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Abdul WahabandGitHub abba4012ff Merge pull request #622 from pbakaus/codex/issue-620-tune-no-params
Fix stalled Tune state without params
2026-08-22 04:55:56 +05:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub c29f30fa34 Merge pull request #616 from pbakaus/codex/issue-614-remove-multiedit
Remove stale Claude MultiEdit matcher
2026-08-22 04:49:56 +05:00
Abdul WahabandGitHub 77dd327080 Merge pull request #606 from pbakaus/codex/centralize-provider-smoke-runtime-20260817
Simplify provider hook smoke orchestration
2026-08-22 04:31:41 +05:00
Paul Bakaus 478325a2dd Fix stalled Tune state without params
Resolve pending Tune controls when the completed variant set contains no tunable parameters, while preserving deferred parameter publications.

AI assistance: implemented and validated by OpenAI Codex under maintainer authorization.
2026-08-20 09:18:33 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 611147a333 Sync marketplace Claude hook repair
Keep the committed marketplace repair script aligned with Claude Code's supported Edit and Write tools, and strengthen regression coverage after automated review.\n\nThis change was prepared with AI assistance under maintainer authorization.
2026-08-19 10:04:14 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 7d5c60d291 Remove stale Claude MultiEdit matcher
Claude Code now folds multi-edit behavior into Edit, so keep generated and repaired hook manifests aligned with the current Edit and Write tools. Grok keeps its compatibility matcher unchanged.

AI assistance was used to implement and validate this change.
2026-08-19 09:28:28 -07:00
Paul Bakaus cf8f295dc3 Simplify provider hook smoke orchestration
Centralize provider fixture, hook, and agent-launch contracts while preserving provider-specific verification behavior. Reuse the shared CLI argument parser and characterize the public usage contract.

AI-assisted: prepared by Codex under pbakaus's scheduled architecture-refactor authorization.
2026-08-17 08:45:12 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 665c51b903 Fix Windows hook migration dedupe
Normalize hook command separators before matching Impeccable-owned entries so updates replace legacy Windows guards instead of duplicating them.\n\nAI assistance: Codex implemented and validated this change under maintainer authorization.
2026-08-17 06:10:16 -07:00
3c6f53406b Fix: stop the direction page hanging forever after a re-roll (#469) (#530)
* Fix: stop the direction page hanging forever after a re-roll (#469)

The re-roll leg of the decision-page protocol was documented only in
serve-question.mjs's own header, so agents never ran --update and the
open tab polled a round that could never arrive. Compounding failure
modes: the page poll swallowed every error, the daemon's --timeout was
an absolute guillotine that killed the server under a still-open tab,
a choice posted to a dead server confirmed nothing, and refresh or
Reload on an unresolved round resurrected heartbeats that held the
daemon alive indefinitely.

- new-work.md documents the re-roll leg: rerun concept-seed with
  --from/--reroll, deliver with --update on the same key, never --start
  a second server.
- The page poll terminates and says why: eight consecutive fetch
  failures means the server is gone; the delivery deadline (the
  server's own --idle-grace, inlined into the page) passing means the
  hand never arrived. Both stop heartbeating.
- The daemon's --timeout bounds only the wait for a page to open; once
  the page heartbeats, the server lives while the page does and exits
  after --idle-grace (default 600s) without a beat, including under
  --timeout 0.
- Build this and Re-roll against a dead server fail loudly instead of
  silently swallowing the click.
- The server tracks the window between a collected re-roll answer and
  the --update that replaces the round, and serves the page in waiting
  mode there, so a native refresh re-enters the same bounded wait
  instead of resurrecting dead cards; the in-page Reload button only
  revives a delivered hand.
- --update is exempt from the headless gate and its liveness probe
  trusts a fresh heartbeat over a failed kill probe (sandbox EPERM is
  not death).

Squash of the six review-round commits on this branch, rebased onto
main after the decision-page revamp.

AI assistance: prepared with an AI agent operating under maintainer
instruction (abdulwahabone).

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review findings: persist the replacement deadline, refuse unloadable hands

A browser-native refresh of the waiting page re-entered the bounded wait
with a fresh delivery deadline and an immediate heartbeat, so refreshing
before each deadline expired could hold the daemon alive and keep --wait
on WAITING indefinitely. The server now records when the re-roll or
followup answer was collected, each served waiting page inherits only
what remains of that one allowance, and a page served after the deadline
renders stalled immediately and never starts its heartbeat.

And a next hand the round could not load used to reload-loop the tab:
GET /'s catch kept the file on disk, so /next-status stayed ready:true
forever. --update now refuses a payload without a non-empty options
array at the sender, and GET / discards an unloadable next file so the
bounded wait resumes.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review finding: a stalled page recovers a late hand without a click

The stall silenced heartbeats so the idle grace could reclaim the
daemon, but that silence read as a closed tab: after a late --update,
--wait saw the stale beat and reported PAGE CLOSED while the user sat
on the Reload screen, so the agent abandoned the browser path the
recovery UI exists for. The stall screen now keeps a beat-free
/next-status watch that reloads into a delivered hand on its own
(GET never beats, so an abandoned flow is still reclaimed), and --wait
no longer concludes closure from a stale beat while an undelivered
next hand sits on disk.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review finding: a delivered hand must not mask a closed page

The mid-delivery suppression keyed on the next file existing, but a
closed tab never claims that file, so an unconsumed delivery held
--wait on WAITING indefinitely instead of reporting the closed flow.
The suppression is now age-bound: a stalled page's watch reclaims a
delivered hand within seconds, so a file still unclaimed after a 10s
grace means no page is coming back and the stale beat reads as the
closed page it is.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review finding: stamp the delivery clock at --update, not the copy

--wait's mid-delivery grace reads the next file's mtime, but
copyFileSync's timestamp behavior is the platform's business: a copy
that preserves the source payload's older mtime would start the grace
already spent and report PAGE CLOSED under a live stalled tab. --update
now touches the delivered file itself, so delivery time is delivery
time everywhere.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review findings: disable canon during the wait, validate --timeout

The waiting and stall screens disabled only the re-roll buttons; the
footer canon action stayed clickable, and a canon pick posted after
--wait had consumed the re-roll could never be collected: it overwrote
the answer, marked the table closed, and exited the daemon under the
agent. Both disable sites now take the canon exit down with the re-roll
buttons; a delivered hand reloads the page and serves it live again.

And --timeout reached the lifetime timer unvalidated: NaN or a negative
value disarmed the no-page exit and the daemon leaked. It now takes the
default unless the value is a finite non-negative number, keeping 0 as
the explicit wait-forever.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review finding: a second click must not renew the delivery deadline

dealAgain left the re-roll and canon controls live through the answer
POST and the 700ms fly-out, so a second click posted another re-roll
and the server restamped awaitingNextSince, renewing the deadline this
PR made non-renewable on refresh and on the stall screen. The controls
now go quiet at the click itself, in dealAgain and in answer(), and the
server stamps the allowance only on the transition into the wait, so a
duplicate answer racing the disable keeps the first stamp.

