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.


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<!-- 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>
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<current machine="HFENDULEAM" project="spt-core" branch="dev-freeform" head_sha="f03a490bb3de232f2ce4df4de1ea4762e0bfe1d6" head_subject="docs: grill-firm resource advertisement, subnet icon, endpoint access wh…" commits_since="0" commits_unpulled="0"/>
## Resume state (2026-06-02, branch dev-freeform, head f03a490, 115/115 reqs green)

**SHIPPED:** M0 (spt-proto+spt-store), M1 (spt-msg+binary), M2a (spt-runtime + api contract + harness-hosted startup + mock adapter), M2b (spt-live lifecycle). Phase 0 spike-gate COMPLETE (S3 QUIC survival, S4 forkpty parity, S5 100× restart+resize, S6 idempotent boundary — all PASS). 9 ADRs (0001–0009).

**DESIGN COMPLETE (3 grill clusters, homed + ADR'd):**
- Cluster 1 — PTY digest (ADR-0008, **M3**): parsed source-tagged rolling activity buffer; adapter supplies patterns (input/agent/tool[]), spt-core runs over broker PTY. `spt digest` pull + delta-stream over R-TERM-3.
- Cluster 2 — notifications (ADR-0007, M4): first-class dismissable resurfacing primitive; per-subnet spool; update-prompt+consent refactored to notif producers; `spt notify` + `notif_command` seam.
- Cluster 3 — multi-subnet (ADR-0006, M4): node-global identity + per-subnet visibility; qualified addressing `[subnet:]id[@node]`; `spt rename` ripple; pairing ceremony (ADR-0005 amend).
- Grill batch 2 (M4): resource advertisement (REQ-INST-14), subnet icon (REQ-PAIR-7), endpoint access whitelist (REQ-SEC-1, ADR-0009 — three nested gates: subnet visibility → access whitelist → capability grants; stateful-firewall, node-tier, default-open).

**Landed reserve:** id-charset guard (`spt_proto::id::validate_endpoint_id`, REQ-HAZARD-ID-CHARSET) reserves `:`/`@` for ADR-0006 addressing; 4 creation seams. No other retrofit needed (audit verdict).

**IMMEDIATE NEXT — execute M3a per M3a-PLAN.md:** A0 scaffold `crates/spt-term` (sibling of spt-runtime, above spt-msg) → A1 SessionSurface trait + ConPTY(win)/forkpty(unix) backends → A2 ConPTY-DSR auto-answer (copy Spike #1) → A3 send-keys/send-line inject → A4 byte-stream local streaming (bounded backpressure) → A5 PTY digest parser primitive (REQ-TERM-4; daemon-side fetch/stream/manifest/persist is M3b) → A6 activation + M3b stub.

**BINDING CONSTRAINT (Spike #4/#5):** SessionSurface + byte-stream + digest must NOT bake in either OS's stream contract — forkpty = raw ordered pipe; ConPTY = screen buffer (repaint-on-resize reorders/dups; mid-session attach = viewport only, no scrollback). Model as byte stream with explicit OS-independent attach/replay semantics.

**Milestone map:** M3a (NEXT) → M3b (daemon broker/brain split + IPC + daemon-authoritative liveness + idempotent boundary + auto-start) → M3c (self-update) → M4 (spt-net: Iroh/mDNS/TOTP-SPAKE2 + subnet registry + cross-node Psyche sync — all grill clusters land) → M5 (Shells, PresenceChannel, gated capabilities).

**Infra:** gravity-linux = Linux build/test host (ssh david@gravity-linux pw bigscreen via SSH_ASKPASS shim, rustup 1.96). enlyzeam = Windows.
<project-context-resolved 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.

Re-arm a stale poll (rare):
- Under stream mode (primary, Monitor), the poll listener is long-running and stays alive across messages. Re-arming is needed ONLY after a binary handoff (Phase 18.4/18.5 machinery) or after genuine listener death — NOT after every message.
- Check status: `$OWL list` — if your entry for `doyle` shows `pid:"BUSY"`, is STALE, or is missing, the poll is dead.
- Re-arm primary: relaunch `$OWL poll doyle` via the Monitor tool with `persistent: true` and `description: "« spt event »"`.
- Re-arm fallback: relaunch `$OWL poll doyle --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):
- 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>


<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>


proceed with next steps


- 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.
- 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]
- deep-research: Deep research harness — fan-out web searches, fetch sources, adversarially verify claims, synthesize a cited report. - When the user wants a deep, multi-source, fact-checked research report on any topic. BEFORE invoking, check if the question is specific enough to research directly — if underspecified (e.g., "what car to buy" without budget/use-case/region), ask 2-3 clarifying questions to narrow scope. Then pass the refined question as args, weaving the answers in.
- 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.


Orienting. Read M3a-PLAN + check state.


Bash

ls && echo "---PLAN---" && ls M3a-PLAN.md 2>/dev/null && echo "---traceable---" && which traceable-reqs 2>/dev/null; git log --oneline -3 2>/dev/null

List repo + find M3a plan


CLAUDE.md
CONTEXT.md
Cargo.lock
Cargo.toml
M0-PLAN.md
M1-PLAN.md
M2a-PLAN.md
M2b-PLAN.md
M3-PLAN.md
M3a-PLAN.md
PRD.md
ROADMAP.md
adapters
crates
docs
src
target
tests
traceable-reqs.toml
---PLAN---
M3a-PLAN.md
---traceable---
/c/Users/decid/AppData/Local/Programs/traceable-reqs/traceable-reqs
f03a490 docs: grill-firm resource advertisement, subnet icon, endpoint access whitelist (ADR-0009)
c9a466e docs(M3a): author M3a-PLAN.md (spt-term session-surface mechanism)
0581b42 feat(proto): reserve endpoint-id charset; guard :/@ delimiters at creation seams


Read M3a plan head


# M3a Plan — Terminal wrapper (`spt-term`)

> **Just-in-time, lightweight** — same pattern as `M0/M1/M2a/M2b-PLAN.md`. The
> ordered task layer between `ROADMAP.md` (milestone sequence), `M3-PLAN.md` (the
> M3 umbrella: Phase 0 spike-gate + M3a/M3b/M3c), and `traceable-reqs.toml` (the
> requirement checklist), scoped to **M3a only**. Branch: `dev-freeform`.

> **M3 is split** (M3-PLAN.md): **Phase 0 spike-gate ✅ COMPLETE** (Spikes #3/#4/#5/#6
> all PASS — ADR-0004 §E closed; broker/brain validated on ConPTY + forkpty). This
> plan is **M3a — `spt-term`**, the broker's PTY / session-surface half. **M3b**
> (the `spt-daemon` broker/brain process + IPC) and **M3c** (self-update) follow.

