gbrain/CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md

GBrain is a personal knowledge brain and GStack mod for agent platforms. Pluggable engines: PGLite (embedded Postgres via WASM, zero-config default) or Postgres + pgvector

• hybrid search in a managed Supabase instance. gbrain init defaults to PGLite; suggests Supabase for 1000+ files. GStack teaches agents how to code. GBrain teaches agents everything else: brain ops, signal detection, content ingestion, enrichment, cron scheduling, reports, identity, and access control.

Two organizational axes (read this first)

GBrain knowledge is organized along two orthogonal axes. Users AND agents must understand both, or queries misroute silently.

• Brain — WHICH DATABASE. Your personal brain is host. You can mount additional brains (team-published, each with their own DB and access policy) via gbrain mounts add (v0.19+). Routing: --brain, GBRAIN_BRAIN_ID, .gbrain-mount dotfile.
• Source — WHICH REPO INSIDE THE DATABASE. A brain can hold many sources (wiki, gstack, openclaw, essays). Slugs scope per source. Routing: --source, GBRAIN_SOURCE, .gbrain-source dotfile.

Both axes follow the same 6-tier resolution pattern. Read docs/architecture/brains-and-sources.md for topology diagrams (personal, team mount, CEO-class with multiple team brains) and skills/conventions/brain-routing.md for the agent-facing decision table.

Architecture

Contract-first: src/core/operations.ts defines ~47 shared operations (v0.29 adds get_recent_salience, find_anomalies, get_recent_transcripts). CLI and MCP server are both generated from this single source. Engine factory (src/core/engine-factory.ts) dynamically imports the configured engine ('pglite' or 'postgres'). Skills are fat markdown files (tool-agnostic, work with both CLI and plugin contexts).

Trust boundary: OperationContext.remote distinguishes trusted local CLI callers (remote: false set by src/cli.ts) from untrusted agent-facing callers (remote: true set by src/mcp/server.ts). Security-sensitive operations like file_upload tighten filesystem confinement when remote=true and default to strict behavior when unset.

Key files

• src/core/operations.ts — Contract-first operation definitions (the foundation). Also exports upload validators: validateUploadPath, validatePageSlug, validateFilename, plus matchesSlugAllowList(slug, prefixes) (v0.23 glob matcher: <prefix>/* matches recursive children; bare <prefix> matches exact only). OperationContext.remote flags untrusted callers; OperationContext.allowedSlugPrefixes (v0.23) is the trusted-workspace allow-list set by the dream cycle. put_page enforces: when viaSubagent and allowedSlugPrefixes is set, slug must match the allow-list; else the legacy wiki/agents/<id>/... namespace check applies. Auto-link enabled for trusted-workspace writes (skipped only when remote=true && !trustedWorkspace). As of v0.26.0, every Operation also carries scope?: 'read' | 'write' | 'admin' + localOnly?: boolean. All ops are annotated; sync_brain, file_upload, file_list, and file_url are admin + localOnly (rejected over HTTP). OperationContext.auth?: AuthInfo is threaded through HTTP dispatch for scope enforcement in serve-http.ts before the op runs. v0.26.9 (D12 + F7b): OperationContext.remote is now a REQUIRED field in the TypeScript type — the compiler is the first defense against transports that forget to set it. Four trust-boundary call sites (put_page allowlist, file_upload trust-narrowing, submit_job protected-name guard, auto-link skip) flipped from falsy-default (!ctx.remote) to fail-closed semantics (ctx.remote === false for "trusted-only" sites and ctx.remote !== false for "untrust unless explicit-false"). Anything that isn't strictly false is now treated as remote. Closed an HTTP MCP shell-job RCE: a read+write-scoped OAuth token could submit shell jobs because the HTTP request handler's literal context skipped remote: true and submit_job's protected-name guard saw a falsy undefined. Stdio MCP set the field correctly via dispatch.ts; HTTP inlined a parallel context-builder for several releases and lost it. v0.34.1.0 (#861 + #876): new helper sourceScopeOpts(ctx) encodes the precedence ladder for source-scoped reads — federated array (ctx.auth.allowedSources) wins over scalar (ctx.sourceId / ctx.auth.sourceId) over nothing. Every read-side op handler routes through it so future ops can't silently drift from the canonical v0.31.8 thread. Closes the source-isolation leak on the read path: a read+write-scoped OAuth client bound to --source dept-x no longer sees rows from neighboring sources via search / query / list_pages / get_page / find_experts / query's image path.
