Bstack

name: CI

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  lint:
    name: Lint shell + JSON templates
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: ShellCheck (scripts + bin)
        run: |
          # Only lint files that have a shebang we recognize.
          set -euo pipefail
          mapfile -t targets < <(
            find scripts bin -type f \( -name "*.sh" -o ! -name "*.*" \) 2>/dev/null \
              | xargs -I {} sh -c 'head -n1 "{}" | grep -q "^#!.*sh" && echo "{}"' \
              | sort -u
          )
          if [ "${#targets[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
            echo "No shell scripts found to lint."
            exit 0
          fi
          printf '  • %s\n' "${targets[@]}"
          # Excluded checks (bstack's defensive shell style accepts these):
          #   SC1091 — don't follow sourced files.
          #   SC2155 — declare-and-assign masks return code (intentional).
          #   SC2034 — unused variable. Several scripts intentionally name
          #            variables that are only used in conditional branches
          #            shellcheck can't see. Suppressed at the lint gate;
          #            per-file SC2034 audit is a follow-up.
          shellcheck --severity=warning \
            --exclude=SC1091,SC2155,SC2034 \
            "${targets[@]}"

      - name: Validate JSON templates
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          shopt -s nullglob
          fail=0
          for f in assets/templates/*.snippet; do
            if ! jq -e . "$f" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
              echo "::error file=$f::invalid JSON shape"
              fail=1
            else
              echo "  • $f — valid JSON"
            fi
          done
          exit "$fail"

  doctor:
    name: bstack doctor (primitive-contract lint)
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Run doctor against templates
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          mkdir -p .control
          cp assets/templates/CLAUDE.md.template ./CLAUDE.md 2>/dev/null || true
          cp assets/templates/AGENTS.md.template ./AGENTS.md 2>/dev/null || true
          cp assets/templates/policy.yaml.template .control/policy.yaml 2>/dev/null || true
          bash scripts/doctor.sh --quiet

  tests:
    name: tests/*.test.sh
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Install python deps for tests
        # PyYAML is the primary parser path for validate-skill-frontmatter.py
        # (the dependency-free hand-parser is a best-effort fallback). The
        # frontmatter test exercises both paths via SKILL_FM_NO_YAML.
        run: python3 -m pip install --quiet PyYAML

      - name: Run all tests/*.test.sh
        # As of v0.8.0 (Phase 5 of substrate completion) the pre-existing
        # tests/template_lockstep.test.sh and tests/onboard.test.sh are
        # fixed (case-insensitive lockstep assertion + BSTACK_SKIP_SKILLS=1
        # env override for the bootstrap skill-install loop). The full
        # `tests/*.test.sh` suite now runs on every PR — no more vetted
        # allowlist.
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          shopt -s nullglob
          fail=0
          for t in tests/*.test.sh; do
            echo ""
            echo "=== $t ==="
            if ! bash "$t"; then
              echo "::error file=$t::test failed"
              fail=1
            fi
          done
          exit "$fail"

  canary:
    name: bstack canary suite (substrate invariants)
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [lint, doctor]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Install jq + python deps for canary
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -y jq
          python3 -m pip install --quiet jsonschema PyYAML

      - name: Run canary suite (substrate invariants on fresh install)
        # The canary suite verifies that the substrate's load-bearing
        # contracts hold on a fresh install (no companion skills, no
        # workspace state). Each canary covers one phase's deliverables:
        #   01 — fresh bootstrap (Plant Contract)
        #   02 — metrics pipeline (Phase 1 v0.4.0)
        #   03 — status surface (Phase 2 v0.5.0)
        #   04 — schemas validate (Phase 3 v0.6.0)
        #   05 — crystallize detector (Phase 7 v0.9.5)
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          shopt -s nullglob
          fail=0
          for t in tests/canary/*.test.sh; do
            echo ""
            echo "=== $t ==="
            if ! bash "$t"; then
              echo "::error file=$t::canary failed"
              fail=1
            fi
          done
          exit "$fail"

name: Release on merge

# Auto-tag + auto-publish GitHub Release whenever VERSION changes on main.
# Composes with validate-release.yml (PR gate) so this workflow trusts that
# the merged VERSION is semver, monotonic, and matched by a CHANGELOG section.
#
# Idempotent: if `vX.Y.Z` already exists (e.g. tagged manually before this
# workflow shipped) the run skips silently — no overwrite, no duplicate.

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
    paths:
      - VERSION

permissions:
  contents: write   # tag push + gh release create

concurrency:
  group: release-on-merge
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  release:
    name: Tag + GitHub Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0   # full history so we can check existing tags

      - name: Read VERSION
        id: version
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          v="$(tr -d '[:space:]' < VERSION)"
          if ! printf '%s' "$v" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'; then
            echo "::error file=VERSION::not semver X.Y.Z: '$v'"
            exit 1
          fi
          echo "  version=$v"
          echo "version=$v" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          echo "tag=v$v"   >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

      - name: Check existing tag
        id: tag_check
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          tag="${{ steps.version.outputs.tag }}"
          if git rev-parse "$tag" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            echo "  $tag already exists — skipping release."
            echo "exists=true"  >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          else
            echo "  $tag is new — will create."
            echo "exists=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          fi

      - name: Extract release notes from CHANGELOG
        if: steps.tag_check.outputs.exists == 'false'
        id: notes
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          v="${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}"
          awk -v ver="$v" '
            $0 ~ "^## " ver "( |$)" { flag=1; next }
            flag && /^## / { exit }
            flag { print }
          ' CHANGELOG.md > /tmp/release-notes.md
          if [ ! -s /tmp/release-notes.md ]; then
            echo "::error file=CHANGELOG.md::no '## $v' section found"
            exit 1
          fi
          # Title = first `### ` heading inside the section, else fall back to vX.Y.Z.
          title=$(awk '/^### / { sub(/^### /, ""); print; exit }' /tmp/release-notes.md)
          [ -z "$title" ] && title="${{ steps.version.outputs.tag }}"
          echo "  title=$title"
          # Multi-line outputs need the heredoc form.
          {
            echo "title<<EOT"
            echo "$title"
            echo "EOT"
          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

      - name: Tag + create GitHub Release
        if: steps.tag_check.outputs.exists == 'false'
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          tag="${{ steps.version.outputs.tag }}"
          title="${{ steps.notes.outputs.title }}"
          git config user.name  "github-actions[bot]"
          git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
          git tag -a "$tag" -m "$tag — $title"
          git push origin "$tag"
          gh release create "$tag" \
            --title "$tag — $title" \
            --notes-file /tmp/release-notes.md
          echo "  ✓ released $tag"

      # Package the skill directory as a tarball and publish it as a release
      # asset, so vendored installs (no `.git`) can self-upgrade via
      # `bstack upgrade --self` (≥ 0.9.0). The tarball excludes ephemeral
      # state — only the in-repo skill source ships.
      - name: Package + publish vendored upgrade tarball
        if: steps.tag_check.outputs.exists == 'false'
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          tag="${{ steps.version.outputs.tag }}"
          tarball="bstack-${tag}.tar.gz"
          # Build a clean staging tree — the extracted root must contain
          # VERSION + bin/ + scripts/ + assets/ + references/ + schemas/ +
          # SKILL.md + CHANGELOG.md, mirroring a fresh `npx skills add` layout.
          staging="$(mktemp -d)"
          dest="$staging/bstack-${tag}"
          mkdir -p "$dest"
          # Copy the canonical skill payload; exclude .git, .github, tests
          # (downstream installs don't need CI workflow or development tests).
          tar --exclude='./.git' \
              --exclude='./.github' \
              --exclude='./tests' \
              --exclude='./broomva.tech-worktrees' \
              --exclude='./bstack-worktrees' \
              --exclude='./.cache' \
              -cf - . | tar -xf - -C "$dest"
          # Build the tarball in a deterministic order for reproducible
          # sha256 across runs (though we don't fail-close on this yet).
          ( cd "$staging" && tar --sort=name -czf "$tarball" "bstack-${tag}" )
          mv "$staging/$tarball" "./$tarball"
          # sha256 sidecar — single canonical line, "<hash>  <filename>" format.
          if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            sha256sum "$tarball" > "${tarball}.sha256"
          else
            shasum -a 256 "$tarball" > "${tarball}.sha256"
          fi
          echo "  packaged $tarball ($(wc -c < "$tarball") bytes)"
          echo "  sha256: $(awk '{print $1}' "${tarball}.sha256")"
          # Upload as release assets.
          gh release upload "$tag" "$tarball" "${tarball}.sha256" --clobber
          echo "  ✓ uploaded $tarball + sha256 to $tag"

name: Validate release

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - VERSION
      - CHANGELOG.md

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  version-changelog-alignment:
    name: VERSION ↔ CHANGELOG match
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Detect VERSION change
        id: version
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          base="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
          if ! git diff --name-only "$base"...HEAD | grep -qx VERSION; then
            echo "VERSION not modified in this PR — nothing to validate."
            echo "changed=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
            exit 0
          fi
          new="$(cat VERSION | tr -d '[:space:]')"
          if ! printf '%s' "$new" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'; then
            echo "::error file=VERSION::VERSION '$new' is not semver X.Y.Z"
            exit 1
          fi
          echo "changed=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          echo "new=$new" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

      - name: CHANGELOG has matching section
        if: steps.version.outputs.changed == 'true'
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          new="${{ steps.version.outputs.new }}"
          if ! grep -qE "^## ${new}([[:space:]]|$)" CHANGELOG.md; then
            echo "::error file=CHANGELOG.md::No '## ${new}' section found — every VERSION bump needs a matching CHANGELOG entry."
            exit 1
          fi
          echo "  ✓ CHANGELOG.md has '## ${new}' section"

      - name: VERSION moves forward
        if: steps.version.outputs.changed == 'true'
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          base="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
          new="${{ steps.version.outputs.new }}"
          old="$(git show "$base:VERSION" 2>/dev/null | tr -d '[:space:]' || echo '0.0.0')"
          # Lexicographic comparison works for left-padded semver but not generally.
          # Use sort -V for correctness.
          highest="$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$old" "$new" | sort -V | tail -1)"
          if [ "$highest" != "$new" ] || [ "$old" = "$new" ]; then
            echo "::error file=VERSION::VERSION must increase. Previous: ${old}, this PR: ${new}."
            exit 1
          fi
          echo "  ✓ VERSION ${old} → ${new}"

# Python build artifacts
__pycache__/
**/__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
*$py.class
*.so

# macOS
.DS_Store

# Local-only scaffolding produced by running bstack (bootstrap/doctor/install-rcs)
# against the bstack repo itself (self-dogfood). These are generated artifacts,
# never committed — the bstack source repo uses .github/workflows/ci.yml and
# .git/hooks, not the L3 stability workflow / .githooks the installer scaffolds.
.control/
.claude/
.githooks/
.github/workflows/l3-stability.yml

# {{WORKSPACE_NAME}} — Agent Guidelines

## Self-Meta Definition

This file IS the control harness for agents operating in this workspace. Reading this file is not optional — it is the first action an agent takes. The rules here are enforced by pre-commit hooks, Claude Code hooks, and the control audit (`make control-audit`).

**If you are an agent reading this**: you are part of a self-improving system. Your session will be captured, indexed, and used to improve future agents. The bstack consciousness substrate is always active.

## Development Philosophy

Before the twenty primitives below — which are the *mechanism* — these four principles are the *intent*. They are widely-recognized engineering disciplines, articulated sharply in Andrej Karpathy's observations on where LLM-assisted coding goes wrong. bstack's contribution is to make each one **machine-checkable** instead of a hopeful instruction: a principle that lives only as prose decays into ritual — acknowledged in passing, then ignored. Each principle below therefore names the primitive(s) that back it.

| Principle | What it means | Failure it prevents | Backed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| **1. Think before coding** | Surface assumptions and trade-offs *before* writing. Trace what the change depends on and what depends on it. Ask only for what you genuinely cannot derive from the repo. | Hidden assumptions — confidently building the wrong thing. | **Dep-Chain (P14)** + **Snapshot (P15)** |
| **2. Simplicity first** | Deliver the minimal change that solves the actual problem. No speculative features, no premature abstraction, no scope creep. | Overcomplication — code nobody asked for, harder to maintain than the problem warranted. | **Cross-Review (P20)** anti-slop gate |
| **3. Surgical changes** | Change only what the task requires. Match the surrounding style. Don't refactor tangentially or reformat untouched lines. | Unintended edits — diffs that touch more than they should, hiding the real change and breaking unrelated things. | **Dep-Chain (P14)** (enumerating what's touched bounds the change surface) + **Cross-Review (P20)** (flags tangential edits / scope creep) |
| **4. Goal-driven execution** | Define measurable success criteria up front, then loop — building and *verifying by interaction* — until they are met. | No verifiable "done" — work that *looks* complete without evidence it works. | **Empirical (P11)** (interaction evidence for "done") + **Orchestrate (P19)** (the verify-until-met loop) |

**Enforcement strength varies by principle, and that is the point.** P14/P15 are *hard predicates* — a checker reads the response for a dependency enumeration / state snapshot. P20 is an *independent-judgment* gate that blocks a merge below threshold. Both beat prose, because in neither case is the agent the one grading itself — but only the first kind is a literal yes/no predicate. The goal is to push each principle as far down the gradient toward a hard predicate as it will go.

The binding rule across all four:

> **A discipline that recurs as a phrase must map to a concrete, machine-checkable behavior — or it does not count as discipline.**

"Think deeply", "follow best practices", "keep it simple", "make sure it works" are *rituals* until they produce a concrete artifact: a dependency enumeration, a state snapshot, a minimal diff, an interaction receipt. The primitives below are how this workspace converts each principle from intention into enforced behavior.