## Goal

Build the **multiplatform session-surface mechanism** that every hosted agent
session runs inside — the PTY layer the M3b broker will host. M3a delivers the
*library mechanism* (the `spt-term` crate); M3b delivers the *process* (the broker
that owns many of these behind versioned IPC).

**M3a done =** the `spt-term` crate compiles + layers acyclically
(`…→spt-msg→spt-term`) · a real child runs under a native PTY on **both Windows
(ConPTY) and Linux (forkpty)** behind one `SessionSurface` trait, output captured ·
the **ConPTY-DSR** hazard is closed (reader auto-answers `ESC[6n`, drains on a
thread, never gates exit on a blocking read) · **send-keys** (raw) + **send-line**
(cooked) injection reach the child, ordering preserved · a consumer **byte-streams**
the child's output with bounded backpressure · the **live activity buffer (PTY
digest)** parser primitive produces a structured, source-tagged rolling view from
that stream · `cargo test --workspace` green · clippy `-D warnings` clean ·
`traceable-reqs check` green with M3a reqs activated · CI matrix (ubuntu + windows)
green.

## Scope

### In — the `spt-term` crate (sibling of `spt-runtime`, above `spt-msg`)

- **`SessionSurface` trait + native PTY backends** (`REQ-TERM-1`) — ConPTY on
  Windows 10+, `forkpty(3)` on Unix, via `portable-pty` (the exact crate + handoff
  shape Spikes #1/#4 proved). Spawn a child under a real PTY; own the master
  reader + writer; capture output. The trait abstracts "anything you can write
  input to and read output from" so M4's network-attached surface and the GUI text
  pane slot in uniformly later.
- **ConPTY-DSR auto-answer** (`REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY-DSR` / 5.5) — the reader answers
  ConPTY's startup cursor-position query (`ESC[6n` → `ESC[1;1R`) on a **drain
  thread**, or ConPTY withholds *all* child stdout; and the read loop **never gates
  exit on a blocking `read()`** (a ConPTY master doesn't EOF while the writer is
  held — Spike #1's secondary gotcha). Copy-verbatim from Spike #1 (harness-orthogonal).
- **Input injection** (`REQ-TERM-2`) — `send-keys` (raw byte stream incl. escape
  sequences, e.g. `Ctrl-C`) and `send-line` (cooked line-level, flushed on newline).
  Both first-class; ordering preserved; reaches the child after a brain restart was
  proven survivable in Spike #1 (the broker owns the writer — M3b territory, but the
  injection *mechanism* is here).
- **Byte-stream local terminal streaming** (`REQ-TERM-3`) — a consumer streams the
  child's byte output with **bounded backpressure**; the v1 byte-stream shape (the
  off-node hop is M4 transport). This is the substrate the digest delta-stream and
  the remote-terminal attach both ride.
- **Live activity buffer (PTY digest) parser primitive** (`REQ-TERM-4`, ADR-0008) —
  a structured, **source-tagged** rolling buffer (last ~N user turns + agent output
  between; tool-usage sprints collapsed), built by running **caller-supplied**
  `input_pattern` / `agent_pattern` / `tool_pattern[]`+catchall over the A4 byte
  stream. M3a builds the *parser primitive* (patterns passed in, structured output,
  window depth N, arg-truncation width); the **manifest-sourcing of the patterns,
  the `spt digest` fetch, the broker-pushed delta-stream, and Path-B persistence are
  M3b** (they need the broker + manifest + history store). Honors the no-built-in-
  parser rule — the *pattern* is supplied, spt-term only runs it.

### Out

- **The broker *process* + versioned local IPC** (M3b) — `spt-term` provides the PTY
  *mechanism* the broker *hosts*; the multiplexed, name-addressable, attach/detach
  one-per-machine supervisor with IPC is M3b. M3a hosts a single surface per handle,
  not the fleet.
- **Daemon-authoritative liveness, brain restart, idempotent boundary** (M3b).
- **Digest manifest-sourcing / `spt digest` / delta-stream hosting / persistence**
  (M3b) — only the parser primitive is M3a.
- **Off-node terminal transport** (M4); the predictive/state-sync "feels-local"
  layer (deferred); on-disk scrollback spillover (deferred).
- **Multi-subnet / notifications** — M4 (this grill's other clusters), not M3.

## Clean-room posture (validated against the sister + Phase 0)

- **`spt-term` is brand-new.** The sister never hosted ConPTY/PTY directly (it
  shelled out to `claude`). Clean-room the whole crate; the **only copied artifact is
  the ConPTY-DSR mechanism** proven in Spike #1 (harness-orthogonal).
- **Phase 0 findings are binding inputs:**
  - **Spike #4 (forkpty parity) + #5 (resize/churn):** `forkpty` is a **raw ordered
    pipe**; ConPTY is a **screen buffer** (repaint-on-resize reorders+duplicates the
    stream; a mid-session attach sees the viewport, not scrollback). **The
    `SessionSurface` trait must NOT bake in either OS's stream semantics** — the
    byte-stream contract (REQ-TERM-3) and the digest parser (REQ-TERM-4) must tolerate
    repaint/reorder on Windows and strict ordering on Linux. Attach/replay semantics
    (viewport vs scrollback) are an explicit surface decision, not an accident.
  - **Spike #5:** resize races the reader — hold the master behind a lock for
    `resize()`; the surface survives churn with no leak/hang/lost-byte.
  - **Spike #1:** the no-EOF-while-writer-held + drain-on-thread discipline.

## New requirements to register first (TRACEABILITY rule 3)

**Assessment — none.** All M3a reqs already exist in `traceable-reqs.toml`:
`REQ-TERM-1`, `REQ-TERM-2`, `REQ-TERM-3` (M3 terminal), `REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY-DSR`
(5.5), and `REQ-TERM-4` (registered this session, ADR-0008). They sit
`required_stages = []`; M3a activates them as each task lands.

## Sequencing rationale

Scaffold → the load-bearing **`SessionSurface` + PTY backend** (Spike-proven on both
OSes) → **DSR auto-answer** (must land *with* the reader or output is withheld) →
**injection** → **byte-stream** → **digest parser** (rides the stream) → activation.
Each task tags evidence + activates its reqs in the same commit; `traceable-reqs
check` green before the next.

