v1.57.2.0 feat: AskUserQuestion prose fallback when the tool fails at runtime#1908
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Classifies the session as spawned | headless | interactive from env markers (OPENCLAW_SESSION / GSTACK_HEADLESS / CONDUCTOR_* / CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT / CI), defaulting to interactive. Echoed once at skill start alongside BRANCH/REPO_MODE so the AskUserQuestion-failure fallback can branch without a shell-out at failure time. Degrade-safe: empty/error => interactive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sions) On a genuine AUQ failure (tool absent, or present-but-erroring like Conductor's flaky MCP returning '[Tool result missing due to internal error]'): retry once, then branch on SESSION_KIND — spawned auto-chooses, headless BLOCKs, interactive renders a prose decision brief the user answers by typing a letter. The prose fallback MUST surface the triad: a clear ELI10 of the issue, a per-choice Completeness score, and a recommendation+why (one paragraph per choice). Carves out the [plan-tune auto-decide] denial as NOT a failure, and qualifies the former 'tool_use, not prose' assertions so the rule isn't self-contradicting. Tests pin the triad, the SESSION_KIND branch, the OV2 collision guard, the always-loaded guarantee, and a cross-file invariant on the auto-decide prefix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Headless harness runs classify as headless (BLOCK on AUQ failure rather than emit a prose question no one reads). SDK runner uses ambient mutation, not the Options.env object, to avoid breaking the SDK auth pipeline. Interactive-path suites opt out by overriding the env per-run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When an AskUserQuestion call returns an error/missing result, this hook injects additionalContext reminding the model to run the prose fallback for the current SESSION_KIND. It does not render prose itself — it guarantees the reminder fires at the moment of failure instead of relying on the model recalling SESSION_KIND. Inert on success and inert if the platform never invokes PostToolUse on tool errors (unverified — could not force the Conductor MCP error in a harness; see the spike doc). The prompt-level fallback covers the case regardless. Decision logic is unit-tested deterministically; registered in setup beside the existing AUQ hooks. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Regenerated from the resolver changes (gen:skill-docs --host all). Refreshes the byte-exact ship golden fixtures (claude/codex/factory). Spec prose tightened so the cross-cutting preamble addition stays under the 5% per-skill parity ceiling (investigate 4.8%) — guard unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ES keys
The two section-loading E2E tests used display-form testNames ('/ship
section-loading', '/plan-ceo-review section-loading') while every other E2E
testName and their E2E_TOUCHFILES keys are kebab. The completeness gate does an
exact `name in E2E_TOUCHFILES` check, so it failed (pre-existing on main); diff-
based selection also couldn't match them. Align to ship-section-loading /
plan-ceo-section-loading.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The parameterized host smoke + --host all freshness tests assumed an external `gen:skill-docs --host all` had run first (it never does in `bun test`), so which host reported STALE varied by sibling-test timing — flaky. Regenerate the gitignored external host dirs in a beforeAll so the --dry-run check is deterministic. It still catches non-deterministic generation (the real bug class for regenerated outputs); the tracked-claude freshness test runs earlier and is unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ent-release Merging main brought the carve of document-release (smaller skeleton); the AUQ prose-fallback adds ~2KB to every skill's always-loaded preamble, landing document-release at ~5.9% over the pre-carve v1.53.0.0 baseline. Add a per-carve maxSizeRatio override (CARVE_GUARDS single source of truth) and bump only this skill to 1.08. All other skills keep the strict 1.05 ceiling. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex pre-landing review found three real issues:
- The PostToolUse fallback hook shared source 'plan-tune-cathedral' with the
question-log hook (same event+matcher); gstack-settings-hook replaces the entry,
so it would have clobbered plan-tune capture. Give it its own 'auq-error-fallback'
source (separate entry, both run); ALREADY_INSTALLED now requires both sources.
- isErrorResponse triggered on any string containing 'internal error'/'is_error',
so a real answer or a {"is_error": false} payload could fire the fallback after a
successful question. Narrow it to the missing-result sentinel + boolean is_error.
- The SDK runner mutated process.env.GSTACK_HEADLESS process-wide (leaked headless
into later tests). Removed; GSTACK_HEADLESS=1 now lives in the eval package.json
scripts, scoped to the invocation and inherited by the SDK child.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
When AskUserQuestion fails at runtime, gstack skills no longer stall or hard-block. Each skill detects the failure, classifies whether a human is present, and degrades gracefully.
AskUserQuestion failure fallback (the feature)
bin/gstack-session-kindclassifies each session asinteractive/headless/spawned, echoed asSESSION_KINDat skill start (alongsideBRANCH/REPO_MODE).generate-ask-user-format.ts): on a genuine AskUserQuestion failure (tool absent, or present-but-erroring like Conductor's flaky MCP), retry once, then branch onSESSION_KIND—spawnedauto-chooses,headlessBLOCKs,interactiverenders the full decision brief as prose you answer by typing a letter. Mandatory triad: issue ELI10 + per-choice completeness + recommendation. Carves out[plan-tune auto-decide]as not-a-failure; qualifies the former "tool_use, not prose" assertions.auq-error-fallback-hook.ts) that, when an AskUserQuestion call errors, injects a reminder to run the fallback for the current session kind. Defensive/inert: only fires on a missing-result/error payload, never on a real answer; inert if the platform doesn't invoke PostToolUse on tool errors (unverified — see the spike doc).Pre-existing test fixes (bundled per fix-wave discipline)
beforeAllregen) — removes standalone flakiness.Merge reconciliation
maxSizeRatiooverride givesdocument-release1.08 headroom for the cross-cutting preamble addition while every other skill keeps 1.05.Test Coverage
All new code paths covered:
gstack-session-kind(env permutations incl. spawned/empty), the prose-fallback rule + mandatory triad +[plan-tune auto-decide]carve-out + OV2 collision guard + a cross-file invariant, and the error hook's detection + per-session-kind directive (incl. the false-positive guards from review). Free suite: 0 failures. Parity: 13/13.Pre-Landing Review
Codex adversarial review found 3 real issues, all fixed and re-tested:
Design Review
No frontend files changed — design review skipped.
Eval Results
Gate-tier paid evals ran (diff selected all due to a global touchfile). The AskUserQuestion-bearing skill evals passed (plan, plan-tune, review, office-hours, session-intelligence, deploy, llm-judge). Two non-blocking failures, both proven unrelated: Gemini E2E (periodic-tier, external CLI not authed here, $0) and three ios-qa agent-flow sims (pass 4/4 in isolation; fail only under
--concurrentfrom session-daemon port contention; reference none of this branch's code).Scope Drift
Scope Check: CLEAN — 21 source files, exactly the AskUserQuestion fallback work plus the two approved pre-existing test fixes and merge reconciliation. No creep.
Plan Completion
PASS — all plan items (Changes 1-7: helper + preamble echo, prose-fallback rule, plan-mode note, harness hardening, regen, tests, runtime hook) are DONE, plus all eng-review decisions (A1-T1) and outside-voice decisions (OV1-OV3) resolved and folded.
TODOS
No TODO items completed in this PR.
Test plan
bun run test, 0 failures) — re-run on final HEAD🤖 Generated with Claude Code