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Michał Pierzchała 0da105e3c3 docs: simplify agent context and resolve conflicting guidance (#2287)
* docs: clarify agent task scope and validation

* docs: remove redundant and conflicting agent guidance
2026-09-05 20:04:40 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała 9941330dcc docs(agents): PR diff budget, move PRs, gates commit, validation lifecycle (#2247)
* docs(agents): PR diff budget, move PRs, gates commit, validation lifecycle

* docs(agents): merge-base diff budget, subprocess lane facts, gate-stage validation

* docs(agents): keep volatile test topology at its declaration
2026-09-03 15:06:25 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała dbc4f2f955 chore(test): start the subprocess-stub kill-criterion experiment (#1823) (#2007)
Deletes the serialized `subprocess-stub` Vitest project and drops
SUBPROCESS_STUB_TESTS from unit-core's exclude, so its two real
spawners (client-metro.test.ts, harness.test.ts — corpus-replay.test.ts
already left for fuzz-worker in #1994) run un-serialized in the default
forks pool per #1823's own kill criterion. Revert if a timeout-shaped
failure shows up before 20 consecutive CI runs pass clean.

The files stay excluded from the mutation lane (SERIALIZED_TESTS):
that exclusion is about mutant-rerun cost, independent of Vitest
project structure. Updated the comments/docs/scripts that described
the old project by name so none of them assert a project that no
longer exists.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015YPgKE1xmjdqh7T1q987DA

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 20:07:47 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała 104fe75248 fix(ci): run the fuzz corpus replay outside the coverage lane (#1994)
The Coverage job intermittently ends with no failing test and one file's
results missing:

    Test Files  1070 passed (1071)
    Errors      1 error
    Error: [vitest-pool]: Worker forks emitted error.
    Caused by: Error: Worker exited unexpectedly

This is shape (B) of #1824 — the half #1854 did not fix. Scanning every
failed Coverage job across the 120 CI runs since #1854 merged finds the
signature five times, and the vanished file is
scripts/fuzz/corpus-replay.test.ts all five (six for six with #1866's
occurrence): 23% of Coverage failures in that window, ~4% of all CI runs.

The ~40s gap before the error is coverage report generation, not test
time — the pool surfaces its AggregateError only once every task settles.
Control, from a green attempt of the same run: the file passes in 3152ms
at 09:37:35.9 and the summary prints at 09:38:12.5. So the file is not
slow in CI, nothing else is in flight when it dies, and neither a missed
per-case budget nor STARTUP_BUDGET_MS is implicated. Partial test counts
(3/11 and 9/11 reported) place the death mid-file, inside runCases.

So the corpus replay gets its own serialized project that the coverage
run skips, and a second uninstrumented Vitest invocation in
`test:coverage:ci` runs it, keeping the tests on every PR. Measured
against two full runs, this costs zero coverage: the cases execute in
worker threads, a separate isolate the fork's inspector never
instruments, so the lines reported are identical with and without it.

Membership is by demonstrated failure, not by a property of the code:
`session-replay-runtime-maestro.test.ts` also constructs a
node:worker_threads Worker and stays in unit-core, instrumented and
green, so "nests a Worker" is explicitly not the criterion.

The second leg goes through `test:fuzz-worker`, which blanks
AGENT_DEVICE_COVERAGE_SHARD and AGENT_DEVICE_COVERAGE_MERGE. ci.yml sets
those as job-level env over a single `gate: unit-ci` step, so both legs
would otherwise inherit them and the shard would die: Vitest refuses
`--shard=1/2` over this one-file project, and the blob reporter
overwrites the instrumented shard's report on its way out. Verified on
the merged tree — shard 1/2 (549 files), shard 2/2 (548), and the merge
job (1097 files, 90.38% lines) all pass, and the leg still fails without
the blanking.

Refs #1824
2026-08-24 17:03:25 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała d713988c5a docs(agents): simplify testing and pull-request guidance wording (#1997)
* refactor(lint): replace the facade import scan with a lint rule

The surviving half of `contracts-entry-closure.test.ts` walked ~490 candidate
files and parsed each one to assert that nothing value-imports the two wide
contracts facades. `eslint/no-restricted-imports` already states exactly that,
and `allowTypeImports` already draws the one distinction that made the walker
seem necessary: `import type` is erased, so it stays legal.