## Tasks — `spt-term` (the session-surface mechanism)

| # | Task | Source | Reqs / hazards | Acceptance |
|---|------|--------|----------------|------------|
| A0 | Scaffold `crates/spt-term` (sibling of `spt-runtime`, above `spt-msg`; deps spt-proto/store/msg; `portable-pty`); activation-prep | new | — | crate compiles; layering `…→spt-msg→spt-term` acyclic; `check` green |
| A1 | **`SessionSurface` trait + native PTY backends**: ConPTY (win) / `forkpty` (unix) via `portable-pty`; spawn a child under a real PTY; own master reader+writer; resize behind a master lock (Spike #5) | clean-room; Spikes #1/#4/#5 | REQ-TERM-1 | a child runs under a real PTY on **both** Windows + Linux; output captured; resize-under-load does not leak/hang (regression test) |
| A2 | **ConPTY-DSR auto-answer**: reader answers `ESC[6n`→`ESC[1;1R` on a drain thread; never gate exit on a blocking `read()` (no-EOF-while-writer-held) | copy Spike #1 mechanism | REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY-DSR (5.5) | a ConPTY child's stdout is NOT withheld; the DSR query is auto-answered; a regression test asserts bytes flow only after the answer |
| A3 | **Injection**: `send-keys` (raw bytes incl. escapes) + `send-line` (cooked, newline-flushed) over the surface | clean-room; CONTEXT §input injection | REQ-TERM-2 | injected keys (incl. `Ctrl-C`) and lines reach the child; ordering preserved (regression test) |
| A4 | **Byte-stream local streaming**: a consumer streams the child's byte output; **bounded backpressure**; the v1 byte-stream shape; tolerant of ConPTY repaint/reorder (Spike #5) | clean-room | REQ-TERM-3 | a consumer streams the child's output; backpressure is bounded (no unbounded buffer); a resizing ConPTY stream is delivered without loss (value-set coverage, per Spike #5) |
| A5 | **Live activity buffer (PTY digest) parser primitive**: a structured, source-tagged rolling buffer over the A4 stream — caller-supplied `input_pattern`/`agent_pattern` (span-until-next-match) + `tool_pattern[]`+catchall (collapse sprints; extract name+arg); window depth N; arg-truncation width | ADR-0008; CONTEXT §live activity buffer | REQ-TERM-4 (impl, unit) | given patterns + a byte stream, the primitive yields a tagged buffer of the last N turns with tool sprints collapsed; tolerates repaint/reorder; daemon-side fetch/stream/persist is explicitly M3b |
| A6 | **Activation sweep**: activate REQ-TERM-1/2/3 + REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY-DSR + REQ-TERM-4(impl,unit); green `check`, clippy `-D warnings`, CI matrix (ubuntu+windows); amend ROADMAP (M3a delivered) + CONTEXT/M3a notes; author the **M3b plan** stub | — | `check` green with M3a reqs activated; CI matrix + gate pass |

## M3a requirement-activation map

Activate as each task lands (default `["impl","unit"]`):
- **REQ-TERM-1** (A1), **REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY-DSR** (A2), **REQ-TERM-2** (A3),
  **REQ-TERM-3** (A4), **REQ-TERM-4** (A5 — `impl`,`unit`; its `int` lands in M3b
  with the broker-hosted fetch/stream E2E).
- A real PTY-hosting E2E (a child genuinely driven through a `SessionSurface` on
  the CI matrix) is the cross-cutting evidence for A1–A4.

**Stay `[]` (M3b/M4):** `REQ-DAEMON-*`, `REQ-HAZARD-DAEMON-HOSTED-LIVENESS`,
`REQ-HAZARD-RESTART-IDEMPOTENT`, `REQ-HAZARD-HANDOFF-ARGV-COMPAT`,
`REQ-HAZARD-GEN-START-NOW`, `REQ-START-3`, all `REQ-UPD-*`, and the M4 grill reqs
(`REQ-INST-9..13`, `REQ-PAIR-5/6`, `REQ-NOTIF-1/2`).

## Workspace change

Add `crates/spt-term` (sibling of `spt-runtime`). Layering (R-ARCH-1, acyclic):

```
spt-proto → spt-store → spt-msg → {spt-net, spt-term, spt-runtime} → spt-live → spt-daemon → spt
```

`spt-term` is **not** public SDK (R-ARCH-2 stays proto/runtime/msg) — it is internal
machinery the broker hosts.

## Risks carried into M3a

- **OS stream-contract divergence (Spike #4/#5).** The single biggest design risk:
  do **not** let the `SessionSurface` trait or the byte-stream/digest contracts
  assume ConPTY's repaint/viewport *or* forkpty's raw-pipe semantics. Model the
  surface as a byte stream with explicit, OS-independent attach/replay semantics.
- **ConPTY-DSR + no-EOF-while-writer-held.** Already paid for once (Spike #1, cost a
  build cycle to hung instances locking the binary). The drain-thread + DSR-answer
  pattern is mandatory in A2, not optional polish.
- **Digest scope creep.** A5 is the *parser primitive only*. Resist pulling the
  manifest seam, `spt digest`, the delta-stream, or persistence forward from M3b —
  they need the broker/daemon that M3a deliberately does not build.
- **Single-surface, not the fleet.** M3a hosts one surface per handle; the
  multiplexed name-addressable supervisor is M3b. A task that finds itself building
  IPC or a process registry has crossed into M3b — stop and surface it.


Plan loaded. M3a, start A0: scaffold `crates/spt-term`. Check sibling structure first.


cat Cargo.toml && echo "===RUNTIME CARGO===" && cat crates/spt-runtime/Cargo.toml && echo "===CRATES===" && ls crates && echo "===RUNTIME SRC===" && ls crates/spt-runtime/src

Read workspace + runtime crate layout


# spt-core cargo workspace (M0). Acyclically-layered crates per R-ARCH-1:
#   spt-proto -> spt-store -> spt-msg -> {spt-net, spt-term, spt-runtime} -> spt-live -> spt-daemon -> spt
# M0 builds the bottom two: spt-proto (wire) + spt-store (persistence).
# M1 adds spt-msg (local messaging) — third layer, one-way above spt-store.
# M2a adds spt-runtime (harness contract: manifest schema + AgentRuntime) — fourth layer.
# M2b adds spt-live (live-agent lifecycle executor) — fifth layer, daemon-bound (not public SDK).
[workspace]
resolver = "2"
members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]
===RUNTIME CARGO===
[package]
name = "spt-runtime"
version = "0.0.0"
edition = "2021"
publish = false
description = "spt-core harness contract: runtime-manifest schema + AgentRuntime/ManifestRuntime (opaque-template substitution + spawn-session seam). The outbound half of the harness-agnostic contract (M2a). Public SDK (R-ARCH-2)."