**This philosophy is yours to extend.** Add project-specific principles to this section so every agent and contributor inherits them by default; the primitives stay the enforcement layer beneath whatever principles you declare here.

## Bstack Core Automation Primitives

This workspace is governed by the **bstack** primitive contract — twenty irreducible building blocks. All are always active. Run `bstack doctor` to verify compliance.

Each primitive carries a **short name** for agent prose. When referencing a primitive in responses, PR bodies, commit messages, or comments, use the `Name (Pn)` form — *"applying Snapshot (P15)"*, *"via Dep-Chain (P14)"*, *"running Bookkeeping (P6)"* — not bare `Pn`. The number is the canonical identifier; the short name is the human-readable handle.

**Short-name index**: Bridge (P1) · Gate (P2) · Tickets (P3) · Pipeline (P4) · Fanout (P5) · Bookkeeping (P6) · Freshness (P7) · Janitor (P8) · Wait (P9) · Hygiene (P10) · Empirical (P11) · Persist (P12) · Dream (P13) · Dep-Chain (P14) · Snapshot (P15) · Crystallize (P16) · Lens (P17) · Audience (P18) · Orchestrate (P19) · Cross-Review (P20).

### P1 — Bridge: Conversation Bridge (Episodic Memory)

**What**: Every Claude Code session is automatically captured as a structured Obsidian doc with YAML frontmatter, tool calls, conversation threads, files touched, and wikilinks.

**How**: Stop hook → `conversation-bridge-hook.sh` → JSONL transcript parsed → written to `*/docs/conversations/` → symlinked into your Obsidian vault.

**Invariant**: Bridge stamp at `~/.cache/broomva-bridge-stamp` < 24h stale. If stale, the agent is silently amnesic — fix immediately.

### P2 — Gate: Control Gate (Safety Shield)

**What**: PreToolUse hook intercepts destructive shell ops before execution.

**How**: `control-gate-hook.sh` evaluates pending tool calls against `.control/policy.yaml` gates G1–G11. Blocks force-pushes, secret commits, `rm -rf` on protected paths, `git reset --hard` without backup, etc.

**Invariant**: G1–G4 are blocking and cannot be overridden. G5–G6 are soft warnings.

### P3 — Tickets: Linear Tickets (Work Tracking)

**What**: Every unit of work maps to a Linear ticket; state transitions Backlog → Todo → In Progress → Done track real progress.

**How**: Linear MCP — agents call `save_issue` directly.

**Invariant**: No significant work without a ticket. Don't mark Done until merged + verified.

### P4 — Pipeline: PR Pipeline (CI/CD Gate)

**What**: All code changes flow through PRs with automated CI checks before merging.

**How**: branch → `gh pr create` → CI runs (lint/typecheck/security/preview) → merge when green → production deploy triggers.

**Invariant**: Never merge with failing checks. Never `--no-verify`.

### P5 — Fanout: Parallel Agent Dispatch (Concurrent Execution)

**What**: Independent work streams execute concurrently via isolated agents (worktrees or background processes).

**How**: `git worktree add` per agent. Multiple `Agent` tool calls in one message run concurrently. Communicate through git branches and Linear tickets, not shared state.

**Invariant**: Agents must not write to the same files. Branch naming unique per agent. Results merge to main only after verification.

### P6 — Bookkeeping: Knowledge Bookkeeping (Knowledge Graph Maintenance)

**What**: Every knowledge item entering the graph is scored, promoted, and lint-validated through a 7-stage pipeline.

**How**: `bookkeeping run` → Ingest → Score → Scatter → Resolve → Promote → Synthesize → Lint. Items < 2/9 discarded. Items ≥ 7 fast-path promote.

**Invariant**: `research/entities/` never contains unscored items. All entity pages must pass lint.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: Bookkeeping — and knowledge capture generally — is a reflex, not a request, **and never a question**. Agents must invoke `bookkeeping.py run` and file graph-worthy material without being prompted in any of these situations:

1. Before committing a feature/page that reads from the graph.
2. Before committing a synced snapshot to a public surface.
3. At the close of any substantial work session that produced graph-relevant material.
4. The moment a session surfaces a discrete graph-worthy item (a decision, name, discovered tool/person/paper, recurring pattern, or inferred typed relation) — file it proactively (entity page, `related:` edge, or synthesis note) and report what you filed in one line.

**Never a question.** The interrogative form — *"do you want me to create an entry / file this into the knowledge graph?"* — is forbidden. Capture is the default action, not an opt-in the user approves; the agent files first and reports after (user vetoes after via `git revert`, never gates before). Deferring capture to a user yes/no is the **permission-to-document anti-pattern** — knowledge that waits for permission is knowledge lost. Capture stays bounded by the Nous gate (proactive ≠ indiscriminate).

**Retrieval discipline (`/kg` for discovery, never substrate grep).** Knowledge-graph *discovery* — "what do we know about X", "load context for X", finding the relevant entities before reasoning — goes through **`/kg load <topic>`** (add `--terms <synonyms>` for paraphrase/jargon topics); use `Read` only on a slug confirmed present in `docs/knowledge-index.md`. **Never** `find -name "$slug.md"` / `grep` / `cat` over `research/entities/` as a *discovery* mechanism: a guessed slug that doesn't exist returns nothing **silently** (a no-match is silent by default; often further masked by `2>/dev/null` / `if [ -n "$f" ]`), so the agent reasons over a *false-complete* context, and hand-picked slugs miss the relevant entities the catalog routing surfaces. This bans only *discovery* greps — `find`/`grep`/`cat` stay legitimate for operating on a **confirmed known file**, **tooling/skill internals** (the `/kg` loader's own body-grep, `bookkeeping` lint/index), and **bulk edits or counting** — just never as the step that decides what's relevant.

### P7 — Freshness: Skill Freshness Check (Stale-Install Detector)

**What**: Reports stale installed skills at SessionStart so they get refreshed before causing silent failures.

**How**: SessionStart hook → `skill-freshness-hook.sh` checks the timestamp of `~/.config/broomva/p7/last-skill-update-check`. If ≥ 7 days old, prints a one-line nudge. Always exits 0.

**Invariant**: Hook always exits 0. Threshold via `BROOMVA_P7_THRESHOLD_DAYS` env var (default 7). Dismiss with `npx skills update -g` then `touch ~/.config/broomva/p7/last-skill-update-check`.

### P8 — Janitor: Branch + Worktree Janitor (Hygiene)

**What**: Detects merged branches (including squash-merged) and dead worktrees, removes them safely.

**How**: `make janitor` (wraps `scripts/branch-janitor.sh`). Squash-merge detection via `git commit-tree` synthetic + `git cherry`. Worktrees on dead branches pruned.

**Invariant**: Default `--dry-run` — pass `--apply` to actually delete. Never touches main/master/develop/HEAD/gh-pages or branches in `~/.config/broomva/p8-janitor/protected.txt`.

### P9 — Wait: Productive Wait (Wait-Optimizer / Event-Driven Wait Loop)

**What**: A wait optimizer. Convert any blocking external operation (PR CI, push-triggered deploys, builds, long-running indexing) into work on the next priority. PR CI is the canonical implementation; the primitive is broader.

**How (PR CI canonical)**: `python3 skills/p9/scripts/p9.py watch <pr> --background` spawns `gh pr checks --watch` via `run_in_background`. While watcher runs, agent pulls work via `p9 wait-queue pop`. On bg-task notification: `p9 status` then green → `p9 merge-ready` → metalayer authorizes; red → `p9 heal --classify`.

**How (non-PR waits — today: manual)**: For waits without PR (push-triggered deploys, external builds, long index ops), p9 doesn't track yet. Do *one* direct check on completion after kicking off next-priority work; never `sleep`.

**Invariant**: Never `sleep` on a blocking wait. Every failure produces (a) a `state.jsonl` event, (b) a Linear ticket, or (c) both — silent state drops are forbidden. Heal actions scoped to PR diff. Setpoints in `.control/policy.yaml` `ci_watch:` / `ci_heal:` blocks fail closed if missing.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P9 is a reflex. Agents must apply *productive-wait discipline* without being prompted in any of these situations:

1. Immediately after `git push` opening/updating a PR — `p9 watch <pr> --background`.
2. After `git push` triggering a non-PR deploy — single direct check after next-priority work; never sleep.
3. Whenever tempted to `sleep` while a blocking operation runs — hard ban; pull from `p9 wait-queue pop`.
4. When red CI bg-task notification fires — `p9 heal --classify` first.
5. When `p9 status` reports `MERGE_READY` — invoke `p9 auto-merge` rather than `gh pr merge` directly.

### P10 — Hygiene: Worktree Hygiene Discipline (Clean-Tree Reset Point)

**What**: Reflexive discipline binding every agent to (a) make a deliberate worktree-or-not decision before writing the first file, (b) keep `git status` clean throughout the PR lifecycle, (c) run P8 janitor immediately after merge.

**How**: Reasoning-enforced rule, not a hook. P5 provides the *mechanism* (git worktrees); P10 provides the *discipline*.

**Invariant**: After every PR merge, both worktree (if any) and branch are gone. Before new substantial work, `git status` is clean (or explicitly noted).

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P10 is a reflex. Agents must apply the following without being prompted:

1. Before writing the first file of any new substantial work — decide worktree-or-not, state the choice.
2. Before pushing to remote — `git status` check; dirty WIP gets committed/stashed/extracted, never pushed past.
3. After PR merge — immediate `make janitor` (P8).
4. At SessionStart — audit `git worktree list` + `git branch`; clean orphans before new work.

### P11 — Empirical: Empirical Feedback Loop (Closed-Loop Validation)

**What**: Reflexive discipline binding every agent to *validate by interacting* with what they build — not just by reasoning + lint + CI exit codes. Multi-modal (logs, screenshots, video, audio), multi-level (smoke, unit, integration, regression, E2E, deploy verification).

**How**: Composition of existing tools and skills:
- Server logs → `run_in_background` tailing dev server output
- Browser E2E → `gstack` (fast headless) / `agent-browser`
- Visual diff → `before-and-after` skill
- Smoke / unit / integration / regression → project test runners + `qa` / `dogfood`
- Deploy verification → Vercel preview URL → screenshot via `gstack`

The agent picks the right subset, runs as parallel watchers, and **captures evidence**.

**Invariant**: Before claiming any work *complete*, the agent has interacted with the deployed/running version (or stated explicitly why interaction wasn't possible). The interaction is captured and surfaced in the response. *Reasoning isn't validation; interaction is.*

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P11 is a reflex. Agents must apply the following without being prompted:

1. Before writing the first file of substantial work — identify validation surfaces. State the validation plan as a contract.
2. During development of work touching a running process — keep at least one log-tail or watcher in `run_in_background`.
3. Before claiming complete — exercise the change end-to-end. Capture multi-modal evidence.
4. After deploy — capture deployed-state evidence. *Compile-time success is not deploy-time correctness.*
5. When CI or tests fail — capture full context first before attempting a fix.
6. At session end — produce a *dogfood receipt*.
7. **Dogfood Plan keyed to detected stack** — before substantive feature work, produce a Dogfood Plan (entry surface · driver · evidence · smoke · end-to-end · receipt anchor) in the response and PR body, citing the per-stack pattern from the bstack cookbook (Tauri+sidecar / Next.js / Expo RN / Rust CLI / REST API / MCP server). Interceptor is mandatory for visual deploy verification; gstack / cliclick / screencapture / curl+jq compose per stack. The plan anchors at `## Dogfood Plan (Stack: <pattern>)` in this AGENTS.md, or `docs/dogfood-plan.md`, or the PR body — `bstack doctor` §13 looks for any of the three.

## Dogfood Plan (Stack: TBD)

<!-- bstack onboard stubs this section the first time the repo is bootstrapped.
     Detected stack is auto-filled when the repo signals match a known pattern
     (Cargo.toml + src-tauri/ → Tauri; next.config.* → Next.js; etc.).
     Fill the rows below for the current substantive work unit; the receipt
     anchor at session end is the artifact that closes the loop. -->

- **Entry surface**: <URL / window / CLI command the user touches>
- **Driver**: <Interceptor / gstack / cliclick+screencapture / curl+jq / xcrun simctl>
- **Evidence**: <screenshot path / response body path / log line>
- **Smoke**: <one-line "didn't obviously break" check>
- **End-to-end**: <multi-step user flow that catches regression a smoke test misses>
- **Receipt anchor**: <file / line / PR comment ID where the receipt lives>

Reference: `bstack/references/dogfood-patterns.md` for the per-stack surfaces matrix, canonical arc, gotchas, and receipt template.

### P12 — Persist: Persistent Loop Discipline (Cross-Context Restart Loop)

**What**: Reflexive discipline binding every agent to *restart the context window when it rots*, while preserving state in the filesystem. Long-horizon work (>1h, the METR 80%-reliability ceiling) decays inside a single conversation as the context window passes ~100K tokens.

**How**: `python3 skills/persist/scripts/persist.py iterate <PROMPT.md>` substrate. Each iteration spawns a fresh agent context; state persists in PROMPT.md + git tree + state.jsonl. Validation backpressure from compilers/tests/linters, not model self-grading.

**Invariant**: state lives in the filesystem. Each iteration is a fresh subprocess. Budget: default 50 iterations / 14400s wall-clock.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P12 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. Before any work that may exceed ~1h of unsupervised agent time — write PROMPT.md, call `persist iterate`. Don't try >1h work in-context.
2. When session token usage crosses ~100K — restart, don't continue in the rotted context.
3. When the same fix has been attempted ≥3 times without convergence — stop in-context; spawn fresh persist loop.
4. When orchestrating long-horizon work — default to persist + periodic checkpoints; compose with P5 worktrees.
5. When the user says "run this in the background for an hour" — that's persist territory.