Regression coverage on both sides: the unit deadline test posts a
duplicate re-roll mid-allowance and asserts the budget shrank instead
of resetting, and the e2e stall test asserts both controls are disabled
immediately after the click, before the fly-out.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review finding: a late delivery must survive its claim window

--update could land a replacement hand after the stalled page went
silent but moments before the daemon's idle deadline: the daemon exited
before the page's 1.5s watch could claim the hand, orphaning a delivery
--update had confirmed, and the next --wait reported a server failure.
The idle exit now defers while an unclaimed next hand is younger than
the claim grace --wait already reads (extracted as one shared
constant), so the page's watch deals it and heartbeats resume; a file
unclaimed past the grace still ends the daemon, bounded as before.

Regression test: deliver at idle-deadline-minus-a-beat, assert the
daemon survives past the deadline and serves the late hand.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review finding: the claim itself must hold the daemon

The idle-exit hold read only the next file's freshness, but GET /
deletes that file when it serves the claimed round, before the
reloading page can post its first heartbeat: a lifetime tick in that
gap saw no pending hand and a stale beat, and exited under the hand
just claimed. GET / now stamps the claim when it consumes a pending
hand, and the idle exit honors the same bounded grace from that stamp,
so the reloading page gets its seconds to beat while an abandoned claim
still ends the daemon at the grace.

The claim-window regression test now also fetches after the claim, past
another lifetime tick, and asserts the daemon survived the gap;
verified it fails on the previous commit.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Fix review finding: --wait must ride out the claim gap too

The claim deletes the next file --wait's mid-delivery grace watches,
and the reloading page has not beat yet, so --wait in that gap read the
stale beat as PAGE CLOSED while the daemon was alive serving the dealt
round, and the agent abandoned a browser session that had just
recovered. GET / now persists the claim stamp into the per-key state
file, and --wait's suppression honors it under the same bounded grace:
a fresh claim stays WAITING, a claim nobody followed with a beat still
reads as the closed page it is.

Regression test drives --wait through the gap (claim with a stale beat:
WAITING, not exit 4) and past it (backdated claim stamp: exit 4);
verified it fails on the previous commit.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent) under maintainer instruction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Bakaus <paul.bakaus@gmail.com>
2026-08-16 14:26:02 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 21ad321a97 Centralize surface route normalization (#600)
Consolidate explicit and inferred surface route canonicalization behind one private rule, with characterization coverage for equivalent and invalid inputs.\n\nAI assistance: OpenAI Codex prepared this change under pbakaus's scheduled architecture-simplification authorization.
2026-08-16 14:24:31 -07:00
36457e191f Bump skill-behavior test lineup: gemini-3.7-flash (#598)
* Bump skill-behavior google lineup to gemini-3.7-flash

gemini-3.7-flash replaces gemini-3.6-flash in DEFAULT_MODELS. The
README notes that the recorded gemini baseline cells were measured on
3.6-flash (or 3.5-flash where marked) and count as unmeasured on 3.7
per the suite's own cross-version rule, to be re-run on the next Setup
or routing change.

AI-assisted change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Potential fix for pull request finding

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-15 19:03:18 -07:00
886cd669ef Fix: compile closest() selectors once per document in the static scanner (#575) (#595)
StaticElement.closest() handed the raw selector string to css-select's
is() on every ancestor step, recompiling the same selector N times for
an element N levels deep. StaticDocument now caches one compiled
matcher per selector (failed compiles cached as rethrowers so bad
selectors still return null). Findings are byte-identical across the
fixture corpus; scan time drops to ~62% on the fixtures and ~7x faster
on deep-DOM pages.

Prepared with AI assistance (Cursor agent), directed by @abdulwahabone.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-08-14 16:15:01 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub a98ee8b10e Simplify local detector dispatch (#577)
* Simplify local detector dispatch

Centralize HTML-versus-text file routing for stdin, directory, and direct-file scans. Add CLI characterization coverage for both stdin paths.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer pbakaus's standing scheduled-refactor authorization.

* Strengthen detector dispatch characterization

Put the HTML-only finding in a linked stylesheet so the text engine cannot satisfy the static-engine assertion.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer pbakaus's standing scheduled-refactor authorization.
2026-08-14 05:45:42 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 43f418a565 Merge pull request #582 from pbakaus/fix/build-path-flip-inspiration-stack
Flipping to comp demotes the inspiration instead of stacking a second slot
2026-08-14 00:11:29 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 f2f1cdb0bb Resolve every zoom target in one handler, and stamp each poll generation
Three review findings on #582, all real and all mine.

Delegating `.pip` and `.media` to `document` separately meant they could not
stop each other: stopPropagation ends bubbling, not siblings on the same
target. Clicking the corner inspiration opened the inspiration and then the
media handler replaced it with the comp, so the corner was unusable on exactly
the cards this PR set out to fix. All three targets now resolve in one
delegated listener in priority order, corner before chip before slot, and a
chip that is not expand keeps its own click instead of falling through.

Flip-back restored the face without clearing what the pending state had added,
so a slot that reached stand-in came back carrying "comp pending" beside a
fresh label, and one whose art had failed came back still marked unavailable.
Restore now clears both, and a slot with no art to restore returns to the
honest "artwork unavailable" treatment rather than being labeled inspiration.

Converting in place means the same node is reused across flip cycles, and the
old poll closure outlived its cycle: a probe from the first flip could settle
the second one, stripping the new shimmer and stopping the live poll while the
comp stayed hidden. Each run now carries a generation stamp that flip-back
bumps, and both probe callbacks bail when it moves.

The test covers the corner click against the landed comp, and I confirmed it
fails when the priority ordering is removed.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 23:56:51 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 b7960ecde3 Keep the scaffolder test inside its own workspace
Two review findings on #581, both fair.

The scratch app symlinked the whole of the repo's node_modules, so the
scaffolder's output directory, `node_modules/.impeccable-live`, resolved to the
REPO's copy. Variants were written there and survived `afterEach`, which only
removed the temp dir; the next case reused the session id, and the scaffolder
keeps existing variant files, so a case could parse a previous case's source
against a fresh manifest. Now only `svelte` is linked, into a node_modules the
workspace owns, and each case gets its own session id. Svelte's own
dependencies still resolve, because node follows the link to its real path
before looking for them.

The comment also pointed at a `PROPS_SCRIPT_SHAPES` symbol that does not exist
in the test file. Dropped the name and kept the file reference.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 23:38:35 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 ec189f4536 Flipping to comp demotes the inspiration instead of stacking a second slot
Two defects in the same few lines, both from `enterComp` hand-building a media
slot after the deal instead of reaching the shape a comp-first render serves.

A code-led card carrying catalog art shows that art as its face. Flipping to
comp inserted a fresh shimmer slot above the body and left the face alone, so
the card rendered the inspiration full-bleed with the rendering comp stacked
under it: two images of equal weight, which is the one thing the corner
treatment exists to prevent. The flip now converts that slot in place, moving
the art into the `figure.pip` and dropping the face label, and flipping back
restores it, so a round-trip leaves the card as it was dealt.

