Closes out the six residual items #1051 disclosed: terminology residue
on non-authority surfaces, the eval command-surface fixture that failed
when executed (#{3,4} -> #{3,5}), the vacuous retrieval-quality canary
and the nightly job that ran it, the consumer-free dream config block
and its exclusive helpers, the remaining knowledge-shaped writers moved
to the scratch tier, and the MEMORY.md consumer audit.
bin/ralph still resumes legacy .agents/ralph/ checkpoints so the
documented backwards-compat contract holds without a migration; both
paths and the outside-both refusal are now tested.
Fresh author-distinct validation returned PASS with empty not_checked,
after an earlier revision failed on a dangling nightly invoker and a
back-compat test regression that were fixed and independently
re-verified.
Test-Removal-Reason: the dream config subsystem was deleted with its tests (operations-layer residuals)
Substrate fix for the intent-echo hook trap. The Mac codex install ships
~/.codex/hooks.json with intent-echo.sh on UserPromptSubmit; long prompts
containing destructive verbs or scope-limiters trigger a HIGH-STAKES
preamble that captures as the assistant message. Non-interactive `codex
exec` then produces no real output.
team-runner.sh:226 is the load-bearing dispatcher behind /swarm, /crank,
/evolve, /codex-team, /red-team — patching it once propagates the fix to
every team-runtime skill. Mirror on the dry-run echo at :195.
smoke-test-codex-skills.sh prompts contain "only" (line 175); validate
prompt contains "only" (line 61). Both trigger today.
test-sandbox-mode.sh and test-structured-output.sh patched defensively
for drift resistance.
See .agents/findings/registry.jsonl entries f-2026-05-02-002 and
f-2026-05-02-003.
Add doc-release, contract-compatibility, hook-preflight, hooks-doc-parity,
ci-policy-parity, shellcheck, symlink-rejection, learning-coherence, and
orphan-hooks checks to pre-push-gate.sh (checks 25-33). Add fast-mode
detection for docs/shell/learning file categories so new checks only run
when relevant files change.
Also fix shellcheck warnings in task-validation-gate.sh (SC2053 glob
directives) and remove unused error_msg in watch-codex-stream.sh.
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