### P13 — Dream: Dream Cycle Discipline (Tier-Crossing Consolidation)

**What**: Reflexive discipline binding every agent to apply the **5-phase dream shape** (*gather → replay → prune → consolidate → index*) for any consolidation that crosses a cadence-tier boundary. Closes the *shadow dream* corruption mode.

**How**: Reasoning-enforced. Composes with P6 (`bookkeeping replay` is the canonical reference instance) and future Life primitives (askesis T1→T2, anamnesis T2→T3, when shipped).

**Invariant**: any consolidation that crosses a cadence-tier boundary MUST replay against a frozen substrate before committing. Without replay, dense lower-tier signal corrupts sparse upper-tier rules.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P13 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. Before any consolidation that promotes lower-tier signal to upper-tier rules — verify the consolidation primitive has a replay phase.
2. For knowledge-graph promotion — use `bookkeeping replay` (not `bookkeeping run`) for substantial promotion runs.
3. For governance changes (L3 tier) — every PR is a dream cycle: gather (PR description), replay (worktree + CI + doctor), prune (CI failures), consolidate (squash merge), index (commit history).
4. When designing a NEW consolidation primitive — implement the 5-phase shape from day 1; don't ship shadow-dream form.
5. When you observe a new dream instance shipping — record it for the rule-of-three counter.

The morpheus crate (shared abstraction across implementations) is deferred per rule-of-three until ≥2 dream instances ship beyond P6.

### P14 — Dep-Chain: Dependency-Chain Reasoning Discipline

**What**: Reflexive discipline binding every agent to *explicitly enumerate dependencies* before any substantive write. Closes the "think deeply" ritual failure mode — the phrase recurs without producing concrete behavior change.

**How**: Before any code/doc edit that affects >1 file or any public surface, the agent surfaces:

- **Upstream**: files, functions, types, contracts, deployed state this write depends on
- **Downstream**: consumers, tests, CI gates, docs, in-flight PRs depending on this

The enumeration is concrete (file paths, function names, contract identifiers) and lives in the response, PR body, or commit message — never the agent's head.

**Invariant**: When the user prompt contains phrases like "think deeply through chain of dependencies", "follow best practices", "consider the implications", the agent's response MUST include a concrete dep-chain block. Phrase acknowledgement without the block is ritual.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P14 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. Before any write to a file that exports a public API — enumerate downstream callers.
2. Before any refactor — enumerate both directions.
3. Before any cross-project change — enumerate which other projects depend on the touched surface.
4. When user prompt contains a "think deeply"-class phrase — produce the dep-chain block, not the acknowledgement.

### P15 — Snapshot: State-Snapshot Before Action

**What**: Reflexive discipline binding every plan to a *fresh state snapshot* of the workspace. Closes the "help me understand where we stand" failure mode — agents report last-seen state instead of current state.

**How**: Before any plan or significant action, the agent surfaces:

- `git status` + branch + ahead/behind vs upstream
- In-flight PRs (`gh pr list --json number,title,headRefName,state`)
- Linear ticket state for the current work unit
- Bookkeeping / bridge freshness (cache stamps, last pipeline run)
- Last deploy state (relevant project's preview/production URL + commit)

The snapshot is *part of* the planning response — not deferred to a follow-up call.

**Invariant**: A plan built on stale state fails silently — re-solves solved problems, conflicts with parallel work, misses in-flight PRs. P15 makes state-checking a cheap reflex, not a request the user has to make.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P15 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. At session start when reviewing prior context.
2. Before any plan that touches multiple files or cross-project surfaces.
3. When the user asks "where are we" / "what's left" / "is everything committed" — the answer is the snapshot, not a recollection.
4. After any long-running background operation completes — re-snapshot before next plan.

### P16 — Crystallize: Crystallization Discipline (the Bstack Engine)

**What**: Meta-primitive — the rule-of-three loop that produces every other primitive. When a pattern recurs ≥3 times across sessions, propose promotion to skill / SKILL.md / AGENTS.md section / `.control/policy.yaml` gate.

**How**: Four gate conditions for promotion:

1. ≥3 distinct instances of the pattern (logged with citations)
2. Concrete mechanism (not just a description)
3. Stated invariant (machine-checkable)
4. Stated failure mode (what goes wrong without it)

Candidates live in `research/entities/pattern/bstack-engine.md` (or equivalent ledger). Promotion is deliberate — L3 stability budget (λ₃ ≈ 0.006) constrains how rapidly governance changes.

**Invariant**: The crystallization loop runs inside the workspace, not in the user's head. Patterns that recur without being named are technical debt at the governance layer.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P16 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. When you observe the same instruction repeated across ≥3 sessions — log it as a candidate.
2. When a user prompt phrase recurs without producing concrete behavior change — flag as ritual; queue for promotion or carve-out.
3. At session end — survey what was learned; promote candidates with all four gates passing.
4. Before adding any new primitive — verify all four gates, not three.

### P17 — Lens: Lens-Routed Request Articulation (`role/x`)

**What**: Reflexive discipline routing every substantive user input through a typed lens (`role/x` intake). Replaces "act as X" persona prompting (debunked: MMLU drops 71.6% → 66.3% with naive personas) with substantive context loading.

**How**: Lens registry at `roles/<name>.md`. Score signals (paths + prompt keywords + branch + Linear labels) against lens triggers; threshold ≥2 selects. Load substantive context (files, conventions, domain checklist via `extends:` chain). Decide mode: `augment` (default, silent), `rewrite` (surfaced), `decompose` (P5 fan-out, user-approved).

**Invariant**: No `act as X` persona rewrites. Lenses load substantive context only. Lens selection is logged. Mode decision is surfaced unless `augment`.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P17 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. On every substantive user input — score lens triggers, log the selection (even if `augment`).
2. When user input matches `decompose` criteria — surface composition tree, request approval before P5 dispatch.
3. When lens has `status: candidate` — track outcome to feed rule-of-three promotion.

### P18 — Audience: Format-Follows-Audience Discipline

**What**: Reflexive discipline binding format choice to audience:

- **Agent-readable** (LLM, system-prompt loaded, in-repo reference) → **markdown**
- **Human-readable** (decisions, review, exploration, sharing) → **HTML**
- **Both** (README, CHANGELOG, GitHub-browseable) → markdown (GitHub renders)
- **Throwaway interactive UI** → HTML

**How**: Path conventions for substantive deliverables:

- Specs/plans/ADRs/designs → `docs/{specs,plans,adrs,designs}/<topic>.html`
- PR explainers for substantive PRs → `docs/pr-explainers/PR-<n>.html`
- Knowledge graph entities (LLM-loaded) → `research/entities/{type}/{slug}.md`
- README/CHANGELOG/SKILL.md → markdown

**Anti-patterns**: ASCII pseudo-diagrams, unicode-color approximations, >100-line markdown specs without HTML companion.

**Invariant**: Format follows audience, not habit. Markdown's expressiveness ceiling means humans bounce off agent-produced specs at ~100 lines; HTML's information density (tables, SVG, CSS, interactivity) carries the load. The 2-4× HTML generation cost is paid only on artifacts a human will actually read.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P18 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. Before producing a spec/plan/ADR/design — default HTML.
2. Before a substantive PR description (>200 LOC OR public API OR multi-file) — produce an HTML PR-explainer at `docs/pr-explainers/PR-<n>.html`.
3. Before a report/retrospective/research synthesis for human consumption — HTML with embedded SVG diagrams.
4. When tempted to ASCII-diagram in markdown — STOP. SVG inside HTML is the correct primitive.
5. When editing `SKILL.md` / `AGENTS.md` / `CLAUDE.md` / `README.md` / `CHANGELOG.md` / entity pages — markdown is correct (LLM-loaded surfaces).
6. When user asks for "a doc explaining X" — apply the audience test, don't default to markdown.

### P19 — Orchestrate: Orchestration-Mechanism Selection Discipline

**What**: Names the autonomous-continuation family (six mechanisms across the 2×2×2 cube: `/goal` | Wait (P9) | `/loop` | Persist (P12) | Fanout (P5) | `bstack wave`) and the selection discipline. Picks the right mechanism for the work shape; composes dynamically; never returns control mid-arc when a mechanism would keep it closed.

**How**: At pre-flight of substantive autonomous work, apply the **2×2×2 mechanism cube**. Three axes: session-scope (within/across), trigger-source (external-event/internal-condition), agent-count (N=1/N>1).

**N=1 plane** (single-agent work):

|  | Within session | Across sessions |
|---|---|---|
| **External trigger** (event-driven) | **Wait (P9)** `p9 watch --background` (CI/deploy/build blocking) | **Persist (P12)** `persist iterate PROMPT.md` (cross-context-rot, >1h) |
| **Internal trigger** (condition or time) | **`/goal <condition>`** (Haiku evaluator per turn) | **`/loop <interval>`** (Claude Code time-trigger) |

**N>1 plane** (parallel-agent work):

|  | Within session | Across sessions |
|---|---|---|
| **External trigger** (event-driven) | **Fanout (P5)** — multiple `Agent` tool calls in one message; each isolated context | **`bstack wave dispatch <plan...>`** — one `claude --bg` per plan, worktree per plan, JSONL state in `~/.cache/bstack/wave/<id>/` |
| **Internal trigger** (condition or time) | Fanout (P5) + `/goal` per agent (rare; expensive) | (speculative — multiple `persist iterate` loops on a `/loop` interval) |

Decision logic:

1. Verifiable end state + bounded session + condition fits 4000 chars → `/goal <pipeline-completion-condition>`
2. External completion event blocking (CI, deploy, build) → Wait (P9) `p9 watch --background` + drain wait-queue
3. Time-triggered recurring routine → `/loop <interval> <slash-command>`
4. >1h work OR cross-session OR context window approaching ~100K → Persist (P12) `persist iterate PROMPT.md` with budget
5. Independent in-session subtasks with no shared mutable writes → Fanout (P5) — multiple `Agent` calls in one message
6. N independent plan files for cross-session parallel fan-out (spec sub-phases, multi-crate work) → `bstack wave dispatch <plan...>` — atomic validate + worktree per plan

Compositions are dynamic: Persist iterations can invoke `/goal` for sub-tasks; `/goal` sessions fire Wait (P9) watchers when CI is blocking; `/loop` schedules can spawn Persist for the long-horizon piece; `bstack wave` is the across-session sibling of Fanout (P5) — escalate to wave when parallel work doesn't fit one in-session message-fan-out.

**Invariant**: No autonomous-continuation work without (a) an explicit mechanism choice surfaced in the response, and (b) a one-line justification matched to a cell of the 2×2×2 cube. Returning control mid-arc when a mechanism would keep it closed is the failure mode P19 prevents.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P19 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. Pre-flight of substantive autonomous work — state chosen mechanism + cite cube cell (session-scope × trigger-source × agent-count).
2. Before returning control mid-arc — verify no mechanism would keep the arc closed.
3. At mechanism boundary crossings (goal hits >1h, context ~100K, in-session N>1 work needs across-session fan-out) — explicit transition, not drift.
4. When composing mechanisms — surface the composition tree, don't compose silently.
5. Tempted to type "continue please" or wait for user prompts — STOP. That's the ritual P19 makes impossible.

### P20 — Cross-Review: Cross-Model Adversarial Review Gate

**What**: Names the rule that *the writer cannot be the final judge*. Before substantive PRs merge, fire a cross-model adversarial gate. Single-model planning + implementing + reviewing reproduces the model's systematic biases — what cross-model-agents research calls *slop* (over-engineered abstractions, unnecessary wrappers, template-paste patterns).

**How**: Three strata, ordered by strength:

| Strata | Mechanism | When |
|---|---|---|
| **A** True cross-vendor | `codex exec -m gpt-5.4` reads diff + scores | Codex CLI installed |
| **B** Cross-context same-model | Fresh `Agent` subagent under devil's-advocate brief | Always available |
| **C** Composed existing skills | `superpowers:constructive-dissent`, `devils-advocate`, `pr-review-toolkit:*`, `critique`, `premortem`, `plan-*-review` | Always — the toolkit P20 makes mandatory |

Scoring: anti-slop ≥7/10 to pass; max 3 fix rounds; verdict logged in PR comments + Linear ticket (if workspace uses Linear). Implementation: `broomva/cross-review` skill. The gate fires *before* P4 auto-merge — not after merge as code review.

**Invariant**: Substantive PRs (>200 LOC OR public API change OR multi-file OR governance-class) cannot merge without cross-model adversarial verdict ≥7/10. Self-review by the writing model is forbidden as the *sole* verdict.

**Reflexive Trigger Rule**: P20 is a reflex. Apply without being prompted:

1. Before pushing substantive PRs — fire the gate (Strata A if Codex, else B+C). Score + verdict precede merge.
2. When verdict <7 — fix → rescore. Max 3 rounds. Round 3 failure → escalate to user.
3. When the writer is the only model in the loop — STOP. Strata B at minimum is mandatory.
4. When tempted to skip P20 because "small PR" — threshold is *substantive* (>200 LOC OR public API OR multi-file OR governance). Trivial (typo, single-file doc) exempt.
5. P20 sits between Empirical (P11) validation and Pipeline (P4) auto-merge — does not replace either.

