Two failed web-ui freestyle runs dead-ended on the write manifest. The
scaffold_frontend stage declared writes=[frontend/package.json,
frontend/vite.config.ts], so every other file the scaffold produced
(tsconfig, src/main.tsx, index.html, App.tsx) was BLOCKED as
PATH_OUTSIDE_MANIFEST with no agent-facing escape hatch — unlike WRITE_SCOPE,
which advertises task_update. Retry exhausted -> WorkflowFailed.
- ManifestContainmentRule: a write already inside the active task's
affected_paths is allowed even when the stage manifest is narrower. The
task scope is the agent-widenable, recorded authority (see WriteScopeRule);
the stage manifest is a planner hint that defers to it. Block message now
names the remedy (widen affected_paths via task_update).
- architect_freestyle prompt: a scaffold/generator stage must declare its
`writes` as a covering directory glob (frontend/**), not enumerate files,
and use ** not * — frontend/* does not cover frontend/src/main.tsx.
core:toolintent green (78 tests), detekt clean.
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This branch's uncommitted WIP, committed together (entangled at file level).
Distinct pieces of work:
Freestyle QA fixes (this session):
- FileEditTool: pre-validate replace anchor in validateRequest — reject a
missing/ambiguous target BEFORE the approval gate, mirroring read/write's
file-not-found / read-before-write pre-checks. Shared not-found/ambiguous
messages between validate and execute so they can't drift.
- PlanGrounder: add `scanned` flag; when no RepoMapComputedEvent was recorded,
repoMapPaths is "unknown" not "empty workspace" — skip scope grounding
(which proves a path ABSENT) so real paths (apps/server/**) aren't falsely
rejected. Build-manifest check still runs.
- FreestyleDriver: wire scanned=(repoMap!=null); on plan rejection emit a
session-terminal WorkflowFailedEvent so a rejected run reads FAILED, not the
COMPLETED-lie (last verdict was the planning-phase WorkflowCompleted).
- ServerModule: resolve project-memory workspace root from the session's bound
workspace (sessionWorkspaceRoot) instead of boot-static pm.repoRoot(), fixing
the workspace-binding divergence (correx vs empty scratch dir). Retire tracked
in Vikunja #266.
- LaunchRegistrationRaceTest: join registered jobs before asserting launchCount
— computeIfAbsent returns the Job immediately but the fire-and-forget launch
body lagged awaitAll (the 49-vs-50 flake).
ACR concept-compiler experiment (pre-existing WIP on this branch):
- ExecutionPlanCompiler/Model/PlanLinter, #264 needs-seam (sessionArtifacts),
LSP diagnostics subsystem (LspDiagnosticEvents/Runner/Lsp4j), BootWorkspace,
config surface, workflow prompts/schemas, orchestrator advance-don't-rerun.
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Threads reasoning_content across inference calls and journal renders, filters
markdown noise out of L3 repo-knowledge retrieval, adds PlanLinter H3 checks,
and tightens filesystem tool output/dir-listing behavior surfaced by prior
live QA (see project_readloop_campaign memory).
Bundles three operator-reliability guardrails (Vikunja #28/#29/#30) plus the
in-flight branch WIP they were built on top of (reasoning_content capture,
operator/project profile editor, write-jail workspaceRoot fix) — the tree is
interdependent (SessionOrchestrator references reasoningArtifactId from the WIP)
and does not compile as separable subsets, so it lands as one commit.
Guardrails:
- #28 mid-stage steering: ClientMessage.SteerSession -> GlobalStreamHandler ->
orchestrator.submitSteering, reusing SteeringNoteAddedEvent + existing context
fold (advisory, non-authoritative; invariants #3/#7). Closes the gap where
steering typed off an approval gate was silently dropped.
- #29 shell-in-file guardrail: ShellInFileContentRule (core:toolintent) blocks a
file_write whose content is a bare shell command (e.g. "mkdir -p ..."); FileWriteTool
description now advertises auto-mkdir of parent dirs. Basename-allowlist so the
extensionless case is caught; scripts/Makefiles/multiline exempt.
- #30 pt1 capability-gap detector: deterministic CapabilityGapDetector maps stage
intent -> implied ToolCapability, compares to granted tools, emits advisory
CapabilityGapDetectedEvent in FreestyleDriver.lockAndRun. Recorded, never fails
the gate and never auto-grants (invariants #3/#4/#5). Reflection rung is pt2.
Verified: ./gradlew check green (whole tree).
Found while live-QAing freestyle_planning on a 12B local model:
- list_dir tool: recursive, .gitignore-aware listing so weak models stop
flooding context with `ls -R` over node_modules/build/dist. Wired into
the fileRead toggle + advertised to the planner (architect_freestyle).