• src/core/engine.ts — Pluggable engine interface (BrainEngine). clampSearchLimit(limit, default, cap) takes an explicit cap so per-operation caps can be tighter than MAX_SEARCH_LIMIT. Exports LinkBatchInput / TimelineBatchInput for the v0.12.1 bulk-insert API (addLinksBatch / addTimelineEntriesBatch). As of v0.13.1, BrainEngine has a readonly kind: 'postgres' | 'pglite' discriminator so migrations (src/core/migrate.ts) and other consumers can branch on engine without instanceof + dynamic imports. v0.29: four new methods — batchLoadEmotionalInputs(slugs?) (CTE-shaped read with per-table aggregates so a page × N tags × M takes never produces N×M rows), setEmotionalWeightBatch(rows) (UPDATE FROM unnest($1::text[], $2::text[], $3::real[]) composite-keyed on (slug, source_id) for multi-source safety), getRecentSalience(opts), findAnomalies(opts). PageFilters extended with sort?: 'updated_desc' | 'updated_asc' | 'created_desc' | 'slug' + PAGE_SORT_SQL whitelist consumed by both engines (was hardcoded ORDER BY updated_at DESC). v0.32.8 (PR #860): new listAllPageRefs(): Promise<Array<{slug, source_id}>> ordered by (source_id, slug). Cheap cross-source enumeration for hot loops on large brains — replaces the getAllSlugs()→getPage(slug) N+1 pattern in extract-takes, extract, integrity, which silently defaulted to source_id='default' for non-default-source pages. Implementation parity across postgres-engine.ts + pglite-engine.ts. Pinned by test/e2e/multi-source-bug-class.test.ts. v0.34.1.0 (#861): SearchOpts + PageFilters add sourceIds?: string[] for the federated read axis; both engines apply WHERE source_id = ANY($N::text[]) when the array is set and preserve the scalar sourceId fast path when unset. traverseGraph(slug, depth, opts?) and traversePaths(slug, opts?) accept opts.sourceId / opts.sourceIds so graph walks respect the caller's scope.
• src/core/engine-factory.ts — Engine factory with dynamic imports ('pglite' | 'postgres')
• src/core/pglite-engine.ts — PGLite (embedded Postgres 17.5 via WASM) implementation, all 40 BrainEngine methods. addLinksBatch / addTimelineEntriesBatch use multi-row unnest() with manual $N placeholders. As of v0.13.1, connect() wraps PGlite.create() in a try/catch that emits an actionable error naming the macOS 26.3 WASM bug (#223) and pointing at gbrain doctor; the lock is released on failure so the next process can retry cleanly. v0.22.0: searchKeyword and searchKeywordChunks multiply ts_rank by the source-factor CASE expression at the chunk-grain level; searchVector becomes a two-stage CTE — inner CTE keeps ORDER BY cc.embedding <=> vec so HNSW stays usable, outer SELECT re-ranks by raw_score * source_factor. Inner LIMIT scales with offset to preserve pagination contract. As of v0.22.6.1, initSchema() calls applyForwardReferenceBootstrap() BEFORE replaying SCHEMA_SQL — probes for the specific forward-referenced state the embedded schema blob needs (pages.source_id, links.link_source, links.origin_page_id, content_chunks.symbol_name, content_chunks.language, sources FK target table) and adds only what's missing. Closes the upgrade-wedge bug class that bit users 10+ times across 6 schema versions over 2 years (#239/#243/#266/#357/#366/#374/#375/#378/#395/#396). No-op on fresh installs and modern brains.
