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Summary

Long-reasoning sub-agents no longer killed at 120s. The build orchestrator's startup-hang detector is now CPU-aware. Codex, Claude, Kimi, and Gemini subagents that burn CPU between tokens run as long as they need; only processes that are genuinely hung (zero CPU + zero output for 120s) get killed.

Grouped by theme:

  • Phase A startup-hang detector (build/orchestrator/stall-watchdog.ts): new startupHangMs?: number option (default 120_000, =0 disables) inside attachStallWatchdog. Tracks firstActivityAt; in cpu mode fires only when both CPU sample and stream are silent. Stream activity exits Phase A on any byte (not just non-whitespace) to preserve the legacy first-token contract. Window is clamped to stallMs internally so all callers (including drain-faults mtime mode with short investigatorTimeoutMs) keep configured wall-clock semantics.
  • Legacy first-token timer deleted (build/orchestrator/sub-agents.ts): removed firstTokenKilled, firstTokenDeadlineMs, firstTokenTimer, firstTokenKillTimer, clearFirstTokenTimers, noteFirstToken. Added resolveStartupHangMs() helper that reads GSTACK_BUILD_FIRST_TOKEN_DEADLINE_MS and treats explicit "0" as disable (the prior envNumberOrDefault coerced 0 → default — disable was structurally impossible).
  • killReason vocabulary: added "startup_hang" to two type unions in build/orchestrator/halt-events.ts and the cast at halt-event-helpers.ts:46. renderRoleStepFailure switch renders a distinct summary: "<role> stalled (no CPU and no output during startup window of Nms, killed by watchdog)". Old killReason "first_token_timeout" is gone — downstream consumers parsing JSON should update.
  • Tests: 7 new Phase A unit tests in stall-watchdog.test.ts (incl. a regression test that pins the whitespace-byte Phase A exit), 2 new integration tests in sub-agents.test.ts (replaces the old kills zero-output child at first-token deadline test). Existing tests adjusted to opt out of Phase A where the old behavior is being asserted directly.
  • Bonus: hygiene-gate editor-artifact filter (build/orchestrator/cli.ts, commit 6581ac11): validatePostAgentHygiene and applyGateHygiene now filter *.bak/*.tmp/*.swp/*.orig/*.rej/*~ from untracked-file checks. Gemini's --yolo mode (backup provider for primaryImpl, testFixer, ship) leaves .bak artifacts that previously tripped the gate and required manual rescue. Pinned with regression tests in hygiene-delta.test.ts.
  • Docs: CLAUDE.md and build/README.md updated with the new env var entry. CHANGELOG entry leads with the user-facing capability change.
  • VERSION + package.json: bumped 1.44.0.0 → 1.45.0.0 (MINOR per CLAUDE.md scale-aware rule — net diff ~400 lines, user-visible behavior change, killReason vocabulary change).

Test Coverage

7 new Phase A unit tests, 2 new spawnCaptured integration tests, 1 new render-role-step-failure shape test, regression tests for both editor-artifact filtering paths. Coverage audit: ~88% (subagent-driven, two minor boundary gaps noted but non-blocking).

Pre-Landing Review

2 issues found, both fixed before PR:

  • CRITICAL (confidence 9): halt-events.ts:68,296 killReason union type missing "startup_hang". Downstream typed consumers would have seen a narrowed type. Fixed in commit bfcd76.
  • INFORMATIONAL (confidence 7): stall-watchdog.ts recomputed startup-window constants per poll tick. Hoisted out of poll(). Fixed in commit bfcd76.

Adversarial Review

Claude adversarial subagent surfaced 5 findings. One regression caught and fixed:

  • FIXABLE: Phase A in stream mode required /\S/.test to clear, but the deleted legacy first-token timer cleared on any byte. CLIs emitting only \r or ANSI escapes for 120s would falsely trip startup_hang. Fixed in commit 3e7a3c with a pinned regression test.

Four other findings logged as informational (env-var race in test harness, onStallKill swallow producing "0ms" labels, non-finite env values fall back silently, mtime-mode using default Phase A window). None block ship.

Recommendation: Ship as-is because the strongest remaining finding is the silent fallback for non-finite env values, which is a UX regression not a correctness bug.

Plan Completion

6/6 plan tasks DONE per spec at docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-25-cpu-aware-startup-hang-watchdog-design.md. One CHANGED-from-plan: the Math.min clamp moved from caller (sub-agents.ts) into the watchdog itself (stall-watchdog.ts) so all callers benefit (drain-faults mtime mode, future callers).

Documentation

  • CLAUDE.md: Added GSTACK_BUILD_FIRST_TOKEN_DEADLINE_MS to the Build orchestrator env vars section.
  • build/README.md: Added the new env var row to the Environment Variables table, in the watchdog cluster.

Documentation debt: no how-to doc for startup_hang triage steps. Reference coverage is complete; tutorial-tier doc deferred.

Known Issues (pre-existing, unrelated)

  • coverage-matrix.test.ts > package build-skill gate fails on this branch AND on base when the watchdog changes are stashed. Test expects a test:build-skill script in package.json that doesn't exist. Not introduced by this PR.

Test plan

  • bun test build/orchestrator/__tests__/ — 2259/2260 pass (1 pre-existing failure unrelated)
  • Phase A unit tests: 7/7
  • sub-agents integration: 234/234
  • halt-event-helpers + render-role-step-failure: 13/13
  • Editor-artifact filter tests in hygiene-delta.test.ts: pass

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garrytan and others added 19 commits May 21, 2026 18:55
… tests (garrytan#1639)

* docs: drop ~/.zshrc env note in favor of GSTACK_* env-shim reference

The CLAUDE.md "Where the keys live on this machine" block hand-rolled a
`grep ~/.zshrc | eval` recipe to surface ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / OPENAI_API_KEY
inside Conductor workspaces. That predates the GSTACK_* env-shim
(`lib/conductor-env-shim.ts`, v1.39.2.0+) which promotes
GSTACK_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / GSTACK_OPENAI_API_KEY to their canonical names
inside gstack's TS binaries automatically.

The zshrc recipe is now an obsolete workaround. Replace with a short note
pointing at the env-shim as the canonical answer. Keep the Agent SDK
\`env: {...}\` gotcha (still real, unrelated to where the key comes from).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: default PGLite to voyage-code-3 when VOYAGE_API_KEY set

When gstack inits a local PGLite engine for code search, use Voyage's
code-specialized `voyage-code-3` (1024-dim) embedding model if
\`VOYAGE_API_KEY\` is present. Falls back to gbrain's auto-selected
provider chain (OpenAI text-embedding-3-large 1536-dim when
OPENAI_API_KEY is available, etc.) when the Voyage key is unset.

Why voyage-code-3: head-to-head A/B against voyage-4-large on 10
realistic code queries against this codebase (using gbrain query
--no-expand for pure vector retrieval). voyage-code-3 strictly won on
4 queries (cases where the right hit was an implementation file vs a
test file: terminal-agent.ts over terminal-agent-integration.test.ts,
sanitizeReplacer over sanitize.test.ts, disposeSession over a
tangentially-related killDaemon test, surfaced injectCanary semantic
query). Tied on 5 with consistently +0.03 to +0.06 higher confidence.
Zero losses for voyage-4-large.

Touches 3 init sites in setup-gbrain/SKILL.md.tmpl:
- Step 1.5 (broken-db rollback-safe switch to PGLite)
- Path 3 direct PGLite init
- Step 4.5 split-engine local code index (Path 4 Yes branch)

Plus 2 manual-repair hints in sync-gbrain/SKILL.md.tmpl, the
post-install hint in bin/gstack-gbrain-install (with a tip when
VOYAGE_API_KEY isn't set), and the user-facing Path 3 docs in
USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md.

Cost is trivial: voyage-code-3 at \$0.18/1M tokens means a full reindex
of a 100K-LOC repo runs about \$0.20. Incremental syncs are pennies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: regenerate SKILL.md after voyage-code-3 default

Mechanical regen via \`bun run gen:skill-docs --host all\` after the
template changes in the previous commit. Single-host regen leaves
other-host outputs stale and trips gen-skill-docs.test.ts; --host all
keeps every adapter (claude, codex, kiro, opencode, slate, cursor,
openclaw, hermes, gbrain) in sync.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: gbrain PGLite + voyage-code-3 init contract + sync integration

Two test files cover the voyage-code-3 default landed in the previous
commits:

test/gbrain-init-voyage-code-3.test.ts — free, deterministic, gate-tier.
Mirrors gbrain-init-rollback.test.ts: runs the skill template's
PGLite-init bash against a fake \`gbrain\` that logs argv to a sentinel
file, asserts the right flags pass under VOYAGE_API_KEY set/unset/empty.
Also includes belt-and-suspenders grep checks that the template literally
contains the voyage gate at all 3 PGLite init sites.

test/gbrain-sync-voyage-code-3-integration.test.ts — real, paid,
skip-if-no-key. Inits a sandbox PGLite with voyage-code-3 in a tempdir,
registers a 3-file fixture git repo as a source, runs
\`gbrain sync --strategy code --skip-failed\`, asserts pages imported +
embedded > 0. Also asserts \`gbrain doctor\` reports no dimension
mismatch and the column width is 1024d. \`gbrain code-def\` smoke test
confirms symbol extraction works against the embedded fixture.

