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11abb24ddd v0.20.4 feat: merge gbrain-jobs into minion-orchestrator — single unified minions skill (#381)
* feat: merge gbrain-jobs into minion-orchestrator — single unified minions skill

* fix(skill/minion-orchestrator): correct MCP boundary, real handler names, PGLite path

The initial merge commit a51c737 documented `submit_job name="shell"` as
agent-callable, but src/core/operations.ts:1106 rejects protected names
from MCP callers (shell is in src/core/minions/protected-names.ts:16) —
shell-job submission is CLI-only. Subagent examples referenced non-existent
handler names (`research`, `orchestrate`) instead of the real `subagent` /
`subagent_aggregator` handlers. PGLite section wrongly told users to
migrate to Supabase when `gbrain jobs submit ... --follow` inline mode
works per docs/guides/minions-shell-jobs.md:15. Contract section canonized
"every task through Minions" against the `pain_triggered` default in
skills/conventions/subagent-routing.md:16,27.

Rewrite addresses all four:
- Shell Jobs section is explicit about CLI-only submission; agents observe
  via get_job / list_jobs / get_job_progress (non-protected).
- Subagent examples route through `gbrain agent run` (user-facing CLI)
  with raw handler names documented as the power-user path.
- PGLite gets --follow inline execution, not migration friction.
- Contract softened to point at subagent-routing.md convention.

Also adds a Preconditions block for Shell Jobs (env gate, RCE warning,
execution-mode choice, verification command), narrows the frontmatter
"gbrain jobs" trigger to "gbrain jobs submit" + "submit a gbrain job"
(bare was too broad — CLI namespace covers 9 subcommands), inlines a
"replaces older gbrain-jobs routing intent" note in the description, and
removes non-existent `get_job_stats` from the tools list (CLI is
`gbrain jobs stats`; no MCP equivalent).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(resolver): narrow "gbrain jobs" trigger to specific intents

Replace bare "gbrain jobs" in the routing table with "gbrain jobs submit"
+ "submit a gbrain job". The bare phrase was too broad — the CLI namespace
covers 9 subcommands (submit, list, get, retry, delete, prune, stats,
smoke, work). Users asking about stats/prune/retry now fall through to
`gbrain --help` instead of getting misrouted to minion-orchestrator, which
only documents shell execution and subagent orchestration.

Matches the frontmatter trigger narrow in minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(resolver): add round-trip + skill-example-name validator

Two new assertion blocks in test/resolver.test.ts:

1. RESOLVER.md trigger round-trip: every quoted phrase in a routing-table
   row has a fuzzy match in the target skill's frontmatter `triggers:` list.
   Catches RESOLVER ↔ frontmatter drift that checkResolvable's reachability
   check doesn't. Fuzzy match is case-insensitive, trailing-punctuation-
   insensitive, and splits on "/" for compound phrases like
   "pause/resume agent" — accommodates RESOLVER.md's natural-language
   summary style without allowing real drift through.

2. Skill example-name validator: every `name="<word>"` reference in any
   SKILL.md body must resolve to either a declared operation in
   src/core/operations.ts or a known Minions handler in
   PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES. Would have caught the `name="research"` /
   `name="orchestrate"` drift that slipped through the first review
   — nothing in CI caught those handler names referencing non-existent
   handlers until a Codex cold-read found them. This test closes that
   class of regression gap.

51 / 51 tests pass locally. Full E2E suite (bun run test:e2e) still
passes 197 / 197 across 19 files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(e2e): PGLite shell-job --follow inline path

Closes the T4 coverage gap surfaced during PR #381 eng review. The sibling
test/e2e/minions-shell.test.ts covers Postgres + persistent-daemon; this
file covers the PGLite + --follow path the minion-orchestrator skill now
documents.

Two assertions:

1. submit → registerBuiltinHandlers → worker.start → shell runs → completes
   with exit_code 0 and stdout_tail "hello\n". Exercises the exact dispatch
   path src/commands/jobs.ts:207 takes when --follow is set, including the
   GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1 gate.

2. With GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS unset, registerBuiltinHandlers leaves the
   shell handler unregistered. Confirms the env gate from
   src/commands/jobs.ts:611 works.