---

These twenty primitives compose into the full autonomous development loop:

```
User intent → Lens (P17) intake → Snapshot (P15) → Orchestrate (P19) mechanism choice → Tickets (P3) → Fanout (P5) dispatch
  → Prior context via Bridge (P1) [+ Freshness (P7)] [+ Hygiene (P10) audit]
  → Gate (P2) active
  → Dep-Chain (P14) trace → Hygiene (P10) worktree decision → Empirical (P11) validation plan
  → IF long-horizon (per Orchestrate (P19)) → Persist (P12) loop with PROMPT.md + budget
  → Code written + Empirical (P11) parallel watchers → PR via Pipeline (P4)
  → Wait (P9) CI watch + heal loop
  → Empirical (P11) deploy verification (preview URL, screenshots, browser session)
  → Cross-Review (P20) gate (Strata A or B+C, ≥7/10) → if pass, Pipeline (P4) auto-merge eligible
  → Merge → Hygiene (P10) post-merge cleanup via Janitor (P8) → Deploy
  → Dream (P13) for any consolidation (Bookkeeping (P6) replay first)
  → Empirical (P11) dogfood receipt → Session captured via Bridge (P1) → Knowledge via Bookkeeping (P6)
  → Audience (P18) check: spec/plan/report → HTML; .md/SKILL.md/CHANGELOG → markdown
  → Crystallize (P16) gate: did this session produce a new ≥3-instance pattern? → propose primitive
  → System improved (EGRI)
```

## Plugin Skill Precedence

Plugin skills (`superpowers:*`, `pr-review-toolkit:*`, `codex:*`, etc.) are **subordinate to bstack primitives**. Where they conflict, bstack wins. This is encoded in `superpowers:using-superpowers` itself: *"User's explicit instructions … highest priority. … If CLAUDE.md says X and a skill says Y, follow the user's instructions."* Reading CLAUDE.md → this file *is* that explicit instruction.

The most common collision: plugin skills that mandate user interaction before action — most notably `superpowers:brainstorming` (discovery interview), `superpowers:writing-plans` ("plan before touching code" even when the task is mechanical), and the meta-rule that prompts the agent to invoke a skill "even if 1% might apply." The bstack answer is **context-first, user-extract last**:

1. Before any "interview-the-user" plugin skill fires, apply **Dep-Chain (P14)** + **Snapshot (P15)** over:
   - Workspace memory files (auto-memory directory; persona, project state, feedback)
   - `research/entities/{concept,pattern,tool,person,project}/` — knowledge graph (grep by topic before asking)
   - `docs/` (per-project) — architecture, specs, plans, conversations
   - Task-mentioned files (CV, spec, ticket body, PR diff)
2. Synthesize what's already known from those sources.
3. **Ask the user only for irreducible residuals** — facts that genuinely cannot be derived from disk.
4. If steps 1–2 fully determine the task, the plugin interview is skipped. Proceed to execution.

### What this kills

The "form-fill ritual" — agent receives an application/CV/intake form, opens with a numbered table of N+ questions about facts that live in workspace memory + knowledge graph + project docs. The workspace's curated context exists precisely to remove ask-the-user-for-context loops; plugin skills that re-introduce those loops are violating the substrate's intent, not augmenting it.

### What this keeps

The disciplines plugin skills bring that DON'T conflict with bstack:

- `superpowers:test-driven-development` — TDD execution discipline
- `superpowers:verification-before-completion` — pairs with Empirical (P11)
- `superpowers:systematic-debugging` — diagnostic flow before proposing fixes
- `superpowers:requesting-code-review` — two-stage review pattern (spec-compliance + code-quality)
- `superpowers:executing-plans`, `subagent-driven-development`, `dispatching-parallel-agents` — subagent dispatch substrate
- `superpowers:using-git-worktrees` — composes with Hygiene (P10)
- `superpowers:finishing-a-development-branch` — composes with `/ship`
- `pr-review-toolkit:*`, `codex:*` — orthogonal toolkits

These run as before. The precedence rule is targeted at *plugin-skill rituals that ask before reading* — nothing else.

### Why this isn't a new primitive

Dep-Chain (P14) + Snapshot (P15) already define the required behavior — context-load before action. This section makes their precedence over plugin-skill rituals explicit but adds no new mechanism. The L3 stability budget favors clarifying existing rules over adding new ones.

## Conventions

- **Git**: feature branches, squash merge via PR. Never force push main.
- **OSS**: every public repo must have `README.md`, MIT `LICENSE`, and GitHub topics.
- **Skills**: every skill repo must have `SKILL.md` at root with frontmatter (`name`, `description`).

## Harness Commands

From workspace root:

```bash
bstack doctor             # Verify primitive contract compliance
bstack repair             # Fix specific gaps surfaced by doctor
bstack status             # Show installed-vs-missing skills + harness health
bstack status --aggregate # Federation rollup across registered workspaces
bstack workspace register # Register this workspace in the host federation registry
bstack workspace list     # List all registered workspaces
make control-audit        # Full metalayer compliance audit
make janitor              # P8 janitor (dry-run by default)
```

## Substrate Surfaces

### Federation (v0.18.0 — Phase 8)

`bstack workspace` is a substrate surface that maintains an **opt-in**
host-level registry of bstack-governed workspaces at
`~/.broomva/global/registry.yaml`. Federation is **read-only aggregation** —
each workspace remains the source of truth for its own state. The registry
is the index `bstack status --aggregate` walks to surface the composite
health of every registered workspace on this host.

Federation is **not a new primitive** (no P21). It composes existing
primitives: Snapshot (P15) emits the per-workspace audit signal that the
aggregate rollup reads; Bookkeeping (P6) and the multi-layer composite-ω
(v0.16.0 §19) feed the per-workspace verdict. The registry is the spine
that lets a developer see all bstack workspaces at once without inventing
a new control loop.

Registering is opt-in and idempotent:

```bash
bstack workspace register             # registers $PWD (name = basename)
bstack workspace register --tag client-x --tag primary
bstack workspace list --json          # machine-readable for scripts
bstack workspace info                 # is this workspace registered?
bstack workspace deregister --name X  # remove an entry
```

Doctor §20 reports federation health (informational unless the registry
file is corrupted with `schema_version != 1`).

## Conversation Capture

Every Claude Code session under this workspace is automatically captured via P1. Session docs land in `*/docs/conversations/`, symlinked into your vault.

## Agent Boundaries

- **Read anything** in the workspace to understand context.
- **Write only** within the project you're tasked with.
- **Cross-project changes** require explicit user approval.
- **Secrets**: Never commit `.env`, credentials, or API keys.
- **Destructive git**: Never force push, reset --hard, or delete branches without asking.
- **PRs are checkpoints**: Create PRs for review, don't merge directly without CI green.

## Self-Improvement (EGRI Integration)

bstack supports EGRI (Evaluator-Governed Recursive Improvement):

- **Mutable artifact**: Agent behavior (conversation patterns, tool selection, code quality)
- **Immutable evaluator**: `bstack doctor` + `make control-audit`
- **Promotion policy**: Improvements that pass all gates get incorporated into AGENTS.md/policy.yaml
- **Rollback**: Git history is the safety net

When an agent discovers a better pattern:

1. Validate it works (run harness commands)
2. Document in conversation log (automatic via hook)
3. If significant, propose update to AGENTS.md or `.control/policy.yaml`
4. Future agents inherit the improvement

The L3 stability budget (λ₃ ≈ 0.006) constrains how rapidly governance can change. Observe patterns across multiple sessions before crystallizing rules.

# =============================================================================
# bstack — Closure-Contract Arcs (the (X, U, h, Π, T) 5-tuple, generalized)
# =============================================================================
#
# A closure-contract *arc* lifts the same 5-tuple already used at the 4 hard-
# coded RCS layers (see assets/templates/rcs-parameters.toml.template) to the
# N user-declared domain arcs the workspace actually runs every day. Each arc
# names one feedback loop the workspace promises to close:
#
#     (plant_surfaces, sensor, actuator, termination, tau_a)
#
# read as:
#
#     "for these plant surfaces, observe via this sensor, act via this
#      actuator, terminate when this condition holds, within tau_a seconds."
#
# The agent's reasoning is the universal Π (controller). When
# actuator.kind == "agent_reasoning" the controller binding is implicit —
# the agent loop closes the arc by reading the sensor, deciding, and acting.
# Script / mcp_tool / http actuators bind specific mechanisms while keeping
# the agent in the supervisory role.
#
# Read by:
#   - scripts/compute-arc-status.sh   (per-arc verdict reader; mirrors
#                                      compute-budget-status.sh shape)
#   - scripts/doctor.sh §20            (arcs-declared health)
#   - schemas/arcs.v1.json             (declarative shape; bstack doctor
#                                      runs json-schema validation in §10)
#
# Editing rules:
#   - Bump schema_version below when adding/removing fields.
#   - Run `bash scripts/compute-arc-status.sh --human` after edits to verify
#     each arc still resolves to a verdict.
#   - tau_a is in seconds (per-arc switching cost denominator). Keep it
#     proportional to the natural cadence of the loop: PR CI is ~1800s,
#     bookkeeping promotion-quality is ~86400s, etc.
#   - Workspace files override this template: copy to .control/arcs.yaml,
#     edit, and compute-arc-status.sh will prefer the workspace file.

schema_version: 1

arcs:
  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Arc 1 — code-pr-greenflow
  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Closes the loop: "every PR I open ends up merged with all checks green."
  # Plant: GitHub PR checks. Sensor: `gh pr checks --json`. Actuator: agent
  # reasoning (which calls heal-recipes from .control/policy.yaml ci_heal:
  # block). Termination: predicate over checks_green AND merged. Window:
  # 30 minutes (PR CI ceiling — beyond this the human steps in).
  - id: code-pr-greenflow
    description: PR CI greenflow — open, watch, heal, merge.
    plant_surfaces:
      - gh://${repo}/pulls
      - fs://.github/workflows/
    sensor:
      kind: json_path
      source: gh pr checks --json conclusion,name --jq '[.[] | select(.conclusion != null)]'
      expr: all(.conclusion == "SUCCESS")
    actuator:
      kind: agent_reasoning
      tools:
        - gh
        - skills/p9/scripts/p9.py
        - skills/bookkeeping/scripts/bookkeeping.py
    termination:
      kind: predicate
      expr: checks_green AND merged
    tau_a: 1800
    shield_ref: gates.hard.G-PR-MERGE

  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Arc 2 — bookkeeping-promotion-quality
  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Closes the loop: "every Layer-2 raw extract that ends up an entity page
  # in research/entities/ scored ≥7/9 on the Nous gate." Plant: research/
  # notes/ + research/entities/. Sensor: a hypothetical eval script that
  # exits 0 when the most recent promotion run scored ≥ threshold.
  # Actuator: agent reasoning (the agent re-runs bookkeeping replay if the
  # score dips). Termination: score_threshold. Window: 1 day (matches the
  # bookkeeping cadence and the L3 governance budget).
  - id: bookkeeping-promotion-quality
    description: Bookkeeping promotion quality — every entity page meets the Nous gate.
    plant_surfaces:
      - fs://research/entities/
      - fs://research/notes/
    sensor:
      kind: exit_code
      source: skills/bookkeeping/scripts/eval-promotion-quality.sh
    actuator:
      kind: agent_reasoning
      tools:
        - skills/bookkeeping/scripts/bookkeeping.py
    termination:
      kind: score_threshold
      expr: score >= 7
    tau_a: 86400
    shield_ref: gates.governed.G-PROMOTION-NOUS

# {{WORKSPACE_NAME}} — bstack-governed workspace

## Identity

This workspace is governed by **bstack** — twenty irreducible primitives (P1–P20) that turn an agent-driven workspace into a self-operating system. The full primitive contract lives in [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md). Run `bstack doctor` to verify compliance.

## Development Philosophy

Four principles govern every change in this workspace — *think before coding · simplicity first · surgical changes · goal-driven execution*. They are widely-recognized engineering disciplines (sharpened by Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls); bstack's job is to make each one **machine-checkable** rather than a hopeful instruction, because a discipline that lives only as prose decays into ritual. Each principle is backed by the primitive(s) that hold it — see [AGENTS.md § Development Philosophy](AGENTS.md#development-philosophy) for the full mapping (and a note on why enforcement strength varies). Extend it with project-specific principles; the primitives stay the enforcement layer.

## Bstack Core Automation Primitives

Twenty irreducible building blocks that make this workspace self-operating. All are always active. Full specification in `AGENTS.md`.

Each primitive carries a **short name** for agent prose. When referencing a primitive in responses, PR bodies, commit messages, or comments, use the `Name (Pn)` form — *"applying Snapshot (P15)"*, *"via Dep-Chain (P14)"*, *"running Bookkeeping (P6)"* — not bare `Pn`. The number is the canonical identifier; the short name is the human-readable handle.

