- BLK-011 → resolved by REMOVAL (not by committing the orphan), with the TRUE
reason engraved: speculatively auto-bootstrapping an unused multi-session engine
at project creation is bad on its own terms. The initial "redundant with TODO"
framing is explicitly marked WRONG (gsd >> roadmap; TODO != gsd ROADMAP) — a
false reason that won't mislead a future reader. Reasoning trace kept: both
premises refuted on read, conclusion held for the stronger reason.
- LRN-072 — a stranded-artifact bug can be fixed by NOT creating the artifact
(negative diff), not by plumbing its commit; before building machinery, ask if
the PRODUCING step is wanted. Speculative-at-creation -> remove; deliberate-on-
demand -> keep. Family: BLK-010, BLK-011, BDR-036.
- journal 2026-06-29 (cont. 2) + TODO: BLK-011 line flipped, chantier section,
MINOR-gate FINISH marked merged. Index rows updated (blockers + learnings).
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STEP 12 ran `gsd init` AFTER FINISH, creating ROADMAP.md + .gsd/ in the working
tree once the merge had already integrated committed history only — so the
artifacts stranded outside the merge/PR (BLK-011, 3rd post-FINISH artifact after
memory + docs).
Resolved by REMOVAL, not by plumbing a commit: STEP 12 speculatively bootstrapped
a heavy multi-session engine (state machine / crash recovery / cost tracking /
parallel workers) that is opt-in and rarely used. Deleting the producer means the
orphan is never created — a negative diff beats building a gsd-commit helper for an
artifact nobody commits to using.
Deliberate GSD use is untouched: initializable on-demand (`/onboard add gsd`, or
`gsd init` in a terminal), still recommended by plugin-advisor, still read by
/status. init-project is now an 11-step pipeline.
Coherence sweep (the "test" for a removal): zero dangling STEP-12 refs — header
12->11-step, the STEP 10c note, and 4 USAGE.md worked-example references all updated
to on-demand init.
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- BDR-040 — doc-syncer MINOR-shape oracle: deterministic floor under the LLM's
MINOR call; engraved limit (structural/size, NOT semantic — reduction of
RISK-1's gross cases, not elimination); option B (blocking gate) rejected
(contradicts BDR-036); branch-guard deferred.
- LRN-071 — fail-loud must cover the helper's OWN commit, not just its inputs;
named as the 3rd occurrence of the swallowed-commit pattern, linked to LRN-066
+ LRN-068/BLK-012; future application = audit every fallible op whose result
gates a downstream "success".
- journal 2026-06-29 (cont.) + TODO chantier section + line-266 flip to done.
Index rows added for both BDR-040 and LRN-071.
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(1) lib/doc-shape.sh — deterministic shape oracle re-checks each LLM-classified
MINOR patch before the silent auto-commit; a shape-suspect patch (added heading
/ oversize / new file / non-doc) escalates to the EXISTING SIGNIFICANT gate.
Genuine MINOR still auto-commits (zero friction, BDR-036 preserved). A structural
floor under the LLM call, not a semantic SIGNIFICANT-detector (BDR-040).
(2) lib/doc-commit.sh — guard the commit itself: a rejected git commit (pre-commit
hook / protected branch / signing) now fails loud with exit 5 + empty stdout,
instead of a false "committed" + the previous HEAD's hash + exit 0 that left docs
silently uncommitted (LRN-071, 3rd occurrence of the swallowed-commit pattern
after LRN-066 and LRN-068/BLK-012).
Wired doc-syncer STEP A4 (whole-set escalation: no=revert all, select=keep subset)
+ doc-commit.md (rc-5 consumer row + ACKNOWLEDGMENTS coherence).
TDD RED->GREEN: run-doc-commit.sh 32/32, run-doc-shape.sh 19/19, behavioral C/D.
shellcheck clean. Branch-guard (3) deferred.
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Move submodule.skills-external/gstack.ignore=dirty from per-clone .git/config into committed .gitmodules so all clones inherit it. Preserves the BLK-008 Playwright 1.61 bump (bun.lock+package.json stay dirty by design) — only the IGNORE moves, not the content. .gitmodules ignore verified honored standalone (git 2.53).