• src/core/pglite-schema.ts — PGLite-specific DDL (pgvector, pg_trgm, triggers)
• src/core/postgres-engine.ts — Postgres + pgvector implementation (Supabase / self-hosted). addLinksBatch / addTimelineEntriesBatch use INSERT ... SELECT FROM unnest($1::text[], ...) JOIN pages ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING RETURNING 1 — 4-5 array params regardless of batch size, sidesteps the 65535-parameter cap. As of v0.12.3, searchKeyword / searchVector scope statement_timeout via sql.begin + SET LOCAL so the GUC dies with the transaction instead of leaking across the pooled postgres.js connection (contributed by @garagon). getEmbeddingsByChunkIds uses tryParseEmbedding so one corrupt row skips+warns instead of killing the query. v0.22.0: searchKeyword, searchKeywordChunks, and searchVector apply source-aware ranking by inlining the source-factor CASE and NOT (col LIKE …) hard-exclude clause from src/core/search/sql-ranking.ts. searchVector switches to a two-stage CTE (HNSW-safe inner ORDER BY, source-boost re-rank in the outer SELECT) and carries p.source_id through inner→outer for v0.18 multi-source callers. v0.22.1 (#406): _savedConfig retains the connect config; reconnect() tears down + recreates the pool from saved config (called by supervisor watchdog after 3 consecutive health-check failures). executeRaw is a single-statement passthrough — no per-call retry (D3 dropped that as unsound for non-idempotent statements; recovery is supervisor-driven). v0.22.1 (#363, contributed by @orendi84): connect() applies resolveSessionTimeouts() from db.ts as connection-time startup parameters (statement_timeout, idle_in_transaction_session_timeout) so orphan pgbouncer backends can't hold locks for hours. v0.22.1 (#409, contributed by @atrevino47): countStaleChunks() + listStaleChunks() server-side-filter on embedding IS NULL for embed --stale, eliminating ~76 MB/call client-side pull on a fully-embedded brain; upsertChunks() resets both embedding AND embedded_at to NULL when chunk_text changes without a new embedding (consistency). As of v0.22.6.1, initSchema() calls applyForwardReferenceBootstrap() BEFORE replaying SCHEMA_SQL on the same forward-reference probe set as the PGLite engine, so old Postgres brains pinned at v0.13/v0.18/v0.19 walk forward cleanly instead of wedging on column "..." does not exist. v0.28.1: disconnect() is now idempotent. New _connectionStyle instance field tracks whether the engine owns its pool (worker engines) or shares the module-level singleton; second call on an instance-pool engine is a no-op rather than falling through to db.disconnect() and clobbering the singleton. Pinned by test/e2e/postgres-engine-disconnect-idempotency.test.ts (2 cases). Closes the bug class where any test sharing an engine across multiple worker.start() / worker.stop() cycles silently broke its own DB connectivity.
• src/core/cjk.ts (v0.32.7 CJK wave) — Single source of truth for CJK detection across the codebase. Exports CJK_RANGES_REGEX, CJK_SLUG_CHARS (character-class fragment for embedding inside other regexes), CJK_SENTENCE_DELIMITERS (。！？), CJK_CLAUSE_DELIMITERS (；：，、), CJK_DENSITY_THRESHOLD = 0.30, hasCJK(s), countCJKAwareWords(s) (30% density threshold — English docs with one Japanese term stay whitespace-tokenized; Chinese-dominant docs get char-counted), and escapeLikePattern(s) (escapes %, _, \\ for ILIKE ... ESCAPE '\\'). Replaces the inline hasCJK regex previously duplicated at expansion.ts:58. BMP-only ranges (Han / Hiragana / Katakana / Hangul Syllables); widening to Unicode property escapes is a v0.33+ TODO. Consumers: expansion.ts, sync.ts:slugifySegment, operations.ts:validatePageSlug + validateFilename, chunkers/recursive.ts:countWords + DELIMITERS, pglite-engine.ts:searchKeyword + searchKeywordChunks.
• src/core/audit-slug-fallback.ts (v0.32.7 CJK wave) — Weekly ISO-week-rotated audit JSONL at ~/.gbrain/audit/slug-fallback-YYYY-Www.jsonl. logSlugFallback(slug, sourcePath) fires when importFromFile falls back to a frontmatter slug because slugifyPath returned empty (emoji / Thai / Arabic / non-CJK exotic-script filenames). readRecentSlugFallbacks(days) reads the last N days for gbrain doctor's slug_fallback_audit check. Honors GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR via the shared resolveAuditDir() from shell-audit.ts. Separate surface from sync-failures.jsonl per codex outside-voice review — that file carries bookmark-gating semantics that info events shouldn't trigger.
• src/core/embedding-pricing.ts (v0.32.7 CJK wave) — EMBEDDING_PRICING map keyed provider:model for the post-upgrade reindex cost estimate. Sibling to anthropic-pricing.ts. Entries: OpenAI text-embedding-3-large ($0.13/1M), 3-small ($0.02/1M), ada-002 ($0.10/1M), Voyage 3-large ($0.18/1M), 3 ($0.06/1M). lookupEmbeddingPrice(modelString) returns a tagged union (known with price + unknown with provider name); estimateCostFromChars(charCount, pricePerMTok) uses 3.5 chars/token approximation. Unknown providers degrade gracefully to "estimate unavailable" instead of fabricating numbers.