**Short-name index**: Bridge (P1) · Gate (P2) · Tickets (P3) · Pipeline (P4) · Fanout (P5) · Bookkeeping (P6) · Freshness (P7) · Janitor (P8) · Wait (P9) · Hygiene (P10) · Empirical (P11) · Persist (P12) · Dream (P13) · Dep-Chain (P14) · Snapshot (P15) · Crystallize (P16) · Lens (P17) · Audience (P18) · Orchestrate (P19) · Cross-Review (P20).

| # | Primitive | Mechanism | Invariant |
|---|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| P1 | **Bridge** — Conversation Bridge | Stop hook → JSONL → Obsidian docs → vault | Bridge stamp < 24h stale |
| P2 | **Gate** — Control Gate | PreToolUse hook → `.control/policy.yaml` | G1–G4 blocking, never bypassed |
| P3 | **Tickets** — Linear Tickets | Every work unit tracked Backlog → Done | No significant work without a ticket |
| P4 | **Pipeline** — PR Pipeline | Branch → PR → CI → merge → deploy | Never merge with failing checks |
| P5 | **Fanout** — Parallel Agents | Concurrent isolated agents via worktrees | No shared mutable file writes |
| P6 | **Bookkeeping** — Knowledge Bookkeeping | `bookkeeping run` → score → promote → entity pages → synthesize | `research/entities/` never contains unscored items; knowledge capture is a reflex, not a request, and **never a question** (file proactively, report after — never ask permission to document) |
| P7 | **Freshness** — Skill Freshness Check | SessionStart hook → reports stale-skill nudge if last update check ≥ 7d ago | Never blocks; closes silent-rot bug for `npx skills add` snapshots |
| P8 | **Janitor** — Branch + Worktree Janitor | `make janitor` → detects squash-merged branches + dead worktrees, removes safely | Default `--dry-run`; never touches protected branches |
| P9 | **Wait** — Productive Wait (`broomva/p9` skill) | wait-queue drains while a blocking operation runs (PR CI is the reference impl: `gh pr checks --watch` via `run_in_background` → classifier + evaluator self-heal). For non-PR waits (push-triggered deploys, builds), do a single direct check after kicking off next-priority work. | Never `sleep` on a blocking wait; merge defers to control metalayer |
| P10 | **Hygiene** — Worktree Hygiene Discipline | Reflexive rule: decide worktree-or-not before first file; keep `git status` clean; auto-run P8 janitor after every merge | A clean tree is the only reliable reset point |
| P11 | **Empirical** — Empirical Feedback Loop | Reflexive rule: validate by *interacting* — log-tails, browser E2E, screenshots, deploy verification, multi-level test composition | Reasoning isn't validation; interaction is |
| P12 | **Persist** — Persistent Loop Discipline (`broomva/persist` skill) | Reflexive rule: cross-context restart loop — state in filesystem (PROMPT.md + git tree), each iteration spawns a fresh agent context | At long-horizon work (>1h), in-context loops decay; restart fresh, backpressure from compilers/tests |
| P13 | **Dream** — Dream Cycle Discipline | Reflexive rule: any consolidation that crosses a cadence-tier boundary MUST follow the 5-phase shape (gather → replay → prune → consolidate → index) | Replay against frozen substrate is the runtime form of stop-gradient; without it, dense lower-tier signal corrupts sparse upper-tier rules |
| P14 | **Dep-Chain** — Dependency-Chain Reasoning Discipline | Reflexive rule: before any substantive write, enumerate upstream (files, functions, types, contracts, deployed state this depends on) and downstream (consumers, tests, CI gates, docs, in-flight PRs depending on this). Concrete file paths + function names in the response or PR body — not in the agent's head. | "Think deeply through chain of dependencies" without a concrete enumeration step is ritual. P14 makes it machine-checkable. |
| P15 | **Snapshot** — State-Snapshot Before Action | Reflexive rule: before any plan, the agent surfaces `git status` + branch + ahead/behind, in-flight PRs (`gh pr list`), Linear ticket state, bookkeeping/bridge freshness, last deploy state. The snapshot is *part of* the planning response — not deferred. | Plans built on stale state fail silently. P15 makes state-checking a cheap reflex, not a request the user has to make. |
| P16 | **Crystallize** — Crystallization Discipline (the Bstack Engine) | Meta-primitive — the loop that produces every other primitive. Pattern recurs ≥3 times across sessions → propose promotion to skill / SKILL.md / AGENTS.md section / `.control/policy.yaml` gate, gated by the four conditions: ≥3 instances, concrete mechanism, stated invariant, stated failure mode. | The crystallization loop must run inside the workspace, not in the user's head. P1–P15 are *outputs* of this loop. |
| P17 | **Lens** — Lens-Routed Request Articulation (`broomva/role-x` skill) | Reflexive rule: every substantive user input passes through `role/x` intake — select lens(es) from `roles/<name>.md` registry by scoring signals, load substantive context, decide mode (`augment` / `rewrite` / `decompose`); P5 fan-out becomes typed graph. | No `act as X` persona rewrites — lenses load substantive context only. Lens selection is logged. Mode decision is surfaced unless `augment`. |
| P18 | **Audience** — Format-Follows-Audience Discipline | Reflexive rule: format follows audience. Agent-readable (LLM, system-prompt loaded, in-repo reference) → **markdown**. Human-readable (decisions, review, exploration) → **HTML**. Both (README, CHANGELOG, GitHub-browseable) → markdown (GitHub renders). ASCII pseudo-diagrams + unicode-color-approximation + >100-line markdown specs without HTML companion are explicit anti-patterns. Specs/plans/ADRs land in `docs/specs/`, `docs/plans/`, `docs/adrs/` as `.html`. | Format follows audience, not habit. Markdown's expressiveness ceiling means humans bounce off agent-produced specs at ~100 lines; HTML's information density carries the load. The 2-4× HTML generation cost is paid only on artifacts a human will actually read. |
| P19 | **Orchestrate** — Orchestration-Mechanism Selection Discipline | At pre-flight of substantive autonomous work, apply the **2×2×2 mechanism cube** (session-scope × trigger-source × agent-count). **N=1 plane:** `/goal <condition>` (internal+in-session), Wait (P9) `p9 watch --background` (external+in-session), `/loop <interval>` (internal+across-session), Persist (P12) `persist iterate PROMPT.md` (external+across-session). **N>1 plane:** Fanout (P5) multi-`Agent` (external+in-session), **`bstack wave dispatch <plan...>`** (external+across-session — worktree per plan, JSONL state). Compose dynamically. | No autonomous-continuation work without explicit mechanism choice + cube-cell citation. "Continue please" / waiting for user prompts mid-arc is ritual and forbidden. |
| P20 | **Cross-Review** — Cross-Model Adversarial Review Gate (`broomva/cross-review` skill) | Before substantive PRs merge, fire cross-model adversarial gate. Three strata: A (true cross-vendor via `codex exec`), B (fresh-context subagent under devil's-advocate brief), C (composed adversarial-review skills — `superpowers:constructive-dissent`, `devils-advocate`, `pr-review-toolkit:*`, `critique`, `premortem`). Anti-slop score ≥7/10; max 3 fix rounds; verdict logged in PR comments + Linear ticket (if workspace uses Linear). Fires *before* P4 auto-merge. | Substantive PRs (>200 LOC OR public API OR multi-file OR governance-class) cannot merge without cross-model verdict ≥7/10. Self-review by the writing model as sole verdict is forbidden. |

> **Naming note.** Skill repo names are stable and don't always match primitive numbers. P6's skill repo is `broomva/bookkeeping` (named for the function). P9's skill repo is `broomva/p9` — name matches primitive number. Renaming any skill repo would break every `npx skills add` install, so when a skill repo carries a number, the primitive numbering commits to keeping it stable.

## Plugin Skill Precedence

Bstack primitives (P1–P19) and bstack-native skills (`/autonomous`, `/shape`, `/persist`, `/ship`, `/bookkeeping`, `/p9`, etc.) **supersede** plugin skills (`superpowers:*`, `pr-review-toolkit:*`, `codex:*`) wherever they conflict. Plugin skills carry no weight when they collide with workspace governance — the `superpowers:using-superpowers` skill itself encodes this priority: *"User's explicit instructions … highest priority. … If CLAUDE.md says X and a skill says Y, follow the user's instructions."*

The most common collision: plugin skills that mandate user interaction before action (notably `superpowers:brainstorming`'s discovery interview, and the meta-rule that prompts the agent to invoke a skill "even if 1% might apply"). The bstack answer is **context-first, user-extract last**:

1. Before any "interview the user" plugin skill fires, perform **Dep-Chain (P14)** + **Snapshot (P15)** over:
   - Workspace memory files (auto-memory directory)
   - `research/entities/{concept,pattern,tool,person,project}/` — knowledge graph (grep by topic before asking)
   - `docs/` (per-project) — architecture, specs, plans, conversations
   - Task-mentioned files (CV, spec, ticket body, PR diff)
2. Synthesize what's known from those sources.
3. **Ask the user only for irreducible residuals** — facts that genuinely cannot be derived from disk.
4. If steps 1–2 fully determine the task, the plugin interview is skipped; proceed to execution.

This is a precedence rule, not a new primitive — P14 + P15 already exist; this clarifies that plugin-skill rituals do not override them. The failure mode it shuts down is the "form-fill ritual" — agent asks N+ clarifying questions about facts already curated in the workspace's memory files and knowledge graph.

## Governance Stack

```
CLAUDE.md           ← Invariants (you're reading this)
AGENTS.md           ← Operational rules + primitive contract
.control/policy.yaml ← Setpoints, gates, profiles (machine-readable)
```

## Hooks (Claude Code Integration)

This workspace registers Claude Code hooks in `.claude/settings.json`:

| Event | Hook | Purpose |
|-------|------|---------|
| `Stop` | `conversation-bridge-hook.sh` | Bridge (P1) — capture session to knowledge graph |
| `Notification` | `conversation-bridge-hook.sh` | Bridge (P1) — backup trigger for bridge |
| `PreToolUse` | `control-gate-hook.sh` | Gate (P2) — enforce safety shields |
| `SessionStart` | `skill-freshness-hook.sh` | Freshness (P7) — nudge user when skills are stale |

## Testing & Verification

```bash
bstack doctor             # Verify primitive contract compliance
bstack repair             # Fix specific gaps
bstack status --aggregate # Federation rollup across registered workspaces (≥ 0.18.0)
make control-audit        # Full metalayer compliance audit
make janitor              # Janitor (P8) dry-run
```

> **Federation (Phase 8, v0.18.0).** `bstack workspace` maintains an opt-in
> host-level registry at `~/.broomva/global/registry.yaml`. It is a substrate
> surface, not a new primitive — composes Snapshot (P15) + multi-layer
> composite-ω (v0.16.0 §19). Doctor §20 surfaces registry health.

## Conventions

- **Git**: feature branches, squash merge via PR. Never force push main.
- **Each project** in this workspace can have its own CLAUDE.md with project-specific context.

## Self-Documenting Standards

When modifying skills, architecture docs, or governance files:

1. **Threshold consistency**: A scoring cutoff, layer count, or primitive count changed in one file must be updated in ALL files that reference it. `SKILL.md` is the authoritative source; other files defer to it.
2. **Cross-reference integrity**: Adding a new entity type, status value, or pipeline stage requires updating both the schema/rubric AND the template files that use them.
3. **Primitive count**: Adding a primitive (P-N+1) requires bumping the count in this file's "Bstack Core Automation Primitives" header, adding the table row here, adding the section in `AGENTS.md`, and updating the composition-loop diagram. Run `bstack doctor` after changes to verify lockstep.
4. **Verification**: After modifying this file or any skill, run `bstack doctor` to confirm consistency.

These rules are enforced by agent reasoning + `bstack doctor`, not hooks. The agent reads them and applies them; the doctor surfaces gaps.

name: L3 stability gate

# bstack Gate G2 — RCS stability + governance rate enforcement on PRs.
# Installed by bstack/scripts/install-l3-stability.sh into
# .github/workflows/l3-stability.yml.
#
# Triggers on PRs touching L3-class paths (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md,
# .control/policy.yaml, .control/rcs-parameters.toml, METALAYER.md).
# Comments on the PR with per-level lambda + drift + rate-gate status.
# Status check `L3 stability gate / stability-check` can be made required via
# branch protection rules to block merges when lambda <= 0.

on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]
    paths:
      - 'CLAUDE.md'
      - 'AGENTS.md'
      - '.control/policy.yaml'
      - '.control/rcs-parameters.toml'
      - 'METALAYER.md'

jobs:
  stability-check:
    name: stability-check
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - name: Checkout PR head
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 50

      - name: Set up Python 3.11
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.11'

      - name: Install bstack (skill snapshot)
        run: |
          # Resolve bstack — for repos that have it vendored or use the GitHub fetch.
          if [ -d ".agents/skills/bstack" ]; then
            BSTACK=".agents/skills/bstack"
          else
            git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/broomva/bstack.git /tmp/bstack
            BSTACK=/tmp/bstack
          fi
          echo "BSTACK=$BSTACK" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Compute lambda (RCS stability budget)
        id: compute
        run: |
          set +e
          out=$(bash $BSTACK/scripts/compute-lambda.sh --human)
          status=$?
          echo "$out"
          {
            echo "result<<EOF"
            echo "$out"
            echo "EOF"
            echo "status=$status"
          } >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
          # Always continue so the comment step runs; final exit is below
          exit 0

      - name: Run L3 rate gate
        id: rate
        run: |
          set +e
          out=$(BROOMVA_WORKSPACE="$PWD" bash $BSTACK/scripts/l3-rate-gate.sh)
          status=$?
          echo "$out"
          {
            echo "result<<EOF"
            echo "$out"
            echo "EOF"
            echo "status=$status"
          } >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
          exit 0

      - name: Comment on PR
        if: github.event.pull_request != null
        uses: actions/github-script@v7
        with:
          script: |
            const compute = `${{ steps.compute.outputs.result }}`;
            const rate    = `${{ steps.rate.outputs.result }}`;
            const computeStatus = `${{ steps.compute.outputs.status }}`;
            const rateStatus    = `${{ steps.rate.outputs.status }}`;

            const verdict =
              computeStatus !== "0"
                ? "🔴 **lambda_i <= 0** — composite system unstable; do not merge"
                : rateStatus !== "0"
                  ? "🟡 **L3 rate exceeded** — RCS stability budget assumes <= 1 governance commit per tau_a_3 window"
                  : "🟢 **All gates pass** — composite stable, rate within budget";

            const body = [
              "## L3 stability gate report",
              "",
              verdict,
              "",
              "### Per-level lambda (compute-lambda.sh)",
              "```",
              compute,
              "```",
              "",
              "### L3 rate gate (l3-rate-gate.sh)",
              "```",
              rate,
              "```",
              "",
              "<sub>bstack Gate G2 — see `.github/workflows/l3-stability.yml`. RCS background: https://github.com/broomva/bstack/blob/main/references/primitives.md</sub>",
            ].join("\n");

            await github.rest.issues.createComment({
              issue_number: context.issue.number,
              owner: context.repo.owner,
              repo: context.repo.repo,
              body
            });