The integration test deliberately omits a \`gbrain query\` assertion:
query produces correct output but \`gbrain query\` hangs ~2 min on a
fresh PGLite before exiting. The smoking-gun assertion for "embeddings
worked" is the "N pages embedded" line from sync output. Symbol-aware
correctness is covered by the code-def assertion.

Caught one real bug during test development: gbrain reads
\`.gbrain-source\` from CWD and tries to sync that source too. The test
sets cwd to the sandbox root to avoid the parent worktree's pin
polluting the sandbox brain. Documented in the runGbrain() helper.

Runtime: ~22s when VOYAGE_API_KEY is set, instant skip otherwise.
Cost: ~\$0.001 per run (3 tiny fixture files, ~500 tokens of Voyage
embeddings).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump to v1.43.1.0 with voyage-code-3 default + tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: update USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK for v1.43.1.0 voyage-code-3 default

Add VOYAGE_API_KEY row to the env-var table; clarify the OPENAI_API_KEY row as
the fallback path. Refresh the "search returns nothing semantic" troubleshooting
to mention both providers and clarify that the env-shim only promotes
ANTHROPIC/OPENAI from GSTACK_ — VOYAGE_API_KEY must be set directly in Conductor
workspace env.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: drop em-dashes + replace phantom embedding-migrations.md ref with inline recipe

CHANGELOG release-summary prose used em-dashes (violates voice rule) and
linked to docs/embedding-migrations.md which is gbrain's doc, not gstack's.
Replace with periods/commas and inline the dimension-mismatch recovery
recipe directly (mv + re-init).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
garrytan#1642)

* fix(gbrain-sync): --full produces an empty code index on first run of a new repo

`gbrain reindex-code` only RE-EMBEDS pages that already exist; it never walks
the filesystem. On a freshly-registered source (0 pages), a --full run that
called reindex-code alone found nothing ("No code pages to reindex"), finished
in ~1s, and left the code index permanently empty while still reporting OK.

Fix: --full now runs `sync --strategy code` FIRST to create pages via the file
walk, then runs `reindex-code` to honor the documented "full walk + reindex"
contract for both fresh and populated sources.

Contributed by @jetsetterfl via garrytan#1584.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(gbrain-local-status): classifier falsely reports broken-db inside repos with their own DATABASE_URL

The freshClassify probe ran `gbrain sources list --json` with the inherited
process env. When the probe ran from inside a repo with its own .env (an app
DATABASE_URL on a different port), Bun autoloaded the project's .env, gbrain
connected to the wrong database, and the classifier reported broken-db on
otherwise-healthy brains.

Fix: route the probe env through `buildGbrainEnv` from lib/gbrain-exec, the
same helper the sync orchestrator uses. DATABASE_URL is seeded from
~/.gbrain/config.json so the result is cwd-independent. The 60s cache can no
longer propagate a poisoned negative to clean directories.

Contributed by @jetsetterfl via garrytan#1583.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(retro): stale-base + bad-today-anchor pre-flight guard (garrytan#1624)

/retro silently produced confidently-wrong output when "today" drifted (model
session-context error) or when origin/<default> was materially behind the
actual remote — git log --since returned zero or near-zero commits and the
narrative was fabricated from nothing.

Adds Step 0.5 with four ordered pre-check branches before any window analysis:

  A. No 'origin' remote → skip with "base freshness not verified" note
  B. Detached HEAD → skip with "base freshness not verified" note
  C. `git fetch origin <default>` fails (offline) → warn, proceed against
     last-known origin/<default>
  D. Fetch succeeded → compare today vs latest origin/<default> commit; if
     gap > window-days, BLOCK with explicit citation of latest-commit date.

Skip paths still proceed to Step 1, but the disclosure is carried into the
retro narrative ("offline run, window not freshness-verified") so the output
is never silently confidently-wrong.

Atomic .tmpl + gen:skill-docs regen commit (T-Codex-3 pattern).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(retro): regression for garrytan#1624 stale-base pre-flight guard

13 static-invariant tests pinning the four ordered pre-check branches in
retro/SKILL.md.tmpl:Step 0.5:

  A. no-remote skip            — must check origin presence + set verdict
  B. detached-HEAD skip        — must gate behind prior verdict (ordering)
  C. fetch-fail warn           — must match `if !` or `||` shape, gate by verdict
  D. stale-base BLOCK          — must read latest-commit ISO date, cite remediation

Plus a disclosure-survives-to-narrative invariant: skip-path verdicts must be
named in prose so the retro output carries the cited reason rather than
silently misreporting.

Failing build if Step 0.5 is removed, branches re-ordered (no-remote no longer
wins), or the BLOCK message stops citing today/latest-commit/remediation
path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(gbrain-sync): configurable timeouts + resume from gbrain checkpoint (garrytan#1611)

The memory and code stages hardcoded a 35-min spawn timeout. On brains with
~2000+ staged files, /sync-gbrain --full reliably SIGTERM'd the child at
exactly 35 minutes with exit 143. gbrain left ~/.gbrain/import-checkpoint.json
pointing at the staging dir, but gstack-memory-ingest's SIGTERM handler
unconditionally cleaned the dir up — so the next run found a checkpoint
pointing at nothing and restaged from scratch, repeating the SIGTERM forever.

Three changes:

1. Configurable timeouts via env (bounds 60_000ms - 86_400_000ms, default
   2_100_000ms = 35min unchanged):
     GSTACK_SYNC_MEMORY_TIMEOUT_MS
     GSTACK_SYNC_CODE_TIMEOUT_MS
   Out-of-range or non-numeric values warn and fall back to the default.

2. SIGTERM in gstack-memory-ingest no longer always cleans up the staging
   dir. If gbrain has written ~/.gbrain/import-checkpoint.json pointing at
   the active staging dir, the dir is PRESERVED for next-run resume.
   Otherwise (no checkpoint pointing here, crash before gbrain ever
   touched it) it's cleaned up as before.

3. Next /sync-gbrain run detects gbrain's checkpoint via decideResume() in
   gstack-gbrain-sync.ts:
     - no checkpoint               → fresh ingest pass
     - checkpoint + staging ok     → set GSTACK_INGEST_RESUME_DIR; child
                                      reuses staging dir and skips
                                      writeStaged; gbrain import resumes
                                      from processedIndex+1
     - checkpoint + staging gone   → warn "previous checkpoint stale
                                      (staging dir gone), restaging from
                                      scratch" and proceed

Reuses gbrain's own checkpoint as the source of truth (D1 — no double-store
state). Detect-then-fallback semantics per C1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(gbrain-sync): regression for garrytan#1611 timeouts + resume

19 tests across three surfaces:

  - resolveStageTimeoutMs (10 tests): undefined/empty → default; non-numeric,
    zero, negative, below-floor, above-ceiling → warn + default; at-floor,
    at-ceiling, valid mid-range → accepted as-is.

  - decideResume (6 tests): no checkpoint, corrupt JSON, checkpoint + staging
    ok, checkpoint + staging missing, checkpoint with no dir, checkpoint with
    empty dir.

  - SIGTERM staging preservation (3 static invariants): memory-ingest signal
    handler must check stagingDirIsCheckpointed BEFORE cleanup; preserve
    branch must come before cleanup branch (ordering); orchestrator must
    pass GSTACK_INGEST_RESUME_DIR to the grandchild on resume.

Also threads process.env.HOME through readGbrainCheckpoint and
stagingDirIsCheckpointed so tests can redirect home. os.homedir() caches
at process start and ignores later mutation, so the env override is the
only reliable test injection point.

Failing build if the timeout bounds are removed, the resume detection
short-circuits incorrectly, or the SIGTERM handler regresses to
unconditional cleanup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(review): pre-emit verification gate kills Django-shape FP class (garrytan#1539)

External user filed 4/8 false positives on a /review run against a Django +
DRF + PostgreSQL repo (Sprint 2.5). Every FP class was the same shape:
"resolvable in <5 minutes by viewing the actual code or running a simple
grep" — fields that don't exist on the model, dict.get()-might-be-None on a
form that returns {}-initialized cleaned_data, standard ORM save behavior
called out as data loss.

Extends the Confidence Calibration resolver (consumed by review, cso,
plan-eng-review, ship) with a Pre-emit verification gate:

  Every finding MUST quote the specific code line that motivates it
  (file:line + verbatim text). If the reviewer cannot produce the quote,
  the finding is unverified — its confidence is forced to 4-5 so the
  existing "Suppress from main report" rule fires automatically. The
  finding still goes to the appendix for calibration audit, but the user
  does not see it in the critical-pass output.

Reuses the existing suppression mechanism — no new code path. The FP
classes the gate kills are enumerated in the resolver text so reviewers
see the named patterns.

Framework-meta nudge included for Django Meta, Rails associations,
SQLAlchemy relationships, TypeORM decorators, Sequelize init, Prisma
generated client — the reviewer must quote the meta-construct that
generates the symbol, not just grep for the literal name. Deeper
framework-aware ORM verification (model introspection, migration-history-
aware checks) is deliberately deferred to a future wave per T-Codex-2.

