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zernie d8c639f8da refactor(cli)!: consolidate the verb surface (13→8) + docs/README overhaul (#46)
* docs: sharpen README lint/guard copy

- Replace internal "7 catalogs" jargon with "7 linters (ESLint, Ruff,
  Clippy, and four more)"; Cedar stays in the subdoc
- Drop the plugin-audit paragraph from the Lint section (secondary use
  case, still reachable from More)
- Rewrite the Guard intro to lead with the concrete "fail open" failure
  and name what vigiles emits (exit code, JSON, AST-backed matcher)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: surface the $0/subscription cost story in the first paragraph

The "no metered tokens, runs on your Claude subscription" wedge was
buried in the last line of the Eval section. Pull a crisp version into
the opening paragraph (above the fold); the Eval section keeps the
detailed promptfoo/DeepEval contrast as proof.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: surface agent-writes-the-harness flow, reorder More, drop internal links

- Quick start now leads with "then your agent writes the harness for
  you": the three model-invocable skills (test-harness/strengthen/
  edit-spec) and the plain-English ask each one answers
- Reorder More so CLI sits above the leaderboard (whose link points into
  the CLI docs); trim the now-redundant Skills bullet to a pointer
- Stop linking internal research/ docs from the README (the moat link and
  the Research index) per public-vs-internal-docs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(compile): auto-refresh an existing harness.gen.ts

compile now keeps a whole-harness registry in sync as a side effect, so
the user never hand-runs generate-harness. Gated on the file already
existing (compile maintains a registry you opted into, never imposes
one) and cheap (parses specs, no linter spawn — unlike generate-types/
generate-schema, which spawn every linter and stay on the config-change
guard). A duplicate agent name fails the compile.

Docs: note the auto-refresh in the compile section and mark the
generate-* artifacts as dev-toolchain output rarely run by hand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(src): add nested CLAUDE.md with a high-bar-for-new-commands rule

Directory-scoped guidance loaded when working in src/: adding a new CLI
verb or hook-runtime subcommand must clear a high bar (genuinely new
mental action, no overlap with an existing command, siblings collapse to
one verb + subcommand, runtime entrypoints stay hidden). Complements the
root cohesive-cli-surface rule, placed next to the code that defines the
command surface (cli.ts, cli-commands.ts). Spec-managed (require-spec +
integrity); dogfoods vigiles compile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: drop the "(generated)" annotation from the API reference link

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(build): stop src/CLAUDE.md.spec.ts shadowing the root spec + add docs rule

The nested src/CLAUDE.md.spec.ts (added last commit) compiles under
rootDir:src to dist/CLAUDE.md.spec.js — the exact path loadSpec resolves
the root CLAUDE.md.spec.ts to, so recompiling the root spec loaded the
src spec and clobbered CLAUDE.md. Exclude src/*.md.spec.ts from tsc so
both load via the tsx fallback (as the root always has).

Also adds the no-internal-links-in-public-docs guidance rule (public
docs never link research/*.md; keep the fact in research, don't link it),
reconciles the old "link to research" line in public-vs-internal-docs,
and files the deterministic lint-rule version as a P1 roadmap item.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: separate public/internal indexes + surface eval safety

- docs/README.md no longer links into internal research/ (public docs
  don't point at the private record)
- research/README.md is explicitly labelled the internal record
- README Eval section gains a "Safe to repeat" note (sandbox + ephemeral
  dir + egress + interceptTools, past-the-sandbox case flagged) linking
  docs/safety.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: stop public docs linking internal research/ + add safety FAQ

Strip every research/*.md link from docs/*.md (the no-internal-links-in-
public-docs rule) — ~60 links across 16 guides plus the docs/ index;
prose kept readable, no orphaned research doc (all still cited from
CLAUDE.md keyFiles / research/README.md, orphan-docs green).

Add a FAQ to docs/safety.md answering the side-effects-beyond-the-sandbox
question honestly: network via egress allowlist, a real DB/redis/browser
via a disposable container you stand up (turnkey provisioning is a
committed next step), irreversible externals via interceptTools, and the
no-Docker deterministic/record-replay tiers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(cli)!: consolidate verbs — measure/explain→scan flags, refs→lint, generate-*→generate <kind>

De-sprawl the human verb surface from 13 to 8 (the high-bar-for-new-commands
rule, dogfooded). All breaking:

- `measure <dir>` → `scan <dir> --trigger` (the model-gated behavioral
  column folded into scan; trigger-rate + collision matrix unchanged)
- `explain <dir> [name]` → `scan <dir> --explain [name]` (the deterministic
  WHY, a sibling of --fix-plan on the same ScanReport)
- `refs <file>` → folded into `lint` (the unmarked-refs check is already a
  lint rule; the PostToolUse hook keeps its shared collectRefIssues entry)
- `generate-types|schema|harness` → `generate <kind>` (one verb + subcommand;
  the three dev-toolchain generators grouped, not N hyphenated siblings)

scan reuses handleMeasure/handleExplain directly behind --trigger/--explain.
Docs, help text, the regen guard, tests, and the self-command-refs dogfood
all updated together (cohesive-cli-surface); 1588 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: split the GitHub Action reference out of cli.md into its own doc

cli.md was 718 lines (kitchen sink). Extract the ~108-line GitHub Action
section into docs/github-action.md (quick start, inputs, output channels,
versioning) and leave a short pointer; retitle the cli.md intro. Update
the README More bullet (CLI · GitHub Action) and the docs index. cli.md
→ 619 lines. orphan-docs + self-command-refs green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(lint): add prefer-compiled-hooks rule — one nudge toward compiled hooks

A single repo-level recommendation (one finding regardless of hook count):
when a plugin ships hand-written hook commands that aren't compiled
vigiles/hook artifacts, nudge toward compiling them — the message links
docs/compiled-hooks.md and points at guardrail-check for verifying the
ones you have.

A discovery nudge, not a defect: the hand-written shell lane stays
first-class, so it fires ONCE (never per-hook), defaults to warn (info-
level ℹ; informational, doesn't fail CI), and is opt-out. Detector
(manualHookCount: a command that isn't a hook-runtime invocation) lives
in scan.ts and is shared by scan + lint (one-detector-no-drift). Doc +
matrix rows added (rules-docs-in-sync). Honest caveat in the doc: it's
form-based, so it stays a recommendation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(research): record the eval-startups critique mapped onto positioning

New research/eval-startups-positioning.md captures Thomas Liao's "why eval
startups fail" critique and its implications: vigiles dodges the trap
(harness-eval not model-eval, tooling not services, eval already a feature),
but it's a yellow flag on the public ecosystem-benchmark as a MOAT
(Goodhart-gameable → keep it a thin acquisition flywheel) and it
independently validates the attestation/safety direction (capability-diff,
guardrail proof) as the only defensible eval-shaped niche.

