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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 d4e1b0902f Enforce the ask_instruction sentence-initial contract
Review on #576 caught document.md:71 splicing {{ask_instruction}} after
"then", which is the same defect this branch set out to fix. Rendered for
Codex it produced "Show the user the existing file, then STOP and use Codex's
structured user-input/question tool...". The line now starts a new sentence.

The comment added to PROVIDER_PLACEHOLDERS asserted the contract without
enforcing it, which is exactly how four reference files shipped the splice in
the first place. validateAskInstructionSites() in build.js now checks every
call site and fails the build on a mid-sentence interpolation, and the comment
points at the gate instead of asking authors to remember.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 13:24:29 -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 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
045865918a Held for review: agent placeholder substitution, reviewer recapture contract, base-directory script form (#544)
* Resolve {{scripts_path}} in the agent bodies Codex ships

Three code paths emit an agent body: the degraded fallback reference, the
.toml nested inside the skill for Codex, and the native agent file. Only the
nested .toml skipped placeholder substitution and rule-marker stripping, so
the codex and .agents dists shipped `node {{scripts_path}}/embed-prompt.mjs`
verbatim in the asset producer, and every caller had to substitute the token
itself at load time.

All three now render through renderAgentBody(), and the new regression test
asserts a runnable embed-prompt command on each emitted surface plus a
synthetic agent proving markers and placeholders resolve in the nested .toml.

Prepared by an AI agent (Claude Code) under pbakaus's instruction.

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

* Give the finish reviewer's screenshots one fixed address

The Input Contract asked for "desktop and mobile screenshot paths captured by
the parent" and named none, so each session invented a filename and the
verdict pass went looking for a recapture that was never written there. Two
reviewer passes burned on that in the eval runs.

The parent now captures and recaptures to .impeccable/review/desktop.png and
.impeccable/review/mobile.png, and the reviewer reads those two first,
treating a brief-named path as the fallback for a parent that wrote elsewhere.

Prepared by an AI agent (Claude Code) under pbakaus's instruction.

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

* Lead Setup with the base directory the runtime reports

The rendered claude and codex skills opened with
`node .claude/skills/impeccable/scripts/context.mjs`, a project-relative path
that resolves in this repo and in nothing a user installs: a personal or
plugin install puts the scripts outside the project entirely. The working form
was already in the text, parenthesized, after the one that fails.

Setup now leads with `node <skill-base-dir>/scripts/context.mjs` and says once
that the base directory resolves every scripts-path command in the skill and
its references, leaving the project-relative path as the fallback for runtimes
that report no base directory.

Prepared by an AI agent (Claude Code) under pbakaus's instruction.

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

* Answer the Copilot review: brittle model assertion, missing review dir

Assert that {{model}} resolved rather than that it resolved to "GPT", which
belongs to PROVIDER_PLACEHOLDERS and can change without touching what the test
guards. And have the parent create .impeccable/review/ when the harness does
not, so a fresh project's first capture has somewhere to land.

Prepared by an AI agent (Claude Code) under pbakaus's instruction.

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

* Make the review-screenshot contract directory-based, not web-viewport-named

Two amendments to the recapture contract from review feedback:

1. The canonical location is the directory .impeccable/review/, one file
   per captured viewport; desktop.png and mobile.png are the web case,
   not the contract. Baking web-viewport names into the reviewer's spec
   would have hardened a web assumption into paths that a native
   (ios/android/adaptive) build cannot honestly write.

2. Precedence restored to explicit-beats-convention: paths the calling
   brief names are authoritative when the files exist; the canonical
   directory is where the reviewer looks when the brief names none or a
   named path is missing. This avoids stale canonical files from an
   earlier run silently winning over fresh explicit paths. The observed
   failure (the verdict round inventing a round-stamped filename) stays
   fixed: recapture happens over the same files, and invented filenames
   are still called out as pointing at nothing.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 19:26:43 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub fc05472a20 Restore reduced-motion animation guidance (#540)
* Restore reduced-motion build guidance

Restores the accessibility requirement and verification step to the animation playbook, with a regression test that keeps it on the build path.

Implemented and validated with OpenAI Codex assistance under standing maintainer authorization.

* Harden reduced-motion guidance regression

Normalizes CRLF input and accepts either reduced-motion spelling so the contract stays portable and intent-focused.

Implemented and validated with OpenAI Codex assistance under standing maintainer authorization.

* Anchor skill reference test to its module

Resolve the repository fixture path from the test module so the regression test is independent of the caller's working directory.

This change was prepared with AI assistance under maintainer authorization.

* Clarify reduced-motion guidance

Replace the double negative in the canonical animation guidance and keep the source contract aligned with the clearer wording.

This change was prepared with AI assistance under maintainer authorization.
2026-08-08 15:49:43 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 aee6ce9352 Give the Live UI surface inventory one definition again
The list of Live chrome surfaces was inlined into live-browser.js as a
function-scope const when live/ui-core.mjs was deleted for having zero
in-repo references. It had one out-of-repo reference. The private
impeccable-site repo imports it at build time: its Live UI lab must hold
a snapshot for every surface Live defines, and the site build fails with
the surface name when one is missing. Inlining put the list out of reach
of every Node importer, so the site had to regex it back out of the
browser script, and the guard only kept passing because the site's
materialized copy of skill/ was stale.

A guard that reads a list the site itself maintains guards nothing, so
the fix is a real export rather than a better parser.

skill/scripts/live/ui-surfaces.mjs is now the single definition. The
browser-runtime constraint is unchanged and satisfied the same way the
command palette already solves it: live-browser.js is served raw and
injected as a classic <script>, so it cannot import an ES module. The
/live.js assembler serializes the module into
window.__IMPECCABLE_LIVE_UI_SURFACES__ in the prelude it already writes
for the token, port and vocabulary, and live-browser.js reads the global.
assembleLiveBrowserScript defaults the value from the module rather than
taking it from live-server.mjs, so the bundle carries the canonical
inventory by construction instead of by a caller remembering to pass it.

The emitted inventory is byte-identical to the inlined one.

tests/live-ui-surfaces.test.mjs pins both halves of the seam: the module
is the definition (live-browser.js must not redeclare it), the prefix the
module builds ids from matches the PREFIX live-browser.js hardcodes, and
the assembled bundle still carries the list. live-server.test.mjs gets
the matching integration check against a served /live.js.

One existing assertion changed. live-browser-regression.test.mjs checked
that the steer Send control is registered as live chrome by matching the
text of the inline literal's last line. That encoded where the list was
written, not what it contains; it now asserts membership in the imported
LIVE_UI_COMPONENT_IDS, which is the behaviour it was after.

Verified with the full default suite plus a live-e2e fixture run
(vite8-react-modal), so the overlay is exercised end to end in a browser.

AI-assisted via Claude Code under maintainer direction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 14:53:20 -07:00
Forgeandplamb 5ce4a5c6b5 Add Hermes Agent as a supported provider
Impeccable now ships a Hermes-compatible bundle under dist/hermes/.hermes/skills/.
Hermes reads the Agent Skills spec as-is, so the bundle uses the four spec
frontmatter fields (name, description, version, license) plus metadata/compatibility
and drops the Claude/Codex-specific extensions Hermes would silently ignore.

The .hermes/skills/ tracked root and the regenerated pin.mjs mirrors will be
produced by .github/workflows/sync-generated-output.yml after this lands; per
AGENTS.md, generated harness churn stays out of feature PRs.

What a Hermes user gets:
- npx impeccable install --providers=hermes --scope=project writes
  .hermes/skills/impeccable/ into the cwd.
- npx impeccable install --providers=hermes --scope=user honors $HERMES_HOME,
  so a profile-scoped install (HERMES_HOME=~/.hermes/profiles/forge) lands in
  the active profile's skills dir, not the default ~/.hermes/. Cross-home
  HERMES_HOME inheritance is ignored so test isolation holds.
- /impeccable registers as a Hermes slash command and routes sub-commands via
  the Commands table in the skill body, since user-invocable / argument-hint
  are not honored by Hermes' skill loader.

What a Hermes user does NOT get, and why:
- No hook surface. Impeccable's PostToolUse/Stop anti-pattern detector on
  Claude/Codex/Cursor/Grok/GitHub does not translate to Hermes, which has no
  equivalent tool event lifecycle. The skill body still ships.
- No writeOpenAIMetadata, agentFormat, or emitHooks. Hermes has no per-skill
  tool ACL, no subagent on-disk format, and no hooks.json equivalent.

Verified end-to-end with hermes-agent v0.18.2: /impeccable polish and
/impeccable critique both load reference/<command>.md and return the
documented first step. parse_frontmatter accepts the generated SKILL.md,
scan_skill_commands registers /impeccable, and the full default test suite
passes (267/267 in the critical files; 0 fail across all suites).
2026-08-06 00:03:12 -07:00
667095d216 Harden the test strategy: self-verifying triggers, 40% faster runner, release guards (#501)
* test: harden the test strategy (triggers, runner speed, release guards)

Follow-ups from an end-to-end testing strategy review:

- Suite triggers are now auto-generated from each suite's own file list,
  so change-based CI can never miss a test file again (four files were
  unreachable by their own edits, and tests/lib/detector-bundle.test.js
  triggered core while running in detector). Two new meta-tests pin the
  invariant. Hand-written trigger patterns now carry only source paths
  and fixture dirs; palette dropped from the live triggers since no
  suite tests it.
- The node runner batches all files into one node --test invocation at
  concurrency 4 instead of spawning per file. Default suite drops from
  ~159s to ~100s; the live suite soaked clean three times.
- scripts/release.mjs gets its first tests: 12 scenarios spawning the
  real script inside a disposable git repo with a local bare origin,
  covering every refusal guard plus notes/tweet rendering, all under
  --dry-run.
- skill/scripts/live/ui-core.mjs deleted: zero references repo-wide,
  superseded by the July live rewrite, yet still shipping to users.
  cli/lib/download-providers.js annotated with its cross-repo consumers
  (impeccable-site Pages Functions) so it is not mistaken for dead code.
- CLAUDE.md gains an area-to-suite table for the opt-in suites a change
  owes; AGENTS.md syncs the plugin-e2e commands and obligations.

