openspec/work/simplify-context-and-workspace-model/capstone/gauntlet.md
Run 2026-06-11 over origin/main...HEAD with four mechanisms:
/code-review at max effort (3 finder fan-outs + a 12-candidate
verification pass + gap sweep), a 32-agent adversarial Workflow
(six lenses × refute-style verification + completeness critic), a
codex whole-delta review, and the audits' queued items. Every finding
below was CONFIRMED (most live-reproduced). Status column tracks the
fix round.
| # | Finding | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | The recommended ~/openspec/<id> layout makes $HOME a "nearest" root: any openspec/ DIRECTORY counts in the walk, so every lifecycle command under the home tree silently lands planning files in $HOME/openspec/changes/ and the registered-store hint never fires. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G2 | status/instructions --json thrown errors emit NO JSON document (plus a stray blank line on stdout); part of the broader JSON-failure-contract family. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| # | Finding | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G3 | The JSON failure contract family: show/validate unknown item, list (no failurePayload AND the changes-dir throw), store <unknown subcommand>, all exit 1 with zero JSON on stdout; agent-contract.md currently claims this fixed. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G4 | doctor/context miss the shared --store-path rejection seam (Commander unknown-option instead of the typed store_path_not_supported). | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G5 | doctor's unguarded gitOriginUrl(root.path) walks UP: a non-repo store nested in another checkout reports the enclosing repo's origin + spurious store_remote_divergence (live-reproduced; violates operations.ts's own documented guard). | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G6 | Stale registry lock = permanent store_registry_busy with a fix that can never work; Ctrl-C during store remove (which holds the lock across a recursive rm) orphans it; doctor is blind to it; EACCES also misreported as busy. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G7 | Config-only roots: new change creates the change but never completes the shape (the scaffold guard fires only when openspec/ is wholly absent) — doctor immediately calls the root the tool just wrote to unhealthy. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G8 | Prompt-injection surface: target remote strings, referenced-store spec ids (raw directory names), and Purpose summaries render verbatim into <referenced_stores>/instruction output — newlines/control chars from a hostile clone can forge instruction lines. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G9 | Five more accepted specs REQUIRE deleted behavior (artifact-graph, schema-resolution, change-creation P2; cli-update, openspec-conventions P3) — the L2 excision covered only cli-config/cli-artifact-workflow. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G10 | Generated workflow skills still instruct agents to parse planningHome from status JSON surfaces that changed (archive-change template). | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G11 | The generated zsh completion script is syntactically invalid — the --store description's apostrophe ("you've") breaks zsh quoting (completeness critic, live). | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G12 | store remove deletes the store folder BEFORE the registry write commits — a failed commit leaves a phantom registration pointing at deleted files. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G13 | Setup's prepare/execute split: directory policy (non-empty, nested-git) is asserted only at prepare; the interactive confirm gap is unbounded, and the rollback's kind === 'missing' branch recursively deletes content setup never created (live-reproduced both sides). | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G14 | Orphaned fresh .git after a failed initial commit (cleanup nested under createdPaths.length > 0); a rerun then registers a commitless store — the exact empty-clone state the slice exists to prevent. | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
| G15 | Registry rollback race: commitStoreRegistration's catch deletes store metadata outside the lock and can delete metadata a concurrently committed registration depends on (live-reproduced; P3→P2 borderline, queued with G12/G13). | fixed (37ad867; live re-verified) |
Queued for the fix round (cheap, mechanical): fence-marker desync in
purpose extraction; stat-EACCES-as-absent in pathIsFile (registered
stores reported unregistered with clone fixes); existsSync vs
isDirectory in the stale-target sweep (a FILE at a mapped path
presents available and lands in the code-workspace); the scaffolded
config baking a one-off --schema as the root default; list --json
compact-vs-pretty inconsistency; the declared-pointer repo-id fix text;
the root-relative "Created change at" print (absolute path instead);
write-side cross-section overlap check; docs fixes (affected_areas
wording, --remote in the setup options table, vibe in --tools,
the stale list output example); the dead-code P3 queue from the
technical audits (apply fallback + resolveCurrentPlanningHomeSync,
resolveRegisteredStore, references barrel line, PlanningHomeSummary,
parseJson consolidation).
Recorded as known gaps for the report (not fixed this round, mapped to
Later Ideas / release notes): registry fsync durability; the reference
index byte budget growing linearly past 50KB at extreme reference
counts; Windows clone-recipe quoting (single quotes vs cmd.exe);
view/templates/schemas/deprecated noun forms remaining cwd-based
(documented in the agent contract); completions enumerating ids from
bare cwd; the cross-platform CI matrix not run on this branch;
semver/changeset planning for the deleted CLI surface; README not yet
describing the store model (L1 — public concept docs rewrite).
All 15 P1/P2 findings were fixed in commit 37ad867 and re-verified by live probes (the JSON contract codes, the --store-path seam, the stale-lock steal, the config-only scaffold completion, the phantom-root regression test) plus the full suite (97 files, 1,761 tests). The queued-cheap P3 set landed in the same commit; the recorded-for-report items appear in the release-readiness report's known gaps.