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gstack/test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts
Garry Tan 5d4fe7df07 v1.31.0.0 fix: delete AskUserQuestion fallback (root cause of forever war) + harness primitives (#1390)
* test: add multi-finding batching regression test (periodic tier)

Adds a periodic-tier E2E that catches the May 2026 transcript bug shape
the existing single-finding gate-tier floor test cannot detect: a model
that fires one AskUserQuestion and then batches the remaining findings
into a single "## Decisions to confirm" plan write + ExitPlanMode.

Why a separate test from skill-e2e-plan-eng-finding-floor: the gate-tier
floor (runPlanSkillFloorCheck) exits on the first AUQ render and returns
success, so a once-then-batch model would pass it trivially. This test
uses runPlanSkillCounting at periodic tier with N-AUQ tracking and
asserts >= 3 distinct review-phase AUQs on a 4-finding seeded plan.

- test/fixtures/forcing-finding-seeds.ts: FORCING_BATCHING_ENG fixture
  (4 distinct non-trivial findings spread across Architecture, Code
  Quality, Tests, Performance — mirrors the D1-D4 transcript shape)
- test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-multi-finding-batching.test.ts: new test
- test/helpers/touchfiles.ts: registered in BOTH E2E_TOUCHFILES and
  E2E_TIERS (touchfiles.test.ts asserts exact equality)

Test will fail on baseline today because today's model uses the preamble
fallback to batch findings; passes after the architectural fix lands in
a follow-up commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: expand plan-mode pass envelopes to accept BLOCKED path

Three existing plan-mode regression tests previously codified the
preamble fallback as a valid PASS path under --disallowedTools
AskUserQuestion: outcome=plan_ready was accepted only when the model
wrote a "## Decisions to confirm" section. The forever-war fix deletes
that fallback, so this assertion would fail post-deletion.

Expanded envelope accepts EITHER:
- 'plan_ready' WITH (## Decisions section [legacy] OR BLOCKED string
  visible in TTY [post-fix])
- 'exited' WITH BLOCKED string visible in TTY [post-fix]

The legacy ## Decisions branch stays in the envelope so these tests
keep passing on today's code (where the fallback still exists) and
on tomorrow's code (where the model reports BLOCKED instead). Once
the deletion has been on main long enough that the cache flushes,
the legacy branch can be removed in a follow-up.

Failure signals (regression we DO want to catch) unchanged:
auto_decided / silent_write / timeout / exited-without-BLOCKED /
plan_ready-without-(decisions OR BLOCKED).

- test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode.test.ts (test 2 only)
- test/skill-e2e-autoplan-auto-mode.test.ts
- test/skill-e2e-plan-design-plan-mode.test.ts

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: delete AskUserQuestion fallback (root cause of forever war)

The /plan-eng-review skill failed to fire AskUserQuestion on a real
plan review and surfaced 4 calibration decisions via prose instead.
Investigation traced this to a "fallback when neither variant is
callable" clause in the preamble that the model rationalizes around
as a general escape hatch from "fanning out round-trip AUQs," even
when an AUQ variant IS callable. Codex review confirmed the fallback
exists in 8 inline sites with 2 surviving escape hatches the original
narrowing missed (a "genuinely trivial" exception duplicated across
all 4 plan-* templates, and a "outside plan mode, output as prose
and stop" branch in the preamble itself).

Net deletion in skill text. Closes both branches of the deleted
fallback (plan-file write AND prose-and-stop) and the trivial-fix
exception with a single hard rule:

  If no AskUserQuestion variant appears in your tool list, this
  skill is BLOCKED. Stop, report `BLOCKED — AskUserQuestion
  unavailable`, and wait for the user.

Honest about being a model directive, not a runtime guard — none of
the PTY harness helpers enforce BLOCKED today. The architectural
improvement is that the model has fewer alternatives to obey it
against. Runtime enforcement is a follow-up TODO.

Sources changed:
- scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-ask-user-format.ts: delete both
  fallback branches; replace with 1-line BLOCKED rule
- scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completion-status.ts: delete
  fallback in generatePlanModeInfo
- plan-eng-review/SKILL.md.tmpl: delete fallback at Step 0 + Sections
  1-4 (5 instances) + delete trivial-fix exception
- office-hours/SKILL.md.tmpl: delete fallback in approach-selection
- plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md.tmpl: delete trivial-fix exception
- plan-design-review/SKILL.md.tmpl: delete trivial-fix exception
- plan-devex-review/SKILL.md.tmpl: delete trivial-fix exception

Generated SKILL.md regen lands in a follow-up commit per the bisect
convention (template changes separate from regenerated output).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: regenerate SKILL.md after fallback deletion

Regenerates all 47 generated SKILL.md files (default + 7 host adapters)
after the template/resolver edits in the prior commit. Pure mechanical
output of `bun run gen:skill-docs`; no hand-edits.

Verifies fallback deletion landed across the entire skill surface:
- zero hits for "Decisions to confirm" in canonical SKILL.md / .tmpl
- zero hits for "no AskUserQuestion variant is callable"
- zero hits for "genuinely trivial"
- BLOCKED rule present in 42 generated SKILL.md (every Tier-2+ skill)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(harness): detect prose-rendered AskUserQuestion in plan mode

When --disallowedTools AskUserQuestion is set and no MCP variant is
callable, the model surfaces decisions as visible prose options
("A) ... B) ... C) ..." or "1. ... 2. ... 3. ...") rather than via the
native numbered-prompt UI. isNumberedOptionListVisible doesn't catch
these because the ❯ cursor sits on the empty input prompt rather than
on option 1, so runPlanSkillObservation and runPlanSkillFloorCheck
would time out at 5-10 minutes per test even though the model was
correctly waiting for user input.

This was exposed by the v1.28 fallback deletion: pre-deletion the
model used the preamble fallback to silently auto-resolve to
plan_ready in this scenario. Post-deletion the model correctly
surfaces the question and waits, but the harness couldn't tell.

isProseAUQVisible matches:
  - 2+ distinct lettered options at line starts (A/B/C/D form)
  - 3+ distinct numbered options at line starts WITHOUT a `❯ 1.`
    cursor (so it doesn't double-fire on native numbered prompts)

Wired into:
  - classifyVisible (used by runPlanSkillObservation) → returns
    outcome='asked' instead of timeout
  - runPlanSkillFloorCheck → counts as auq_observed (floor met)

8 new unit tests in claude-pty-runner.unit.test.ts cover the lettered
shape, numbered shape, threshold edges, native-cursor exclusion, and
mid-prose false-positive guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(harness): LLM judge for waiting-vs-working PTY state + snapshot logs

Regex detectors (isNumberedOptionListVisible, isProseAUQVisible) are
fast and free, but PTY rendering quirks fragment prose AUQ option
lists across logical lines that no regex can reliably reassemble.
When detection misses, polling loops time out at the full budget
even though the model is correctly waiting for user input.

Adds judgePtyState — a Haiku-graded trichotomy classifier:
  - waiting: agent surfaced a question/options, sitting at input prompt
  - working: spinner / tool calls / generation in progress
  - hung:    stopped without surfacing anything (rare crash signal)

Wired as a fallback into the polling loops of runPlanSkillObservation
and runPlanSkillFloorCheck: after 60s with no regex hit, snapshot the
TTY every 30s and call the judge. On 'waiting' verdict, return
outcome=asked / auq_observed early. On 'working' or 'hung', enrich the
eventual timeout summary with the verdict so failures are diagnosable.

Implementation:
  - Spawns `claude -p --model claude-haiku-4-5 --max-turns 1` synchronously
    with prompt piped via stdin (subscription auth, no API key env required)
  - In-process cache keyed by SHA-1 of normalized last-4KB so identical
    spinner-frame snapshots don't re-charge
  - Best-effort JSONL log to ~/.gstack/analytics/pty-judge.jsonl with
    timestamp, testName, state, reasoning, hash, judge wall time
  - 30s timeout per call; returns state='unknown' with diagnostic on any
    failure mode (timeout, malformed JSON, missing claude binary)

Snapshot logging: when GSTACK_PTY_LOG=1 is set, dump last 4KB of visible
TTY at every judge tick to ~/.gstack/analytics/pty-snapshots/<test>-
<elapsed>ms.txt — postmortem trail for debugging flakes.

Cost: ~$0.0005 per call; ~10 calls per 5-min test budget; ~$0.005 per
test added in worst case (only when regex detectors miss).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: accept prose-AUQ visible as third valid surface in plan-mode envelopes

The first re-run after wiring the LLM judge revealed that the model also
emits a third surface I hadn't anticipated: a properly-formatted question
with options ("Pick A, B, or C in your reply") rendered as prose AND
followed by ExitPlanMode (outcome=plan_ready). The migrated tests only
accepted (## Decisions section) OR (BLOCKED string) — neither matched
this case, so the test failed even though the user clearly saw the
question.

Three valid surfaces now:
  1. `## Decisions to confirm` section in plan file (legacy fallback path,
     still valid through migration window)
  2. `BLOCKED — AskUserQuestion` string in TTY (post-v1.28 BLOCKED rule)
  3. Numbered/lettered options visible in TTY as prose (post-v1.28 prose
     rendering — uses the existing isProseAUQVisible detector)

Also fixes assertReportAtBottomIfPlanWritten to be tolerant of:
  - Missing files (path detected from TTY but file not persisted) — was
    throwing ENOENT on plan_design_plan_mode and plan_ceo_plan_mode test 1
  - 'asked' outcome (smoke test exited at first AUQ before the model
    reached the report-writing step) — was throwing on the 1 fail in the
    plan-eng-plan-mode --disallowedTools test

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: drop GSTACK REVIEW REPORT contract from --disallowedTools migrations

The plan-ceo / plan-design --disallowedTools migrated tests called
assertReportAtBottomIfPlanWritten as the final assertion, but that
contract is for full multi-section review completions. Under
--disallowedTools AskUserQuestion the model can't run the full
review (no AUQ tools to ask findings questions through), so it exits
at Step 0 with either prose-AUQ rendering or the legacy decisions
fallback. A plan file written in that mode WON'T have a GSTACK
REVIEW REPORT section — the workflow never reached the report-writing
step.

The contract is still enforced by the periodic finding-count tests
(skill-e2e-plan-{ceo,eng,design,devex}-finding-count.test.ts), which
DO run the full review end-to-end and assert report-at-bottom there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(harness): high-water-mark prose-AUQ tracking across polling iterations

The autoplan E2E surfaces a brief prose-AUQ window (model emits options,
waits ~30s for non-existent test responder, then resumes thinking) that
the existing polling loop misses: by judge-tick time the buffer has
moved into spinner state, so the LLM judge correctly reports 'working'
and the loop times out at 5min.

Adds two flags tracked across polling iterations:
  - proseAUQEverObserved: set true the first tick isProseAUQVisible
    returns true on the recent buffer
  - waitingEverObserved: set true on the first LLM judge 'waiting' verdict

At timeout, if either flag is set, return outcome='asked' with a
summary explaining the historical signal. The model DID surface the
question — we just missed the live-state window.

Snapshot logged with tag='prose-auq-surfaced' when GSTACK_PTY_LOG=1
for postmortem trace.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: migrate plan-eng-plan-mode test 2 envelope to match other plan-mode tests

The plan-ceo, plan-design, and autoplan plan-mode tests under
--disallowedTools all moved to the same surface-visibility envelope
(decisions section OR BLOCKED string OR prose-AUQ visible) and dropped
the GSTACK REVIEW REPORT contract because the workflow can't complete
without AUQ tools. plan-eng-plan-mode test 2 had been left on the old
envelope and was the last failing test.

This commit migrates it to match. Also lifts 'exited' out of the failure
list and into a guarded path (acceptable when surface-visible).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(harness): isProseAUQVisible — gate numbered path on tail, not full buffer

The numbered-options branch of isProseAUQVisible deferred to
isNumberedOptionListVisible whenever a `❯ 1.` cursor was visible in the
full buffer. But the boot trust dialog (`❯ 1. Yes, trust`) lives in
scrollback for the entire run, so this gate suppressed prose-numbered
detection for any session that had the trust prompt at startup —
i.e., every E2E run after the first user-trust acceptance.

Fix: check only the last 4KB tail. Native-UI deferral applies when
the cursor list is CURRENTLY rendered, not historically present in
scrollback.

