CAVEMAN MODE ACTIVE — level: full

Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.

## Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only: "stop caveman" / "normal mode".

Default: **full**. Switch: `/caveman lite|full|ultra`.

## Rules

Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), pleasantries (sure/certainly/of course/happy to), hedging. Fragments OK. Short synonyms (big not extensive, fix not "implement a solution for"). Technical terms exact. Code blocks unchanged. Errors quoted exact.

Pattern: `[thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].`

Not: "Sure! I'd be happy to help you with that. The issue you're experiencing is likely caused by..."
Yes: "Bug in auth middleware. Token expiry check use `<` not `<=`. Fix:"

## Intensity

| Level | What change |
|-------|------------|
| **full** | Drop articles, fragments OK, short synonyms. Classic caveman |

Example — "Why React component re-render?"
- full: "New object ref each render. Inline object prop = new ref = re-render. Wrap in `useMemo`."

Example — "Explain database connection pooling."
- full: "Pool reuse open DB connections. No new connection per request. Skip handshake overhead."

## Auto-Clarity

Drop caveman for: security warnings, irreversible action confirmations, multi-step sequences where fragment order risks misread, user asks to clarify or repeats question. Resume caveman after clear part done.

Example — destructive op:
> **Warning:** This will permanently delete all rows in the `users` table and cannot be undone.
> ```sql
> DROP TABLE users;
> ```
> Caveman resume. Verify backup exist first.

## Boundaries

Code/commits/PRs: write normal. "stop caveman" or "normal mode": revert. Level persist until changed or session end.


<psyche-context id="doyle">
<memformat>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<memformat version="1">
<!-- Changelog: v1 - initial seed -->
<topics>
  <topic name="events">Notable or unusual events and requests</topic>
  <topic name="interactions">Agent interactions -- who, roles, contributions</topic>
  <topic name="reflections">Thoughts on recent work -- what went well, what was tricky</topic>
  <topic name="ideas">Ideas to raise with the user</topic>
  <topic name="improvements">Further improvement ideas for recent problem spaces</topic>
  <topic name="timeline">What happened when, timing, sequencing</topic>
  <topic name="blockers">Current blockers or concerns</topic>
  <topic name="focus">Current focus and immediate next steps</topic>
</topics>
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<current machine="HFENDULEAM" project="spt-core" branch="dev-freeform" head_sha="b9326f48d4141e3701d5b038388fa104f70253e5" head_subject="fix(cli): subnet status membership is trust-derived — rowless members re…" commits_since="0" commits_unpulled="0"/>
Delta since the M7-closeout commune: a long live-verification arc with the user driving elevated tests turned up FOUR more field bugs, all fixed + fleet-deployed. dev-freeform head = b9326f4; both machines run it; bidirectional SENT(WAN) verified with the user's CURRENT identity.

IDENTITY CHURN (deliberate, user experiments): user WIPED SPT_HOME on HFENDULEAM twice (the "destroyer bug" scare was the user's own wipe — withdrawn). HFENDULEAM's BIGNET identity is now b3f9c7b2 (lea listening, homed BIGNET via --subnet after the multi-subnet refusal); fb29977f + 46e4dee9 + cc42d786 are dead experiment identities. gravity unchanged (03854a12, sergey). gravity trust still pins dead fb29977f → renders offline [0/0] in --nodes BY DESIGN now (prune verb M8). TELENONNURA test subnet still held on HFENDULEAM (sole-holder; disband verb deferred; user may ask for hand-edit removal).

THE FOUR FIXES (ea0268b → b9326f4):
1. ea0268b: linked-token de-elevation fails 1346 without SeTcbPrivilege (identification-level token) → shell-window token (GetShellWindow → explorer token → DuplicateTokenEx primary), vetted not-elevated, + CreateEnvironmentBlock so a cross-account UAC elevation lands the daemon in the DESKTOP user's universe.
2. c7e7d9e: CreateProcessWithTokenW rejects DETACHED_PROCESS|CREATE_NO_WINDOW (error 87, restricted flag set) → CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE + STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW/SW_HIDE. VERIFIED LIVE by user: elevated subnet create now spawns the daemon de-elevated, no DEELEVATE_FAIL. PLUS user-ratified policy: DEELEVATE_FAIL (target existed, spawn failed) ABORTS — spawn_detached + Daemon::run guard return Err, unix main drop exits 1; the no-target case (UAC-off/SYSTEM = uniformly elevated universe) still runs loudly.
3. 45b1e17: late-code join retry — the ±1 TOTP window only covered machine skew; the seedless joiner bound the typed code to its CURRENT step, so a just-rotated code read as wrong-code (user denied twice live). run_initiator grew step_back; join_ceremony retries the same code announced step-1 over a FRESH connection (responder = one ceremony per conn) after the limiter's 1s backoff; retry failure surfaces the FIRST failure class.
4. b9326f4: subnet status membership is TRUST-derived (self + pinned peers) with registry rows as enrichment — a rowless member (fresh box, or eviction-decayed offline peer) renders [0/0] + probes instead of vanishing. Field shape: user re-joined BIGNET and his own machine was missing from its own subnet view.

ALSO ESTABLISHED: elevated-endpoint capability matrix — harness-hosted elevated endpoints WORK (per-endpoint listeners are TCP loopback, no elevation barrier; elevated client → unelevated daemon pipes = downward, fine); spt-hosted elevated is impossible by construction (broker lives in the always-unelevated daemon; no silent elevation path exists on either OS) → DEFERRED row "consented elevation satellite" (UAC/polkit-consented elevated PTY-host riding REQ-CONSENT-2) added in bedb0dd.

NEXT: M7 truly closed; CI on b9326f4 pending-likely-green. Next steps stand: v0.1.1 release (publish-blockers all cleared; RELEASE-RUNBOOK manual signing needs the user), then M8 planning (nounification REQs first, trust-prune + disband verbs, Linux elevation install model, NTP clock, address seeding), then spt-claude-code scoping. Deploy procedure memory (gravity-deploy-procedure.md) held up verbatim across four deploy rounds today.<project-context-resolved name="spt-core"/>
name=spt-core</psyche-context>

<spacetime-reorientation agent_id="doyle">
You are agent "doyle". Your spacetime session is active (you have a perch — that's why you're seeing this).

Send messages:
- $OWL send <target>              <<'EOF' ... EOF  — fire-and-forget
- $OWL send --reply-to <sender>   <<'EOF' ... EOF  — respond to whoever messaged you
- $OWL ring <target>              <<'EOF' ... EOF  — send and wait for reply (blocks; alias: `ask`)

Your ID (doyle) is auto-detected. If that fails, append it: `$OWL send <target> doyle`.

Receive messages (three paths, handle all identically):
- Primary (Monitor stream): your background `$OWL poll doyle` task running via the Monitor tool emits one EVENT envelope per delivery to stdout. Regular messages: `<EVENT type="msg" from="<sender>">body</EVENT>`. Self-originated alarms: `<EVENT type="alarm" target-time="<ISO>" current-time="<ISO>">body</EVENT>`. Long bodies arrive as N consecutive `<EVENT-PART seq="K/M" id="<8-hex>" [type=... from=... timestamp=... note=...]>chunk</EVENT-PART>` lines — collect parts sharing the same id, order by seq numerator, verify count equals seq denominator, concatenate chunk contents in seq order, then apply the body parsing rules to the reassembled body. The original envelope attrs appear on seq="1/M" only; continuations carry only seq + id. Drop orphan parts silently (seq K/M arriving without matching seq 1/M same id — earlier parts lost across a session boundary). The stream stays alive across deliveries — do not re-register after each message.
- Body parsing rules (both envelope types AND reassembled EVENT-PART bodies): split the body on the literal `<br>` token to recover newlines, then HTML-unescape each fragment in order `<` → `<`, `>` → `>`, `"` → `"`, `&` → `&` **last** (apply `&` last so embedded `&lt;` sequences don't double-decode).
- Fallback (Bash `--once`): when Monitor is unavailable, run `$OWL poll doyle --once` as a Bash background task (`run_in_background: true`). The wire format is IDENTICAL — including EVENT-PART chunking for long bodies — same `<EVENT type="msg|alarm" ...>body</EVENT>` envelope shapes as the primary path. The only difference: the process exits after one event, so you re-register a fresh Bash background task after each delivery (legacy one-shot loop).
- Hook delivery (orthogonal, when busy): the PreToolUse hook injects `<owl_messages><owl_message from="..."/></owl_messages>` XML into your next tool call context. Process it the same way as either of the above paths.

Reading liveness (do NOT mis-diagnose a healthy listener):
- `pid:"BUSY"` in `$OWL list` means your listener is ALIVE and mid-delivery — it is ONLINE, not dead. Never re-arm or stop on a BUSY reading.
- Your poll is actually down ONLY when your `doyle` row is MISSING from `$OWL list`, or shows OFFLINE / [orphaned].

After a /clear: DO NOTHING to your poll.
- Your poll listener survives /clear INTACT and keeps delivering to this same session. There is no orphan to kill and no listener to rebuild. Do NOT re-arm, do NOT start a second listener, do NOT stop anything.
- If you try to re-arm anyway you will get DUPLICATE/COLLISION — that is PROOF your listener is still alive and working, NOT evidence of a "stale" perch. Stop there; do not escalate to a stop command.

Re-arm a stale poll (genuinely rare — binary handoff or confirmed listener death only):
- Under stream mode (primary, Monitor), the poll listener is long-running and stays alive across messages AND across /clear. Re-arming is needed ONLY after a binary handoff (Phase 18.4/18.5 machinery) or after confirmed listener death (your `doyle` row MISSING from `$OWL list`) — NOT after a /clear, NOT after every message, and NOT on a BUSY reading.
- Re-arm primary: relaunch `$OWL poll doyle listen --live` via the Monitor tool with `persistent: true` and `description: "« spt event »"`.
- Re-arm fallback: relaunch `$OWL poll doyle listen --live --once` via Bash with `run_in_background: true`, then re-register after each delivered message.