Linked from research/README.md, measurement-authority.md (whose benchmark
thesis it challenges), and strategic-synthesis-2026-06.md (whose Tier-2
conformance/attestation play it validates). Internal-only per
no-internal-links-in-public-docs; orphan-docs green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: purge internal positioning from public docs (jargon, name-drops, benchmark)

Public docs (README + docs/) now state user-facing value, not vigiles's
internal strategic vocabulary:

- strip "moat" from 14 places → user-facing wording (engine / cost
  advantage / differentiator / cross-reference)
- remove all bare research/*.md name-drops from docs/ (the backtick form
  the link-strip + deterministic check miss); scope-descriptions reworded
  to "configured directories" rather than naming research/
- README: drop the "ranks the hyped ecosystem: what works vs hype"
  benchmark banner from the Eval row + kicker (depth stays in
  measuring-skills.md) — per eval-startups, the benchmark is a flywheel,
  not a headline
- docs/cli.md: "moat #2 (research/…)" → "the capability-diff check"

Codified in CLAUDE.md: public-vs-internal-docs now has a strategic-
vocabulary clause (moat/measurement-authority/flywheel stay internal;
public docs name the benefit), so this doesn't regress. orphan-docs +
self-command-refs green; the public↔private split stays docs/ vs research/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(readme): apply multi-persona review fixes

From a multi-persona README review (power user / staff eng / plugin author
/ non-TS user / eng manager):

- non-TS users: a visible "No TypeScript needed — lint + inline comments
  work on any CLAUDE.md" line (was invisible; contradicted progressive adoption)
- plugin authors: surface "vigiles scan ranks a marketplace, no key" above
  the fold (was buried in More)
- eng-manager cost: hero now says deterministic layers run free in CI;
  merged kicker+affordability nails "real-model on a dev's own subscription,
  never a CI token"
- staff-eng skepticism: the 2/7→7/7 claim now reads "measured, not asserted";
  the typed-pipeline claim is concretized to the real pipe()/needs() mechanism
- fixed a broken blockquote and trimmed the safe-to-repeat para to hold length

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(readme): capture the README design direction as an editor-facing comment

A top-of-file comment block records the framing the README must hold: lead
with benefits, present compiled specs as the easy/auto-enforced next step
(skills write them, hooks compile them; JS→TS evolution, not a wall), keep
all four instruments first-class incl. Eval, stay scannable + under the
length cap, and no internal vocabulary/research links. Guides future edits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(readme): benefits-forward rewrite + specs-are-easy framing

Per the README direction: lead with what the user GETS, and present the
typed spec as the frictionless auto-enforced next step, not a TS wall.

- hero: stronger, concrete failure modes (stale ref / guard fails open /
  skill never fires), keeps Agent=Model frame, cost above the fold;
  dropped the redundant centered pitch (merge)
- table cells condensed to punchy benefit one-liners
- "You don't hand-write specs — your agent does. TypeScript for your
  harness: opt-in, gradual, auto-compiled, never a chore" (skills write
  them; JS→TS evolution)
- de-dupe cost (drop "not metered tokens" from the Test cell)
- "Not for you if …" honest-scope line
- docs/verifying-instruction-files.md: back the claim — "you rarely
  hand-write one; edit-spec/strengthen write it, a hook recompiles on save"

Eval stays a first-class instrument. fmt + self-command-refs + orphan-docs green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(readme): don't lead callouts with "typed spec" — benefit first

Casual readers shouldn't be greeted by "a typed spec is a program" /
"TypeScript for your harness" in the prominent callouts. Reframe both to
lead with the outcome and demote the spec to a soft, opt-in aside:

- specs-are-easy block: "You don't hand-write any of this — your agent
  does … you never touch it by hand" (drop the TypeScript-for-your-harness
  headline)
- Lint blockquote: "Bad states stop compiling … turn it up only when you
  want it" (drop "Markdown is prose; a typed spec is a program")
- the edit-spec bullet says "edits the source", not "the typed spec"

"No TypeScript?" reassurance and the optional .spec.ts mention stay.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: refresh HANDOFF for the CLI-consolidation + docs/README overhaul session

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: prettier-format HANDOFF

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): update the stale generate-types ref the verb rename missed

The CI "Check generated types compile" step ran `node dist/cli.js
generate-types` — renamed to `generate types` in the verb consolidation,
so the job failed with "Unknown command". self-command-refs didn't catch
it because it didn't scan .github/; add .github/ to its scan scope so a
stale `cli.js <cmd>` ref in a workflow fails the dogfood from now on.

Also saves the prefer-compiled-hooks-vs-require-hook-spec decision to
research/hook-modes-and-testing.md (the nudge, not a requirement; the
write-hook authoring skill is the real authoring lever, unbuilt).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(lint): eslint-ignore src/*.md.spec.ts (excluded from tsconfig)

The dist-collision fix excluded src/*.md.spec.ts from tsconfig, so
eslint's type-aware project service can't resolve src/CLAUDE.md.spec.ts
and errors "not found by the project service". It's a tsx-loaded build
input (like the root CLAUDE.md.spec.ts, which isn't linted either), so
ignore it in eslint to match. Latent since the exclude landed; surfaced
now that the earlier generate-types step no longer fails first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-25 01:20:05 +07:00
zernie 66ca161e8b fix: round-2 dogfooding fixes for untested-surface, audit rename, orphans, loose-skill evals (#35)
* fix: round-2 dogfooding fixes for untested-surface, audit rename, orphans, loose-skill evals

- untested-surface: discover colocated tests under dot dirs (dot:true), so a
  `.claude/skills/<name>/<name>.eval.mjs` the warning suggests actually counts
  as coverage instead of leaving the nudge unsatisfiable.
- init: flag a CI workflow that still calls a renamed/removed subcommand
  (`vigiles audit` → `lint`) even when the Action or a modern command is also
  present, instead of reporting it "up to date".
- orphan-docs: honor an inline `<!-- vigiles-disable orphan-docs -->` opt-out
  and point the failing message at both escape hatches (inline disable +
  .vigilesrc.json orphans.exclude/include).
- measureTriggerRate: accept a loose `skillsDir` (e.g. .claude/skills) and
  auto-package it into a throwaway --plugin-dir via packageSkillsDir, so
  trigger-testing repo-local skills is a one-liner.
- docs/strings: replace stale `vigiles audit` command references with
  `vigiles lint` (schema descriptions, hook/skill prose, CLAUDE.md).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat: make strengthen/edit-spec model-invocable, tidy skill packaging, harden agent install

Skills are useless if nobody remembers to run them. Address discovery + install
gaps surfaced in the dogfood review:

- strengthen + edit-spec are now MODEL-INVOCABLE (drop disable-model-invocation)
  with sharpened, precision-aware descriptions, so the agent reaches for them on
  its own — "strengthen my rules" / "add a rule to CLAUDE.md" fire the skill.
  The pre-edit hook already points at edit-spec when it blocks a direct edit;
  making it model-invocable closes that loop. Each gets a dogfood trigger eval
  (recall + precision) so auto-firing doesn't become over-firing.
- Merge generate-rule into edit-spec (rule classification absorbed) and delete
  it. Fix stale commands in edit-spec (vigiles check->lint, setup->init, the old
  `npx skills add` vendoring installer -> marketplace).
- linter-docs gets a real SKILL.md (user-invoked reference), fixing the
  packaging smell of a skills/ dir with no SKILL.md.
- Bump .claude-plugin/plugin.json version 3.0.0 -> 4.0.1 (was stale).
- Harden installPlugins: on auto-install failure/no-CLI, fail LOUDLY and lead
  with the shell-runnable CLI commands (an agent can run those) instead of only
  /plugin slash commands a non-TTY agent can't execute.
- Sweep remaining stale `vigiles audit` -> `lint` (example spec).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* refactor: remove the renamed `audit` command everywhere; rename lint-command internals

`audit` became `lint` in v4 but the old name lingered. Purge it:

- cli.ts: rename the lint command's internals (audit()->runLint, AuditReport->
  LintReport, auditExitCode->lintExitCode, printAuditSummary->printLintSummary,
  annotateAuditForGitHub->annotateLintForGitHub) + comments. Keep the
  REMOVED_SUBCOMMANDS `audit: "lint"` detection key (it matches the OLD name).
- FUNCTIONAL: bench scripts invoked `node $CLI audit SKILL.md` (removed cmd) —
  now `lint`.
- docs/research/comments: `vigiles audit` -> `vigiles lint`, and the command-
  sense word "audit" -> "lint".
- Kept genuinely-distinct uses: the post-session AUDIT feature (session.ts),
  the Merkle "audit trail", the supply-chain audit / scan concept, the
  dev-only `audit-feedback-loop` skill, and English "you audited the code".
- Left third-party vendored fixtures (SHA-pinned) untouched.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat: prompt-diversity gate for trigger evals + raise auto-skill recall bar to 0.8

Task: ensure shipped model-invocable skills have evals, and validate prompt sets
are big/varied enough before spending tokens.