Adds a regression test that puts the trust dialog in early scrollback
+ 5KB filler + a current prose-AUQ render, asserts true.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(harness): isProseAUQVisible — lower numbered threshold to 2 (matches lettered)

The 4KB tail window often contains only options 2-4 of a 4-option
numbered prose AUQ because the model emits the question header + option 1
several KB earlier in the buffer. The threshold of 3 distinct numbered
markers caused the detector to miss real prose AUQs whenever option 1
had scrolled out.

Threshold 2 matches the lettered branch and is still tightly gated by:
- Line-start anchoring (no false positives on inline `1.` references)
- No-cursor gate (defers to native UI when ❯ 1. is currently rendered)
- The 4KB tail window itself (prose-AUQ rendering happens at the end of
  the model's response, so options are clustered in the tail)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: expose high-water-mark flags through PlanSkillObservation

The 2KB obs.evidence window often misses the prose-AUQ moment because
ExitPlanMode UI ("Ready to execute" + numbered approve/reject prompt)
pushes the model's earlier option list out of the tail by the time
outcome=plan_ready fires. Tests checking "did the user see a question"
need to consult historical state, not just the truncated final tail.

Adds two optional fields to PlanSkillObservation:
  - proseAUQEverObserved: true if isProseAUQVisible was true at any tick
  - waitingEverObserved: true if the LLM judge ever returned 'waiting'

The 4 plan-mode --disallowedTools tests now check these flags as part
of the surfaceVisible computation:
    isProseAUQVisible(obs.evidence) || obs.proseAUQEverObserved === true
    blockedVisible || proseAUQVisible || obs.waitingEverObserved === true

This catches the autoplan / plan-ceo / plan-eng case where the model
surfaces options briefly, fails to get a response, then keeps thinking
— eventually emitting ExitPlanMode and pushing options out of evidence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(plan-ceo): bump --disallowedTools test timeout to 10 min

Last 5 runs showed the model under --disallowedTools spending the full
5-min budget in 'high effort thinking' before surfacing options. The LLM
judge correctly reports state=working at every 30s tick, so the
high-water-mark fallback never fires.

10-min budget gives the model 20 judge windows to eventually surface
the question. Outer bun timeout bumped accordingly to 660s (inner +60s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(plan-ceo): pre-prime --disallowedTools test with concrete plan content

Root cause of the persistent timeout: under --disallowedTools, the model
can't fire the AUQ tool to ask "what should I review?" — it has to
prose-render that question. Prose-rendering a 4-option choice requires
the model to first enumerate every option, which spent the full 5min
budget in 'high effort thinking' (8 consecutive 'state=working' verdicts
from the LLM judge).

Fix: pass initialPlanContent (already supported by runPlanSkillObservation)
with a CEO-review-shaped seed plan (vague success metric, missing
premise, scope creep smell). The model now has concrete material to
critique on entry, bypasses the scope-deliberation loop, and moves
directly to surfacing Step 0 / Section 1 findings — the actual
behavior we want to regression-test.

Reverted timeout from 600_000 back to 300_000 since the 5-min budget
is plenty when the model has a real plan to work with.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: delete --disallowedTools AskUserQuestion-blocked test variants

These tests simulated a fictional environment that doesn't exist in
production. Real Conductor sessions launch claude with
`--disallowedTools AskUserQuestion` AND register
`mcp__conductor__AskUserQuestion` — the model has the MCP variant. But
the tests passed `--disallowedTools` without standing up any MCP server,
so they tested "model behavior with NO AUQ available," which no real
user state produces.

Combined with bare `/plan-ceo-review` invocation (no follow-up content),
this forced the model into a 5+ minute deliberation loop trying to
prose-render a question with options it had to first invent. The result
was persistent flakes that consumed nine paid E2E runs trying to fix
"the model takes too long" — but the actual problem was the test
configuration, not the model.

Removals:
- test/skill-e2e-autoplan-auto-mode.test.ts (deleted; the entire file
  was a single AUQ-blocked test)
- test/skill-e2e-plan-ceo-plan-mode.test.ts test 2 (the migrated
  --disallowedTools test); test 1 (baseline plan-mode smoke) stays
- test/skill-e2e-plan-design-plan-mode.test.ts test 2 (same shape);
  test 1 stays
- test/skill-e2e-plan-eng-plan-mode.test.ts test 2 (same shape); test 1
  (baseline) and test 3 (STOP-gate with seeded plan, different
  contract) stay
- test/helpers/touchfiles.ts: autoplan-auto-mode entry removed
- test/touchfiles.test.ts: assertion count + commentary updated