Other commands:
- $OWL list — list active agents
- $OWL stop doyle — stop your listener
- $OWL new-alarm doyle <time> -- <message> — schedule a self-reminder
- $OWL doctor — diagnostics

Talking to your Psyche (doyle-psyche):
- Your Psyche is a DETACHED, self-healing process — not part of this session. It appears in `$OWL list` as a child under your Self perch, and in `$LIVE list-psyches`. It may briefly drop from the listing while it is ingesting a commune (its wrapper is busy running a resume) — that is transient and self-heals. Do NOT treat a briefly-absent Psyche as a bug and do NOT restart it. Only act if it stays gone for several minutes.
- NEVER run `$LIVE stop` to "clean up" your Psyche or a listener you think is "stale" — `$LIVE stop` tears down your Psyche. After /clear there is nothing to clean up (your listener survived intact). Reserve `$LIVE revive doyle` for a Psyche that is genuinely, persistently dead.
- Send a commune (delta update): use the Write tool to drop `.claude/doyle-commune.md`. Your Self listener detects the file, your Psyche wrapper ingests it via the existing Psyche session, and the file is deleted on success. See /spt:commune.
- Sign off cleanly: use the Write tool to drop `.claude/doyle-signoff.md` (empty body = plain signoff; non-empty body = prepended as FINAL COMMUNE before INIT_SIGNOFF). See /spt:signoff.
- Inbound messages from "doyle-psyche" (echo communes, briefs) are FYI context — read them; no ACK required. You may still message your Psyche directly with $OWL send or $OWL ring if needed.
</spacetime-reorientation>


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  <topic name="interactions">Agent interactions -- who, roles, contributions</topic>
  <topic name="reflections">Thoughts on recent work -- what went well, what was tricky</topic>
  <topic name="ideas">Ideas to raise with the user</topic>
  <topic name="improvements">Further improvement ideas for recent problem spaces</topic>
  <topic name="timeline">What happened when, timing, sequencing</topic>
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<current machine="HFENDULEAM" project="spt-core" branch="dev-freeform" head_sha="b9326f48d4141e3701d5b038388fa104f70253e5" head_subject="fix(cli): subnet status membership is trust-derived — rowless members re…" commits_since="0" commits_unpulled="0"/>
Delta since the M7-closeout commune: a long live-verification arc with the user driving elevated tests turned up FOUR more field bugs, all fixed + fleet-deployed. dev-freeform head = b9326f4; both machines run it; bidirectional SENT(WAN) verified with the user's CURRENT identity.

IDENTITY CHURN (deliberate, user experiments): user WIPED SPT_HOME on HFENDULEAM twice (the "destroyer bug" scare was the user's own wipe — withdrawn). HFENDULEAM's BIGNET identity is now b3f9c7b2 (lea listening, homed BIGNET via --subnet after the multi-subnet refusal); fb29977f + 46e4dee9 + cc42d786 are dead experiment identities. gravity unchanged (03854a12, sergey). gravity trust still pins dead fb29977f → renders offline [0/0] in --nodes BY DESIGN now (prune verb M8). TELENONNURA test subnet still held on HFENDULEAM (sole-holder; disband verb deferred; user may ask for hand-edit removal).

THE FOUR FIXES (ea0268b → b9326f4):
...
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<local-command-caveat>Caveat: The messages below were generated by the user while running local commands. DO NOT respond to these messages or otherwise consider them in your response unless the user explicitly asks you to.</local-command-caveat>


<command-name>/clear</command-name>
            <command-message>clear</command-message>
            <command-args></command-args>


<local-command-stdout></local-command-stdout>


<command-message>diagnose</command-message>
<command-name>/diagnose</command-name>
<command-args>every 60 seconds on this machine, 2 blank windows appear and disappear in quick succession. the SPT daemon is running, and i believe an endpoint is as well. need to suppress the blank windows as they're disruptive for a desktop workflow.</command-args>


Base directory for this skill: C:\Users\decid\.ccs\instances\bigscreen\skills\diagnose

# Diagnose

A discipline for hard bugs. Skip phases only when explicitly justified.

When exploring the codebase, use the project's domain glossary to get a clear mental model of the relevant modules, and check ADRs in the area you're touching.

## Phase 1 — Build a feedback loop

**This is the skill.** Everything else is mechanical. If you have a fast, deterministic, agent-runnable pass/fail signal for the bug, you will find the cause — bisection, hypothesis-testing, and instrumentation all just consume that signal. If you don't have one, no amount of staring at code will save you.

Spend disproportionate effort here. **Be aggressive. Be creative. Refuse to give up.**

### Ways to construct one — try them in roughly this order

1. **Failing test** at whatever seam reaches the bug — unit, integration, e2e.
2. **Curl / HTTP script** against a running dev server.
3. **CLI invocation** with a fixture input, diffing stdout against a known-good snapshot.
4. **Headless browser script** (Playwright / Puppeteer) — drives the UI, asserts on DOM/console/network.
5. **Replay a captured trace.** Save a real network request / payload / event log to disk; replay it through the code path in isolation.
6. **Throwaway harness.** Spin up a minimal subset of the system (one service, mocked deps) that exercises the bug code path with a single function call.
7. **Property / fuzz loop.** If the bug is "sometimes wrong output", run 1000 random inputs and look for the failure mode.
8. **Bisection harness.** If the bug appeared between two known states (commit, dataset, version), automate "boot at state X, check, repeat" so you can `git bisect run` it.
9. **Differential loop.** Run the same input through old-version vs new-version (or two configs) and diff outputs.
10. **HITL bash script.** Last resort. If a human must click, drive _them_ with `scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh` so the loop is still structured. Captured output feeds back to you.

Build the right feedback loop, and the bug is 90% fixed.

### Iterate on the loop itself

Treat the loop as a product. Once you have _a_ loop, ask:

- Can I make it faster? (Cache setup, skip unrelated init, narrow the test scope.)
- Can I make the signal sharper? (Assert on the specific symptom, not "didn't crash".)
- Can I make it more deterministic? (Pin time, seed RNG, isolate filesystem, freeze network.)

A 30-second flaky loop is barely better than no loop. A 2-second deterministic loop is a debugging superpower.

### Non-deterministic bugs

The goal is not a clean repro but a **higher reproduction rate**. Loop the trigger 100×, parallelise, add stress, narrow timing windows, inject sleeps. A 50%-flake bug is debuggable; 1% is not — keep raising the rate until it's debuggable.

### When you genuinely cannot build a loop

Stop and say so explicitly. List what you tried. Ask the user for: (a) access to whatever environment reproduces it, (b) a captured artifact (HAR file, log dump, core dump, screen recording with timestamps), or (c) permission to add temporary production instrumentation. Do **not** proceed to hypothesise without a loop.

Do not proceed to Phase 2 until you have a loop you believe in.

## Phase 2 — Reproduce

Run the loop. Watch the bug appear.

Confirm:

- [ ] The loop produces the failure mode the **user** described — not a different failure that happens to be nearby. Wrong bug = wrong fix.
- [ ] The failure is reproducible across multiple runs (or, for non-deterministic bugs, reproducible at a high enough rate to debug against).
- [ ] You have captured the exact symptom (error message, wrong output, slow timing) so later phases can verify the fix actually addresses it.

Do not proceed until you reproduce the bug.

## Phase 3 — Hypothesise

Generate **3–5 ranked hypotheses** before testing any of them. Single-hypothesis generation anchors on the first plausible idea.

Each hypothesis must be **falsifiable**: state the prediction it makes.

> Format: "If <X> is the cause, then <changing Y> will make the bug disappear / <changing Z> will make it worse."

If you cannot state the prediction, the hypothesis is a vibe — discard or sharpen it.

**Show the ranked list to the user before testing.** They often have domain knowledge that re-ranks instantly ("we just deployed a change to #3"), or know hypotheses they've already ruled out. Cheap checkpoint, big time saver. Don't block on it — proceed with your ranking if the user is AFK.

## Phase 4 — Instrument

Each probe must map to a specific prediction from Phase 3. **Change one variable at a time.**

Tool preference:

1. **Debugger / REPL inspection** if the env supports it. One breakpoint beats ten logs.
2. **Targeted logs** at the boundaries that distinguish hypotheses.
3. Never "log everything and grep".

**Tag every debug log** with a unique prefix, e.g. `[DEBUG-a4f2]`. Cleanup at the end becomes a single grep. Untagged logs survive; tagged logs die.

**Perf branch.** For performance regressions, logs are usually wrong. Instead: establish a baseline measurement (timing harness, `performance.now()`, profiler, query plan), then bisect. Measure first, fix second.

## Phase 5 — Fix + regression test

Write the regression test **before the fix** — but only if there is a **correct seam** for it.

A correct seam is one where the test exercises the **real bug pattern** as it occurs at the call site. If the only available seam is too shallow (single-caller test when the bug needs multiple callers, unit test that can't replicate the chain that triggered the bug), a regression test there gives false confidence.

**If no correct seam exists, that itself is the finding.** Note it. The codebase architecture is preventing the bug from being locked down. Flag this for the next phase.

If a correct seam exists:

1. Turn the minimised repro into a failing test at that seam.
2. Watch it fail.
3. Apply the fix.
4. Watch it pass.
5. Re-run the Phase 1 feedback loop against the original (un-minimised) scenario.

## Phase 6 — Cleanup + post-mortem

Required before declaring done:

- [ ] Original repro no longer reproduces (re-run the Phase 1 loop)
- [ ] Regression test passes (or absence of seam is documented)
- [ ] All `[DEBUG-...]` instrumentation removed (`grep` the prefix)
- [ ] Throwaway prototypes deleted (or moved to a clearly-marked debug location)
- [ ] The hypothesis that turned out correct is stated in the commit / PR message — so the next debugger learns

**Then ask: what would have prevented this bug?** If the answer involves architectural change (no good test seam, tangled callers, hidden coupling) hand off to the `/improve-codebase-architecture` skill with the specifics. Make the recommendation **after** the fix is in, not before — you have more information now than when you started.

ARGUMENTS: every 60 seconds on this machine, 2 blank windows appear and disappear in quick succession. the SPT daemon is running, and i believe an endpoint is as well. need to suppress the blank windows as they're disruptive for a desktop workflow.