• src/core/post-upgrade-reembed.ts (v0.32.7 CJK wave) — Pure functions backing the gbrain upgrade chunker-bump cost prompt. computeReembedEstimate(engine, model) queries real SQL (COUNT(*) + COALESCE(SUM(LENGTH(compiled_truth)) + SUM(LENGTH(timeline)), 0)) on pages WHERE chunker_version < MARKDOWN_CHUNKER_VERSION. formatReembedPrompt(est, graceSeconds) is the stderr-line formatter. runPostUpgradeReembedPrompt(engine, model, opts) orchestrates the 10-second Ctrl-C window; TTY-only wait (non-TTY auto-proceeds for CI / cron); GBRAIN_NO_REEMBED=1 bails out with a doctor-warning marker; GBRAIN_REEMBED_GRACE_SECONDS=0 skips the wait.
• src/commands/reindex.ts (v0.32.7 CJK wave) — gbrain reindex --markdown [--limit N] [--dry-run] [--json] [--no-embed] [--repo PATH]. Walks pages WHERE page_kind = 'markdown' AND chunker_version < MARKDOWN_CHUNKER_VERSION in 100-row batches, ordered by id. Rows with non-null source_path re-import via importFromFile; rows without fall back to importFromContent against the stored compiled_truth. Both paths pass forceRechunk: true to bypass importFromContent's content_hash short-circuit — without that flag (codex post-merge F1), the chunker version bump never reaches pages whose source content hasn't changed since last sync, AND master's v0.32.2 stripFactsFence privacy strip never applies to pre-strip chunks. Idempotent — partial-completion re-runs pick up where they left off via id-ordered batches. Wired into src/commands/upgrade.ts:runPostUpgrade after apply-migrations.
• src/commands/sync.ts:resolveSlugByPathOrSourcePath (v0.32.7 CJK wave, codex post-merge F4) — Resolves a slug by pages.source_path first (returns the stored slug for frontmatter-fallback pages whose path doesn't derive a slug), then falls back to resolveSlugForPath(path). Threaded into all 4 delete/rename call sites (performSync's un-syncable cleanup at ~:531, deletes at ~:603, rename oldSlug at ~:622). Without this, emoji-only / Thai / Arabic filenames whose slug came from frontmatter would orphan on delete/rename (the delete path would compute the wrong path-derived slug). Best-effort query — pre-migration brains fall through to the legacy path.
• src/core/utils.ts — Shared SQL utilities extracted from postgres-engine.ts. Exports parseEmbedding(value) (throws on unknown input, used by migration + ingest paths where data integrity matters) and as of v0.12.3 tryParseEmbedding(value) (returns null + warns once per process, used by search/rescore paths where availability matters more than strictness). v0.26.9 (D14): adds isUndefinedColumnError(err) predicate — pattern-matches Postgres SQLSTATE 42703 / "column ... does not exist" with engine-driver shape variation tolerated. Replaces bare catch {} blocks in oauth-provider.ts so genuine errors (lock timeout, network blip, permission denied) propagate while column-missing falls through to the legacy fallback path. Reusable from any future code that needs the same column-existence probe semantics. v0.32.8 (PR #860): adds validateSourceId(id) that throws on anything outside ^[a-z0-9_-]+$. Used by the per-source disk-layout fix in patterns.ts/synthesize.ts before any join(brainDir, '.sources', source_id, slug+'.md') call so source_id can't traverse out of brainDir. rowToPage updated to populate the now-required Page.source_id field from the SELECT projection (scripts/check-source-id-projection.sh enforces that every projection feeding rowToPage includes the column).
• src/core/db.ts — Connection management, schema initialization. v0.22.1 (#363, contributed by @orendi84): resolveSessionTimeouts() returns statement_timeout + idle_in_transaction_session_timeout (defaults: 5min each, env-overridable via GBRAIN_STATEMENT_TIMEOUT / GBRAIN_IDLE_TX_TIMEOUT / GBRAIN_CLIENT_CHECK_INTERVAL). Both connect() (module singleton) and PostgresEngine.connect() (worker pool) consume the result via postgres.js's connection option, sending GUCs as startup parameters that survive PgBouncer transaction mode (unlike the prior setSessionDefaults post-pool SET, kept as a back-compat no-op shim).
• src/commands/migrate-engine.ts — Bidirectional engine migration (gbrain migrate --to supabase/pglite)
• src/core/import-file.ts — importFromFile + importFromContent (chunk + embed + tags)
• src/core/sync.ts — Pure sync functions (manifest parsing, filtering, slug conversion). v0.22.12 (#500, foundation by @wintermute via #501): classifyErrorCode(errorMsg) regex-based classifier with 12 codes (SLUG_MISMATCH, YAML_PARSE, YAML_DUPLICATE_KEY, MISSING_OPEN, MISSING_CLOSE, NESTED_QUOTES, EMPTY_FRONTMATTER, NULL_BYTES, INVALID_UTF8, STATEMENT_TIMEOUT, FILE_TOO_LARGE, SYMLINK_NOT_ALLOWED) plus UNKNOWN fallback. summarizeFailuresByCode(failures) returns sorted [{code, count}]. code? optional field on SyncFailure; backfilled at ack time on pre-v0.22.12 entries. acknowledgeSyncFailures() returns AcknowledgeResult { count, summary }. Three regexes (MISSING_OPEN, MISSING_CLOSE, EMPTY_FRONTMATTER) broadened to match actual markdown.ts:159-244 validator message strings, not just the literal code-name prefix. FILE_TOO_LARGE covers all three production size sites in import-file.ts:199, 352, 401; SYMLINK_NOT_ALLOWED covers the rejection at :347. Closes the silent-skip pattern that motivated #500.