Coverage retained: test 1 of each plan-mode file already verifies the
model fires AUQ; the periodic finding-count tests verify per-finding
AUQ cadence end-to-end. The harness improvements landed during this
debugging cycle (isProseAUQVisible regex, LLM judge, snapshot logging,
high-water-mark tracking, ENOENT-tolerant assertReportAtBottomIfPlanWritten)
all stay — they're useful for the remaining plan-mode tests that can
also encounter prose rendering and slow-thinking phases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.31.0.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/**
* Real-PTY runner for Claude Code plan-mode E2E tests.
*
* Spawns the actual `claude` binary via `Bun.spawn({terminal:})`, drives
* it through stdin/stdout, parses the rendered terminal frames, and exposes
* primitives the 5 plan-mode tests need. Replaces the SDK-based
* `runPlanModeSkillTest` from plan-mode-helpers.ts which never worked
* because plan mode doesn't use the AskUserQuestion tool — it uses its
* own TTY-rendered native confirmation UI.
*
* Why this exists: the SDK harness intercepts `canUseTool` for
* `AskUserQuestion`. Claude in plan mode renders its "Ready to execute"
* confirmation as a native option list (1-4 numbered options) without
* invoking the AskUserQuestion tool. The SDK never sees it. Real PTY
* does — it shows up as text on screen with `` cursor markers.
*
* Architecture: pure Bun.spawn — no node-pty, no native modules, no chmod
* fixes. Bun 1.3.10+ has built-in PTY support via the `terminal:` spawn
* option. Pattern borrowed from cc-pty-import branch's terminal-agent.ts
* (the WS/cookie/Origin scaffolding there is for the browser sidebar;
* tests don't need it).
*/
import * as fs from 'fs';
import * as os from 'os';
import * as path from 'path';
/** Strip ANSI escapes for pattern-matching against visible text. */
export function stripAnsi(s: string): string {
return s
.replace(/\x1b\[[\d;]*[a-zA-Z]/g, '')
.replace(/\x1b\][^\x07\x1b]*(\x07|\x1b\\)/g, '')
.replace(/\x1b[()][AB012]/g, '')
.replace(/\x1b[78=>]/g, '');
}
/** Find claude on PATH, with fallback locations. Mirrors terminal-agent.ts. */
export function resolveClaudeBinary(): string | null {
const override = process.env.BROWSE_TERMINAL_BINARY;
if (override && fs.existsSync(override)) return override;
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
const which = (Bun as any).which?.('claude');
if (which) return which;
const candidates = [
'/opt/homebrew/bin/claude',
'/usr/local/bin/claude',
`${process.env.HOME}/.local/bin/claude`,
`${process.env.HOME}/.bun/bin/claude`,
`${process.env.HOME}/.npm-global/bin/claude`,
];
for (const c of candidates) {
try {
fs.accessSync(c, fs.constants.X_OK);
return c;
} catch {
/* keep searching */
}
}
return null;
}
export interface ClaudePtyOptions {
/**
* Permission mode for the session.
* - 'plan' (default) — launches with --permission-mode plan
* - undefined — no --permission-mode flag at all (regular interactive)
* Other valid SDK modes ('default', 'acceptEdits', 'bypassPermissions',
* 'auto', 'dontAsk') are passed through verbatim.
*/
permissionMode?: 'plan' | 'default' | 'acceptEdits' | 'bypassPermissions' | 'auto' | 'dontAsk' | null;
/** Extra args after the permission-mode flag. */
extraArgs?: string[];
/** Terminal size. Default 120x40. Plan-mode UI lays out cleanly at this size. */
cols?: number;
rows?: number;
/** Working directory. Default: process.cwd(). The repo cwd has the gstack
* skill registry and trusted-folder cookie, so most tests want this. */
cwd?: string;
/** Extra env on top of process.env. */
env?: Record<string, string>;
/** Total run timeout (ms). Default 240000 (4 min). */
timeoutMs?: number;
}
export interface ClaudePtySession {
/** Send raw bytes to PTY stdin. Newlines = "\r" in TTY world. */
send(data: string): void;
/** Send a key by name. Limited set used by these tests. */
sendKey(key: 'Enter' | 'Up' | 'Down' | 'Esc' | 'Tab' | 'ShiftTab' | 'CtrlC'): void;
/** Raw accumulated stdout (with ANSI). For forensics. */
rawOutput(): string;
/** Visible (ANSI-stripped) output for the entire session. For pattern matching. */
visibleText(): string;
/**
* Mark the current buffer position. Subsequent waitForAny / visibleSince
* calls only look at output AFTER this mark. Use to scope assertions to
* "after I sent the skill command" — avoids matching against the trust
* dialog or boot banner residue. Returns a marker handle.
*/
mark(): number;
/** Visible text since the most recent (or specific) mark. */
visibleSince(marker?: number): string;
/**
* Wait for any of the supplied patterns to appear in visibleText. Resolves
* with the first match. Throws on timeout (with last 2KB of visible text).
* If `since` is supplied, only matches text after that mark.
*/
waitForAny(
patterns: Array<RegExp | string>,
opts?: { timeoutMs?: number; pollMs?: number; since?: number },
): Promise<{ matched: RegExp | string; index: number }>;
/** Convenience: single-pattern wait. */
waitFor(
pattern: RegExp | string,
opts?: { timeoutMs?: number; pollMs?: number; since?: number },
): Promise<void>;
/** Process pid (for debug). */
pid(): number | undefined;
/** Whether the underlying process has exited. */
exited(): boolean;
/** Exit code, if known. */
exitCode(): number | null;
/**
* Send SIGINT, then SIGKILL after 1s. Always safe to call multiple times.
* Awaits process exit before resolving.
*/
close(): Promise<void>;
}
/** Detect the workspace-trust dialog rendering. */
export function isTrustDialogVisible(visible: string): boolean {
// Phrase Claude Code prints. Stable across versions in this branch's range.
return visible.includes('trust this folder');
}
/**
* Detect plan-mode's native "ready to execute" confirmation. Tests both the
* spaced and whitespace-collapsed forms because stripAnsi removes cursor-
* positioning escapes (e.g. `\x1b[40C`) that render visually as spaces but
* leave no character behind — so "ready to execute" can come through as
* "readytoexecute" depending on the rendering path.
*/
export function isPlanReadyVisible(visible: string): boolean {
if (/ready to execute|Would you like to proceed/i.test(visible)) return true;
const collapsed = visible.replace(/\s+/g, '');
return /readytoexecute|Wouldyouliketoproceed/i.test(collapsed);
}
/**
* Detect the AUTO_DECIDE preamble template firing. The model prints
* "Auto-decided <summary> → <option> (your preference). Change with /plan-tune."
* when it short-circuits an AskUserQuestion via the question-tuning resolver
* (`scripts/resolvers/question-tuning.ts:26`). The "Auto-decided ..." stem +
* "(your preference)" tail combination is the tightest signal. Whitespace-
* collapsed forms covered for the same TTY-rendering reason as
* isPlanReadyVisible.
*/
export function isAutoDecidedVisible(visible: string): boolean {
const stemMatch =
/Auto-decided\b/i.test(visible) || /Auto-decided/i.test(visible.replace(/\s+/g, ''));
if (!stemMatch) return false;
if (/\(your preference\)/i.test(visible)) return true;
return /\(yourpreference\)/i.test(visible.replace(/\s+/g, ''));
}
/**
* Extract the plan file path from rendered TTY output. Plan-mode's native
* confirmation includes one of these formats near the "Ready to execute?"
* prompt:
* - `Plan saved to: /path/to/plan.md`
* - `Plan file: /path/to/plan.md`
* - `ctrl-g to edit in VSCode · ~/.claude/plans/<name>.md`
*
* stripAnsi may collapse whitespace via cursor-positioning escape removal,
* so the regex tolerates variable spacing. Returns the resolved absolute
* path with `~` expanded, or null if no path was rendered.
*
* Used by v1.22 AskUserQuestion-blocked regression tests to read the plan
* file post-`plan_ready` and verify it contains a decisions section, which
* distinguishes the legitimate fallback flow ("write decision brief into
* plan file") from the silent-skip regression ("write a plan that didn't
* surface any decisions").
*/
export function extractPlanFilePath(visible: string): string | null {
// Patterns checked in order of specificity. Each captures the .md path.
// The visible buffer may have stripAnsi-collapsed whitespace ("yet at" can
// become "yetat"), so the captured path MUST start at a clear path-anchor
// character: `~/`, `/Users/`, `/home/`, `/var/`, or `/tmp/`. Anchoring on
// these prefixes prevents earlier non-whitespace characters from being
// glommed into the path (real bug seen in the wild: `yetat/Users/...`).
const PATH_ANCHOR = '(~\\/|\\/Users\\/|\\/home\\/|\\/var\\/|\\/tmp\\/|\\.\\/)';
const patterns: RegExp[] = [
new RegExp(`Plan\\s*saved\\s*to\\s*:?\\s*(${PATH_ANCHOR}\\S+\\.md)`, 'i'),
new RegExp(`Plan\\s*file\\s*:?\\s*(${PATH_ANCHOR}\\S+\\.md)`, 'i'),
new RegExp(`·\\s*(${PATH_ANCHOR}\\S*\\.claude\\/plans\\/\\S+\\.md)`, 'i'),
// Fallback: any path-anchored reference to a .claude/plans .md file.
new RegExp(`(${PATH_ANCHOR}\\S*\\.claude\\/plans\\/[\\w-]+\\.md)`, 'i'),
];
for (const p of patterns) {
const m = visible.match(p);
if (m && m[1]) {
let raw = m[1];
// Strip trailing punctuation that some patterns may capture.
raw = raw.replace(/\.+$/, '.md').replace(/\.md\.+$/, '.md');
// Tilde expansion to absolute path.
if (raw.startsWith('~')) {
const home = process.env.HOME ?? '';
raw = home + raw.slice(1);
}
return raw;
}
}
return null;
}
/**
* Read a plan file written by a plan-mode skill and verify it contains a
* "decisions" section — evidence the skill surfaced the decisions it was
* supposed to gate on, even when AskUserQuestion is --disallowedTools and
* the model used the plan-file fallback flow instead of a numbered prompt.
*
* Accepts any `## Decisions ...` heading (the canonical form from the
* preamble is `## Decisions to confirm`, but small variants like
* `## Decisions needed` or `## Decisions for review` are common). Returns
* false if the file is unreadable, missing, or has no decisions section.
*/
export function planFileHasDecisionsSection(planFile: string): boolean {
try {
const content = fs.readFileSync(planFile, 'utf-8');
return /^##\s+Decisions\b/im.test(content);
} catch {
return false;
}
}
/**
* Recent-tail window (in bytes of stripped TTY text) used when classifying
* permission dialogs. Old permission text persists in the visibleSince buffer
* after the dialog is dismissed, so callers should pass `visible.slice(-TAIL_SCAN_BYTES)`
* to avoid re-triggering on stale scrollback. Shared between `runPlanSkillObservation`
* and `navigateToModeAskUserQuestion` in the routing test so tuning stays in sync.
*/
export const TAIL_SCAN_BYTES = 1500;
/**
* Detect a Claude Code permission dialog. These render as a numbered
* option list (so isNumberedOptionListVisible matches them) but they
* are NOT a skill's AskUserQuestion — they're claude asking the user
* whether to grant a tool/file permission. Tests that look for skill
* AskUserQuestions must explicitly skip these.
*
* The English phrases below are stable across recent Claude Code
* versions. The check is permissive on whitespace because TTY rendering
* may wrap or reflow text.
*
* Co-trigger requirement: the bare phrase "Do you want to proceed?" is
* generic enough that a skill question could legitimately use it
* ("Do you want to proceed with HOLD SCOPE?"). To avoid mis-classifying
* skill questions as permission dialogs, this phrase only counts when it
* co-occurs with a file-edit context ("Edit to <path>" or "Write to <path>").
* The standalone permission signatures (`requested permissions to`,
* `allow all edits`, `always allow access to`, `Bash command requires permission`)
* remain unconditional.
*/
export function isPermissionDialogVisible(visible: string): boolean {
// Standalone signatures — high specificity, never appear in skill questions.
if (/requested\s+permissions?\s+to/i.test(visible)) return true;
// "Yes / Yes, allow all edits / No" shape — file-edit permission grants.
if (/\ballow\s+all\s+edits\b/i.test(visible)) return true;
// "Yes, and always allow access to <dir>" shape — workspace trust.
if (/always\s+allow\s+access\s+to/i.test(visible)) return true;
// Bash command permission prompts.
if (/Bash\s+command\s+.*\s+requires\s+permission/i.test(visible)) return true;
// "Do you want to proceed?" only counts as a permission dialog when paired
// with a file-edit context. Skill questions can use the bare phrase.
if (
/Do\s+you\s+want\s+to\s+proceed\?/i.test(visible) &&
/(Edit|Write)\s+to\s+\S+/i.test(visible)
) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/** Detect any AskUserQuestion-shaped numbered option list with cursor. */
export function isNumberedOptionListVisible(visible: string): boolean {
// cursor + at least two numbered options 1-9.
// Matches the trust dialog AND plan-ready prompt AND skill questions.
// Tighter classification happens via scope (after-trust, after-skill-cmd, etc).
//
// Note on the `2\.` regex: the TTY uses cursor-positioning escape codes
// (`\x1b[40C`) for whitespace which stripAnsi removes — collapsing
// `text 2.` to `text2.`. A `\b2\.` word-boundary regex therefore fails
// because `t-2` is a word-to-word transition. We use the weaker
// `[^0-9]2\.` to require a non-digit before `2` (so we don't match
// `12.0`) without requiring whitespace.
return /\s*1\./.test(visible) && /(^|[^0-9])2\./.test(visible);
}
// ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// LLM judge — "is the model waiting for user input, working, or hung?"