Runs in-memory against PGLiteEngine — no DATABASE_URL, no Docker, runs in
CI unconditionally. Completes in ~1.2s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: pre-landing review fixes

Pre-landing review caught 4 doc bugs + 2 test fragilities + 2 pre-existing
drift cases. All auto-fix category (clear correct answer, single obvious fix).

minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md:
- Shell submit examples used nonexistent `--cmd`/`--argv`/`--cwd` flags. Real
  CLI takes `--params '{"cmd":"...","cwd":"..."}'` (src/commands/jobs.ts:55-85).
  Examples now match `gbrain jobs submit --help` output.
- `--tools "search,web_search"` referenced `web_search` which isn't in
  BRAIN_TOOL_ALLOWLIST (src/core/minions/tools/brain-allowlist.ts:47-59).
  Swapped to `search,query`. Added a full allowlist enumeration so
  readers don't have to grep.
- `gbrain agent run` flags section listed `--queue`, `--priority`,
  `--max-attempts`, `--delay` — none of these exist on that command
  (src/commands/agent.ts:105-129). Replaced with the real flag set
  (`--subagent-def`, `--model`, `--max-turns`, `--tools`, `--timeout-ms`,
  `--fanout-manifest`, `--follow`, `--no-follow`, `--detach`) and a note
  about using `gbrain jobs submit` for queue tuning.
- MCP boundary claim "returns permission_denied" was imprecise. Reworded:
  throws an OperationError with code permission_denied.

test/resolver.test.ts:
- D5/C row regex required the backtick-quoted skill path to be followed
  immediately by `|`, silently skipping rows with trailing parentheticals
  (e.g., `` `skills/maintain/SKILL.md` (extraction sections) |``). Broadened
  to `[^|]*\|` so every row gets audited.

test/e2e/minions-shell-pglite.test.ts:
- Shared engine across both tests with no per-test reset. Future test
  additions would hit order-dependency. Added beforeEach TRUNCATE on
  minion_jobs / minion_inbox / minion_attachments, matching the Postgres
  sibling at test/e2e/minions-shell.test.ts:55-58.

skills/query/SKILL.md:
- Added 4 triggers RESOLVER.md routes to this skill but the frontmatter
  never declared: "who knows who", "relationship between", "connections",
  "graph query". Pre-existing drift — the broadened D5/C regex surfaced it.

skills/maintain/SKILL.md:
- Added 6 triggers with the same pre-existing drift: "extract links",
  "build link graph", "populate timeline", "populate links", "backfill graph",
  "extract timeline entries".

57/57 tests pass on the fixed tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: second-pass review fixes — stale CLI flag + handler name

Two more stale references caught by specialist re-dispatch on the fixed tree:

skills/minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md:72 — Routing table row described shell
  jobs as taking `--cmd` or `--argv` as CLI flags. Same class of bug as M1
  from the prior fix commit but in a different location. Now says `--params`
  with `cmd` or `argv`, matching the corrected submit examples (lines 112-120).

skills/conventions/subagent-routing.md:82 — "Check `get_job_stats`
  queue_health.active" referenced an MCP operation that doesn't exist in
  src/core/operations.ts. The new minion-orchestrator skill cross-references
  this convention file, so agents following the routing pointer would hit a
  non-existent op. Replaced with the real ops: `list_jobs --status active`
  (MCP) or `gbrain jobs stats` (CLI).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: adversarial pass cleanups — manifest.json + anti-pattern scope

Claude adversarial subagent caught two last consistency gaps:

skills/manifest.json:135 — Skill description still read "Manage background
  agents via Minions job queue" (subagent-only framing), out of sync with
  the reframed SKILL.md frontmatter. Manifest is what the skill registry
  indexes; leaving this stale meant shell-job-intent routers would miss it.
  Updated to match the unified wording.

skills/minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md:288 — Anti-pattern line "Don't use
  sessions_spawn with runtime: subagent when Minions is available" was
  subagent-lane-specific inside the now-consolidated skill, reading like
  the one rule in the skill but only addressing one lane. Scoped to
  "For subagent work" and pointed at `gbrain agent run` so the rule
  doesn't confuse shell-job readers.