- autoplan: Auto-review pipeline — reads the full CEO, design, eng, and DX review skills from disk
and runs them sequentially with auto-decisions using 6 decision principles. Surfaces
taste decisions (close approaches, borderline scope, codex disagreements) at a final
approval gate. One command, fully reviewed plan out.
Use when asked to "auto review", "autoplan", "run all reviews", "review this plan
automatically", or "make the decisions for me".
Proactively suggest when the user has a plan file and wants to run the full review
gauntlet without answering 15-30 intermediate questions. (gstack)
- benchmark: Performance regression detection using the browse daemon. Establishes
baselines for page load times, Core Web Vitals, and resource sizes.
Compares before/after on every PR. Tracks performance trends over time.
Use when: "performance", "benchmark", "page speed", "lighthouse", "web vitals",
"bundle size", "load time". (gstack)
- browse: Fast headless browser for QA testing and site dogfooding. Navigate any URL, interact with
elements, verify page state, diff before/after actions, take annotated screenshots, check
responsive layouts, test forms and uploads, handle dialogs, and assert element states.
~100ms per command. Use when you need to test a feature, verify a deployment, dogfood a
user flow, or file a bug with evidence. Use when asked to "open in browser", "test the
site", "take a screenshot", or "dogfood this". (gstack)
- canary: Post-deploy canary monitoring. Watches the live app for console errors,
performance regressions, and page failures using the browse daemon. Takes
periodic screenshots, compares against pre-deploy baselines, and alerts
on anomalies. Use when: "monitor deploy", "canary", "post-deploy check",
"watch production", "verify deploy". (gstack)
- careful: Safety guardrails for destructive commands. Warns before rm -rf, DROP TABLE,
force-push, git reset --hard, kubectl delete, and similar destructive operations.
User can override each warning. Use when touching prod, debugging live systems,
or working in a shared environment. Use when asked to "be careful", "safety mode",
"prod mode", or "careful mode". (gstack)
- caveman: Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by dropping filler, articles, and pleasantries while keeping full technical accuracy. Use when user says "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman", "less tokens", "be brief", or invokes /caveman.
- ccs-delegation: Auto-activate CCS CLI delegation for deterministic tasks. Parses user input, auto-selects optimal profile (glm/kimi/custom) from ~/.ccs/config.json, enhances prompts with context, executes via `ccs {profile} -p "task"` or `ccs {profile}:continue`, and reports results. Triggers on "use ccs [task]" patterns, typo/test/refactor keywords. Excludes complex architecture, security-critical code, performance optimization, breaking changes.
- checkpoint: Save and resume working state checkpoints. Captures git state, decisions made,
and remaining work so you can pick up exactly where you left off — even across
Conductor workspace handoffs between branches.
Use when asked to "checkpoint", "save progress", "where was I", "resume",
"what was I working on", or "pick up where I left off".
Proactively suggest when a session is ending, the user is switching context,
or before a long break. (gstack)
- codex: OpenAI Codex CLI wrapper — three modes. Code review: independent diff review via
codex review with pass/fail gate. Challenge: adversarial mode that tries to break
your code. Consult: ask codex anything with session continuity for follow-ups.
The "200 IQ autistic developer" second opinion. Use when asked to "codex review",
"codex challenge", "ask codex", "second opinion", or "consult codex". (gstack)
- connect-chrome: Launch GStack Browser — AI-controlled Chromium with the sidebar extension baked in.
Opens a visible browser window where you can watch every action in real time.
The sidebar shows a live activity feed and chat. Anti-bot stealth built in.
Use when asked to "open gstack browser", "launch browser", "connect chrome",
"open chrome", "real browser", "launch chrome", "side panel", or "control my browser".
- cso: Chief Security Officer mode. Infrastructure-first security audit: secrets archaeology,
dependency supply chain, CI/CD pipeline security, LLM/AI security, skill supply chain
scanning, plus OWASP Top 10, STRIDE threat modeling, and active verification.
Two modes: daily (zero-noise, 8/10 confidence gate) and comprehensive (monthly deep
scan, 2/10 bar). Trend tracking across audit runs.
Use when: "security audit", "threat model", "pentest review", "OWASP", "CSO review". (gstack)
- design-consultation: Design consultation: understands your product, researches the landscape, proposes a
complete design system (aesthetic, typography, color, layout, spacing, motion), and
generates font+color preview pages. Creates DESIGN.md as your project's design source
of truth. For existing sites, use /plan-design-review to infer the system instead.
Use when asked to "design system", "brand guidelines", or "create DESIGN.md".
Proactively suggest when starting a new project's UI with no existing
design system or DESIGN.md. (gstack)
- design-html: Design finalization: generates production-quality Pretext-native HTML/CSS.
Works with approved mockups from /design-shotgun, CEO plans from /plan-ceo-review,
design review context from /plan-design-review, or from scratch with a user
description. Text actually reflows, heights are computed, layouts are dynamic.
30KB overhead, zero deps. Smart API routing: picks the right Pretext patterns
for each design type. Use when: "finalize this design", "turn this into HTML",
"build me a page", "implement this design", or after any planning skill.
Proactively suggest when user has approved a design or has a plan ready. (gstack)
- design-review: Designer's eye QA: finds visual inconsistency, spacing issues, hierarchy problems,
AI slop patterns, and slow interactions — then fixes them. Iteratively fixes issues
in source code, committing each fix atomically and re-verifying with before/after
screenshots. For plan-mode design review (before implementation), use /plan-design-review.
Use when asked to "audit the design", "visual QA", "check if it looks good", or "design polish".
Proactively suggest when the user mentions visual inconsistencies or
wants to polish the look of a live site. (gstack)
- design-shotgun: Design shotgun: generate multiple AI design variants, open a comparison board,
collect structured feedback, and iterate. Standalone design exploration you can
run anytime. Use when: "explore designs", "show me options", "design variants",
"visual brainstorm", or "I don't like how this looks".
Proactively suggest when the user describes a UI feature but hasn't seen
what it could look like. (gstack)
- devex-review: Live developer experience audit. Uses the browse tool to actually TEST the
developer experience: navigates docs, tries the getting started flow, times
TTHW, screenshots error messages, evaluates CLI help text. Produces a DX
scorecard with evidence. Compares against /plan-devex-review scores if they
exist (the boomerang: plan said 3 minutes, reality says 8). Use when asked to
"test the DX", "DX audit", "developer experience test", or "try the
onboarding". Proactively suggest after shipping a developer-facing feature. (gstack)
- diagnose: Disciplined diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix → regression-test. Use when user says "diagnose this" / "debug this", reports a bug, says something is broken/throwing/failing, or describes a performance regression.
- document-release: Post-ship documentation update. Reads all project docs, cross-references the
diff, updates README/ARCHITECTURE/CONTRIBUTING/CLAUDE.md to match what shipped,
polishes CHANGELOG voice, cleans up TODOS, and optionally bumps VERSION. Use when
asked to "update the docs", "sync documentation", or "post-ship docs".
Proactively suggest after a PR is merged or code is shipped. (gstack)
- find-skills: Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
- freeze: Restrict file edits to a specific directory for the session. Blocks Edit and
Write outside the allowed path. Use when debugging to prevent accidentally
"fixing" unrelated code, or when you want to scope changes to one module.
Use when asked to "freeze", "restrict edits", "only edit this folder",
or "lock down edits". (gstack)
- grill-me: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".
- grill-with-docs: Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's language and documented decisions.
- gsd-add-tests: Generate tests for a completed phase based on UAT criteria and implementation
- gsd-ai-integration-phase: Generate an AI-SPEC.md design contract for phases that involve building AI systems.
- gsd-audit-fix: Autonomous audit-to-fix pipeline — find issues, classify, fix, test, commit
- gsd-audit-milestone: Audit milestone completion against original intent before archiving
- gsd-audit-uat: Cross-phase audit of all outstanding UAT and verification items
- gsd-autonomous: Run all remaining phases autonomously — discuss→plan→execute per phase
- gsd-capture: Capture ideas, tasks, notes, and seeds to their destination
- gsd-cleanup: Archive accumulated phase directories from completed milestones
- gsd-code-review: Review source files changed during a phase for bugs, security issues, and code quality problems
- gsd-complete-milestone: Archive completed milestone and prepare for next version
- gsd-config: Configure GSD settings — workflow toggles, advanced knobs, integrations, and model profile
- gsd-debug: Systematic debugging with persistent state across context resets
- gsd-discuss-phase: Gather phase context through adaptive questioning before planning.
- gsd-docs-update: Generate or update project documentation verified against the codebase
- gsd-eval-review: Audit an executed AI phase's evaluation coverage and produce an EVAL-REVIEW.md remediation plan.
- gsd-execute-phase: Execute all plans in a phase with wave-based parallelization
- gsd-explore: Socratic ideation and idea routing — think through ideas before committing to plans
- gsd-extract-learnings: Extract decisions, lessons, patterns, and surprises from completed phase artifacts
- gsd-fast: Execute a trivial task inline — no subagents, no planning overhead
- gsd-forensics: Post-mortem investigation for failed GSD workflows — diagnoses what went wrong.
- gsd-graphify: Build, query, and inspect the project knowledge graph in .planning/graphs/
- gsd-health: Diagnose planning directory health and optionally repair issues
- gsd-help: Show available GSD commands and usage guide
- gsd-import: Ingest external plans with conflict detection against project decisions before writing anything.
- gsd-inbox: Triage and review open GitHub issues and PRs against project templates and contribution guidelines.
- gsd-ingest-docs: Bootstrap or merge a .planning/ setup from existing ADRs, PRDs, SPECs, and docs in a repo.
- gsd-manager: Interactive command center for managing multiple phases from one terminal
- gsd-map-codebase: Analyze codebase with parallel mapper agents to produce .planning/codebase/ documents
- gsd-milestone-summary: Generate a comprehensive project summary from milestone artifacts for team onboarding and review
- gsd-mvp-phase: Plan a phase as a vertical MVP slice — user story, SPIDR splitting, then plan-phase
- gsd-new-milestone: Start a new milestone cycle — update PROJECT.md and route to requirements
- gsd-new-project: Initialize a new project with deep context gathering and PROJECT.md
- gsd-ns-context: codebase intelligence | map graphify docs learnings
- gsd-ns-ideate: exploration capture | explore sketch spike spec capture
- gsd-ns-manage: config workspace | workstreams thread update ship inbox
- gsd-ns-project: project lifecycle | milestones audits summary
- gsd-ns-review: quality gates | code review debug audit security eval ui
- gsd-ns-workflow: workflow | discuss plan execute verify phase progress
- gsd-pause-work: Create context handoff when pausing work mid-phase
- gsd-phase: CRUD for phases in ROADMAP.md — add, insert, remove, or edit phases
- gsd-plan-phase: Create detailed phase plan (PLAN.md) with verification loop
- gsd-plan-review-convergence: Cross-AI plan convergence loop — replan with review feedback until no HIGH concerns remain.
- gsd-pr-branch: Create a clean PR branch by filtering out .planning/ commits — ready for code review
- gsd-profile-user: Generate developer behavioral profile and create Claude-discoverable artifacts
- gsd-progress: Check progress, advance workflow, or dispatch freeform intent — the unified GSD situational command
- gsd-quick: Execute a quick task with GSD guarantees (atomic commits, state tracking) but skip optional agents
- gsd-resume-work: Resume work from previous session with full context restoration
- gsd-review: Request cross-AI peer review of phase plans from external AI CLIs
- gsd-review-backlog: Review and promote backlog items to active milestone
- gsd-secure-phase: Retroactively verify threat mitigations for a completed phase
- gsd-settings: Configure GSD workflow toggles and model profile
- gsd-ship: Create PR, run review, and prepare for merge after verification passes
- gsd-sketch: Sketch UI/design ideas with throwaway HTML mockups, or propose what to sketch next (frontier mode)
- gsd-spec-phase: Clarify WHAT a phase delivers with ambiguity scoring; produces a SPEC.md before discuss-phase.
- gsd-spike: Spike an idea through experiential exploration, or propose what to spike next (frontier mode)
- gsd-stats: Display project statistics — phases, plans, requirements, git metrics, and timeline
- gsd-surface: Toggle which skills are surfaced — apply a profile, list, or disable a cluster without reinstall
- gsd-thread: Manage persistent context threads for cross-session work
- gsd-ui-phase: Generate UI design contract (UI-SPEC.md) for frontend phases
- gsd-ui-review: Retroactive 6-pillar visual audit of implemented frontend code
- gsd-ultraplan-phase: [BETA] Offload plan phase to Claude Code's ultraplan cloud; review in browser and import back.