//
// Regex detectors (isNumberedOptionListVisible, isProseAUQVisible) are fast
// and deterministic but brittle to PTY rendering quirks (cursor-positioning
// escapes that collapse multi-line option lists onto a single logical line).
// When they miss, the polling loop times out at the full budget — even
// though the model is correctly surfacing a question via a format the regex
// can't reassemble.
//
// This LLM judge takes a TTY snapshot and answers a trichotomy:
// - 'waiting' — agent surfaced a question/options, sitting at input prompt
// - 'working' — agent is still generating (spinner, tool calls, "Musing")
// - 'hung' — agent stopped without surfacing anything (rare)
//
// Used by polling loops as a fallback after N seconds with no terminal
// classification. On 'waiting' verdict, return outcome='asked' early.
//
// Cost: ~$0.0005 per call using claude haiku 4.5. Cached by snapshot hash so
// identical TTY frames don't re-charge. All verdicts logged to
// ~/.gstack/analytics/pty-judge.jsonl for offline analysis.
// ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
import { spawnSync as nodeSpawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
export interface PtyStateVerdict {
state: 'waiting' | 'working' | 'hung' | 'unknown';
reasoning: string;
/** SHA-1 of the normalized snapshot input (for caching/dedup). */
hash: string;
/** Wall time (ms) the judge call took. */
elapsedMs: number;
}
const PTY_VERDICT_CACHE = new Map<string, PtyStateVerdict>();
/**
* Persist a verdict (or snapshot dump) to the analytics JSONL log.
* Best-effort — failures (disk full, permission denied, etc.) are swallowed
* so the harness never fails on logging.
*/
function logPtyJudge(record: Record<string, unknown>): void {
try {
const dir = `${process.env.HOME}/.gstack/analytics`;
fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
fs.appendFileSync(`${dir}/pty-judge.jsonl`, JSON.stringify(record) + '\n');
} catch {
/* best-effort */
}
}
/**
* Snapshot dump for postmortem debugging when GSTACK_PTY_LOG=1.
* Writes the last 4KB of visible TTY plus context to
* ~/.gstack/analytics/pty-snapshots/<testName>-<elapsed>ms.txt.
*/
export function logPtySnapshot(visible: string, ctx: { testName: string; elapsedMs: number; tag?: string }): void {
if (process.env.GSTACK_PTY_LOG !== '1') return;
try {
const dir = `${process.env.HOME}/.gstack/analytics/pty-snapshots`;
fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
const tag = ctx.tag ? `-${ctx.tag}` : '';
const file = `${dir}/${ctx.testName}-${ctx.elapsedMs}ms${tag}.txt`;
fs.writeFileSync(
file,
`# testName: ${ctx.testName}\n# elapsedMs: ${ctx.elapsedMs}\n# tag: ${ctx.tag ?? ''}\n# visible.length: ${visible.length}\n\n${visible.slice(-4096)}`,
);
} catch {
/* best-effort */
}
}
/**
* Ask Claude Haiku 4.5 to classify a TTY snapshot as waiting/working/hung.
*
* Implementation: spawns `claude -p --model claude-haiku-4-5` synchronously
* with the prompt piped via stdin. Uses subscription auth (no API key env
* required). 30-second timeout; returns 'unknown' on any failure mode
* (timeout, malformed JSON, missing claude binary).
*
* Cache: identical snapshot hashes return the cached verdict without
* re-calling. Cache lives in-process; resets between test runs.
*/
export function judgePtyState(
visible: string,
ctx?: { testName?: string },
): PtyStateVerdict {
// Normalize: strip trailing whitespace lines + take last 4KB. Hash the
// normalized form so spinner-frame-only diffs (which all look "working")
// don't bust the cache and rack up cost.
const tail = visible.slice(-4096).replace(/[ \t]+$/gm, '');
const hash = createHash('sha1').update(tail).digest('hex').slice(0, 16);
const cached = PTY_VERDICT_CACHE.get(hash);
if (cached) return cached;
const judgeStart = Date.now();
const prompt = `You are reading a snapshot of a terminal where Claude Code is running in plan mode for an automated test. Your job: classify the agent's current state.
Pick exactly ONE:
- WAITING — agent surfaced a question or option list and is sitting at the input prompt waiting for user reply. Signs: numbered/lettered options visible (1./2./3. or A)/B)/C)), "Recommendation:" line, cursor at empty input prompt with no recent generation activity.
- WORKING — agent is actively generating or running tools. Signs: spinner glyphs (✻ ✶ ✳ ✢ ✽), "Musing..." or "Churned for ..." text, recent tool-call blocks (Read/Edit/Bash/Grep), in-flight token output.
- HUNG — agent has stopped without surfacing a question and without any spinner/work activity. Rare; usually means a crash.
Respond with strict JSON ONLY (no markdown fences, no prose):
{"state":"waiting","reasoning":"one short sentence"}
Terminal snapshot (last 4KB):
\`\`\`
${tail}
\`\`\``;
let verdict: PtyStateVerdict = {
state: 'unknown',
reasoning: 'judge call did not complete',
hash,
elapsedMs: 0,
};
try {
const result = nodeSpawnSync(
'claude',
['-p', '--model', 'claude-haiku-4-5', '--max-turns', '1'],
{
input: prompt,
stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
timeout: 30_000,
encoding: 'utf-8',
},
);
const elapsedMs = Date.now() - judgeStart;
if (result.status === 0 && result.stdout) {
// Pull the first {...} JSON object out of stdout. Haiku occasionally
// wraps in ```json ...``` despite the prompt; tolerate that.
const match = result.stdout.match(/\{[\s\S]*?"state"[\s\S]*?\}/);
if (match) {
try {
const parsed = JSON.parse(match[0]);
const state = ['waiting', 'working', 'hung'].includes(parsed.state)
? (parsed.state as 'waiting' | 'working' | 'hung')
: 'unknown';
verdict = {
state,
reasoning: typeof parsed.reasoning === 'string' ? parsed.reasoning.slice(0, 200) : '',
hash,
elapsedMs,
};
} catch {
verdict = { state: 'unknown', reasoning: 'malformed JSON', hash, elapsedMs };
}
} else {
verdict = { state: 'unknown', reasoning: 'no JSON in response', hash, elapsedMs };
}
} else {
verdict = {
state: 'unknown',
reasoning: `claude exited ${result.status} (${(result.stderr ?? '').slice(0, 80)})`,
hash,
elapsedMs,
};
}
} catch (err) {
verdict = {
state: 'unknown',
reasoning: `judge spawn failed: ${(err as Error).message}`.slice(0, 200),
hash,
elapsedMs: Date.now() - judgeStart,
};
}
PTY_VERDICT_CACHE.set(hash, verdict);
logPtyJudge({
ts: new Date().toISOString(),
testName: ctx?.testName ?? 'unknown',
state: verdict.state,
reasoning: verdict.reasoning,
hash: verdict.hash,
judgeMs: verdict.elapsedMs,
});
return verdict;
}
/**
* Detect a prose-rendered AskUserQuestion in plan mode.
*
* Plan-mode AUQs sometimes render as visible model output rather than via
* the native numbered-prompt UI — e.g., when --disallowedTools AskUserQuestion
* is set and no MCP variant is callable, the model surfaces the question as
* lettered or numbered options in plain text. isNumberedOptionListVisible
* doesn't catch these because the `` cursor sits on the empty input prompt,
* not on option 1.
*
* Detection patterns:
* - 2+ distinct lettered options (A) B) C) D)) at line starts — typical
* for plan-eng / plan-design / plan-devex prose AUQ
* - 3+ distinct numbered options (1. 2. 3.) at line starts WITHOUT a
* `<spaces>1.` cursor — typical for autoplan / office-hours prose AUQ
*
* Used by classifyVisible and runPlanSkillFloorCheck to return outcome='asked'
* (or auq_observed) instead of letting the harness time out when the model
* is correctly surfacing the question and waiting for user input via prose.
*
* The 4KB tail window avoids matching stale options from earlier prompts in
* scrollback. Permission dialogs are filtered out by the caller (see
* isPermissionDialogVisible callers in classifyVisible).
*/
export function isProseAUQVisible(visible: string): boolean {
const tail = visible.length > 4096 ? visible.slice(-4096) : visible;
// Pattern 1: 2+ distinct lettered options at line starts. Allow leading
// whitespace or `` cursor before the marker. PTY may collapse multiple
// option lines onto one logical line via stripped cursor-positioning
// escapes, but the NEWLINE before each option survives.
const letteredRe = /(?:^|\n)[ \t]*([A-D])\)/g;
const letteredHits = new Set<string>();
let lm: RegExpExecArray | null;
while ((lm = letteredRe.exec(tail)) !== null) {
if (lm[1]) letteredHits.add(lm[1]);
}
if (letteredHits.size >= 2) return true;
// Pattern 2: 2+ distinct numbered options at line starts, AND no
// `<spaces>1.` cursor IN THE RECENT TAIL (not the full buffer — a
// trust-dialog ` 1. Yes` at boot is in scrollback forever and
// would otherwise suppress this path for the rest of the run).
// The native-UI deferral only applies when the cursor list is
// currently rendered, not historically.
//
// Threshold 2 (matching the lettered branch): the tail is a 4KB window,
// and by the time the polling loop sees it, the model may have emitted
// option 1 several KB earlier and only 2/3/4 remain in tail. False
// positives on prose ("First, x. Second, y.") are extremely rare given
// the line-start anchor + the no-cursor gate.
if (/\s*1\./.test(tail)) return false;
const numberedRe = /(?:^|\n)[ \t]*([1-9])\./g;
const numberedHits = new Set<string>();
let nm: RegExpExecArray | null;
while ((nm = numberedRe.exec(tail)) !== null) {
if (nm[1]) numberedHits.add(nm[1]);
}
return numberedHits.size >= 2;
}
/**
* Parse a rendered numbered-option list out of the visible TTY text.
*
* Looks for lines like ` 1. label` (cursor) or ` 2. label` (no cursor)
* and returns them in order. Used by tests that need to ROUTE on a specific
* option label (e.g. answer "HOLD SCOPE" by sending its index + Enter)
* without hard-coding positional indexes that drift when option order
* changes between skill versions.
*
* Reads only the LAST 4KB of visible to avoid matching stale option lists
* from earlier prompts in the session.
*
* Returns [] when no list is rendered. Otherwise returns indices in the
* order they appear (1-based, matching what the user types). Labels are
* trimmed but otherwise verbatim from the TTY (may include trailing
* `(recommended)` markers, etc).
*/
export function parseNumberedOptions(
visible: string,
): Array<{ index: number; label: string }> {
const tail = visible.length > 4096 ? visible.slice(-4096) : visible;
// Split on lines, look for ` N.` or ` N.` patterns. Up to N=9.
// The `\s*` after `.` (not `\s+`) is required because stripAnsi removes
// TTY cursor-positioning escapes that render as spaces, so a label that
// visually reads "1. Option" can come through as "1.Option".
const optionRe = /^[\s]*([1-9])\.\s*(\S.*?)\s*$/;
// We anchor on the LATEST ` 1.` line in the buffer — the cursor marker
// for the active AskUserQuestion. Older numbered lists (e.g., a granted permission
// dialog still in scrollback) sit above it and must be ignored. Without
// this, parseNumberedOptions returns stale options after the dialog is
// dismissed.
const lines = tail.split('\n');
// Anchor on the LAST line containing `<spaces>1.` ANYWHERE on the line.
// The /plan-*-review skill's box-layout AUQ uses TTY cursor-positioning
// escapes that stripAnsi removes — leaving the cursor `1.` mid-line,
// after dividers + header + prompt text on the same logical line. The
// earlier `^\s*` anchor missed those entirely.
let cursorLineIdx = -1;
for (let i = lines.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (/\s*1\./.test(lines[i] ?? '')) {
cursorLineIdx = i;
break;
}
}
// Fallback: if cursor isn't on option 1 (user pressed Down), find the
// last `1.` line. Allow leading ` ` or ` ` prefixes; do NOT include ``
// in the leading character class because greedy matching would eat the
// sigil and prevent the literal-cursor anchor above from finding it.
if (cursorLineIdx < 0) {
for (let i = lines.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (/^(?:\s*|\s*\s+)1\./.test(lines[i] ?? '')) {
cursorLineIdx = i;
break;
}
}
}
if (cursorLineIdx < 0) return [];
const found: Array<{ index: number; label: string }> = [];
const seenIndices = new Set<number>();
// Cursor line: option 1 may be inline after box dividers + prompt header
// (`...divider...header...1. label`). Use a non-anchored regex that
// captures `N. label` from anywhere on the line through end-of-line.
// Only used for the cursor line — subsequent options are parsed with the
// start-of-line `optionRe`.
const cursorLine = lines[cursorLineIdx] ?? '';
const cursorInlineRe = /\s*([1-9])\.\s*(\S.*?)\s*$/;
const inlineMatch = cursorInlineRe.exec(cursorLine);
if (inlineMatch) {
const idx = Number(inlineMatch[1]);
const label = (inlineMatch[2] ?? '').trim();
if (label.length > 0 && !seenIndices.has(idx)) {
seenIndices.add(idx);
found.push({ index: idx, label });
}
} else {
// No inline cursor match — fall back to start-of-line regex.
const startMatch = optionRe.exec(cursorLine);
if (startMatch) {
const idx = Number(startMatch[1]);
const label = (startMatch[2] ?? '').trim();
if (label.length > 0 && !seenIndices.has(idx)) {
seenIndices.add(idx);
found.push({ index: idx, label });
}
}
}
// Subsequent lines: standard start-of-line option parsing.
for (let i = cursorLineIdx + 1; i < lines.length; i++) {
const m = optionRe.exec(lines[i] ?? '');
if (!m) continue;
const idx = Number(m[1]);
const label = (m[2] ?? '').trim();
if (seenIndices.has(idx)) continue;
if (label.length === 0) continue;
seenIndices.add(idx);
found.push({ index: idx, label });
}
// Only return if we found a sequential 1.., 2.., ... block (at least 2