- measureTriggerRate now runs a deterministic pre-flight gate (no model): each
  prompt set needs >= minPrompts (default 10) and no two prompts more than
  maxSimilarity (default 0.8) alike via normalized Levenshtein. Throws with an
  actionable message before any run. Exports levenshtein/promptSimilarity/
  checkPromptDiversity/assertPromptDiversity; minPrompts/maxSimilarity are
  per-spec overridable (narrow skills, short walkthroughs).
- Expanded all shipped model-invocable dogfood evals (test-harness, strengthen,
  edit-spec) to 10 diverse relevant + 10 irrelevant prompts and raised the bar:
  recall min 0.8, maxFalsePositive 0.3. generate-logo + the canonical template
  expanded to 10; the OMC walkthrough sets minPrompts: 3.
- All shipped skills are covered: the 3 auto skills by trigger evals, the
  user-invoked (migrate-to-spec, linter-docs) by the load gate.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* refactor: use NCD (gzip) instead of Levenshtein for prompt-diversity check

Levenshtein measured spelling; switch the prompt-diversity gate to Normalized
Compression Distance — the SAME engine `findSimilarRules` uses for near-
duplicate rule detection, so the project has one house algorithm for "are these
two texts basically the same". NCD scores shared structure/redundancy (a
templated prompt with one word swapped compresses together), which is exactly
the lazy copy-paste set the gate should reject.

- Drop hand-rolled levenshtein/promptSimilarity; add promptDistance (= ncd over
  normalized text), reusing src/core/proofs.ts ncd().
- TriggerRateSpec: maxSimilarity -> minDistance (default 0.3, the rule-dup
  threshold). Calibration: real 10-prompt sets sit at NCD >= 0.44; near-dup
  pairs (one-word swaps, punctuation) at <= 0.24 — clean separation at 0.3.
- Tests updated to NCD distance.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat: stubSkillBodies — measure skill triggering on frontmatter only

Trigger-rate is decided by a skill's frontmatter (name + description) before its
body ever loads, so the body is causally downstream of selection. stubSkillBodies
keeps every skill's frontmatter (the selection competition stays faithful) but
replaces each body with a no-op stub, so a trigger run stops AT selection instead
of executing an expensive multi-step procedure — far cheaper, faster, side-
effect-free, without changing what's measured. ~95% smaller skill payload.

- stubSkillBody (pure) + packageSkillsDir({ stub }) (frontmatter-only package).
- resolveTriggerPluginDir stubs both paths (pluginDir + skillsDir), preserving
  the plugin NAME so `<name>:<skill>` still matches the fired predicate.
- TriggerRateSpec.stubSkillBodies (default off; on in all trigger evals).
- Needs one real-model run to confirm the Skill tool still resolves under a
  stubbed body (the deterministic transform is fully tested here).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* fix(init): scaffold spec imports only `claude` so it passes strict ESLint

The generated CLAUDE.md.spec.ts imported `{ claude, enforce, guidance }` but the
enforce()/guidance() examples are commented out, so a repo running
`eslint . --max-warnings=0` (common in CI) failed on two no-unused-vars warnings
the moment the scaffold was committed. Import only `claude` (the symbol the
scaffold actually uses); show the fuller import as a comment for when a real
rule is added. Regression test guards the import line.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(init): --force rewrites a stale CI workflow in place

Round-2 follow-up: instead of only warning about a stale workflow, `vigiles init
--force` fixes it. A renamed/removed subcommand (vigiles audit) is rewritten
surgically in place (audit → lint, the rest of the user's workflow preserved); a
bare-`npx vigiles` no-op workflow is regenerated from the template. Without
--force the behavior is unchanged (warn, don't clobber) and the warning now points
at --force. Pure `rewriteRemovedSubcommands` + force plumbed through setup-plan;
unit + CLI integration tests.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs: positioning for the eval-tier decision + new trigger-rate features

- research/eval-api-landscape.md: dated decision — harness eval ≠ model eval
  (fidelity to the harness-as-shipped is why promptfoo et al. can't host it);
  keep the deterministic tiers, keep the real-model surface thin (stubSkillBodies
  = selection not execution), don't rebuild the eval stack, model fidelity is the
  one on-moat refinement.
- CLAUDE.md(.spec): second-pillar paragraph gains the harness-eval-≠-model-eval
  framing; src/eval.ts Key Files entry documents skillsDir/packageSkillsDir,
  stubSkillBodies, and the NCD prompt-diversity gate.
- docs/harness-testing.md: trigger-rate section documents skillsDir,
  stubSkillBodies, the diversity gate, and measuring on the user's real model.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs(research): testing-API design proposal — the ideal shape

Synthesizes "what makes a world-class testing API" (deterministic assertion libs:
node:assert/Chai/Vitest/Testing-Library/fast-check; AI-eval: promptfoo/DeepEval/
Inspect) with the "do we need all these layers?" question into one conclusion:

- One Trace (already the substrate); a single declarative `check` vocabulary
  evaluated two ways — strict (throw, unit/integration) vs scored (0-1 ± se,
  eval). Collapses today's predicate/assert*/matcher 3× into one surface and
  unifies deterministic + non-deterministic.
- Three tiers, not four: e2e is integration + one egress symbol → fold egress in
  as a capability of integration, keep the capability ladder.
- Checks-as-data ⇒ JUnit/baseline/regression + a promptfoo bridge fall out free.
- Recommends option C (declarative checks) + D (property-test add-on for hooks).

Indexed in CLAUDE.md Key Files + research/README; no users yet, so it's framed as
a clean-break design, not a migration.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* fix(orphan-docs): resolve file-relative markdown links; refine tier taxonomy in design doc

- orphans.ts: a markdown link is conventionally file-relative ([x](foo.md) in
  research/README.md → research/foo.md, ../docs/x.md walks up). The detector only
  matched root-relative paths, so a bare sibling link read as an orphan. Now
  credits BOTH readings (refTargets resolves against the source file's dir +
  keeps the root-relative reading). Tests for same-dir and ../ links.
- testing-api-design.md: fold in the two taxonomy questions. The layer names are
  borrowed from app testing, not derived: the harness has only TWO execution
  scopes (hook = the one standalone-process surface; harness = the whole agent,
  since skills/CLAUDE.md/settings only act inside a live agent) over a static lint
  floor. integration/e2e/eval are the SAME scope under realness flags (model
  mock|real, egress) — model picks the verdict mode (mock→strict, real→scored).
  "unit only works with hooks" is structural, not a missing capability; each layer
  adds exactly one capability (the ladder). Recommends runHook + runHarness(flags)
  over the four borrowed tiers.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(check): Phase 0 — the declarative `vigiles/check` vocabulary

First step of the testing-API revamp (research/testing-api-design.md). A check is
DATA, not a throwing assert: { kind, eval(target) → {pass, score, message},
toJSON() }, typed over Trace (tool/skill/output/hookFired/wrote) vs HookRunResult
(blocked/allowed). One vocabulary, to be evaluated two ways downstream — strict
(expect, Phase 1) and scored (measure, Phase 3) — so a check reads as pass/fail on
one run AND a rate across trials, and serializes (JUnit/baseline/promptfoo-bridge
fall out later).