AI-assisted via Claude Code under maintainer direction.

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

* fix: exclude peeled tag lines from release-test origin cleanup

Copilot: git ls-remote --tags emits ^{} peel lines for annotated tags,
which are not deletable refs; --refs filters them so the cleanup loop
survives a future scenario that pushes an annotated tag.

AI-assisted via Claude Code under maintainer direction.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 17:33:10 -07:00
Rex LorenzoandGitHub 14d2641685 Fix: keep the node runtime probe clear of cmd.exe metacharacters (#458)
Volta's Windows shims exec through `cmd /C`, which re-parses the argument
list, so the `>=` inside the probe's `node -e` payload was read as output
redirection. The command died with "The filename, directory name, or volume
label syntax is incorrect" before node started, the guard read that as a
missing runtime, and the hook it exists to protect was disabled on every
PostToolUse and Stop. A user on a supported Node 24 got a one-time notice
telling them to install Node 22, then silence.

Clamping with Math.min is the same floor test in the same ES5-only syntax,
with no character cmd.exe can claim. Verified through the Volta shim on Node
24.16.0 and 22.18.0 (exit 0) and against a real Node 20.6.1 binary (exit 1),
so the floor is unchanged. Adds a regression test asserting no `<`, `>`, or
newline reaches any generated `node -e` payload.

Upstream cause: volta-cli/volta#1791.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).
2026-08-03 15:02:29 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub d6a9891066 Share browser detector bundling (#498)
Centralize the browser-safe module set and source transformation so the browser and extension builders cannot drift.

AI assistance: This refactor was prepared by Codex under pbakaus's scheduled architecture-simplification authorization.
2026-08-03 14:51:46 -07:00
6d2af3f800 Guard the plugin loader contract that PR #494 exposed (#499)
* test: guard the plugin loader contract that PR #494 exposed

The agents manifest key shipped for months and silently loaded zero of
the four subagents; no validator looked at the generated plugin
manifest's shape and claude plugin validate never checks it. Three
layers now do:

- scripts/lib/validate-plugin-manifest.js pins the verified loader
  contract (KNOWN_LOADER_KEYS allowlist, no agents key, trailing-slash
  skills path from issue #86, every skill/agents/*.md shipped in
  plugin/agents/), unit-tested in tests/validate-plugin-manifest.test.js
  including a check of the real committed subtree.
- The same check gates bun run build next to the version-drift guard.
- tests/plugin-e2e.test.mjs installs the committed ./plugin subtree into
  a real Claude Code (sandboxed via CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR in a temp dir) and
  asserts the component inventory: skill parses, all agents visible,
  hooks discovered. In the default suite; runs in about a second and
  skips cleanly when the claude CLI is absent, so CI is unaffected.

All three failed against the pre-#494 tree for the shipped reason
(Agents 0 of 4) and pass against current main.

AI-assisted via Claude Code under maintainer direction.

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

* fix: address PR review bot findings

- Copilot: guard collectPluginManifestFindings against valid JSON that is
  not an object (null, string, number, array) so a broken manifest is a
  finding instead of a build crash; unit test added
- Copilot: update the plugin-e2e header comment, the suite is in the
  default lineup rather than opt-in

AI-assisted via Claude Code under maintainer direction.

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

* fix: harden plugin E2E sandbox isolation

Bugbot: create the sandbox CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR up front and redirect HOME
and USERPROFILE into the temp workDir too, so a CLI code path that
derives config or cache locations from the home directory instead of
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR still cannot touch the developer's real Claude config
when the default suite runs.

AI-assisted via Claude Code under maintainer direction.

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

* fix: agent parity check mirrors the build's emit rules

Bugbot: the shipped filename is `${claude-name || name}.md` and a
providers: list may exclude claude-code, so comparing raw source
basenames could fail the build on a renamed or provider-scoped agent
with a build:release hint that cannot fix it. The validator now derives
expected filenames the same way the transformer factory does (shared
parseFrontmatter, same providers gate) with unit coverage for renames,
name overrides, and provider-scoped agents.

AI-assisted via Claude Code under maintainer direction.

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

* fix: run the plugin E2E through a shell on Windows

Bugbot: the claude CLI is a .cmd shim on Windows and Node refuses to
spawn those via execFile without a shell, so the availability probe
always failed and the suite silently skipped there. Windows now invokes
through a shell with every argument double-quoted (temp paths routinely
contain spaces); the POSIX path is unchanged.

AI-assisted via Claude Code under maintainer direction.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 13:13:37 -07:00
ingnicolaboccato-labandGitHub baa76cfd05 fix: stop emitting the "agents" key so the four subagents actually load (#494)
build.js derives plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json from the root manifest and
injects an `agents` array built from the generated agent files. In Claude Code
that array is exactly what stops them loading.

Verified on a throwaway local marketplace, across the plausible shapes:

  array of file paths (what build.js emits) -> 0 agents load, skills fine
  a string, e.g. "./agents"                 -> whole plugin fails to load
  array containing a directory              -> whole plugin fails to load
  key omitted                               -> all agents load, skills fine

Claude Code discovers agents/*.md on its own, and the identifier it uses is the
file name rather than the frontmatter `name`. So the key is not needed, and any
present form of it is worse than its absence.

Confirmed end to end on this repo: with the key emitted,
`claude plugin details impeccable` reports "Agents (0)"; with it omitted it
reports "Agents (4) impeccable-asset-producer, impeccable-documenter,
impeccable-finish-reviewer, impeccable-manual-edit-applier". The agent files
themselves are still copied by the existing copyDirSync a few lines below —
only the manifest key goes away.

Two things make this hard to notice: with a breaking shape
`claude plugin details` prints "Plugin not found" instead of a validation
error, and `claude plugin validate` does not catch it because it validates the
marketplace manifest, not the plugin manifest. The only reliable signal is the
"Agents (N)" line.

The same defect is reported against another project at
addyosmani/agent-skills#449, with the full reproduction.

Scope note: verified on Claude Code only. plugin/ is the Claude-Code / Grok
subtree, and the Grok manifest is written separately just below, so this does
not touch the other harnesses.
2026-08-03 11:55:14 -07:00
Abdul WahabandCursor 7d6109b723 Drop deprecated craft alias from the generated argument-hint
craft is a deprecated compatibility alias, but its SKILL_CATEGORIES entry
kept it advertised in every generated SKILL.md argument-hint. Unmapping it
removes it from the hint while the alias keeps routing through the router
table and command-metadata.json.

AI-assisted change (reviewed by maintainer).

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-08-03 10:36:18 +05:00
Paul BakausandGitHub c91f3717d4 Merge pull request #466 from pbakaus/codex/remove-legacy-pattern-parser
Simplify curated pattern loading
2026-07-31 17:41:55 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 33f824b5b5 Clarify curated pattern source
Describe the catalog as independent of SKILL.md extraction rather than repository content, addressing Copilot's review feedback.

Prepared with Codex assistance under pbakaus's scheduled architecture cleanup authorization.
2026-07-31 17:19:33 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 358fc2e716 Simplify curated pattern loading
Remove the unreachable legacy SKILL.md pattern parser now that readPatterns uses the curated catalog exclusively.

Prepared with Codex assistance under pbakaus's scheduled architecture cleanup authorization.
2026-07-31 17:16:19 -07:00
Paweł Adamczak bf957452c4 Add Google Antigravity provider support 2026-07-31 12:02:37 +02:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 9d1b4bdfac Fix five stale rule counts and the validator blind spots that hid them
single-font's retirement made the detector 59 rules; both READMEs still
said 60 in five places, and the count validator reported clean because
'deterministic detector rules' puts a word the regex never expected
between the qualifier and the noun, and README.npm.md was never in the
checked file list. The regex now tolerates the detector infix, counts
qualified 'issues' claims, and README.npm.md joins the list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 21:35:27 -07:00
Paul BakausandGitHub 5f4b58d06d Merge pull request #433 from pbakaus/live-v2-rewrite
Live v2: root manifest, mount-ack protocol, AST scaffolder, mechanical accept
2026-07-29 13:12:23 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 fa1177ed9c Ship native subagent definitions for GitHub Copilot and Cursor
The github and cursor providers previously received only the generated
degraded/ inline fallbacks. Both harnesses support real custom subagents,
so the build now emits them from the same skill/agents/ source:

- GitHub Copilot: .github/agents/impeccable-<role>.agent.md with portable
  frontmatter only (name + description; omitting tools grants all tools,
  and Copilot has no documented model/effort/max-turns equivalents).
- Cursor: .cursor/agents/impeccable-<role>.md with name, description,
  model: inherit, is_background: false, and readonly derived from the
  agent's tool list (true only for the finish reviewer, which declares
  neither Write nor Edit). effort/max-turns are skipped because Cursor's
  effort option requires an explicit model id.

Agent bodies now also resolve {{scripts_path}} and strip rule markers in
the shared agentFormat pipeline, which fixes the previously unresolved
placeholder in the emitted Claude asset-producer agent.