// consecutive options starting at 1). Otherwise it's noise (e.g. a
// numbered list inside prose, like "1. Read the file").
found.sort((a, b) => a.index - b.index);
if (found.length < 2) return [];
if (found[0]!.index !== 1) return [];
for (let i = 1; i < found.length; i++) {
if (found[i]!.index !== found[i - 1]!.index + 1) {
// Truncate at the first gap.
return found.slice(0, i);
}
}
return found;
}
/**
* The four /plan-ceo-review modes. Used by `skill-e2e-plan-ceo-mode-routing`
* to detect Step 0F mode-selection AskUserQuestions, and by the upcoming
* finding-count tests as a Step-0 boundary signal: an AUQ whose options
* match this regex IS the mode pick (the last Step-0 question for plan-ceo).
*
* Lifted out of the mode-routing test so multiple PTY tests can share one
* source of truth — when /plan-ceo-review adds a fifth mode, one regex updates
* everywhere instead of drifting per-test.
*/
export const MODE_RE = /HOLD SCOPE|SCOPE EXPANSION|SELECTIVE EXPANSION|SCOPE REDUCTION/i;
/**
* Stable signature for a parsed numbered-option list — used by tests to detect
* "is this AUQ the same as the last poll, or has the agent advanced to a new
* one?" Joins each option as `${index}:${label}` after sorting by index.
*
* Defensive sort means the signature is order-independent at the input level,
* even though `parseNumberedOptions` already returns indices in ascending order.
*/
export function optionsSignature(
opts: Array<{ index: number; label: string }>,
): string {
return [...opts]
.sort((a, b) => a.index - b.index)
.map((o) => `${o.index}:${o.label}`)
.join('|');
}
/**
* Pure classifier for the visible TTY buffer. Decides which outcome the
* polling loop should return on this tick, or `null` to keep polling.
*
* Extracted from `runPlanSkillObservation` so the unit suite can exercise
* the actual branch order with synthetic input strings — a future contributor
* who reorders the branches (e.g., moves the permission short-circuit) gets
* caught by the unit tests, not by a stochastic E2E run.
*
* Live-state branches (process exited, "Unknown command") stay in the runner
* since they need the session handle.
*/
export type ClassifyResult =
| { outcome: 'silent_write'; summary: string }
| { outcome: 'wrote_findings_before_asking'; summary: string }
| { outcome: 'auto_decided'; summary: string }
| { outcome: 'plan_ready'; summary: string }
| { outcome: 'asked'; summary: string }
| null;
const SANCTIONED_WRITE_SUBSTRINGS = [
'.claude/plans',
'.gstack/',
'/.context/',
'CHANGELOG.md',
'TODOS.md',
];
/**
* Find the position of the first AskUserQuestion-style numbered-option list
* that is NOT a permission dialog. Returns -1 if none has rendered yet.
*
* Used by the strict-plan-writes detector (D4) to distinguish legitimate
* post-AUQ plan writes from the transcript bug ("write findings to plan
* before asking").
*/
function findFirstAuqRenderIndex(visible: string): number {
const re = /\s*1\./g;
let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
while ((m = re.exec(visible)) !== null) {
// 200 bytes back + TAIL_SCAN_BYTES forward gives enough context for
// isPermissionDialogVisible to recognize the typical permission UI.
const surroundStart = Math.max(0, m.index - 200);
const surroundEnd = Math.min(visible.length, m.index + TAIL_SCAN_BYTES);
const surround = visible.slice(surroundStart, surroundEnd);
if (!isPermissionDialogVisible(surround)) {
return m.index;
}
}
return -1;
}
export function classifyVisible(
visible: string,
opts?: {
/**
* When true, treat Write/Edit to `.claude/plans/*` BEFORE any
* AskUserQuestion render as `wrote_findings_before_asking` rather than
* letting the sanctioned-write list silently approve it. Used by tests
* that seed a draft plan with guaranteed-finding-triggering complexity
* (D3-B), where a pre-AUQ plan write is the precise transcript bug.
* Default false — preserves existing behavior for unseeded smoke tests
* where zero-findings → write plan → plan_ready is legitimate.
*/
strictPlanWrites?: boolean;
},
): ClassifyResult {
// Silent-write detection: any Write/Edit tool render that targets a path
// OUTSIDE the sanctioned dirs, AND no numbered prompt is currently on screen
// (a numbered prompt means a permission/AskUserQuestion is gating the write,
// not an actual silent write).
const writeRe = /⏺\s*(?:Write|Edit)\(([^)]+)\)/g;
let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
const auqRenderIdx = opts?.strictPlanWrites ? findFirstAuqRenderIndex(visible) : -1;
while ((m = writeRe.exec(visible)) !== null) {
const target = m[1] ?? '';
const writePos = m.index;
const isPlanWrite = target.includes('.claude/plans');
const sanctioned = SANCTIONED_WRITE_SUBSTRINGS.some((s) => target.includes(s));
// D4-B: when strictPlanWrites is on, plan writes that precede the first
// AUQ render are flagged. Legitimate end-of-workflow plan writes happen
// AFTER an AUQ has rendered (i.e., the user has been asked). The
// transcript bug is a plan write WITHOUT any AUQ render preceding it.
if (opts?.strictPlanWrites && isPlanWrite) {
if (auqRenderIdx < 0 || writePos < auqRenderIdx) {
return {
outcome: 'wrote_findings_before_asking',
summary: `Write/Edit to ${target} fired before any AskUserQuestion render`,
};
}
// post-AUQ plan write — legitimate, fall through to other writes
continue;
}
if (!sanctioned && !isNumberedOptionListVisible(visible)) {
return {
outcome: 'silent_write',
summary: `Write/Edit to ${target} fired before any AskUserQuestion`,
};
}
}
// 'auto_decided' must beat 'plan_ready': when AUTO_DECIDE fires upstream of
// plan-ready, both signals are visible by the time the polling loop checks.
// The annotation text is the more informative outcome — it explains WHY
// we got to plan_ready without surfacing the question.
if (isAutoDecidedVisible(visible)) {
return {
outcome: 'auto_decided',
summary:
'skill auto-decided an AskUserQuestion via the AUTO_DECIDE preamble (the user never saw the prompt)',
};
}
if (isPlanReadyVisible(visible)) {
return {
outcome: 'plan_ready',
summary: 'skill ran end-to-end and emitted plan-mode "Ready to execute" confirmation',
};
}
if (isNumberedOptionListVisible(visible)) {
// Permission dialogs render numbered lists too. Skip them — the
// bug we want to catch is "skill question never fired."
if (isPermissionDialogVisible(visible.slice(-TAIL_SCAN_BYTES))) {
return null;
}
return {
outcome: 'asked',
summary: 'skill fired a numbered-option prompt (AskUserQuestion or routing-injection)',
};
}
// Prose-rendered AUQ: model surfaced the question as lettered or numbered
// options in plain text (typical under --disallowedTools AskUserQuestion
// when no MCP variant is callable). The model is waiting for user input
// via the plan-mode input prompt rather than via the AUQ tool UI; this
// is still a legitimate "asked" surface — semantically equivalent to a
// tool-call AUQ from the test's perspective.
if (isProseAUQVisible(visible)) {
if (isPermissionDialogVisible(visible.slice(-TAIL_SCAN_BYTES))) {
return null;
}
return {
outcome: 'asked',
summary: 'skill rendered a prose-style AskUserQuestion (model waiting for user input)',
};
}
return null;
}
// ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Per-finding AskUserQuestion count primitives (used by runPlanSkillCounting).
//
// These are pure helpers extracted up-front so the unit suite can exercise
// them deterministically before the live-PTY counter runs them. Each one is
// independently unit-testable against synthetic visible-buffer strings.
// ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/**
* Captured identity of an AskUserQuestion — the rendered question text plus
* its numbered options. Used by `runPlanSkillCounting` to dedupe redrawn
* prompts and to feed `Step0BoundaryPredicate` callers.
*
* `signature` is the stable hash. Two AUQs with identical prompt + options
* produce the same signature; differences in either field produce different
* signatures. Critically: two AUQs with shared option labels (e.g. the
* generic "A) Add to plan / B) Defer / C) Build now" menu) but different
* question text get DIFFERENT signatures because the prompt is in the hash.
*/
export interface AskUserQuestionFingerprint {
/** Stable hash combining normalized prompt text + options signature. */
signature: string;
/** First 240 chars of the rendered question prompt (post-normalization). */
promptSnippet: string;
/** Captured option labels, in index order. */
options: Array<{ index: number; label: string }>;
/** Wall-clock when first observed (ms since the helper started polling). */
observedAtMs: number;
/** True if observed BEFORE the Step-0 boundary fired. */
preReview: boolean;
}
/**
* Predicate fired against the AUQ we just answered (not the visible buffer).
* Returns true if this AUQ's fingerprint marks the LAST Step-0 question for
* its skill — all subsequent AUQs are review-phase findings.
*
* Event-based by design: matching against an answered AUQ's fingerprint
* (prompt + options) is deterministic, whereas matching against later
* rendered content (section headers, summary text) races with the agent's
* output cadence. See plan §D14 for the rationale.
*/
export type Step0BoundaryPredicate = (
answeredFingerprint: AskUserQuestionFingerprint,
) => boolean;
/**
* Parse the rendered question prompt out of a visible TTY buffer. The prompt
* is the 13 lines of text immediately ABOVE the latest ` 1.` cursor line —
* not part of the option list, not the permission-dialog header.
*
* Returns the prompt normalized to a single-spaced 240-char snippet (strip
* ANSI residue, collapse internal whitespace, trim) — short enough to use as
* a hash key, long enough to disambiguate distinct questions.
*
* Returns "" when no prompt could be parsed (cursor not yet rendered, or
* cursor is at the top of the buffer with no preceding text). Callers that
* use the empty string as a fingerprint input should treat empty-prompt
* AUQs as "wait one more poll" rather than fingerprinting them — otherwise
* the same options + empty prompt across two distinct questions collide.
*/
export function parseQuestionPrompt(visible: string): string {
// Tail-only — older prompts higher in the buffer are stale.
const tail = visible.length > 4096 ? visible.slice(-4096) : visible;
const lines = tail.split('\n');
// Find the latest line containing `<spaces>1.` (matching parseNumberedOptions —
// unanchored to handle the box-layout case where cursor is mid-line after
// divider + header + prompt text on the same logical line).
let cursorLineIdx = -1;
for (let i = lines.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (/\s*1\./.test(lines[i] ?? '')) {
cursorLineIdx = i;
break;
}
}
if (cursorLineIdx < 0) return '';
// Box-layout case: prompt text may be ON the cursor line, BEFORE `1.`.
// Extract that prefix (after stripping leading box-drawing characters and
// dividers) as the last piece of the prompt — appended after any prior
// multi-line prompt text we walk up to find.
const cursorLine = lines[cursorLineIdx] ?? '';
let inlinePrompt = '';
const cursorPos = cursorLine.search(/\s*1\./);
if (cursorPos > 0) {
inlinePrompt = cursorLine
.slice(0, cursorPos)
// Strip box-drawing chars + dividers + leading checkbox sigil.
.replace(/^[─━┄┅┈┉─┌┐└┘├┤┬┴┼│┃☐□■\s]+/, '')
.trim();
}
// Walk up at most 6 lines collecting prompt text. Stop at:
// - a blank line preceded by another blank line (paragraph break)
// - top of buffer
// - a line that itself starts with `N.` (we're inside an option list)
const promptLines: string[] = [];
let blankRun = 0;
for (let i = cursorLineIdx - 1; i >= 0 && promptLines.length < 6; i--) {
const raw = lines[i] ?? '';
const trimmed = raw.trim();
if (trimmed === '') {
blankRun += 1;
if (blankRun >= 2 && promptLines.length > 0) break;
continue;
}
blankRun = 0;
// Stop if we hit what looks like a previous numbered list.
if (/^[\s]*[1-9]\.\s+\S/.test(raw)) break;
promptLines.unshift(trimmed);
}
const all = inlinePrompt.length > 0 ? [...promptLines, inlinePrompt] : promptLines;
const joined = all.join(' ').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
return joined.slice(0, 240);
}
/**
* Stable hash for an AskUserQuestion's identity — combines normalized prompt
* text with the options signature so two distinct questions with shared menu
* labels (the generic A/B/C TODO-proposal menu, for instance) get different
* fingerprints.
*
* Uses Bun's fast non-crypto hash since these strings are short and we only
* need collision resistance against accidental TTY redraws, not adversaries.
* Hex-encoded for diagnostic dumps.
*/
export function auqFingerprint(
promptSnippet: string,
opts: Array<{ index: number; label: string }>,
): string {
const normalized = promptSnippet.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
const sig = optionsSignature(opts);
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
return (Bun as any).hash(normalized + '||' + sig).toString(16);
}
/**
* Detects when a plan-* skill has reached its Completion Summary / Review
* Report — a terminal signal complementary to plan-mode's "Ready to execute"
* confirmation. Each plan-review skill writes one of these phrasings near
* the end of its run; matching any one is enough to stop counting.
*
* Best-effort: this is a content marker, not a deterministic event. Hard
