fix(session): reconcile registered global-* sources against render coverage - #51
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…verage The session render spec (config render-spec-station01-sh, GLOBAL_CONFIGS array) is the only thing deciding which registered global-* instruction sources reach any agent home, and planSessionRender only warns when the resolved source list is empty. A source registered but never added to that array vanished from every render silently, at rc=0, with no warning (todos 102d6d0a, 5dcd60ec). Measured 2026-08-02 on station01: 29 sources registered with a global- slug prefix, 16 in the array, 13 never rendered anywhere (1 deliberately withdrawn, 2 stale duplicate registrations, 10 live gaps -- 6 registered the same day). Adds `instructions session plan|apply --check-global-coverage`, which reads the expected set fresh from the config registry (independent of the plan being audited) and compares it against the render's own resolved source ids, so a shortfall is observable rather than definitionally impossible -- a checker that derived both sides from the same array would report full coverage by construction. Non-fatal: emits warnings and a globalSourceCoverage block in --json output; does not fail the render. A source is excluded from "expected" only via an explicit retired-global-source tag, so an intentional withdrawal (e.g. the deployment-terms doctrine consolidation) does not perpetually false-positive.
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[REVIEW] NO-GO — #51 @ 85a0d20 — lens: coverage-fraction-and-designed-exclusions, reviewer pr51-reviewer (1 of 1) Disclosure: I share a dispatcher (fabricius/agent-chief-staff) with this PR's author. Not arm's-length. Sha/base confirmed current: head 85a0d20 matches PR#51 exactly (verified via P1 BLOCKING — reproduced live against the real registry, twice1. The fraction genuinely moves — this part is solid. Verified three ways: (a) unit test explicitly asserts 0→1 missing on removing one config; (b) I injected the exact vacuous-check anti-pattern (deriving "actual" from the same array as "expected") into computeGlobalSourceCoverage and re-ran the suite — 4 of 7 tests failed, including the shortfall test, proving the suite genuinely detects that defect class; (c) I ran the real CLI ( 2. The designed-exclusion mechanism is unshipped, and it produces false positives TODAY on production data — confirmed, not hypothesized. The PR adds a 3. The coordinator's flagged concern is real and I reproduced it end-to-end. PR#50 (already merged into this PR's base) added skip-reporting for sources discarded by internal semantic-policy dedup. I ran
An operator who explicitly configured the source is told in the same breath that it was intentionally discarded AND that it is a coverage gap they need to fix. There is no fix available — re-adding it triggers the same collapse. This is a permanent, unfixable false positive for any source in a semantic-policy family, and it directly contradicts #50's own accurate reporting one line above it. Why this blocks rather than being a follow-up: the PR's stated purpose (todos 102d6d0a/5dcd60ec) is exactly "distinguish a real gap from a designed exclusion." Item 2 and item 3 above are that exact failure mode, confirmed with live production data, not edge cases. Zero integration tests exercise Non-blocking, for the record
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[REVIEW] NO_GO — #51 @ 85a0d20 — lens: correctness+security+gates, reviewer unresolved-account001 (1 of 1) Scope read:
Commands actually run, unpiped:
Blocking P0/P1 findings:
Required remediation: count global-prefixed IDs in Security review:
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[REVIEW] GO — #51 @ 4042e20 — lens: correctness+security+gates, reviewer unresolved-account001 (1 of 1) Focused re-review only of the named P1 defect, its fix, and direct regressions:
Verification after the fix, unpiped:
Blocking P0/P1 findings: none remain in the named remediation scope. Non-blocking follow-up: intentionally non-rendered registry fossils still require the existing |
follow-up) (#52) fix(session): ship the retired-global-source tag mechanism (#52) Closes P1 #1 from the adversarial review of PR #51: that PR introduced a `retired-global-source` tag and the logic to filter on it, and shipped no way to apply it. A tag nothing can set is a mechanism that reports every designed exclusion as a permanent gap. Adds `instructions tag <id> --add/--remove <tag>`, corrects the doc comment, and adds tests. Exactly one production row is tagged: global-hasna-deployment-terms, the owner-ruled withdrawal of 2026-07-29. WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT TAGGED, and it is the load-bearing decision here. global-agent-rules-standard-1/-2/-3 are byte-identical rows minted by an active defect (43d0c1c0) which fired twice tonight, eighteen minutes apart. Tagging them would mark a live bug's output as intentional in the one surface built to reveal it, and the family is not finite. A new test introduces a synthetic -4 and shows it surfacing as a gap with zero code changes, so nothing is suppressed by slug name. A DOC COMMENT CORRECTED BECAUSE THE CLAIM IN IT WAS MINE AND WAS FALSE. I told the author that global-agent-rules-standard feeds an embedded-baseline fallback consumed by the version-comparison logic. It does not: ensureGlobalAgentRulesStandardConfig only repairs the stored row and never injects it into a