The slot it built also carried no chips, and the zoom handlers were bound per
element at load, so a comp that streamed in after a flip could not be opened at
all: no expand affordance, and no click handler on the art. The three lightbox
handlers are now delegated, which is what makes any later-built slot work, and
a converted slot keeps the chips it already had. Polling learned to stop on a
slot that stays in the DOM but loses its pending state, which only happens now
that a flip back can restore rather than remove.

The existing toggle test covered a wireframe card, where the schematic is
hidden and a fresh slot inserted; that branch was fine, which is why this went
unseen. The new test drives the art-carrying card and fails on the stacking
assertion without this change.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 23:32:02 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 5961269cb5 Stop emitting a JSDoc cast into every Svelte variant (fixes #580)
Live mode scaffolds each Svelte variant with a props script that annotated the
declaration:

    /** @type {{ title: string; }} */
    let { title } = $props();

A JSDoc `@type` written directly before a value is also JSDoc's cast syntax,
and esrap 2.3.3, the printer Svelte emits JS through, moves that annotation
onto the template's own declaration:

    var /** @type {{ title: string; }} */ (h1) = root();

`var (h1) = ...` does not parse. The .svelte source is valid, the compile
succeeds, and the failure lands in the browser's dynamic import as "Unexpected
token '('": the variant never mounts and the session shows nothing. `@typedef`
carries the same shape without being a cast, so both builders emit that.

This is not test-only. Every Svelte variant we generate carried the construct,
so live mode was broken for any user whose install resolved esrap 2.3.3.
Svelte declares `esrap: ^2.2.12`, so a fresh install takes it; this repo's
lockfile pins 2.3.0, which is why unit tests stayed green while the fixture,
which installs into a temp dir, did not.

Two reasons the existing pre-publish guard could not have caught it, now
recorded next to it:

  - `compileCheckVariants` compiles with `generate: false`, so there is no
    emitted JS to inspect.
  - `loadSvelteCompiler` resolves the compiler through createRequire, which
    Svelte's export map routes to a prebuilt CJS build. A dev server imports
    `src/compiler`, and only that path runs the app's installed printer. The
    guard was checking a different compiler than the browser runs.

The new suite therefore imports the compiler as ESM and asserts the emitted
JavaScript parses, rather than pinning the comment style: a future printer that
mangles some other construct fails it too. The first draft used createRequire
and reported green against the exact input that breaks in a browser, which is
the mistake worth not repeating.

Verified against svelte 5.56.9 with esrap 2.3.3. Full live-e2e sweep green,
26 fixtures.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 23:18:29 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 816ffe92d0 Surface the build-path finding in doctor, and keep cwd out of the lookup
Round two of review findings, all four valid.

`doctor` builds its own finding list and never called `checkBuildPathUnset`,
so `config-build-path-unset` could not appear in the report even though
doctor.md documents it. That is also the only path left once stalenessCheck is
off, which is exactly when someone is looking for it.

The lookup chain included `process.cwd()`, which lets an ambient invoking
directory decide another project's workflow: run from workspace A with
--target resolving onto workspace B, and B inherited A's buildPath ahead of
the repository default. The chain is now the resolved project then the repo
root, matching `checkBuildPathUnset` exactly; cwd stands in only when no
project resolved at all.

Two prose contradictions, both mine. new-work said to write the value "when
the user says yes" and then to "record the answer either way", which reads as
persist-on-yes-only and leaves the decline to be asked again next session. It
now says the write always happens and the answer picks the value. The README
still pointed existing projects at re-running init, which is the problem this
PR exists to solve; it now names the toggle as the migration path.

The workspace-isolation test earned a correction of its own: the first version
passed a relative --target, which resolves against the caller's cwd and puts
projectRoot back on the calling workspace, so it asserted nothing.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 22:41:32 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 c0e7f2d778 Read the repo-root build path, and stop overstating what a flip forbids
Two findings from Greptile on #579, both about the same key seen from
different roots.

`appendBuildPathDirective` searched projectRoot and cwd but never repoRoot,
while `checkBuildPathUnset` reads both. In a monorepo that committed the
preference once at the root, the two disagreed in the worst direction: the
staleness finding stayed silent because a value existed, and the directive
never named it, so nothing on screen explained why the recorded default was
not being honored. Roots are now ordered nearest first, workspace over repo
root, with regression tests for both the fallback and the override.

The ANSWER line for a flipped path said "never write it to settings". The
page indeed never writes it, but the sentence read as a rule and applied
itself to new-work's one-time offer, which exists for exactly the case a flip
creates: a project with no recorded default, asked once after the round
closes. It now states what the page does and names the exception.

The same report's first issue also named context.mjs, and that part does not
hold: its directive is emitted only when a value is already recorded, which is
precisely when session-only is the correct instruction. Left as is.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 22:20:19 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 65de2d294b Raise the skill-behavior timeout that was grading haste over thoroughness
`initialized natural build` looked like a third defect on main: sonnet began
implementation before the attended concept checkpoint, three runs in a row.
It is flaky, not broken, and the measurement setup was the larger problem.

A run that stops to put the concept to the user before building takes about
579s on sonnet. A run that skips the checkpoint and fails the assertion
finishes in 130-200s. The suite capped each test at 300s, so the thorough path
was killed as a timeout and the hasty path was graded as a result: the cap was
selecting for the behavior the scenario exists to forbid. Raised to 900s, with
the reasoning recorded next to the number so it is not trimmed back as a
mystery constant.

The baseline is corrected accordingly: the scenario is flaky (1 of 4), not
failing, and readers are told to check a duration against the cap before
calling a slow failure a behavioral one.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 22:13:10 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 07663f5fbd Stop the update directive from spelling out a command it forbids
Two defects the skill-behavior baseline had recorded as failing on main.

`UPDATE_AVAILABLE` told the agent to ask once, then said "If they agree, run
`npx impeccable update`", then said to continue without waiting. Nothing gated
the run on an answer, and the same sentence removed the wait that could have
produced one, so the command read as the next step and sonnet took it. The
offer stays; the command leaves the turn. Running it mid-session rewrites the
files the session is reading and only takes effect next session, so there is
nothing to gain by running it now, and the directive says that rather than
relying on the model to infer it. Failed 3 of 3 before, passes 3 of 3 after.

Scenario 15 was a broken fixture, not a routing defect. The iOS workspace held
PRODUCT.md and nothing else, so `audit the app in this workspace` named an app
that was not there: sonnet spent its step budget hunting for it, including a
`find /` across the filesystem, and read no reference file at all. The
assertion reported "loaded audit.md instead of the variant" when the truth was
"loaded neither". One SwiftUI screen makes the request answerable, and the
scenario then passes on unmodified main, which is the evidence that the skill
text was never at fault. This is the convention MINIMAL_LANDING_HTML already
established for the web scenarios; the native fixture never received it.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 22:04:53 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 c489335799 Build path becomes a config key existing projects can actually reach
The build-path preference shipped as a question only `init` asks, written to
a file only `init` writes. Nothing routes an initialized project back through
init, so every existing project took the comp-first default without anyone
choosing it, and the only recourse was a footer toggle that binds one session.