/capitalize + /close predated lib/capitalize-commit.md and never called it, so
a standalone flush left memory written but uncommitted (BDR-037). Add STEP 5B:
after the content gate (STEP 3) approves entries and STEP 5 writes the journal,
commit them surgically via memory-commit.sh — same one-liner as the 6 dev flows.
/close is a thin alias, inherits it for free. Journal always writes => memory
always pending at 5B => hash non-empty by construction (only rc 3 skips).
lib/tests/run-doc-behavioral.md — in-vivo whole-chain check (twin of run-behavioral.md for memory). Scenario A: doc-syncer patches a public doc, the include commits it surgically with dangling code present (coupled + surgical). Scenario B: a forbidden .claude/ path in PATCHED_FILES → helper refuses (rc 4), nothing half-committed, offender named (fail-closed + loud). Complements the 28-assertion deterministic suite (run-doc-commit.sh).
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Capitalize the doc-sync coupled chantier: BDR-036 (the invariant, 3 honesties engraved — built-not-reordered, MINOR non-gated surface-replaces-gate, init-project partial + sweep scope-expansion); LRN-058 (same bug-class != same fix — verify the twin's precondition); LRN-059 (swap flips meanings, sweep caught prior-chantier debt README:153 != letter-suffix insertion); LRN-060 (fail-closed guard proven by what it refuses, loudly; argv not separator-string); EVAL-008 (28/28 real-exec, anomalies surfaced). Journal 2026-06-27. BLK-010/011 flags + the frozen plan + TODO checkmarks. BLK-011 record left at STEP 13 (append-only); only the TODO locator moved to STEP 12 (live locator vs immutable record).
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Scope expansion surfaced by the Task 6 sweep (not in the original frozen plan). The 3 inline flows each ran doc-syncer at their DOC SYNC step but committed nothing — their CAPITALIZE step commits only memory (capitalize-commit's surgical scope) — so patched docs were left dirty in the working tree (milder than the orchestrator PR-strand, same class). Decider: the memory chantier (BDR-034) wired capitalize-commit into ALL flows; wiring docs only into the 2 orchestrators left an asymmetry that reads as a bug.
Each DOC SYNC step now references lib/doc-commit.md (1-line include + paragraph, mirror of the capitalize-commit reference at the CAPITALIZE step). No FINISH in an inline flow → no ordering concern; it commits the docs on the current branch and no-ops when nothing was patched (the common trivial case). Set = the 3 flows that doc-sync: commit-change has no DOC SYNC step (not wired); hotfix IS wired (its DOC SYNC is unconditional — only its CAPITALIZE is skip-by-default). We replicate a built+tested mechanism mechanically; NEW work (BLK-010/011) stays deferred.
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Reorder: SYNC README moves from STEP 12 (post-FINISH) to STEP 10c (after 10b capitalize, before 11 FINISH) and gains lib/doc-commit.md; GSD 13 → 12. Final order: 10b capitalize -> 10c doc-sync -> 11 FINISH -> 12 GSD — both artifact-commits (memory, docs) land before FINISH, so they reach the merge/PR (twin of the ship-feature fix, BDR-034). Partial-fix note added: scaffold + STEP 5b bootstrap-README commit gap (BLK-010) and GSD-post-FINISH ROADMAP (BLK-011) are deliberately out of scope — separate chantiers.
Ref-coherence (the swap flips STEP 12's meaning SYNC-README -> GSD and removes 13, so refs by number must move, not just a vanishing number): PROGRESS PROTOCOL 13-step -> 12-step + STEP <N>/13 -> /12. USAGE.md: 5 refs corrected (table 12-13 -> 11-12 steps; pipeline illustration reworked so sync README shows BEFORE finish; 3 GSD-as-STEP-13 refs -> STEP 12). Each USAGE ref read individually post-swap — all were correct at 13, correct at 12 after fix, none accidentally-true/silently-false. Latent-bug check: init-project had NO stale ref from the capitalize chantier (STEP 10b was a non-shifting letter insertion, not a swap). Historical records (BDR-017 '13 steps', CHANGELOG STEP 13 GSD, BLK-011) left as-is — append-only; closing entry documents the renumber.