- ContextClassifier: assistantToolCall turns are STRUCTURED, so the token
pruner never shreds the model's own tool-call history — that was causing
amnesia loops (re-issuing calls it had already made).
- Retire instruction-doc LLMLingua pruning (DOC_SOURCE_TYPES emptied): it
fused load-bearing procedural text into unparseable soup. The static
block stays small by dropping CLAUDE.md at the loader instead.
- AgentInstructionsLoader: load only AGENTS.md, not CLAUDE.md — the latter
targets the outer assistant and polluted the agent's stage context.
- DefaultSessionReducer: WorkflowFailed flips session status to FAILED (was
stuck ACTIVE forever, so clients/approval loops never saw a terminal).
- ShellTool: run shell command lines (cd/&&/pipes) via `sh -c`; unrunnable
program is recoverable instead of an uncaught IOException killing the
stage; malformed argv (non-string/collapsed-array) rejected with guidance.
- llmlingua sidecar: cap force_tokens to max_force_token (big docs blew the
assert and 500'd, so doc pruning silently failed open).
Tests added/updated across all of the above.
The freestyle analyst can now break a large goal with dependency seams or
independent review/handoff points into a parent epic + DEPENDS_ON-linked children
in a single T2 approval, instead of N separate task_create calls. Parent
DEPENDS_ON every child (completes last); each child IMPLEMENTS parent. Resolves
depends_on by ref or index; rejects cycles, unresolved refs, missing title/goal,
and empty batches; same batch dedup + force_reason convention as task_create.
A session works one active task, so multi-task work is multi-session by
construction: the analyst names the single ready task this run works, the architect
threads only that one, and siblings are claimed by later runs via task_ready
(claim-driven; no scheduler, /tasks/next stays rejected).
Doctrine: analyst_freestyle.md picks one-task-vs-decompose and names the ready
task; architect_freestyle.md threads only that one; plus the L0 policy line.
freestyle_planning.toml analyst gains task_decompose (pinned by
FreestylePlanningWorkflowTest).
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Two coupled gaps from tracing a real run:
1. Freestyle implements in phase 2 via stages compiled from the architect's
execution_plan (ExecutionPlanCompiler sets allowedTools = stage.tools), so the
static allow-lists never reach it and architect_freestyle.md banned every tool
but the file four. Teach the architect to thread an analysis-referenced task
through the plan: implementing stages get task_context/task_update and claim +
submit_for_review; the final/review stage completes it. No task referenced → no
task tools, and the plan never creates one.
2. Give the analyst task_create so the work is framed as a tracked item up front
(role_pipeline + freestyle). "Read-only" for the analyst means it writes no
files; a task is an event-log entry, not a file write — task_create is T2, so
opening one is approval-gated. The analyst names the new id in the analysis so
the implementer claims it and the reviewer completes it; the implementer now
creates only as a fallback.
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Live repro: architect emitted a verify stage with kind=analysis and a
verdict-equals edge. The kind schema doubles as the LLM response format,
so 'verdict' was never emitted and the workflow failed at its final hop
at runtime. The compiler now requires artifact_field_equals fields to be
declared by the producing stage's kind schema, failing the plan at lock
time with a pointer at review_report. Architect prompt rule added;
reachability check extracted alongside the new validation.
Live repro: the architect wired all three stages straight to 'done'
instead of chaining them, so phase 2 legitimately completed after
stage 1 of 3 — a silently truncated plan reported as success. The
compiler now walks the edge graph from start and fails compilation
when any declared stage is unreachable, surfacing the broken topology
as ExecutionPlanRejected at lock time instead. Architect prompt edge
rules rewritten to demand explicit chaining (the old wording was
garbled).
ExecutionPlanCompiler treated the plan's single 'produces' string as a
registry kind id, while the architect prompt described it as a unique
artifact id referenced by needs/edges — the model followed the prompt,
invented descriptive ids (files_created), and every freestyle plan
failed to compile. Collapsing both onto one string is also unsound:
two stages producing the same kind would collide on slot name and make
artifact_validated edge conditions ambiguous.
Plan stages now carry an optional 'kind' selecting the registered kind
(mirroring TOML's produces = { name, kind }); 'produces' stays the
unique slot name. Missing 'kind' falls back to the old produces-as-kind
reading so existing plans still compile. Vocabulary entry, architect
prompt, and execution_plan schemas updated to match.
Add docs/schemas/execution_plan.json (goal/stages/edges), the
architect_freestyle prompt that instructs emitting the execution pipeline as
JSON, and register the execution_plan llm-emitted kind in both
artifacts.config.toml and sample-config.toml. Validated via
ExecutionPlanSchemaValidationTest (minimal plan passes; missing stages rejected).
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