Neither the setting nor the round that preceded it ever reached a release
(skill-v4.0.4 has no `buildPath`, no `comp-led`, no `.impeccable/settings.json`),
so the PRODUCT.md standing-commitment fallback describes an era that never
existed publicly. It is deleted rather than honored: told a field might exist,
models go hunting for it and preserve it.

- `buildPath` moves from `.impeccable/settings.json` into the unified
  `.impeccable/config.json`, which already has a known-keys registry, doctor
  coverage, and a gitignored `config.local.json` override. Whether a machine
  has an image tool is a property of that machine, so the local file wins.
- new-work captures the answer from behavior instead of an interview: a toggle
  flip on a project recording nothing asks once, after the round closes,
  whether to keep it. The answer is written either way, because a declined
  offer nothing writes down is an offer the next session makes again.
- Two findings: `config-invalid-build-path` (an unread value rides the default
  rather than the opposite path) and `config-build-path-unset`, gated on a
  product record plus evidence of direction work so polish-and-audit projects
  never hear about a setting they do not use.
- init treats a recorded value as a confirmed answer, resolving its conflict
  with Step 1's "do not reopen confirmed fields".
- The setting was undocumented in the README and doctor.md. Both now cover it.

Also records a measured skill-behavior baseline. Three cells fail on unmodified
main (scenarios 9 and 15, `initialized natural build`), verified against a clean
worktree; the suite README now says so, so the next person does not spend the
hour attributing them to their own branch.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 21:52:17 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 710aa57637 Merge pull request #576 from pbakaus/fix/ask-instruction-message-boundary
Make critique's report and close actually land
2026-08-13 17:12:52 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 504b8f2a22 Merge pull request #571 from pbakaus/codex/issue-565-sketch-timeout
Fix stalled missing decision comps
2026-08-13 17:06:43 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 628509b948 Merge pull request #553 from pbakaus/fix/issue-547-shadow-token-context
Allow documented sidecar shadow colors in shadow contexts (#547)
2026-08-13 17:06:00 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 121602079c Deliver the report as its own step; retune the lineup
Two failures the trace test found were structural, not model quirks.

critique.md described the report's format and then went straight to writing a
temp file, with no step saying to output the report. gemini-3.6-flash and luna
both responded by bundling heredoc, snapshot write, trend read, and cleanup into
one bash call and stopping, leaving a perfect archive nobody had read. A
"Deliver the Report" step now precedes persistence, and persistence describes
itself as a copy of what was already sent. gemini-3.6-flash failed three
consecutive runs before this and its failures afterward all show the report
reaching chat.

The close is also step 6 of the persistence list rather than a section after it,
since the same shape is what fixed delivery.

Lineup: gpt-5.6-luna and deepseek-v4-flash out, gpt-5.6-terra in at
reasoningEffort high (IMPECCABLE_SKILL_BEHAVIOR_EFFORT overrides), gemini 3.5 to
3.6. Provider options resolve from the model object inside the harness so the 21
runTurn call sites are untouched. Verified the effort actually reaches the API
rather than being silently dropped.

The Gemini bump was not cosmetic: 3.5-flash passed critique closes twice and
3.6-flash then failed three times against identical text. A version bump inside
one family changed the outcome, so the README now treats cross-version carryover
as unmeasured.

Known floor, recorded: critique closes is flaky on gemini-3.6-flash, 1 run in 3.
Two structural attempts moved it from consistently failing to intermittently
passing and then stopped paying. claude-sonnet-5 and gpt-5.6-terra are clean.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 17:03:19 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub fde4a3ee71 Merge pull request #554 from pbakaus/fix/548-layout-transition-quoted-values
Fix: layout-transition false positives on JSX quoted transition values (#548)
2026-08-13 17:01:23 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 7d907bbb14 Merge pull request #572 from pbakaus/codex/unify-svelte-accept-flow
Simplify Svelte accept orchestration
2026-08-13 17:00:57 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 ebc63f071a Fix critique's close on the right mechanism
The earlier fix in this branch was built on a wrong diagnosis. It assumed a
structured question hides any prose sharing its message, so it split report and
question across two turns. A controlled check showed prose before a question
renders fine; what hides a report is emitting it AFTER the question. The split
therefore fixed nothing and introduced a worse failure: a turn that ends on the
report is a turn that ends, and the questions never arrived at all.

Persistence returns to main's ordering, byte for byte, and the boundary prose is
gone. What replaces it is a position rule: the question is the last thing in the
response.

The trace test added here found two failures beyond the reported one. Critique
can fail to land in three ways, and they are now all asserted:

  1. Question emitted before the report, hiding it behind the picker.
  2. No close at all: no questions and no skip line, so polish inherits nothing.
  3. Report authored into the persistence heredoc and never written to chat,
     leaving a perfect snapshot and a user who sees nothing.

Mode 3 predates this branch entirely. Persistence step 1 now says the temp file
is an archive copy, not delivery.

The Codex final-question gate is promoted out of its <codex> fence, where it was
stripped for three of four providers, and the skip branch is now a countable
threshold (fewer than 3 Priority Issues) rather than a judgment call.

Known floor, recorded in the suite README: gpt-5.6-luna passes 1 run in 6 and
deepseek-v4-flash is flaky. claude-sonnet-5 and gemini-3.5-flash are consistent.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 14:14:44 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 0e5c6cbe17 Keep critique's report out of the question's message
The critique report and the AskUserQuestion call shipped in one assistant
message, so the report stayed hidden until the user answered the picker and
the command read as if it had never run.

Reorder critique's persistence steps so the temp-file cleanup runs after the
report and trend line are sent. That cleanup now ends the message carrying the
report, leaving the questions to open a fresh one. Both critique.md and
overdrive.md state the constraint and why it exists, so the ordering is not an
unexplained sequence a model can optimize away. Overdrive additionally moves
its direction descriptions inside the question options, where the user is
actually reading them.

Also fix the ask_instruction splices. The placeholder is a complete sentence,
but five call sites spliced it mid-sentence and shipped text like "stop and
STOP and call the AskUserQuestion tool to clarify. before expanding it". Every
call site is now sentence-initial and the twelve lowercase provider values are
capitalized to match, with a comment in utils.js pinning the contract.

