Claude adversarial subagent surfaced three correctness risks in the
Step 12 state machine:
- CURRENT_VERSION and BASE_VERSION were not stripped of CR/whitespace
on read. A CRLF VERSION file would mismatch the clean package.json
version, falsely classify as DRIFT_STALE_PKG, then propagate the
carriage return into package.json via the repair path.
- REPAIR_VERSION was unvalidated. The bump path validates NEW_VERSION
against the 4-digit semver pattern, but the drift-repair path wrote
whatever cat VERSION returned directly into package.json. A
manually-corrupted VERSION file would silently poison the repair.
- Empty-string CURRENT_VERSION (0-byte VERSION, directory-at-VERSION)
fell through to "not equal to base" and misclassified as
ALREADY_BUMPED.
Template fix strips \r/newlines/whitespace on every VERSION read,
guards against empty-string results, and applies the same semver
regex gate in the repair path that already protects the bump path.
Adds two regression tests (trailing-CR idempotency + invalid-semver
repair rejection). Total Step 12 coverage: 14 tests, 14/14 pass.
Opens two follow-up TODOs flagged but not fixed in this branch:
test/template drift risk (the tests still reimplement template bash)
and BASE_VERSION silent fallback on git-show failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>