• src/core/storage.ts — Pluggable storage interface (S3, Supabase Storage, local)
• src/core/storage-config.ts (v0.22.11) — Storage tiering: loadStorageConfig reads gbrain.yml, normalizes deprecated keys (git_tracked / supabase_only) to canonical (db_tracked / db_only) with once-per-process deprecation warning, and runs normalizeAndValidateStorageConfig (auto-fixes missing trailing /, throws StorageConfigError on tier overlap). Path-segment matcher: media/x/ does NOT match media/xerox/foo. Replaces gray-matter (broken on delimiter-less YAML) with a dedicated parser for the gbrain.yml shape.
• src/core/disk-walk.ts (v0.22.11) — walkBrainRepo(repoPath) returns Map<slug, {size, mtimeMs}> from one recursive readdirSync. Skips dot-dirs, node_modules, non-.md files. Used by gbrain storage status to replace per-page existsSync + statSync (~400K syscalls on 200K-page brains → tens).
• src/commands/storage.ts (v0.22.11) — gbrain storage status [--repo P] [--json]. Split into pure data (getStorageStatus) + JSON formatter + human formatter (ASCII-only per D10) matching the orphans.ts pattern. PageCountsByTier and DiskUsageByTier are distinct nominal types so swaps fail at compile time.
• gbrain.yml (brain repo root, v0.22.11) — Optional storage tiering config. Top-level storage: section with db_tracked: and db_only: array-valued keys. gbrain sync auto-manages .gitignore for db_only paths on successful sync (skips on dry-run, blocked-by-failures, submodule context, or GBRAIN_NO_GITIGNORE=1). gbrain export --restore-only [--repo P] [--type T] [--slug-prefix S] repopulates missing db_only files from the database.
• src/core/supabase-admin.ts — Supabase admin API (project discovery, pgvector check)
• src/core/file-resolver.ts — File resolution with fallback chain (local -> .redirect.yaml -> .redirect -> .supabase)
• src/core/chunkers/ — 3-tier chunking (recursive, semantic, LLM-guided). v0.19.0 adds code.ts — tree-sitter-based semantic chunker for 29 languages with embedded-asset WASMs (src/assets/wasm/), @dqbd/tiktoken cl100k_base tokenizer, small-sibling merging. CHUNKER_VERSION constant folded into importCodeFile's content_hash so chunker shape changes force clean re-chunks across releases.
• src/core/errors.ts (v0.19.0) — StructuredAgentError + buildError + serializeError. Every new v0.19.0 agent-facing surface (code-def, code-refs, usage errors) uses this envelope; matches v0.17.0 CycleReport.PhaseResult.error shape.
• src/assets/wasm/ (v0.19.0) — 36 tree-sitter grammar WASMs + tree-sitter runtime. Committed to the repo so bun --compile embeds them deterministically via import path from ... with { type: 'file' }. The CI guard scripts/check-wasm-embedded.sh fails the build if the compiled binary ever silently falls through to recursive chunks.
• src/commands/code-def.ts + src/commands/code-refs.ts (v0.19.0) — symbol definition + references lookup. Query content_chunks.symbol_name or chunk_text ILIKE with page_kind='code' filter. Auto-JSON when stdout is not a TTY (gh-CLI convention). Bypass the standard searchKeyword DISTINCT ON (slug) collapse so multiple call-sites from the same file surface.
• src/core/search/ — Hybrid search: vector + keyword + RRF + multi-query expansion + dedup. As of v0.22.0, searchKeyword / searchKeywordChunks / searchVector apply source-aware ranking at the SQL layer (curated content like originals/, concepts/, writing/ outranks bulk content like wintermute/chat/, daily/, media/x/). searchVector uses a two-stage CTE so source-boost re-ranking doesn't kill the HNSW index. Hard-exclude prefixes (test/, archive/, attachments/, .raw/ by default) filter at retrieval, not post-rank. Both gates honor detail !== 'high' so temporal queries surface chat pages normally.