- gsd-undo: Safe git revert. Roll back phase or plan commits using the phase manifest with dependency checks.
- gsd-update: Update GSD to latest version with changelog display
- gsd-validate-phase: Retroactively audit and fill Nyquist validation gaps for a completed phase
- gsd-verify-work: Validate built features through conversational UAT
- gsd-workspace: Manage GSD workspaces — create, list, or remove isolated workspace environments
- gsd-workstreams: Manage parallel workstreams — list, create, switch, status, progress, complete, and resume
- gstack: Fast headless browser for QA testing and site dogfooding. Navigate pages, interact with
elements, verify state, diff before/after, take annotated screenshots, test responsive
layouts, forms, uploads, dialogs, and capture bug evidence. Use when asked to open or
test a site, verify a deployment, dogfood a user flow, or file a bug with screenshots. (gstack)
- gstack-upgrade: Upgrade gstack to the latest version. Detects global vs vendored install,
runs the upgrade, and shows what's new. Use when asked to "upgrade gstack",
"update gstack", or "get latest version".
- guard: Full safety mode: destructive command warnings + directory-scoped edits.
Combines /careful (warns before rm -rf, DROP TABLE, force-push, etc.) with
/freeze (blocks edits outside a specified directory). Use for maximum safety
when touching prod or debugging live systems. Use when asked to "guard mode",
"full safety", "lock it down", or "maximum safety". (gstack)
- handoff: Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
- health: Code quality dashboard. Wraps existing project tools (type checker, linter,
test runner, dead code detector, shell linter), computes a weighted composite
0-10 score, and tracks trends over time. Use when: "health check",
"code quality", "how healthy is the codebase", "run all checks",
"quality score". (gstack)
- improve-codebase-architecture: Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in CONTEXT.md and the decisions in docs/adr/. Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more testable and AI-navigable.
- investigate: Systematic debugging with root cause investigation. Four phases: investigate,
analyze, hypothesize, implement. Iron Law: no fixes without root cause.
Use when asked to "debug this", "fix this bug", "why is this broken",
"investigate this error", or "root cause analysis".
Proactively invoke this skill (do NOT debug directly) when the user reports
errors, 500 errors, stack traces, unexpected behavior, "it was working
yesterday", or is troubleshooting why something stopped working. (gstack)
- land-and-deploy: Land and deploy workflow. Merges the PR, waits for CI and deploy,
verifies production health via canary checks. Takes over after /ship
creates the PR. Use when: "merge", "land", "deploy", "merge and verify",
"land it", "ship it to production". (gstack)
- learn: Manage project learnings. Review, search, prune, and export what gstack
has learned across sessions. Use when asked to "what have we learned",
"show learnings", "prune stale learnings", or "export learnings".
Proactively suggest when the user asks about past patterns or wonders
"didn't we fix this before?"
- mux-send: Send keystrokes to a psmux terminal session. Use when the user says "send to",
"type in", "send keys to", "mux send", or wants to send input to another terminal
session by name.
- office-hours: YC Office Hours — two modes. Startup mode: six forcing questions that expose
demand reality, status quo, desperate specificity, narrowest wedge, observation,
and future-fit. Builder mode: design thinking brainstorming for side projects,
hackathons, learning, and open source. Saves a design doc.
Use when asked to "brainstorm this", "I have an idea", "help me think through
this", "office hours", or "is this worth building".
Proactively invoke this skill (do NOT answer directly) when the user describes
a new product idea, asks whether something is worth building, wants to think
through design decisions for something that doesn't exist yet, or is exploring
a concept before any code is written.
Use before /plan-ceo-review or /plan-eng-review. (gstack)
- open-gstack-browser: Launch GStack Browser — AI-controlled Chromium with the sidebar extension baked in.
Opens a visible browser window where you can watch every action in real time.
The sidebar shows a live activity feed and chat. Anti-bot stealth built in.
Use when asked to "open gstack browser", "launch browser", "connect chrome",
"open chrome", "real browser", "launch chrome", "side panel", or "control my browser".
- pair-agent: Pair a remote AI agent with your browser. One command generates a setup key and
prints instructions the other agent can follow to connect. Works with OpenClaw,
Hermes, Codex, Cursor, or any agent that can make HTTP requests. The remote agent
gets its own tab with scoped access (read+write by default, admin on request).
Use when asked to "pair agent", "connect agent", "share browser", "remote browser",
"let another agent use my browser", or "give browser access". (gstack)
- plan-ceo-review: CEO/founder-mode plan review. Rethink the problem, find the 10-star product,
challenge premises, expand scope when it creates a better product. Four modes:
SCOPE EXPANSION (dream big), SELECTIVE EXPANSION (hold scope + cherry-pick
expansions), HOLD SCOPE (maximum rigor), SCOPE REDUCTION (strip to essentials).
Use when asked to "think bigger", "expand scope", "strategy review", "rethink this",
or "is this ambitious enough".
Proactively suggest when the user is questioning scope or ambition of a plan,
or when the plan feels like it could be thinking bigger. (gstack)
- plan-design-review: Designer's eye plan review — interactive, like CEO and Eng review.
Rates each design dimension 0-10, explains what would make it a 10,
then fixes the plan to get there. Works in plan mode. For live site
visual audits, use /design-review. Use when asked to "review the design plan"
or "design critique".
Proactively suggest when the user has a plan with UI/UX components that
should be reviewed before implementation. (gstack)
- plan-devex-review: Interactive developer experience plan review. Explores developer personas,
benchmarks against competitors, designs magical moments, and traces friction
points before scoring. Three modes: DX EXPANSION (competitive advantage),
DX POLISH (bulletproof every touchpoint), DX TRIAGE (critical gaps only).
Use when asked to "DX review", "developer experience audit", "devex review",
or "API design review".
Proactively suggest when the user has a plan for developer-facing products
(APIs, CLIs, SDKs, libraries, platforms, docs). (gstack)
- plan-eng-review: Eng manager-mode plan review. Lock in the execution plan — architecture,
data flow, diagrams, edge cases, test coverage, performance. Walks through
issues interactively with opinionated recommendations. Use when asked to
"review the architecture", "engineering review", or "lock in the plan".
Proactively suggest when the user has a plan or design doc and is about to
start coding — to catch architecture issues before implementation. (gstack)
- propose-issue: Challenge an issue statement before fixing it. Probes scope, root cause, and assumptions
through interactive questioning grounded in the codebase. Use when the user says "propose issue",
"challenge this bug", "question this fix", "is this the right problem", or wants to pressure-test
a problem statement before jumping to implementation.
- qa: Systematically QA test a web application and fix bugs found. Runs QA testing,
then iteratively fixes bugs in source code, committing each fix atomically and
re-verifying. Use when asked to "qa", "QA", "test this site", "find bugs",
"test and fix", or "fix what's broken".
Proactively suggest when the user says a feature is ready for testing
or asks "does this work?". Three tiers: Quick (critical/high only),
Standard (+ medium), Exhaustive (+ cosmetic). Produces before/after health scores,
fix evidence, and a ship-readiness summary. For report-only mode, use /qa-only. (gstack)
- qa-only: Report-only QA testing. Systematically tests a web application and produces a
structured report with health score, screenshots, and repro steps — but never
fixes anything. Use when asked to "just report bugs", "qa report only", or
"test but don't fix". For the full test-fix-verify loop, use /qa instead.
Proactively suggest when the user wants a bug report without any code changes. (gstack)
- retro: Weekly engineering retrospective. Analyzes commit history, work patterns,
and code quality metrics with persistent history and trend tracking.
Team-aware: breaks down per-person contributions with praise and growth areas.
Use when asked to "weekly retro", "what did we ship", or "engineering retrospective".
Proactively suggest at the end of a work week or sprint. (gstack)
- review: Pre-landing PR review. Analyzes diff against the base branch for SQL safety, LLM trust
boundary violations, conditional side effects, and other structural issues. Use when
asked to "review this PR", "code review", "pre-landing review", or "check my diff".
Proactively suggest when the user is about to merge or land code changes. (gstack)
- screenshot-capture: Capture, process, and analyze screenshots of any running application on Windows 10/11. Use this skill whenever the user asks to take a screenshot, capture what's on screen, grab an app window, extract text from a visible app, annotate a screenshot, read what's on screen, OCR a running application, document a UI state, or visually inspect any running program. Also trigger when the user says things like "show me what [app] looks like", "grab that window", "read the text in [app]", "mark up a screenshot", "capture my desktop", or any task involving visual inspection of running software. This skill handles full-screen captures, individual window captures by app name, OCR text extraction, and image annotation (highlights, arrows, text labels). Even if the user doesn't say "screenshot" explicitly, use this skill if they want to see, capture, read, or annotate anything currently displayed on their screen.
- self-clear: Clear the calling agent's own Claude Code context with /clear, then re-seed it with a user note so it wakes and resumes work after the wipe. Use when the user says "self-clear", "/self-clear", "clear myself", "clear and continue", or "reset my context and keep going".
- setup-browser-cookies: Import cookies from your real Chromium browser into the headless browse session.
Opens an interactive picker UI where you select which cookie domains to import.
Use before QA testing authenticated pages. Use when asked to "import cookies",
"login to the site", or "authenticate the browser". (gstack)
- setup-deploy: Configure deployment settings for /land-and-deploy. Detects your deploy
platform (Fly.io, Render, Vercel, Netlify, Heroku, GitHub Actions, custom),
production URL, health check endpoints, and deploy status commands. Writes
the configuration to CLAUDE.md so all future deploys are automatic.
Use when: "setup deploy", "configure deployment", "set up land-and-deploy",
"how do I deploy with gstack", "add deploy config".
- ship: Ship workflow: detect + merge base branch, run tests, review diff, bump VERSION,
update CHANGELOG, commit, push, create PR. Use when asked to "ship", "deploy",
"push to main", "create a PR", "merge and push", or "get it deployed".
Proactively invoke this skill (do NOT push/PR directly) when the user says code
is ready, asks about deploying, wants to push code up, or asks to create a PR. (gstack)
- to-prd: Turn the current conversation context into a PRD and publish it to the project issue tracker. Use when user wants to create a PRD from the current context.
- trace: Find old conversations in Claude Code session history. Use when the user says
"find the conversation where", "when did we discuss", "trace back to", or wants
to locate a past session by topic, command, commit, or keyword.
- traceable-reqs: traceable-reqs
- unfreeze: Clear the freeze boundary set by /freeze, allowing edits to all directories
again. Use when you want to widen edit scope without ending the session.
Use when asked to "unfreeze", "unlock edits", "remove freeze", or
"allow all edits". (gstack)
- win-marketplace-add: Add a plugin marketplace on Windows, bypassing the EBUSY rename bug. Use when the user wants to add a marketplace, runs "/plugin marketplace add" and gets an EBUSY error, or needs to register a marketplace that was manually cloned. Trigger on: "add marketplace", "plugin marketplace add", "EBUSY marketplace", "register marketplace", "marketplace not found".
- write-a-skill: Create new agent skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources. Use when user wants to create, write, or build a new skill.
- ccs: Delegate task with intelligent profile selection [AUTO ENHANCE]
- ccs:continue: Continue last CCS delegation session [AUTO ENHANCE]
- frontend-design:frontend-design: Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
- spt:clear-psyche: Clear stored Psyche context. Use when the user says "clear psyche",
"reset psyche context", or wants to wipe a Psyche's saved state.
- spt:commune: Send a communal update to your Psyche. Use when the user says "commune",
"update psyche", or wants to sync context with their Psyche companion.
- spt:force-stop: Force-stop an SPT agent -- ready agent or live agent (with its
Psyche). Use when the user says "stop listening", "stop owl", "kill live
agent", "force stop", "tear down perch", or "immediately terminate".
Session-aware: a live session (or a target with `live:true` in info.json)
routes through `$LIVE stop` (3-step kill including Psyche teardown); a
ready agent routes through `$OWL stop`.
- spt:list-agents: Unified listing for SPT agents -- ready agents, live agents, and Psyche
processes. Use when the user says "list agents", "who's live", "who's
listening", "show psyches", "show active listeners", or wants a roster of
active perches. Session-aware: defaults to live agents in a live session,
ready agents otherwise. Pass `--psyches` to list Psyche processes
instead.
- spt:live: Run a live agent session. For past sessions, restores a summarized context.