Record a workflow-contract baseline for the current model lineup. The two
failures seen while validating this change are pre-existing: bolder refinement
fails on deepseek-v4-flash identically with bolder.md reverted to HEAD, and
redesign replaces DESIGN is flaky on assertions driven by new-work.md, which
this change does not touch.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 01:06:33 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 76b9aaf021 Build-path toggle moves to the header; a code-to-comp flip confirms first
The toggle sits top-left under the brand instead of in the footer bar, and
flipping to comp-first now opens a confirm dialog before anything renders,
since the flip starts billed, minutes-long generation; flipping back stays
free and immediate. The dialog lives at the document root so it never loses
the stacking fight with the deck. The schema blob also states harder that
toggle: true may only be offered when image generation exists.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 23:23:34 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 64dd60a78a Build path becomes a setting plus a page toggle; the followup contract round retires
- serve-question: payload buildPath { value, toggle } renders a footer
  segmented control (comp first / code first) with the trade stated in one
  line; the default comes from settings, a flip binds that session only.
  Code-led rounds treat declared comp paths as flip reserves: wireframes
  render, a flip to comp shimmers the slots and surfaces once through
  --wait as BUILD PATH FLIPPED so the agent starts generating mid-round;
  the flip back is free and a landed comp stays. The ANSWER carries
  buildPath and buildPathFlipped with a session-only directive.
- init Step 5 asks the preference once (only when image generation exists)
  and writes .impeccable/settings.json; context.mjs surfaces the recorded
  default every session; PRODUCT.md standing commitments stay honored as
  the fallback.
- new-work retires the two-card execution-contract round: no round asks a
  workflow preference. followup stays as the generic same-table mechanism.
- e2e: new toggle test (14/14 with the wireframe test).

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 16:56:39 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 ac4c3200db Surface rounds deal three structures, draw wireframes, and anchor comps on a reference screenshot
- concept-seed --scope surface deals three grounded-list indices (dice-picked,
  primary leads) instead of one: a single card is not a choice, and the
  no-lineup rule stays direction-only, where it was written for worlds
- serve-question renders a new per-card wireframe field as a layout schematic
  in the media slot: the code-led channel's visualization, no image
  generation needed, no card back, no salience weight
- generate-image gains --ref (repeatable): routes through the edits endpoint
  with input images, so an established world's comp inherits identity from a
  captured screenshot of a real page instead of a prose paraphrase; tested
  against impeccable.style, where the reference-anchored comp reproduced the
  live site's chrome and the prose-only comp drifted
- new-work rung two rewritten around the dealt hand: lock-in is the
  approval, a locked comp builds comp-led and discharges the visualize.md
  three-option round, a locked wireframe builds code-led; visualize.md
  records the exemption and the reference-image discipline, including the
  reference-leak caveat (chrome carries, the reference page's content
  does not)

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 16:28:15 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub e36833ce21 Merge pull request #521 from digitallamb/pr/hermes-provider
Add Hermes Agent as a supported provider
2026-08-12 16:07:43 -04:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 6c837bd7d4 Merge pull request #562 from pbakaus/codex/issue-561-critique-signals
Fix critique routing snapshot metrics
2026-08-12 15:57:19 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 f66eace20d Decision page: plain-language raises, IMPECCABLE'S PICK, sticky footer, short-viewport fit
- The raise block drops the side-tab left border for a quiet patina panel,
  and drops the poker jargon: "Improved by Impeccable's worlds" with
  per-line "From <world>" donors, on single raises too; tooltip, aria, and
  screen-reader copy follow
- The pick-card kicker convention renames MY PICK to IMPECCABLE'S PICK at
  every definition site, so users stop reading "my" as themselves
- The footer (steer, registers, canon exit) is a sticky full-bleed bar on
  wide viewports, sharing one --page-inset with the content column; portrait
  keeps it in flow where the deck scrolls internally
- Short landscape viewports compact the headline and narrow the cards so a
  full round fits 1440x800

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 15:26:34 -04:00
Paul Bakaus 3a26dcb809 Keep decision body order in fallback
Prepared and verified with AI assistance under maintainer authorization.
2026-08-12 15:25:04 -04:00
Paul Bakaus 37be3fa36b Fix stalled missing decision comps
Restated on current upstream main after the comp-field migration. Prepared and verified with AI assistance under maintainer authorization.
2026-08-12 15:09:27 -04:00
Paul Bakaus f1b7111503 Simplify Svelte accept orchestration
Unify Svelte component accept and discard around one operation dispatch, source lock, error path, and result emission while preserving their existing CLI contracts. Add direct CLI characterization coverage for both operations.\n\nAI-assisted implementation under pbakaus's scheduled-refactor authorization.
2026-08-12 14:15:14 -04:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 248a4a699a Retire the sketch era's wire name: the field is comp, sketch is an alias
The deliverable died in #545; the word survived as the decision-page
payload's field name, annotated everywhere it appeared with the same
compatibility apology. The page and the skill text ship together and
payloads are per-session, so the compatibility burden is one input alias,
not a frozen name.

serve-question.mjs: the card field, the answer key, the schema docs, the
--schema example, the help text, and every internal identifier (compSrc,
data-comp, .media.comp-pending, img.comp, comp-note) now say comp; a
payload declaring the legacy sketch key still renders and answers
identically. new-work.md and the asset producer drop their wire-name
parentheticals. The unit suite covers the canonical answer key coming
back from a legacy-key payload; the new-work e2e's declined-card stray
comp stays declared as sketch, which doubles as alias coverage.

AI-assisted (Claude Fable 5), prepared for maintainer review.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 15:53:25 -04:00
ac0416b655 Stop assuming white when a background cannot be read (#541)
* Stop assuming white when a background cannot be read

Dark themes came back from a scan buried in low-contrast findings that
all claimed the light text sat on #ffffff. Two live runs against
impeccable.style produced 102 and 95 of them.

Two causes, both fixed here.

Parsing. Browsers keep the authored color space in getComputedStyle
output: oklch() stayed oklch, but color-mix results come back as
color(srgb 1.04 0.72 -0.21), wide-gamut authors get color(display-p3
...), and lch()/lab() survive verbatim. The parser read none of those, so
those surfaces registered as unset. parseGradientColors was worse: it
matched only rgba() and #hex, so a ground painted as
linear-gradient(oklch(...), oklch(...)) counted as a gradient with no
stops at all.

Guessing. When the ancestor walk ran out of readable color it returned
white, and on a body-level gradient it returned white without even
looking. Light copy on a lacquer-black page then measured 1.3:1 against a
canvas the visitor never sees.

resolveBackgroundInfo now separates three outcomes: a resolved surface, a
gradient the caller should fall back to stops for, and an unreadable
layer. The last one makes both color adapters skip their contrast checks
entirely. White survives in exactly one case, the one that earns it:
every layer up to the document root was genuinely transparent.

Color conversions moved to cli/engine/shared/color.mjs and gained lab,
lch, and color() for srgb, srgb-linear, and display-p3. Spaces outside
that set return null, which now routes to abstention rather than to a
color nobody painted. Every conversion is pinned against what Chrome
itself paints for the same string.