Verified rather than assumed, because the override semantics are not additive:
a same-rule override REPLACES the parent, so a top-level rule would have been
silently dropped for `src/**`, and the existing `"off"` entry for `exec.ts` and
the test tree would have exempted the files that carried most of the cost
#1959 removed. So the paths are added per zone, and the blanket `"off"` becomes
a facade-only config that keeps the `node:child_process` exemption it existed
for.

Planted red in all three zones — `src/core/capabilities.ts`, a `src/__tests__`
file, and `packages/capture-kit/src` — each flagged, while a type-only import in
the same probe file was not. A first probe read as a pass because the sed that
built it produced a type-only import; the zone was re-probed with a real value
import rather than trusting the green.

Misconfiguration fails loudly, which is why this is safe to rely on: a typo'd
rule name makes oxlint exit 1 with "Rule not found in plugin", not pass silently
(the failure mode #1976 records for the `rg` assertions).

What a linter cannot replace, and stays: the eager-closure budgets. Those are a
transitive-weight property — a module already imported grows an import, and the
cost arrives without any single file's import list changing. Per-file rules
cannot see that, and `no-restricted-imports` can only ban specifiers named in
advance, which is precisely what #1950/#1956/#1959 could not have named.

* docs(agents): simplify testing and pull-request guidance wording

testing.md sat 15 bytes under the 10k per-doc check:agent-guidance cap.
Rewrite both docs in shorter, plainer sentences without dropping any
fact, threshold, or identifier (backtick-identifier sets verified
unchanged against the previous revision). Also fix testing.md's gate
catalog sentence being separated from its code block and the missing
blank line before pull-requests.md's Reviewing section.
2026-08-24 16:40:53 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała 40e4b0dd3e docs(agents): restore and enforce progressive disclosure (#1888)
* docs(agents): restore and enforce progressive disclosure

* test(maestro): pin typed selector fallback signal

* docs(agents): address progressive disclosure review

* docs(agents): restore orphaned traps and close guidance-gate bypasses

- AGENTS.md: skills carry a minimal start/routing card; command semantics
  stay in versioned CLI help (the skills contract enumerates two skills by
  hand, so prose retains ownership for the rest)
- testing.md: restore the two local-only XCTest snags CI never hits
  (unsigned-bundle policy refusal signature + first-run automation permission)
- scripts/gate/routing.ts: record GitHub's 300-changed-file path-filter limit
  at the paths-ignore assertion it bounds
- agent-guidance-contract.test.ts: recurse docs/agents so nested guidance
  cannot evade the byte budgets while the gate stays green
2026-08-20 16:58:26 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała ef2094c9d7 docs: keep size review in CI and local feedback fast (#1842)
* feat(size): measure a base ref in one command (pnpm size --base <ref>)

The Size workflow already compares base and PR builds; locally that needed a
manual checkout, install, build, --json, and --compare dance, so budgets were
negotiated late. --base <ref> does the workflow's recipe in a detached worktree
under .tmp/size-base/<sha> (kept for reuse, other bases pruned) and compares
against it: first run ~1-2 min, later runs against the same base ~3s.

Documents the local caveat: npm tarball/unpacked rows compare a fresh base
against a working tree that may carry locally built helper artifacts.

* feat(tooling): pnpm pr:evidence — one paste-ready, SHA-stamped evidence block for PR bodies

Composes what the repo already measures instead of hand-transcribing it after
every rebase: exact merge-base and head, changed-file areas, the affected
selector's plan (local vs GitHub-authoritative, fail-open summarized), the
layering guard verdict, depgraph counts with a real delta against the base (a
throwaway git worktree, no install — the script analyzes its cwd while its
imports resolve from this checkout), and, behind flags, the changed-line
coverage table and pnpm size --base. It claims nothing about CI: the last line
links the head's checks. ~20s default tier.

The pure model (grouping, report parsing, rendering) has node:test coverage
registered as the pr-evidence-model gate, run in the Affected-check Selector
job next to the selector it reads.