• src/core/search/intent.ts — Query intent classifier (entity/temporal/event/general → auto-selects detail level)
• src/core/search/eval.ts — Retrieval eval harness: P@k, R@k, MRR, nDCG@k metrics + runEval() orchestrator
• src/core/search/source-boost.ts (v0.22.0) — Source-type boost map keyed by slug prefix. DEFAULT_SOURCE_BOOSTS (originals/ 1.5, concepts/ 1.3, writing/ 1.4, people/companies/deals/ 1.2, daily/ 0.8, media/x/ 0.7, wintermute/chat/ 0.5) and DEFAULT_HARD_EXCLUDES (test/, archive/, attachments/, .raw/). parseSourceBoostEnv / parseHardExcludesEnv parse comma-separated prefix:factor pairs from GBRAIN_SOURCE_BOOST / GBRAIN_SEARCH_EXCLUDE env vars. resolveBoostMap and resolveHardExcludes merge defaults + env + caller SearchOpts.exclude_slug_prefixes/include_slug_prefixes.
• src/core/search/sql-ranking.ts (v0.22.0) — Pure SQL string builders. buildSourceFactorCase(slugColumn, boostMap, detail) emits a CASE expression with longest-prefix-match wins (returns literal '1.0' when detail === 'high' for temporal-bypass parity with COMPILED_TRUTH_BOOST). buildHardExcludeClause(slugColumn, prefixes) emits NOT (col LIKE 'p1%' OR col LIKE 'p2%') — OR-chain wrapped in NOT, NOT NOT LIKE ALL/ANY (those quantifiers don't express set-exclusion). LIKE meta-character escape covers all three of %, _, AND \ (backslash matters because it's Postgres LIKE's default escape char). Single-quote doubling on SQL string literals so injection-style inputs are inert text.
• src/commands/eval.ts — gbrain eval command: single-run table + A/B config comparison. v0.25.0 adds sub-subcommand dispatch on args[0] so gbrain eval export + gbrain eval prune + gbrain eval replay route into session-capture handlers; bare gbrain eval --qrels … fall-through preserves the legacy IR-metrics flow. v0.27.x adds gbrain eval cross-modal to the dispatch (the user-facing path is the cli.ts no-DB branch — src/commands/eval.ts:cross-modal only fires when callers re-enter with an existing engine).
• src/commands/eval-cross-modal.ts (v0.27.x) — multi-model quality gate. Three different-provider frontier models score the OUTPUT against the TASK on a 5-dim list. Verdict pass (exit 0) / fail (exit 1) / inconclusive (exit 2; <2/3 model successes per Q3=A in plans/radiant-napping-lerdorf.md). Reuses src/core/ai/gateway.ts:chat() so config/auth/aliasing comes from the gateway recipe registry — no parallel provider stack. Self-configures the gateway (configureGateway(loadConfig() + process.env)) since the cli.ts dispatch bypasses connectEngine(). Default cycles 3 in TTY, 1 in non-TTY (T11=B partial cost guardrail). Receipts land at gbrainPath('eval-receipts')/<slug>-<sha8-of-output>.json. The full --budget-usd cap is a v0.27.x follow-up TODO.
• src/core/cross-modal-eval/json-repair.ts (v0.27.x) — parseModelJSON(raw) named export with a 4-strategy fallback chain (direct parse → fence-strip → trailing-comma + single-quote + embedded-newline repair → regex nuclear option). Adversarial input throws rather than fabricating scores — the aggregator treats a throw as "this model contributed nothing this cycle" so the gate stays correct at >=2/3 successes.
• src/core/cross-modal-eval/aggregate.ts (v0.27.x) — pure verdict logic. Pass criterion: (successes >= 2) AND (every dim mean >= 7) AND (every dim min across models >= 5) (Q2=A floor). Inconclusive when <2/3 models returned parseable scores (Q3=A regression guard for the v1 .mjs Object.values({}).every(...) === true empty-array PASS bug).
• src/core/cross-modal-eval/runner.ts (v0.27.x) — orchestrator. Each cycle runs Promise.allSettled([gwChat(slotA), gwChat(slotB), gwChat(slotC)]) (T4=A — bare allSettled, no rate-leases for the CLI path; minion-integration TODO recovers cross-process concurrency). Stops early on PASS or INCONCLUSIVE; runs up to 3 cycles. Default slots: openai:gpt-4o / anthropic:claude-opus-4-7 / google:gemini-1.5-pro. estimateCost() exports a small per-model pricing table (drifts; refresh alongside model-family bumps).