* ceiling (`reviewCountCeiling` in `runPlanSkillCounting`) is the reliable
* stop signal; this regex is the "we're done, go gracefully" hint.
*/
export const COMPLETION_SUMMARY_RE =
/(GSTACK REVIEW REPORT|## Completion [Ss]ummary|Status:\s*(clean|issues_open)|^VERDICT:)/m;
/**
* Result of asserting that a plan file ends with `## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT`
* as its last `## ` heading. `ok` is true iff the report is present AND no
* other `## ` heading appears after it. Diagnostic fields are populated only
* on failure to keep the success path cheap.
*/
export interface ReviewReportAtBottomResult {
ok: boolean;
reason?: string;
trailingHeadings?: string[];
}
/**
* Assert that `## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT` is the last `## ` heading in a plan
* file's content. Pure string operation — no filesystem access. Used by the
* finding-count E2E tests as a second assertion on each test's produced plan.
*
* The plan-mode skill template mandates the agent move/append the review
* report so it's always the last `##` section. A regression where the agent
* appends additional sections after the report (or skips it entirely) ships
* silently today; this assertion catches both.
*/
export function assertReviewReportAtBottom(
content: string,
): ReviewReportAtBottomResult {
const re = /^## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT\s*$/m;
const match = re.exec(content);
if (!match) {
return { ok: false, reason: 'no GSTACK REVIEW REPORT section' };
}
const after = content.slice(match.index + match[0].length);
// Match any `## ` heading after the report. Reject `## ` followed by
// newline-only (trailing-whitespace ## headers) to avoid false positives.
const trailingHeadings = Array.from(
after.matchAll(/^## \S.*$/gm),
).map((m) => m[0]);
if (trailingHeadings.length > 0) {
return {
ok: false,
reason: 'trailing ## heading(s) after GSTACK REVIEW REPORT',
trailingHeadings,
};
}
return { ok: true };
}
/**
* Test helper: if `obs.planFile` was set, read it and assert
* `## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT` is the last `## ` section. Throws on
* violation with a diagnostic message including the plan path,
* the reason, any trailing headings, and the last 2KB of TTY output.
*
* Used by the four plan-mode E2E tests
* (skill-e2e-plan-{eng,ceo,design,devex}-plan-mode.test.ts) to enforce
* the {{PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT}} resolver contract uniformly. Gates on
* `obs.planFile` (artifact existing), not on `obs.outcome === 'plan_ready'`,
* so it also catches the report-missing case under `'asked'` /
* `'wrote_findings_before_asking'` when a plan was already written.
*/
export function assertReportAtBottomIfPlanWritten(
obs: { planFile?: string; evidence: string; outcome?: string },
): void {
if (!obs.planFile) return;
// Skip when the plan file path was detected from TTY output but no file
// exists on disk. This happens when the model mentions a path mid-stream
// (e.g., as a tool-call argument that was interrupted, or in a draft that
// was never persisted). The report-at-bottom contract is for fully-written
// plan files; ENOENT means there's no file content to enforce against.
if (!fs.existsSync(obs.planFile)) return;
// Skip on 'asked' outcomes — these are smoke tests that exited at the
// first AUQ render (Step 0 only). The model never reached the workflow's
// report-writing step, so a partial plan file without the report section
// is the expected mid-flight state, not a contract violation. The
// report-at-bottom check applies to outcomes that imply the workflow
// ran end-to-end (plan_ready, completion_summary, etc.).
if (obs.outcome === 'asked') return;
const content = fs.readFileSync(obs.planFile, 'utf-8');
const verdict = assertReviewReportAtBottom(content);
if (!verdict.ok) {
const trailing = verdict.trailingHeadings?.length
? `\ntrailing headings: ${verdict.trailingHeadings.join(', ')}`
: '';
throw new Error(
`GSTACK REVIEW REPORT contract violation in ${obs.planFile}: ${verdict.reason}${trailing}\n` +
`--- evidence (last 2KB) ---\n${obs.evidence}`,
);
}
}
/**
* Per-skill Step-0 boundary predicates. Each fires `true` when the answered
* AUQ's fingerprint matches the LAST question of that skill's Step 0 phase.
*
* - `ceoStep0Boundary`: matches the mode-pick AUQ (options match `MODE_RE`).
* - `engStep0Boundary`: matches the cross-project-learnings or scope-reduction
* AUQ that closes plan-eng-review's preamble.
* - `designStep0Boundary`: matches plan-design-review's first dimension /
* posture AUQ.
* - `devexStep0Boundary`: matches plan-devex-review's persona-selection AUQ.
*
* Predicates live alongside the helper so the unit suite can exercise each
* against synthetic fingerprints (positive AND negative cases). Skill test
* files import them directly.
*/
export const ceoStep0Boundary: Step0BoundaryPredicate = (fp) =>
// Mode-pick path (Step 0F): one of HOLD SCOPE / SCOPE EXPANSION / etc.
fp.options.some((o) => MODE_RE.test(o.label)) ||
// Skip-interview path: scope-selection AUQ has "Skip interview and plan
// immediately" — picking it bypasses the rest of Step 0 and routes
// directly to review-phase. Boundary fires on the scope AUQ itself.
fp.options.some((o) => /skip\s+interview|plan\s+immediately/i.test(o.label));
export const engStep0Boundary: Step0BoundaryPredicate = (fp) =>
/scope reduction recommendation|cross[\s-]?project learnings/i.test(
fp.promptSnippet,
);
export const designStep0Boundary: Step0BoundaryPredicate = (fp) =>
/design system|design posture|design score|first dimension/i.test(
fp.promptSnippet,
);
export const devexStep0Boundary: Step0BoundaryPredicate = (fp) =>
/developer persona|target persona|persona selection|TTHW target/i.test(
fp.promptSnippet,
);
/**
* Spawn `claude --permission-mode plan` in a real PTY and return a session
* handle. Caller is responsible for `await session.close()` to release the
* subprocess and any timers.
*
* Auto-handles the workspace-trust dialog (presses "1\r" if it appears
* during the boot window). Tests should NOT have to handle it themselves.
*/
export async function launchClaudePty(
opts: ClaudePtyOptions = {},
): Promise<ClaudePtySession> {
const claudePath = resolveClaudeBinary();
if (!claudePath) {
throw new Error(
'claude binary not found on PATH. Install: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code',
);
}
const cwd = opts.cwd ?? process.cwd();
const cols = opts.cols ?? 120;
const rows = opts.rows ?? 40;
const timeoutMs = opts.timeoutMs ?? 240_000;
let buffer = '';
let exited = false;
let exitCodeCaptured: number | null = null;
// Permission mode: 'plan' default, null => omit flag entirely.
const permissionMode = opts.permissionMode === undefined ? 'plan' : opts.permissionMode;
const args: string[] = [];
if (permissionMode !== null) {
args.push('--permission-mode', permissionMode);
}
if (opts.extraArgs) args.push(...opts.extraArgs);
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
const proc = (Bun as any).spawn([claudePath, ...args], {
terminal: {
cols,
rows,
data(_t: unknown, chunk: Buffer) {
buffer += chunk.toString('utf-8');
},
},
cwd,
env: { ...process.env, ...(opts.env ?? {}) },
});
// Track exit so waitForAny can fail fast if claude crashes.
let exitedPromise: Promise<void> = Promise.resolve();
if (proc.exited && typeof proc.exited.then === 'function') {
exitedPromise = proc.exited
.then((code: number | null) => {
exitCodeCaptured = code;
exited = true;
})
.catch(() => {
exited = true;
});
}
// Top-level timeout. If a test forgets to close, this kills it eventually.
const wallTimer = setTimeout(() => {
try {
proc.kill?.('SIGKILL');
} catch {
/* ignore */
}
}, timeoutMs);
// Auto-handle the workspace-trust dialog. Runs once during the boot
// window; idempotent (only fires if the phrase is still on screen).
let trustHandled = false;
const trustWatcher = setInterval(() => {
if (trustHandled || exited) return;
const visible = stripAnsi(buffer);
if (isTrustDialogVisible(visible)) {
trustHandled = true;
try {
proc.terminal?.write?.('1\r');
} catch {
/* ignore */
}
}
}, 200);
// Stop the watcher after 15s — by then the dialog has either fired or
// doesn't exist on this run.
const trustWatcherStop = setTimeout(() => clearInterval(trustWatcher), 15_000);
function send(data: string): void {
if (exited) return;
try {
proc.terminal?.write?.(data);
} catch {
/* ignore */
}
}
type Key = Parameters<ClaudePtySession['sendKey']>[0];
function sendKey(key: Key): void {
const map: Record<string, string> = {
Enter: '\r',
Up: '\x1b[A',
Down: '\x1b[B',
Esc: '\x1b',
Tab: '\t',
ShiftTab: '\x1b[Z',
CtrlC: '\x03',
};
send(map[key] ?? '');
}
let lastMark = 0;
function mark(): number {
lastMark = buffer.length;
return lastMark;
}
function visibleSince(marker?: number): string {
const offset = marker ?? lastMark;
return stripAnsi(buffer.slice(offset));
}
async function waitForAny(
patterns: Array<RegExp | string>,
waitOpts?: { timeoutMs?: number; pollMs?: number; since?: number },
): Promise<{ matched: RegExp | string; index: number }> {
const wTimeout = waitOpts?.timeoutMs ?? 60_000;
const poll = waitOpts?.pollMs ?? 250;
const since = waitOpts?.since;
const start = Date.now();
while (Date.now() - start < wTimeout) {
if (exited) {
throw new Error(
`claude exited (code=${exitCodeCaptured}) before any pattern matched. ` +
`Last visible:\n${stripAnsi(buffer).slice(-2000)}`,
);
}
const visible = since !== undefined ? stripAnsi(buffer.slice(since)) : stripAnsi(buffer);
for (let i = 0; i < patterns.length; i++) {
const p = patterns[i]!;
const matchIdx = typeof p === 'string' ? visible.indexOf(p) : visible.search(p);
if (matchIdx >= 0) {
return { matched: p, index: matchIdx };
}
}
await Bun.sleep(poll);
}
throw new Error(
`Timed out after ${wTimeout}ms waiting for any of: ${patterns
.map((p) => (typeof p === 'string' ? JSON.stringify(p) : p.source))
.join(', ')}\nLast visible (since=${since ?? 'all'}):\n${
since !== undefined ? stripAnsi(buffer.slice(since)).slice(-2000) : stripAnsi(buffer).slice(-2000)
}`,
);
}
async function waitFor(
pattern: RegExp | string,
waitOpts?: { timeoutMs?: number; pollMs?: number; since?: number },
): Promise<void> {
await waitForAny([pattern], waitOpts);
}
async function close(): Promise<void> {
clearTimeout(wallTimer);
clearTimeout(trustWatcherStop);
clearInterval(trustWatcher);
if (exited) return;
try {
proc.kill?.('SIGINT');
} catch {
/* ignore */
}
// Wait up to 2s for graceful exit.
await Promise.race([exitedPromise, Bun.sleep(2000)]);
if (!exited) {
try {
proc.kill?.('SIGKILL');
} catch {
/* ignore */
}
await Promise.race([exitedPromise, Bun.sleep(1000)]);
}
}
return {
send,
sendKey,
rawOutput: () => buffer,
visibleText: () => stripAnsi(buffer),
mark,
visibleSince,
waitForAny,
waitFor,
pid: () => proc.pid as number | undefined,
exited: () => exited,
exitCode: () => exitCodeCaptured,
close,
};
}
/**
* High-level: invoke a slash command and observe the response. Used by the
* 5 plan-mode tests so each only has ~10 LOC of orchestration.
*
* The `expectations` object names the patterns the caller cares about.
* Returns which one matched first (or throws on timeout).
*
* @example
* const session = await launchClaudePty();
* const result = await invokeAndObserve(session, '/plan-ceo-review', {
* askUserQuestion: /\s*1\./,
* planReady: /ready to execute/i,
* silentWrite: /⏺\s*Write\(/,
* silentEdit: /⏺\s*Edit\(/,
* exitedPlanMode: /Exiting plan mode/i,
* });
* await session.close();
*/
export async function invokeAndObserve(
session: ClaudePtySession,
slashCommand: string,
expectations: Record<string, RegExp | string>,
opts?: { boot_grace_ms?: number; timeoutMs?: number },
): Promise<{ matched: string; rawPattern: RegExp | string; visibleAtMatch: string }> {
// Brief grace period so the trust-dialog auto-press has time to clear and
// claude is back at the input prompt before we type the command.
const boot = opts?.boot_grace_ms ?? 6000;
await Bun.sleep(boot);
// Mark buffer position. All pattern matching scopes to text AFTER this point,
// so the trust-dialog residue and boot banner numbered options don't cause
// false positives.
const sinceMark = session.mark();
// Type and submit.
session.send(slashCommand + '\r');
const patterns = Object.entries(expectations);
const result = await session.waitForAny(
patterns.map(([, p]) => p),
{ timeoutMs: opts?.timeoutMs ?? 240_000, since: sinceMark },
);
// Map back to the named key.
const idx = patterns.findIndex(([, p]) => p === result.matched);
const [name, rawPattern] = patterns[idx]!;
return {
matched: name,
rawPattern,
visibleAtMatch: session.visibleText(),
};
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// High-level skill-mode test contract
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
export interface PlanSkillObservation {
/**
* What happened first. One of:
* - 'asked' — skill emitted a numbered-option prompt (its Step 0
* AskUserQuestion or the routing-injection prompt)
* - 'auto_decided' — visible TTY shows "Auto-decided ... → ..." (the
* AUTO_DECIDE preamble template fired). Distinguishes
* "the regression we're tracking" (auto-mode silently
* auto-deciding questions the user wanted to see) from
* "skill legitimately reached plan_ready". Detected
* before plan_ready/silent_write so the auto-decide
* evidence wins when both are present.
* - 'plan_ready' — claude wrote a plan and emitted its native