* fix(tooling): pr:evidence measures pristine head/base worktrees from an os.tmpdir scratch; size --base gets a per-SHA lock, completion stamp, and non-destructive eviction

Review (three P1s):
- pr:evidence created its scratch under an untracked .tmp/ that a fresh
  checkout lacks (ENOENT). Scratch now lives under os.tmpdir(), which exists
  by construction; a real entrypoint regression runs the whole pipeline with
  --base HEAD (no origin/main needed) and asserts JSON shape plus cleanup of
  both worktrees and the scratch.
- Untracked or uncommitted production files could move the layering/depgraph
  numbers the block labels as HEAD's. Head is now measured from a pristine
  worktree of the head commit exactly like base, and the affected plan takes
  the head SHA (the literal HEAD folds the working tree in). The dirty flag
  now counts untracked files and says they are not in the block.
- size --base force-pruned other cached bases without locking and trusted a
  dist/src that could be half-built. Per-SHA .lock (pid, O_EXCL) held from
  before the worktree exists until the base report is read; a live lock on
  the same base fails fast, a stale one is replaced; eviction skips worktrees
  whose lock owner is alive; dist/.size-base-complete marks a finished build.
  Orchestration tests run the real script against a throwaway git repo with
  pnpm/npm shimmed on PATH (build once, reuse, live lock, stale lock,
  interrupted build, guarded vs idle eviction). Also fixes the /tmp →
  /private/tmp realpath mismatch those tests surfaced (git lists worktrees by
  real path, so the registration check removed a live worktree).

* fix(tooling): symlink-identity locks with compare-then-unlink; evict under the victim's lock; pr:evidence registers worktrees on add and cleans up exhaustively

Review (three P1s):
- Lock creation/takeover races: the lock is now a symlink whose target is
  the owner identity (pid:nonce), created with its identity in one syscall
  (no empty-file window), taken over only by compare-then-unlink on the exact
  identity judged stale, and verified after creation; release unlinks only a
  link that still names this run. Real overlapping-process tests: two runs on
  one base (exactly one builds, the other fails fast), and a takeover race
  against a simulated other taker across delays straddling the acquire window
  (a live lock is never unlinked, both never proceed).
- Cross-base eviction: a victim is removed only while holding its own lock,
  acquired through the same path, so a run wanting it after the check finds
  it locked rather than half-removed; a live-locked victim is skipped.
- pr:evidence worktrees: withWorktrees registers each worktree the moment its
  add succeeds and sweeps every resource on the way out, collecting failures
  instead of stopping at the first; planted reds for both (second add fails →
  first removed; removal of the middle one throws → the others still go).

* test(size): serialize the size --base orchestration file with the other real spawners

Caught running the full unit suite on the rebased branch: the file passed in
isolation but intermittently failed under broad file parallelism, where it took
14s versus ~5.5s alone. It spawns node scripts/size-report.mjs per case, which
spawns git and the shimmed package managers under it — the SUBPROCESS_STUB_TESTS
class exactly (starved spawns surface as a vitest test timeout instead of the
orchestration assertion the case is about), so it joins that serialized project
with its spawn named at the entry, per docs/agents/testing.md. No rerun layer is
involved: the flake is removed, not retried. Two full-suite runs green after.

* refactor(size): extract the base-cache claim protocol and make stale takeover atomic

Review (P1 + architecture):

Stale-claim removal was compare-then-unlink (readlink then unlink; lstat then
rm for a stray file), so another taker could replace the observed entry with
its live claim between the two syscalls and this run would delete the
replacement. Removal now happens only while holding the entry's takeover mutex
— an atomically created directory — and re-verifies the claim inside it. A
replacement can appear only by creating one on a free path (the abandoned
claim occupies it until the unlink) or by another takeover (needs the mutex),
so removal cannot delete a replacement. A mutex leaked by a process killed
inside its sub-millisecond critical section is reclaimed by age, and even a
wrong reclamation is contained: both takers re-verify inside, and the winner
is still decided by the atomic symlink() that follows.