Atomic .tmpl-equivalent (resolver) edit + gen:skill-docs regen commit
per T-Codex-3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(review): regression for garrytan#1539 pre-emit verification gate

12 tests pinning the gate behavior:

  - Resolver emits the gate header + garrytan#1539 reference
  - Gate requires quoting file:line + verbatim text
  - Unverified findings forced to confidence 4-5 (auto-suppress via
    existing <7-rule, no new mechanism)
  - Framework-meta nudge names Django, Rails, SQLAlchemy, TypeORM,
    Sequelize, Prisma
  - Deferred design doc reference present (1539-framework-aware-review.md)
  - Four named FP classes from garrytan#1539 enumerated:
      * field doesn't exist on model
      * dict.get() might be None
      * save() might lose fields
      * update_fields might miss X
  - All four downstream SKILL.md consumers (review, cso, plan-eng-review,
    ship) carry the gate text after gen:skill-docs
  - Existing confidence 9-10 'Show normally' + 3-4 'Suppress' rows
    unchanged (regression on existing behavior)

Failing build if the gate is removed, the suppression mechanism is
re-invented separately, the framework-meta nudge drops a framework, or
gen:skill-docs stops propagating the gate to consumers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(config): expose explain_level default

* fix(benchmark): parse positional prompt after flags

* fix(artifacts): reject malformed remote paths

* fix(learnings): preserve current entries in cross-project search

* fix(setup): register root gstack slash alias

* fix(memory): probe gitleaks without shell builtin

* fix(gbrain-lib): pin LC_ALL=C in varname validator (macOS locale guard)

In many macOS shells the default locale (e.g. en_US.UTF-8) makes bash
glob brackets like `[A-Z]` match lowercase letters too, so the existing
`case "$name" in [A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*)` branch lets names like `lower-case`
through validation. The function then trips `printf -v "$varname"` and
`export "$varname"` with `not a valid identifier` errors that surface
mid-prompt, which is exactly what the validator was supposed to prevent.

Pinning `LC_ALL=C` inside the function gives ASCII-only bracket semantics
on both macOS and Linux, matching the documented `[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*`
contract. Declared `local` so it doesn't leak to the calling shell —
`gstack-gbrain-lib.sh` is documented as a sourced helper, so a bare
assignment would mutate the caller's locale for the rest of the process
(silently affecting downstream `sort`, `tr`, locale-aware globs in the
same shell, etc.).

The existing regression test
`test/gbrain-lib-verify.test.ts:'rejects invalid var names'`
already covers the macOS repro shape (passes `lower-case` and expects
the validator to reject + emit `invalid var name`). On Linux CI the
test silently passed because `LC_ALL=C` is the typical default; on
macOS dev boxes it fails.

Verified:
- `bun test test/gbrain-lib-verify.test.ts`: 22 pass, 0 fail (on macOS).
- `_gstack_gbrain_validate_varname lower-case; echo $?` → 2.
- `_gstack_gbrain_validate_varname FOO_BAR; echo $?` → 0.
- Caller's LC_ALL preserved across calls (confirmed via sourced bash).

* fix(land-and-deploy): detect merged PR after gh failure

After `gh pr merge` exits non-zero, the PR may already be MERGED server-side
(concurrent merge landed, or local cleanup phase failed AFTER the merge
succeeded). Calling `gh pr merge` a second time then errors with a confusing
"already merged" — and worse, the deploy workflow never runs because we
stopped on the first failure.

Adds a Post-failure PR-state check (§4a-postfail) that runs after ANY
non-zero exit from `gh pr merge`:

  - state == MERGED  → record MERGE_PATH=direct, OFFER (don't force)
                       stale-worktree cleanup on the base branch with
                       uncommitted-work guard, proceed to §4a CI watch
  - state == OPEN    → check autoMergeRequest; if non-null treat as
                       merge-queue wait; if null surface both errors and STOP
  - state == CLOSED  → STOP

Hard invariant: never retry `gh pr merge` after a non-zero exit. Server
state is authoritative.

Re-authored from PR garrytan#1620 into land-and-deploy/SKILL.md.tmpl (the source of
truth) instead of the generated SKILL.md, so the next gen:skill-docs run
preserves the change. Original diff by @davidfoy via garrytan#1620.

Related: cli/cli#3442, cli/cli#13380.

Contributed by @davidfoy via garrytan#1620.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: detect PgBouncer transaction-mode pooler and set GBRAIN_PREPARE=true (garrytan#1435)

When gbrain connects through a PgBouncer transaction-mode pooler (port
6543), it auto-disables prepared statements. This breaks `gbrain search`
silently — the /sync-gbrain capability check fails and the GBrain Search
Guidance block never gets written to CLAUDE.md.

Three-layer fix:

1. **lib/gbrain-exec.ts** — `buildGbrainEnv()` now detects port 6543 in
   the effective DATABASE_URL and sets `GBRAIN_PREPARE=true` in the env
   passed to every gbrain spawn. This is the single chokepoint — all
   gstack gbrain invocations inherit the fix. Caller can opt out with
   `GBRAIN_PREPARE=false`.

2. **sync-gbrain/SKILL.md{,.tmpl}** — capability check now exports
   `GBRAIN_PREPARE=true` explicitly and retries search up to 3x with 1s
   delay for async index propagation under connection pooling.

3. **bin/gstack-gbrain-detect** — surfaces `gbrain_pooler_mode` field
   ("transaction" | "session" | null) in the preamble probe JSON so
   /setup-gbrain and /sync-gbrain can advise users about pooler state.

Closes garrytan#1435

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* fix(supabase-provision): rewrite transaction/6543 -> session/5432 for new projects

- Single-object pooler API responses default to transaction-mode at 6543,
  but the shared pooler tenant on new projects only listens on session/5432
- Add a `pool_mode == transaction && db_port == 6543` rewrite + stderr note
- Escape hatch via `GSTACK_SUPABASE_TRUST_API_PORT=1` for forward-compat
- 5 new tests covering rewrite, no-op shapes, env opt-out, array path

Fixes garrytan#1301.

* fix(browse): GSTACK_CHROMIUM_NO_SANDBOX opt-out for Ubuntu/AppArmor (garrytan#1562)

Ubuntu/AppArmor configurations often block unprivileged Chromium sandboxing
for headless agent sessions even for normal users — /qa hangs without
--no-sandbox. The kernel policy denies the unprivileged user namespaces
Chromium needs.

Adds GSTACK_CHROMIUM_NO_SANDBOX=1 as an explicit user override that forces
the sandbox off without changing the default for everyone else. Re-authored
from PR garrytan#1562 onto v1.42.2.0's shouldEnableChromiumSandbox() helper —
purely additive, preserves the headed-launch sandbox-on-by-default behavior
that v1.42.2.0 shipped to kill the --no-sandbox yellow infobar.

Three new regression tests cover:
  - linux + override=1 → false (the named use case)
  - darwin + override=1 → false (env wins on any platform)
  - override=0 → does NOT trigger (must be exactly "1")

Original diff by @techcenter68 via garrytan#1562.

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* fix(browse): mirror isCustomChromium() guard in headless launch()

When BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR is set alongside GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH pointing
at a baked-extension build (GBrowser / GStack Browser), the headless launch()
path was unconditionally adding --disable-extensions-except / --load-extension.
This causes the same ServiceWorkerState::SetWorkerId DCHECK crash that
launchHeaded() already guards against via isCustomChromium().

Mirror the existing guard: skip --load-extension flags when isCustomChromium()
returns true; always push the off-screen window geometry args.

* fix(browse): daemonize macOS/Linux server via setsid()

`Bun.spawn().unref()` only releases the child from Bun's event loop —
it does NOT call setsid(). The spawned bun server inherits the spawning
shell's process session. When the CLI runs inside a session-managed shell
that exits shortly after the CLI returns (Claude Code's per-command Bash
sandbox, Conductor, OpenClaw, CI step runners), the session leader's exit
sends SIGHUP to every PID in the session — killing the bun server and
its Chromium grandchildren within seconds of a successful `connect`.

Setting `BROWSE_PARENT_PID=0` (already done by the `connect` command and
pair-agent) disables the parent-process watchdog but does NOT save the
server here: SIGHUP from session teardown still reaps it.

Replace the macOS/Linux `Bun.spawn().unref()` with Node's
`child_process.spawn({ detached: true })`, which calls setsid() and
gives the server its own session leader role (PPID=1, STAT=Ss). This
mirrors the Windows path's rationale (PR garrytan#191 by @fqueiro) — same root
cause, different OS surface.

Verified on macOS in Conductor: pre-fix the server dies ~10–15s after
connect across separate Bash invocations; post-fix the same PID stays
alive (PPID=1, SESS=0, STAT=Ss) and responds to `status`/`goto`/
`snapshot` across many separate shell calls.

The `proc?.stderr` startup-error branch is removed since both platforms
now spawn with `stdio: 'ignore'`; both fall through to the on-disk
`browse-startup-error.log` written by `server.ts`'s start().catch.

* fix(design): bump image-gen timeout to 240s + pin gpt-image-2

The design binary calls /v1/responses (gpt-4o + image_generation tool,
quality:high, 1536x1024) but aborted the request after a hardcoded 120s.
That class of request consistently takes ~140-160s end-to-end, so every
generate/variants/evolve/iterate call aborted before the image returned.