Two investigate-class items deferred to follow-up:
- D13 regex could false-positive on future skills with unrelated `name="..."`
  usage. Today clean; scope to backtick-fenced snippets if it bites.
- PGLite E2E env-var race if bun:test ever goes file-parallel. Today isolated
  per file; add helper + comment when needed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.19.2)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: update README + CLAUDE.md for v0.19.2 Minions consolidation

- Skill count 28 -> 29 across README and CLAUDE.md (adds smoke-test from
  v0.19.1 to the Skills section, closes a prior drift).
- README minion-orchestrator row rewritten to name both lanes (shell jobs
  via `gbrain jobs submit shell`, LLM subagents via `gbrain agent run`)
  so the surface matches the consolidated skill file.
- README Operational table gains a smoke-test row.
- CLAUDE.md key-files entry for minion-orchestrator now describes the
  v0.19.2 consolidation, trust boundary (MCP permission_denied on
  protected names), and the narrowed trigger set.
- CLAUDE.md Skills section notes the consolidation and the new v0.19.1
  smoke-test skill.
- CLAUDE.md test inventory picks up `test/e2e/minions-shell-pglite.test.ts`
  and the v0.19.2 round-trip + name-validator additions in
  `test/resolver.test.ts`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): update PGLite test for new env-gate behavior + regenerate llms-full.txt

CI caught two issues:

1. `test/e2e/minions-shell-pglite.test.ts` — the "GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS
   unset → shell handler not registered" test was written against pre-v0.20.3
   `registerBuiltinHandlers` behavior (env gate at registration time). Master's
   queue-resilience merge moved the gate from registration to execution:
   shell handler is now always registered so claimed jobs emit a clear rejection
   log, and `shellHandler` itself throws UnrecoverableError when
   GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS != '1' (see src/core/minions/handlers/shell.ts:210).
   Updated the test to invoke shellHandler directly with a minimal ctx and
   assert the throw. Preserves the test's intent (prove the guard works) under
   the new control flow.

2. `llms-full.txt` drift — README.md + CLAUDE.md updates in v0.19.2 and v0.20.4
   updated the skill count to 29 and rewrote the minion-orchestrator
   description, but the committed `llms-full.txt` bundle still reflected the
   pre-consolidation content. Regenerated via `bun run build:llms`.

The third CI failure (`planInstall + applyInstall D-CX-11`) passes cleanly
locally (26/26 in test/skillpack-install.test.ts). The 1ms runtime in CI
suggests a filesystem-mtime flake, not a real regression from this branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(skillpack): treat future-mtime lock as stale (CI race fix)

D-CX-11 ("--force-unlock overrides a stale lock") flaked in CI with a 1ms
runtime. Root cause: on fast CI filesystems (ext4 with high-resolution
mtimes on GitHub runners), `writeFileSync` can set a lock's mtime a few
microseconds ahead of the subsequent `Date.now()`, making `age` negative.

Old logic:
  const stale = age >= staleMs;

With `staleMs: 0` and `age = -0.3ms`: `-0.3 >= 0` is false → NOT stale →
the `!stale` branch throws `lock_held` before reaching the force-unlock
path. Test failed at the first ms, never exercised the actual unlock logic.

Fix (src/core/skillpack/installer.ts:189):
  const stale = age < 0 || age >= staleMs;

Treats negative age (future mtime) as stale. Safe: if the lock's mtime is
in the future, either the filesystem clock just jumped forward or the
lock was written by a racing process; either way it's not a live,
healthy lock and the stale path is the correct branch.

Passes locally (26/26 in test/skillpack-install.test.ts).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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GBrain Skill Resolver

This is the dispatcher. Skills are the implementation. Read the skill file before acting. If two skills could match, read both. They are designed to chain (e.g., ingest then enrich for each entity).