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Reorder: DOC SYNC moves from STEP 9 (post-FINISH) to STEP 8 (pre-FINISH); FINISH → 9. doc-syncer PATCHES public docs but never commits them, and finishing-a-development-branch integrates only committed history — so on the push+PR path the patched docs were uncommitted and never reached the PR (twin of the capitalize PR-strand fix, BDR-034). STEP 8 now chains lib/doc-commit.md: surgical commit of the PATCHED_FILES, never git add -A, never .claude/ (rc 4 loud anomaly), no-op if nothing patched. Twin-chantier HTML comment removed — the twin is fixed, 'deferred' is now false.
Ref-coherence (part of the reorder — a swap flips meanings, it doesn't just drop a number): STEP 7 capitalize body refs 'STEP 8 FINISH' → 'STEP 9 FINISH' (lines 159, 189). README.md pipeline illustration completed — STEP 4-7 ends in capitalize (not 'finish'), STEP 8 = sync README, STEP 9 = finish; it had been silently wrong since e8eff7e moved DOC SYNC 8→9 without updating it, so completed rather than left accidentally-correct. Historical records (BDR-034, journal, CHANGELOG) left as-is — they said 'STEP 8' when it was true; append-only.
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doc-syncer now emits PATCHED_FILES — every public-doc file created/modified this run, ONE PATH PER LINE — in both STEP 9 OUTPUT (full audit) and AUTO MODE STEP A4 (the path orchestrators call). NONE stays silent (no line → doc-commit sees empty → no-ops). Additive: detection/patching logic and the `auto-mode scope:` input contract are unchanged → callers unaffected.
Separator contract, producer↔consumer aligned + proven: newline is doc-syncer's OUTPUT format (paths carry no newlines); the agent splits on newline and passes EACH path as a SEPARATE argv element to lib/doc-commit.sh. The helper takes argv (no in-band separator) → a path with spaces survives as one argument. lib/doc-commit.md spells this out (never flatten to a space-joined string + re-split, which would mis-split a spaced path the helper then silently drops). New test T7 PROVES it on real git: 'docs/My Guide.md' → committed as one file (28/28, shellcheck clean).
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lib/doc-commit.md — TAIL of the doc-sync step, twin of capitalize-commit.md. Tells an orchestrator how to commit ONLY the docs doc-syncer patched (PATCHED_FILES), surgically, BEFORE FINISH so they reach the merge/PR.
Centerpiece: a report-by-(rc, hash) table covering ALL four exits — rc 0 visible surface (files + agent-composed change summary, NOT a bare count), rc 0/empty no-op, rc 3 unsafe-state manual fallback, and rc 4 SCOPE VIOLATION relayed LOUDLY as an upstream BDR-022 anomaly (name the offender, do not swallow or hand-commit the rest — the refusal IS the alarm).
Attribution locked in 3 places: the rc 0 <one-line> summary comes from the AGENT (in-thread patch context), the helper returns only the hash — otherwise the surface degenerates to the bare count that the gate-replacement was meant to avoid. Two conscious acknowledgments inline: MINOR non-gated-by-choice (surface replaces gate); partial init-project fix linking BLK-010.
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Shared include lib/analyze-before-plan.md (two-pass on '## <PREFIX>-' headings, disposition-not-reading invariant, guarded no-op). Wired into the dev flows: ship-feature STEP 0d (analyzer code+memory, INPUT INJECTION into brainstorm/plan + STEP 3 reconciliation gate), bugfix STEP 2.5 (blockers-first), feat STEP 0.6 (decisions-first, MINI-PLAN names in-force or states none), hotfix opt-in. analyzer gains a RELATED MEMORY output section pointing at the include (DRY). init-project / onboard no-op by construction (guarded scan on absent/empty registries).
Mirror of the coupled-capitalize write-after (BDR-034): read-before / write-after bookend.