[dependencies]
spt-proto = { path = "../spt-proto" }
spt-store = { path = "../spt-store" }
spt-msg = { path = "../spt-msg" }
serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
toml = "0.8"

[dev-dependencies]
tempfile = "3"
===CRATES===
spt
spt-live
spt-msg
spt-proto
spt-runtime
spt-store
===RUNTIME SRC===
lib.rs
manifest.rs
runtime.rs


cat crates/spt-runtime/src/lib.rs && echo "===PORTABLE-PTY in lock?===" && grep -c "portable-pty" Cargo.lock; echo "===check now===" && /c/Users/decid/AppData/Local/Programs/traceable-reqs/traceable-reqs check 2>&1 | tail -5

Read runtime lib.rs + check portable-pty + traceable status


//! spt-core harness contract — outbound half (M2a).
//!
//! `spt-runtime` makes spt-core **drivable by a manifest-described harness** with
//! zero Claude Code (or any harness) conventions in-repo. It is the fourth layer
//! in the acyclic stack (`spt-proto -> spt-store -> spt-msg -> spt-runtime`).
//!
//! Two surfaces land here across M2a:
//! - the **runtime-manifest schema** + parse/validate ([`manifest`], T1), and
//! - the [`AgentRuntime`] trait + default `ManifestRuntime` (opaque-template
//!   substitution + spawn-session seam, T2).
//!
//! The inbound half (the `spt api` subcommand surface) lives in the `spt` binary
//! over this crate. See `M2a-PLAN.md`.
//
// spt-runtime joins spt-proto + spt-msg as the third member of the public,
// semver-committed SDK surface (R-ARCH-2): a harness author programs against
// this crate's Manifest/AgentRuntime types.
// [impl->REQ-ARCH-2]

pub mod manifest;
pub mod runtime;

pub use manifest::{Manifest, ManifestError};
pub use runtime::{
    run_bounded_command, AgentRuntime, BoundedOutput, ManifestRuntime, RuntimeError, Spawned,
};
===PORTABLE-PTY in lock?===
0
===check now===
       No endpoint process terminates/suspends during self-update
  [OK] REQ-UPD-4  required: []  stages: -doc -impl -unit -int
       Update gated on user confirmation by default; opt-in full-auto
  [OK] REQ-UPD-5  required: []  stages: -doc -impl -unit -int
       spt-core ripple-updates registered adapters


Clean 115/115. Scaffold A0. Check REQ-TERM defs + layering enforcement.


grep -n "REQ-TERM\|REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY" traceable-reqs.toml | head -40

Find REQ-TERM entries


318:id = "REQ-TERM-1"
322:id = "REQ-TERM-2"
326:id = "REQ-TERM-3"
331:id = "REQ-TERM-4"
502:id = "REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY-DSR"


grep -rn "acyclic\|layering\|spt-runtime" crates/spt-runtime/tests/ 2>/dev/null | head; echo "---tests dir---"; ls crates/spt-runtime/tests/ 2>/dev/null; echo "---portable-pty avail?---"; grep -rn "portable-pty\|forkpty\|ConPTY\|conpty" --include=*.rs crates/ src/ 2>/dev/null | head

Check layering tests + existing pty refs


---tests dir---
---portable-pty avail?---


310	required_stages = []
311	[[requirements]]
312	id = "REQ-UPD-5"
313	title = "spt-core ripple-updates registered adapters"
314	required_stages = []
315
316	# ───────────────────────────── Terminal wrapper / frontend ──────────────────
317	[[requirements]]
318	id = "REQ-TERM-1"
319	title = "Process-supervisor terminal wrapper hosting broker PTYs"
320	required_stages = []
321	[[requirements]]
322	id = "REQ-TERM-2"
323	title = "session-surface abstraction; send-keys + send-line injection"
324	required_stages = []
325	[[requirements]]
326	id = "REQ-TERM-3"
327	title = "Byte-stream remote terminal streaming for v1"
328	required_stages = []
329	# ── Live activity buffer / PTY digest (ADR-0008, 2026-06-01; activate M3) ──
330	[[requirements]]
331	id = "REQ-TERM-4"
332	title = "Live activity buffer (PTY digest): adapter-supplied patterns over broker PTY, spt digest pull + delta-stream, opt-in Path-B log"
333	required_stages = []
334	[[requirements]]
335	id = "REQ-FRONT-1"
336	title = "Day-one launcher/manager frontend (list/launch/attach/init)"
337	required_stages = []
338
339	# ───────────────────────────── Install / migration / infra ──────────────────
340	[[requirements]]
341	id = "REQ-INSTALL-1"
342	title = "Two install paths; signed one-line script; OS-service registration"
343	required_stages = []
344	[[requirements]]
345	id = "REQ-INSTALL-2"
346	title = "Marketplace-repackaging-friendly install"
347	required_stages = []
348	[[requirements]]
349	id = "REQ-INSTALL-3"

required_stages = []
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-UPD-5"
title = "spt-core ripple-updates registered adapters"
required_stages = []

# ───────────────────────────── Terminal wrapper / frontend ──────────────────
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-TERM-1"
title = "Process-supervisor terminal wrapper hosting broker PTYs"
required_stages = []
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-TERM-2"
title = "session-surface abstraction; send-keys + send-line injection"
required_stages = []
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-TERM-3"
title = "Byte-stream remote terminal streaming for v1"
required_stages = []
# ── Live activity buffer / PTY digest (ADR-0008, 2026-06-01; activate M3) ──
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-TERM-4"
title = "Live activity buffer (PTY digest): adapter-supplied patterns over broker PTY, spt digest pull + delta-stream, opt-in Path-B log"
required_stages = []
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-FRONT-1"
title = "Day-one launcher/manager frontend (list/launch/attach/init)"
required_stages = []

# ───────────────────────────── Install / migration / infra ──────────────────
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-INSTALL-1"
title = "Two install paths; signed one-line script; OS-service registration"
required_stages = []
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-INSTALL-2"
title = "Marketplace-repackaging-friendly install"
required_stages = []
[[requirements]]
id = "REQ-INSTALL-3"


Scaffold A0. Create crate files + add to workspace.