Rescanning impeccable.style: 102 low-contrast findings down to 30, none
of them on an invented white ground.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

* fix: address PR review bot findings on background resolution

- Treat a url() image layer stacked above a gradient as an occluding,
  unreadable surface: resolveBackgroundInfo now returns unresolved so the
  gradient-stop fallback never measures stops the image hides
  (greptile-apps finding, reproduced in Chrome).
- Route the glow and AI-palette DOM adapters through resolveBackgroundInfo
  so an unresolved surface makes them abstain instead of hunting gradient
  ancestors past an unreadable layer (Cursor Bugbot finding).
- Resolve background-color keywords jsdom hands through verbatim:
  inherit now reads as no-paint (the ancestor walk IS its resolution) and
  currentcolor substitutes the element's own computed text color instead
  of forcing an abstention (Copilot finding).
- Regression coverage in the dark-theme fixture for all three, asserted in
  both the jsdom and real-Chrome suites; browser detector regenerated.

AI-assisted: prepared with Claude Code at the maintainer's direction.

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

* fix: keep zero-offset glow findings when the surface is unreadable

The browser glow adapter abstained from the whole element when
resolveBackgroundInfo reported an unreadable surface, which also dropped
zero-offset chromatic halo findings that do not depend on the background
at all. It now skips only the gradient hunt past the unreadable layer and
scores the halo tell against a null surface, matching what the static
loop already did. Fixture cases pin both sides: the halo over a url()
image ancestor flags in both engines, and an offset chromatic shadow on
the same unknown surface stays abstained.

Also hardens the currentcolor background substitution with the
parseColorResolved fallback used by the text-color path, and adds fixture
coverage proving tokenized currentcolor surfaces already resolve through
the static cascade (flag when knowable, abstain when the token is
undefined).

Addresses Cursor Bugbot review findings on PR #541.

AI-assisted-by: Claude Code

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

* fix: abstain on translucent gradients over images, drop phantom color-mix stops

Two follow-up review findings on the merge with main.

A gradient leading a url() layer was treated as a resolvable surface even
when its stops are translucent, so the glow and AI-palette hunts averaged
wash stops (a 20% black wash reads as pure black) while the real surface
blends with image pixels the engine cannot read. resolveBackgroundInfo now
marks gradient-over-image unresolved unless every readable stop of the
leading gradient is opaque, in which case the gradient provably covers the
image and remains the scorable surface.

parseGradientColorsModern predated this branch's parseGradientColors
rewrite: its second regex pass re-extracted color tokens nested inside
color-mix() stops that the shared parser already captures whole via
balanced-paren tokens, appending ingredient colors that are never painted.
The worst-case stop ratio then invented low-contrast findings against a
color nobody sees. The helper is removed; all callers use the shared
parser, which covers the modern syntaxes it existed for.

Fixture coverage pins both: the translucent-wash-over-image glow abstains
in both engines, an opaque gradient over an image still flags in the
browser, and the color-mix wash case stays clean in the static engine.
Each new assertion was verified to fail against the previous engine.

Addresses Greptile and Cursor Bugbot review findings on PR #541.

AI-assisted-by: Claude Code

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 14:59:07 -04:00
dc4e4a4bd6 Denoise the design hook and let agents self-serve confident ignores (#508)
* Denoise the design hook and let agents self-serve confident ignores (#497)

The directive footer now emits in full once per session (a one-line
reminder after), the DESIGN.md staleness note is mentioned once per
session, rule descriptions dedupe within an emission, and the per-line
ignore suggestion shrinks to the bare rule/value pair. The footer and
hooks.md replace the confirmation-gated ignore policy with a three-way
triage: fix real problems, self-serve the narrowest ignore for confident
false positives or sanctioned exceptions and disclose it (with an honest
--reason), ask when unsure. Self-serve stops at ignore-value, and the
footer now gives a runnable hook-admin.mjs command instead of a slash
command agents cannot execute.

Measured on a seeded lab session replaying 11 hook events: 33,658 to
14,063 chars of agent-visible output (-58%).

AI-assisted (Cursor agent), directed and reviewed by @abdulwahabone.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Preserve the policy footer and honor maxChars under constrained budgets

Greptile's runtime check found two pre-existing clamp gaps that matter
more now that the full policy emits once per session: the last-resort
tail slice cut the footer off an over-budget emission, and the DESIGN.md
staleness note was appended after clamping, pushing past maxChars.

The clamp now gives the footer the budget first, clipping the finding
line and downgrading full to short policy when needed. The staleness
note defers, without consuming its session flag, to a later emission
with room.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent), directed and reviewed by @abdulwahabone.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Harden the constrained-budget clamp: keep findings, honest flags, guaranteed note

Review follow-ups from Bugbot and Greptile on the clamp fix:

- The clamp retries with the short policy before dropping finding lines
  that fit beside it, and a grouped result that kept only a file header
  no longer counts as a fit.
- The full-footer session flag commits only when the full policy
  actually survived the clamp, so a downgraded emission does not mark
  the session as having seen a policy it never received.
- Render paths reserve room for a pending DESIGN.md staleness note, so
  it is delivered inside the budget on the first emission instead of
  deferring behind full emissions indefinitely.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent), directed and reviewed by @abdulwahabone.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Route the Cursor deny cap through the clamp and match the whole footer

Bugbot follow-up: cursorBlockMessage tail-sliced at 4000 chars after
render, which the default 8000-char budget made reachable, and a cut
that spared the footer's opening words still committed the session
flag. The 4000 cap now feeds through the renderer's footer-preserving
clamp, and commitFooterShown matches the complete footer text instead
of a sentinel.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent), directed and reviewed by @abdulwahabone.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* Reconcile hook.test.mjs expectations with main's per-platform quoting

Three tests fell out of sync when main's quoteCommandArg change (#533,
building on #476) met this branch's footer/hint rework. Test-only
changes; production logic untouched:

- The full-footer test now accepts either close quote after the
  hook-admin.mjs path, since quoteCommandArg single-quotes absolute
  paths on POSIX and double-quotes them on Windows. The short-footer
  guard rejects `node '` and `node "` alike.
- The #476 hostile-value test asserts the new bare
  `ignore-value <rule> '<value>'` hint format. The security property is
  unchanged: the value still passes through quoteCommandArg, so
  $(touch pwned) stays single-quoted and inert.
- The #533 test previously asserted a concrete quoted `--file` path in
  the footer; directiveFooter() now carries only literal placeholders,
  so that surface is gone. The per-platform assertion moves to the
  per-finding ignore hint, the remaining user-visible surface where
  scanned file content flows through quoteCommandArg.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

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

* Fix two Bugbot findings: Cursor prefix budget and footer-cutting tail slice

Both flagged by Cursor Bugbot on PR #508 after the main merge; both real.

1. cursorBlockMessage computed min(maxChars, 4000 - prefix), so a
   configured maxChars at or below the Cursor ceiling never charged the
   BLOCK_PREFIX against the budget: the final deny text could exceed
   maxChars by the prefix length, and appendDesignSystemNoteOnce's size
   check lost exactly the room designNoteReserve had held back. The
   prefix now comes off whichever limit binds. Default-config behavior
   is unchanged (min(8000, 4000) - 60 equals the old 4000 - 60).