The CLI installer places agents per scope: project installs write
<repo>/.github/agents/ and <repo>/.cursor/agents/; user-level installs
write ~/.copilot/agents/ (Copilot's user dir, not ~/.github/) and
~/.cursor/agents/, overwriting stale impeccable-* copies. Because
Copilot lets user-level agents shadow same-named project ones, a project
install warns when shadowing copies exist; Cursor gives project agents
precedence, so no warning there.

new-work.md and visualize.md extend their harness-naming clauses with
the Cursor and Copilot invocations. The degraded/ fallbacks keep
shipping for surfaces where the model still fails to delegate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 16:16:57 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Code 4ac54bebee fix: address PR review bot findings
cursor[bot] findings on #433:
- Nightly schedule no longer enables the paid opt-in suites: a schedule
  event has no diff base, so the change-detection fallback flagged every
  file-triggered suite, which would have billed the skill-behavior,
  accept-cleanup, and deepseek LLM suites nightly. The plan now pins the
  schedule event to deterministic suites plus the full live-e2e matrix,
  with a regression test.
- Dismissing the mount-error card no longer strands the session: while
  the bar is hidden in GENERATING the card is the only recovery surface,
  so dismiss now returns the state machine to PICKING (session and
  server truth survive for a later republish).

This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 15:19:58 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Code 17dabf4b7e Live v2: root manifest, mount-ack protocol, AST scaffolder, mechanical accept
A ground-up hardening of live mode, driven by a production session in a
nested-app monorepo that hit six distinct failure classes. Full design
rationale in docs/LIVE-REWRITE-PLAN.md; every Codex-reported failure now
has a mechanical fix and a regression test.

Roots: live/roots.mjs resolves appRoot/repoRoot/contextRoot once at boot
(keyed on dev-server configs, not monorepo brand markers), persists a
manifest, and every live CLI re-anchors onto it at startup, so a helper
run from the wrong directory can no longer fork session state. Context
files are discovered upward to the git root.

Render truth: variant_mounted / variant_mount_failed events give the
journal per-variant mount state; failures reach the agent's poll queue,
raise a persistent error card with Retry (no more localStorage wipe), and
an attach probe names root/dev-server mismatches explicitly. The browser
rehydrates from the server when localStorage is gone.

Svelte: the scaffolder now parses with the app's own svelte 5 compiler.
Control flow survives (an each collection crosses the contract as one
structured prop), keyed each blocks hydrate synthetic keys, and anything
a detached preview cannot support falls back to source-preview instead of
shipping a wrong scaffold. Preview modules live in per-publish revision
directories, defeating stale transform caches.

Accept: CSS is reconciled, not appended. Matching selectors are replaced,
params bake from params.json kinds, the compiler's unused-selector pass
prunes superseded rules (pre-existing dead rules protected), a selector-
loss postcondition refuses any write that would drop hand-written rules,
and live-complete refuses to finish while live plumbing remains in source.

Also: framework registry (live/frameworks/) with a crash-safe injection
journal, session-store snapshot caching with read-only reads, protocol
enum consolidation, steer Send button, honest DESIGN-panel empty states.

Testing: new unit suites (roots, AST scaffolder, accept CSS, accept
pipeline, framework conformance); e2e now fails on preview-tree 404s,
proves computed-style mount for every variant, drives the Tune panel
through baked params, and injects failures (broken mounts, republish,
storage loss). New runtime fixtures: monorepo-nested-vite (repo root !=
app root) and vite8-sveltekit-stateful (each blocks + state). Nightly
full-matrix cron. An independent adversarial review pass preceded this
commit; its blocker and major findings are fixed and regression-tested.

This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 15:09:40 -07:00
Vinaywho c9c0fc887b Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main' into fix/detect-system-chrome-gpu-window
# Conflicts:
#	scripts/test-suites.mjs
2026-07-27 15:13:14 +05:30
Paul BakausandGitHub 5e572c8b8a Merge pull request #423 from pbakaus/hook-guard-unsupported-node
Stop the design hook erroring on a node too old for ESM
2026-07-26 18:12:52 -07:00
fd9076f4f0 Enforce the engines floor in the probe instead of a capability check
The probe asked whether node could load ESM, while the notice promised a
Node 22 floor and package.json engines declares >=22.12.0. Reviewers kept
flagging the gap, and they were right to: a 14.18-to-21 runtime passed the
probe on the strength of one import while the hook and its detector bundle
are only ever exercised on the engines floor, so "can load our code" was a
weaker claim than the one being made for it.

Check the floor directly: parseInt(process.versions.node) >= 22, in
ES5-only syntax that parses on any node old enough to fail it. Probe and
notice now derive from one NODE_MAJOR_FLOOR constant, so they cannot
disagree, and the archaeology about node: scheme support and pre-15
unhandled-rejection semantics goes with the import it explained.

Add the missing contract test: every generated hook command carries the
probe, the notice appears exactly where a harness can render it (Claude
and Codex, project and plugin), and the expected floor is read from
package.json engines rather than repeated by hand.

Verified against a fake pre-22 node, no node, and a real node: one notice
then the marker holds it silent, exit 0 in every failure shape, and the
hook's own exit code still passes through on a supported runtime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 (via Cursor) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-07-26 22:17:19 +05:00
Abdul WahabandClaude Opus 5 86cdf528c5 Probe the import the hook actually uses, and fail closed on rejection
Greptile flagged that the probe does not enforce the Node 22 engines floor.
Two parts to that, and they land differently.

The real defect is narrower and worse than stated: the hook closure imports
`node:fs`, `node:os`, `node:path` and `node:url`, and the `node:` scheme needs
14.18, so a bare `import('fs')` probe passed on 12 and 13 and those runtimes
then died on the real import, which is the banner this branch exists to remove.
Probing `node:fs` closes that. The added `.catch(()=>process.exit(1))` is load
bearing rather than tidiness: before Node 15 an unhandled rejection is only a
warning and the process still exits 0, so a rejected probe would have read as a
pass on exactly the versions in question.

Not enforcing 22 is deliberate and stays. The probe asks whether this runtime
can load our code, not whether it is a supported one, so a 14.18-to-21 runtime
that works today keeps working rather than being silently switched off. The
notice names 22 because that is the version worth installing, and it only ever
reaches someone whose runtime already failed the probe, so no user is shown a
threshold that contradicts what ran.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 21:20:26 +05:00
Abdul WahabandClaude Opus 5 4f999ceff8 Give Codex the notice too; its hook reference documents systemMessage
Commit 8397d532 took a reviewer's word that Codex expects hookSpecificOutput
and dropped its notice on that basis. Codex documents `systemMessage` for
PostToolUse and Stop as text shown as a warning in the UI or event stream,
the same field Claude Code reads, so the notice belongs there and the earlier
comment asserted something unverified.

Checked the rest against their own references while here. Cursor's preToolUse
output is permission-shaped and its user_message renders only when the action
is DENIED, so warning would mean blocking the edit. Grok treats PostToolUse
and Stop as passive events and ignores stdout outright. Copilot's contract is
unconfirmed. Those three keep the probe alone, which is a verified limit now
rather than an assumption.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 21:10:41 +05:00
Abdul WahabandClaude Opus 5 0c19098754 Guard the remaining harness manifests against a dead node runtime
Bugbot caught the Codex plugin builder still invoking node directly, and the
same reasoning covers GitHub Copilot and Grok Build: all three shipped the
exact failure this branch exists to stop, and sat visibly inconsistent with
their guarded siblings.

Route them through guardedNode with no notice, matching Codex and Cursor.
GitHub gains a second property from it: outside a git repository
`$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)` expands to nothing, so the old command
handed node a path that could not exist and failed the turn. The file test
now short-circuits that to exit 0.

Every builder carries the probe; only the two Claude manifests carry the
notice, which is the only harness whose response shape is confirmed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 20:58:49 +05:00
Abdul WahabandClaude Opus 5 8397d532b9 Keep the unsupported-node notice to the harness that can render it
`systemMessage` on stdout is a Claude Code contract. The shared guard was
emitting it for Codex and Cursor too, where what a harness does with stdout
it did not ask for is unconfirmed, and a Cursor preToolUse hook printing an
unexpected JSON object is the wrong thing to guess about.

Pass the notice in per harness instead of baking it into the guard. Claude
manifests opt in; Codex and Cursor take the runtime probe alone, so an
unsupported runtime stays as quiet there as it was before the probe existed.
Giving them their own shape later is one more argument at the call site.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 13:37:09 +05:00
Abdul WahabandClaude Opus 5 0db59088ff Stop the design hook erroring on a node too old for ESM
The hook command invokes bare `node`. When that node predates ESM,
`hook.mjs` dies while it is still being parsed, before the script's own
always-exit-0 contract can run, so node exits 1 and the harness reports a
hook error on every Stop and every edit.

Probe the runtime in the command string before invoking the hook, and
route the Claude plugin manifest through the guard that already covered
the project-local manifests. On probe failure the command exits 0 and
emits a one-time `systemMessage` naming the two fixes available to the
user, since nothing written in ESM can report this condition.

Fixes #410.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 12:46:11 +05:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 916b0a1fdf Generate degraded-mode fallback references from the subagent definitions
Harnesses with no subagent capability now run each role inline from the
same single source. The build emits reference/degraded/<role>.md for every
agent in skill/agents/ (role name is the agent name minus the impeccable-
prefix), stripping frontmatter and prepending the inline-substitution
preamble. These pass through the same provider-block compilation and
placeholder replacement as ordinary reference files, so <codex> blocks and
{{placeholders}} resolve per target, and they land in the committed harness
dirs on build:release like every reference file.

Repoint the three capability-first fallback sites in the prose at the
generated files: new-work.md reviewer and documenter fallbacks, and
visualize.md asset-producer fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-25 19:16:17 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 bcf354cd0c Fix Codex hook path so .codex-directory installs run the detector
The committed .codex/hooks.json hardcoded .agents/skills/impeccable/scripts/
hook.mjs. On a .codex-directory install the skill payload lives at .codex/
skills/..., so the guarded command ([ ! -f X ] || node X) found no file and
silently no-opped, leaving the design detector dead for those users.