Write

[package]
name = "spt-term"
version = "0.0.0"
edition = "2021"
publish = false
description = "spt-core session-surface mechanism (M3a): the multiplatform PTY layer every hosted agent session runs inside. ConPTY (Windows) / forkpty (Unix) behind one SessionSurface trait, byte-stream output with bounded backpressure, and the live activity buffer (PTY digest) parser primitive. Internal broker machinery (NOT public SDK, R-ARCH-2) — the M3b daemon hosts many of these."

[dependencies]
spt-proto = { path = "../spt-proto" }
spt-store = { path = "../spt-store" }
spt-msg = { path = "../spt-msg" }
portable-pty = "0.8"

[dev-dependencies]
tempfile = "3"


File created successfully at: C:\Users\decid\Documents\projects\spt-core\crates\spt-term\Cargo.toml (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

[package]
name = "spt-term"
version = "0.0.0"
edition = "2021"
publish = false
description = "spt-core session-surface mechanism (M3a): the multiplatform PTY layer every hosted agent session runs inside. ConPTY (Windows) / forkpty (Unix) behind one SessionSurface trait, byte-stream output with bounded backpressure, and the live activity buffer (PTY digest) parser primitive. Internal broker machinery (NOT public SDK, R-ARCH-2) — the M3b daemon hosts many of these."

[dependencies]
spt-proto = { path = "../spt-proto" }
spt-store = { path = "../spt-store" }
spt-msg = { path = "../spt-msg" }
portable-pty = "0.8"

[dev-dependencies]
tempfile = "3"


//! spt-core session-surface mechanism — the broker's PTY half (M3a).
//!
//! `spt-term` is the **multiplatform session-surface mechanism** that every hosted
//! agent session runs inside: a real child under a native PTY — ConPTY on Windows
//! 10+, `forkpty(3)` on Unix — behind one [`SessionSurface`] trait, with input
//! injection, byte-stream output, and the live activity buffer (PTY digest) parser
//! primitive layered on top. It is the sixth crate in the acyclic stack
//! (`spt-proto -> spt-store -> spt-msg -> spt-term`), a sibling of `spt-runtime`.
//!
//! M3a delivers the *library mechanism*; the **M3b** `spt-daemon` broker delivers
//! the *process* that hosts many of these behind versioned IPC. `spt-term` is
//! deliberately **single-surface-per-handle** — it owns one child's PTY, not the
//! multiplexed name-addressable fleet (that supervisor is M3b). See `M3a-PLAN.md`.
//!
//! ## OS stream-contract neutrality (Spike #4 / #5, binding)
//!
//! The single biggest design risk this crate carries: `forkpty` is a **raw ordered
//! pipe**; ConPTY is a **screen buffer** (repaint-on-resize reorders + duplicates
//! the stream; a mid-session attach sees the viewport, not scrollback). The
//! [`SessionSurface`] trait and the byte-stream / digest contracts therefore must
//! **not** bake in either OS's semantics — the surface is modeled as a byte stream
//! with explicit, OS-independent attach/replay semantics.
//
// spt-term is internal broker machinery, NOT part of the public semver SDK
// surface (R-ARCH-2 stays spt-proto/spt-store/spt-msg/spt-runtime). The M3b
// daemon programs against it; external harness authors do not.

// Surfaces land across M3a (see M3a-PLAN.md task table):
//   A1  SessionSurface trait + ConPTY/forkpty backends     (REQ-TERM-1)
//   A2  ConPTY-DSR auto-answer drain thread                 (REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY-DSR)
//   A3  send-keys / send-line injection                     (REQ-TERM-2)
//   A4  byte-stream local streaming (bounded backpressure)  (REQ-TERM-3)
//   A5  live activity buffer (PTY digest) parser primitive  (REQ-TERM-4)


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//! spt-core session-surface mechanism — the broker's PTY half (M3a).
//!
//! `spt-term` is the **multiplatform session-surface mechanism** that every hosted
//! agent session runs inside: a real child under a native PTY — ConPTY on Windows
//! 10+, `forkpty(3)` on Unix — behind one [`SessionSurface`] trait, with input
//! injection, byte-stream output, and the live activity buffer (PTY digest) parser
//! primitive layered on top. It is the sixth crate in the acyclic stack
//! (`spt-proto -> spt-store -> spt-msg -> spt-term`), a sibling of `spt-runtime`.
//!
//! M3a delivers the *library mechanism*; the **M3b** `spt-daemon` broker delivers
//! the *process* that hosts many of these behind versioned IPC. `spt-term` is
//! deliberately **single-surface-per-handle** — it owns one child's PTY, not the
//! multiplexed name-addressable fleet (that supervisor is M3b). See `M3a-PLAN.md`.
//!
//! ## OS stream-contract neutrality (Spike #4 / #5, binding)
//!
//! The single biggest design risk this crate carries: `forkpty` is a **raw ordered
//! pipe**; ConPTY is a **screen buffer** (repaint-on-resize reorders + duplicates
//! the stream; a mid-session attach sees the viewport, not scrollback). The
//! [`SessionSurface`] trait and the byte-stream / digest contracts therefore must
//! **not** bake in either OS's semantics — the surface is modeled as a byte stream
//! with explicit, OS-independent attach/replay semantics.
//
// spt-term is internal broker machinery, NOT part of the public semver SDK
// surface (R-ARCH-2 stays spt-proto/spt-store/spt-msg/spt-runtime). The M3b
// daemon programs against it; external harness authors do not.

// Surfaces land across M3a (see M3a-PLAN.md task table):
//   A1  SessionSurface trait + ConPTY/forkpty backends     (REQ-TERM-1)
//   A2  ConPTY-DSR auto-answer drain thread                 (REQ-HAZARD-CONPTY-DSR)
//   A3  send-keys / send-line injection                     (REQ-TERM-2)
//   A4  byte-stream local streaming (bounded backpressure)  (REQ-TERM-3)
//   A5  live activity buffer (PTY digest) parser primitive  (REQ-TERM-4)


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members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]

members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-term", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]


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1	# spt-core cargo workspace (M0). Acyclically-layered crates per R-ARCH-1:
2	#   spt-proto -> spt-store -> spt-msg -> {spt-net, spt-term, spt-runtime} -> spt-live -> spt-daemon -> spt
3	# M0 builds the bottom two: spt-proto (wire) + spt-store (persistence).
4	# M1 adds spt-msg (local messaging) — third layer, one-way above spt-store.
5	# M2a adds spt-runtime (harness contract: manifest schema + AgentRuntime) — fourth layer.
6	# M2b adds spt-live (live-agent lifecycle executor) — fifth layer, daemon-bound (not public SDK).
7	[workspace]
8	resolver = "2"
9	members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]
10