2. The note reservation is subtracted after renderTemplate's 500-char
   floor, so the clamp can run below the budget clampLastLine assumed
   safe, and its last-resort path tail-sliced the rendered text, cutting
   the policy footer (the failure mode this PR exists to eliminate) when
   a deep file path met a pending DESIGN.md note. The reservation order
   stays (the staleness-note delivery guarantee at floor budgets depends
   on it); the last resort now drops the finding line and clips the head
   instead, so the footer survives every path. New regression test pins
   it: 6 findings, 100-char path, maxChars 500, reserveChars 134.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

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

* Charge the Cursor deny prefix after the renderer's floor, not before

Greptile's runtime check caught the residual from ead0346d: subtracting
BLOCK_PREFIX from the maxChars passed to renderTemplate does nothing at
floor-tier configs, because the renderer re-raises any budget below its
500-char floor. At maxChars 500 with a stale design sidecar, the
prefixed denial landed at 432 chars and appendDesignSystemNoteOnce
could not fit the staleness note inside 500, deferring it (flag
unconsumed) for every equivalent denial in the session.

The prefix now rides in reserveChars, which comes off after the floor,
so it is charged at every config tier and the final prefixed message
plus a pending note closes exactly at the binding limit (499 chars in
the regression scenario). Default-config output is byte-identical:
max(500, min(8000, 4000)) - prefix equals the old min(8000, 4000) -
prefix. New end-to-end Cursor preToolUse test pins the path with a real
stale sidecar at maxChars 500.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent), directed and reviewed by @abdulwahabone.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Bakaus <paul.bakaus@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 13:42:39 -04:00
Paul Bakaus 357f358050 Reject empty critique metrics
Treat empty and whitespace-only snapshot values as missing so malformed frontmatter cannot reintroduce plausible zeroes.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer pbakaus's standing automation authorization.
2026-08-11 13:00:31 -04:00
Paul Bakaus d4aacaccfd Fix critique routing signals
Read the documented critique snapshot keys while preserving legacy aliases, and surface missing metrics as null instead of zero.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer pbakaus's standing automation authorization.
2026-08-11 12:50:01 -04:00
digitallamb def69e157b fix(cli): use imported resolve/sep in hermesGlobalHome (#521)
The function called `path.resolve` and `path.sep` but only named-
imports `resolve` and `sep` from `node:path`. The ReferenceError was
swallowed by the try/catch, so $HERMES_HOME was silently ignored and
profile-scoped installs always landed in ~/.hermes instead of the
active profile. Greptile (P1) and Cursor Bugbot (High) flagged this
on 2026-08-10. Adds 6 regression tests covering default, default-
profile, active-profile, cross-home leakage, the override map
integration, and the full e2e pipeline. Verified by reverting the
fix and observing the relevant tests fail.
2026-08-10 22:47:56 -07:00
aee5ddd10c data-impeccable-ignore scoped waivers + occlusion and image-backed contrast FP fixes (#559)
* Add data-impeccable-ignore scoped waivers; fix occlusion and image-backed contrast FPs

Three changes that let a page hosting deliberate anti-pattern exhibits
scan clean without losing coverage, prepared with AI assistance (Claude
Code) on maintainer instruction:

- data-impeccable-ignore="rule-a rule-b" (or "*" / bare) on any element
  suppresses matching findings for its whole subtree, in the browser
  overlay, the extension, and the static engine. The DOM twin of the
  line-based impeccable-disable comments (which a live DOM cannot
  apply) and the generalization of data-impeccable-allow-kickers.
  Applied at the addBrowserFindings choke point, at the static element
  walk, and for regex findings that carry a live selector.

- text-occlusion: an occluder whose effective opacity multiplies out to
  ~0 paints nothing. An opacity-0 range scrubber stretched over a
  before/after comparison produced 16 "100% covered by an opaque
  element" findings on one page because elementFromPoint returns it and
  its UA background-color read as opaque paint. Invisible-at-rest
  elements are also no longer probed as victims.

- Analytic contrast now skips what it cannot measure: a url() image
  layer anywhere in the background stack ends the gradient-stops walk
  (dark ink on a bright gold-leaf image measured 2.6:1 against the wash
  composited over the wrong base), and elements that are invisible at
  rest (visibility hidden, effective opacity ~0 — hidden scene decks)
  are skipped by the color checks in both engines. The static cascade
  now tracks opacity to support this.

Covered by a new scoped-ignore fixture (exact rule, star, comma list,
nested depth, wrong-rule control) tested in both engines, a scrubber
pass case in the occlusion fixture, and image-backed / photo-panel /
hidden-scene pass cases in the gradient-ground fixture. Full suite
passes; browser and extension bundles regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* CSS-scan findings carry their enclosing selector; browser pass resolves them

Page-level CSS-text findings (marquee, dark-glow, radial-halo,
repeating-stripes, codex-grid, ai-color-palette, image-hover-transform,
pseudo/inset side-tab stripes) now attach the selector of the rule that
matched, via a best-effort enclosingCssSelector() helper or the
selector already in scope. The browser pass resolves that selector
against the live DOM: pseudo segments are stripped, a selector that
renders nowhere on the page drops the finding (the CSS ships there but
the pattern never paints — the live DOM is ground truth in a browser
scan), and matches under a data-impeccable-ignore ancestor are waived.
Static scans are unchanged: partial documents keep the text-level
findings. Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Covered in the scoped-ignore fixture: a live marquee under a marquee
waiver is suppressed, and dead two-axis grid CSS matching no element is
dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Attribute selectors on gradient-text and bounce-easing page emitters too

Same mechanism as the previous commit, extended to the three page-level
motion/text emitters that were still selector-less. Applied with AI
assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* text-overflow: skip SVG content; scrollWidth lies there

Chrome reports arbitrary non-zero scrollWidth/clientWidth on SVG
elements (a <text> gave 78/48 while its rendered length sat inside its
box), so the box-metric delta is noise. SVG clips to its own viewport
anyway. Pass case added to the quality fixture. Applied with AI
assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Overlay samples image-backed text at the pixel level by default

Visual contrast gains a third mode. Explicit true still runs the full
sampled pass, explicit false still disables everything (the mode the
test suites use), and unset — the default overlay run — now samples
ONLY image-backed text: the one class the analytic walk deliberately
skips, because a url() layer's pixels are unknowable without looking.