      - name: Set final status
        run: |
          # Fail the check if lambda <= 0 (unstable) — this is the gate.
          # L3 rate exceeded is informational (passes here; pre-commit blocks locally).
          if [ "${{ steps.compute.outputs.status }}" != "0" ]; then
            echo "FAIL: lambda_i <= 0; composite unstable"
            exit 1
          fi
          echo "OK: all lambda_i > 0"

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# .githooks/pre-commit — bstack L3 rate gate (Gate G1).
#
# Installed by bstack/scripts/install-l3-stability.sh. Fires on every
# `git commit` and blocks if the L3 mutation rate exceeds the RCS stability
# budget (tau_a_3 from .control/rcs-parameters.toml, default 86400s = 1 day).
#
# Bypass with: git commit --no-verify  (document why in the commit body)
#
# Composes with other pre-commit hooks: if a .githooks/pre-commit existed
# before bstack onboarding, install-l3-stability.sh chains it via the
# .githooks/pre-commit.local sidecar.

set -uo pipefail

# Try to locate the workspace's bstack scripts
WORKSPACE="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || echo "$PWD")"
BSTACK_REPO=""
for candidate in \
    "$HOME/.agents/skills/bstack" \
    "$HOME/.claude/skills/bstack" \
    "$WORKSPACE/.agents/skills/bstack" \
    "$HOME/broomva/bstack" \
; do
    if [ -x "$candidate/scripts/l3-rate-gate.sh" ]; then
        BSTACK_REPO="$candidate"
        break
    fi
done

if [ -z "$BSTACK_REPO" ]; then
    # bstack not findable — degrade gracefully (warn but don't block)
    echo "[L3 gate] warn: bstack scripts not found; skipping rate check" >&2
    # Fall through to .local chain if present
else
    # Run the rate gate against staged + last-tau_a window
    if ! BROOMVA_WORKSPACE="$WORKSPACE" bash "$BSTACK_REPO/scripts/l3-rate-gate.sh" --staged; then
        echo "" >&2
        echo "[L3 gate] commit blocked by RCS stability budget" >&2
        echo "[L3 gate] override with: git commit --no-verify  (document reason in body)" >&2
        exit 1
    fi
fi

# Chain to user's pre-commit.local if present
if [ -x "$WORKSPACE/.githooks/pre-commit.local" ]; then
    "$WORKSPACE/.githooks/pre-commit.local" "$@"
fi

exit 0

# {{WORKSPACE_NAME}} — Control Metalayer

Behavioral governance manifest for the {{WORKSPACE_NAME}} workspace. This file is scaffolded by `bstack bootstrap` and is the authoritative declaration of the workspace's control plant, controller, safety shields, and feedback loop.

## Plant

The **plant** is this workspace — the composition of repos / apps / services that bstack governs. The plant's measurable signals are declared as setpoints S1-S15 in `.control/policy.yaml` and measured by `scripts/metrics/measure-S<n>.sh` shipped by bstack (≥ v0.4.0).

| Signal | Source | Type | Primitive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Git status across repos | `make status` (workspace-defined) | measured | — |
| CI/CD check results | GitHub Actions + provider-specific | measured | P4 (Pipeline) |
| Conversation bridge health | `~/.cache/broomva-bridge-stamp` mtime | measured | P1 (Bridge) |
| Skills installed | union of `~/.agents/skills/` + `~/.claude/skills/` | measured | — (S10) |
| Governance files present | `CLAUDE.md` + `AGENTS.md` + `METALAYER.md` + `.control/policy.yaml` + `schemas/` | measured | — (S11) |
| Hooks wired | `.claude/settings.json` (Stop + PreToolUse + UserPromptSubmit) + `.git/hooks/pre-commit` | measured | P1 + P2 + P17 (S12) |
| Control gate enforcement | `.control/policy.yaml` active gates G1-G11 | measured | P2 (Gate) |
| Workspace-specific signals | (extend this table per workspace) | — | — |

## Controller

Agents operating in this workspace follow the policy in `.control/policy.yaml` (default `profile: governed`).

**Decision flow per session:**
1. Read `CLAUDE.md` + `AGENTS.md` for workspace invariants
2. Read `.control/policy.yaml` for active gates + setpoints
3. Check `docs/conversations/` for prior session context on branch/topic
4. Apply reflexive primitives (P10 Hygiene, P11 Empirical, P14 Dep-Chain, P15 Snapshot, P18 Audience, P19 Orchestrate) before substantive work
5. Execute within harness gates (G1-G4 hard gates enforced by `control-gate-hook.sh`)
6. Create PRs as checkpoints — never merge with failing CI (P4 Pipeline)

## Safety Shields

Hard gates (G1-G4+) enforced by `control-gate-hook.sh` on every Bash/Write/Edit tool call. The full list lives in `.control/policy.yaml` `gates.hard` — at minimum:

| Gate | Rule | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | No force-push to protected branches | blocking |
| G2 | No `git reset --hard` without backup branch | blocking |
| G3 | No `rm -rf` on home / root / protected paths | blocking |
| G4 | No staging `.env`, credentials, secrets | blocking |

Soft gates (G5-G10+) are advisory — agent guidance only. Extend in `.control/policy.yaml` `gates.soft` as workspace needs emerge.

## Estimator

Agent confidence is derived from:
- **Code context**: files read, git history checked
- **Conversation history**: prior sessions on same branch/topic (via P1 Bridge captures)
- **Knowledge graph**: entity pages in `research/entities/` (via P6 Bookkeeping)
- **CI signals**: test pass rate, build status (via P4 Pipeline + P9 Wait)
- **Setpoint state**: current measurements via `bstack status` (≥ v0.5.0)

## Feedback Loop

```
Session start
  → SessionStart hooks fire (autoupdate, freshness, role-x coverage)
  → Agent loads CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md + policy.yaml
  → Check docs/conversations/ for prior context

Task execution
  → Apply reflexive primitives (P10/P11/P14/P15/P18/P19)
  → PreToolUse hook gates every Bash/Write/Edit against policy.yaml
  → P9 watcher monitors CI in background after push

Checkpoint
  → PR opens (P3 Tickets + P4 Pipeline)
  → CI runs → P20 Cross-Review if substantive
  → Auto-merge when green per policy.yaml.auto_merge

Post-merge
  → release.yml auto-tag + GH release (if VERSION changed)
  → P8 janitor cleans worktree + branch
  → Stop hook captures session to docs/conversations/ (P1 Bridge)

Observation update
  → P6 Bookkeeping scores raw extracts → promotes to research/entities/
  → Patterns recurring ≥3 times → P16 Crystallize candidate
  → Eventually: new primitive promoted to substrate (rule-of-three)
```

## RCS Hierarchy (reference)

The substrate operates under the Recursive Controlled Systems (RCS) hierarchy with measured stability margins:

| Level | System | Controller Π | Time scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| L0 | External plant (codebase, deploy targets) | per-tool gate enforcement | seconds |
| L1 | Agent internal (per-turn state) | reflexive primitives (P10-P20) | per-turn |
| L2 | Meta-control (CI/CD, EGRI) | release pipeline + PR validation | minutes-days |
| L3 | Governance (this metalayer) | CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md + policy.yaml | days-weeks |

**L3 has the narrowest stability margin** (λ₃ ≈ 0.006 measured in the reference Broomva workspace). Governance changes must be rare and deliberate — rule-of-three promotion gate.

For the formal framework + canonical parameters, see the [RCS paper repo](https://github.com/broomva/bstack/tree/main/specs/) and `research/rcs/data/parameters.toml` if your workspace ships the RCS substrate.

## Harness Commands

```bash
bstack doctor               # Validate primitive contract + governance file presence
bstack metrics collect      # Compute every setpoint (≥ 0.4.0)
bstack status               # Render substrate health summary (≥ 0.5.0)
bstack repair               # Idempotent fix for gaps (governance files, hooks, policy blocks)
bstack upgrade              # Pull latest bstack release into this install
make janitor                # P8 — branch + worktree cleanup (if workspace defines)
```

## Schemas

The substrate ships JSON Schemas for declarative surfaces in `schemas/`:

- `policy.v1.json` — full `.control/policy.yaml` shape
- `setpoint.v1.json` — single setpoint
- `gate.v1.json` — single gate
- `primitives.v1.json` — primitive registry shape

Schemas v1 are stable from bstack v1.0.0 onwards (currently pre-1.0, additive changes only). Breaking changes ship a v2 schema + migration via `scripts/migrate.sh`.

## Customization

Workspaces extend this template by:
1. Adding workspace-specific signals to the Plant table
2. Defining additional gates in `.control/policy.yaml` `gates.hard` / `gates.soft`
3. Adding workspace-specific harness commands to the Harness Commands section
4. Documenting workspace-specific RCS instantiation in the RCS section (if applicable)

The bstack-shipped sections (Controller, Safety Shields, Estimator, Feedback Loop, Schemas) are stable and should not be modified directly — they're the substrate contract.

# Agentic Control Kernel — bstack workspace policy
# Installed by `bstack bootstrap` when .control/policy.yaml is absent.
# Customize for your workspace; bstack doctor will validate required blocks.

version: "1.0"
profile: governed  # baseline | governed | autonomous

setpoints:
  - id: S1
    name: "gate_pass_rate"
    target: 0.85
    alert_below: 0.70
    severity: blocking

  - id: S2
    name: "audit_pass_rate"
    target: 1.0
    alert_below: 0.95
    severity: blocking

gates:
  governed:
    - id: G1
      rule: "No force-push to protected branches"
      severity: blocking

    - id: G2
      rule: "No `git reset --hard` without backup branch"
      severity: blocking

    - id: G3
      rule: "No `rm -rf` on protected paths"
      severity: blocking

    - id: G4
      rule: "No staging .env, credentials, secrets"
      severity: blocking

    - id: G5
      rule: "Verify tests pass before push"
      severity: warn

    - id: G6
      rule: "Run smoke before commit"
      severity: warn

# === P9 CI Watcher + Productive-Wait Primitive ===
# Required by skills/p9 (bstack P9 primitive — name matches number). Fails closed if absent.

ci_watch:
  enabled: true
  max_concurrent_prs: 1
  isolation_tier_map:
    research: none
    docs: none
    code_independent: worktree
    code_dependent: stacked_branch
    governance: blocked

ci_heal:
  enabled: true
  max_attempts: 5
  stability_floor: 0.3
  classified_failure_types: [lint, format, test_flaky, codegen_drift, import_missing]
  escalation_channel:
    linear_team: BRO
    linear_label: ci-heal-escalation
    notify_hook: skills/p9/scripts/p9-escalate-notify.sh

# === P9 Auto-merge actuator ===
# Closes the MERGE_READY → merged gap. Default-disabled; opt-in branch class.

auto_merge:
  enabled: false
  require_no_requested_changes: true
  require_branch_up_to_date: true
  merge_method: squash
  delete_branch: true
  rules:
    # Governance paths ALWAYS block (matcher pre-pass enforces this regardless
    # of rule order; listing them first protects against future reshuffles)
    - path_touched: CLAUDE.md
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: AGENTS.md
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: METALAYER.md
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: .control/policy.yaml
      action: require_human
    # === Indirect-prompt-injection defense — editor-config paths (2026-05-15) ===
    # Spec: specs/2026-05-15-indirect-prompt-injection-defense.md §4 Tier 1.
    # Rationale: every documented incident in 2024-2026 that turned indirect prompt
    # injection into RCE pivoted through a silent write to one of these paths:
    #   - .vscode/tasks.json + .vscode/settings.json  (CVE-2025-53773 Copilot YOLO-Mode;
    #                                                   blockchain-C2 gist 2026-05-06)
    #   - .cursor/mcp.json                            (CurXecute CVE-2025-54135; MCPoison
    #                                                   CVE-2025-54136)
    #   - .claude/settings.json                       (Claudy Day Claude.ai exfil)
    #   - .gitignore (removal)                        (blockchain-C2 gist stage 5)
    - path_touched: .vscode/*
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: .cursor/*
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: .idea/*
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: .continue/*
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: .aider/*
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: .claude/settings.json
      action: require_human
    - path_touched: .gitignore
      action: require_human
    # Auto-merge classes (uncomment to enable per branch pattern)
    # - branch_pattern: "docs/*"
    #   action: auto
    # - branch_pattern: "research/*"
    #   action: auto
  default_action: notify

# === Indirect-prompt-injection defense — PreToolUse write gate (2026-05-15) ===
# Spec: specs/2026-05-15-indirect-prompt-injection-defense.md §4 Tier 1.
# Consumed by ~/broomva/scripts/check-file-write-safety.py (workspace-side, ships
# as PR #2 against broomva/workspace). This block defines the schema; the runtime
# is a separate concern. Schema lands first so the runtime can pin to a stable
# contract.
#
# Three sub-blocks:
#   write_gate.content_patterns: regex refusal on dangerous content substrings.
#   write_gate.magic_bytes_check: refuses files whose extension claims one type but
#                                 whose magic bytes are script/executable.
#   write_gate.gitignore_modification: refuses .gitignore edits that REMOVE patterns
#                                       (additions are normal; removals enable silent
#                                       commits of malicious files).
#
# Default state: enabled. Override per-workspace by setting
#   write_gate.enabled: false  in .control/policy.yaml — but the bstack-doctor
# command will warn loudly when this is off.