- src/check.ts + src/check.test.ts (pure, model-free; the failure MESSAGE is
  tested as much as the verdict).
- Exported at `vigiles/check` only — NOT folded into vigiles/testing yet, since
  hookFired collides with the legacy predicate (reconciled in Phase 6).
- Additive: nothing removed; 889 tests green.
- Build plan appended to the design doc as Part 6 (Phase 0 marked shipped).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(check): Phase 1 — strict evaluator (assertChecks) + check matcher veneer

- assertChecks(target, checks): the strict evaluator — throws collecting ALL
  failed checks' messages (Validation-applicative, not short-circuit). Any runner.
- vigilesMatchers gains ONE generic veneer for the whole vocabulary:
  expect(r).toPass(tool("Bash")) / toPassAll([...]) — each carries the check's own
  failure message. vitest/jest type augmentations added; cross-runner tests prove
  toPass works under both.
- Additive: the legacy predicate/assert*/matcher surface is untouched (it gets
  removed in Phase 6). 891 tests green.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(harness): Phase 2 — runHarness, the explicit harness-scope entry

Establishes the collapsed naming from Part 4: the harness has two execution
scopes (hook = runHook, harness = the whole agent); integration/e2e/eval are the
ONE harness scope under realness flags. runHarness is the DETERMINISTIC harness
run (model: "mock", default) — behaviour identical to runHarnessTest, which it
wraps. A real-model harness run is non-deterministic, so a single one can't be
asserted: runHarness(spec, { model: "real" }) throws and points at measure() /
runEval (the eval scope). Unit-tested (the guard needs no claude). The e2e barrel
fold + a materialized real path remain for Phase 6.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(check): Phases 3+4 — measure() over checks + serialization (toJUnit, assertRates)

Phase 3 — the SCORED evaluator. measure(spec, { trials, checks }) scores a Trace
check vocabulary across trials → per-check rate ± se + pass^k, reusing the tested
runEvalWith aggregation (one arm). measureWith takes an injected runner (unit-
tested, no model); measure wraps it with the real CLI. Defaults to model "sonnet"
(measure on the model your users run). So `tool("Bash")` reads pass/fail strictly
(assertChecks) AND as a rate here — one vocabulary, two evaluators.

Phase 4 — serialization → CI. checkReportToJUnit (each check a <testcase>, fails
below `min`) + assertRates (the scored gate) + formatCheckReport, all keyed off
checkLabel(check.toJSON()). Because a check is data, JUnit/baseline/promptfoo-
bridge fall out. Pure + unit-tested. (Wiring into the Action/baseline is the
remaining CI-integration step.)

894 tests green.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(run-hook): Phase 5 — propertyHook, invariant testing for a hook's decision

A hook is (event) → decision, so instead of a few example events, generate MANY
and assert invariants hold for every decision ("destructive command ⇒ blocked",
"never both allow and block"). Reuses the deterministic propertyTest from
proofs.ts (seeded, shrinks the counterexample; no fast-check dep). The `decide`
runner is injectable — pure fake for unit tests, `(e) => runHook(cmd, e)` for a
real hook. Returns the shrunk counterexample, not a throw, so it's inspectable.
Test: a correct guard satisfies the invariant; a buggy one (blocks only the exact
"rm -rf /") gets a "rm -rf foo" counterexample found. 895 tests green.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs(check): Phase 6 — front-door the new check surface; defer the mass deletion

The new world-class surface (Phases 0-5) is now the documented front door:
docs/harness-testing.md gains a "Checks — one vocabulary, two evaluators" section
leading with assertChecks / measure / toPass; the design doc marks Phases 0-5
shipped; CLAUDE.md Key Files note runHarness/measure/propertyHook/toPass.

DELIBERATELY NOT done: ripping out the ~40 legacy predicate/assert*/matcher
helpers + the e2e barrel and rewriting the ~900-test suite/examples off them. On a
no-users lib that's high-churn cleanup with no functional gain and real regression
risk — the legacy surface stays as working sugar, removed in a single separately-
reviewed major-version cleanup (resolving the check↔testing hookFired collision
then). The breaking step is the one to take slowly.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* refactor(testing): fold check into testing/unit; collapse e2e into integration

The "breaking cleanup" — done at its true (small) blast radius, not the feared
900-test rewrite:
- vigiles/check folds into vigiles/testing + vigiles/unit; the check `hookFired`
  (Check<Trace>) supersedes the legacy boolean predicate via an explicit
  re-export that wins over the two `export *`s. Checks (tool/skill/output/...,
  assertChecks, measure, propertyHook) are now first-class at the front door.
- e2e collapsed: egress is a CAPABILITY of integration (egressRoutes + runHook's
  egress:{allow}), not a tier — the old e2e barrel added exactly one symbol.
  vigiles/e2e stays as a thin deprecated alias so imports keep working.

KEPT (deliberately): the bare predicates + per-runner assert*/matcher fronts.
They're not redundant — they're context-appropriate surfaces (compose / node:test
/ vitest-jest) now unified UNDER one check vocabulary. Deleting them would be
churn without a greatness gain. 895 tests green, types + cross-runner pass.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs(testing-api): Part 7 — greatness re-evaluation + ranked eval-side gaps

Post-cleanup assessment: the API is great on the two deciding axes (unification:
one Trace / one check vocabulary / two evaluators / serialized; and the moat: the
deterministic no-key tiers + pass^k/significance/fidelity nobody else has).
Extensibility is strong; the one seam to watch is Check.eval being sync (fine
incl. a judge()-backed check; an async scorer would need an AsyncCheck for
measure only). Ranked gaps, eval-side first: (1) judged() model-graded check —
judge() exists but isn't a Check; fits the sync interface; #1 parity gap;
(2) cost/latency/tokens checks (data already captured); (3) checks × A/B arms +
significance (unify the harness-A/B moat with measure); (4) multi-surface CC eval
— Trace is single+flat, no nested subagent/Task traces, slash-command expansion,
multi-turn, or mcp() checks (the deep, new-capability bet); (5) real-tier Trace
fidelity (modelRequests mock-only); (6) CC-feature drift maintenance.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(check): close eval-side gaps — judged/cost/latency/tokens/mcp checks, measureArms + significance, harness-agnostic

- judged(rubric, { min, judge }) — model-graded check (LLM rubric) via an
  injectable judge fn (default real judge(), sync via spawnSync), composes into
  measure/assertRates/toJUnit. Closes the promptfoo llm-rubric / DeepEval GEval gap.
- cost/latency/tokens — Check<UsageTrace> over a run's usage; measure.checks
  widened to Check<RunContext> so they compose with behavioural checks.
- mcp(server, tool) — matches the mcp__server__tool tool name.
- measureArms(spec, { arms, checks }) + compareCheck(report, baseline, arm, i):
  the SAME checks scored per arm, with Welch significance (reuses stats.ts) —
  unifies the harness-A/B moat with the check vocabulary.
- Harness axis: a test pins that checks are harness-agnostic (evaluate over a
  Codex-sparse Trace — output passes, tool/hookFired fail gracefully). Runners
  dispatch via adapter; measureWith/measureArmsWith take an injectable runner so a
  Codex eval reuses the same checks.

All unit-tested with fakes (no model). 900 tests green. Design doc Part 7 updated:
gaps 1-3 + mcp shipped; nested-trace (subagents/turns) is the remaining big bet.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs(harness-testing): add the vitest/jest setup + matcher matrix

The reference table we'd flagged in the vitest/jest discussion: a two-column
setup matrix (vitest vs jest: config / per-file / manual) and a matcher table
(toPass / toPassAll / toHaveCreated / toBlock / toBeatBaseline → asserts → over
which result), leading with toPass as the one matcher fronting the whole check
vocabulary. Makes the runner story scannable instead of prose.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(check): nested subagent traces — Trace.subagents + subagent() check

The deep gap's first piece: a subagent (Task) runs its own session, recoverable
because CC tags its events with parent_tool_use_id (= the Task tool call) and the
Task input carries subagent_type. parseSubagents groups the tagged tool calls into
Trace.subagents (keyed by name); subagent(name, [checks]) runs the WHOLE check
vocabulary recursively over that sub-trace, so a test/eval can assert what the
subagent DID, not just that Task fired. Wired into makeResult (harness) +
makeContext (eval); empty for harnesses that don't emit parent_tool_use_id (Codex)
so it stays harness-agnostic. parseSubagents + the check unit-tested on synthetic
stream-json; flagged in Part 7 for one real-CC-subagent run to confirm the field
names. 902 tests green.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(check): slash-command-expansion (received) + multi-turn (turns) checks

Closes the last two pieces of gap #4, both unit-tested:
- received(matcher): the expanded slash command (or a hook's injected context)
  actually REACHED the model — reads modelRequests (mock/harness tier captures
  them; the eval tier captures none, with an explicit message saying so).
- turns({min,max}): the multi-turn observable — the agent took a back-and-forth,
  not a one-shot (the deterministic harness already scripts multiple model turns
  via ModelTurn[]; this asserts how many it took).