In /design-shotgun this cascades: Step 3c launches N parallel agents,
each calling `$D generate`, each aborts at 120s and retries, all fail,
the comparison board never opens — the skill appears to hang indefinitely.

Reproduced the exact API call with a longer budget: HTTP 200, valid
image, 143.5s. A real /design-shotgun run after the patch generated 3
variants in parallel at 150.0s / 161.0s / 152.1s, all exit 0 — note the
161s case, which a naive 150s bump would still have failed.

- Bump AbortController timeout 120_000 -> 240_000 in generate.ts,
  variants.ts, evolve.ts, iterate.ts (both call sites)
- Pin the image_generation tool to model "gpt-image-2"

design/test/variants-retry-after.test.ts: 5 pass, 0 fail. The
feedback-roundtrip.test.ts failures are a pre-existing browse-module
breakage (session.clearLoadedHtml undefined), unrelated to this change.

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* test: fill coverage gaps for PRs garrytan#1606, garrytan#1612, garrytan#1620

Three cherry-picked PRs in this wave landed without unit-test coverage for
the specific invariant they protect:

  garrytan#1606 (@andrey-esipov) — LC_ALL=C pin in _gstack_gbrain_validate_varname
    8 tests by sourcing bin/gstack-gbrain-lib.sh and calling the validator
    directly. Asserts uppercase/digit/underscore accepted, lowercase
    REJECTED (the macOS-locale regression case), mixed-case rejected,
    LC_ALL=C scoping is local (doesn't leak to caller).

  garrytan#1612 (@bharat2913) — setsid daemonize via Node child_process.spawn
    4 static-invariant tests on browse/src/cli.ts. The actual setsid
    syscall is hard to assert without a real spawn, so we pin the source
    shape: nodeSpawn imported from child_process; non-Windows branch uses
    nodeSpawn(...) with detached:true and .unref(); comment documents
    setsid/SIGHUP root cause; Bun.spawn() is NOT used on macOS/Linux.

  garrytan#1620 (@davidfoy, re-authored into .tmpl per A3) — §4a-postfail
    12 static invariants on land-and-deploy/SKILL.md.tmpl + generated
    SKILL.md. Pins all three state branches (MERGED/OPEN/CLOSED), the
    authoritative state query, the merge-SHA capture, non-destructive
    worktree cleanup with uncommitted-work guard, autoMergeRequest probe
    on OPEN, hard "never retry gh pr merge" rule, and atomic regen
    propagation.

Failing build if any of the three invariants regresses.

Note: gbrain-lib-validate-varname.test.ts also surfaces a pre-existing
glob-pattern overpermissiveness (hyphens + dots accepted) — not in
garrytan#1606's scope; documented inline as a separate cleanup target.

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* test(learnings): align injection-prevention tests with PR garrytan#1619 tagged-line shape

PR garrytan#1619 (preserve current entries in cross-project search) refactored
gstack-learnings-search to tag rows inline (`current\t<json>` vs
`cross\t<json>`) instead of filtering inside the bun block via
process.env.GSTACK_SEARCH_SLUG. The bun block no longer reads SLUG or
CROSS env vars — it parses the per-line tag and sets a per-entry
_crossProject flag.

The pre-existing test/learnings-injection.test.ts still asserted on the
old SLUG + CROSS env var shape. Updates:

  - Remove the SLUG env var assertion (no longer set on bash command line)
  - Remove the bun-block CROSS env var assertion (block reads the tag now,
    not the env)
  - Add a new positive assertion that the bun block parses the tag
    (sourceTag | tabIndex | crossProject)
  - Keep the shell-interpolation safety assertion unchanged — that's
    independent of the SLUG refactor

The CROSS env var is still SET on the bash command line (it controls
whether the cross-project find runs at all), but the bun child no longer
reads it. The existing "env vars set on bash command line" test continues
to pin that.

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* test(fixtures): regenerate ship-SKILL.md golden baselines

ship/SKILL.md consumes the Confidence Calibration resolver via the
preamble pipeline. This wave's garrytan#1539 pre-emit verification gate extends
the resolver text, which propagated to ship/SKILL.md via gen:skill-docs.
The golden fixtures in test/fixtures/golden/ matched the pre-garrytan#1539 shape
and failed the host-config regression check.

Refreshes claude-ship-SKILL.md, codex-ship-SKILL.md, and factory-ship-SKILL.md
to match the current generated output. Matches the Daegu wave's bisect
commit 23 ("test(fixtures): regenerate ship-SKILL.md golden baselines").

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* test(gbrain-detect): include gbrain_pooler_mode in schema regression (PR garrytan#1591)

PR garrytan#1591 (PgBouncer transaction-mode detection, @mikeangstadt) added
gbrain_pooler_mode to the gstack-gbrain-detect JSON output but did not
update the schema regression check in
test/gstack-gbrain-detect-mcp-mode.test.ts. Adding the key in alphabetical
order matching the rest of the schema array. Downstream sync-gbrain ignores
unknown keys, so this is forward-compat.

Without this, the test fails with a diff:
  + "gbrain_pooler_mode"
because keys is the actual set returned and the expected array was
pre-garrytan#1591.

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* chore(release): v1.43.0.0 — post-Daegu paper-cut wave

Bumps VERSION 1.42.2.0 → 1.43.0.0 (MINOR per scale-aware bump rules: new
env-var surface GSTACK_SYNC_*_TIMEOUT_MS + GSTACK_CHROMIUM_NO_SANDBOX,
behavior expansion in browse/src/browser-manager.ts headless launch,
three skill-template prompt changes affecting /retro, /review,
/sync-gbrain).

CHANGELOG entry leads with what stopped happening: /retro stops
fabricating retros against stale bases, /sync-gbrain stops SIGTERM-looping
35-min restarts on big brains, /review stops shipping framework FPs the
reviewer never grep'd.

18 fixes total — 15 community PRs + 3 self-filed silent-failure issues
(garrytan#1624, garrytan#1611, garrytan#1539) — in one bundled PR with 26 bisect commits and 7
new regression test files. Every wave-touched test file passes in
isolation.

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* chore(release): bump v1.43.0.0 → v1.43.2.0 for queue collision

CI check-version-stale flagged v1.43.0.0 already claimed by PR garrytan#1574
(garrytan/colombo-v3). PR garrytan#1639 (garrytan/muscat-v3) claims v1.43.1.0.
Next available MINOR slot is v1.43.2.0.

Bump VERSION + package.json + CHANGELOG entry header. No behavior
changes — purely re-versioning to clear the queue collision.

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…rong BrowserManager for embedders (garrytan#1645)

* fix(browse): route 4 lifecycle handlers through activeBrowserManager indirection

Module-level idleCheckTick, parent watchdog, SIGTERM handler, and
buildFetchHandler's onDisconnect wire all read the module-level
BrowserManager directly. For embedders (gbrowser) that pass their
own instance into buildFetchHandler, the module-level instance
never has launchHeaded() called on it — connectionMode stays
'launched' forever, headed-mode early-returns never fire, and
after 30 min of HTTP idle the server self-terminates out from
under the overlay.

Adds `let activeBrowserManager: BrowserManager` at module scope
(symmetric with the existing `let activeShutdown` pattern).
buildFetchHandler retargets it at cfg.browserManager and CHAINS
cfg.browserManager.onDisconnect to activeShutdown, preserving any
caller-installed handler instead of clobbering it.

Six edit sites in browse/src/server.ts:
- Edit 1 (~705): declare activeBrowserManager
- Edit 2 (~596): extract idleCheckTick + __testInternals__ export
- Edit 3 (~658): parent watchdog reads activeBrowserManager
- Edit 4 (~1387): retarget + chain cfgBrowserManager.onDisconnect
- Edit 5 (verify): line 714 default stays in place
- Edit 6 (~1212): SIGTERM handler reads activeBrowserManager

* test(browse): pin idle timer + onDisconnect dual-instance fix behaviorally

Adds 5 behavioral tests to browse/test/server-factory.test.ts under
a new 'idle timer + onDisconnect dual-instance fix' describe block:

- T1 (CRITICAL — REGRESSION): headed embedder does not auto-shutdown
  at idle. Pins the bug this PR fixes.
- T2 (paired defensive): headless still auto-shuts down at idle.
  Catches a future refactor that breaks the inverse case.
- T3 (chain semantics): buildFetchHandler chains
  cfgBrowserManager.onDisconnect, preserving any caller-set handler.
  Uses .rejects.toThrow for the async shutdown path.
- T4 (tunnelActive): tunnel-active blocks idle-shutdown even in
  headless mode.
- T5 (static guard): exactly 3 module-level lifecycle sites use
  activeBrowserManager.getConnectionMode() — idleCheckTick, parent
  watchdog, SIGTERM. Catches refactor-introduced regressions before
  CI.

Reuses existing makeMinimalConfig() + __resetRegistry() patterns
from the factory contract tests. New makeMockBrowserManager() helper.
beforeEach also resets module state via setTunnelActive,
setLastActivity, and resetShutdownState from __testInternals__.

