changed — scoped to the BODY on
purpose: frontmatter-only edits (hex-wiring fields the twin never carries:
consumes/produces/hexagonal_role/context_rel) need no twin change and stay green,
so legit hex-wiring pushes don't red main. Body-vs-frontmatter is detected by
comparing the frontmatter-stripped body across the scope's base ref
(head: HEAD~1..HEAD; worktree: HEAD..working; staged/upstream handled);
conservative — any ambiguity (new file, unresolved base) requires the twin.
TEST: 3 new cases — body divergence FAILs under both worktree and head scopes,
frontmatter-only change PASSes. Verified both FAIL tests fail against the
unfixed gate (guard the regression). Real-skill smoke: frontmatter-strip yields
the correct body on discovery/rpi/skill-builder.
Closes-scenario: age-j1g#skillmd-body-gate
Bounded-context: BC2-Skills
Evidence: tests/scripts/test-codex-generated-artifacts.sh
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PROBE (evidence, not inspection): built the post-mortem divergent state in a
worktree — edited skills/discovery/references/dag.md, ran regen-codex-hashes
(twin left stale), committed, ran both gates. check-codex-parity-drift.sh and
validate-codex-generated-artifacts.sh BOTH passed (exit 0). The audit is a
Claude-ism scanner that never reads source; the structural source->codex check
was satisfied by the regen marker bump alone (a counterfactual source-only
commit with zero codex files DID fail, proving the mechanism). Verdict: the
gate does NOT catch content divergence.
FIX (routed to the gate, per the verdict): validate-codex-generated-artifacts.sh
now requires a REAL twin content change to mirror a source references/** edit —
the generated .agentops-generated.json / .agentops-manifest.json bookkeeping no
longer satisfies the mirror requirement. Scoped to references/** (mirrored
near-verbatim) to avoid false-positiving the legit frontmatter-only/hex-wiring
flow that has no twin equivalent.
TEST: two new cases in test-codex-generated-artifacts.sh — divergence (regen
hash bump only) FAILs, mirrored edit PASSes. Verified the divergence test FAILs
against the unfixed gate (guards the regression) and PASSes against the fix.
DOCS: skill-builder/SKILL.md, AGENTS-CODEX.md, CLAUDE.md registry section now
state that editing an EXISTING skill needs a manual twin mirror (regen refreshes
hashes, not prose) — prior docs only warned about NEW skills. Dogfooded: this
commit's skill-builder edit is mirrored into its codex twin.
Closes-scenario: age-yxl#probe-and-gate-fix
Bounded-context: BC2-Skills
Evidence: .agents/learnings/2026-06-16-codex-twin-content-not-auto-mirrored.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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