• src/core/cross-modal-eval/receipt-name.ts (v0.27.x) — receipt filename binds (slug, SKILL.md sha-8). findReceiptForSkill(skillPath, receiptDir) returns 'found' | 'stale' | 'missing' (T10=A). Skillify-check item 11 surfaces the status as informational (T7=C); the audit does NOT fail on missing/stale receipts.
• src/core/cross-modal-eval/receipt-write.ts (v0.27.x) — wraps fs.writeFileSync with mkdirSync({recursive:true}) ahead of every write (T5 correction; gbrainPath() does NOT auto-mkdir).
• src/commands/eval-export.ts (v0.25.0) — streams eval_candidates rows as NDJSON to stdout with schema_version: 1 prefix on every line. EPIPE-safe, progress heartbeats on stderr, stable id-desc tiebreaker so --since windows never dupe/miss rows.
• src/commands/eval-prune.ts (v0.25.0) — explicit retention cleanup. Requires --older-than DUR. --dry-run reports would-delete count.
• src/commands/eval-replay.ts (v0.25.0) — contributor-facing replay tool. Reads NDJSON from gbrain eval export, re-runs each captured query / search op against the current brain, computes set-Jaccard@k between captured + current retrieved_slugs, top-1 stability rate, and latency Δ. Stable JSON shape (schema_version: 1) for CI gating; human mode prints a regression table. Pure Bun, zero new deps. The dev-loop half of BrainBench-Real that closes the gap between "data captured" and "data used to gate a PR." See docs/eval-bench.md for the workflow.
• src/commands/eval-suspected-contradictions.ts + src/core/eval-contradictions/{judge,runner,types,date-filter,cost-tracker,cache,severity-classify,cross-source,trends,calibration,judge-errors,auto-supersession,fixture-redact}.ts (v0.32.6) — gbrain eval suspected-contradictions [run|trend|review]. Probe samples top-K retrieval pairs per query (cross-slug + intra-page chunk-vs-take), date pre-filters (3-rule layered — same-paragraph-dual-date overrides separation rule), LLM judge (query-conditioned per Codex; UTF-8-safe truncation; C1 confidence-floor double-enforcement; resolution_kind output drives M7 paste-ready commands), persistent cache keyed on (chunk_a_hash, chunk_b_hash, model_id, prompt_version, truncation_policy) (Codex outside-voice fix — prompt edits cleanly invalidate prior verdicts), Wilson 95% CI calibration on the headline percentage with small_sample_note when n<30, judge_errors as first-class typed counters (parse_fail/refusal/timeout/http_5xx/unknown — Codex fix to bias from silent skip), M5 trend writes to eval_contradictions_runs, M6 source-tier breakdown reuses DEFAULT_SOURCE_BOOSTS prefix logic, deterministic sampling (combined_score DESC + lex tiebreaker — stable cache hit-rate across re-runs). Hermetic via judgeFn + searchFn DI in the runner; never touches the real gateway in tests. Engine surface: BrainEngine.listActiveTakesForPages (P1 batched), writeContradictionsRun + loadContradictionsTrend (M5), getContradictionCacheEntry + putContradictionCacheEntry + sweepContradictionCache (P2). Schema migrations v51 + v52. MCP op find_contradictions (read scope, NOT localOnly, NOT in subagent allowlist — user-initiated only). M1 doctor check surfaces high-severity findings with paste-ready resolution commands. M2 synthesize phase pre-fetches latest probe's top-5-by-severity findings and threads them into buildSynthesisPrompt as an informational block. 226 hermetic unit tests + 12 real-Postgres E2E. Plan: ~/.claude/plans/system-instruction-you-are-working-hashed-dewdrop.md. Architecture doc: docs/contradictions.md.
• src/commands/eval-longmemeval.ts + src/eval/longmemeval/{harness,adapter,sanitize}.ts (v0.28.1) — gbrain eval longmemeval <dataset.jsonl> runs the public LongMemEval benchmark against gbrain's hybrid retrieval. Architecture: one in-memory PGLite per benchmark run created via createBenchmarkBrain + withBenchmarkBrain (NO EphemeralBrain class). Between questions, TRUNCATE over runtime-enumerated pg_tables so future schema migrations don't silently leak data across questions; infrastructure tables (sources, config, gbrain_cycle_locks, subagent_rate_leases) are preserved. cli.ts has a pre-dispatch bypass so eval longmemeval skips connectEngine() — the user's ~/.gbrain brain is never opened. --expansion defaults to OFF (deterministic, no per-query Haiku call); pass --expansion to opt in. Default model resolves through resolveModel() 6-tier chain with models.eval.longmemeval as the new config key. Sanitization parity: harness.ts re-uses INJECTION_PATTERNS from src/core/think/sanitize.ts (now exported, line 22) so adding a pattern automatically covers takes AND benchmarks. Retrieved chat content is wrapped in <chat_session id="..." date="..."> framing; the answer-gen system prompt declares the content UNTRUSTED. LLM injection seam: runEvalLongMemEval(args, {client?: ThinkLLMClient}) lets tests stub the client so the full pipeline runs without an Anthropic API key. p50 25.9ms / p99 30.3ms warm reset+import+search on Apple Silicon (per test/eval-longmemeval.test.ts perf gate). Hand the JSONL output to LongMemEval's evaluate_qa.py to score (their published evaluator, not bundled — needs OpenAI gpt-4o per their spec).