Also deletes the old 'idle check skips in headed mode' string-grep
test from browse/test/sidebar-ux.test.ts at line 1596. That test
would have passed even with the dual-instance bug present
(grepped for "=== 'headed'" + 'return' in the same window).
Behavioral coverage moved to server-factory.test.ts.

Verified: 33/33 tests pass in browse/test/server-factory.test.ts.

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.43.3.0)

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…crollback replay (garrytan#1678)

* fix(browse): identity-based terminal-agent kill replaces pkill regex

Commit 0 of the v1.44 long-lived-sidebar PR — foundation for the watchdog
and removes a latent cross-session footgun.

`pkill -f terminal-agent\.ts` (cli.ts spawn site + server.ts shutdown) matched
by argv regex and would kill ANY process whose argv contained the string —
sibling gstack sessions on the same host, an editor with the file open, a
second `$B connect` run. Identity-based PID kill via a new helper module
removes that whole class of bug.

  * New `browse/src/terminal-agent-control.ts`: `readAgentRecord`,
    `writeAgentRecord`, `clearAgentRecord`, `killAgentByRecord`. Validates
    PID liveness via `isProcessAlive` before signaling (PID-reuse defense).
  * `terminal-agent.ts` writes `<stateDir>/terminal-agent-pid` (JSON
    `{pid, gen, startedAt}`) at boot; clears on SIGTERM/SIGINT.
  * New per-boot `CURRENT_GEN` (16-byte random); `/internal/*` callers can
    include `X-Browse-Gen` to defend against split-brain in the upcoming
    watchdog. Absent header is accepted (backward compat); mismatch returns
    409. New `checkInternalAuth` helper centralizes bearer + gen checks.
  * New `/internal/healthz` route — agent liveness probe used by the
    upcoming watchdog (returns pid/gen/sessions, no claude-binary lookup).
  * `cli.ts` and `server.ts` both call `killAgentByRecord` instead of pkill.
  * `ServerConfig.ownsTerminalAgent` JSDoc updated; the gated teardown now
    runs 4 side effects (was 3) — adds the new agent-record unlink.

Test changes:

  * New `browse/test/terminal-agent-pid-identity.test.ts` — static-grep
    tripwire that fails CI if any source file re-introduces `pkill ...
    terminal-agent` or `spawnSync('pkill', ...)`; round-trips
    write/read/clear; verifies killAgentByRecord no-ops on dead PIDs.
  * `browse/test/server-embedder-terminal-port.test.ts` rewritten to
    intercept `process.kill` (not `child_process.spawnSync`); writes a
    sentinel agent-record with a guaranteed-dead PID; asserts probe-only
    (signal 0) calls, no termination signals; verifies all 3 discovery
    files including the new terminal-agent-pid.

Closes TODOS.md P3 ("Identity-based terminal-agent kill").

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(tests): repair 7 pre-existing failures (env pollution + stale markers)

All 7 failures existed on main before this branch — verified via `git stash`
round-trip. Bundling them into the long-lived-sidebar PR because we kept
tripping over them while running `bun test` to verify Commit 0.

  * Global afterEach restores `process.env.PATH` (new bunfig.toml +
    test-setup.ts). browser-skill-commands.test.ts sets
    `PATH = '/test/bin:/usr/bin'` to exercise a scrubbed-env fixture and
    used the broken `process.env = origEnv` reassignment pattern that
    swaps the proxy reference; the underlying env stayed mutated and
    leaked downstream. Fixed three call sites in that file and added a
    narrow PATH-only global guardrail so a future polluter can't bring
    the bug back. Killed: pair-agent-tunnel-eval (bun ENOENT),
    security.test.ts > resolveBashBinary (Bun.which('bash') null),
    server-no-import-side-effects (bun ENOENT).
  * server-auth.test.ts: two `sliceBetween` markers referenced strings
    deleted when sidebar-agent.ts was ripped — `'Sidebar agent started'`
    → `'Terminal agent started'`, `'Sidebar endpoints'` → `'Batch endpoint'`.
    Also fixed the pair-agent BROWSE_PARENT_PID assertion (the literal
    `serverEnv.BROWSE_PARENT_PID` never existed in source; the actual
    contract is the object-literal `BROWSE_PARENT_PID: '0'` inside the
    `const serverEnv` declaration).
  * test/upgrade-migration-v1.test.ts: also overrides HOME in the spawn
    env. The migration shells out to `${HOME}/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-config`
    and a developer's real config with `explain_level` set causes the
    script to take the "user already decided" branch and skip writing
    the pending-prompt flag the test asserts on.
  * test/setup-codesign.test.ts: replaced fragile `bun run build`
    string-match (which hit a comment 700 lines later) with the actual
    invocation `bun_cmd run build` used in the setup script.

Net: full suite is now green; CI no longer trips on bash/bun-ENOENT
from PATH pollution or on test markers that drifted with the codebase.

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* refactor(terminal-agent): extract internalHandler<T> helper for /internal/* routes

Replaces the copy-pasted bearer-auth + X-Browse-Gen + req.json().then().catch()
boilerplate on /internal/grant and /internal/revoke with a single
internalHandler<T>(req, fn) wrapper. Future /internal/* routes added by the
v1.44 long-lived-sidebar work (/internal/lease-refresh, /internal/restart)
land as one-liners using the same helper. Pure refactor; no behavior change.

/internal/healthz stays on the bare checkInternalAuth gate because it's a
GET with no JSON body to parse — the helper's body-parse path would 400 it.

  * browse/src/terminal-agent.ts — new internalHandler<T>; /internal/grant
    + /internal/revoke routed through it.
  * browse/test/terminal-agent-internal-handler.test.ts — static-grep
    tripwire that fails CI if the helper goes away or either of the two
    refactored routes regresses to the old inline pattern.

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* feat(terminal-agent): 25s WS keepalive ping/pong + client keepalive frames

PTY connections were dying silently after NAT idle timeouts (30-60s on most
home routers, even shorter on some carrier-grade NAT) and Chrome MV3 panel
suspension. Neither side noticed until the user's next keystroke produced
no output. Both sides now drive a 25s keepalive cycle.

Server side (browse/src/terminal-agent.ts):
  * New ws.open handler constructs the PtySession eagerly and starts a
    setInterval that sends `{type:"ping",ts:Date.now()}` every 25s.
    Interval handle stored on session.pingInterval so close() can clear it.
  * PtySession.pingInterval field added; cleared in ws.close before
    disposeSession runs. Prevents timer leak across reconnects.
  * Message handler accepts `{type:"ping"|"pong"|"keepalive"}` silently —
    keepalive frames are a liveness signal at the TCP layer, no state to
    update. Existing resize/tabSwitch/tabState handling unchanged.
  * GSTACK_PTY_KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL_MS env knob (default 25000) lets the
    upcoming e2e tests compress idle assertions without 30s waits.

Client side (extension/sidepanel-terminal.js):
  * Belt-and-suspenders: client also runs a 25s setInterval that sends
    `{type:"keepalive"}`. Defends against Chrome pausing our timers if
    the server-side ping ever gets dropped (rare but possible in MV3).
  * Ping reply: on `{type:"ping",ts}` from the server, immediately send
    `{type:"pong",ts}`. Lets the agent observe round-trip latency for
    free and confirms the channel is bidirectional.
  * Interval cleared in three teardown paths: ws.close handler,
    teardown(), forceRestart(). Three paths exist because the sidebar
    can exit the LIVE state through any of them; all three must clean up
    or we leak timers across reconnects.

Test (browse/test/terminal-agent-keepalive.test.ts):
  * Static-grep tripwires for the 7-point protocol contract: agent has
    a configurable interval, open() starts the ping, close() clears it,
    message handler accepts keepalive vocabulary, client sends keepalive
    + replies pong, and all three client teardown paths clear the timer.
  * Wire-level tests (actually observe a ping after 25s) belong in the
    e2e tier — adding them here would either flake on slow CI or require
    a real Bun.serve listener per test which we don't want to pay for
    in the free tier.

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* feat(sidebar): patient tryAutoConnect — poll forever with ascending status, abort only on 401

The 15s give-up message ("Browse server not ready. Reload sidebar to retry.")
fired on every cold start where the daemon took >15s to bind — common on
Conductor workspaces, CI runners, and any system under load. The user
already opened the sidebar; telling them to give up is the wrong default.

Now polls every 2s indefinitely with ascending status messages:
  *   0 - 15s : silent (handles the happy path on a warm laptop)
  *  15 - 60s : "Waiting for browse server..."
  *  60s - 5m : "Still waiting — browse server may be slow to start."
  *      > 5m : "Browse server still not responding after 5 min. Try `$B status`."

Loop aborts on three signals only:
  * state transitions out of IDLE (connect succeeded or user navigated)
  * autoConnectAborted sticky flag set on unrecoverable error
  * the panel itself unloading (browser handles this; pagehide cleanup
    arrives with T8 of the larger plan)

401 from /pty-session sets the sticky flag with a clear "Auth invalid —
reload the sidebar or restart your gstack session." message. Without the
flag, the loop would re-call connect() every 2s and spam the same error;
with it, the user sees the message once and the loop holds. forceRestart()
clears the flag so clicking Restart is the explicit "try again" escape hatch.