Always-on (every message)

Trigger Skill
Every inbound message (spawn parallel, don't block) skills/signal-detector/SKILL.md
Any brain read/write/lookup/citation skills/brain-ops/SKILL.md

Brain operations

Trigger Skill
"What do we know about", "tell me about", "search for" skills/query/SKILL.md
"Who knows who", "relationship between", "connections", "graph query" skills/query/SKILL.md (use graph-query)
Creating/enriching a person or company page skills/enrich/SKILL.md
Where does a new file go? Filing rules skills/repo-architecture/SKILL.md
Fix broken citations in brain pages skills/citation-fixer/SKILL.md
"Research", "track", "extract from email", "investor updates", "donations" skills/data-research/SKILL.md
Share a brain page as a link skills/publish/SKILL.md

Content & media ingestion

Trigger Skill
User shares a link, article, tweet, or idea skills/idea-ingest/SKILL.md
Video, audio, PDF, book, YouTube, screenshot skills/media-ingest/SKILL.md
Meeting transcript received skills/meeting-ingestion/SKILL.md
Generic "ingest this" (auto-routes to above) skills/ingest/SKILL.md

Thinking skills (from GStack)

Trigger Skill
"Brainstorm", "I have an idea", "office hours" GStack: office-hours
"Review this plan", "CEO review", "poke holes" GStack: ceo-review
"Debug", "fix", "broken", "investigate" GStack: investigate
"Retro", "what shipped", "retrospective" GStack: retro

These skills come from GStack. If GStack is installed, the agent reads them directly. If not, brain-only mode still works (brain skills function without thinking skills).

Operational

Trigger Skill
Task add/remove/complete/defer/review skills/daily-task-manager/SKILL.md
Morning prep, meeting context, day planning skills/daily-task-prep/SKILL.md
Daily briefing, "what's happening today" skills/briefing/SKILL.md
Cron scheduling, quiet hours, job staggering skills/cron-scheduler/SKILL.md
Save or load reports skills/reports/SKILL.md
"Create a skill", "improve this skill" skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md
"Skillify this", "is this a skill?", "make this proper" skills/skillify/SKILL.md
"Is gbrain healthy?", morning health check, skillpack-check skills/skillpack-check/SKILL.md
Post-restart health + auto-fix, "did the container restart break anything", smoke test skills/smoke-test/SKILL.md
Cross-modal review, second opinion skills/cross-modal-review/SKILL.md
"Validate skills", skill health check skills/testing/SKILL.md
Webhook setup, external event processing skills/webhook-transforms/SKILL.md
"Spawn agent", "background task", "parallel tasks", "steer agent", "pause/resume agent", "gbrain jobs submit", "submit a gbrain job", "submit a shell job", "shell job" skills/minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md

Setup & migration

Trigger Skill
"Set up GBrain", first boot skills/setup/SKILL.md
"Migrate from Obsidian/Notion/Logseq" skills/migrate/SKILL.md
Brain health check, maintenance run skills/maintain/SKILL.md
"Extract links", "build link graph", "populate timeline" skills/maintain/SKILL.md (extraction sections)
"Brain health", "what features am I missing", "brain score" Run gbrain features --json
"Set up autopilot", "run brain maintenance", "keep brain updated" Run gbrain autopilot --install --repo ~/brain
Agent identity, "who am I", customize agent skills/soul-audit/SKILL.md
"Populate links", "extract links", "backfill graph" skills/maintain/SKILL.md (graph population phase)
"Populate timeline", "extract timeline entries" skills/maintain/SKILL.md (graph population phase)

Identity & access (always-on)

Trigger Skill
Non-owner sends a message Check ACCESS_POLICY.md before responding
Agent needs to know its identity/vibe Read SOUL.md
Agent needs user context Read USER.md
Operational cadence (what to check and when) Read HEARTBEAT.md

Disambiguation rules

When multiple skills could match:

  1. Prefer the most specific skill (meeting-ingestion over ingest)
  2. If the user mentions a URL, route by content type (link → idea-ingest, video → media-ingest)
  3. If the user mentions a person/company, check if enrich or query fits better
  4. Chaining is explicit in each skill's Phases section
  5. When in doubt, ask the user

Conventions (cross-cutting)

These apply to ALL brain-writing skills:

  • skills/conventions/quality.md — citations, back-links, notability gate
  • skills/conventions/brain-first.md — check brain before external APIs
  • skills/conventions/subagent-routing.md — when to use Minions vs inline work
  • skills/_brain-filing-rules.md — where files go
  • skills/_output-rules.md — output quality standards