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New STEP 10b (letter-suffix, no renumber): capture the greenfield's founding
decisions (stack choice + why, doctrinal exclusions, conventions) as BDRs before
STEP 11 FINISH, via lib/capitalize-commit.md. F5 filter table distinguishes
founding decision (capitalize) from scaffold detail (skip). Two explicit rules:
- No decision → no entry: trivial projects fabricate nothing; the helper no-ops.
- Founding decisions carry NO commit hash (path+date) by nature — they precede the
code, so anchoring to the scaffold commit would be a false anchor that dilutes
the meaning of hash-anchoring elsewhere. Second case where anchoring does not
apply, after a squash-merged PR.
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Reorder: CAPITALIZE moves from STEP 9 (post-FINISH) to STEP 7 (pre-FINISH); FINISH
→8, DOC SYNC→9. The implementation commits exist since STEP 4, so the entries' hash
references are valid, and the memory commit (via lib/capitalize-commit.md) lands on
the branch FINISH integrates — on the push+PR path it was committed after the push
and never reached the PR. DOC SYNC stays post-FINISH = twin chantier (same bug),
annotated and deferred. FAILURE PATHS memory row renumbered 9→7.
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Each flow's CAPITALIZE step now ends by following lib/capitalize-commit.md, which
surgically commits the approved memory (.claude/memory + .claude/tasks only) as one
chore(memory) commit. No flow hand-rolls git; the helper owns the scope guarantee.
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Shared snippet referenced by every dev flow's capitalize step (design-gate.md
pattern). Tail of capitalize: commit the already-approved memory via
memory-commit.sh, surgically. Documents the stdout hash contract, the 2-hash
non-confusion (memory commit vs code-commit anchored in entries), the orchestrator
ordering (before FINISH), and what it must NOT do.
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commit_memory now routes diagnostics to stderr and prints ONLY the memory-commit
short hash to stdout, so the capitalize-commit include can report it. Proven:
- T6: commit→hash (matches independent rev-parse), no-op→empty, unsafe→empty+exit3.
- T7: double run creates exactly one commit (real run, not by construction).
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Foundation for the coupled-capitalize invariant (Frame 2): commit ONLY
.claude/memory + .claude/tasks, never `git add -A`. Safety lives in the
pathspec because automation removes the human diff review.
Proven on real git behavior, not assumed:
- T1/T2: dangling code (untracked or pre-staged) never embarked.
- T2-bis: `git commit -- pathspec` takes the working tree, not a stale index.
- T3 idempotent, T4 fail-closed on broken state, T5 TODO.md in scope.
_changed_paths filters to paths with real changes: `git commit -- pathspec`
aborts the whole commit on a no-match pathspec (e.g. empty .claude/tasks),
unlike `git add` which tolerates it.
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Capitalizes the design-gate §4 anim-lib suggestion (commit 11792cc):
- BDR-033: §4 = suggest-only, non-blocking, stateless 1-line; marker rejected
(conditional on stakes — a non-destructive note != a destructive op's
deterministic marker, cf LRN-046/047).
- LRN-049: stateless-minimal surface > state marker for non-destructive repeated
nudges (conditional on stakes).
- LRN-050: on a symlinked/live file, show-before-write is the only control gate.
- journal: two lines under 2026-06-25 (the §4 wiring + the process note).
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Add §4 to lib/design-gate.md: when a non-trivial design task hits a motion
signal (animation/transition/hover/motion/animate, now in §DETECTION) and the
stack is motion-eligible with no anim lib installed, surface a single-line
suggestion for the recommended `motion` package. Suggest-only (install on
explicit consent), non-blocking, stateless (always one line, no marker; calls
the helper, no 3rd copy of the lib list).
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Capitalizes the prune-memory v1.1 TDD (skill 0a3e766):
- EVAL-006: 6 dangers TDD-closed, validated on the real learnings.md
(0 fidelity false-positive vs 13); honest limits (SAFE != USEFUL, RED-7/8 open).
- LRN-046 deterministic oracle > semantic judge on destructive skills.
- LRN-047 a noisy safety guard (13/13 FP) is a risk, not discomfort.
- LRN-048 a "0/OK/pass" must prove it looked (counted both sides).
- journal: one line under 2026-06-25.
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