Bumped poll interval 200ms → 2000ms — the legacy tight loop burned CPU
for no reason. 2s is plenty fast for a "did the daemon come up yet" check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(browse): terminal-agent watchdog with PID liveness + crash-loop guard

terminal-agent could die independently of the server — SIGKILL from the OS
OOM killer, an uncaught exception under PTY churn, an external `pkill` from
a sibling debugging session. Pre-v1.44 the sidebar would observe the broken
connection and stay broken until the user reloaded the sidebar. Now a 60s
ticker checks the recorded agent PID and respawns via the shared
spawnTerminalAgent helper when dead.

Identity-based liveness (T4 from the eng review):
  * Uses readAgentRecord + isProcessAlive (signal 0 probe), not a name match.
  * Slow-but-alive agents intentionally fall through — respawning around a
    living agent would create split-brain (two agents writing the port
    file, tokens diverging between them, mystery upgrade 401s).
  * Pairs with the v1.44 generation counter in /internal/* loopback calls:
    if a stale agent does come back to life mid-cycle, its X-Browse-Gen
    no longer matches and the parent's calls 409 cleanly.

Crash-loop guard:
  * 3 respawn attempts inside a rolling 60s window → stop trying. A daemon
    up for a week with one crash a day shouldn't trip the guard.
  * On trip: one-line error to console (`respawn guard tripped`) and the
    watchdog goes dormant. Manual restart via the sidebar Restart button
    is the explicit signal to re-arm (added in Commit 2 of the larger PR).

Shared spawn path (refactor):
  * New spawnTerminalAgent(opts) in terminal-agent-control.ts handles:
    prior-PID cleanup → spawn → record stash. Both the CLI cold-start path
    in cli.ts and the new server.ts watchdog route through it. Removes the
    copy-paste between them; future env wiring lands in one place.

Gated on cfg.ownsTerminalAgent — embedders that pre-launch their own PTY
server (gbrowser phoenix overlay) still own the full lifecycle.

GSTACK_AGENT_WATCHDOG_TICK_MS env knob compresses the 60s tick for e2e
tests without 60s waits per assertion.

Tests:
  * browse/test/terminal-agent-watchdog.test.ts — 7 static-grep tripwires
    for the load-bearing invariants (ownsTerminalAgent gate, PID-based
    liveness, crash-loop guard with window pruning, shutdown cleanup,
    CLI cold-start uses the same helper, env knob exists).
  * Live process-kill tests belong in the e2e tier; cheaper invariants
    here catch refactor regressions in ~1ms each.

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* feat(cli): opt-in outer supervisor — respawn browse server on crash

Pre-v1.44 `$B connect` was fire-and-forget: spawn server detached, CLI
exits, server runs unsupervised. If the server crashed (OOM, uncaught
exception, signal kill from a runaway debugger), the user had to notice,
re-run `$B connect`, and resume work. The v1.44 terminal-agent watchdog
recovers from one layer of failure; this commit closes the outer loop.

Opt-in via `--supervise` flag or `BROWSE_SUPERVISE=1` env. Default
behavior is unchanged — every existing caller (Claude Code's Bash tool,
scripts, CI) still gets a prompt return. When the flag is set:

  * CLI stays attached, polls server PID every 30s via readState() +
    isProcessAlive (same identity primitive as the terminal-agent watchdog).
  * On unexpected exit: respawn via the same headed-mode startServer path
    used initially, then re-spawn the terminal-agent so the PTY recovers
    too (otherwise sidebar Restart is the only path back).
  * Crash-loop guard: 5 respawns in a rolling 5-min window → exit 1 with
    a clear error. Window pruning means a long-lived daemon with sporadic
    crashes does NOT trip the guard (otherwise we punish the user for the
    supervisor doing its job).
  * Backoff: 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 30s capped. Env-overridable via
    GSTACK_SUPERVISOR_BACKOFF for tests.
  * SIGINT / SIGTERM: clean teardown — signals the supervised server
    before exiting itself. Without this, Ctrl-C leaves an orphaned server.

Out of scope (deferred follow-up): routing the Chromium-disconnect
exit-code-1 path back through this supervisor. The terminal-agent
watchdog already covers the highest-frequency restart case; Chromium
crash recovery joins the queue as its own commit.

Test (browse/test/cli-supervisor.test.ts):
  * 6 static-grep tripwires: opt-in default, signal wiring, crash-loop
    guard with window pruning, backoff schedule env knob, tick interval
    env knob, terminal-agent re-spawn after server respawn.
  * Live respawn tests belong in the e2e tier (real spawn cycles take
    3-8s each; spamming these in the free tier would balloon CI time).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(browse): pty-session-lease registry — stable sessionId + lease lifecycle

Foundation for Commit 2 of the long-lived-sidebar PR. Separates two
concerns that pre-v1.44 were conflated under one token:

  * sessionId — stable, non-secret identifier for a single PTY session.
    Safe to log, safe in URLs, safe in DevTools. Identifies "this terminal,"
    not "you're allowed to use this terminal."
  * lease — server-side bookkeeping that maps sessionId → expiresAt.
    Re-attach within the lease window resumes the same PTY; expiry tears
    it down.

The companion attach-token primitive (short-lived 30s bearer) reuses the
existing browse/src/pty-session-cookie.ts module unchanged — the lease
adds a name-space alongside, it doesn't replace anything.

Codex outside-voice (T1 of the eng review) flagged the original D4
"token IS sessionId" design as conflating identity with auth. The fix
is this lease registry: re-attach URLs carry the stable sessionId
(loggable), the short-lived attachToken stays out of logs.

API:
  * mintLease() → { sessionId, expiresAt }
  * validateLease(sessionId) → { ok: true, expiresAt } | { ok: false }
  * refreshLease(sessionId) — validate-first, never resurrects expired
    leases. Security-critical: the 30-min TTL is what bounds blast
    radius for a leaked attachToken whose lease should have GC'd.
  * revokeLease(sessionId) — explicit dispose path.
  * leaseCount() — observability helper.
  * __resetLeases() — test-only.

TTL env knob (GSTACK_PTY_LEASE_TTL_MS) lets v1.44 e2e tests compress
the detach window to 1s instead of waiting 30 minutes per assertion.

Server.ts wiring + /pty-session shape change + /pty-restart + /pty-dispose
+ /pty-session/reattach all land in subsequent commits in this branch.

Test (browse/test/pty-session-lease.test.ts):
  * 8 cases pinning mint uniqueness, validate-first refresh contract,
    revoke idempotency, null/undefined tolerance, and the negative case
    that refresh never resurrects a revoked lease (same code path as
    expired-and-pruned).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(terminal-agent): sessionId-aware grant + scoped restart + eager spawn

Wires the pty-session-lease primitive (3aada48) into terminal-agent so
the Commit 2 work in server.ts (next commit) can route /pty-restart and
re-attach by session identity rather than by single-use token.

Changes:

  * validTokens: Set<string> → Map<string, string|null>. Each grant carries
    its bound sessionId (or null for legacy single-grant callers). On WS
    upgrade, the agent surfaces the bound sessionId via ws.data so open()
    can register the session in the new reverse index.
  * sessionsById: Map<sessionId, PtySession> — populated in open(),
    cleared in close(). Required so /internal/restart can find and dispose
    one specific session by id rather than enumerating all live sessions.
  * /internal/restart: scoped to one sessionId. Codex T2 of the eng review
    caught the gap — pre-spec the route would have disposed every PTY on
    the agent, breaking pair-agent and any future multi-sidebar setup.
    The body now requires `{sessionId}`; missing or unknown id returns
    `{killed: 0}` and leaves siblings alone.
  * maybeSpawnPty(ws, session): hoisted from the inline binary-frame spawn
    block so both the legacy "spawn on first keystroke" trigger AND the
    new `{type:"start"}` text-frame trigger land in the same code path.
    Idempotent on session.spawned.
  * `{type:"start"}` text frame: explicit spawn trigger. forceRestart
    (extension side, lands in Commit 2C) sends this immediately on every
    fresh WS so claude boots without requiring a keystroke. Pre-v1.44 the
    lazy-binary-spawn pattern made the restart feel stuck.
  * close(ws): drops the sessionsById entry alongside the existing
    sessions WeakMap + validTokens cleanup. Commit 3 will revisit this to
    keep the session alive for a 60s detach window before disposing.

Test (browse/test/terminal-agent-session-routing.test.ts):
  * 8 static-grep tripwires pinning the load-bearing properties: validTokens
    is a Map (not Set), sessionsById exists, /internal/restart is scoped
    (negative-assert against enumerate-all patterns), WS upgrade plumbs
    sessionId, maybeSpawnPty is the single spawn entry, close() drops the
    index. Live spawn cycles belong in the e2e tier.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(server): /pty-session 4-tuple + /pty-restart + /pty-dispose + lease-refresh

Wires the lease + attachToken model end-to-end on the server side. The
client side (extension) lands in the next commit; agent side already
shipped in 449144c.

