codexclaw v0.2.38

[0.2.38] - 2026-09-24

This is the first published release that contains the 0.2.37 changes: the native
desktop acceptance guidance, the macOS system approvals reference and the desktop
criterion surface. 0.2.37 was prepared on main but never published; its section below
still describes those changes.

Fixed

• The paged-report exporter accepts a complete staged PDF from a headless Chrome that
  writes the file but never exits. It waits until the stage keeps a %PDF- header, a
  %%EOF trailer and an unchanged size and mtime for 1.5 s, kills the owned process
  tree, and counts the pass only when that kill caused the exit and the stage did not
  change. A child that survives the post-kill grace fails the pass without keeping the
  exporter alive. The text summary now prints each FAIL, BLOCKED and NOT_RUN reason (#240).

Added

• Paged-report QA warns (P2) when a non-Korean document keeps Hangul or a Korean-format
  date in @page content, and reports an SVG label crossed by a connector painted
  after it (P2), using a bounded DOM pass on the final HTML. A failure of that pass is a
  nonblocking note (#241).
• QA validates artifact-identity.json for desktop artifact verdicts (bundle tree
  digest, executable, archive, signing, toolchain and goalplan criterionIds) and binds
  those files into a typed artifactManifest in the QA receipt. A schemaVersion 2+
  final gate requires an identity entry for each non-native desktop criterion (#239).
• cxc loop add-criterion --surface desktop --presented native marks a criterion
  proven by inspecting a native surface. At Check it gets a soft, fail-open advisory
  that clears on an explicit native app observation or a viewed declared screenshot (#239).
• skills/dev-devops/scripts/verify-lipo-command.mjs judges a candidate lipo command
  by running it against the artifact and a verified thin negative control (#239).

Changed

• cxc loop and cxc goalplan validate flags per verb. Unknown, misspelled and
  misplaced flags (including --surface outside add-criterion), stray positionals,
  missing values and repeated singleton flags fail before anything is written. Every
  value flag also accepts --flag=value (#239).
• The paged-report template sizes its contents label column from content, marks the
  running-header literals for translation, and draws chart grid lines before labels.
  DIAGRAM-LAYOUT-01 states that labels paint after the lines they sit on (#241).

Compatibility

• Scripts that passed a flag a verb ignored, or a space-separated value starting with
  --, now fail; use the verb's own flags and --flag=value.
• On schemaVersion 2+ plans with a recorded final gate, a QA receipt from 0.2.37 or
  older has no artifactManifest and fails the gate while a non-native desktop
  criterion exists. Default v1 plans are unaffected.
• Builds older than 0.2.38 drop presented on read and erase it on their next write.

Decided

• #191: codexclaw does not override the native memory quota guard from a detect-only
  routing signal. The decision and the upstream boundary are recorded in
  devlog/_plan/260924_issue_sweep_0238/003_issue_191_decision.md.

Verification

• 3,599 tests measured locally on macOS; the release run and hosted CI remeasure them.
• Independent plan audits and implementation reviews for every work phase; real
  Chrome and real macOS lipo smoke runs locally.

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What's Changed

• Record 0.2.36 delivery evidence and activation gap by @lidge-jun in #236
• Add native desktop acceptance guidance and a desktop criterion surface by @lidge-jun in #237
• Release codexclaw 0.2.37 by @lidge-jun in #238
• Issue sweep: PDF export completion, paged report QA, desktop evidence (0.2.38) by @lidge-jun in #242
• Keep the extended-length cwd test valid on Node 24.21 by @lidge-jun in #245
• Release codexclaw 0.2.38 by @lidge-jun in #244

Full Changelog: v0.2.36...v0.2.38