preflight: give pipe-exit-scan's SCAN a caller — CI cannot host it (113 findings, never run) - #626
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tools/pipe-exit-scan.py has a gated caller for its --self-test and NONE for its scan. Measured 2026-09-07: the scan had never been run by anything, and a manual run found 113 occurrences across 19 sessions in this project alone. ⛔ AND IT CANNOT BE GATED IN CI, BY CONSTRUCTION. Its subject is ~/.claude/projects — the operator's own transcripts — which does not exist on a runner. An instrument whose subject is the operator's machine has no CI caller available to it. This pane is the only host there is, and it already carries stranded-branches.py on exactly that footing. ⚠ SCOPED TO THIS PROJECT ON PURPOSE. Measured: 113 findings scoped, 809 unscoped across every repository on the machine. #175 §3 declined that wider corpus in as many words — "a wider corpus than ~/.claude/projects is a different instrument with consent questions that are not an agent's to settle." Cost: 1s scoped, 5s not. ⚠ REPORTED AS A WARN, NEVER A FAIL, even on findings. These are historical agent-behaviour defects in transcripts, not defects in THIS install, and this is the install's acceptance test. A fresh install would otherwise inherit a red board for something it did not do. ⛔ AND THE FIRST DERIVATION WAS WRONG, which is how the design got tested: git rev-parse --show-toplevel from a linked worktree -> /private/tmp/.../scratchpad/wK slug matched NO directory -> "pipe-exit-scan ESTABLISHED NOTHING (exit 2) — not clean" Transcript directories are keyed by the cwd the agent was LAUNCHED in, which for this fleet is the main repo, not whatever worktree the script runs from. Now derived from `git worktree list --porcelain | head -1`. ★ It failed CLOSED — exit 2, reported as UNMEASURED — which is the only reason the wrong slug was visible at all. A version that returned 0 findings would have read as clean and shipped. ⚠ `sed 's/^worktree //'`, not `awk '{print $2}'`: #234 §2, a worktree path containing a space is field-split and silently truncated. correct slug -> warn 113 occurrence(s) exit 0 bogus project -> exit 2, ESTABLISHED NOTHING (control) absent tool -> note UNMEASURED, not passing Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe preflight script adds a project-scoped transcript pipe-exit scan. It derives the project slug from the main worktree and reports success, warnings, notes, or unmeasured status based on tool availability and exit code. ChangesPreflight scan reporting
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new preflight warning can report another project's transcript findings or incorrectly claim this project's transcripts are clean. Its project matching and transcript result handling should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@scripts/fleet-preflight.sh`:
- Line 288: Update the project filtering used by tools/pipe-exit-scan.py and its
caller around the derived _slug value so project selection requires an exact
directory/project match rather than substring containment. Preserve the existing
scan and reporting behavior for the exact match, while preventing similarly
prefixed projects such as “-repo2” from being included.
- Around line 293-297: Update the transcript-scan handling in the fleet
preflight flow around the rc case so the status produced by
tools/pipe-exit-scan.py for --transcripts is returned or consumed before the
tracked-file scan executes. Ensure the reported count is derived only from
transcript output and cannot be replaced or polluted by the later tracked-file
scan result.
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| # 2026-09-07, and it failed CLOSED, which is the only reason it was visible. | ||
| # ⚠ `sed`, not `awk '{print $2}'`: #234 §2 — a worktree path containing a space | ||
| # is truncated by field-splitting, silently. | ||
| _slug=$(git worktree list --porcelain 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed 's/^worktree //' | tr '/' '-') |
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Use an exact project match.
tools/pipe-exit-scan.py filters with project not in base. A slug such as -repo also matches a transcript directory such as -repo2, so this caller can scan and report findings from another project. Change the scanner to match the derived directory exactly, or reject ambiguous matches before reporting the result.
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In `@scripts/fleet-preflight.sh` at line 288, Update the project filtering used by
tools/pipe-exit-scan.py and its caller around the derived _slug value so project
selection requires an exact directory/project match rather than substring
containment. Preserve the existing scan and reporting behavior for the exact
match, while preventing similarly prefixed projects such as “-repo2” from being
included.