Derive the hook payload path from the emitting provider's own configDir rather
than hardcoding .agents:

- buildCodexHooksManifest(skillDir) now builds `${skillDir}/skills/impeccable/
  scripts/hook.mjs`; hooksJsonFor threads each provider's configDir through. The
  Codex provider (configDir .codex) emits .codex/skills; the root sync and the
  self-consistent dist/codex bundle both point at their own payload.
- CLI installer: project-scope hook rewriting now derives the provider's own
  project-relative path instead of preserving the bundle token. The Codex bundle
  ships a .codex/skills command, but the CLI lays the skill at .agents/skills, so
  the installed .codex/hooks.json is rewritten to .agents/skills (Claude keeps
  its ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR} token; global installs keep the absolute rewrite).

Per-provider hook payload path after the fix:

  Emission                              hook path
  dist/codex/.codex/hooks.json          .codex/skills/impeccable/scripts/hook.mjs
  root .codex/hooks.json (build sync)   .codex/skills/impeccable/scripts/hook.mjs
  CLI .agents (codex) project install   .agents/skills/impeccable/scripts/hook.mjs
  CLI .agents (codex) global install    <home>/.agents/skills/.../hook.mjs (abs)
  .claude / .cursor                     unchanged

Tests: extended hook-build (codex-dir -> .codex/skills, agents-dir -> .agents/
skills) and skills-cli (bundle ships .codex/skills, install rewrites to .agents/
skills). Regenerated tracked .codex/hooks.json via build:release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 17:09:33 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 501528c07f Register orphaned live-tanstack-adapter test in the live suite
tests/live-tanstack-adapter.test.mjs (added in 4cd5ea75) was never listed in
scripts/test-suites.mjs, so the test-suites registry guard failed and the file
never ran in any suite. Add it to the live suite's node command list. Pre-existing
housekeeping, independent of the detector fixes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 16:17:24 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 087983070b Release script verifies impeccable.style serves the released version
The 4.0.0 release stranded npx-update users on a stale bundle for a
day because the site deploy is a separate step nobody was reminded of.
Skill releases now check /api/version and print the redeploy command
when the served version lags.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 12:39:32 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 eda81f0937 Release prep: skill v4.0.1
Bump plugin + marketplace to 4.0.1 and sync the regenerated provider
output: the guarded hook commands from issue #399 (a missing hook file
exits 0 instead of crashing every turn of a user-level install), the
canon standing exit, the visualize flow, the two shipped subagents, and
the interactive-spine fixes from today's live testing. Detector count
validates at 59 with undersized-ui-text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 12:23:07 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 6ece0e588f Add deterministic new-work interactive smoke suite
A cheap, LLM-free E2E tier for the interactive parts of new-work, mirroring
the two-layer live-e2e pattern (deterministic now, opt-in LLM tier later).

- generate-image.mjs: IMPECCABLE_IMAGE_GEN_FAKE=1 writes a deterministic
  offline image (SVG with wrapped prompt + SYNTHETIC COMP label, or a valid
  palette-stripe PNG carrying the prompt/marker in a tEXt chunk). Same CLI
  contract, no key, no network, $0.00 cost line.
- tests/new-work-e2e/user-bot.mjs: scripted user bot (module + CLI) that
  resolves the serve-question daemon from the workspace and drives the real
  page via Playwright (pick, re-roll + steer, canon, tab close).
- tests/new-work-e2e.test.mjs: node --test coverage of the serve-question
  cycles (pick + CHOSEN CARD, re-roll + --update re-deal, canon + CANON
  CHOSEN, tab-close exit-4, text-only card) plus fake image determinism.
- Registered as the opt-in new-work-e2e suite; added test:new-work-e2e.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 12:23:07 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 70fdc172b8 Resolve detect DESIGN.md from each target's project, not cwd
The detect CLI loaded DESIGN.md once from process.cwd() and applied it to
every scan target. Scanning another project's files from inside a different
repo therefore judged them against the wrong project's design system
(cross-project contamination observed during eval work: running detect from
impeccable-evals against a generated artifact elsewhere applied the evals
repo's DESIGN.md).

DESIGN.md now resolves by walking up from each scan target's own location to
its design root: a directory carrying a DESIGN.md is the root; a directory
carrying a project marker (.git / package.json / .impeccable) without a
DESIGN.md is a boundary that stops the walk with no design system, so a
sibling project never inherits a parent's or cwd's rules. A target with no
design root above it falls back to no design system rather than cwd's.
Resolution is memoized per root, so a multi-file scan reads each DESIGN.md
once, and targets spanning projects each get their own. file:// URLs resolve
from their path; remote http(s) URLs get no design system.

Adds tests/detect-cli-design-contamination.test.mjs, which spawns the real
CLI to prove B's file is not judged by A's DESIGN.md, that a project still
governs its own file, that a mixed-project scan resolves per target, and that
a marker-less bare file gets no design system.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 12:23:06 -07:00
Vinaywho 33d7684c06 fix(detect): use system Chrome on Windows to stop GPU crash-loop window (#372)
On Windows, `impeccable detect <url>` flashed a persistent black window during
scans. The scan uses puppeteer's bundled Chrome, which runs from an untrusted
user-cache path; Windows blocks its GPU process, so it crash-loops and flashes a
compositor surface on every retry. It is not a real application window (not in
Alt+Tab, not clickable, invisible to window enumeration) and not malware.

Prefer the system-installed Chrome via channel:'chrome' on Windows, which runs
from a trusted location with a healthy GPU: no crash loop, no window. Fall back
to the bundled browser when Chrome is not installed. Scoped to Windows only, so
mac and linux keep the pinned bundled build for consistent measurement. Both
render on hardware GPU, so contrast measurement is unaffected.

Also routes both launch sites through one helper and fixes a pre-existing bug
where detectUrl hardcoded headless:true instead of honoring options.headless.

Tests: new tests/detect-url-launch.test.mjs covers the launch choice per
platform (Windows prefers channel:'chrome' and falls back to bundled;
non-Windows never attempts it), wired into the detector suite. Verified on
Windows 11 / Chrome 150: zero GPU crashes, window gone, findings unchanged.

This change was prepared with AI assistance.
2026-07-22 20:29:18 +05:30
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 0376145a46 Fix release.mjs crash: existsSync is a named import, not fs.existsSync
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 00:08:54 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude 5575a027dc Flag and repair drift in Impeccable's own project artifacts
v4 changed PRODUCT.md's shape and retired the register axis, so an
upgraded project can carry answers nothing reads. Nothing measured that.

Two tiers, and the split is a performance contract:

- Boot (context.mjs, emitting CONTEXT_STALE) spends only what a boot
  already spends: markdown already in memory, a bounded set of stats,
  the small JSON files the boot reads anyway. No new directory walks.
  One directive for the whole set, throttled to once a week per project
  so a finding the user declined does not reappear tomorrow.
- doctor.mjs runs the deep pass on demand: git drift, ignore lists
  validated against the live rule registry, hook script paths that stop
  resolving, and the monorepo workspace sweep. --fix applies only the
  migrations that carry no decision.

Findings are data, not prose, so the boot directive, the text report and
--json all render one set. Severity says what should happen: auto (fix on
the next write anyway), mention (state once), route (name the command
that owns the repair).

PRODUCT.md now carries a schema stamp so the checks stop reconstructing a
file's vintage from which sections it happens to have. Schema version,
not release version: a record written by 4.0.0 is not stale under 4.0.1.
DESIGN.md gets no stamp, because it follows the external design.md spec
that Stitch lints and every DESIGN.md signal is measurable without one.

The highest-value catch is a project that resolves to web while carrying
native build files, including a monorepo app inheriting a root record
that says web. That one costs output quality silently; nothing failed
before.

doctor follows the hooks/pin pattern rather than the Commands table, so
it stays out of the design menu and the count stays at 23.

Also corrects CLAUDE.md, which still documented the register axis,
reference/brand.md, reference/product.md, eleven deleted domain reference
files, and an extractRegister() whose only occurrence in the repo was
that sentence.

Prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 21:50:40 -07:00
Paul Bakaus 06d21dea7d Add first-class Grok Build harness support
Emit .grok skills, agents, and PostToolUse/Stop hooks; wire the CLI
installer and downloads; fix the plugin install path to #plugin; and
document Grok in HARNESSES.md and README.

AI assistance: written with Grok Build.
2026-07-21 18:02:58 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 739747d358 Register serve-question tests in the suite registry
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 16:48:00 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude d7d10277d1 Merge main into oneshot-v4, keeping the service layer split out
main still carries the site, so every `site/` path resolves to deleted.
`tests/docs-integrity.test.js` goes with it (it imports the site's demo
renderer), and `package.json` keeps main's `@anthropic-ai/sdk` bump while
dropping `@google/genai` and `@paper-design/shaders`, which nothing in the
product layer imports.

Real code merges:

- hook-lib: main's #391 cache fix (sync the remembered set to the live
  scan so fixed findings stop being named and a reintroduced one fires
  again) now runs on the immediate tier rather than the whole filtered
  set. Remembering a deferred finding the per-edit pass never reported
  would let the Stop deep pass dedupe it away. main's `maxFileBytes`
  ceiling, `cleanAcked` once-per-file ack, and template-extensions
  re-export all land alongside the tiering work.
- live-browser: main's `hasParams` gate on the Tune badge, keeping this
  branch's `C.ink` badge text so it stays legible on kinpaku gold.
- detect-text: both the block-level codex-grid-background scan and main's
  inset-stripe CSS check.
- test-suites: union of both trigger sets and file lists, minus the
  site-only entries (`shiki-theme`, `docs-integrity`).
- Two hook tests moved off deferred-tier rules (`overused-font`,
  `side-tab`) onto immediate-tier ones. They assert cache bookkeeping,
  which the per-edit pass only reaches for the immediate tier.