write_gate:
  enabled: true
  content_patterns:
    # Each pattern is a Python `re` regex matched against the file content being
    # written or edited. severity=blocking refuses the write with exit code 8
    # (analogue to the marketing-shape detector in broomva/social-intelligence
    # PR #2 — same refuse-to-send substrate pattern). severity=warn logs but
    # allows.
    - pattern: "runOn:\\s*folderOpen"
      severity: blocking
      rationale: "VS Code autoexec primitive. Universal trigger across Jamf Threat Labs Dec 2025 North Korea campaign, Tenable/ThreatLocker advisories, mihai-r-lupu blockchain-C2 gist 2026-05-06. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/309406"
    - pattern: "task\\.allowAutomaticTasks:\\s*true"
      severity: blocking
      rationale: "VS Code autoexec-bypass key — blockchain-C2 gist used this exact setting to skip the 'Do you want to allow automatic tasks?' confirmation"
    - pattern: "chat\\.tools\\.autoApprove:\\s*true"
      severity: blocking
      rationale: "GitHub Copilot YOLO-Mode (CVE-2025-53773, CVSS 7.8) — prompt injection writes this exact key to .vscode/settings.json then shell-exec auto-approves"
    - pattern: "--dangerously-skip-permissions"
      severity: blocking
      rationale: "Claude Code unsafe-flag bypass — used by Nx s1ngularity (CISA-advisory) postinstall scripts to weaponize AI CLIs as recon"
    - pattern: "api\\.trongrid\\.io|fullnode\\.mainnet\\.aptoslabs|bsc-dataseed\\.binance|bsc-rpc\\.publicnode"
      severity: blocking
      rationale: "Public-blockchain RPCs in non-blockchain code = dead-drop C2 signal (blockchain-C2 gist used TRON for XOR key + Aptos + BSC fallback)"
    - pattern: "child_process\\.spawn\\([^)]*detached:\\s*true"
      severity: warn
      rationale: "Detached spawn in JS/TS = persistence primitive (blockchain-C2 gist Layer 4 used this to keep payload alive after parent exits)"
  magic_bytes_check:
    enabled: true
    # Maps a forbidden file-extension family to a list of magic-byte / start-of-content
    # signatures that MUST NOT appear at the file head. Catches the font-file-with-JS
    # disguise from the blockchain-C2 gist (stage 4).
    #
    # Signatures are matched against the first 256 bytes of content (utf-8 decoded for
    # text-style sigs; raw bytes for binary sigs). String signatures match literally.
    rules:
      - extension_match: [".woff2", ".woff", ".ttf", ".otf", ".eot"]
        forbid_signatures_starting_with:
          - "function"
          - "(function"
          - "const "
          - "var "
          - "let "
          - "import "
          - "module.exports"
          - "#!/"
        rationale: "Font file with script content = blockchain-C2 stage 4 (fa-solid-400.woff2 disguise)"
      - extension_match: [".png", ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".gif", ".svg", ".webp", ".bmp", ".ico"]
        forbid_signatures_starting_with:
          - "function"
          - "(function"
          - "<?php"
          - "<script"
          - "#!/"
        rationale: "Image file with script content = steganography/disguise class"
      - extension_match: [".txt", ".md", ".json", ".yaml", ".yml", ".toml", ".ini"]
        forbid_signatures_starting_with:
          - "MZ"
          - "\\x7fELF"
          - "\\xca\\xfe\\xba\\xbe"
          - "\\xfe\\xed\\xfa"
        rationale: "Text/config file with PE/ELF/Mach-O magic = binary disguise class"
  gitignore_modification:
    enabled: true
    removed_patterns_require_human: true
    # Modifications that ADD patterns to .gitignore are normal and unaffected.
    # Modifications that REMOVE patterns trigger require_human because removing
    # e.g. `.vscode/*` from .gitignore enables silent commit of attacker-injected
    # editor config (blockchain-C2 gist stage 5).
    rationale: "blockchain-C2 gist (mihai-r-lupu 2026-05-06) explicitly removed .vscode/* from .gitignore to enable committing the malicious tasks.json"

# =============================================================================
# RCS — Workspace Stability Parameters (bstack default)
# =============================================================================
#
# Per-level parameters for the Recursive Controlled Systems (RCS) stability
# budget. These values are read by bstack/scripts/compute-lambda.sh and by
# bstack doctor §14 to verify the composite system is exponentially stable.
#
# Formula (papers/p0-foundations/main.tex, Theorem 1):
#
#     lambda_i = gamma_i
#              - L_theta_i * rho_i        (adaptation cost)
#              - L_d_i * eta_i            (design evolution cost)
#              - beta_i * tau_bar_i       (delay cost)
#              - ln(nu_i) / tau_a_i       (switching cost)
#
# A level is stable iff lambda_i > 0. The composite hierarchy is exponentially
# stable iff every level is individually stable.
#
# Defaults below are calibrated from broomva's Life runtime (research/rcs/
# data/parameters.toml). For a generic bstack repo without Life, customize:
#   - L0 (plant): match your runtime's inner loop (sub-second tool execution)
#   - L1 (autonomic): match your agent's hysteresis / mode-transition layer
#   - L2 (meta-control): match your EGRI / promotion cadence (default: hours)
#   - L3 (governance): KEEP CONSERVATIVE — tau_a = 86400s (1 day) is the
#     stability budget's load-bearing assumption. Faster governance churn
#     destabilizes the whole hierarchy.
#
# Editing rules:
#   - Bump schema_version below when adding/removing fields.
#   - bstack doctor --strict verifies the cached [derived.lambda] block
#     matches recomputed values; CI will fail if they drift.
#   - Run `bash scripts/compute-lambda.sh --human` after edits to see the
#     per-level impact before committing.

schema_version = 1

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# L0 — Plant (agent inner loop)
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Sub-second timescale: tool execution, streaming output, immediate response.
# Source: Arcan agent loop default (or your equivalent).

[[levels]]
id             = "L0"
name           = "plant"
system         = "Agent loop / tool execution"
gamma          = 2.0
L_theta        = 0.3
rho            = 0.5
L_d            = 0.1
eta            = 0.2
beta           = 1.0
tau_bar        = 0.01
nu             = 1.2
tau_a          = 0.5
display_digits = 3

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# L1 — Autonomic (per-session reasoning + hysteresis)
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Seconds timescale: hysteresis gates, mode transitions, validation backpressure.

[[levels]]
id             = "L1"
name           = "autonomic"
system         = "Agent reasoning / per-session loop"
gamma          = 0.5
L_theta        = 0.2
rho            = 0.1
L_d            = 0.1
eta            = 0.05
beta           = 0.5
tau_bar        = 0.1
nu             = 1.5
tau_a          = 30.0
display_digits = 3

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# L2 — EGRI / meta-control
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Hours timescale: cross-session synthesis, candidate promotion, evaluator runs.

[[levels]]
id             = "L2"
name           = "EGRI"
system         = "EGRI / Crystallize (P16) / Bookkeeping (P6)"
gamma          = 0.1
L_theta        = 0.05
rho            = 0.01
L_d            = 0.02
eta            = 0.01
beta           = 0.0005
tau_bar        = 60.0
nu             = 1.1
tau_a          = 3600.0
display_digits = 3

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# L3 — Governance
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Days timescale: CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / .control/policy.yaml mutations.
#
# CRITICAL: tau_a = 86400s (1 day) is the load-bearing assumption. Faster
# governance churn destabilizes the entire RCS hierarchy. The bstack pre-commit
# hook (`githook-pre-commit-l3-rate.sh`) enforces this rate by counting L3-class
# commits in the last tau_a window.

[[levels]]
id             = "L3"
name           = "governance"
system         = "CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md + .control/policy.yaml"
gamma          = 0.01
L_theta        = 0.001
rho            = 0.001
L_d            = 0.001
eta            = 0.0005
beta           = 0.000001
tau_bar        = 3600.0
nu             = 1.05
tau_a          = 86400.0
display_digits = 4

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Derived values — cached for human readers, verified by compute-lambda.sh
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# scripts/compute-lambda.sh --strict recomputes these and fails if drift > 1e-4.

[derived.lambda]
L0 = 1.455357
L1 = 0.411484
L2 = 0.069274
L3 = 0.006398

[derived.omega]
value = 0.006398
level = "L3"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Governance path patterns (read by l3-rate-gate.sh)
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Files that match these git-pathspec patterns count as L3 mutations.
# Used by:
#   - .githooks/pre-commit (pre-commit gate G1)
#   - .github/workflows/l3-stability.yml (CI gate G2)
#   - .claude/settings.json PreToolUse hook (Claude Code gate G0)

[gates.l3_paths]
patterns = [
    "CLAUDE.md",
    "AGENTS.md",
    ".control/policy.yaml",
    ".control/rcs-parameters.toml",
    "METALAYER.md",
]