Remaining (smaller, noted in Part 7): driving multiple USER messages
(--resume-style, unverifiable here) + per-turn trace slicing. 904 tests green.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs(check): validate the subagent parser schema against Claude Code stream-json

Confirmed via the Claude Code SDK docs / guide: subagent events carry a top-level
`parent_tool_use_id` (= the Task tool-use id), the Task input carries
`subagent_type`, linked by tool_use id — exactly what parseSubagents assumes, on
the same CLI `message.content` line shape parseToolCalls already consumes (the SDK
StreamEvent `event:{delta}` shape is a different, unused format). No code change —
the parser is validated; dropped the "needs a real run to confirm" caveat in the
comment + Part 7.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* test(dogfood): exercise the new check capabilities on real targets

- checks-dogfood.harness.mjs — RUNS here (claude, no key): assertChecks over a
  real runHook (blocked/allowed) + a real runHarness mock run (turns/output).
  Validated end-to-end, not just unit-tested with fakes.
- dogfood/skill-quality.eval.mjs — the SCORED path on vigiles's OWN strengthen
  skill: measure({ checks: [skill, judged, cost] }) + assertRates (does it fire,
  is the suggestion good, is it cheap). Write-don't-run (needs a key).
- subagent.eval.mjs — the nested-trace check on a REAL subagent (vigiles ships
  none): the vendored oh-my-claudecode code-reviewer, dispatched via Task;
  subagent("code-reviewer", [tool("Read")]) asserts what the subagent DID.

Note: the harness-tier dogfood asserts the cross-version-reliable observables
(turns/output); tool-call capture in a bare run is plugin/permission-dependent
(the fuller pluginDir tests in harness-test.test.ts cover it). 904 green.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs: document the mock-tier tool-capture fidelity edge (diagnosed, not a check bug)

Diagnosed the flaky tool-call capture from the dogfood: the full stream shows the
mock's scripted Write tool_use is never surfaced ("tool_use" absent, only the
text turn, plus a spurious rate_limit_event from a LOCAL mock) — a mock↔claude
desync with the current version, isolated to a BARE runHarness. The established
pluginDir configs capture tools fine (the Skill test runs + passes here).
Confirmed it's not permissions (acceptEdits didn't help, reverted), not the parser
(tool_use isn't in the stream), and not the check API. Noted in Part 7 gap #5 as a
harness-fidelity backlog item; the reliable observables (hooks/turns/output/
received) are unaffected.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs(harness-testing): make the full check vocabulary + measureArms discoverable

The guide had the Checks intro but not the vocabulary itself. Added a scannable
reference table (tool/skill/mcp/subagent/output/received/hookFired/turns/wrote/
judged/cost-latency-tokens/blocked-allowed → holds-when → over-which-result),
plus a brief measureArms+compareCheck (A/B with Welch significance) and
propertyHook note. So a user can discover the new capabilities, not just read
that they exist.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* fix(harness): match subagent dispatch by subagent_type input, not tool name

A real `claude` run revealed the subagent dispatch tool is named `Agent`
on the live CLI, not `Task` as older docs say. parseSubagents now keys off
the `subagent_type` input field (present on the dispatch tool_use regardless
of its name) so it survives the rename. Validated end-to-end against real
claude output, which recovered the dispatched subagent and its tool calls.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(eval): support stubSkillBodies in measure for cheap skill-firing checks

measure() now takes stubSkillBodies (the same body-stub the trigger tier
uses, via a shared stubbedPluginDir helper): a skill-FIRING check (skill())
stops the selected skill at selection instead of running its often-expensive
procedure, so a description/firing run costs a fraction of the tokens.
Requires pluginDir; throws if combined without one. Not for judged/quality
checks — the body is gone. Refactors resolveTriggerPluginDir to reuse the
extracted stubbedPluginDir helper. Unit-tested (stubbed body in the packaged
plugin, cleanup after, the no-pluginDir guard).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* chore(types): regenerate project-file types to include src/check

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* docs(dogfood): add cheap firing-only eval using measure + stubSkillBodies

A shipped dogfood example for the body-stub path: measure({ checks: [skill,
latency], stubSkillBodies: true }) on the strengthen skill, the cheap sibling
of skill-quality.eval.mjs (which keeps the body to grade quality). Makes the
~18x firing-check saving discoverable, not just unit-tested. Smoke-run against
real claude: both checks 100% (skill fires, run stays fast).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* feat(eval): support stubSkillBodies in measureArms for cheap A/B firing tests

Brings measureArms to parity with measure: an A/B firing comparison (does
description variant A fire more reliably than B?) now stubs each arm's skill
bodies via stubSkillBodies. Every arm that sets a pluginDir is repackaged with
bodies stripped (frontmatter kept) through the shared stubbedPluginDir helper,
so each run stops at selection — a fraction of the tokens, per-arm. Arms without
a pluginDir pass through untouched; throwaways are cleaned up in a finally.
Not for judged/quality checks — the body is gone. Unit-tested (both arms see a
stubbed throwaway, originals untouched, cleanup after).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

* test(eval): restore 100% coverage for the stubSkillBodies + check surfaces

CI's coverage gate (100% lines/functions/statements on the harness-testing
files) flagged uncovered paths accumulated across the revamp: the measure/
measureArms stubSkillBodies branches and their helpers (stubbedPluginDir,
skillsDirOf .claude/skills fallback, pluginName missing-manifest catch,
packageSkillsDir missing-dir throw + non-directory entry skip), checkLabel's
no-arg fallback, and the toPass/toPassAll matchers. Adds targeted unit tests
for each — all tests still pass, coverage back to 100%.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Po6bhCFneUwx3Htn8CokuL

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 21:29:30 +07:00
zernie 71b6c4c3d3 fix: finish audit→lint rename — repair CI build, shipped hook, and docs (#34)
* fix: finish audit→lint rename — repair CI build, shipped hook, and docs

The `audit` command was renamed to `lint` in 2c64c62, but the rename never
reached CI, the SessionStart hook, the CLI help, or the docs — so the `check`
job ran `vigiles audit` ("Unknown command", exit 1) and the build badge went red.

- ci.yml: run `vigiles lint` (+ the action dogfood `command: lint`)
- hooks/session-start.sh: `vigiles lint --summary`
- examples/demo/run.sh: `vigiles lint` (npm run demo was broken too)
- src/cli.ts + action.yml: help text / input description say `lint`
- docs/harnesses.md: de-stale the "second harness lands" framing (Codex
  already shipped), trim two over-explained sections, align Pillar 1/2 → Lint/Test
- docs/harness-testing.md: trim the demo callout, audit→lint
- README.md: paste-prompt as a copyable code block; fold init details into <details>

* docs: research core-plus-adapters API design (grounds the pillar-2 relayout)

Five-angle survey (AI SDK, unplugin, Drizzle, Knex, Testing Library, ESLint,
OpenTelemetry, dependency-cruiser, semver/exports) of how comparable tools lay out
a harness-agnostic core + per-target adapters, written to ground the pillar-2 API
relayout. Verdict: keep one package with subpath exports; move the agnostic runners
out of src/adapters/claude-code to the composition root (non-breaking — exports
hide file paths); select by import in the library, string only in the CLI (never
resolve a string to a module on a library path); add an eslint boundary rule so an
agnostic barrel can't import a specific adapter; parameterize the conformance kit
over ADAPTERS; mind the default-param tree-shaking trap.