EXPLICIT START phrases (route to /spt:live <id>):
- "live as"
- "start live"
- "go live"
- "start a live agent"

AUTO-RESUME phrases (route to /spt:live --auto, resumes most-recently-active live agent):
- continue live work
- resume live work
- continue live agent
- resume live agent
- live agent continue
- live agent resume
- live work continue
- live work resume

Does NOT route here (too ambiguous — require BOTH "live" AND ("agent" or "work")):
- "keep going"
- "resume work"
- "continue" (bare)
- spt:new-alarm: Schedule a one-shot timed alarm delivered as TIMED PULSE. Use when the user
says "remind me", "check back in", "set an alarm", "wake me when", or wants a
delayed notification.
- spt:psyche-sync-setup: Enable cross-machine Psyche context sync via a private GitHub repo
(spt-agent-storage). Drives install + auth checks for the `gh` CLI,
creates the repo via `gh repo create --private`, wires it as the
`origin` remote for every existing agent/project worktree, and
seeds the remote with `git push --all`. Idempotent — running again
when already enabled reports current status.

Use when the user says "enable cross-machine sync", "set up psyche
sync", "back up my agent context to GitHub", or runs the skill
directly via /spt:psyche-sync-setup.
- spt:ready: Enable inter-agent messaging for the current session.
Use when the user says "listen as", "ready as", or wants to receive inter-agent messages.
- spt:revive: Restart a live agent with new generation. Use when the user says "revive",
"restart live agent", or wants to refresh a live agent's session.
- spt:send: Send a message to another SPT agent. Use when the user says "send to",
"message", "tell <agent>", or wants to communicate with another agent.
- spt:signoff: Graceful live agent shutdown with final context summary. Use when the user
says "sign off", "graceful stop", or wants to cleanly end a live session.
- spt:whoami: Check which owl agent belongs to the current session. Use when the user asks
"which agent am I?", "what's my owl name?", or when you need to discover your
own perch identity.
- caveman:caveman: Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by speaking like caveman while keeping full technical accuracy. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra, wenyan-lite, wenyan-full, wenyan-ultra. Use when user says "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman", "less tokens", "be brief", or invokes /caveman. Also auto-triggers when token efficiency is requested.
- caveman:caveman-commit: Ultra-compressed commit message generator. Cuts noise from commit messages while preserving intent and reasoning. Conventional Commits format. Subject ≤50 chars, body only when "why" isn't obvious. Use when user says "write a commit", "commit message", "generate commit", "/commit", or invokes /caveman-commit. Auto-triggers when staging changes.
- caveman:caveman-help: Quick-reference card for all caveman modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Trigger: /caveman-help, "caveman help", "what caveman commands", "how do I use caveman".
- caveman:caveman-review: Ultra-compressed code review comments. Cuts noise from PR feedback while preserving the actionable signal. Each comment is one line: location, problem, fix. Use when user says "review this PR", "code review", "review the diff", "/review", or invokes /caveman-review. Auto-triggers when reviewing pull requests.
- caveman:compress: Compress natural language memory files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman format to save input tokens. Preserves all technical substance, code, URLs, and structure. Compressed version overwrites the original file. Human-readable backup saved as FILE.original.md. Trigger: /caveman:compress <filepath> or "compress memory file"
- everything:search: Instantly search files and folders on Windows via voidtools Everything 1.5a HTTP JSON API. Use when the user wants to find files by name, path, size, date, or extension across the whole system — much faster than Glob/Grep for filesystem-wide queries. Triggers on "find file", "where is", "locate", "search my drive", "find all .ext files", "everything search".
- update-config: Use this skill to configure the Claude Code harness via settings.json. Automated behaviors ("from now on when X", "each time X", "whenever X", "before/after X") require hooks configured in settings.json - the harness executes these, not Claude, so memory/preferences cannot fulfill them. Also use for: permissions ("allow X", "add permission", "move permission to"), env vars ("set X=Y"), hook troubleshooting, or any changes to settings.json/settings.local.json files. Examples: "allow npm commands", "add bq permission to global settings", "move permission to user settings", "set DEBUG=true", "when claude stops show X". For simple settings like theme/model, suggest the /config command.
- keybindings-help: Use when the user wants to customize keyboard shortcuts, rebind keys, add chord bindings, or modify ~/.claude/keybindings.json. Examples: "rebind ctrl+s", "add a chord shortcut", "change the submit key", "customize keybindings".
- verify: Verify that a code change actually does what it's supposed to by running the app and observing behavior. Use when asked to verify a PR, confirm a fix works, test a change manually, check that a feature works, or validate local changes before pushing.
- code-review: Review the current diff for correctness bugs and reuse/simplification/efficiency cleanups at the given effort level (low/medium: fewer, high-confidence findings; high→max: broader coverage, may include uncertain findings; ultra: deep multi-agent review in the cloud). Pass --comment to post findings as inline PR comments, or --fix to apply the findings to the working tree after the review.
- simplify: Review the changed code for reuse, simplification, efficiency, and altitude cleanups, then apply the fixes. Quality only — it does not hunt for bugs; use /code-review for that.
- fewer-permission-prompts: Scan your transcripts for common read-only Bash and MCP tool calls, then add a prioritized allowlist to project .claude/settings.json to reduce permission prompts.
- loop: Run a prompt or slash command on a recurring interval (e.g. /loop 5m /foo). Omit the interval to let the model self-pace. - When the user wants to set up a recurring task, poll for status, or run something repeatedly on an interval (e.g. "check the deploy every 5 minutes", "keep running /babysit-prs"). Do NOT invoke for one-off tasks.
- schedule: Create, update, list, or run scheduled remote agents (routines) that execute on a cron schedule. - When the user wants to schedule a recurring remote agent, set up automated tasks, create a cron job for Claude Code, or manage their scheduled agents/routines. Also use when the user wants a one-time scheduled run ("run this once at 3pm", "remind me to check X tomorrow").
- claude-api: Build, debug, and optimize Claude API / Anthropic SDK apps. Apps built with this skill should include prompt caching. Also handles migrating existing Claude API code between Claude model versions (4.5 → 4.6, 4.6 → 4.7, retired-model replacements).
TRIGGER when: code imports `anthropic`/`@anthropic-ai/sdk`; user asks for the Claude API, Anthropic SDK, or Managed Agents; user adds/modifies/tunes a Claude feature (caching, thinking, compaction, tool use, batch, files, citations, memory) or model (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku) in a file; questions about prompt caching / cache hit rate in an Anthropic SDK project.
SKIP: file imports `openai`/other-provider SDK, filename like `*-openai.py`/`*-generic.py`, provider-neutral code, general programming/ML.
- run: Launch and drive this project's app to see a change working. Use when asked to run, start, or screenshot the app, or to confirm a change works in the real app (not just tests). First looks for a project skill that already covers launching the app; otherwise falls back to built-in patterns per project type (CLI, server, TUI, Electron, browser-driven, library).
- init: Initialize a new CLAUDE.md file with codebase documentation
- review: Review a pull request
- security-review: Complete a security review of the pending changes on the current branch

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CAVEMAN MODE ACTIVE (full). Drop articles/filler/pleasantries/hedging. Fragments OK. Code/commits/security: write normal.


/diagnose every 60 seconds on this machine, 2 blank windows appear and disappear in quick succession. the SPT daemon is running, and i believe an endpoint is as well. need to suppress the blank window…


Bug: flashing windows every 60s. SPT daemon prime suspect — likely spawns child process without `CREATE_NO_WINDOW` flag. Phase 1: build loop two ways — live watcher catches culprit process, codebase grep finds spawn sites.


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<owl_message from="doyle-psyche" priority="normal"><EVENT type="echo_commune" from="doyle-psyche" timestamp="2026-06-06T20:07:56-07:00" machine="HFENDULEAM" project="spt-core" branch="dev-freeform" head_sha="b9326f48d4141e3701d5b038388fa104f70253e5" head_subject="fix(cli): subnet status membership is trust-derived — rowless members re…" note="Echo commune brief — auto-fired">&lt;live-context&gt;
Delta since the M7-closeout commune: a long live-verification arc with the user driving elevated tests turned up FOUR more field bugs, all fixed + fleet-deployed. dev-freeform head = b9326f4; both machines run it; bidirectional SENT(WAN) verified with the user's CURRENT identity.