Also drops the site waivers from `.impeccable/config.json` and stops
`build:browser` recreating a stray `site/` tree just to write a bundle
the other repo builds itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 01:45:42 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 90f9eeb99b Split service layer into private impeccable-site repo
The public repo keeps the OSS promise surface: skill, CLI, extension,
tests, and the provider build. The site, labs, concept/composition
catalogs, image pipeline, Cloudflare functions, and authoring guide move
to pbakaus/impeccable-site.

concept-seed tests run against a synthetic fixture catalog; the plugin
icon and skill categories moved in-repo; build validation narrows to
README prose and non-site counts; release notes read from a sibling
impeccable-site checkout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 22:41:53 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 b5ec969c07 Add world roll API and seed telemetry client
/api/roll deals deterministic challenger rolls server-side (same salts and
sha256 ranking as the local seed, verified bit-for-bit); the request log is
the impression record. /api/chosen takes the anonymous choice ping. Events
land in Workers Analytics Engine.

concept-seed.mjs resolves data in order: local catalog dir, roll API,
degraded promotion-only seed. --chosen sends the choice ping; DO_NOT_TRACK
and IMPECCABLE_NO_TELEMETRY disable it. API-dealt seeds carry the telemetry
instruction inline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 22:17:09 -07:00
Paul BakausandClaude Fable 5 7557935fdb Expand concept system: modes, ratings, re-roll, breadth strategy
Catalog: mode-aligned staging surfaces (persuade/operate/read/experience),
star ratings on approvals feeding challenger draw weights, family
retirements, authoring strategy and territory guide, rework and breadth
authoring rounds, composition mining from rejected worlds.

Seed: six challengers (two per tier), --reroll chains, --mode staging
filter, rating-weighted draws. New-work: Present/visualize/re-roll flow,
image-gen requirement, register-neutral vocabulary.

Pipeline: per-mode staging prompts with split frames, hero-from-board
reference generation, render-safety guards. Labs: ratings UI, unrated
filter, mode chips, composition approve-guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 22:10:10 -07:00
83c37e453a feat: add Mistral Vibe harness support (#373)
* feat: add Mistral Vibe harness support

Mistral Vibe is Mistral AI's open-source CLI coding assistant that ships an
Agent Skills system at .vibe/skills/{name}/SKILL.md with slash-command
invocation, mapping cleanly onto the existing transformer pipeline. Adds
Vibe as a 14th first-class harness:

- PROVIDER_PLACEHOLDERS entry in scripts/lib/utils.js (model, config_file
  = AGENTS.md, ask_instruction, command_prefix) mirroring the Qoder shape.
- PROVIDERS entry in scripts/lib/transformers/providers.js with configDir
  .vibe and frontmatterFields user-invocable, license, compatibility,
  metadata, allowed-tools (Vibe docs do not document argument-hint).
- transformVibe named export in scripts/lib/transformers/index.js for
  test-spy parity.
- vibe added to FILE_DOWNLOAD_PROVIDER_CONFIG_DIRS so the download
  endpoint accepts /api/download/skill/vibe/* and resolves to
  dist/vibe/.vibe/.
- .vibe added to PROVIDER_DIRS, PROVIDER_ALIASES, PROVIDER_DISPLAY,
  PROVIDER_INPUT_ORDER, GLOBAL_HARNESS_HINTS, and the normalizeForHash
  provider regex in cli/bin/commands/skills.mjs so the CLI detects
  existing Vibe installs.
- docs/HARNESSES.md updated: official docs row, frontmatter support
  column, directory structure row, and Last verified date bumped.
- docs/DEVELOP.md, README.md (install instructions, providers list,
  Supported Tools), .github issue/PR templates, sync-generated-output
  workflow, and AGENTS.md extended with Vibe.

The dynamic providers.test.js loop picks up Vibe automatically; all 160
provider tests pass including the 14 new Mistral Vibe cases. The build
regenerates dist/vibe/.vibe/skills/impeccable/ with correct frontmatter
and .vibe-substituted script paths. Generated harness output is left
unstaged per the source-first policy; the sync-generated-output workflow
(now listing .vibe) will commit it back to main after merge.

Co-Authored-By: Mistral Vibe <noreply@mistral.ai>

* Address review on Vibe harness support

Verified the Vibe claims against the docs and the mistralai/mistral-vibe
source, then tightened what the tables say.

- model placeholder: 'Mistral', not 'the model'. Vibe is Mistral's own
  first-party CLI, so it belongs with gemini -> Gemini and codex -> GPT
  rather than with the provider-agnostic harnesses. SKILL.src.md's one
  use of {{model}} now renders 'Mistral is capable of extraordinary
  work.' instead of a lowercase 'the model'.
- Docs links point at the skills page, not the product overview, matching
  every other row in both tables.
- disable-model-invocation is No, not TBD. The field appears nowhere in
  Vibe's source; unknown frontmatter keys are silently ignored.
- Split the directory row into project and global scopes the way the Pi
  row already does. Vibe reads .vibe/skills/ and .agents/skills/ at the
  project level and ~/.vibe/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/ globally; the
  global .agents dir was missing, and project .agents/skills/ was sitting
  in the global column. Sources: vibe/core/paths/_local_config_files.py
  and vibe/core/config/harness_files/_paths.py.
- Restored 'Last verified' to 2026-04-28 and dated the Vibe row on its
  own. Only that row was checked, and this file warns against trusting
  stale claims, so a blanket re-date made ten other rows look fresher
  than they are.

AI assistance: written with Claude Code.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Mistral Vibe <noreply@mistral.ai>
Co-authored-by: Paul Bakaus <paul.bakaus@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 14:50:32 -07:00
5d719a279a Fix Live accept for Elixir templates in lib/ (#374)
* Fix Live accept for Elixir templates in lib/

Wrap and accept search the repo for impeccable variant markers. That
search skipped .ex files and the lib/ tree, so Phoenix LiveView markup
inside ~H""" blocks never matched and browser Accept returned
"Session markers not found".

Extend the same EXTENSIONS and searchDirs in live-accept.mjs and
live-wrap.mjs. Add a regression test that accepts from
lib/my_app_web/components/layouts.ex.

* Live: give the source search one owner for template extensions

The #374 fix had to patch the same hardcoded EXTENSIONS array in two
files because live-wrap.mjs and live-accept.mjs each carried their own
copy of the project source walk. The copies had already drifted: same
extension list twice, same searchDirs twice, and one realpathSync
guarded by try/catch while the other was not.

Meanwhile hook-lib.mjs had solved this properly for the design hook in
#316/#347 with a configurable `detector.extensions` and suffix matching
that handles .blade.php and .html.erb. Live never read it, so a project
that taught the hook about .heex still got 'Session markers not found'
on Accept.

- lib/template-extensions.mjs is the single owner. It holds Live's
  built-in markup list, the suffix matcher, and the detector.extensions
  config reader. hook-lib.mjs now imports its normalize/merge/match
  helpers from here instead of duplicating them, and re-exports
  matchConfiguredExtension for its existing callers.
- Live resolves built-ins PLUS detector.extensions, so teaching the hook
  about a server template teaches wrap and accept at the same time.
- live/source-search.mjs holds the walk both scripts share. Callers pass
  the one thing that actually differs (skipDirs, fileFilter). Unifying
  gives live-wrap the guarded realpathSync, so a dangling symlink in the
  tree no longer throws out of the whole wrap, and makes it skip
  .impeccable artifacts the way accept already did.
- Extensions are matched on filename suffix rather than path.extname, so
  root.html.heex and show.html.erb resolve.
- Drop .exs. Those are Elixir scripts (mix.exs, config/*.exs), never
  markup, and including them only lets a wrap query match build config.
- Fill the Elixir gap in the manual-edit paths, which kept their own
  allowlists and would have left Live half-working for Phoenix:
  live-commit-manual-edits.mjs and live-manual-edit-evidence.mjs.

Verified the round trip by hand against a Phoenix layout: wrap injects
markers into a ~H""" block in lib/**/*.ex, accept carbonizes the chosen
variant back out.

AI assistance: written with Claude Code.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Nils Kanevad <heliumbrain@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Bakaus <paul.bakaus@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 10:49:36 -07:00
d0ac67c6e9 Live: polling rework, source locks, preflight scaffolding (#381)
* Improve Live polling responsiveness and reliability

Restore foreground/background polling as the primary harness architecture, add progressive publication and framework-safe previews, and harden quality and regression coverage. The experimental app-server runtime is intentionally excluded.\n\nPrepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

* Fix source-safety, detector, and lock defects in Live polling work

Addresses the review findings on #371, plus several the bots did not catch.
All fixes have regression coverage that fails on the prior code.

Source corruption:
- Vue accept dropped valueless root attrs (disabled, v-cloak) and, worse,
  rewrote @click="x" as a literal click="x" DOM attribute, because the attr
  parser was name-anchored and skipped the sigil. Tokenize the whole Vue attr
  grammar and normalize shorthands so accept round-trips directives.
- --variant was interpolated unescaped into a RegExp, so --variant '.*' matched
  the original block first and reported a successful accept while silently
  restoring the original. Validate against the digits pattern the browser and
  the /events schema already enforce.
- --id reached path.join unvalidated, so --id ../../../../etc/evil wrote and
  read receipts outside the project. Hoist the existing safeSessionId check
  into impeccable-paths and apply it at every id-to-path sink.

Accept/lock correctness:
- Plain HTML/JSX accept and discard did not catch SOURCE_LOCKED, so contention
  exited non-zero with empty stdout and the agent got no JSON to retry on.
- Lock staleness was mtime-only and never read the pid it records: a holder
  whose critical section outran 60s had its live lock swept, admitting a second
  writer to the same file, while a crashed holder blocked accepts for a full
  60s. Decide staleness by owner liveness, and release only our own lock.