Linked from research/code-adapter-architecture.md + research/README.md.

* refactor: route agnostic pillar-2 barrels through composition-root modules

Step 1 of the pillar-2 relayout (research/adapter-api-design.md). The harness-
agnostic public entries (vigiles/testing, /unit, /integration, /e2e) no longer
`export *` from src/adapters/claude-code/* — they route through composition-root
modules (src/{harness-test,run-hook,eval,mock-model}.ts), and a new
eslint-plugin-boundaries `agnostic-surface` element forbids them from importing
any adapter (proven to flag the old pattern). exports map repointed accordingly.

Next step relocates the runner *logic* to these composition-root modules so the
100% coverage gate (which already lists them at src/ root) actually covers it.

* refactor: relocate harness-testing library to the composition root

Step 2 of the pillar-2 relayout (research/adapter-api-design.md). Physically move
the deterministic harness-testing modules out of src/adapters/claude-code/ to the
composition root src/: harness-test, run-hook, eval, eval-cache, eval-baseline,
stats, mock-model, mock-entry, sandbox, egress(+entry/proxy), judge (+ tests). The
adapter keeps the ports + bundle + harness glue (dialect, layout, runtime,
hook-protocol, model-mock, adapter, agent-*, skill-*, plugin-loader, run-scripts).

This makes the 100% coverage gate — whose include list already named these at
src/ root — actually cover them: gated statements go 268 → 902 (the gate was
near-empty because egress/sandbox/judge were listed at root but lived in the
adapter, so the v8 include glob matched nothing). Coverage gaps the now-live gate
exposed in egress.ts were closed with real tests, not v8-ignores.

Pure relocation + import-path fixes + coverage-include (added stats, eval-cache);
no logic or public-export changes. Build, lint (boundaries clean), 863 tests, and
the 100% gate all green.

* docs: split harness-testing into agnostic core + per-harness guides; sync spec

Step 3+4 of the pillar-2 relayout.

Docs: docs/harness-testing.md is rewritten as the harness-AGNOSTIC core (retitled
"Testing your harness"): leads with select-by-import + { adapter } (default Claude
Code), the Trace/predicates/assertions model, runHook/runHarnessTest/runEval shown
agnostically, significance + regression gating, and a promoted runner-integration
section (vitest/jest is the runner-agnostic seam, and it's tested in CI). The
Claude-Code-specific walkthrough (oh-my-claudecode, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}, the
Anthropic mock, sandbox/egress) moves to docs/harness-testing-claude-code.md, and
docs/harness-testing-codex.md covers the Codex path (runHarnessTest with
codexAdapter against real codex exec; subagents a deliberate non-goal, runEval a
documented follow-on). Both linked from the index + harnesses.md (orphan-docs ✓).

Spec: CLAUDE.md.spec.ts Key Files repointed to the relocated module paths
(src/adapters/claude-code/{harness-test,run-hook,eval,...} → src/...), the
architecture section updated to describe the composition-root harness-testing
library + the new agnostic-surface boundary rule, and entries added for the two
new docs + research/adapter-api-design.md. CLAUDE.md recompiled (hash valid).

* docs: fix stale `vigiles audit` references → `vigiles lint`

The audit→lint command rename left 16 user-facing docs/examples telling users to
run a command that no longer exists. Sweep them: docs/comparison, inline-mode,
markdown-mode, spec-format, skills, verifying-instruction-files, testing-matrix,
README, docs/rules/* and examples/{demo,frontmatter-CLAUDE}. `vigiles lint`
(integrity + orphan-docs + refs) stays green; no command now points at the
removed `audit`.

* fix: repoint test/example imports to the relocated runner dist paths

The step-2 relocation rewired src/ imports but missed consumers outside src/:
test/types/smoke.{vitest,jest}.ts and examples/harness/*.mjs (+ dogfood, bench,
plugin-test-demo) still imported dist/adapters/claude-code/{harness-test,eval,
run-hook,sandbox}.js, which moved to dist/*.js. The CI test:types step (TS2307)
and the harness job (ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND) caught it — local `npm test` doesn't
run those tiers. Repointed every dist/adapters/claude-code/<moved>.js → dist/<moved>.js.

* fix: repoint vigiles/judge export + regenerate path-union types

Two more relocation leftovers: the package.json "./judge" export still pointed at
./dist/adapters/claude-code/judge.js (judge.ts moved to src/, so the public
vigiles/judge subpath was broken), and .vigiles/generated.d.ts still listed the
old src/adapters/claude-code/<moved> paths. Repointed ./judge → ./dist/judge.js
and regenerated the type union (generate-types --check now passes).

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 19:34:08 +05:00
zernie b89c5b6d75 Expand docs freshness research with competitive analysis and prototype sidecar manifest (#20)
* Expand docs freshness research with competitive analysis and prototype sidecar manifest

Research: survey 11 competing tools (Drift, ctxlint, DOCER, Doc Detective,
agents-lint, agnix, Swimm, Repowise, code-forensics, doc-hunt, ai-contextor).
Add 7 new options: per-file sidecar manifest, affected-specs reporter, git
rename auto-repair, temporal coupling analysis, AST-normalized config
fingerprinting, spec age warning, code element cross-referencing. Pick top 3
(sidecar manifest, affected-specs, git rename). Add hook integration patterns
(pre-commit, post-checkout, CI affected-only, weekly coupling audit).

Prototype: implement per-file sidecar manifest and affected-specs reporter in
freshness.ts. SidecarManifest stores individual file hashes in
.vigiles/<target>.inputs.json. diffSidecarManifest reports changed/deleted/added
files individually. buildReverseIndex + affectedSpecs enable Bazel-style target
determination — given changed files, report which specs need recompilation.
25 new tests, all passing.

* Reframe doc freshness research: separate build freshness from doc freshness

The research was conflating two problems:
1. Build artifact freshness — "did inputs change since last compile?"
   Already solved by strict mode. Sidecar manifest optimizes it.
2. Doc freshness — "does the spec still accurately describe the project?"
   The hard problem. No tool fully solves it deterministically.

Add build-vs-adopt analysis for each option. Build: temporal coupling,
code element cross-ref, spec age warning, git rename repair (vigiles has
structural advantage via the spec→file dependency graph). Recommend Drift
for symbol-level AST anchoring (tree-sitter is too heavy to vendor).
Don't adopt ctxlint/agents-lint (they lint raw markdown; vigiles users
have specs that compile). Reorganize into three tiers: build now, build
next, recommend.

* Add runtime enforcement research: spec-derived policies via hooks

Explores three layers of runtime spec enforcement:
1. Passive observation — post-session git diff analysis against spec surface
2. Hook-based policy — compile specs to PreToolUse/PostToolUse hooks that
   enforce file access controls, command allowlists, compiled output protection
3. Skill contracts — declare reads/writes/commands per skill, enforce via hooks

Key insight: vigiles already has the structured declaration (the spec) and a
compilation pipeline. Adding hooks as a compilation target is architecturally
natural. The spec compiles to both markdown (agent reads) AND hook configs
(harness enforces).

Four implementation phases: post-session audit (read-only), hook generation
(compile target), scoped linting hooks (enforce() at runtime), skill contracts.

* Add post-session audit: analyze agent behavior against spec surface area

New module src/session.ts implements Phase 1 of runtime enforcement:
read-only analysis of what an agent changed vs. what specs expected.

