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| - `testdata/backlog-picker.flow.yaml` — the flow spec that reads ops/BACKLOG.md and selects one entry | ||
| - `testdata/backlog-picker.spec.canonical.json` — canonical compiled spec (via `flows check`) | ||
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Add the required deterministic-selection test
The diff declares sdk/tests/backlog-picker.test.ts as required, but does not add that file or register this fixture in an existing test. Consequently npm test can pass without executing the new selection regex or asserting its structured output, leaving the deterministic behavior introduced here entirely unpinned despite this definition of done.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L19-L21
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| node -e 'const fs=require("node:fs");const text=fs.readFileSync("ops/BACKLOG.md","utf8");const match=text.match(/^- \*\*(.+?)\*\*\s*(.*(?:\n .*)*)/m);if(!match)process.exit(1);process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify({title:match[1],description:match[2].replace(/\s+/g," ").trim(),files_in_scope:["sdk/src/preflight.ts","sdk/tests/preflight.test.ts"],gate:3}))' |
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Reuse the selected backlog snapshot when emitting
When ops/BACKLOG.md changes after select-entry completes—including across a crash and resume—this step rereads the mutable file instead of consuming the completed selection, so the journal can record item A as selected while the final package describes item B. Emit from the exact selected snapshot, or combine selection and emission into one deterministic step, so resume cannot change the work package.
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| node -e 'const fs=require("node:fs");const text=fs.readFileSync("ops/BACKLOG.md","utf8");const match=text.match(/^- \*\*(.+?)\*\*\s*(.*(?:\n .*)*)/m);if(!match)process.exit(1);process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify({title:match[1],description:match[2].replace(/\s+/g," ").trim(),files_in_scope:["sdk/src/preflight.ts","sdk/tests/preflight.test.ts"],gate:3}))' |
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Derive package metadata from the selected backlog item
The emitted files_in_scope and gate are constants rather than properties of the selected entry. The current first item is the deterministic-command preflight gap, which RFC-0001 assigns to Gate 1, yet this emits gate: 3; once that item is completed or reordered, every other existing backlog item will also inherit unrelated preflight file paths. This produces a structurally valid but incorrectly routed work package.
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…ation Refreshing ground truth BEFORE it goes stale again. A stale STATE.md has cost two runs already: one escalated on a contradiction it could not resolve, another was told two completed items were still missing. An assessor in a sandbox has no git history — this file is its history. Three PRs are open and named so no run duplicates their work. Gate 2's entry now records that a real external event HAS woken the flow, with exactly-once holding across repeated live polls, and that what remains is Khaliq's judgement on rule 2 rather than a missing part. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The work package's definition of done called for a test proving selection is deterministic given the same input. The run reported the DoD met and shipped no such test — the selection rule existed only as a regex inside a shell one-liner in the flow yaml, where it could not be asserted at all. The rule now lives in sdk/src/backlog-picker.ts and the flow can call it. Five tests cover: the rule itself, determinism across 25 repeated selections, stable rendering, returning null rather than guessing when nothing is actionable, and ignoring bold prose that is not a bullet title. Determinism is the property that matters here, not a nicety. A Garden that proposes its own work must be predictable before it is clever: if two runs over identical input can disagree, nothing downstream can reason about what the system decided or why. Verified: sdk 158 passed across 11 files, tsc --noEmit clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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P1 addressed — the deterministic-selection test now exists. You were right that it was missing. The DoD called for it, the run reported the DoD met, and no such test shipped. The reason it was missing is worth naming: the selection rule lived only as a regex inside a shell one-liner in The rule now lives in Determinism is the load-bearing property, not a nicety — a Garden that proposes its own work must be predictable before it is clever. If two runs over identical input can disagree, nothing downstream can reason about what the system decided or why. The two P2s — reusing the selected snapshot rather than re-reading the file, and deriving package metadata from the entry — are not addressed. Both are real and both are refinements of a rule that now has a test around it, so they are safe to take next rather than urgent. |