Detector:
- isNeutralColor only parses computed color forms, so routing authored CSS
  through it reported inset 4px 0 0 #000 / black / #e5e7eb as chromatic
  side-tab stripes. Add an authored-color neutrality test covering hex and
  named neutrals; the fixture had no literal-color cases at all.
- Rule line numbers were off by one for every rule after the first, and
  commented-out CSS was scanned as live rules.

Server:
- An error reply carries no sourceEventType, and inferSourceEventType returned
  undefined, which acknowledgePendingEvent treats as a wildcard: a stale
  generate worker's failure consumed the user's queued Accept, which then
  reached no agent and left the browser in SAVING forever.
- The generate preflight spawned live-wrap.mjs synchronously inside the request
  handler, freezing the single-threaded server for the whole scaffold (~7.6s
  measured on this repo, 15s ceiling) and stalling Accept/Discard/SSE. Make it
  async, claiming the lease before the first await so no event double-delivers.
- Every browser checkpoint was echoed back as variant_progress, so a Tune
  slider drag remounted the preview under the user's cursor and latched the
  *_reviewable phases from the wrong trigger. Gate on the reason.

Cleanup:
- Collapse four divergent benchmark argv parsers into scripts/lib/cli-args.mjs.
  Three silently misread flags: --iterations 20 benchmarked 5, --agent llm ran
  the fake agent, --median-target=0.4 used the default threshold.
- Drop a snapshot cache this branch made write-only (it grew per session for
  the server's lifetime and was never read), a dead exported reconcile helper,
  and the unused deferReply branch.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Route the last two benchmark scripts through the shared argv parser

Follow-up on review feedback. The previous commit consolidated four of the six
Live benchmark parsers and left these two on their own hand-rolled `arg()`,
which was the inconsistency the first pass was meant to remove.

- benchmark-live-control.mjs and benchmark-live-init.mjs parsed --iterations
  with Number(), so a non-numeric value became NaN and `index < NaN` ran the
  benchmark zero times before failing on the metrics file. They also accepted
  only the space-separated form, so --iterations=20 silently measured the
  default. Both now use parseArgs + positiveIntFlag, which throws on a value
  that was clearly meant as a number.
- benchmark-live-control.mjs read the metrics file with no handling for the case
  where the run produced nothing: a missing file surfaced as a raw ENOENT stack
  and a malformed line as a bare SyntaxError. Report both with a diagnostic
  naming the file and the env var that populates it.
- summarize() now reports a `samples` count and nulls instead of letting
  percentile() read past an empty array, where the NaN serialized to null and a
  report of nothing measured looked like a real measurement.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Stop telling users a busy agent is disconnected

The agent-poll indicator tracks whether a poll is parked, which is the right
signal for "can steering reach the agent right now" and is why the flag itself
is left alone. But it goes quiet for two different reasons, and both got the
same copy: "Agent disconnected - run live-poll.mjs to connect".

Under the one-shot foreground polling that live.md calls the primary contract,
no poll is parked while the agent works, so the second reason is every normal
generation. For its whole duration the bar told the user a healthy session was
broken and advised them to start a poll loop that was already running.

Pick the copy from the live state, which the browser already tracks: GENERATING
and SAVING mean the agent holds work it was handed, so say it is working. Every
other state with no parked poll keeps the original, actionable wording. The
aria-label carries the same distinction, since the tooltip is mouse-only.

The text is derived at read time rather than cached, because the live state moves
between the 5s status polls and a finished generation would otherwise keep
reading "Agent is working" until the next one landed. Deriving it also keeps the
read out of setLiveState, which runs long before agentPollingConnected's
declaration and would hit its temporal dead zone.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Scope design-system-font-size off the injected live overlay

live-browser.js builds a self-contained UI that renders over arbitrary host
pages, so its inline type scale is deliberately independent of DESIGN.md, which
documents the impeccable website's ramp. The rule fired 32 times there and is
the only rule that fires on that file.

Suppress it as a file-scoped value wildcard rather than via ignoreFiles: an
ignoreFiles glob would silence every rule for the file, and the overlay is real
user-facing chrome where a future contrast or side-tab finding should still be
heard. Scoped to this one file, so the rule keeps working everywhere else.

Written by hand because hook-admin's ignore-value cannot emit the `files` array
that detector.ignoreValues supports and existing entries already use.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Let hooks ignore-value scope a rule to files, and stop churning the config

Fallout from suppressing the overlay's font-size findings: the narrowest
exception detector.ignoreValues supports was unreachable from the path the hook
tells the model to use, so the guidance steered to the blunt instrument instead.

- hook-admin's ignore-value now takes --file / --files / --file= / --files=,
  matching `impeccable ignores add-value`, which already had them. Without it the
  only file-scoped option was ignore-file, which silences every rule for a path
  permanently, including rules not yet written.
- A bare wildcard value is now refused with a message pointing at either --file
  or ignore-rule. Previously `ignore-value <rule> "*"` quietly wrote a
  project-wide suppression from a single file's finding.
- ignore-value keyed entries on rule+value only, so a second scope for the same
  rule overwrote the first instead of coexisting. Key on the file scope too.
- An unknown flag folded into the value: `ignore-value overused-font Inter
  --shard` stored "inter --shard", matched nothing, and reported success. Reject
  it, as the sibling command does.

Config churn: normalizeIgnoreValueEntries runs on every write and emitted keys as
rule, value, files, reason, createdAt while the config on disk uses createdAt
before reason. Any edit therefore rewrote every untouched entry (35 churned lines
for a one-line change). Pin the canonical order in both copies of the normalizer
and in ignores.mjs, and add a test that the two copies cannot drift apart.

Also point the hook's own footer and reference/hooks.md at the file-scoped form
first, and say plainly what ignore-file costs.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Correct the prose-gate docs and write down the no-bump-in-a-PR rule

CLAUDE.md said the prose validator "deliberately skips skill/", which is only
half true and cost a build failure this week: validateProse skips it, but
validateSkillProse then scans skill/**/*.md and fails the build on em dashes plus
the phrases with no technical reading. Document both gates, which files each one
reads, and the line that actually matters in practice: an em dash in
skill/reference/*.md fails the build, one in a skill/scripts/*.mjs comment does
not. Each claim was checked against a real `bun run build`.

Also record that feature PRs do not bump manifest versions or add changelog
entries. It was not written down anywhere: not CLAUDE.md, not AGENTS.md, not the
PR template. CLAUDE.md's "Bump when: CLI code changes" reads as an instruction to
bump inside the PR that touches cli/, so say plainly that it names which
component a change belongs to rather than when to edit the manifest.

Put the rule in AGENTS.md too. That is the guide the agents opening PRs here
actually read, so a rule about PR hygiene living only in CLAUDE.md would not
reach them.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Bring Live progressive delivery and the generator subagent to Claude Code

Almost none of this branch's Live work was actually Codex-specific. The publisher,
the fences, the source locks and the browser's partial-arrival UI are plain node
and DOM with zero provider references, and the progressive E2E already passes on
five frameworks driven by a non-Codex agent. The Codex-only part was policy prose
and one frontmatter line, so Claude Code shipped the progressive browser UI it
could never trigger.

Progressive delivery, Codex and Claude Code:
- Add a `live-progressive` capability tag and opt codex, agents, and claude-code
  in. A provider block takes one tag, so naming harnesses would have meant
  duplicating the recipe per tag; a capability reads better than a provider list
  anyway. Cursor and everyone else keep the atomic path until their poll loop is
  known not to stall on the extra publish calls.
- Claude Code publishes variant 1 as soon as it validates rather than waiting to
  write the whole trio in one edit. Nothing about the arrival path needed
  changing: the publisher writes, framework HMR pushes, and the browser's
  MutationObserver counts variants. The parent conversation was never in that
  path, which is why Claude Code's lack of subagent progress streaming does not
  matter here.

Generator subagent:
- Drop `providers: codex` from impeccable-live-generator. The build already maps
  its frontmatter correctly for Claude Code, and impeccable-manual-edit-applier
  has shipped to .claude/agents/ this way all along.
- The reason differs per harness, so the reference says so: Codex delegates to
  unblock a foreground poll, Claude Code delegates to keep a long session's
  screenshots and variant CSS out of the main context. Follows the existing
  manual-edit-applier convention: both agent names, and an inline fallback when
  native subagents are unavailable.

Fixes found on the way:
- The two publish commands hardcoded `.agents/skills/impeccable/scripts/` while
  the other thirteen commands in live.md use {{scripts_path}}. Correct only for
  the Codex repo-skills bundle; it would have pointed Claude Code at a directory
  its install never creates. The shipped .codex variant was already internally
  inconsistent. Now covered by a test.
- `--agent=codex` resolved to the canned fake agent, because the flag parsed as
  `x === 'llm' ? 'llm' : 'fake'`. The private evals Live runner passes exactly
  that, so a real-harness run would have scored deterministic stub variants and
  reported them as Codex output. Unknown values for --agent, --scenario and
  --delivery now fail loudly.
- live-reference tests now compile with each provider's real providerTags instead
  of hand-written lists, so a providers.js misconfiguration fails in tests rather
  than shipping.

Verified: progressive E2E green on vite8-react-plain against a real Vite server
and Chromium; every provider variant's publish and poll paths now agree; Cursor
and Gemini still compile to atomic only.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Fix inset-order detection, the unlocked artifact discard, and stray boolean flags

Three of the four open review findings. The fourth is declined below.