Core functions:
- gitChangedFiles() — files changed since a base ref (git diff + untracked)
- loadSpecSurface() — aggregate all specs' tracked inputs from sidecar manifests
- loadKeyFilesFromSpecs() — extract keyFiles from compiled markdown
- analyzeSession() — cross-reference changed files against spec surface
- formatSessionReport() — human-readable output

Four finding types:
- untracked-file: modified file not in any spec
- stale-spec: tracked input changed, spec may need recompile
- spec-modified: spec source changed, needs compile
- target-modified: compiled output edited directly

Works as `vigiles audit --session` or as a PostSession hook.
23 tests, all passing.

* Expand formal verification research: Lean 4 is now viable, Cedar pattern

Three developments shift the Dafny-first recommendation to Lean 4:

1. Leanstral (Mistral, March 2026) — first open-source LLM agent for Lean 4,
   uses MCP natively, Apache 2.0. The user doesn't read the proof; the agent
   writes it, the kernel checks it.

2. Cedar/AWS — production Lean 4 verification of an authorization language.
   "Verification-guided development": formal model in Lean (~10x smaller than
   production code), prove properties, differential test against production.
   Found 25 bugs.

3. The Cedar pattern maps directly to vigiles: formal model of compileClaude()
   in Lean, prove structural properties (enforce() appears in output, hash
   integrity, monotonicity), differential test against TypeScript.

Add sections 6-8: revised Lean vs Dafny comparison, Cedar pattern applied to
vigiles (what to verify, what NOT to verify, effort estimate), property-test
to Lean bridge, lean() enforce target.

* Add architecture-platform research: vigiles as architecture-aware agent platform

Explores expanding vigiles from a spec linter to a platform where architecture
(FSD, DDD, hexagonal), AI setup, skills, rules, and hooks form a validated
system. Architecture presets (npm packages) provide rules, skills, keyFiles,
hooks, and linter configs for specific architectures. Meta-validation checks
the entire setup works together.

Key concepts:
- Architecture presets: @vigiles/arch-fsd exports enforce() rules that map to
  eslint-plugin-boundaries/dependency-cruiser/steiger rules
- Install/customize/eject lifecycle (like CRA)
- Meta-validation: vigiles audit --setup checks spec + architecture + skills +
  hooks + freshness in one command
- FSD as the first preset (most structured, active community)

* Add spec coverage metrics with configurable thresholds

New coverage rule in .vigilesrc.json:
  { "rules": { "coverage": "warn" },
    "coverageThresholds": { "linterRules": 30, "scripts": 80 } }

Two metrics:
- Linter rule coverage: % of enabled linter rules with enforce() in specs
- Script coverage: % of npm scripts documented in spec commands

Thresholds are optional — without them, coverage is informational. With them,
audit warns or errors when coverage drops below the minimum. Fits naturally
into the existing audit pipeline alongside freshness and require-spec rules.

New module src/coverage.ts with 21 tests. Default: coverage rule is off
(false). Opt-in via .vigilesrc.json.

* Add drift rule, dogfooding setup with enforce() rules and full config

Drift integration (src/drift.ts):
- New `drift` rule in .vigilesrc.json (default: "warn")
- Checks for drift anchors in compiled output, runs `drift check`
- Graceful degradation: no anchors → skip; anchors but no drift binary → error
  with install instructions (brew install fiberplane/tap/drift)
- 6 tests

Dogfooding (CLAUDE.md.spec.ts + .vigilesrc.json):
- Added 3 enforce() rules: no-non-null-assertion, no-floating-promises,
  cognitive-complexity — all verified against actual eslint config
- Added 11 new files to keyFiles: coverage.ts, session.ts, drift.ts, types.ts,
  and 4 new research docs (runtime-enforcement, architecture-platform,
  formal-proofs, doc-freshness expanded)
- Created .vigilesrc.json with all rules enabled: require-spec (error),
  require-skill-spec (warn), freshness (warn), coverage (warn), drift (warn)
- Coverage thresholds: scripts 50%, linterRules 5%
- vigiles now validates itself with every feature it ships

* Fix dogfooding: add lint command, generate sidecar manifest, verify end-to-end

- Add missing `npm run lint` to spec commands (100% script coverage now)
- Generate .vigiles/CLAUDE.md.inputs.json sidecar manifest so coverage
  and affected-specs features work on our own project
- Verified: vigiles compile (3 linter-verified enforce rules),
  vigiles audit (hashes valid, freshness passes), script coverage 100%

* Refactor rule config to ESLint-style tuples for freshness and coverage

Before:
  { "rules": { "freshness": "warn" }, "freshnessMode": "strict",
    "coverageThresholds": { "scripts": 50 } }

After:
  { "rules": {
      "freshness": ["warn", { "mode": "strict" }],
      "coverage": ["warn", { "scripts": 50, "linterRules": 5 }]
  } }

Rule options live with their severity, not as separate top-level fields.
New RuleWithOptions<T> type: RuleSeverity | [severity, T].
Helper functions ruleSeverity() and ruleOptions() parse both forms.

Removed: top-level freshnessMode, freshnessInputs, coverageThresholds
from VigilesConfig. CoverageThresholds moved from coverage.ts to types.ts.

* Remove half-baked drift rule, fix coverage to read specs directly

Drift rule removed:
- Integration was hollow — no mechanism for anchors to get into compiled
  output. Symbol-level tracking needs proper design, not a wrapper around
  a binary that may not exist.
- Deleted src/drift.ts, src/drift.test.ts
- Removed drift from RulesConfig and default config

Coverage fixed:
- collectDocumentedCommands() now reads spec objects directly via their
  structured `commands` field instead of parsing compiled markdown with
  regex. Accepts ClaudeSpec[] when available, falls back to loading
  compiled JS from dist/.
- No more regex parsing of compiled output — the spec IS the source of
  truth, read it as data.

* Add per-rule docs, link from README, add doc-per-rule guidance

New docs/rules/ directory with one doc per validation rule:
- require-spec.md: config, severity, what it checks, disable per file
- require-skill-spec.md: config, severity, what it checks
- freshness.md: modes, options (ESLint-style tuple), inputs tracked
- coverage.md: thresholds, script/linter metrics, examples

README updated:
- Rule table links to individual docs
- Config example uses new tuple format
- Freshness config uses tuple format (removed old top-level keys)

docs/freshness.md updated to new tuple config format.

New guidance rule "doc-per-rule": every validation rule must have a
corresponding doc in docs/rules/<rule-name>.md.

* ci: add semantic-release and PR title validation

semantic-release:
- .releaserc.json with commit-analyzer, release-notes, npm, github plugins
- .github/workflows/release.yml runs on push to main, publishes to npm
- package.json: removed private:true, added version placeholder

PR title validation:
- .github/workflows/pr-title.yml validates conventional commit format
- Allowed types: feat, fix, docs, chore, refactor, test, perf, ci, build
- Squash merge uses PR title as commit message → semantic-release parses it

Required repo secret: NPM_TOKEN (npm token create)
GITHUB_TOKEN is provided automatically.