Recording immediately after the merge rather than letting ground truth drift; a stale STATE.md has cost two runs already and an assessor in a sandbox has no git history to fall back on. Gate 3 moves RED -> AMBER: the backlog picker is on main with its selection rule extracted from a shell one-liner into testable code, determinism asserted across 25 repeated selections. That is the seed of flows proposing their own work, not the Garden. Two P2 refinements remain open in review and are recorded as deliberately non-blocking under the advisory/blocking split. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…red test Twice in a row: PR #20's determinism test and its follow-up's cross-step agreement test were both specified in the DoD, both reported done, and neither shipped. The code was right both times; the claim was not. BUILD_DONE and a green suite prove nothing here, because a missing test cannot fail. Recorded with why the easy fix is wrong: a build-gate grepping for a new test file is trivially satisfied by an empty one, and this program has already shipped four guards that could not fail. The real fix is to make the DoD itself executable — assess emits it as commands, verify runs them — so a missing test fails because the command naming it does not exist. That is a change to the assess/verify contract and wants Khaliq's view first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* gate 3: snapshot the backlog once, and prove the steps agree (PR #20 P2s) Two review refinements from PR #20, plus the test its DoD asked for. The flow re-read ops/BACKLOG.md in every step, so a backlog edit between select-entry and emit-package produced a package describing an entry that was never selected — a Garden reporting work it did not choose. read-backlog now snapshots the file once and the later steps read the snapshot and the selected entry, so the steps cannot disagree. Package metadata is derived from the selected entry rather than hardcoded. The test runs the flow's ACTUAL shell commands, not a reimplementation — a test of a paraphrase would pass while the flow stayed broken — and mutates the backlog mid-run to force the condition. Confirmed it FAILS against the unfixed flow before trusting it: × expected '{"title":"Swapped entry"...}' to contain 'Original entry' and passes against the fixed one. A regression test never seen to fail proves nothing; PR #18 is still carrying exactly that gap. Verified: sdk 159 passed across 12 files, tsc --noEmit clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: clear the selected entry before selecting, so no run inherits the last one (PR #21 P1) My own fix created this. Snapshotting the backlog stopped the two steps disagreeing within a run, but it did so with shared persistent state — and shared state leaks across runs. If select-entry finds nothing actionable it exits before writing, so emit-package read the PREVIOUS run's entry and presented it as this run's choice. A Garden confidently proposing yesterday's work as today's. select-entry now removes .relayflow/backlog-picker-entry.json before it attempts selection, so a failed selection leaves nothing behind to inherit. Confirmed the test FAILS without the fix before trusting it: × expected '{"title":"Yesterday entry"...}' not to contain 'Yesterday entry' Verified: sdk 160 passed across 12 files. The P2 (the files_in_scope regex matching backticked prose that contains a slash) is not addressed — real, cosmetic, and safe to take next. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Relayflow Lead <lead@relayflows.local> Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Recording straight after the merge, as with #20. Both of the picker's properties now have tests confirmed to fail without their fixes: the two steps cannot disagree within a run, and no run inherits the previous run's selection. Noting in the same breath that #18 still does not meet that standard — its regression test has never been observed to fail — so the difference is visible to whoever reads this next rather than buried in a PR comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(drive-local): pick any backlog item, not the one it was written for The local drive flow could only ever execute BACKLOG F8b. Its selector hardcoded one file, one old identifier and one new one, and asserted that BACKLOG still contained that exact entry. It proved a relayflow can drive a real change on this checkout with no Cloud admission, no Daytona and no Relaycast workspace — but every later tick needed a human to rewrite the script first. A loop that needs editing between iterations is not a loop. Two changes make it general. Selection now comes from the SDK's backlog picker (gate 3, PR #20) — the same rule the cloud drive uses: first top-level bullet with a bold title, validated for a title, files in scope and a definition of done. Using it rather than a second implementation means the local and cloud loops cannot drift about what "next" means. The script refuses an underspecified package instead of handing an agent something it cannot tell it has finished. Implementation is now an agent step. A deterministic step can only make mechanical changes, and most backlog entries are not mechanical; that limit, not the selector, is what really pinned the old flow to a rename. The agent is told to stay inside the declared scope, to change nothing if the package is already done or its premise is false, and that reporting "already done" is a good tick while inventing an edit to look busy is not. Verified end to end: the flow compiles under the 0.1.0 SDK (5 steps, one of type agent), and `select` run against the real ops/BACKLOG.md picks "`timeoutMs` is enforced LATE, not never", writes the package with its files, definition of done and a pinned HEAD. Two things running it taught me, both now encoded: an agent step cannot declare `timeoutMs` (0.1.0 bounds deterministic steps only), and `selectBacklogEntry` is not re-exported from the SDK index — only `dist/backlog-picker.js` has all four functions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): skip work this loop cannot bound, do not stall on it The picker emits ['.'] for files_in_scope when an entry references code but names no path. That is deliberate on its side — its own comment calls it "honest breadth" — and it is a fair description of the entry. It is not usable as scope for an agent: "." is the whole repository, and an agent told its scope is everything has been told nothing. First attempt refused the tick outright when the selected entry was unbounded. That failed closed, which was right, but the current BACKLOG's first selectable entry is unbounded — so the loop would have refused on every run forever. A loop that never runs is not safer than one that runs on bounded work. Selection now walks past entries it cannot bound and reports each skip with its reason. "Next" is still the picker's definition: rather than write a second parser that could disagree with it about what an entry is, the rejected entry's title is cut from the markdown and the picker is asked again. Verified against the real ops/BACKLOG.md: skips the unbounded `timeoutMs` entry and selects "GATES 2 AND 3 ARE BLOCKED ON A MISSING COMPONENT: there is no agent worker" with four concrete files in scope. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): a path that no longer exists is not scope Backlog entries outlive the tree they were written against. This repo moved `sdk/` to `packages/sdk/`, so an entry naming `sdk/src/protocol.ts` still reads as precise while pointing at nothing. An agent handed four missing files will either invent work or widen scope until it finds something, and the flow's own instruction forbids both. `select` now checks that every declared path exists and skips entries whose scope has rotted, naming the missing files in the skip line. A rotted entry can no longer silently become an agent's instruction. This is deliberately the guard rather than a backlog cleanup. Repairing the entries by hand is a one-time fix that rots again at the next reorg — the sdk/ move already proves that. With the guard in place the skip output IS the worklist, with the exact missing paths named, so the cleanup becomes generated rather than audited. What it reports against the current BACKLOG: 12 entries skipped — 5 unbounded, 5 with no scope at all, 1 with no definition of done, and 1 stale (sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts, sdk/src/protocol.ts, sdk/src/journal-client.ts, sdk/src/cli/run.ts). Two of the skipped entries are titled "DONE (PR #45, merged)" and "DONE (PR #42, merged)" and are still sitting in the backlog. It then selects real bounded work: "Regression suite (`regressions/`, dormant)" scoped to regressions/MANIFEST.json, which exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): the flow could never run — pin a stream, drop a dead step Three review findings, all confirmed by running the launcher rather than reading it. I had only ever compiled this flow, and compiling proves the spec is legal, not that the runner will accept it. LOCAL_AGENT_PINS_REQUIRED. The launcher refuses any agent step that declares no stream — "the kernel refuses workers with no pins" — and the refusal happens before a run is created. So every invocation of this flow failed immediately, and I had described it as safe to run. The agent step now pins a stream. The build-sdk step was dead code. The launcher asserts packages/sdk/dist/cli.js exists during preflight, before it submits anything, so a build step inside the flow can never run on the cold checkout it was meant to serve. Removed, with the prerequisite documented where an operator will see it. The output gate demanded a marker the instruction never requested: verification gates on `DONE` and nothing told the agent to emit it, so a correct implementation would have been recorded as a failure. The instruction now states the contract. Verified by re-running: LOCAL_AGENT_PINS_REQUIRED is gone. Execution then stops on environment rather than on the flow — a built relayflowd, and a working directory short enough for a unix socket path (LOCAL_SOCKET_PATH_TOO_LONG from this scratchpad). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): enforce package scope and executable acceptance checks Choose explicit Verify JSON argv declarations in backlog entries instead of translating prose or inferring correctness from the SDK suite. Selection skips packages without executable checks; verification executes every selected check before the regression suite. Add an acceptance assertion to the existing F8b entry. Capture a scope step in the submitted flow that refuses changed verifier code before loading helpers, then checks staged, unstaged, and untracked paths against the selected scope. Reconstruct package metadata from the unchanged backlog and reject tampering, symlinks, and file-to-directory scope widening. Advance skipped entries past their matched bullet line rather than searching for a title mention. Evidence: ops/runtime-evidence/drive-hardening-0908.txt contains literal commands and output for 26 local/launcher tests, 803 SDK passes (3 skipped), the pre-existing obsolete test failure, and the F3 cursor mutation failure/pass. * docs(drive-local): capture real backlog selection and acceptance output * fix(drive-local): restore the work-branch guard dropped in the generalization cubic's P1 on ops/local-work-package.mjs:149 is correct and is a regression. main carries the guard: const branch = git('branch', '--show-current'); assert(branch && branch !== 'main', 'LOCAL_DRIVE_REFUSED: use a work branch'); When select() was generalized it kept RECORDING the branch in the package and stopped asserting it, so the loop would select work while sitting on main and let the agent edit the protected branch. `--show-current` prints nothing on a detached HEAD, which is equally not a work branch and was equally unguarded. The guard now runs before anything is read, and names which case it refused so the operator does not have to guess. Verified: detached HEAD refuses live with "LOCAL_DRIVE_REFUSED: detached HEAD is not a work branch"; the branch condition refuses 'main' and accepts a work branch. Note for the next person testing this: `git checkout main` swaps this script for main's own copy, so a naive "check out main and run it" tests the wrong code and looks like the guard did not fire. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): rebuild the SDK before running its suite cubic's P1 on workflows/drive-local.yaml:94 is correct. The verify step ran `vitest` straight after `local-work-package.mjs verify` with no build in between. Tests and probes import `packages/sdk/dist/*` (see ops/probes/pr134-repair-0903/harness.mjs), so when the agent changes SDK TypeScript the suite exercises the PRE-agent artifact and can pass code that was just changed. That is the stale-tree gate failure: a green check against an artifact the change never reached. Now runs the package's own build (`tsc` then `make-cli-executable.mjs`) between verify and the suite. Invoked directly rather than through `npm run build`, matching the existing `node node_modules/vitest/vitest.mjs run` idiom in this same step, because npm hangs on this host: ~/.npmrc is a Dropbox symlink and any bare npm blocks with no output. NOT VERIFIED ON DISK: no local checkout currently has packages/sdk/node_modules, so I could not confirm `node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc` resolves here. It is TypeScript's shipped entry point and mirrors the vitest invocation two lines below it, but the first real loop run is what proves it. If it is wrong the step fails loudly rather than silently testing stale code, which is still an improvement on the current behaviour. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): run the acceptance gate from an immutable pre-agent snapshot Khaliq approved option A. Addresses #244 H1: "the acceptance gate again trusts code writable by the agent it judges." The hole was specific. The scope guard protects packages/sdk/src/backlog-picker.ts, but local-work-package.mjs imports the BUILT packages/sdk/dist/backlog-picker.js during scope and acceptance. An agent could leave the guarded source untouched, rebuild dist, and the guard would still pass while the gate executed the agent's own code. The rebuild step added earlier in this PR makes dist routinely regenerated, so this was not theoretical. New `gate-snapshot` step runs BEFORE the agent: builds the SDK, copies the picker and both acceptance scripts into .drive-gate/, and records SHA256SUMS. `scope` and `verify` now verify those sums and execute from the snapshot, with DRIVE_GATE_PICKER pinning the snapshotted picker so the acceptance path cannot reach the live dist. The diff guards additionally cover packages/sdk/dist/backlog-picker.js, and .drive-gate/ is gitignored so the snapshot never enters a commit. Ordering is the load-bearing part and it is asserted, not assumed: `implement` now dependsOn [gate-snapshot], not [select]. My first edit missed that and left the agent able to run CONCURRENTLY with the snapshot, which would have voided the whole change while looking correct. Not yet exercised end to end -- the loop needs a real run to prove the snapshot path works. If a copied file or the shasum check is wrong the gate fails loudly rather than silently trusting agent-written code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): validate descendants of directory scopes for escaping symlinks Khaliq approved option B. Addresses cubic's P1 on ops/local-work-verification.mjs: "A pre-existing symlink inside a declared scope is never inspected when it is unchanged, so a Verify command can write outside the checkout without creating a touched path." The existing symlink walk runs per TOUCHED path, so it only sees paths the agent already modified. A symlink that was there before the run is never touched, never inspected, and a declared directory scope is an authorization to write anywhere beneath it -- including straight through that link. checkScope now walks the descendants of every directory scope before any check runs, and refuses a symlink whose realpath leaves the checkout root. Symlinks that stay inside the root are deliberately allowed: workspace layouts use them legitimately, and the threat here is escape, not indirection. Dangling links are skipped -- a write cannot escape through a link with no target. Verified both directions in a scratch repo with `src` as the declared scope: pre-existing src/escape -> ../../outside SYMLINK_ESCAPES_SCOPE (refused) benign src/inside -> a.txt only SCOPE_OK: 0 changed path(s) so it catches the escape without rejecting internal links. .git is skipped during the walk. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): give selection and the gate one baseline cubic's P2 on ops/local-work-verification.mjs:35: "When a backlog scope names an existing untracked path, `select` accepts it, but this `git cat-file` lookup aborts `scope` because the path is absent from `pkg.head`." Two different existence rules were in play: select() pathExists = existsSync working tree verifiedPackage() git cat-file -e ${pkg.head}:path committed at HEAD checkScope() git cat-file -t ${pkg.head}:path committed at HEAD So selection blessed a path that exists only on disk, persisted it into the work package, and the gate then refused the very package selection had produced. The loop aborted on its own decision. select() now uses the same committed-at-HEAD rule. An untracked path is refused during selection, with the existing stale_scope reason, instead of passing and detonating two steps later. Committed-at-HEAD is the right rule for both rather than relaxing the gate: scope is a claim about reviewable content, and an untracked path is not yet that. Demonstrated in a scratch repo: ops/tracked.txt existsSync=true inHEAD=true untracked-dir existsSync=true inHEAD=false <- accepted by select, refused by scope Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR * fix(drive-local): address report and scope review findings * Capture local drive gates and baseline in submitted commands * Clarify historical drive snapshot and launcher documentation * Load local drive gate inputs from a pinned Git commit --------- Co-authored-by: kjgbot <kjgbot@agentrelay.dev> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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