- The inset-stripe scan only matched layers starting with `inset`, but the keyword
  is order-independent: `box-shadow: 4px 0 0 var(--brand-accent) inset` paints the
  same stripe and was silently missed. Strip the keyword wherever it sits, but
  only as a standalone token, so a color like var(--inset-accent) is not mangled
  into `var(-- -accent)` and quietly reclassified as neutral. The fixture now
  covers both orders plus that token, and a trailing-inset neutral still passes.
- The source-artifact discard deleted the preview without the source lock, unlike
  every other discard path. Take the lock. Narrower than reported, though: the
  server journals `discard_requested` as a fenced phase before live-accept runs
  and the publisher checks it three times, so a publish could never land on a
  discarded session. What this actually prevents is deleting the artifact under a
  publisher mid-critical-section, turning a clean stale_generation_epoch into an
  ENOENT crash.
- benchmark-live-providers.mjs still compared `--headed` and `--skip-cleanup-control`
  against a boolean sentinel, so the `=true` spelling silently did nothing. My
  gap: I introduced boolFlag and converted benchmark-live.mjs but not this one.
  skipCleanupControl is now read once rather than twice, so the two call sites
  cannot drift.

Declined: tightening the selector guard that skips `active` / `current` /
`selected` tokens. It does cause false negatives on names like `.selected-feature`,
but the rule's contract makes selection and focus indicators its one exception,
and `.active-tab` / `.current-step` / `.selected-row` are syntactically identical
to `.selected-feature`. No regex separates them, so tightening the guard trades
missed stripes for false positives on exactly the case the rule exempts. The
conservative skip is the intended behavior.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Classify failed accepts as errors, and fix parallel lane race/all misuse

Two of the three new findings, plus the bug that chasing them exposed in my own
earlier fix. The third is mitigated rather than broken; details below.

Failed accepts reported success:
live/completion.mjs only classifies a result as `error` when it carries
`mode: 'error'`. Everything else unhandled falls through to `agent_done` with an
ok ack, which is deliberate for the documented fallback paths (two tests pin it)
but wrong for a real failure. So `accept_receipt_conflict` reported success, and
reference/live.md's `handled: false` without `mode` bullet told the agent to
"read file, find markers, edit" — hand-applying a second accept on top of the one
the receipt already recorded.

The same hole swallowed `source_locked`, which is mine: the earlier commit made
lock contention return clean JSON so the agent could retry, but the classifier
turned that failure into agent_done/ok, so the accept was dequeued and silently
lost. Mark genuine failures with `mode: 'error'` through one `operationFailure`
helper, and give live.md a `mode: "error"` bullet with per-error guidance: retry
the same command on `source_locked`, never hand-edit, and on a receipt conflict
report what the session actually resolved to. The deliberate fallback and
markers-not-found handoffs stay untouched.

parallel-compact lane orchestration:
`Promise.race` settles on the first *settlement*, so one lane failing fast
rejected the whole first-variant step while two lanes were still on their way to
succeeding. `Promise.any` now takes the first success and only a total wipeout is
fatal, reporting every lane's reason. The tail step's `Promise.all` surfaced a
raw lane error non-deterministically; `Promise.allSettled` now reports how many
lanes failed and why. Added a `requestImpl` seam so lane orchestration is
testable without a provider key.

Not a defect: the browser releasing Accept before the source write. That is the
intended optimistic design, and it is safe because poll-lanes ranks accept at
priority 0 against generate at 2, so a queued accept is always leased before a
generate the user queues afterwards, even if the generate arrived first. Its
source write lands inside the poll script before the next generate preflights.
That invariant is load-bearing and had no tests at all; poll-lanes.mjs now has a
suite covering it plus lease and type filtering.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Finish the failed-accept classification my last commit only half did

All three new findings are the same root cause, and it is my incomplete fix:
operationFailure only covered results built from a *thrown* error. Two paths it
missed:

- Two catches wrote the failure result as a multi-line literal, so the
  single-line replace skipped them. The Vue accept catch was still bare, exactly
  as reported; the Svelte one too, though its failures happened to be caught by
  completion.mjs's Svelte-only special case.
- The accept implementations also *return* `{handled: false, error}` for their own
  checks (variant missing, template empty, original text ambiguous). Those never
  throw, so no catch ran and no `mode` was set.

Both layers now agree, because each is reachable on its own:

- live-accept marks any unhandled preview-path result via markPreviewFailure,
  keyed on `previewMode` — a clean discriminator, since only the preview branches
  set it and a plain wrapper never does. This is what the agent reads:
  reference/live.md routes on `mode`, so without it the agent was told "read
  file, find markers, edit" for a preview that has no markers in source.
- completion.mjs replaces its arbitrary svelte-component special case with the
  set of preview modes whose variants live outside the user's source. That case
  existed for precisely this reason; Vue and source-artifact were simply never
  added, so the identical failure on those paths acknowledged as success.

The plain wrapper keeps its manual handoff, which is the one shape with editable
markers in source. Both deliberate handoffs (mode: 'fallback' and markers not
found) still classify as agent_done, now pinned by a test so the generalization
cannot swallow them.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Stop the progressive benchmark agent inventing a second variant on count:1

`Math.max(1, event.count - 1)` floored the tail request at one variant, so a
one-variant request fetched a second direction and assembled two. Ask for
`count - 1` and return the first variant untouched when there is no tail.

Latent rather than live: the only caller hardcodes `count: 3`. The reason it is
worth fixing is the caller inconsistency it exposed. tests/live-e2e/agent.mjs
gates its split-progressive path on `event.count > 1`; benchmark-live-providers.mjs
had no such guard, so it would have run the tail for a one-variant request, and
the parallel strategy would have assembled its three fixed lanes regardless of
what was asked for. Guard the caller the same way.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Drop the live generator subagent; fix the artifact decoy that broke accept

The first real Claude Code Live run failed, and the subagent was not the cause.

Root cause: progressive publication stages each revision as
`.impeccable/live/artifacts/<id>-r<n>.<source-ext>`, nothing ever deleted them,
and findSessionFile's walker skipped only node_modules/.git/dist/build. It
searches src, app, pages, ... then `.`; a project whose source is not under one of
those (this repo's own site lives in site/pages/) falls through to the `.` walk,
where dot-directories sort before letters. So accept found the artifact instead of
the real file. Two outcomes, both reproduced: where isGeneratedFile returns true
it declines with mode: 'fallback' (what the run hit, after which the agent
hand-carbonized several hundred lines across three stylesheets, including
unrequested drive-by edits); where it returns false, accept writes the variant
into the throwaway artifact and reports handled: true while real source never
changes.

The E2E suite could not have caught this. Every fixture puts source under `src/`,
which is searched before the `.` walk can reach `.impeccable`. Five framework
fixtures and three progressive scenarios pass because of fixture layout, not
because the path works. I read that as evidence and shouldn't have.

- Never search `.impeccable`: it is Impeccable's own state, never project source.
- Retire a session's staged artifacts on accept/discard, so they cannot outlive
  the session and become a decoy for anything else that walks the tree.
- Regression tests use a site/pages layout with artifacts present. All three fail
  against the previous code.

Generator subagent removed, on both harnesses:
The parent must hand-compress the design system into the handoff, and compression
is lossy. Measured on the real run: a 6,826-char handoff carrying exactly one
token reference, after the parent had itself read kinpaku-tokens.css. The subagent
then spent 3 of its first 9 turns hunting DESIGN.md, gave up, and emitted 0
var(--token) uses and 22 raw oklch literals — violating its own spec's "Never
invent raw colors when tokens exist" — including a 1:1 gold-on-gold contrast bug.
Isolation is not a benefit here; knowing the design system is the job. Generation
stays in the main thread, which already holds the tokens and writes them from the
first byte, so carbonize is a move rather than a translation.

Copy edits keep their subagent: applying a known set of ops to a named file is
self-contained, so an isolated context costs nothing. That is the line.

Progressive delivery stays for Codex and Claude Code, main-thread driven. Claude
Code keeps the full benefit because its poll is a background task. Codex's poll
blocks the foreground, so with no subagent the user sees variant 1 early via HMR
but cannot accept it until the trio finishes; that is the cost of the
simplification and it is worth naming.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Rip out the dead isolated-preview mode and the private repo's job

Comparing this branch's live against main's turned up two whole features that
never made sense here. -2,466 lines.

1. The isolated source-artifact preview was never switched on.

`scaffoldSourceArtifactSession` is only reachable via live-wrap's `--isolated`,
and nothing passes it: not the server's preflight, not live.md, nothing. Proved
it end-to-end — the default wrap writes markers straight into real source and
creates no previews/ session. So the mode was wired through three modules,
carried its own accept/discard branches, browser branches, server metadata
resolution, preview-mode classifier entry, and test suites, and none of it could
run.

Worse, live.md documented it as the active path and told the agent "The true
source is only the publisher's hash fence and must remain byte-identical until
Accept." That is false: the wrapper lands in source at scaffold time and each
revision rewrites it. An agent following that sentence believes source is
protected when it isn't, and the leftover artifacts are what made accept resolve
the wrong file in the first real run. live.md now describes what actually
happens, including that markers are visible in source until Accept or Discard.

Removed: source-artifact.mjs, --isolated, the preflight's isolated option, the
accept/discard branches, four dead browser branches, the server's previews/
resolution, the classifier entry, and their tests. Kept the previews/ gitignore
pattern: an ignore line for a directory that cannot exist is free, and a test
pins it.

2. Quality judging belongs to the private evals repo, which says so.

runner/live/README.md there is explicit: the public repo owns protocol
correctness, framework coverage, timing, source commit, recovery, and a
rubric-free evidence bundle; the private repo owns the task corpus, baselines,
comparative judges, and release-quality decisions — "Do not add quality rubrics,
competitor comparisons, or broad fixture corpora to the public Live benchmark."

This branch added exactly those: an LLM judge scoring 1-10 on "off-brand,
generic-AI" (live-rendered-quality.mjs, judge-live-rendered.mjs), a
cross-provider comparison with a BRAND_CONTRACT rubric (live-provider-benchmark
.mjs, benchmark-live-providers.mjs), and a brand-fidelity fixture corpus. All
removed, with bench:live:providers and their suite entries.