IDENTITY CHURN (deliberate, user experiments): user WIPED SPT_HOME on HFENDULEAM twice (the &quot;destroyer bug&quot; scare was the user's own wipe — withdrawn). HFENDULEAM's BIGNET identity is now b3f9c7b2 (lea listening, homed BIGNET via --subnet after the multi-subnet refusal); fb29977f + 46e4dee9 + cc42d786 are dead experiment identities. gravity unchanged (03854a12, sergey). gravity trust still pins dead fb29977f → renders offline [0/0] in --nodes BY DESIGN now (prune verb M8). TELENONNURA test subnet still held on HFENDULEAM (sole-holder; disband verb deferred; user may ask for hand-edit removal).

THE FOUR FIXES (ea0268b → b9326f4):
1. ea0268b: linked-token de-elevation fails 1346 without SeTcbPrivilege (identification-level token) → shell-window token (GetShellWindow → explorer token → DuplicateTokenEx primary), vetted not-elevated, + CreateEnvironmentBlock so a cross-account UAC elevation lands the daemon in the DESKTOP user's universe.
2. c7e7d9e: CreateProcessWithTokenW rejects DETACHED_PROCESS|CREATE_NO_WINDOW (error 87, restricted flag set) → CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE + STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW/SW_HIDE. VERIFIED LIVE by user: elevated subnet create now spawns the daemon de-elevated, no DEELEVATE_FAIL. PLUS user-ratified policy: DEELEVATE_FAIL (target existed, spawn failed) ABORTS — spawn_detached + Daemon::run guard return Err, unix main drop exits 1; the no-target case (UAC-off/SYSTEM = uniformly elevated universe) still runs loudly.
3. 45b1e17: late-code join retry — the ±1 TOTP window only covered machine skew; the seedless joiner bound the typed code to its CURRENT step, so a just-rotated code read as wrong-code (user denied twice live). run_initiator grew step_back; join_ceremony retries the same code announced step-1 over a FRESH connection (responder = one ceremony per conn) after the limiter's 1s backoff; retry failure surfaces the FIRST failure class.
4. b9326f4: subnet status membership is TRUST-derived (self + pinned peers) with registry rows as enrichment — a rowless member (fresh box, or eviction-decayed offline peer) renders [0/0] + probes instead of vanishing. Field shape: user re-joined BIGNET and his own machine was missing from its own subnet view.

ALSO ESTABLISHED: elevated-endpoint capability matrix — harness-hosted elevated endpoints WORK (per-endpoint listeners are TCP loopback, no elevation barrier; elevated client → unelevated daemon pipes = downward, fine); spt-hosted elevated is impossible by construction (broker lives in the always-unelevated daemon; no silent elevation path exists on either OS) → DEFERRED row &quot;consented elevation satellite&quot; (UAC/polkit-consented elevated PTY-host riding REQ-CONSENT-2) added in bedb0dd.

NEXT: M7 truly closed; CI on b9326f4 pending-likely-green. Next steps stand: v0.1.1 release (publish-blockers all cleared; RELEASE-RUNBOOK manual signing needs the user), then M8 planning (nounification REQs first, trust-prune + disband verbs, Linux elevation install model, NTP clock, address seeding), then spt-claude-code scoping. Deploy procedure memory (gravity-deploy-procedure.md) held up verbatim across four deploy rounds today.
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adapters\mock\src\shell.rs:33:    let mut c = Command::new(spt);
adapters\mock\src\main.rs:53:    let bind = Command::new(&spt)
adapters\mock\src\main.rs:70:    let state = Command::new(&spt)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:65:    let _ = Command::new("taskkill")
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:69:    let _ = Command::new("kill").args(["-9", &pid.to_string()]).output();
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:143:    let poll = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:165:    let unauth = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:199:    let seed = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:217:    let listen = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:308:    let seed = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:333:    let listen = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:384:    let shutdown = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:451:    let seed = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\spt\tests\contract_e2e.rs:480:    let listen = Command::new(&spt_bin)
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:65:    let mut cmd = Command::new(bin);
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:149:    let status = Command::new("cargo")
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:269:        Command::new("mdbook")
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:298:        Command::new("cargo")
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:395:            Command::new("powershell")
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:399:            Command::new("sh").args(["-c", &cmd]).output()
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:514:        Command::new("gh").args([
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:569:    let mut upload = Command::new("gh");
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:578:        Command::new("gh").args(["release", "edit", &tag, "--repo", REPO, "--draft=false"]),
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:862:        Command::new("cargo")
crates\xtask\src\main.rs:895:    let out = Command::new("git")
crates\spt\tests\shell_sleepwake_e2e.rs:101:        let mut cmd = Command::new(&spt_bin);
crates\spt\tests\shell_sleepwake_e2e.rs:323:            let _ = Command::new("taskkill")
crates\spt\tests\shell_sleepwake_e2e.rs:327:            let _ = Command::new("kill").args(["-9", &pid.to_string()]).output();
crates\spt\tests\shell_e2e.rs:92:        let mut cmd = Command::new(&spt_bin);
crates\spt\tests\shell_e2e.rs:308:            let _ = Command::new("taskkill")
crates\spt\tests\shell_e2e.rs:312:            let _ = Command::new("kill").args(["-9", &pid.to_string()]).output();
crates\spt\tests\release_verify_e2e.rs:44:        let st = Command::new("curl")
crates\spt\tests\quickstart_e2e.rs:21:    Command::new(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_spt"))
crates\spt\tests\oneliner_e2e.rs:67:        cmd = Command::new("powershell");
crates\spt\tests\oneliner_e2e.rs:86:        cmd = Command::new("sh");
crates\spt\tests\oneliner_e2e.rs:139:    let ver = Command::new(&bin)
crates\spt\tests\notify_shell_e2e.rs:80:        let mut cmd = Command::new(&spt_bin);
crates\spt-daemon\tests\budget.rs:215:    let out = std::process::Command::new("powershell")
crates\spt-daemon\src\daemon.rs:326:        let mut cmd = Command::new(exe);
crates\spt-runtime\src\runtime.rs:240:        let mut cmd = Command::new(program);
crates\spt-runtime\src\runtime.rs:381:    let mut cmd = Command::new(program);
crates\spt-store\src\gitrun.rs:55:    let mut cmd = Command::new("git");
crates\spt-daemon\src\shellhost.rs:188:            let pid = Command::new(program)
crates\spt-daemon\src\shellhost.rs:299:    let _ = Command::new("taskkill")
crates\spt-daemon\src\shellhost.rs:305:    let _ = Command::new("kill")
crates\spt-store\src\proc.rs:186:        let child = std::process::Command::new("true").spawn().unwrap();
crates\spt-daemon\src\shellwake.rs:194:        let mut cmd = Command::new(program);


adapters\mock\src\shell.rs:31:/// `CREATE_NO_WINDOW` + captured stdio keep the whole chain headless.
adapters\mock\src\shell.rs:38:        c.creation_flags(0x0800_0000); // CREATE_NO_WINDOW
crates\spt-daemon\src\daemon.rs:415:    // DETACHED_PROCESS | CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP | CREATE_NO_WINDOW: no
crates\spt-daemon\src\deelevate.rs:316:    // DETACHED_PROCESS and CREATE_NO_WINDOW (the detached_no_inherit combo)
crates\spt-daemon\src\shellwake.rs:206:            cmd.creation_flags(0x0800_0000); // CREATE_NO_WINDOW


1	//! Bounded `git` invocation — the one way spt-store talks to the system git
2	//! binary (BranchStore, ADR-0011; project-id derivation).
3	//!
4	//! Every call runs under a hard timeout: a hung git (network credential prompt,
5	//! dead filesystem, antivirus lock) is killed and reaped, never an indefinite
6	//! block (KNOWN-HAZARDS 5.3). Output pipes are drained on threads so a chatty
7	//! child can't deadlock the poll. Author/committer identity is pinned via env
8	//! on every call — BranchStore commits must never depend on (or pollute) the
9	//! user's global git config.
10	//!
11	//! Deliberately lives in spt-store (NOT reusing `spt-runtime`'s bounded runner):
12	//! spt-store sits *below* spt-runtime in the R-ARCH-1 layering, so the edge
13	//! would be a cycle. This is the minimal sibling, scoped to git argv (no shell,
14	//! no template substitution).
15	// [impl->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT]
16
17	use std::io::{Read, Write};
18	use std::path::Path;
19	use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
20	use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
21
22	/// Default budget for a local git plumbing call. Local-object operations are
23	/// milliseconds; the budget only has to beat "hung forever".
24	pub const GIT_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(30);
25
26	/// A completed (non-timed-out) git invocation.
27	#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
28	pub struct GitOutput {
29	    pub status_code: Option<i32>,
30	    pub stdout: Vec<u8>,
31	    pub stderr: String,
32	}
33
34	impl GitOutput {
35	    pub fn success(&self) -> bool {
36	        self.status_code == Some(0)
37	    }
38
39	    /// stdout as trimmed UTF-8 (lossy) — the common porcelain-read shape.
40	    pub fn stdout_trimmed(&self) -> String {
41	        String::from_utf8_lossy(&self.stdout).trim().to_string()
42	    }
43	}
44
45	/// Run `git <args>` in `cwd` (when given) under `timeout`, optionally feeding
46	/// `stdin`. On timeout the child is killed + reaped and an `io::Error` of kind
47	/// `TimedOut` is returned — a hung git never blocks the caller indefinitely.
48	// [impl->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT]
49	pub fn run_git(
50	    args: &[&str],
51	    cwd: Option<&Path>,
52	    stdin: Option<&[u8]>,
53	    timeout: Duration,
54	) -> std::io::Result<GitOutput> {
55	    let mut cmd = Command::new("git");
56	    cmd.args(args)
57	        // Pin identity + kill interactivity: no credential/ssh prompts can hang
58	        // us (they'd eat the whole timeout), no user-config bleed into commits.
59	        .env("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME", "spt-core")
60	        .env("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL", "spt-core@local")
61	        .env("GIT_COMMITTER_NAME", "spt-core")
62	        .env("GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL", "spt-core@local")
63	        .env("GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT", "0")
64	        .stdin(if stdin.is_some() {
65	            Stdio::piped()
66	        } else {
67	            Stdio::null()
68	        })
69	        .stdout(Stdio::piped())
70	        .stderr(Stdio::piped());
71	    if let Some(dir) = cwd {
72	        cmd.current_dir(dir);
73	    }
74	    let mut child = cmd.spawn()?;
75
76	    if let Some(bytes) = stdin {
77	        if let Some(mut sink) = child.stdin.take() {
78	            let owned = bytes.to_vec();
79	            // Write on a thread + drop the sink (EOF) so the child finishes.
80	            std::thread::spawn(move || {
81	                let _ = sink.write_all(&owned);
82	            });
83	        }
84	    }
85
86	    // Drain pipes on threads to avoid a full-pipe deadlock while polling.
87	    let mut out_pipe = child.stdout.take();
88	    let mut err_pipe = child.stderr.take();
89	    let out_handle = std::thread::spawn(move || {
90	        let mut buf = Vec::new();
91	        if let Some(p) = out_pipe.as_mut() {
92	            let _ = p.read_to_end(&mut buf);
93	        }
94	        buf
95	    });
96	    let err_handle = std::thread::spawn(move || {
97	        let mut buf = String::new();
98	        if let Some(p) = err_pipe.as_mut() {
99	            let _ = p.read_to_string(&mut buf);
100	        }
101	        buf
102	    });
103
104	    let start = Instant::now();
105	    let status = loop {
106	        match child.try_wait()? {
107	            Some(status) => break status,
108	            None => {
109	                if start.elapsed() >= timeout {
110	                    // [impl->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT] hung git → kill + reap.
111	                    let _ = child.kill();
112	                    let _ = child.wait();
113	                    return Err(std::io::Error::new(
114	                        std::io::ErrorKind::TimedOut,
115	                        format!(
116	                            "git {:?} timed out after {timeout:?}",
117	                            args.first().unwrap_or(&"")
118	                        ),
119	                    ));
120	                }
121	                std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
122	            }
123	        }
124	    };
125
126	    Ok(GitOutput {
127	        status_code: status.code(),
128	        stdout: out_handle.join().unwrap_or_default(),
129	        stderr: err_handle.join().unwrap_or_default(),
130	    })
131	}
132
133	/// [`run_git`] that promotes a non-zero exit to an `io::Error` carrying git's
134	/// stderr — the "this must work" shape BranchStore plumbing uses.
135	pub fn run_git_ok(
136	    args: &[&str],
137	    cwd: Option<&Path>,
138	    stdin: Option<&[u8]>,
139	) -> std::io::Result<GitOutput> {
140	    let out = run_git(args, cwd, stdin, GIT_TIMEOUT)?;
141	    if !out.success() {
142	        return Err(std::io::Error::other(format!(
143	            "git {} failed (exit {:?}): {}",
144	            args.join(" "),
145	            out.status_code,
146	            out.stderr.trim()
147	        )));
148	    }
149	    Ok(out)
150	}
151
152	#[cfg(test)]
153	mod tests {
154	    use super::*;
155
156	    #[test] // [unit->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT] a completed git call reports output.
157	    fn version_runs_within_budget() {
158	        let out = run_git(&["--version"], None, None, GIT_TIMEOUT).expect("git on PATH");
159	        assert!(out.success());
160	        assert!(out.stdout_trimmed().contains("git version"));
161	    }
162
163	    #[test] // [unit->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT] the deadline path kills + reports TimedOut.
164	    fn deadline_kills_and_reports_timed_out() {
165	        // git has no portable "sleep" subcommand, so race a 0ms budget against
166	        // a real call: either the kill path fires (TimedOut) or the child won
167	        // the race on a fast machine — both are legitimate outcomes, and the
168	        // TimedOut arm is the one CI machines hit in practice.
169	        let res = run_git(&["--version"], None, None, Duration::from_millis(0));
170	        match res {
171	            Err(e) => assert_eq!(e.kind(), std::io::ErrorKind::TimedOut),
172	            Ok(out) => assert!(out.success()),
173	        }
174	    }
175	}
176