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…e-counted output Two review findings on #626, both verified against the code and both real. The second had already produced a wrong number I published in five places tonight. 1 ⛔ `_rc` WAS ASSIGNED AND NEVER USED _rc = 1 if hits else 0 files = tracked() <- control fell straight through So `--transcripts` ran BOTH scans and returned the FILE scan's verdict. A caller branching on the exit code was reading the wrong scan, and a transcript-dirty / file-clean run could report clean. Now returns the transcript verdict. 2 ⛔ THE CALLER RE-COUNTED THE TOOL'S OUTPUT scripts/fleet-preflight.sh used `grep -c '⇒ '` and reported 113 where the tool's own line says 108: transcripts, the tool's own tally 108 tracked-file findings swept in by defect 1 2 scripts/gate-selftests.sh:908 scripts/test-fleet-preflight-counts.sh:37 header lines containing the ⇒ glyph 3 --- what grep -c '⇒ ' returned 113 ⇒ A caller that re-derives a number the instrument already publishes is a second reading of one noun (#345), and it drifted on its first run. Now parsed from the tool's own tally line, with an explicit UNMEASURED branch if that line is absent — a missing tally must not become a number. 3 ⚠ `--project` IS A SUBSTRING, so `-repo` also matches `-repo2` Kept (this fleet's slug must match its per-worktree dirs) and made VISIBLE: the matched directories are now named with their per-dir counts, and >1 match under an explicit --project prints a warning that the count may be over-scoped. project dirs with hits 1 dir -Users-jonathanborduas-code-nForma-NEXT 108 --self-test exit 0 · --transcripts exit 1, 0 tracked-file lines in output preflight: "108 occurrence(s)" · parser controls both poles ⇒ THE PUBLISHED NUMBER WAS WRONG. "113 across 19 sessions" should read 108 across 19 sessions. The session count was right; the occurrence count was not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both findings verified against the code and fixed. The second had already produced a wrong number I published in four places tonight.@coderabbitai — verified each before acting; both held, and the second was worse than reported. 2 ·
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set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '== Changed files =='
git diff --name-only HEAD^ HEAD
printf '%s\n' '== Python tool outline =='
ast-grep outline tools/pipe-exit-scan.py --items all || true
printf '%s\n' '== Preflight shell outline =='
ast-grep outline scripts/fleet-preflight.sh --items all || true
printf '%s\n' '== Relevant Python control flow =='
rg -n -C 8 -- '--transcripts|def main|files = tracked|_rc|return ' tools/pipe-exit-scan.py
printf '%s\n' '== Relevant preflight tally and project handling =='
rg -n -C 10 -- 'pipe-exit-scan|transcript|tally|COUNT|UNMEASURED|project dirs|--project|worktree' scripts/fleet-preflight.sh
printf '%s\n' '== Relevant test assertions =='
rg -n -C 6 -- 'pipe-exit-scan|transcript|108|113|tally|UNMEASURED|project dirs' scripts tools -g '*test*' -g '*.sh' -g '*.py' || true
printf '%s\n' '== Current PR patch for relevant files =='
git diff HEAD^ HEAD -- tools/pipe-exit-scan.py scripts/fleet-preflight.shLength of output: 199978
The substring mitigation is sufficient to prevent a hidden count increase from another matching directory that has hits. I do see one remaining visibility limit:
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Contributes to #89, #97 §2, #234 §4, #175 §3.
An instrument whose subject is the operator's machine has no CI caller available to it
tools/pipe-exit-scan.pyhas a gated caller for its--self-testand none for its scan.Measured 2026-09-07: the scan had never been run by anything, and one manual run found
⛔ And it cannot be gated in CI, by construction. Its subject is
~/.claude/projects— theoperator's own transcripts — which does not exist on a runner. So the gate proves the tool works and
then never asks it anything, which is exactly how 113 findings accumulated in the repo that owns the
instrument that finds them.
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scripts/fleet-preflight.shis the only host there is, and it already carriesstranded-branches.pyon precisely that footing ("the only network-dependent check here … neverblocks: this pane reports").
Two deliberate constraints
Scoped to this project. Measured: 113 scoped · 809 unscoped across every repository on this
machine. #175 §3 declined that wider corpus in as many words — "a wider corpus than
~/.claude/projectsis a different instrument with consent questions that are not an agent's tosettle. The fleet's record of its own work is a different object from a user's machine." Cost: 1s
scoped, 5s not.
A warn, never a fail — even on findings. These are historical agent-behaviour defects in
transcripts, not defects in this install, and this pane is the install's acceptance test. A fresh
install would otherwise inherit a red board for something it did not do.
⛔ My first derivation was wrong, and that is how the design got tested
Transcript directories are keyed by the cwd the agent was launched in — for this fleet the main
repo, not whatever worktree the script happens to run from. Now derived from
git worktree list --porcelain | head -1.★ It failed CLOSED. Exit 2, reported as UNMEASURED, which is the only reason the wrong slug was
visible at all. A version that returned 0 findings would have read as clean and shipped — and that
is the entire failure mode this instrument exists to catch, so the guard earned its keep before the
feature did.
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sed 's/^worktree //', notawk '{print $2}'— #234 §2: a worktree path containing a space isfield-split and silently truncated.
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