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "Agentic Control Kernel — Action Schema",
  "description": "Typed control directive (θ_t) emitted by the LLM agent. Not raw actuation — parameterizes deterministic controllers.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["directive_id", "timestamp", "directive_type"],
  "properties": {
    "directive_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unique identifier for this control directive"
    },
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp of directive emission"
    },
    "directive_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "setpoint_update",
        "constraint_update",
        "mode_switch",
        "parameter_update",
        "module_selection",
        "experiment_request",
        "model_update_trigger",
        "plan_update"
      ],
      "description": "Type of control directive"
    },
    "target_controller": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Which controller module this directive targets"
    },
    "payload": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Directive-specific payload (setpoints, parameters, etc.)",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "rationale": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "LLM's reasoning for this directive (for audit/ledger)"
    },
    "priority": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["critical", "high", "normal", "low"],
      "default": "normal",
      "description": "Execution priority"
    },
    "requires_approval": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Whether this directive needs human approval before execution"
    },
    "rollback_directive_id": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Directive to execute if this one needs to be rolled back"
    },
    "budget_impact": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Estimated resource consumption",
      "properties": {
        "tokens": { "type": "integer" },
        "compute_s": { "type": "number" },
        "cost_usd": { "type": "number" }
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://broomva.tech/schemas/egri-event.schema.json",
  "title": "EGRI Trial Event",
  "description": "Payload for autoany EGRI trial records persisted to Lago via EventKind::Custom with 'egri.' prefix",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["event_type", "trial"],
  "properties": {
    "event_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^egri\\.",
      "description": "Event type with 'egri.' prefix, e.g. 'egri.trial'"
    },
    "trial": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/TrialRecord"
    },
    "session_id": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Optional Arcan session ID for cross-reference"
    }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "TrialRecord": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["trial_id", "timestamp", "parent_state", "mutation", "outcome", "decision"],
      "properties": {
        "trial_id": { "type": "string" },
        "timestamp": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
        "parent_state": { "type": "string" },
        "mutation": { "$ref": "#/$defs/Mutation" },
        "execution": { "$ref": "#/$defs/ExecutionResult" },
        "outcome": { "$ref": "#/$defs/Outcome" },
        "decision": { "$ref": "#/$defs/Decision" },
        "strategy_notes": { "type": ["string", "null"] }
      }
    },
    "Mutation": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["operator", "description"],
      "properties": {
        "operator": { "type": "string" },
        "description": { "type": "string" },
        "diff": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "hypothesis": { "type": ["string", "null"] }
      }
    },
    "ExecutionResult": {
      "type": ["object", "null"],
      "properties": {
        "duration_secs": { "type": "number" },
        "exit_code": { "type": "integer" },
        "error": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
        "output": {}
      }
    },
    "Outcome": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["score", "constraints_passed"],
      "properties": {
        "score": {},
        "constraints_passed": { "type": "boolean" },
        "constraint_violations": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "evaluator_metadata": {}
      }
    },
    "Decision": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["action", "reason"],
      "properties": {
        "action": { "type": "string", "enum": ["promoted", "discarded", "branched", "escalated"] },
        "reason": { "type": "string" },
        "new_state_id": { "type": ["string", "null"] }
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "Agentic Control Kernel — Evaluator Schema",
  "description": "Score vectors and promotion decisions for EGRI-compatible evaluators.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["evaluator_id", "timestamp", "scores", "decision"],
  "properties": {
    "evaluator_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Identifier of the evaluator instance"
    },
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time"
    },
    "trial_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "EGRI trial being evaluated"
    },
    "controller_version": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Controller version under evaluation"
    },
    "scores": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Score vector — scalar or multi-dimensional metrics",
      "properties": {
        "primary": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Primary objective score (the one driving promotion)"
        },
        "secondary": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Additional metrics tracked but not driving promotion",
          "additionalProperties": { "type": "number" }
        }
      },
      "required": ["primary"]
    },
    "baseline": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Baseline scores for comparison",
      "properties": {
        "primary": { "type": "number" },
        "secondary": {
          "type": "object",
          "additionalProperties": { "type": "number" }
        }
      }
    },
    "constraints": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["all_passed"],
      "properties": {
        "all_passed": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Whether all hard constraints were satisfied"
        },
        "violations": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "constraint_id": { "type": "string" },
              "measured": { "description": "Measured value" },
              "threshold": { "description": "Threshold that was violated" },
              "severity": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": ["hard", "soft"]
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "decision": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["action"],
      "properties": {
        "action": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": ["promoted", "discarded", "branched", "escalated"],
          "description": "Promotion decision"
        },
        "reason": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Why this decision was made"
        },
        "new_controller_version": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Version ID of promoted controller (null if discarded)"
        },
        "rollback_target": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Version to rollback to if this promotion fails in deployment"
        }
      }
    },
    "scenario_coverage": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Which scenarios were evaluated",
      "properties": {
        "total_scenarios": { "type": "integer" },
        "passed": { "type": "integer" },
        "failed": { "type": "integer" },
        "holdout_passed": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Anti-gaming holdout scenarios passed"
        },
        "holdout_total": { "type": "integer" }
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "Agentic Control Kernel — State Schema",
  "description": "Typed plant/belief state for agentic control systems. Separates measured, estimated, and context fields.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["timestamp", "observation_id", "measured"],
  "properties": {
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp of observation"
    },
    "observation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unique identifier for this observation"
    },
    "plant_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Identifier of the plant being observed"
    },
    "measured": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Directly measured signals from the plant (sensors, metrics, CI results)",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": ["value"],
        "properties": {
          "value": {
            "description": "Measured value (number, string, boolean, or array)"
          },
          "unit": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Unit of measurement (e.g., 'ms', 'percent', 'count')"
          },
          "confidence": {
            "type": "number",
            "minimum": 0,
            "maximum": 1,
            "description": "Confidence in measurement (1.0 = ground truth)"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "estimated": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Inferred/estimated signals (model predictions, aggregated metrics)",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": ["value"],
        "properties": {
          "value": {
            "description": "Estimated value"
          },
          "uncertainty": {
            "type": "number",
            "minimum": 0,
            "description": "Uncertainty bound on estimate"
          },
          "estimator": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Name of estimator that produced this value"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Semantic/contextual fields (branch name, user intent, session info)",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "constraints": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Currently active constraints on this plant",
      "properties": {
        "hard": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "type": "string" },
          "description": "Constraints that must never be violated"
        },
        "soft": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "type": "string" },
          "description": "Constraints that should be satisfied but can be relaxed"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "Agentic Control Kernel — Trace Schema",
  "description": "Canonical trace entry for the append-only ledger. Compatible with Autoany EGRI ledger format.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["trace_id", "timestamp", "plant_id", "state_snapshot", "action_proposed", "action_applied", "outcome"],
  "properties": {
    "trace_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unique identifier for this trace entry"
    },
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp"
    },
    "plant_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Identifier of the plant"
    },
    "controller_version": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Version/hash of the active controller configuration"
    },
    "state_snapshot": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Belief state at decision time (or hash + artifact pointer for large states)",
      "properties": {
        "hash": { "type": "string" },
        "artifact_path": { "type": "string" },
        "inline": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": true }
      }
    },
    "directive": {
      "description": "The LLM's control directive θ_t (ref: action.schema.json)",
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "action_proposed": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Controller's proposed action before safety filtering",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "action_applied": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Actual action applied after safety shield filtering",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "shield": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Safety shield results",
      "properties": {
        "feasible": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Whether the shield found a feasible safe action"
        },
        "modification_magnitude": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "||u_safe - u_proposed|| — how much the shield modified the action"
        },
        "certificate": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Safety certificate proving constraint satisfaction",
          "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "fallback_used": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "default": false,
          "description": "Whether emergency fallback was activated"
        }
      }
    },
    "constraints_checked": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": ["constraint_id", "satisfied"],
        "properties": {
          "constraint_id": { "type": "string" },
          "satisfied": { "type": "boolean" },
          "value": { "description": "Measured value for the constraint" },
          "threshold": { "description": "Constraint threshold" }
        }
      }
    },
    "outcome": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["success"],
      "properties": {
        "success": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Whether the action succeeded"
        },
        "observation_after": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Plant observation after action",
          "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "error": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Error message if action failed"
        }
      }
    },
    "evaluator_metrics": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Micro-metrics scored by evaluator for this tick",
      "properties": {
        "cost": { "type": "number" },
        "constraint_violations": { "type": "integer" },
        "latency_ms": { "type": "number" },
        "robustness_indicator": { "type": "number" }
      },
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "egri": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "EGRI loop context (if this trace is part of an improvement trial)",
      "properties": {
        "trial_id": { "type": "string" },
        "parent_state": { "type": "string" },
        "mutation_operator": { "type": "string" },
        "decision": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": ["promoted", "discarded", "branched", "escalated", "pending"]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "_doc": "bstack L3 stability — Claude Code PreToolUse hook entry (Gate G0). Merged into .claude/settings.json by bstack/scripts/install-l3-stability.sh. Fires on Edit/Write tool calls against L3-class paths and surfaces a warning to the agent reflecting that the edit is consuming stability budget.",
  "hooks": {
    "PreToolUse": [
      {
        "matcher": "Edit|Write|MultiEdit",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "$BSTACK_REPO/scripts/l3-stability-pretool-hook.sh",
            "_bstack_primitive": "L3-G0"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

{
  "_doc": "bstack RCS multi-layer audit — Claude Code PostToolUse (L0) + Stop (L1) hook entries. Merged into .claude/settings.json by bstack/scripts/install-rcs-stability.sh. Composes with the existing L3-G0 PreToolUse hook from v0.14.0 (see settings.json.l3-stability-hook.snippet).",
  "hooks": {
    "PostToolUse": [
      {
        "matcher": ".*",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "$BSTACK_REPO/scripts/l0-tool-audit-hook.sh",
            "_bstack_primitive": "L0-audit"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "Stop": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "$BSTACK_REPO/scripts/l1-reflex-audit-hook.sh",
            "_bstack_primitive": "L1-audit"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

{
  "_comment": "bstack-managed hooks — bootstrap merges these into your existing .claude/settings.json. Does NOT overwrite existing entries; only adds missing ones. ${BROOMVA_WORKSPACE} is replaced with the workspace root; ${BROOMVA_HOME} is replaced with $HOME (where npx skills add -g installs).",
  "hooks": {
    "SessionStart": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_HOME}/.claude/skills/bstack/scripts/bstack-autoupdate-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 10,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P7"
          },
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_WORKSPACE}/scripts/skill-freshness-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P7"
          },
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_HOME}/.agents/skills/role-x/scripts/role-x-coverage-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P17"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "UserPromptSubmit": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_HOME}/.agents/skills/role-x/scripts/role-x-intake-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P17"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "Stop": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_WORKSPACE}/scripts/conversation-bridge-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P1"
          },
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_WORKSPACE}/scripts/knowledge-catalog-refresh-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P6",
            "_purpose": "Regenerate dense LLM-loadable catalog (LLM-as-index architecture; routes /kg load)"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "Notification": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_WORKSPACE}/scripts/conversation-bridge-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P1"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "PreToolUse": [
      {
        "matcher": "Bash",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_WORKSPACE}/scripts/control-gate-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P2"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "matcher": "Write",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_WORKSPACE}/scripts/control-gate-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P2"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "matcher": "Edit",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "${BROOMVA_WORKSPACE}/scripts/control-gate-hook.sh",
            "timeout": 5,
            "_bstack_primitive": "P2"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# bstack-bench — skill-evolution benchmark dispatcher (BRO-1205, v0.10.0).
#
# Thin bash wrapper that delegates to scripts/bench/orchestrator.py.
# Mirrors bin/bstack-crystallize's shape (Phase 7).
#
# Subcommands:
#   run [--tasks SET] [--runner R] [--evaluator E] [--phase {1|2|both}]
#       [--provider P] [--model M] [--judge-model M] [--allow-same-judge-model RATIONALE]
#       [--budget-usd N] [--resume RUN_ID] [--no-dry-run]
#                                Two-phase bench against a task set.
#   compare [--run-id RUN_ID]    Build REPORT.md from existing phase results.
#   tasks list                   List registered task sets.
#   status [--run-id RUN_ID]     Summarize recent runs.
#   help | --help                This message.
#
# Env overrides:
#   BSTACK_BENCH_HOME            Override default ~/.config/bstack/bench/.
#   BSTACK_BENCH_TASKS_DIR       Override default scripts/bench/tasks/.
#
# Exit codes (from orchestrator.py):
#   0  success
#   2  invalid arguments
#   3  task set not found
#   4  budget exceeded mid-run (or prior spend already exceeds budget on resume)
#   5  resume / status run-id not found
#   6  all task runs failed (structurally broken — e.g. stub runner without SDK)
#   7  compare requires both phase 1 + phase 2 results
#   8  P20 violation: judge model equals agent model without --allow-same-judge-model
#   9  provider not configured (missing DATABRICKS_TOKEN, etc.)
#  10  provider SDK not installed (e.g. `pip install openai`)

set -euo pipefail

BSTACK_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
ORCHESTRATOR="$BSTACK_DIR/scripts/bench/orchestrator.py"

# Pick the best available Python interpreter (3.10+ required for PEP 604
# `|` unions in annotations). Checks PATH first, then falls back to common
# absolute install locations (Homebrew, /usr/local) so the dispatcher works
# in restricted-PATH environments (e.g. CI matrices, agent sandboxes).
pick_python() {
    local cand resolved ver
    # 1. PATH lookup
    for cand in python3.13 python3.12 python3.11 python3.10 python3; do
        if command -v "$cand" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            resolved="$(command -v "$cand")"
            ver="$("$resolved" -c 'import sys; print(sys.version_info[:2] >= (3,10))' 2>/dev/null || echo False)"
            if [ "$ver" = "True" ]; then
                echo "$resolved"
                return 0
            fi
        fi
    done
    # 2. Well-known install locations (Homebrew, /usr/local)
    local probe
    for probe in \
        /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.13 /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.12 \
        /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.11 /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.10 \
        /usr/local/bin/python3.13 /usr/local/bin/python3.12 \
        /usr/local/bin/python3.11 /usr/local/bin/python3.10; do
        if [ -x "$probe" ]; then
            ver="$("$probe" -c 'import sys; print(sys.version_info[:2] >= (3,10))' 2>/dev/null || echo False)"
            if [ "$ver" = "True" ]; then
                echo "$probe"
                return 0
            fi
        fi
    done
    return 1
}

usage() {
    cat <<'EOF'
bstack-bench — skill-evolution benchmark dispatcher

Usage:
  bstack bench run [--tasks SET] [--runner R] [--evaluator E]
                   [--provider P] [--model M] [--judge-model M]
                   [--allow-same-judge-model RATIONALE]
                   [--phase {1|2|both}] [--budget-usd N]
                   [--resume RUN_ID] [--no-dry-run]
  bstack bench compare [--run-id RUN_ID]
  bstack bench tasks list
  bstack bench status [--run-id RUN_ID]
  bstack bench --help

Defaults:
  --tasks bstack-smoke   --runner dry-run   --evaluator rubric-match
  --phase both           --dry-run

Live mode (v0.11.0+):
  bstack bench run --runner live --evaluator llm-judge \\
      --provider databricks \\
      --model databricks-claude-haiku-4-5 \\
      --judge-model databricks-claude-opus-4-5
  # Or, with Railway as credential broker:
  railway run --service stimulus-api -- bstack bench run --runner live ...

State:
  ~/.config/bstack/bench/runs/<run-id>/  (override via BSTACK_BENCH_HOME)

Spec:       specs/bench-skill-evolution.md
Providers:  references/provider-standards.md
Tickets:    BRO-1205 (MVP), BRO-1211 (live mode)
EOF
}

if [ $# -eq 0 ] || [ "${1:-}" = "-h" ] || [ "${1:-}" = "--help" ] || [ "${1:-}" = "help" ]; then
    usage
    exit 0
fi

PY="$(pick_python || true)"
if [ -z "$PY" ]; then
    echo "bstack-bench: requires Python >= 3.10 (none found in PATH)." >&2
    exit 2
fi

if [ ! -f "$ORCHESTRATOR" ]; then
    echo "bstack-bench: orchestrator missing at $ORCHESTRATOR" >&2
    exit 2
fi

exec "$PY" "$ORCHESTRATOR" "$@"

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# bstack-config — read/write ~/.bstack/config.yaml
#
# Usage:
#   bstack-config get <key>          — read a config value
#   bstack-config set <key> <value>  — write a config value
#   bstack-config list               — show all config
set -euo pipefail

STATE_DIR="${BSTACK_STATE_DIR:-$HOME/.bstack}"
CONFIG_FILE="$STATE_DIR/config.yaml"

case "${1:-}" in
  get)
    KEY="${2:?Usage: bstack-config get <key>}"
    grep -E "^${KEY}:" "$CONFIG_FILE" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d '[:space:]' || true
    ;;
  set)
    KEY="${2:?Usage: bstack-config set <key> <value>}"
    VALUE="${3:?Usage: bstack-config set <key> <value>}"
    mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR"
    if grep -qE "^${KEY}:" "$CONFIG_FILE" 2>/dev/null; then
      sed -i '' "s/^${KEY}:.*/${KEY}: ${VALUE}/" "$CONFIG_FILE"
    else
      echo "${KEY}: ${VALUE}" >> "$CONFIG_FILE"
    fi
    ;;
  list)
    cat "$CONFIG_FILE" 2>/dev/null || true
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: bstack-config {get|set|list} [key] [value]"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# bstack-cross-review — P20 cross-model adversarial review for GitHub PRs.
#
# Thin shim that dispatches to scripts/cross-review.py. Mirrors the
# bstack-wave shim pattern. Forwards argv unchanged.
#
# See BRO-1227 — fixes the Cato sub-agent cwd-mismatch failure mode by
# reading PR contents via `gh api …/contents/<path>?ref=<sha>` instead
# of the local working tree.
set -euo pipefail

SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
PY="$SCRIPT_DIR/scripts/cross-review.py"

if [ ! -f "$PY" ]; then
  echo "bstack-cross-review: scripts/cross-review.py not found at $PY" >&2
  exit 1
fi

exec python3 "$PY" "$@"

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