* "Ready to execute" confirmation
* - 'silent_write' — a Write/Edit landed BEFORE any prompt, to a path
* outside the sanctioned plan/project directories
* - 'exited' — claude process died before any of the above
* - 'timeout' — none of the above within budget
*/
outcome: 'asked' | 'auto_decided' | 'plan_ready' | 'silent_write' | 'exited' | 'timeout';
/** Human-readable summary. */
summary: string;
/** Visible terminal text since the slash command was sent (last 2KB). */
evidence: string;
/** Wall time (ms) until the outcome was decided. */
elapsedMs: number;
/**
* Path to the plan file the skill wrote (if outcome is 'plan_ready').
* Extracted from the visible TTY via {@link extractPlanFilePath}. Lets the
* v1.22 AskUserQuestion-blocked regression tests verify the plan file
* contains a `## Decisions to confirm` section under --disallowedTools —
* a model that silently skips Step 0 reaches plan_ready WITHOUT writing
* the section, and that's the regression we want to catch.
*/
planFile?: string;
/**
* High-water-mark flag: did the polling loop ever observe a
* prose-rendered AskUserQuestion (lettered or numbered options visible)
* during the run? Set true the first poll iteration that
* isProseAUQVisible returns true on the recent buffer; remains true
* for the rest of the observation.
*
* The 2KB `evidence` window often misses the prose-AUQ moment because
* by the time outcome=plan_ready fires, the ExitPlanMode "Ready to
* execute" UI has pushed the options out of the tail. Tests that need
* to assert "the user saw the question at SOME point" should check
* this flag rather than re-running isProseAUQVisible on the truncated
* evidence.
*/
proseAUQEverObserved?: boolean;
/**
* High-water-mark flag: did the LLM judge ever return state='waiting'
* during the run? Same shape as proseAUQEverObserved but driven by the
* Haiku judge fallback rather than the regex detector.
*/
waitingEverObserved?: boolean;
}
/**
* The contract for "skill X invoked in plan mode behaves correctly."
*
* PASS: outcome is 'asked' or 'plan_ready'.
* - 'asked' = the skill is gating decisions on the user, as expected.
* - 'plan_ready' = the skill ran end-to-end, wrote a plan file, and
* surfaced claude's native confirmation. Some skills (like
* plan-design-review on a no-UI branch) legitimately reach plan_ready
* without firing AskUserQuestion because they short-circuit.
*
* FAIL: 'silent_write' or 'exited' or 'timeout'.
*
* This replaces the SDK-based runPlanModeSkillTest which never worked
* because plan mode renders its native confirmation as TTY UI, not via
* the AskUserQuestion tool — so canUseTool never fired and the assertion
* counted zero questions.
*/
export async function runPlanSkillObservation(opts: {
/** Skill name, e.g. 'plan-ceo-review'. */
skillName: string;
/** Whether to launch in plan mode. Default true. The no-op regression
* test sets this false to verify skills work outside plan mode. */
inPlanMode?: boolean;
/** Working directory. Default process.cwd(). */
cwd?: string;
/** Total budget for skill to reach a terminal outcome. Default 180000. */
timeoutMs?: number;
/** Extra CLI args appended after --permission-mode. Used by the v1.22+
* AskUserQuestion-blocked regression tests to pass
* `['--disallowedTools', 'AskUserQuestion']` (the flag set Conductor
* uses to remove native AskUserQuestion in favor of its MCP variant).
* Plumbs straight through to launchClaudePty. */
extraArgs?: string[];
/**
* Extra env merged into the spawned `claude` process. `launchClaudePty`
* already supports this; exposing it here lets per-skill tests isolate
* from local config that would mask the regression they're trying to
* catch (e.g., `QUESTION_TUNING=true` causing AUTO_DECIDE to skip the
* rendered AskUserQuestion list).
*/
env?: Record<string, string>;
/**
* Seed an initial plan that the spawned `claude` process operates on.
* STOP-gate regression tests need a plan with guaranteed-finding-triggering
* complexity (8+ files, custom-vs-builtin smell) so the skill MUST emit
* AskUserQuestion or fall back to a Decisions section. Without this,
* plan-mode creates a fresh empty plan and the skill has nothing to find
* issues with.
*
* Implementation: claude has no `--plan-file` flag (verified via
* `claude --help`). We pre-pump a user message containing the draft
* plan, wait for it to register, then invoke the skill. The skill's
* Step 0 reads the prior conversation context so it sees the draft.
*/
initialPlanContent?: string;
}): Promise<PlanSkillObservation> {
const startedAt = Date.now();
const session = await launchClaudePty({
permissionMode: opts.inPlanMode === false ? null : 'plan',
cwd: opts.cwd,
timeoutMs: (opts.timeoutMs ?? 180_000) + 30_000,
extraArgs: opts.extraArgs,
env: opts.env,
});
try {
// Boot grace + trust-dialog auto-handle.
await Bun.sleep(8000);
if (opts.initialPlanContent) {
// Pre-pump the draft as a user message so the skill's Step 0 has
// concrete content to scope-challenge. The trailing `\r` submits
// the message; embedded `\n` are preserved as line breaks within
// the message (claude-code uses Enter to send, Shift+Enter for
// newlines, but raw `\r` from a PTY just submits whatever's in
// the input buffer).
const seed = `Please review the following draft plan when I run the skill below:\n\n${opts.initialPlanContent}`;
session.send(`${seed}\r`);
// Wait for the seed message to render before sending the skill
// command. Without this gap the two messages can fuse and the
// skill name becomes part of the user prompt instead of a slash
// command.
await Bun.sleep(3000);
}
const since = session.mark();
session.send(`/${opts.skillName}\r`);
const budgetMs = opts.timeoutMs ?? 180_000;
const start = Date.now();
let lastJudgeAt = 0;
let lastJudgeVerdict: PtyStateVerdict | null = null;
// High-water marks: did we EVER see a prose-AUQ surface or a judge
// 'waiting' verdict during the run? Models may surface options
// briefly, then resume thinking when no user response comes (test
// env has no responder). At timeout we trust historical signals
// even if the current state is 'working'.
let proseAUQEverObserved = false;
let waitingEverObserved = false;
const JUDGE_AFTER_MS = 60_000;
const JUDGE_INTERVAL_MS = 30_000;
while (Date.now() - start < budgetMs) {
await Bun.sleep(2000);
const visible = session.visibleSince(since);
if (session.exited()) {
return {
outcome: 'exited',
summary: `claude exited (code=${session.exitCode()}) before reaching a terminal outcome`,
evidence: visible.slice(-2000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
if (visible.includes('Unknown command:')) {
return {
outcome: 'exited',
summary: `claude rejected /${opts.skillName} as unknown command (skill not registered in this cwd)`,
evidence: visible.slice(-2000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
// Cheap surface-tracking: did the model ever surface a prose AUQ in
// this tick's recent buffer? Track once-true (high water).
if (!proseAUQEverObserved && isProseAUQVisible(visible)) {
proseAUQEverObserved = true;
logPtySnapshot(visible, {
testName: opts.skillName,
elapsedMs: Date.now() - start,
tag: 'prose-auq-surfaced',
});
}
const classified = classifyVisible(visible, {
strictPlanWrites: !!opts.initialPlanContent,
});
if (classified) {
const obs: PlanSkillObservation = {
...classified,
evidence: visible.slice(-2000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
proseAUQEverObserved,
waitingEverObserved,
};
// Capture the plan file path on any outcome where one may have been
// written. Gating only on 'plan_ready' missed two cases: (1) the
// 'asked' outcome where the model wrote a plan partway through then
// paused on a question, and (2) 'wrote_findings_before_asking' where
// the bug is precisely that the plan was written. The
// assertReviewReportAtBottom checks downstream gate on planFile
// existing, not on the outcome.
const planFile = extractPlanFilePath(visible);
if (planFile) obs.planFile = planFile;
return obs;
}
// LLM judge fallback: if regex detectors didn't classify and we've
// burned >60s with periodic ticks, ask Haiku "is the model waiting,
// working, or hung?" Treat 'waiting' as 'asked' (model surfaced a
// question via prose the regex couldn't reassemble). Snapshot the
// visible buffer at each judge call when GSTACK_PTY_LOG=1.
const elapsed = Date.now() - start;
if (elapsed > JUDGE_AFTER_MS && Date.now() - lastJudgeAt > JUDGE_INTERVAL_MS) {
lastJudgeAt = Date.now();
logPtySnapshot(visible, { testName: opts.skillName, elapsedMs: elapsed, tag: 'judge-tick' });
lastJudgeVerdict = judgePtyState(visible, { testName: opts.skillName });
if (lastJudgeVerdict.state === 'waiting') {
waitingEverObserved = true;
return {
outcome: 'asked',
summary: `LLM judge: ${lastJudgeVerdict.reasoning} (state=waiting after ${Math.round(elapsed / 1000)}s)`,
evidence: visible.slice(-2000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
}
}
// Timeout fallback: if we observed a prose-AUQ surface OR a judge
// 'waiting' verdict at any point during the run, treat as 'asked'.
// This catches the model-surfaced-then-resumed-thinking case where
// by the time the timeout fires, the buffer has moved past the
// options into spinner state but the question DID surface earlier.
const finalVisible = session.visibleSince(since);
if (proseAUQEverObserved || waitingEverObserved) {
return {
outcome: 'asked',
summary:
`prose-AUQ surface observed during run (proseAUQEverObserved=${proseAUQEverObserved}, waitingEverObserved=${waitingEverObserved}); model surfaced the question and the test budget elapsed without a follow-up classification` +
(lastJudgeVerdict
? ` (last LLM judge: ${lastJudgeVerdict.state}${lastJudgeVerdict.reasoning})`
: ''),
evidence: finalVisible.slice(-2000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
proseAUQEverObserved,
waitingEverObserved,
};
}
return {
outcome: 'timeout',
summary:
`no terminal outcome within ${budgetMs}ms` +
(lastJudgeVerdict
? ` (last LLM judge: state=${lastJudgeVerdict.state}${lastJudgeVerdict.reasoning})`
: ''),
evidence: finalVisible.slice(-2000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
proseAUQEverObserved,
waitingEverObserved,
};
} finally {
await session.close();
}
}
// ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// runPlanSkillCounting — drives a plan-* skill end-to-end through Step 0 then
// counts distinct review-phase AskUserQuestion fingerprints. The actual
// product asserted by the per-finding-count tests.
// ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/**
* Result of a `runPlanSkillCounting` run. Includes both the count summary
* (`step0Count`, `reviewCount`) and the full fingerprint list for diagnostic
* dumps when an assertion fails.
*/
export interface PlanSkillCountObservation {
outcome:
| 'plan_ready'
| 'completion_summary'
| 'ceiling_reached'
| 'silent_write'
| 'exited'
| 'timeout';
summary: string;
/** Visible terminal text at terminal time (last 3KB). */
evidence: string;
/** Wall time (ms) until the outcome was decided. */
elapsedMs: number;
/** All distinct AskUserQuestions observed, in observation order. */
fingerprints: AskUserQuestionFingerprint[];
/** Count of fingerprints with `preReview === true`. */
step0Count: number;
/** Count of fingerprints with `preReview === false`. */
reviewCount: number;
}
/**
* Drive a plan-* skill in plan mode and count distinct review-phase
* AskUserQuestions until a terminal signal fires.
*
* Flow:
* 1. Boot PTY in plan mode (8s grace + auto-trust dialog).
* 2. Send `slashCommand` alone. Sleep ~3s.
* 3. Send `followUpPrompt` as a chat message — this is the plan content
* the skill reviews. Slash commands with trailing args are rejected by
* Claude Code unless the skill defines them, so the plan goes as a
* follow-up message (the proven pattern at
* skill-e2e-plan-design-with-ui.test.ts:57-71).
* 4. Poll loop:
* - Skip permission dialogs (auto-grant with `defaultPick`).
* - On a new numbered-option list, parse prompt + options, build
* fingerprint via `auqFingerprint`. Empty-prompt parses are skipped
* and re-polled (avoids the empty-prompt collision documented in
* the auqFingerprint contract).
* - First time we see a fingerprint: push it, classify as Step 0 or
* review-phase based on `boundaryFired`, press `defaultPick` to
* advance.
* - After pressing, evaluate `isLastStep0AUQ(fingerprint)`. If true,
* all subsequent AUQs are review-phase.
* - Hard ceiling: if `reviewCount >= reviewCountCeiling`, return
* `ceiling_reached`. This bounds runaway counts; tests should set
* the ceiling above their assertion CEILING.
* - Soft terminals: `COMPLETION_SUMMARY_RE` match → `completion_summary`;
* plan-ready confirmation → `plan_ready`; silent write outside
* sanctioned dirs → `silent_write`; process exited → `exited`;
* wall clock exceeded → `timeout`.
*
* Boundary detection (D14): event-based, fired against the answered AUQ's
* fingerprint, not against later rendered content. This avoids the race
* where Step-0-final and Section-1-first AUQs straddle a section header
* regex match.
*
* Fingerprint composition (D9): `auqFingerprint(prompt, options)` mixes
* normalized prompt text with the options signature so distinct findings
* with shared menu structure (the generic A/B/C TODO menu) get distinct
* fingerprints.
*/
export async function runPlanSkillCounting(opts: {