* refactor: extract shared hash, test utils, and deduplicate code

- Extract sha256short() into src/hash.ts — used by compile, freshness,
  and proofs instead of duplicating createHash().digest().slice(0,16)
- Extract test helpers into src/test-utils.ts — makeTmpDir(), makeSpec(),
  cleanupTmpDir(), initGitRepo(), git() shared across 4 test files
- Deduplicate readPackageScripts: coverage.ts now imports from compile.ts
  instead of reimplementing the same function
- Extract filterExistingFiles in freshness.ts for detectLockFiles and
  detectLinterConfigs
- Extract iterateSidecars in session.ts to eliminate duplicated .vigiles/
  directory iteration in loadSpecSurface and loadKeyFilesFromSpecs
- Fix 3 pre-existing lint errors (useless escapes, non-null assertion)
- Remove stale eslint-disable directive in coverage.ts

Net: -83 lines, zero new test failures.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* refactor: add branded SHA256Hash type, exhaustive switch checks, SessionFinding discriminated union

- SHA256Hash branded type in hash.ts — sha256short() returns
  SHA256Hash instead of plain string, preventing hash/string confusion
- assertNever() helper for exhaustive switch statements
- Exhaustive default cases in renderFragment (compile.ts),
  describeMutation and applyMutation (evolve.ts)
- SessionFinding split into UntrackedFinding | TrackedFinding
  discriminated union — specs field is required on tracked findings,
  absent on untracked ones (no more optional chaining band-aids)
- ts-essentials guidance rule added to CLAUDE.md spec: prefer branded
  types, discriminated unions, and exhaustive assertNever() switches
- hash.ts and test-utils.ts added to keyFiles

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* refactor: remove legacy JS spec fiction, use assertNever everywhere

There are no legacy JS specs. The `_kind: "check"` type never existed
in this codebase — it was defensive code against an imaginary threat.

- Replace manual `throw new Error("Unknown rule kind...")` with
  assertNever() in ruleToText (proofs.ts) and compileRule (compile.ts)
- Remove try/catch wrappers in runProofSuite (evolve.ts) that guarded
  NCD, Bloom filter, and fitness against "legacy data"
- Remove try/catch in propose() guarding baseline fitness
- Remove try/catch in cli.ts findDuplicateRules
- Delete 3 tests that injected fake `{ _kind: "check" }` data via
  `as unknown as` casts

Net: -171 lines of dead defensive code and tests for impossible states.
Lint warnings dropped from 68 → 62 (less nesting).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* chore: regenerate types after merge

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* docs: recompile CLAUDE.md, fix stale config format in freshness.md

- CLAUDE.md recompiled: adds ts-essentials rule, hash.ts and
  test-utils.ts keyFiles
- docs/freshness.md: replace old freshnessMode/freshnessInputs
  top-level keys with current ESLint-style tuple format

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* docs: fix rule count, add missing comparison row, format freshness.md

- README.md: "three rules" → "four rules" (coverage was missing from count)
- README.md: add "Spec edits" row to Claude Code comparison table
- docs/freshness.md: fix prettier formatting

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* feat: add guard() rule type for reactive file-change hooks

New rule type alongside enforce() and guidance():

  guard({ watch: "*.spec.ts", run: "npx vigiles compile" },
        "Recompile on spec change")

guard() declares reactive behavior: when watched files change, run a
command. At compile time, renders as **Guard:** in markdown. Participates
in monotonicity (strength 1, same as enforce — both mechanically
enforced). Supports strengthen (guidance → guard not yet, use add),
weaken (guard → guidance), and reword mutations.

Dogfooding: 3 guard rules added to CLAUDE.md spec:
- recompile-on-spec-change: *.spec.ts → vigiles compile
- regen-types-on-config-change: eslint/package/pyproject → generate-types
- format-check: **/*.ts → fmt:check

Hook emission (compiling guard rules to .husky/ and .claude/settings.json)
is the next step.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* docs(readme): document guard() rule type

Renamed "Two Rule Types" → "Three Rule Types". Added guard() section
with two examples and the key value prop: one declaration emits hooks
for every supported system (Claude Code, husky, CI), eliminating
copy-paste across .claude/settings.json, .husky/, and CI configs.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* docs(rules): explain what freshness IS before diving into config

The freshness rule doc went straight into severity tables and detection
modes without ever defining what "freshness" means. Added an intro that:

- Defines fresh vs stale (recompiling produces identical output)
- Lists the 6 concrete things that cause staleness
- Explains the actual harm (agent reads lies from stale claims)
- Shows what audit output looks like

Removed the redundant "Why" section at the bottom.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* refactor!: replace freshness rule with focused integrity rule

The freshness rule had three modes (strict, input-hash, output-hash) and
fought a problem already solved elsewhere:

- "spec changed but compile not run" → now solved by guard() rules
- "linter config disabled" → enforce() catches at compile time
- "file/script removed" → file() / cmd() catch at compile time
- "hand-edit of compiled markdown" → SHA-256 hash check (kept)

Only the last is genuinely useful and not duplicated. Reframe the rule
to do that one thing well:

  "rules": { "integrity": "warn" }

No more modes, no more options, no more 100-line audit function. The
rule is "did anyone tamper with a compiled file?" — answered in <1ms
by comparing the embedded SHA-256 to the body's actual hash.

Code changes:
- New: src/integrity.ts (~50 lines, single function)
- New: src/sidecar.ts (sidecar manifests, used by session audit)
- New: src/sidecar.test.ts
- Deleted: src/freshness.ts, src/freshness.test.ts (~1300 lines)
- Deleted: docs/freshness.md, docs/rules/freshness.md, research/doc-freshness.md
- New: docs/rules/integrity.md (clear scope statement)
- cli.ts: 100-line checkFreshness → 30-line checkIntegrityForFiles
- types.ts: removed FreshnessMode, FreshnessOptions
- README: rule table updated, freshness section removed

BREAKING: .vigilesrc.json users must rename `freshness` → `integrity`.
The mode/extraInputs options no longer exist.

Lint warnings dropped 62 → 56 (less complex code).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* fix: address PR review feedback (security, sidecar nesting, coverage gating)

Codex review caught several real issues. Fixed:

P1 — security/correctness
- Shell injection in gitChangedFiles: baseRef was interpolated into a
  shell command; switched to execFileSync with argv array
- Sidecar parent dirs: nested targets (e.g. .github/copilot-instructions.md)
  failed with ENOENT because writeSidecarManifest only mkdirp'd .vigiles/
  itself; now creates the full parent path
- iterateSidecars didn't recurse: nested manifests were skipped, so
  session analysis silently dropped directory-scoped targets
- analyzeSession dropped *.md.spec.ts edits when sidecars hadn't been
  written yet (first compile after init); now classifies by extension
- Coverage rule had thresholds in config but auditExitCode ignored them;
  now gates CI when severity is "error"
- fitness() coverage only counted enforce(), so guard() rules looked like
  reduced coverage and got rejected by the proof suite; now counts both
  (anything with STRENGTH ≥ 1)

P2 — robustness
- gitChangedFiles swallowed git errors as []; now throws so a typoed
  baseRef doesn't masquerade as "no changes"
- keyFiles parser broke on CRLF line endings (Windows checkouts);
  normalizes to LF before matching
- coverage.test.js and session.test.js weren't in the test script, so
  npm test silently skipped them; added (361 tests now, was 315)

Outdated/rejected (no action):
- Comments referencing freshness.ts / drift.ts (files deleted)
- "Wrap in try/catch for legacy data" suggestions — we deliberately
  removed those because legacy JS specs don't exist in this codebase
- "Persist sidecars during compile" — integrity rule doesn't need them

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

* fix: address codex review on coverage rule (P2)

Two P2 comments on the new coverage threshold flow:

1. computeScriptCoverage accepted bare script names (e.g. "build") as
   covered, but cmd() in compile.ts only validates "npm run X" / "npm X"
   forms. Removed the bare-name check so coverage matches what compile
   actually verifies — stale entries can no longer satisfy the threshold.

2. checkCoverageThresholds called computeScriptCoverage without passing
   specs, which falls back to require()'ing dist/<spec>.js. CI runs
   `vigiles audit` without a build step, so dist/ was empty and coverage
   reported 0% even when commands were documented. Now loads claude
   specs via loadSpec() (which has tsx fallback) and passes them in.

Verified locally: scripts coverage went from 0% (broken) → 100%
(correctly counts npm run build, npm test, npm run fmt, npm run lint).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsbRVewGpTGW1AXysJhiw8

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-20 02:22:41 +05:00