The cost is bounded and the method is precise: at most a 3x3 grid of
sample points per candidate (degrading to 3 or 1 for small rects), the
source image drawn once to a canvas with only those pixels read, and
glyph ink never pollutes the samples because the image is drawn alone.
A cross-origin image without CORS headers reports unresolved rather
than guessing. Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Covered by a new fixture: white text on a near-white same-origin
data-URI image background flags via sampled pixels under default
options; dark ink on the same image passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Review fixes: root opacity, keyframe steps, static parity, attributed fixtures

Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code), addressing all seven findings
from the automated reviews:

- effectiveOpacityDOM walks through body and html: a page-fade wrapper
  with body/html opacity 0 hides every descendant (Greptile executed a
  Chromium repro of the false positive).
- enclosingCssSelector refuses `from`/`to` keyframe steps, which read
  as never-matching type selectors and got valid findings wrongly
  dropped by the zero-match rule (Bugbot, high). Regression case: an
  overshoot bezier inside a `to` step must survive as page-level.
- The static cascade now inherits visibility, so descendants of a
  hidden container compute as hidden like the browser path; a declared
  visibility:visible still overrides.
- The static engine applies scoped waivers to selector-backed
  html-pattern findings, mirroring the browser — but keeps findings
  whose selector matches nothing, since static scans see partial
  documents.
- The scoped-ignore fixture grows to the mandated matrix: 4 flag cases
  (control, other-rule waiver, sibling waiver, misspelled rule id) and
  5 waived shapes (exact rule, nested depth, star, comma list, self),
  each with a unique border width so every finding attributes to
  exactly one case in both engines' tests.
- The image-backed contrast test pins its cases via the sampled
  finding's candidate text: the white-on-light specimen must flag and
  the dark-ink control must stay clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Review fixes: image-only starvation, selector rejection class, inset stripes

Second review round, applied with AI assistance (Claude Code):

- The image-only filter moves inside the candidate collector, before the
  cap: gradient/opacity/filter candidates earlier in DOM order no longer
  consume the 12-candidate budget and starve the url()-backed texts the
  mode exists to sample (Bugbot, high). The regression fixture packs 14
  gradient decoys ahead of the photo panels, and the test now drives the
  overlay entry (impeccableDetectAsync, default options) rather than
  detectUrl's Node-side full fallback, which is where the image-only
  mode actually lives.
- enclosingCssSelector no longer rejects the child combinator or quoted
  attribute selectors; only braces and angle brackets disqualify.
- The inset box-shadow side-tab scanner attaches its selector like the
  pseudo-element scanner does, so those findings waive and dead-drop
  the same way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 16:31:46 -07:00
5f7b001cbe Fix: measure gradient body grounds instead of assuming white (low-contrast false positives) (#557)
* Fix: measure gradient body grounds instead of assuming white (browser mode)

A page whose ground is set via background: linear-gradient(...) on body
leaves backgroundColor transparent, and resolveBackground assumed white
for any body/html-level gradient. In a real browser that assumption is
wrong: the shorthand is always decomposed there, so reaching that branch
means the ground truly is the gradient. On a dark oklch gradient ground
(impeccable.style's lacquer) this turned every light-on-dark text into a
~1.3:1 "on #ffffff" low-contrast finding, ~120 false positives on one
site. Browser mode now returns null so the caller measures against the
actual gradient stops; the white assumption stays for jsdom, where the
undecomposed-shorthand rationale still holds.

Gradient stops also now parse modern color syntax: computed
backgroundImage keeps oklch()/oklab()/hsl()/hwb() stops as authored, and
parseGradientColors only read rgb()/hex, so a token-driven gradient
ground was invisible even once the walk deferred to it. New
parseGradientColorsModern routes those stops through parseAnyColor.

Covered by a Puppeteer fixture (dark oklch body gradient): light text on
the ground must not flag, muted dark-gray ink must, proving the stops
are measured rather than the checks silently skipping.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code), on maintainer instruction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Composite translucent layers over gradient stops; parse modern glow stops

Review fixes from PR #557's automated reviews, applied with AI
assistance (Claude Code):

- Cursor Bugbot found the new browser-mode early return discarded the
  translucent ancestors resolveBackground had collected: text on a
  frosted wash over a body gradient was measured against raw stops.
  resolveGradientStops now collects translucent layers during its own
  walk (through readCascadeBackgroundColor, extracted so both walks
  read surfaces identically) and composites every stop under them.
- Copilot flagged the other legacy parseGradientColors call sites. The
  glow-context fallback now uses parseGradientColorsModern, since body
  gradients reach it more often after this change. The AI-palette rule
  and the injected analytic sampler stay on the legacy parser
  deliberately: the former is a rule-behavior expansion deserving its
  own fixtures, the latter degrades to pixel sampling or a skip.
- Greptile asked for standard fixture structure: the fixture now has
  labeled flag/pass cases (3 flag, 5 pass) including the frosted-wash
  pair that locks the overlay compositing in both directions and a
  legacy hex-stop gradient guarding the original parser path.

The test scopes itself to the DOM path via visualContrast: false, the
suite's established pattern; the screenshot sampler is a separate
subsystem with its own coverage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Pin gradient-ground flag cases to their snippet signatures

Bugbot follow-up: a count-only assertion let an offsetting miss and
false positive cancel, especially the frosted pair. Each flag case now
asserts its full text-on-background signature, so the frosted case must
measure against the composited wash and the count guard excludes any
pass case flagging in its place. Applied with AI assistance (Claude
Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Comments: the static path is the custom engine now, not jsdom

jsdom left the dependency tree when the static-html engine (StaticElement
+ css-cascade.mjs) replaced it, and that engine does decompose the
background shorthand, so the comments this PR added were dated in both
name and rationale. Only comments touched by this PR are renamed; the
~40 legacy jsdom mentions elsewhere in checks.mjs are a separate sweep.
Applied with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Static engine: measure body gradients too, dropping the white assumption

Follow-up to the browser-mode fix: the white assumption for body/html
gradients was a jsdom guard, and jsdom is gone. The static cascade
decomposes the background shorthand (expandStaticDeclaration) and
preserves var() colors for later resolution, so a missing solid under a
body gradient is now as real in static mode as in a browser — and the
static engine had the identical false-positive class (light text on a
dark gradient ground flagged "on #ffffff") while missing the muted-ink
true positives on the same page.

The old catastrophic case cannot recur: opaque stops fully cover any
hidden solid (they are the ground), alpha stops composite over the
resolved base or the white canvas default, and unresolvable stops drop
rather than guess.

Static twin of the browser test added over the same fixture; the full
suite, the url()-ancestor guard, and a source scan of impeccable.style
(0 low-contrast findings) all stay clean. Applied with AI assistance
(Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 12:35:55 -07:00
Abdul WahabandCursor d23fa1c882 Fix: layout-transition false positives on JSX quoted transition values (#548)
The value-capture regex stopped only at ;{}, so in single-line JSX
style objects it ran past the closing quote and swallowed later
properties, flagging layout props that were never transitioned. The
capture now stops at the matching closing quote when the value is a
quoted string, falling back to the old bounds for real CSS.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-08-10 14:00:55 +05:00
Abdul WahabandCursor 520a55547e Admit one brace level inside shadow interpolations
Review finding on #553: an object-literal argument like
${getOffset({ size: 2 })} ended the interpolation match at the inner
closing brace, losing the shadow context. Interpolations now admit one
level of braces (with paired quotes inside); the shared subpattern is
hoisted into compiled constants. Deeper nesting stays fail-safe by
design: a line-scoped regex cannot balance arbitrary braces, and the
miss produces a waivable finding, never a leak.

AI-assisted (Cursor agent), reviewed by maintainer.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-08-10 13:28:11 +05:00