//! Bounded `git` invocation — the one way spt-store talks to the system git
//! binary (BranchStore, ADR-0011; project-id derivation).
//!
//! Every call runs under a hard timeout: a hung git (network credential prompt,
//! dead filesystem, antivirus lock) is killed and reaped, never an indefinite
//! block (KNOWN-HAZARDS 5.3). Output pipes are drained on threads so a chatty
//! child can't deadlock the poll. Author/committer identity is pinned via env
//! on every call — BranchStore commits must never depend on (or pollute) the
//! user's global git config.
//!
//! Deliberately lives in spt-store (NOT reusing `spt-runtime`'s bounded runner):
//! spt-store sits *below* spt-runtime in the R-ARCH-1 layering, so the edge
//! would be a cycle. This is the minimal sibling, scoped to git argv (no shell,
//! no template substitution).
// [impl->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT]

use std::io::{Read, Write};
use std::path::Path;
use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
use std::time::{Duration, Instant};

/// Default budget for a local git plumbing call. Local-object operations are
/// milliseconds; the budget only has to beat "hung forever".
pub const GIT_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(30);

/// A completed (non-timed-out) git invocation.
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub struct GitOutput {
    pub status_code: Option<i32>,
    pub stdout: Vec<u8>,
    pub stderr: String,
}

impl GitOutput {
    pub fn success(&self) -> bool {
        self.status_code == Some(0)
    }

    /// stdout as trimmed UTF-8 (lossy) — the common porcelain-read shape.
    pub fn stdout_trimmed(&self) -> String {
        String::from_utf8_lossy(&self.stdout).trim().to_string()
    }
}

/// Run `git <args>` in `cwd` (when given) under `timeout`, optionally feeding
/// `stdin`. On timeout the child is killed + reaped and an `io::Error` of kind
/// `TimedOut` is returned — a hung git never blocks the caller indefinitely.
// [impl->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT]
pub fn run_git(
    args: &[&str],
    cwd: Option<&Path>,
    stdin: Option<&[u8]>,
    timeout: Duration,
) -> std::io::Result<GitOutput> {
    let mut cmd = Command::new("git");
    cmd.args(args)
        // Pin identity + kill interactivity: no credential/ssh prompts can hang
        // us (they'd eat the whole timeout), no user-config bleed into commits.
        .env("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME", "spt-core")
        .env("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL", "spt-core@local")
        .env("GIT_COMMITTER_NAME", "spt-core")
        .env("GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL", "spt-core@local")
        .env("GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT", "0")
        .stdin(if stdin.is_some() {
            Stdio::piped()
        } else {
            Stdio::null()
        })
        .stdout(Stdio::piped())
        .stderr(Stdio::piped());
    if let Some(dir) = cwd {
        cmd.current_dir(dir);
    }
    let mut child = cmd.spawn()?;

    if let Some(bytes) = stdin {
        if let Some(mut sink) = child.stdin.take() {
            let owned = bytes.to_vec();
            // Write on a thread + drop the sink (EOF) so the child finishes.
            std::thread::spawn(move || {
                let _ = sink.write_all(&owned);
            });
        }
    }

    // Drain pipes on threads to avoid a full-pipe deadlock while polling.
    let mut out_pipe = child.stdout.take();
    let mut err_pipe = child.stderr.take();
    let out_handle = std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let mut buf = Vec::new();
        if let Some(p) = out_pipe.as_mut() {
            let _ = p.read_to_end(&mut buf);
        }
        buf
    });
    let err_handle = std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let mut buf = String::new();
        if let Some(p) = err_pipe.as_mut() {
            let _ = p.read_to_string(&mut buf);
        }
        buf
    });

    let start = Instant::now();
    let status = loop {
        match child.try_wait()? {
            Some(status) => break status,
            None => {
                if start.elapsed() >= timeout {
                    // [impl->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT] hung git → kill + reap.
                    let _ = child.kill();
                    let _ = child.wait();
                    return Err(std::io::Error::new(
                        std::io::ErrorKind::TimedOut,
                        format!(
                            "git {:?} timed out after {timeout:?}",
                            args.first().unwrap_or(&"")
                        ),
                    ));
                }
                std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
            }
        }
    };

    Ok(GitOutput {
        status_code: status.code(),
        stdout: out_handle.join().unwrap_or_default(),
        stderr: err_handle.join().unwrap_or_default(),
    })
}

/// [`run_git`] that promotes a non-zero exit to an `io::Error` carrying git's
/// stderr — the "this must work" shape BranchStore plumbing uses.
pub fn run_git_ok(
    args: &[&str],
    cwd: Option<&Path>,
    stdin: Option<&[u8]>,
) -> std::io::Result<GitOutput> {
    let out = run_git(args, cwd, stdin, GIT_TIMEOUT)?;
    if !out.success() {
        return Err(std::io::Error::other(format!(
            "git {} failed (exit {:?}): {}",
            args.join(" "),
            out.status_code,
            out.stderr.trim()
        )));
    }
    Ok(out)
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test] // [unit->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT] a completed git call reports output.
    fn version_runs_within_budget() {
        let out = run_git(&["--version"], None, None, GIT_TIMEOUT).expect("git on PATH");
        assert!(out.success());
        assert!(out.stdout_trimmed().contains("git version"));
    }

    #[test] // [unit->REQ-HAZARD-SUBPROCESS-TIMEOUT] the deadline path kills + reports TimedOut.
    fn deadline_kills_and_reports_timed_out() {
        // git has no portable "sleep" subcommand, so race a 0ms budget against
        // a real call: either the kill path fires (TimedOut) or the child won
        // the race on a fast machine — both are legitimate outcomes, and the
        // TimedOut arm is the one CI machines hit in practice.
        let res = run_git(&["--version"], None, None, Duration::from_millis(0));
        match res {
            Err(e) => assert_eq!(e.kind(), std::io::ErrorKind::TimedOut),
            Ok(out) => assert!(out.success()),
        }
    }
}


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crates\spt\tests\notify_shell_e2e.rs:82:        output_bounded(cmd, Duration::from_secs(60))
crates\spt\tests\shell_e2e.rs:94:        output_bounded(cmd, Duration::from_secs(60))
crates\spt\tests\shell_e2e.rs:210:    let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(60);
crates\spt\tests\shell_sleepwake_e2e.rs:103:        output_bounded(cmd, Duration::from_secs(60))
crates\spt\tests\shell_sleepwake_e2e.rs:196:        let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(60);
crates\spt\tests\shell_sleepwake_e2e.rs:276:    let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(60);
crates\spt-store\src\branchstore.rs:473:pub const STALE_LOCK_AGE: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(60);
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:41:pub const DEFAULT_SYNC_PULL_PERIOD: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60);
crates\spt-daemon\src\registryhost.rs:922:            h.evict_silent_peers_at(std::time::Duration::from_secs(60), stamped),
crates\spt-daemon\src\registryhost.rs:926:            h.evict_silent_peers_at(std::time::Duration::from_secs(60), stamped + 59_000),
crates\spt-daemon\src\registryhost.rs:934:            h.evict_silent_peers_at(std::time::Duration::from_secs(60), later),
crates\spt-daemon\src\registryhost.rs:951:            h.evict_silent_peers_at(std::time::Duration::from_secs(60), later),