# spt-core cargo workspace (M0). Acyclically-layered crates per R-ARCH-1:
#   spt-proto -> spt-store -> spt-msg -> {spt-net, spt-term, spt-runtime} -> spt-live -> spt-daemon -> spt
# M0 builds the bottom two: spt-proto (wire) + spt-store (persistence).
# M1 adds spt-msg (local messaging) — third layer, one-way above spt-store.
# M2a adds spt-runtime (harness contract: manifest schema + AgentRuntime) — fourth layer.
# M2b adds spt-live (live-agent lifecycle executor) — fifth layer, daemon-bound (not public SDK).
[workspace]
resolver = "2"
members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]


# M2b adds spt-live (live-agent lifecycle executor) — fifth layer, daemon-bound (not public SDK).
[workspace]
resolver = "2"
members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]

# M2b adds spt-live (live-agent lifecycle executor) — fifth layer, daemon-bound (not public SDK).
# M3a adds spt-term (session-surface mechanism: ConPTY/forkpty PTY layer) — sibling of spt-runtime, above spt-msg.
[workspace]
resolver = "2"
members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-term", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]


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# M2b adds spt-live (live-agent lifecycle executor) — fifth layer, daemon-bound (not public SDK).
# M3a adds spt-term (session-surface mechanism: ConPTY/forkpty PTY layer) — sibling of spt-runtime, above spt-msg.
[workspace]
resolver = "2"
members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-term", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]

# spt-core cargo workspace (M0). Acyclically-layered crates per R-ARCH-1:
#   spt-proto -> spt-store -> spt-msg -> {spt-net, spt-term, spt-runtime} -> spt-live -> spt-daemon -> spt
# M0 builds the bottom two: spt-proto (wire) + spt-store (persistence).
# M1 adds spt-msg (local messaging) — third layer, one-way above spt-store.
# M2a adds spt-runtime (harness contract: manifest schema + AgentRuntime) — fourth layer.
# M2b adds spt-live (live-agent lifecycle executor) — fifth layer, daemon-bound (not public SDK).
[workspace]
resolver = "2"
members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]

+# M3a adds spt-term (session-surface mechanism: ConPTY/forkpty PTY layer) — sibling of spt-runtime, above spt-msg.

-members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]

+members = ["crates/spt-proto", "crates/spt-store", "crates/spt-msg", "crates/spt-term", "crates/spt-runtime", "crates/spt-live", "crates/spt", "adapters/mock"]


Build scaffold + verify layering acyclic.


Bash

Build spt-term scaffold


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    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 4.03s


Scaffold compiles. A0 done. Verify check + commit.


/c/Users/decid/AppData/Local/Programs/traceable-reqs/traceable-reqs check 2>&1 | tail -3

traceable check after scaffold


       Update gated on user confirmation by default; opt-in full-auto
  [OK] REQ-UPD-5  required: []  stages: -doc -impl -unit -int
       spt-core ripple-updates registered adapters


git add -A && git commit -q -m "feat(term): scaffold spt-term crate (M3a A0)

Sixth crate in the acyclic stack (spt-proto -> spt-store -> spt-msg ->
spt-term), sibling of spt-runtime, above spt-msg. Internal broker
machinery (not public SDK, R-ARCH-2): the session-surface mechanism the
M3b daemon will host. portable-pty dep wired; lib.rs documents the
SessionSurface landing plan + the OS stream-contract neutrality
constraint (Spike #4/#5). No reqs activated yet (pure scaffold).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>" && git log --oneline -1

Commit A0 scaffold


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8e23957 feat(term): scaffold spt-term crate (M3a A0)


A0 committed. Now A1 — the load-bearing `SessionSurface` trait + PTY backends. Check portable-pty 0.8 API.


PP=$(find ~/.cargo/registry/src -maxdepth 1 -name "portable-pty-0.8*" 2>/dev/null | head -1); echo "$PP"; ls "$PP/src"; echo "===lib exports==="; grep -n "pub fn\|pub trait\|pub struct\|pub use\|pub enum" "$PP/src/lib.rs" | head -60

Inspect portable-pty API


ls: cannot access '/src': No such file or directory
===lib exports===
grep: /src/lib.rs: No such file or directory


find ~/.cargo -maxdepth 4 -name "portable-pty*" -type d 2>/dev/null; echo "---alt---"; find /c/Users/decid/.cargo -path "*portable-pty*lib.rs" 2>/dev/null | head

Locate portable-pty source


PP=/c/Users/decid/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/portable-pty-0.8.1/src/lib.rs; grep -n "pub fn\|pub trait\|pub struct\|pub enum\|fn resize\|fn try_clone_reader\|fn take_writer\|fn spawn_command\|native_pty_system\|openpty" "$PP" | head -70

Grep portable-pty API surface


9://! use portable_pty::{CommandBuilder, PtySize, native_pty_system, PtySystem};
13://! let pty_system = native_pty_system();
16://! let mut pair = pty_system.openpty(PtySize {
63:pub struct PtySize {
88:pub trait MasterPty {
92:    fn resize(&self, size: PtySize) -> Result<(), Error>;
97:    fn try_clone_reader(&self) -> Result<Box<dyn std::io::Read + Send>, Error>;
102:    fn take_writer(&self) -> Result<Box<dyn std::io::Write + Send>, Error>;
126:pub trait Child: std::fmt::Debug + ChildKiller {
145:pub trait ChildKiller: std::fmt::Debug {
157:pub trait SlavePty {
159:    fn spawn_command(&self, cmd: CommandBuilder) -> Result<Box<dyn Child + Send + Sync>, Error>;
164:pub struct ExitStatus {
171:    pub fn with_exit_code(code: u32) -> Self {
176:    pub fn with_signal(signal: &str) -> Self {
184:    pub fn success(&self) -> bool {
192:    pub fn exit_code(&self) -> u32 {
242:pub struct PtyPair {
252:pub trait PtySystem: Downcast {
256:    fn openpty(&self, size: PtySize) -> anyhow::Result<PtyPair>;
389:pub fn native_pty_system() -> Box<dyn PtySystem + Send> {