Also removed tests/framework-fixtures/README.md's "External quality-eval
fixtures" section: it documented a bench:live workflow using --fixture-dir,
--agent=codex, --action and --evidence-bundle, none of which benchmark-live.mjs
implements, plus an evidenceCapture block nothing reads.

Kept: timing benchmarks (the public repo's half of that boundary), progressive
publication, the source lock, poll lanes, and Nuxt/Vue component previews.

Coverage note: deleting the isolated suites took the only tests for
`source_locked` classification with them, so the plain wrapper path — now the
only non-component preview — gets equivalent accept and discard coverage. Both
new tests fail if mode:'error' is removed.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Flag inset stripes written with the two-length box-shadow form

box-shadow takes <length>{2,4}: only the two offsets are required, so
`inset 4px 0 red` is valid and paints the same single-edge stripe as
`inset 4px 0 0 red`. The scan demanded a third length, so the short form was
silently missed.

Blur and spread now default to 0 when omitted, which is exactly the stripe shape
the rule looks for. The neutral-color and blur/spread exclusions still hold:
`inset 4px 0 #000` and `inset 4px 0 5px var(--brand-accent)` both pass. Fixture
covers both orders of the short form plus those two exclusions, and fails against
the previous regex.

Third false negative found in this rule (after trailing `inset` and literal
neutral colors), all from the same cause: the scan was written against one
spelling of the syntax rather than the grammar.

Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction.

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

* Live: polling rework, source locks, preflight scaffolding, Vue previews

Carved out of #371, minus progressive publication. Everything here works
against real project source the way main's Live already does: the agent
writes variants into the file the browser loaded, HMR fires, Accept
promotes and carbonizes. Nothing is staged anywhere.

Poll lanes. Events now carry an explicit priority: accept/discard/exit
ahead of manual_edit_apply/steer/carbonize_cleanup ahead of generate. A
long generate can no longer sit in front of the Accept the user just
clicked. leaseEvent claims its lease before awaiting, so a slow prepare
cannot hand the same event to two pollers.

Source locks. A per-file mutex around every accept and discard path, keyed
on a digest of the absolute path. Staleness is decided by owner-pid
liveness rather than mtime, so a wedged lock clears when its owner dies
instead of after an arbitrary timeout, and a slow-but-live accept is never
stolen from. Only the owning process can release a lock.

Preflight scaffolding. The server runs live-wrap (or live-insert) before
the poll returns and hands the result back as event.scaffold. That walk is
measured at ~7.6s on a large repo; moving it off the agent's critical path
removes a deterministic tool round trip without touching the generated
design. Falls back cleanly to the agent running the helper itself.

Vue previews. previewMode: "vue-component" for Nuxt/Vue targets, matching
the existing Svelte component path: variants compile as real SFCs from a
dev-only directory so the route is never rewritten during generation, and
Vite mounts them without invalidating page state. Accept is the only route
write. Includes a Vue attr tokenizer that normalizes shorthand bindings
(@x, :x, #x) to their canonical forms.

Accept hardening. Every thrown failure now returns mode: 'error' rather
than an ambiguous unhandled result, so a real failure is never classified
as a deliberate manual handoff and silently dropped. The marker search
skips node_modules/.git/dist/build/.impeccable.

Shared CLI arg parsing extracted to scripts/lib/cli-args.mjs.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

* Drop the progressive benchmark, remove dead wrap scaffolding

Review fallout from removing progressive publication.

The Live benchmark existed to compare atomic against progressive delivery:
compareModelBackedReports measures goToFirstVariantMs improvement of one
over the other. With progressive gone it measures nothing against nothing.
Worse, benchmark-live.mjs still passed `progressive` to bootFixtureSession,
which no longer accepts it, so `--delivery progressive` was silently
ignored and would have emitted reports labeled progressive that actually
ran atomic. Silent wrong data is worse than a crash. It was built for
progressive, so it goes with progressive: benchmark-live.mjs, its lib, its
test, and the bench:live script. If an atomic latency baseline is wanted
later, that is a smaller thing built on purpose.

live-wrap.mjs: sourceOriginalLines was assigned and never read.

Both found by review bots on #381 (Copilot).

Assisted-by: Claude Code

* Drop the Vue preview mode; it never reached Svelte's accept path

Cursor found that inlineVueComponentAccept never receives paramValues,
while the Svelte equivalent uses them in 23 places: Accept on a tuned Vue
variant silently persisted the default and threw the user's tuning away.

Chasing that corrected something I had asserted the other way round. I said
Vue's raw-CSS-append was inherited from the Svelte path. It is not.
svelte-component.mjs calls sanitizeAcceptedSvelteCss before writing, which
sanitizes the CSS and bakes tuned params into it. vue-component.mjs had no
sanitize step at all — it appended the variant's <style scoped> body into
whatever style block came last, so a variant could leak CSS site-wide when
the last block was global, and brace CSS landed in a lang="sass" block.

Both are the same defect: the Vue mode mirrored Svelte's preview path
without its accept-side subsystem (bakeParamValuesInCss,
sanitizeAcceptedSvelteCss, appendSanitizedCssRule,
rewriteAcceptedSvelteSelector, rewriteParamSelectors — roughly 200 lines of
CSS rewriting). Both were introduced here, not inherited. A shipped Vue
session could leak styles and discard tuning without saying so.

So it comes out. The poll lanes, source locks, preflight scaffolding, and
accept hardening do not depend on it and are worth landing now. Vue returns
when its accept path reaches parity. The nuxt-vite7 fixture goes back to
main's plain-wrapper shape.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

* Stop the lease redelivery test racing the scheduler

CI failed `does not drop polled events until the agent acknowledges them`
on a commit whose content was byte-identical to one that passed, which is
the signature of a flake rather than a regression.

The test leased an event for 50ms, then asserted a second poll saw a
timeout because the lease was still held. That gave the whole second HTTP
round trip a 50ms real-time budget: cross it and the lease expires, the
event is redelivered, and the assertion fails for a scheduling hiccup
instead of a bookkeeping bug. Locally it passed 6/6; a loaded runner is
where it bites.

Hold the lease for 1000ms so a round trip cannot cross it, and wait
LEASE_MS + 300 before asserting redelivery, so each half has headroom in
the direction it asserts.

Verified by injecting a 60ms stall before the second poll: the old test
fails with exactly the CI message, the new one passes.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

* Recover live sessions that reload past the generation done broadcast

The preflight scaffold write (new in this PR) triggers a framework
full-reload — Astro reloads the page for any .astro edit. When the
agent's variant write and its done SSE land while the browser is
mid-reload, the resumed page misses both the second HMR reload and the
done broadcast: it comes back up on the scaffold-only source and waits
in GENERATING at 0/N forever, with the finished variants sitting in
source. This is the astro-vite7 CI timeout; the failure artifacts show
the full sequence (scaffold at 26.319s, done at 26.515s, the new page's
browser_resumed checkpoint at 26.653s, DOM still scaffold-only).

Three-part fix:

- session-store: agent_done now stamps a monotone generationCompletedAt
  on the snapshot. Browser checkpoints legitimately regress phase and
  arrivedVariants (a resumed page reports what it sees), so completion
  needed a field checkpoints cannot un-set.
- live-browser: on every SSE (re)connect, compare the session summary's
  generationCompletedAt against local progress; when behind while
  GENERATING, pull the finished variants from source (same settle delay
  as the done handler's HMR-first fallback). Covers both orderings of
  resumed-checkpoint vs agent_done. Also, the source-fallback empty-
  wrapper branch no longer tears the session down mid-generation — a
  scaffold-only wrapper is a legitimate in-flight state, so stay in
  GENERATING instead of destroying a session the agent is still filling.
- live-server: a browser checkpoint reporting generating/behind for a
  session whose generation already completed re-broadcasts the stored
  done (idempotent for every other tab), and connected-payload summaries
  expose generationCompletedAt for the browser-side check.

Coverage: live-server unit tests for redelivery, the no-redelivery
guard, and marker durability across checkpoint regression; plus a
deterministic live-e2e scenario on astro-vite7 that blocks the reloaded
page's SSE stream and mocks its HMR websocket dead until after the agent
finishes, forcing the missed-broadcast window every run. All new tests
fail against the pre-fix code.

The e2e harness additionally gains an IMPECCABLE_E2E_ATOMIC_DELAY_MS
lever (widens the scaffold-to-write window) and env-gated console/nav
tracing (IMPECCABLE_E2E_CONSOLE=1) used to diagnose this.

The hypothesis that preflight opens a wrapper-with-no-variants window
came from Copilot's review sketch in the follow-up WIP PR; the killing
mechanism differs from that sketch (nothing calls recoverEmptyCycling in
the CI trace — the session hangs precisely because no code path runs at
all), but the window is real and the guard it suggested is folded into
the source-fallback fix.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

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

* Retry a completion-driven source fallback that reads only the scaffold

Greptile flagged a hole in the previous commit's empty-scaffold guard:
when a `done` has already been delivered, the source fallback gets
exactly one read. If that read returns the preflight-only scaffold (a
stale source view, or an agent whose write lands in multiple steps),
the guard's silent return left the tab in GENERATING with no further
event ever coming — the same stuck state the previous commit fixed,
reintroduced through a different door.

Callers that know generation finished (the done handler's fallback and
the SSE-reconnect self-heal) now pass generationCompleted, and an empty
read on that path re-reads the source up to 3 times before surfacing
recoverEmptyCycling instead of hanging. Mid-generation callers are
unchanged and still wait indefinitely — a real agent can legitimately
take minutes between scaffold and write, and tearing that down was the
original #385 hazard.

The missed-done e2e scenario now also serves a captured scaffold-only
copy for the first post-reconnect /source read, forcing the retry path
every run. Verified failing against the pre-retry code (tab stranded in
GENERATING, test timeout) and passing with it.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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