Routes:
  * POST /pty-session — mints sessionId (stable, loggable) + lease
    (server-side bookkeeping) + attachToken (short-lived bearer for the
    WS upgrade). Returns the 4-tuple in one round trip. Legacy
    ptySessionToken / expiresAt aliases kept for one minor release so
    extensions on the v1.43 wire shape keep working.
  * POST /pty-session/reattach — validates a sessionId's lease and mints
    a FRESH attachToken bound to the same sessionId. Used by Commit 3's
    re-attach loop; 410 Gone when the lease has expired so the client
    knows to fall back to a brand-new /pty-session.
  * POST /pty-restart — one transaction: dispose the caller's existing
    PtySession on the agent (via /internal/restart, scoped to one
    sessionId — codex T2), revoke the old lease, mint a fresh
    sessionId + lease + attachToken, return the 4-tuple. Zero race
    window between kill and mint (codex T2 + D8 of the eng review).
  * POST /pty-dispose — explicit teardown. sendBeacon-compatible: accepts
    auth token in the body so the extension's pagehide handler (Commit 2C)
    can fire it without setting custom headers (sendBeacon doesn't
    support those). Without this route, every clean browser quit leaves
    a zombie PTY alive for the 60s detach window — codex T3 caught it.
  * POST /internal/lease-refresh — loopback from terminal-agent on its
    25s keepalive cycle (lazy: only when lease is within 5 min of
    expiry). Refreshes the lease AND resets the daemon idle timer. T6
    of the eng review: PTY activity (not arbitrary SSE consumers) is
    what keeps the daemon alive when the sidebar is in use.

Helpers:
  * grantPtyToken now accepts optional sessionId and passes it through
    to the agent's /internal/grant body. The agent binds token → sessionId
    in its validTokens Map so /ws upgrades carry the sessionId for
    /internal/restart and Commit 3 re-attach lookups.
  * restartPtySession() — new loopback helper that POSTs the agent's
    scoped /internal/restart with a sessionId body. Used by /pty-restart
    and /pty-dispose.

Auth contract on /pty-dispose deliberately accepts the auth token in
EITHER the Authorization header OR the request body. The body path is
required for sendBeacon (which can't set custom headers); the header
path stays available for non-beacon callers and tests.

Test (browse/test/server-pty-lease-routes.test.ts):
  * 7 static-grep tripwires pinning the 4-tuple shape, validate-first
    re-attach with 410 fallback, one-transaction restart semantics,
    sendBeacon-compatible dispose auth, and the T6 PTY-only idle reset.
  * Live route exercises (full mint + grant + WS upgrade cycle) belong
    in the e2e tier — they require a real terminal-agent loopback and
    take seconds per assertion.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(sidebar): forceRestart via /pty-restart + pagehide /pty-dispose

Closes the Commit 2 loop: server-side lease + restart routes shipped in
25ef24e; this commit wires the extension client to use them. End-to-end
result — clicking Restart now actually kills the server's PTY before
opening a new WS (zero race window), and closing the sidebar / quitting
the browser disposes the PTY immediately instead of letting it linger
for the upcoming 60s detach window.

sidepanel-terminal.js:
  * mintSession callers read the v1.44 4-tuple (sessionId + attachToken)
    from /pty-session, with a backward-compat fallback to ptySessionToken
    so a partially-updated extension still works against a fresh server
    for one minor release.
  * Eager spawn via {type:"start"} text frame replaces the legacy
    `TextEncoder().encode("\n")` newline hack. Pre-v1.44, the lazy-binary-
    spawn pattern made forceRestart look stuck until the user typed —
    now claude boots before the prompt renders.
  * forceRestart() rewritten as an async one-transaction handler:
      1. close current WS with code 4001 (intentional-restart)
      2. POST /pty-restart with priorSessionId so the server can scope
         the dispose, then mint fresh sessionId + lease + attachToken
         in the same response
      3. Open new WS with the returned attachToken, send {type:"start"}
         immediately for eager spawn
      4. On 401: sticky-abort the auto-connect loop (no spam)
      5. On 503 / network failure: fall back to patient autoconnect
  * currentSessionId tracked and exposed on window.gstackPtySession so
    sidepanel.js's pagehide handler can sendBeacon the dispose.

sidepanel.js:
  * New pagehide handler fires navigator.sendBeacon('/pty-dispose',
    {sessionId, authToken}) on tab close, panel close, browser quit,
    or extension reload. sendBeacon-compatible: auth token rides in
    the body since sendBeacon can't set custom headers (server route
    accepts body-auth per 25ef24e).
  * try/catch around the entire body so a sendBeacon failure can't
    interfere with the browser's unload sequence — the 60s detach
    window from Commit 3 catches anything we miss.

There's bounded duplication between connect() and forceRestart() (~70
lines of WS attach/handler wiring). Extracting a shared helper is a
clean follow-up but out of scope for the v1.44 ship — both paths are
exercised by the same e2e test.

Test (browse/test/sidepanel-restart-dispose.test.ts):
  * 9 static-grep tripwires pinning the 4-tuple parse, eager spawn,
    close-code 4001 contract, /pty-restart wire shape, sticky-abort
    401 path, sessionId window plumbing, sendBeacon body contract,
    and the best-effort try/catch around pagehide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(terminal-agent): scrollback ring buffer + detach state machine + re-attach

The agent side of Commit 3 — the "magic" feature. A network blip (wifi
hiccup, MV3 panel suspend, brief Chromium pause) now silently reconnects
the sidebar to the SAME claude session with scrollback intact. No more
"Session ended" message + manual Restart click + losing your tool-call
output. Server-side /pty-session/reattach (25ef24e) and the extension
re-attach loop (next commit) close the loop end-to-end.

Ring buffer (T10):
  * Per-session frames: Buffer[] capped at 1 MB (env-overridable via
    GSTACK_PTY_RING_BUFFER_BYTES). Each PTY write is one frame, so
    eviction is at frame boundaries and never cuts a UTF-8 sequence or
    ANSI CSI in half.
  * appendToRingBuffer eviction loop keeps at least one frame even at
    extreme caps — a single oversized frame can't empty the buffer.
  * Alt-screen tracking via canonical xterm CSI ?1049h / CSI ?1049l
    sequences. lastIndexOf comparison so trailing state wins when both
    appear in one render frame (quick tool-call open+close).

Replay payload (T5 — codex outside-voice):
  * buildReplayPayload prefixes DECSTR soft reset (\x1b[!p) and
    conditionally re-enters alt-screen if claude was in a tool call at
    detach. The client writes RIS (\x1bc) FIRST to clear pre-blip xterm
    content; the server's prelude resets character attributes; the ring
    buffer replays cleanly on top.
  * Order is enforced by the {type:"reattach-begin"} text frame the
    agent sends right before the binary replay — client waits for it,
    writes RIS, then treats the next binary frame as the replay payload.

Detach state machine (T9):
  * PtySession.liveWs decouples the PTY callback from the original ws
    closure. On re-attach, swapping session.liveWs is enough — the
    on-data callback writes to the new ws automatically.
  * close(ws, code, _reason): codes 4001 (intentional restart), 4404
    (no-claude), and 1000 (clean exit) trigger immediate dispose.
    Anything else (1006 abnormal, 1001 going-away from network blip /
    panel suspend) starts a 60s detach timer instead. claude keeps
    running, output keeps accumulating in the ring buffer.
  * Detach timer is unref'd so the bun process can still exit cleanly
    on natural shutdown.
  * Sessions without a sessionId (legacy single-shot grants) can't
    re-attach by definition — those fall through to immediate dispose.

Re-attach lookup (T9):
  * WS open() checks sessionsById[sessionId] FIRST. If a detached
    session is sitting there, cancel its detach timer, swap liveWs,
    rebind the WS-keyed map, restart keepalive, send reattach-begin
    + replay payload. The PTY process is unchanged.
  * /internal/restart now cancels any pending detach timer before
    disposal — otherwise the timer would later try to dispose an
    already-disposed session.

Env knobs for e2e:
  * GSTACK_PTY_RING_BUFFER_BYTES — compress to 256 for eviction tests.
  * GSTACK_PTY_DETACH_WINDOW_MS — compress to 1000 for "did the timer
    fire?" tests without waiting a minute per assertion.

Tests:
  * browse/test/terminal-agent-detach-reattach.test.ts — 10 static-grep
    tripwires for the load-bearing properties: interface shape, env
    knobs, eviction floor, alt-screen tracking, replay prelude
    composition, re-attach lookup, close-code routing, detach timer
    unref, /internal/restart timer cancellation, on-data through
    session.liveWs.
  * browse/test/terminal-agent-session-routing.test.ts test 7 widened
    to match the new close(ws, code, _reason) signature.
  * browse/test/terminal-agent-keepalive.test.ts test 3 widened
    similarly. Both stay regressions for the prior contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(sidebar): silent re-attach with scrollback replay (Commit 3 client side)

Closes the v1.44 long-lived-sidebar loop end-to-end. When the WS dies for
a transient reason (wifi blip, MV3 panel suspend, brief Chromium pause),
the sidebar now silently re-attaches to the SAME claude session inside the
server's 60s detach window. Scrollback replays cleanly; the user keeps
typing without noticing anything happened.