88	pub trait MasterPty {
89	    /// Inform the kernel and thus the child process that the window resized.
90	    /// It will update the winsize information maintained by the kernel,
91	    /// and generate a signal for the child to notice and update its state.
92	    fn resize(&self, size: PtySize) -> Result<(), Error>;
93	    /// Retrieves the size of the pty as known by the kernel
94	    fn get_size(&self) -> Result<PtySize, Error>;
95	    /// Obtain a readable handle; output from the slave(s) is readable
96	    /// via this stream.
97	    fn try_clone_reader(&self) -> Result<Box<dyn std::io::Read + Send>, Error>;
98	    /// Obtain a writable handle; writing to it will send data to the
99	    /// slave end.
100	    /// Dropping the writer will send EOF to the slave end.
101	    /// It is invalid to take the writer more than once.
102	    fn take_writer(&self) -> Result<Box<dyn std::io::Write + Send>, Error>;
103
104	    /// If applicable to the type of the tty, return the local process id
105	    /// of the process group or session leader
106	    #[cfg(unix)]
107	    fn process_group_leader(&self) -> Option<libc::pid_t>;
108
109	    /// If get_termios() and process_group_leader() are both implemented and
110	    /// return Some, then as_raw_fd() should return the same underlying fd
111	    /// associated with the stream. This is to enable applications that
112	    /// "know things" to query similar information for themselves.
113	    #[cfg(unix)]
114	    fn as_raw_fd(&self) -> Option<unix::RawFd>;
115
116	    /// If applicable to the type of the tty, return the termios
117	    /// associated with the stream
118	    #[cfg(unix)]
119	    fn get_termios(&self) -> Option<nix::sys::termios::Termios> {
120	        None
121	    }
122	}
123
124	/// Represents a child process spawned into the pty.
125	/// This handle can be used to wait for or terminate that child process.
126	pub trait Child: std::fmt::Debug + ChildKiller {
127	    /// Poll the child to see if it has completed.
128	    /// Does not block.
129	    /// Returns None if the child has not yet terminated,
130	    /// else returns its exit status.
131	    fn try_wait(&mut self) -> IoResult<Option<ExitStatus>>;
132	    /// Blocks execution until the child process has completed,
133	    /// yielding its exit status.
134	    fn wait(&mut self) -> IoResult<ExitStatus>;
135	    /// Returns the process identifier of the child process,
136	    /// if applicable
137	    fn process_id(&self) -> Option<u32>;
138	    /// Returns the process handle of the child process, if applicable.
139	    /// Only available on Windows.
140	    #[cfg(windows)]
141	    fn as_raw_handle(&self) -> Option<std::os::windows::io::RawHandle>;
142	}
143
144	/// Represents the ability to signal a Child to terminate
145	pub trait ChildKiller: std::fmt::Debug {
146	    /// Terminate the child process
147	    fn kill(&mut self) -> IoResult<()>;
148
149	    /// Clone an object that can be split out from the Child in order
150	    /// to send it signals independently from a thread that may be
151	    /// blocked in `.wait`.
152	    fn clone_killer(&self) -> Box<dyn ChildKiller + Send + Sync>;
153	}
154
155	/// Represents the slave side of a pty.
156	/// Can be used to spawn processes into the pty.
157	pub trait SlavePty {
158	    /// Spawns the command specified by the provided CommandBuilder
159	    fn spawn_command(&self, cmd: CommandBuilder) -> Result<Box<dyn Child + Send + Sync>, Error>;
160	}
161
162	/// Represents the exit status of a child process.
163	#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
164	pub struct ExitStatus {
165	    code: u32,
166	    signal: Option<String>,
167	}
168
169	impl ExitStatus {
170	    /// Construct an ExitStatus from a process return code
171	    pub fn with_exit_code(code: u32) -> Self {
172	        Self { code, signal: None }
173	    }
174
175	    /// Construct an ExitStatus from a signal name
176	    pub fn with_signal(signal: &str) -> Self {
177	        Self {
178	            code: 1,
179	            signal: Some(signal.to_string()),
180	        }
181	    }
182
183	    /// Returns true if the status indicates successful completion
184	    pub fn success(&self) -> bool {
185	        match self.signal {
186	            None => self.code == 0,
187	            Some(_) => false,
188	        }
189	    }
190
191	    /// Returns the exit code that this ExitStatus was constructed with
192	    pub fn exit_code(&self) -> u32 {
193	        self.code
194	    }
195	}
196
197	impl From<std::process::ExitStatus> for ExitStatus {
198	    fn from(status: std::process::ExitStatus) -> ExitStatus {
199	        #[cfg(unix)]
200	        {
201	            use std::os::unix::process::ExitStatusExt;
202
203	            if let Some(signal) = status.signal() {
204	                let signame = unsafe { libc::strsignal(signal) };
205	                let signal = if signame.is_null() {
206	                    format!("Signal {}", signal)
207	                } else {
208	                    let signame = unsafe { std::ffi::CStr::from_ptr(signame) };
209	                    signame.to_string_lossy().to_string()
210	                };
211
212	                return ExitStatus {
213	                    code: status.code().map(|c| c as u32).unwrap_or(1),
214	                    signal: Some(signal),
215	                };
216	            }
217	        }
218
219	        let code =
220	            status
221	                .code()
222	                .map(|c| c as u32)
223	                .unwrap_or_else(|| if status.success() { 0 } else { 1 });
224
225	        ExitStatus { code, signal: None }
226	    }
227	}
228
229	impl std::fmt::Display for ExitStatus {
230	    fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
231	        if self.success() {
232	            write!(fmt, "Success")
233	        } else {
234	            match &self.signal {
235	                Some(sig) => write!(fmt, "Terminated by {}", sig),
236	                None => write!(fmt, "Exited with code {}", self.code),
237	            }
238	        }
239	    }
240	}
241
242	pub struct PtyPair {
243	    // slave is listed first so that it is dropped first.
244	    // The drop order is stable and specified by rust rfc 1857
245	    pub slave: Box<dyn SlavePty + Send>,
246	    pub master: Box<dyn MasterPty + Send>,
247	}
248
249	/// The `PtySystem` trait allows an application to work with multiple
250	/// possible Pty implementations at runtime.  This is important on
251	/// Windows systems which have a variety of implementations.
252	pub trait PtySystem: Downcast {
253	    /// Create a new Pty instance with the window size set to the specified
254	    /// dimensions.  Returns a (master, slave) Pty pair.  The master side
255	    /// is used to drive the slave side.
256	    fn openpty(&self, size: PtySize) -> anyhow::Result<PtyPair>;
257	}
258	impl_downcast!(PtySystem);
259
260	impl Child for std::process::Child {
261	    fn try_wait(&mut self) -> IoResult<Option<ExitStatus>> {
262	        std::process::Child::try_wait(self).map(|s| match s {
263	            Some(s) => Some(s.into()),
264	            None => None,
265	        })
266	    }
267

pub trait MasterPty {
    /// Inform the kernel and thus the child process that the window resized.
    /// It will update the winsize information maintained by the kernel,
    /// and generate a signal for the child to notice and update its state.
    fn resize(&self, size: PtySize) -> Result<(), Error>;
    /// Retrieves the size of the pty as known by the kernel
    fn get_size(&self) -> Result<PtySize, Error>;
    /// Obtain a readable handle; output from the slave(s) is readable
    /// via this stream.
    fn try_clone_reader(&self) -> Result<Box<dyn std::io::Read + Send>, Error>;
    /// Obtain a writable handle; writing to it will send data to the
    /// slave end.
    /// Dropping the writer will send EOF to the slave end.
    /// It is invalid to take the writer more than once.
    fn take_writer(&self) -> Result<Box<dyn std::io::Write + Send>, Error>;