The protocol moves out of size-report.mjs into scripts/size-base-cache.mjs
(AGENTS.md: extract past 500 LOC) — 719 → 536, with the entry lifecycle
(claim → evict others → ensure worktree → build if unstamped → measure →
release) owned by the module behind withPreparedBaseWorktree. Mirrored tests
in scripts/__tests__/size-base-cache.test.ts plant every dangerous
interleaving directly on the filesystem: replacement-after-observation, a
takeover held by another run, age reclamation, release-after-retarget, and a
stray non-symlink. They need no subprocess and run in 9ms, so the raced
single-process case was dropped from the orchestration file, which keeps only
what real processes can show. Planted red: removing the mutex makes the
contended case delete the claim it must not touch.

* ci(size): preserve the reporter's whole module graph, and gate that it stays whole

The Size workflow measures the base commit with the PR's reporter, so it
copies the reporter out of the tree before checking the base out. Extracting
size-base-cache.mjs made the reporter a two-file graph while the step still
copied one file, and the base measurement died with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND —
after every deterministic gate had passed, because nothing local reproduces
that copy.

The step now copies the scripts directory, so a further split cannot leave an
import behind, and size-report-preserved-closure.test.ts holds it to the
reporter's real relative-import closure and to running the preserved copy
rather than the checked-out tree. Planted red: restoring the single-file copy
fails both cases, naming scripts/size-base-cache.mjs. Verified by running the
reporter from a copied directory exactly as the workflow does.

* fix(size): the takeover mutex has one holder for life; split report publishing out of the reporter

Review (P1 + architecture):

Age-based reclamation of the takeover mutex reintroduced the split ownership
the mutex exists to prevent: a holder that is merely slow — paused or
SIGSTOPed past any threshold — could have its mutex force-removed and
replaced, putting two takers inside the supposedly exclusive section, where
either could unlink the claim the other had just created; the unconditional
pathname-based release could also delete the replacement mutex. The mutex is
now a symlink naming its holder, created in one syscall, never reclaimed at
any age, and released only by the run that owns it. A mutex leaked by a
process killed inside a three-syscall critical section wedges one cache entry
with the path to clear in the message, rather than silently deleting another
run's live claim. Planted red: restoring age reclamation displaces a
day-old delayed holder, which the new case pins.

Publishing the report to a PR is a separate question from measuring and
formatting it, so it moves to scripts/size-report-comment.mjs with the marker
and retry policy it owns; its existing regression drives it through the real
script unchanged. scripts/size-report.mjs is 386 LOC — under the 500 tripwire
and below the 512 it had on base.

* test: prove delayed size cache holder is preserved

* docs: keep size review in CI
2026-08-19 14:22:52 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała 72d421fe36 docs(agents): ADR 0019 unit checklist, owning-seam mock rule, worktree and rebase guidance (#1836)
* docs(agents): ADR 0019 unit checklist, owning-seam mock rule, worktree and rebase guidance

Retro follow-up (item 2). Adds docs/agents/adr-0019-unit.md — the order of
operations for one command unit with the declaration site for each step, the
evidence a unit review must carry, and what 'done' is not — so the pattern
rediscovered during the snapshot unit (#1779) is written down once.

testing.md: mock the seam the code under test consumes (fake inspectFacts /
bindDevice), not the generic dispatchCommand mock; a migrating command moves
its tests off the dispatch mock in the same PR.

AGENTS.md: fresh-worktree preflight (pnpm install + build in the worktree;
layering scan reads tracked files only) and concurrent-agent hygiene (one full
gate per host, verify subagent edits with git -C, one PR per worktree).

pull-requests.md: two readiness claims (published-and-reported vs merge-ready)
and the rebase rule — main has no up-to-date protection; rebase on conflict or
when `check:affected --base <merge-base> --head origin/main` names your surface.

* docs(agents): name the admitted-plan token in the ADR 0019 unit checklist (#1841)

* docs(agents): merge-ready owes live evidence only for changed device-facing paths

* docs(agents): the unit checklist documents the admission API on main; #1841 updates the row when it lands
2026-08-18 18:43:27 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała fa9a350361 docs: prefer design fixes over regression-only guards (#1722)
* ci: require simplicity review for large tooling changes

* docs: prefer design constraints over regression-only fixes

* docs: simplify design-first guidance
2026-08-10 21:15:41 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała 53e4be5f86 Remove SkillGym suite and repo-health snapshot infrastructure (#1480)
* chore: drop SkillGym and the repo-health aggregator (#1412 descope)

Remove the SkillGym harness (test/skillgym/), its check-affected lane,
package scripts, and devDependency — the help-conformance bench is now
the single non-gating small-model oracle. skills/ markdown classifies
as docs in the affected-check selector instead of failing open.