State machine:
  * New STATE.RECONNECTING covers the in-flight re-attach window.
    setState transitions out of this state reset reattachInFlight so a
    concurrent user action (Restart click, panel navigate) short-circuits
    cleanly.
  * Backoff schedule REATTACH_BACKOFF_MS = [1000, 2000, 4000, 8000] then
    8s steady until REATTACH_WINDOW_MS (60s) elapses. Past that point
    the server has disposed our session and /pty-session/reattach
    returns 410 Gone.

startReattachLoop(prevSessionId):
  * Posts /pty-session/reattach with sessionId.
  * On 200 with a valid 4-tuple, opens the post-reattach WS directly.
  * On 410 (lease expired) — short-circuits to ENDED. No retry; the user
    clicks Restart for a fresh session.
  * On 401 — sticky-aborts the auto-connect loop. Same defense as 25ef24e
    so we don't spam "Auth invalid" every 2s.
  * On network failure or other non-OK status — schedules the next
    backoff tick.

openReattachWebSocket(terminalPort, attachToken, sessionId):
  * Mostly a clone of connect()'s attach wiring. Reuses the live xterm
    element — RIS clears the buffer cleanly when the agent's
    {type:"reattach-begin"} arrives, so the visual flash is minimal.
  * Handshake: on `{type:"reattach-begin"}` text frame → write `\x1bc`
    (RIS) to xterm + set nextBinaryIsReplay = true. The next binary
    frame IS the server-built replay payload (DECSTR soft-reset prefix
    + optional alt-screen re-enter + ring buffer contents).
  * If THIS reattach WS also dies uncleanly, recurses into another
    re-attach loop with the same sessionId — the server's detach window
    may still be open. State guard prevents runaway recursion.

connect() + forceRestart() close handlers (existing):
  * Both updated to call startReattachLoop on transient close codes
    (anything other than 1000 / 4001 / 4404). Was just setState(ENDED).
  * Clean codes still bypass — re-attaching to a force-restart's
    pre-restart session would be the bug we're avoiding.

Test (browse/test/sidepanel-reattach.test.ts):
  * 8 static-grep tripwires for the load-bearing properties: state
    constant, backoff schedule, /pty-session/reattach wiring, 410
    short-circuit (no retry past lease window), 401 sticky-abort,
    reattach-begin → RIS handshake, all three close handlers route
    through the loop, clean-code bypass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.44.0.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(terminal-agent): runtime tests for ring buffer + replay + alt-screen tracking

Companion to browse/test/terminal-agent-detach-reattach.test.ts (static-grep
tripwires) — calls appendToRingBuffer + buildReplayPayload directly to prove
behavioral correctness without spinning up a real Bun.serve listener.

  * 11 runtime cases: append + byte counting, oversize eviction with
    one-frame floor (the eviction loop guard that prevents an oversized
    single frame from emptying the buffer), alt-screen tracking via
    canonical xterm CSI ?1049h / CSI ?1049l, trailing-state-wins for
    enter+exit pairs inside a single render frame, soft-reset prefix
    ordering, optional alt-screen re-enter, payload length math.
  * Exports appendToRingBuffer, buildReplayPayload, and the PtySession
    interface from terminal-agent.ts (purely for testability — they
    were module-private; the change is annotation-only).
  * Lease registry sanity check: mint two sessions, verify distinct
    sessionIds, both valid simultaneously. Catches future refactors
    that accidentally couple lease + ring buffer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(tests): explain_level unset returns the documented default, not empty

Pre-existing failure on main — the test expected gstack-config to return
"" for an unset explain_level (with the comment "preamble default takes
over"), but the script at bin/gstack-config:103 explicitly returns
"default" inline for that key. Earlier versions of the script may have
relied on shell-substitution fallback, but the current contract is
inline-default-on-get so callers always receive a usable value without
bash gymnastics.

Updated the test to match the actual contract. Also added GSTACK_HOME
override alongside GSTACK_STATE_DIR in the spawn env so developer-machine
config doesn't bleed into the test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	VERSION
#	bin/gstack-config
#	package.json
#	test/gen-skill-docs.test.ts
#	test/gstack-memory-helpers.test.ts
#	test/setup-codesign.test.ts
…o stall-watchdog)

Replace the parallel first-token deadline in sub-agents.ts with a two-phase
startup-hang detector inside stall-watchdog.ts. Phase A (default 120s) only
kills when both CPU and stream are silent — long-reasoning LLM CLIs that burn
CPU between tokens are no longer killed prematurely. Env var
GSTACK_BUILD_FIRST_TOKEN_DEADLINE_MS kept for operator continuity.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six tasks, TDD-first: failing Phase A tests in stall-watchdog →
implement Phase A → wire startupHangMs into spawnCaptured →
delete legacy first-token timer → extend halt-event-helpers
killReason switch → final test sweep + CHANGELOG + VERSION bump.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CPU-aware startup window. Default 120_000ms. Fires only when both
CPU and stream are silent. Sets killReason='startup_hang'. Phase
B logic untouched. Tests pass. Pre-existing tests updated to
explicitly disable Phase A (startupHangMs: 0) for backward
compatibility.
Reads GSTACK_BUILD_FIRST_TOKEN_DEADLINE_MS via resolveStartupHangMs
helper so '0' explicitly disables Phase A. Legacy first-token timer
still in place; deleted in the next commit.
Phase A in stall-watchdog now handles startup-hang detection with
CPU awareness. The legacy stream-only first-token timer in
spawnCaptured is removed, including firstTokenKilled,
firstTokenDeadlineMs, firstTokenTimer, firstTokenKillTimer,
clearFirstTokenTimers, and noteFirstToken. Result killReason is
now sourced unconditionally from watchdog.killReason(). The
sub-agents test that asserted first_token_timeout is replaced
by a startup-hang test plus a cpu-burning regression test that
proves long-reasoning subagents are no longer killed.
renderRoleStepFailure now emits a startup-specific summary for
killReason='startup_hang', distinct from generic stalls and
progress_gap. Surfaces the distinctive silent-CPU failure mode in
halt-event logs and auto-filed bug reports.
drain-faults uses attachStallWatchdog directly (mtime mode) with
investigatorTimeoutMs as stallMs — typically 1s in tests. The
prior call-site clamp in spawnCaptured didn't apply, so drainFaults
'investigator timeout → kills + counts as failed' broke at 30s
instead of 1s. Moving the clamp into the watchdog itself benefits
all callers (spawnCaptured, drain-faults, anything else).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
VERSION bump + CHANGELOG entry for the watchdog unification.
Replaces the parallel first-token timer in spawnCaptured with a
two-phase startup-hang detector inside stall-watchdog. Long-
reasoning LLM subagents that burn CPU between tokens are no
longer killed prematurely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t consts

halt-events.ts (lines 68, 296+) and halt-event-helpers.ts (line 46 cast)
declared killReason as a 4-value union missing "startup_hang". Downstream
consumers reading persisted HaltEvents got a narrowed type that elided the
new kill reason; only the runtime switch in renderRoleStepFailure handled
it because its input was typed string. Added "startup_hang" to all three
sites.

Also hoisted rawStartupWindow + startupWindow out of stall-watchdog poll()
since both are derived from immutable opts — recomputing per tick read as
if they could change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adversarial review caught a regression: the deleted first-token timer
cleared on any stdout/stderr byte (stdoutBytes + stderrBytes > 0). My
new Phase A exit relied on /\S/.test which rejects pure whitespace,
so a CLI emitting only \r progress carets or ANSI clear sequences for
120s would falsely trip startup_hang. The new branch in onLine
advances firstActivityAt on ANY byte while leaving Phase B's silence
tracking (/\S/) untouched. Pinned with a regression test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- CLAUDE.md: add GSTACK_BUILD_FIRST_TOKEN_DEADLINE_MS to the Build
  orchestrator environment variables section, documenting the new
  CPU-aware Phase A semantics and the startup_hang killReason
- build/README.md: add GSTACK_BUILD_FIRST_TOKEN_DEADLINE_MS to the
  Environment Variables table near the other watchdog knobs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
writeBugReport's post-agent hygiene gate (validatePostAgentHygiene) and the
test-only auto-commit fallback (applyGateHygiene) only allowlisted .llm-tmp/
and .codex/ as untracked paths. Gemini's --yolo mode (configured as the
backupProvider for primaryImpl, testFixer, and ship in build/configure.cm)
leaves *.bak files on disk after every edit, which trips the gate with
"primary implementor left the working tree dirty" and pauses the phase,
requiring manual rm + --mark-phase-committed rescue. Hit on 3 consecutive
/build runs.

This adds a new exported const EDITOR_ARTIFACT_STATUS matching
/^\?\? .*(?:\.bak|\.tmp|\.swp|\.orig|\.rej|~)$/ and threads it through both
filter call sites as a second predicate alongside allowedStatus. The two
predicates document different reasons (sub-agent staging dirs vs editor
cruft) and are independently auditable.

Modified-tracked files with the same extensions still flag dirty because
they represent the user intentionally checking in a backup.

Closes the manual investigation report at
~/.gstack/skill-faults/manual-1779671983939/MANUAL_INVESTIGATION:0:f02eba7d.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@anbangr anbangr merged commit bb465b6 into main May 25, 2026
@anbangr anbangr deleted the feat/cpu-aware-startup-hang-watchdog branch May 25, 2026 03:29
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