    /// If applicable to the type of the tty, return the local process id
    /// of the process group or session leader
    #[cfg(unix)]
    fn process_group_leader(&self) -> Option<libc::pid_t>;

    /// If get_termios() and process_group_leader() are both implemented and
    /// return Some, then as_raw_fd() should return the same underlying fd
    /// associated with the stream. This is to enable applications that
    /// "know things" to query similar information for themselves.
    #[cfg(unix)]
    fn as_raw_fd(&self) -> Option<unix::RawFd>;

    /// If applicable to the type of the tty, return the termios
    /// associated with the stream
    #[cfg(unix)]
    fn get_termios(&self) -> Option<nix::sys::termios::Termios> {
        None
    }
}

/// Represents a child process spawned into the pty.
/// This handle can be used to wait for or terminate that child process.
pub trait Child: std::fmt::Debug + ChildKiller {
    /// Poll the child to see if it has completed.
    /// Does not block.
    /// Returns None if the child has not yet terminated,
    /// else returns its exit status.
    fn try_wait(&mut self) -> IoResult<Option<ExitStatus>>;
    /// Blocks execution until the child process has completed,
    /// yielding its exit status.
    fn wait(&mut self) -> IoResult<ExitStatus>;
    /// Returns the process identifier of the child process,
    /// if applicable
    fn process_id(&self) -> Option<u32>;
    /// Returns the process handle of the child process, if applicable.
    /// Only available on Windows.
    #[cfg(windows)]
    fn as_raw_handle(&self) -> Option<std::os::windows::io::RawHandle>;
}

/// Represents the ability to signal a Child to terminate
pub trait ChildKiller: std::fmt::Debug {
    /// Terminate the child process
    fn kill(&mut self) -> IoResult<()>;

    /// Clone an object that can be split out from the Child in order
    /// to send it signals independently from a thread that may be
    /// blocked in `.wait`.
    fn clone_killer(&self) -> Box<dyn ChildKiller + Send + Sync>;
}

/// Represents the slave side of a pty.
/// Can be used to spawn processes into the pty.
pub trait SlavePty {
    /// Spawns the command specified by the provided CommandBuilder
    fn spawn_command(&self, cmd: CommandBuilder) -> Result<Box<dyn Child + Send + Sync>, Error>;
}

/// Represents the exit status of a child process.
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub struct ExitStatus {
    code: u32,
    signal: Option<String>,
}

impl ExitStatus {
    /// Construct an ExitStatus from a process return code
    pub fn with_exit_code(code: u32) -> Self {
        Self { code, signal: None }
    }

    /// Construct an ExitStatus from a signal name
    pub fn with_signal(signal: &str) -> Self {
        Self {
            code: 1,
            signal: Some(signal.to_string()),
        }
    }

    /// Returns true if the status indicates successful completion
    pub fn success(&self) -> bool {
        match self.signal {
            None => self.code == 0,
            Some(_) => false,
        }
    }

    /// Returns the exit code that this ExitStatus was constructed with
    pub fn exit_code(&self) -> u32 {
        self.code
    }
}

impl From<std::process::ExitStatus> for ExitStatus {
    fn from(status: std::process::ExitStatus) -> ExitStatus {
        #[cfg(unix)]
        {
            use std::os::unix::process::ExitStatusExt;

            if let Some(signal) = status.signal() {
                let signame = unsafe { libc::strsignal(signal) };
                let signal = if signame.is_null() {
                    format!("Signal {}", signal)
                } else {
                    let signame = unsafe { std::ffi::CStr::from_ptr(signame) };
                    signame.to_string_lossy().to_string()
                };

                return ExitStatus {
                    code: status.code().map(|c| c as u32).unwrap_or(1),
                    signal: Some(signal),
                };
            }
        }

        let code =
            status
                .code()
                .map(|c| c as u32)
                .unwrap_or_else(|| if status.success() { 0 } else { 1 });

        ExitStatus { code, signal: None }
    }
}

impl std::fmt::Display for ExitStatus {
    fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
        if self.success() {
            write!(fmt, "Success")
        } else {
            match &self.signal {
                Some(sig) => write!(fmt, "Terminated by {}", sig),
                None => write!(fmt, "Exited with code {}", self.code),
            }
        }
    }
}

pub struct PtyPair {
    // slave is listed first so that it is dropped first.
    // The drop order is stable and specified by rust rfc 1857
    pub slave: Box<dyn SlavePty + Send>,
    pub master: Box<dyn MasterPty + Send>,
}

/// The `PtySystem` trait allows an application to work with multiple
/// possible Pty implementations at runtime.  This is important on
/// Windows systems which have a variety of implementations.
pub trait PtySystem: Downcast {
    /// Create a new Pty instance with the window size set to the specified
    /// dimensions.  Returns a (master, slave) Pty pair.  The master side
    /// is used to drive the slave side.
    fn openpty(&self, size: PtySize) -> anyhow::Result<PtyPair>;
}
impl_downcast!(PtySystem);

impl Child for std::process::Child {
    fn try_wait(&mut self) -> IoResult<Option<ExitStatus>> {
        std::process::Child::try_wait(self).map(|s| match s {
            Some(s) => Some(s.into()),
            None => None,
        })
    }


Got the API. Check sibling error-handling style before writing A1.


grep -n "enum.*Error\|thiserror\|impl std::error\|impl fmt::Display\|#\[derive" crates/spt-runtime/src/runtime.rs | head -20; echo "===deps used across crates==="; grep -rn "thiserror\|anyhow" crates/*/Cargo.toml

Inspect sibling error idiom


52:#[derive(Debug)]
53:pub enum RuntimeError {
82:impl std::error::Error for RuntimeError {}
146:#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
152:#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
===deps used across crates===