/** Skill name, e.g. 'plan-ceo-review'. Used for diagnostic strings only. */
skillName: string;
/** Slash command to send alone, e.g. '/plan-ceo-review'. No trailing args. */
slashCommand: string;
/** Plan content sent as a follow-up message ~3s after the slash command. */
followUpPrompt: string;
/** Per-skill predicate: which answered AUQ is the last Step-0 question. */
isLastStep0AUQ: Step0BoundaryPredicate;
/** Hard cap on review-phase count; helper returns when reached. Should be
* set ABOVE the test's assertion ceiling so the test sees the cap as a
* failure rather than a silent stop. */
reviewCountCeiling: number;
/** Numbered option to press by default. Defaults to 1 (recommended). */
defaultPick?: number;
/**
* Optional override for the FIRST AUQ observed. Receives the fingerprint;
* returns the option index to press. Subsequent AUQs always use defaultPick.
*
* Skill-specific routing helper: /plan-ceo-review's first AUQ asks "what
* scope?" with options like "branch diff" / "describe inline" / "skip
* interview". Pressing the default 1 routes to "branch diff" (the wrong
* review target for a seeded fixture). firstAUQPick lets the test pick
* "Skip interview" or "describe inline" so the agent reviews the
* follow-up plan content the test sent, not the git diff.
*/
firstAUQPick?: (fp: AskUserQuestionFingerprint) => number;
/** Working directory. Default process.cwd() (repo cwd holds skill registry). */
cwd?: string;
/** Total budget for skill to reach a terminal outcome. Default 1_500_000 (25 min). */
timeoutMs?: number;
/** Extra env merged into the spawned `claude` process. */
env?: Record<string, string>;
}): Promise<PlanSkillCountObservation> {
const startedAt = Date.now();
const defaultPick = opts.defaultPick ?? 1;
const timeoutMs = opts.timeoutMs ?? 1_500_000;
const session = await launchClaudePty({
permissionMode: 'plan',
cwd: opts.cwd,
timeoutMs: timeoutMs + 60_000,
env: opts.env,
});
const fingerprints: AskUserQuestionFingerprint[] = [];
const seen = new Set<string>();
let boundaryFired = false;
let step0Count = 0;
let reviewCount = 0;
let isFirstAUQ = true;
let lastSig = '';
function snapshot(
outcome: PlanSkillCountObservation['outcome'],
summary: string,
visible: string,
): PlanSkillCountObservation {
return {
outcome,
summary,
evidence: visible.slice(-3000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
fingerprints,
step0Count,
reviewCount,
};
}
try {
await Bun.sleep(8000); // boot grace + auto-trust handler window
const since = session.mark();
session.send(`${opts.slashCommand}\r`);
await Bun.sleep(3000);
session.send(`${opts.followUpPrompt}\r`);
const budgetStart = Date.now();
while (Date.now() - budgetStart < timeoutMs) {
await Bun.sleep(2000);
const visible = session.visibleSince(since);
// Process exited?
if (session.exited()) {
return snapshot(
'exited',
`claude exited (code=${session.exitCode()}) during counting (step0=${step0Count}, review=${reviewCount})`,
visible,
);
}
if (visible.includes('Unknown command:')) {
return snapshot(
'exited',
`claude rejected ${opts.slashCommand} as unknown command (skill not registered in this cwd)`,
visible,
);
}
// Silent write detection — only fires if no numbered prompt is on
// screen (otherwise the write is gated by a permission/AUQ).
const writeRe = /⏺\s*(?:Write|Edit)\(([^)]+)\)/g;
let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
while ((m = writeRe.exec(visible)) !== null) {
const target = m[1] ?? '';
const sanctioned = SANCTIONED_WRITE_SUBSTRINGS.some((s) =>
target.includes(s),
);
if (!sanctioned && !isNumberedOptionListVisible(visible)) {
return snapshot(
'silent_write',
`Write/Edit to ${target} fired before any AskUserQuestion`,
visible,
);
}
}
// Soft terminal signals — check before AUQ processing so a final
// completion-summary doesn't get misclassified as a bonus AUQ.
if (COMPLETION_SUMMARY_RE.test(visible)) {
return snapshot(
'completion_summary',
`skill emitted completion summary / verdict / status line (step0=${step0Count}, review=${reviewCount})`,
visible,
);
}
if (isPlanReadyVisible(visible)) {
return snapshot(
'plan_ready',
`skill emitted plan-mode "Ready to execute" confirmation (step0=${step0Count}, review=${reviewCount})`,
visible,
);
}
// Numbered option list?
if (!isNumberedOptionListVisible(visible)) continue;
// Permission dialog? Auto-grant with defaultPick. Only act on the
// recent tail to avoid re-triggering on stale dialogs in scrollback.
if (isPermissionDialogVisible(visible.slice(-TAIL_SCAN_BYTES))) {
session.send(`${defaultPick}\r`);
await Bun.sleep(1500);
continue;
}
// Parse the active AUQ. Skip same-redraw and empty-prompt cases.
const options = parseNumberedOptions(visible);
if (options.length < 2) continue;
const sig = optionsSignature(options);
if (sig === lastSig) continue;
const promptSnippet = parseQuestionPrompt(visible);
if (promptSnippet === '') continue; // not yet rendered, poll again
lastSig = sig;
const fingerprintHash = auqFingerprint(promptSnippet, options);
if (seen.has(fingerprintHash)) {
// Same content, already counted (TTY redrew with whitespace diff).
continue;
}
seen.add(fingerprintHash);
const fp: AskUserQuestionFingerprint = {
signature: fingerprintHash,
promptSnippet,
options,
observedAtMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
preReview: !boundaryFired,
};
fingerprints.push(fp);
if (boundaryFired) reviewCount += 1;
else step0Count += 1;
// Press to advance — first AUQ may use the override pick.
const pickIdx =
isFirstAUQ && opts.firstAUQPick ? opts.firstAUQPick(fp) : defaultPick;
isFirstAUQ = false;
session.send(`${pickIdx}\r`);
// Evaluate boundary AFTER pressing — if THIS AUQ was the last Step 0
// question, all subsequent AUQs go to reviewCount.
if (!boundaryFired && opts.isLastStep0AUQ(fp)) {
boundaryFired = true;
}
// Hard ceiling — runaway protection.
if (reviewCount >= opts.reviewCountCeiling) {
return snapshot(
'ceiling_reached',
`review-phase AUQ count reached ceiling (${opts.reviewCountCeiling})`,
session.visibleSince(since),
);
}
// Give the agent a beat to advance to the next state.
await Bun.sleep(2000);
}
return snapshot(
'timeout',
`no terminal outcome within ${timeoutMs}ms (step0=${step0Count}, review=${reviewCount})`,
session.visibleSince(since),
);
} finally {
await session.close();
}
}
// ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// runPlanSkillFloorCheck — minimal "did the agent fire ANY AskUserQuestion?"
// observer for gate-tier floor tests catching the May 2026 transcript bug
// (model wrote plan + ExitPlanMode'd with reviewCount=0).
//
// Why this exists separately from runPlanSkillCounting: plan-mode AUQs render
// every option on a single logical line via cursor-positioning escapes that
// stripAnsi can't simulate. parseNumberedOptions therefore returns < 2 options
// from those frames and never records a fingerprint. The full counting helper
// works for periodic finding-count tests because their 25-min budgets give the
// agent enough redraws that one frame eventually parses cleanly. Gate-tier
// floor tests don't have that wall-time budget and need to exit early on the
// first observation. This helper trades fingerprint precision for early-exit
// reliability.
//
// Contract:
// - PASS → outcome === 'auq_observed' (agent rendered any non-permission
// numbered-option list; we exit immediately and report success)
// - FAIL → outcome === 'plan_ready' | 'completion_summary' | 'silent_write'
// (agent reached a terminal state without ever firing an AUQ —
// this IS the transcript bug)
// - SOFT → outcome === 'timeout' (neither happened in budget; agent may
// just be slow — test should retry with a larger budget rather
// than treat as a hard regression)
// ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
export interface PlanSkillFloorObservation {
/** True iff a review-phase AUQ render was observed. */
auqObserved: boolean;
outcome:
| 'auq_observed'
| 'plan_ready'
| 'silent_write'
| 'exited'
| 'timeout';
summary: string;
/** Visible TTY tail (last 3KB) at terminal time. */
evidence: string;
/** Wall time (ms) until the outcome was decided. */
elapsedMs: number;
}
/**
* Drive a plan-* skill in plan mode and exit at the first non-permission
* numbered-option render. See block comment above for the contract.
*/
export async function runPlanSkillFloorCheck(opts: {
/** Skill name, e.g. 'plan-eng-review'. Used for diagnostic strings only. */
skillName: string;
/** Slash command to send alone, e.g. '/plan-eng-review'. */
slashCommand: string;
/** Plan content sent as a follow-up message ~3s after the slash command. */
followUpPrompt: string;
/** Working directory. Default process.cwd(). */
cwd?: string;
/** Total budget. Default 600000 (10 min). Tests exit early on AUQ. */
timeoutMs?: number;
/** Extra env merged into the spawned `claude` process. */
env?: Record<string, string>;
}): Promise<PlanSkillFloorObservation> {
const startedAt = Date.now();
const timeoutMs = opts.timeoutMs ?? 600_000;
const session = await launchClaudePty({
permissionMode: 'plan',
cwd: opts.cwd,
timeoutMs: timeoutMs + 60_000,
env: opts.env,
});
try {
await Bun.sleep(8000); // boot grace + auto-trust handler window
const since = session.mark();
session.send(`${opts.slashCommand}\r`);
await Bun.sleep(3000);
session.send(`${opts.followUpPrompt}\r`);
const start = Date.now();
let lastJudgeAt = 0;
let lastJudgeVerdict: PtyStateVerdict | null = null;
const JUDGE_AFTER_MS = 60_000;
const JUDGE_INTERVAL_MS = 30_000;
while (Date.now() - start < timeoutMs) {
await Bun.sleep(2000);
const visible = session.visibleSince(since);
if (session.exited()) {
return {
auqObserved: false,
outcome: 'exited',
summary: `claude exited (code=${session.exitCode()}) before any AUQ render`,
evidence: visible.slice(-3000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
if (visible.includes('Unknown command:')) {
return {
auqObserved: false,
outcome: 'exited',
summary: `claude rejected ${opts.slashCommand} as unknown command`,
evidence: visible.slice(-3000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
// Success: ANY non-permission numbered-option list is an AUQ render —
// either via the native numbered-prompt UI (isNumberedOptionListVisible)
// OR via prose-rendered options under --disallowedTools when no MCP
// variant is callable (isProseAUQVisible). Both surface the question
// to the user; the bug we're catching is "fired zero AUQs."
const tail = visible.slice(-TAIL_SCAN_BYTES);
if (
(isNumberedOptionListVisible(visible) || isProseAUQVisible(visible)) &&
!isPermissionDialogVisible(tail)
) {
return {
auqObserved: true,
outcome: 'auq_observed',
summary: 'agent rendered an AskUserQuestion (floor met)',
evidence: visible.slice(-3000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
// LLM judge fallback: same shape as runPlanSkillObservation. After 60s
// of polling without a regex hit, ask Haiku to classify the snapshot.
// 'waiting' verdict counts as floor met (model surfaced a question via
// prose the regex couldn't catch). 'working' / 'hung' / 'unknown' don't
// change the outcome — they enrich the eventual timeout summary so the
// failure diagnostic is more actionable than "no AUQ render."
const elapsed = Date.now() - start;
if (elapsed > JUDGE_AFTER_MS && Date.now() - lastJudgeAt > JUDGE_INTERVAL_MS) {
lastJudgeAt = Date.now();
logPtySnapshot(visible, { testName: opts.skillName, elapsedMs: elapsed, tag: 'floor-judge-tick' });
lastJudgeVerdict = judgePtyState(visible, { testName: opts.skillName });
if (lastJudgeVerdict.state === 'waiting') {
return {
auqObserved: true,
outcome: 'auq_observed',
summary: `LLM judge: ${lastJudgeVerdict.reasoning} (state=waiting after ${Math.round(elapsed / 1000)}s; floor met)`,
evidence: visible.slice(-3000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
}
// Silent write outside sanctioned dirs is the transcript-bug shape.
const writeRe = /⏺\s*(?:Write|Edit)\(([^)]+)\)/g;
let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
while ((m = writeRe.exec(visible)) !== null) {
const target = m[1] ?? '';
const sanctioned = SANCTIONED_WRITE_SUBSTRINGS.some((s) => target.includes(s));
if (!sanctioned && !isNumberedOptionListVisible(visible)) {
return {
auqObserved: false,
outcome: 'silent_write',
summary: `Write/Edit to ${target} fired before any AskUserQuestion`,
evidence: visible.slice(-3000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
}
// Reached terminal without AUQ → transcript-bug regression.
// Note: COMPLETION_SUMMARY_RE is intentionally NOT checked here — it
// matches "GSTACK REVIEW REPORT" anywhere in the buffer, including
// when the agent does recon by reading existing plan files (which
// contain that string as a generated section). The plan_ready check
// (claude's actual "Ready to execute" confirmation) is the reliable
// terminal signal for "agent finished without asking."
if (isPlanReadyVisible(visible)) {
return {
auqObserved: false,
outcome: 'plan_ready',
summary: 'agent reached plan_ready without firing any AskUserQuestion',
evidence: visible.slice(-3000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
}
}
return {
auqObserved: false,
outcome: 'timeout',
summary: `no AUQ render and no terminal outcome within ${timeoutMs}ms`,
evidence: session.visibleSince(since).slice(-3000),
elapsedMs: Date.now() - startedAt,
};
} finally {
await session.close();
}
}