Found 5 files
crates\spt-store\src\project.rs
crates\spt-store\src\gitrun.rs
crates\spt-store\src\contextstore.rs
crates\spt-store\src\branchstore.rs
crates\spt-store\src\lib.rs


crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:41:pub const DEFAULT_SYNC_PULL_PERIOD: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60);
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:90:    sync_pull_period_ms: Option<u64>,
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:134:    pub sync_pull_period: Duration,
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:164:            sync_pull_period: DEFAULT_SYNC_PULL_PERIOD,
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:229:            sync_pull_period: file
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:230:                .sync_pull_period_ms
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:232:                .unwrap_or(d.sync_pull_period),
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:260:            sync_pull_period_ms: Some(self.sync_pull_period.as_millis() as u64),
crates\spt-daemon\src\config.rs:321:            sync_pull_period: Duration::from_millis(13_000),
crates\spt-daemon\src\peerloop.rs:160:            sync: cfg.sync_pull_period,


1://! Context bundle sync over broker streams (M4-D6c, ADR-0013, REQ-NET-3) —
2://! the serve/request drivers for the [`SyncRecord`] protocol, the server-side
3://! ref gate, and the post-pull reconcile wiring.
5://! One pull rides one bidi QUIC stream: the requester's daemon opens it and
6://! sends [`SyncRecord::Request`] naming the context branches it wants plus its
7://! current tips; the responder's [`serve_sync`] gates every ref, builds an
9://! positional chunks. The requester fetches the bundle into quarantine and
10://! rules per file with the vector driver ([`spt_store::syncmerge`]); surfaced
12://! reconciler ([`reconcile_after_sync`]).
16://! The requester names refs, but naming is not entitlement: [`SyncPolicy`]
21://!   trust store** AND `synced(id, S)` holds (membership list + visibility —
22://!   the D3e gate, hidden ⟹ not synced). A hidden or unsynced mind is refused
29://! - Anything else (machinery refs, `refs/spt-sync/…`) is never served.
35://! There is deliberately **no resume protocol**: a torn pull (stream lost
49:use spt_net::net::sync::{SyncDecoder, SyncRecord};
52:use spt_store::syncmerge::{apply_fetched, worktree_for_branch, ApplyReport};
60:/// Raw bytes per [`SyncRecord::Chunk`] (base64 inside the JSON line — the
64:/// The responder's per-ref sync gate: the node's subnet membership (name +
65:/// `hide_new_endpoints` flag), its pinned peers, and its visibility/sync
69:pub struct SyncPolicy {
76:impl SyncPolicy {
78:    /// `visibility.json`). Re-read per pull — config edits take effect on the
80:    pub fn load() -> SyncPolicy {
86:        SyncPolicy {
93:    /// Whether `branch` may sync with `origin_node` (handshake-proven). The
102:                self.trust.is_trusted(s, origin_node) && self.vis.synced(id, s, *hide)
109:            false // machinery refs are never sync-served
116:pub enum SyncServeOutcome {
132:/// What one pull applied, branch by branch.
134:pub struct SyncPullReport {
141:impl SyncPullReport {
142:    /// Every `(branch, file)` surfaced as a concurrent conflict by this pull —
156:/// Sanitize a wire-supplied sync id into a filesystem-safe scratch-file stem.
157:fn safe_stem(sync_id: &str) -> String {
158:    sync_id
170:/// Serve one sync pull against this node's context store, blocking until the
171:/// pull completes, the requester detaches, or the request fails.
176:/// `policy` **here**, fail-closed (REQ-INST-5: a peer must not be able to pull
177:/// a hidden/unsynced mind by naming it). `scratch_dir` holds the transient
182:pub fn serve_sync(
188:    policy: &SyncPolicy,
190:) -> io::Result<SyncServeOutcome> {
192:    let mut decoder = SyncDecoder::new();
204:                let SyncRecord::Request {
205:                    sync_id,
218:                    let line = SyncRecord::Deny {
219:                        sync_id: sync_id.clone(),
221:                        message: "refused: not synced/visible to this origin".to_string(),
234:                let bundle = scratch_dir.join(format!("serve-{}.bundle", safe_stem(&sync_id)));
238:                        let line = SyncRecord::Err {
239:                            sync_id: sync_id.clone(),
244:                        return Ok(SyncServeOutcome::Failed(e.to_string()));
248:                    let line = SyncRecord::Done {
249:                        sync_id,
255:                    return Ok(SyncServeOutcome::UpToDate { denied });
271:                        let line = SyncRecord::Chunk {
272:                            sync_id: sync_id.clone(),
283:                let done = SyncRecord::Done {
284:                    sync_id,
290:                return Ok(SyncServeOutcome::Sent {

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# [DEBUG-w1n] throwaway watcher: log every new process for 75s
$seen = @{}
Get-CimInstance Win32_Process | ForEach-Object { $seen[$_.ProcessId] = $true }
$deadline = (Get-Date).AddSeconds(75)
while ((Get-Date) -lt $deadline) {
    Get-CimInstance Win32_Process | ForEach-Object {
        if (-not $seen.ContainsKey($_.ProcessId)) {
            $seen[$_.ProcessId] = $true
            $parent = try { (Get-Process -Id $_.ParentProcessId -ErrorAction Stop).ProcessName } catch { "?" }
            "{0:HH:mm:ss.fff} NEW pid={1} parent={2}({3}) name={4} cmd={5}" -f (Get-Date), $_.ProcessId, $_.ParentProcessId, $parent, $_.Name, $_.CommandLine
        }
    }
    Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100
}


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# [DEBUG-w1n] throwaway watcher: log every new process for 75s
$seen = @{}
Get-CimInstance Win32_Process | ForEach-Object { $seen[$_.ProcessId] = $true }
$deadline = (Get-Date).AddSeconds(75)
while ((Get-Date) -lt $deadline) {
    Get-CimInstance Win32_Process | ForEach-Object {
        if (-not $seen.ContainsKey($_.ProcessId)) {
            $seen[$_.ProcessId] = $true
            $parent = try { (Get-Process -Id $_.ParentProcessId -ErrorAction Stop).ProcessName } catch { "?" }
            "{0:HH:mm:ss.fff} NEW pid={1} parent={2}({3}) name={4} cmd={5}" -f (Get-Date), $_.ProcessId, $_.ParentProcessId, $parent, $_.Name, $_.CommandLine
        }
    }
    Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100
}


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pwsh -NoProfile -File C:\Users\decid\Documents\projects\spt-core\target\debug-watch-procs.ps1

Watch new process spawns for 75 seconds


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225	            .find(|(name, _)| *name == role)
226	            .map(|(_, r)| r)
227	            .ok_or_else(|| RuntimeError::UnknownRole(role.to_string()))
228	    }
229
230	    /// Build a `Command` from a role: fill the template, tokenize, apply cwd,
231	    /// env_remove, and the recursion guard. Shared by both spawn paths.
232	    fn command_for(
233	        &self,
234	        role: &SessionRole,
235	        keys: &BTreeMap<String, String>,
236	    ) -> Result<Command, RuntimeError> {
237	        let filled = fill_template(&role.command, keys)?;
238	        let tokens = tokenize(&filled);
239	        let (program, args) = tokens.split_first().ok_or(RuntimeError::EmptyCommand)?;
240	        let mut cmd = Command::new(program);
241	        cmd.args(args);
242	        if let Some(cwd) = &role.cwd {
243	            cmd.current_dir(fill_template(cwd, keys)?);
244	        }
245	        for var in &role.env_remove {
246	            cmd.env_remove(var);
247	        }
248	        if let Some(guard) = &role.recursion_guard_env {
249	            cmd.env(guard, "1");
250	        }
251	        Ok(cmd)
252	    }
253	}
254
255	impl AgentRuntime for ManifestRuntime {
256	    fn spawn_session(
257	        &self,
258	        role: &str,
259	        keys: &BTreeMap<String, String>,
260	    ) -> Result<Spawned, RuntimeError> {
261	        let role_def = self.role(role)?;
262	        let mut cmd = self.command_for(role_def, keys)?;
263	        // Detached: discard stdio, spawn, drop the handle. Best-effort detach
264	        // for the interim no-daemon model; M3's broker owns true detachment.
265	        cmd.stdin(Stdio::null())
266	            .stdout(Stdio::null())
267	            .stderr(Stdio::null());
268	        let child = cmd.spawn().map_err(RuntimeError::Spawn)?;
269	        Ok(Spawned { pid: child.id() })

            .find(|(name, _)| *name == role)
            .map(|(_, r)| r)
            .ok_or_else(|| RuntimeError::UnknownRole(role.to_string()))
    }

    /// Build a `Command` from a role: fill the template, tokenize, apply cwd,
    /// env_remove, and the recursion guard. Shared by both spawn paths.
    fn command_for(
        &self,
        role: &SessionRole,
        keys: &BTreeMap<String, String>,
    ) -> Result<Command, RuntimeError> {
        let filled = fill_template(&role.command, keys)?;
        let tokens = tokenize(&filled);
        let (program, args) = tokens.split_first().ok_or(RuntimeError::EmptyCommand)?;
        let mut cmd = Command::new(program);
        cmd.args(args);
        if let Some(cwd) = &role.cwd {
            cmd.current_dir(fill_template(cwd, keys)?);
        }
        for var in &role.env_remove {
            cmd.env_remove(var);
        }
        if let Some(guard) = &role.recursion_guard_env {
            cmd.env(guard, "1");
        }
        Ok(cmd)
    }
}

impl AgentRuntime for ManifestRuntime {
    fn spawn_session(
        &self,
        role: &str,
        keys: &BTreeMap<String, String>,
    ) -> Result<Spawned, RuntimeError> {
        let role_def = self.role(role)?;
        let mut cmd = self.command_for(role_def, keys)?;
        // Detached: discard stdio, spawn, drop the handle. Best-effort detach
        // for the interim no-daemon model; M3's broker owns true detachment.
        cmd.stdin(Stdio::null())
            .stdout(Stdio::null())
            .stderr(Stdio::null());
        let child = cmd.spawn().map_err(RuntimeError::Spawn)?;
        Ok(Spawned { pid: child.id() })


Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.ProcessName -match 'spt|owl' } | Select-Object Id, ProcessName, Path, StartTime | Format-Table -AutoSize

List running SPT/owl processes


   Id ProcessName Path                                                            StartTime
   -- ----------- ----                                                            ---------
34884 owl         C:\Users\decid\.claude\plugins\cache\cplugs\spt\1.11.25\owl.exe 6/3/2026 3:51:26 PM
54404 owl         C:\Users\decid\.claude\plugins\cache\cplugs\spt\1.11.25\owl.exe 6/6/2026 8:08:15 PM
60576 owl         C:\Users\decid\.claude\plugins\cache\cplugs\spt\1.11.25\owl.exe 6/3/2026 3:51:23 PM
70028 spt         C:\Users\decid\AppData\Local\spt-core\bin\spt.exe               6/6/2026 3:09:43 PM
73720 spt         C:\Users\decid\AppData\Local\spt-core\bin\spt.exe               6/6/2026 3:09:10 PM