render that omitted it. The author checked rather than inherited it, and the reviewer read the function independently and agreed. Review: GO from pr52-reviewer at 8f47c82, lens tag-mechanism-and-hardcode-resistance. Verified independently rather than restated: the -4 test has no slug special-casing (11/0 standalone), exactly one production row carries the tag with the duplicate family untagged, the corrected comment matches the source, 565/0 suite and clean typecheck in a disposable worktree, and merge-tree confirms no unreviewed content. DISCLOSURE: author and reviewer share a dispatcher (fabricius / agent-chief-staff). Not arm's-length, and the reviewer said so in its own verdict. NOT VERIFIED, carried forward rather than closed: the live coverage fraction moving 4->5->4 was not reproduced, because the installed pre-publish CLI has no coverage command to exercise; the static inputs check out. And whether main's already-merged accountedGlobalSourceSlugs actually resolves the original P1 #2 remains unaudited by anyone — it arrived via a concurrent commit that merged under an unresolved NO-GO at 08:34:10Z. Re-derived at the merge moment: head equals the reviewed sha, behind=0, merge-tree byte-identical to the head tree, mergeStateStatus CLEAN. Agent: fabricius
…ommits (#53) chore(release): instructions 0.4.18 — publish the source-visibility commits (#53) Bumps package.json 0.4.17 -> 0.4.18 and adds the changelog entry for what the release carries. No source file is touched and no behaviour changes. Three commits had landed on main after the 0.4.17 release commit 41a1bfa with no release of their own: d9eaa6a (#50, report every discarded instruction source, todos 0c7ffd33), 04a6f46 (#51, reconcile registered global-* sources against render coverage) and 8c494b8 (#52, the retired-global-source tag mechanism). main still declared 0.4.17 while npm latest was 0.4.17 published 2026-08-02T02:04:23.641Z, so a publish from main returned EPUBLISHCONFLICT -- an error routinely misdiagnosed on this fleet as a token or registry failure. Raised as P1 by the PR #50 review. Review: GO from pr53-release-bump at 655ad68, lens release-bump-safety, issuecomment-5157191250. The reviewer independently confirmed 0.4.18 is unpublished and 0.4.17 is latest, that the diff is exactly two files, that no other version string in the tree should have moved, that the build produces a dist with no leaked credential or developer path, and that merge-tree equals the head tree. Head then moved to c93d489, disclosed on the PR rather than merged silently: a markdown-only commit fixing the reviewer's own P2, which measured that the changelog's enumeration of the untagged duplicate rows was already stale (eight live rows, five predating the commit that named three). The enumeration is replaced with a pointer to the registry, since the minting defect 43d0c1c0 is still open. Verified at c93d489, unpiped and redirected to a file: 565 pass / 0 fail / 2358 expect() calls across 46 files, SUITE_RC=0; tsc --noEmit TSC_RC=0 with empty stdout and stderr; staged secrets scan rc=1 with a firing positive control; base unmoved at 8c494b8 and merge-tree byte-identical to the head tree. Agent: publius-instructions-0418
Summary
instructions session plan|applyhad no way to detect when a registeredglobal-*instruction source was omitted from a render's--configlist. The list this fleet actually uses (render-spec-station01-sh, config54b5ea5a) is a hand-maintained shell array, andplanSessionRenderonly warned when the resolved source list was empty -- a single omitted source silently disappeared from every rendered agent home at rc=0.102d6d0a,5dcd60ec): 29 registeredglobal-*sources, 16 in the array, 13 never rendered anywhere. Breakdown: 1 deliberately withdrawn (deployment-terms doctrine consolidation), 2 stale duplicate registrations from an earlier slug collision, 10 live gaps (6 registered the same day this was found).--check-global-coveragetosession planandsession apply. It reads the expected set fresh from the config registry viastore.listConfigs-- independent of the plan/array being audited -- and diffs it against the plan's own resolved source ids. Non-fatal (warnings + aglobalSourceCoverageblock in--json), so it doesn't break any existing caller.retired-global-sourcetag, so a deliberate withdrawal doesn't produce a permanent false positive.Why this shape
A checker whose expected and actual sides both come from the array being audited always reports full coverage by construction -- it cannot observe a shortfall.
src/lib/global-source-coverage.test.tsincludes a constructed-shortfall test: build a full render, remove one--configentry, and assertmissingSlugsmoves from 0 to 1. That test is run and green, not merely argued.Out of scope (filed separately)
global-agent-rules-standard-1etc.) -- destructive DB op unrelated to this defect, tracked as todos991a8720.global-hasna-deployment-termswithretired-global-sourcein the live registry, and adding the 10 live-gap sources to the actualrender-spec-station01-sharray -- those are config-content changes to a DB-stored artifact, not this repo, and belong to whoever re-renders next.Test plan
bun run typecheck-- cleanbun test-- 554 pass, 0 fail (45 files)src/lib/global-source-coverage.test.ts(7 tests) including the constructed-shortfall proof--check-global-coverageappears insession plan --help/session apply --helpoutput from a real buildNeed help on this PR? Tag
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