Remove scripts/repo-health: its only gating assertion duplicated the
Layering Guard job, its case-count metric imported the deleted SkillGym
suite, and its sole planned consumer (#1424 / PR #1477) was closed with
the Track C descope on #1412.

Verified: check-affected node --test suites, oxfmt, oxlint, tsc,
check:layering, fallow audit vs origin/main, and the full unit suite
(unit-core + subprocess-stub) all pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FUv7bvbWNryuXgSBuqTtep

* fix(scripts): fold slow-test budgets into the reporter for production-exports

The Fallow production-exports gate flagged all three budget exports:
their in-file consumer (SLOW_TEST_RATCHET) and the repo-health entry
point that kept the module reachable were both removed in the descope,
leaving the config-loaded reporter as the only consumer — invisible to
--production analysis. The data-only module's second consumer is gone,
so per the boundaries-are-earned norm the constants move into the
reporter instead of gaining a suppression.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FUv7bvbWNryuXgSBuqTtep

* docs: align skills/ format policy and purge last SkillGym mention

Address both P2 review findings on #1480: the testing-matrix row and
the selector's formatGate both still claimed oxfmt covers skills/,
while selectChecks classifies skills/*.md docs-only (oxfmt ignores
**/*.md, so the claim was a no-op even before). The matrix now states
the docs-only policy and formatGate drops the dead underSkills fact.
The merged examples/README.md index (from #1469) loses its skillgym
mention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FUv7bvbWNryuXgSBuqTtep

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 11:45:22 +02:00
Michał Pierzchała 1a76344685 docs: restructure AGENTS.md and CONTEXT.md for progressive disclosure (#1402)
* docs: restructure AGENTS.md and CONTEXT.md for progressive disclosure

Apply the Claude 5 context-engineering guidance to the repo's agent docs:
keep the always-loaded file to gotchas and invariants, and move situational
guidance one hop away behind a routing table.

AGENTS.md 315 -> 229 lines. Cut generic agent-behavior boilerplate, three-way
duplication (Common Mistakes restated Hard Rules; Finding Source Owners
restated the registry section), and facts visible from the repo itself.
Kept verbatim: the expensive-lessons principles, enforcement gates, Hard
Rules, and environment traps.

Split out docs/agents/{cli-flags,pull-requests,device-verification}.md and
folded the Testing Matrix into docs/agents/testing.md, reframed around
pnpm check:affected so the prose stops duplicating the selector.

CONTEXT.md keeps all 50 terms, now grouped under a section index so a task
loads one section instead of the whole glossary.

* fix(check-affected): move the selector-owning sentinel to the Testing Matrix

The Testing Matrix moved from AGENTS.md to docs/agents/testing.md, but the
affected-check selector still treated only AGENTS.md as selector-owning. A
later matrix edit would have been classified as inert docs and skipped the
fail-open, so the selector could keep deriving gates from a spec that had
changed underneath it.

Move the sentinel with the prose, as a named SELECTOR_OWNING_DOCS set so the
next move is one line, and fix the two in-code comments plus the testing.md
paragraph that still pointed at the AGENTS.md matrix.

* docs: restore two rules dropped by the AGENTS.md split

Review caught two repo-specific rules that did not survive the move. Both are
prose without any backticked identifier, so the identifier-diff used to verify
the split could not see them.

- "Test through public interfaces; do not add unrelated production exports
  solely to enable tests" returns next to the behavioral-tests rule in
  docs/agents/testing.md, with the reason it exists.
- The guidance-ownership rule (decide whether new guidance/schema/metadata
  belongs to the command surface, CLI grammar, CLI help, MCP projection, or
  daemon runtime) returns to the always-loaded Docs & skills section, since it
  governs all command-surface work and not just the flag case.

Also point the ADR routing row at docs/adr/README.md, which is already the
"read when you touch…" index, rather than at the bare directory.
2026-07-25 12:13:09 +02:00