• docs/eval-bench.md (v0.25.0) — contributor guide for using captured data to benchmark retrieval changes before merging. Linked from CONTRIBUTING.md under "Running real-world eval benchmarks (touching retrieval code)".
• src/core/eval-capture.ts (v0.25.0) — op-layer capture wrapper called from src/core/operations.ts query + search handlers. Catches MCP + CLI + subagent tool-bridge from one site. Fire-and-forget; failures route to engine.logEvalCaptureFailure so gbrain doctor sees drops cross-process. Capture is off by default — isEvalCaptureEnabled resolution: explicit config.eval.capture (true/false) wins, else process.env.GBRAIN_CONTRIBUTOR_MODE === '1', else off. Production users get a quiet brain; contributors set export GBRAIN_CONTRIBUTOR_MODE=1 in .zshrc to enable the dev loop. PII scrubber gate is independent and defaults to true regardless of CONTRIBUTOR_MODE.
• src/core/eval-capture-scrub.ts (v0.25.0) — zero-deps PII scrubber: emails, phones, SSN, Luhn-verified credit cards, JWT-shaped tokens, bearer tokens.
• src/core/search/hybrid.ts — Cathedral II Promise<SearchResult[]> return shape unchanged in v0.25.0. Adds onMeta?: (m: HybridSearchMeta) => void callback so op-layer capture can record what hybridSearch actually did. Existing callers leave it undefined. v0.33: HybridSearchOpts.types?: PageType[] (defined on SearchOpts) threads a multi-type filter through to per-engine searchKeyword + searchVector + searchKeywordChunks, where it lands as AND p.type = ANY($N::text[]). Primary consumer is gbrain whoknows (filters to ['person','company']). AND-applies alongside the existing single-value type filter; either or both can be used.
• docs/eval-capture.md (v0.25.0) — stable NDJSON schema reference for gbrain-evals consumers.
• test/public-exports.test.ts (v0.25.0 / R2) — runtime contract test. Imports each of the 17 public subpaths via package name and pins a canary symbol per module. Paired with scripts/check-exports-count.sh.
• src/core/embedding.ts — OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, batch, retry, backoff. v0.28.7: BATCH_SIZE reverted 50→100 — the original Voyage safety guard halved OpenAI throughput on every page. Per-recipe pre-split + recursive halving + adaptive shrink-on-miss now live in the gateway, so the outer paginator goes back to its original purpose: progress-callback granularity, not batch protection.
• src/core/ai/dims.ts (v0.33.1.1, PR #962 + #866) — per-provider providerOptions resolver for embed-time dimension passthrough. The single source of truth for "which provider needs which knob to produce vector(N)". Exports dimsProviderOptions(implementation, modelId, dims) (called by embed() in gateway.ts), VOYAGE_OUTPUT_DIMENSION_MODELS (private const — the 7 hosted Voyage models that accept output_dimension: voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-3-large, voyage-3.5, voyage-3.5-lite, voyage-code-3 — nano deliberately excluded), VOYAGE_VALID_OUTPUT_DIMS = [256, 512, 1024, 2048] as const, supportsVoyageOutputDimension(modelId), and isValidVoyageOutputDim(dims). Voyage path uses the SDK-supported dimensions field ({ openaiCompatible: { dimensions: N } }), NOT Voyage's output_dimension wire-key — the existing voyageCompatFetch shim in gateway.ts:541 translates dimensions → output_dimension before the HTTP body is built. The reverse (sending output_dimension from here) was the v0.33.1.0 bug class: the AI SDK's openai-compatible adapter doesn't recognize the wire-key so it was silently dropped, Voyage returned its default 1024-dim, and the gateway dimension check threw on every embed call. Runtime guard: when a Voyage flexible-dim model is configured with dims outside VOYAGE_VALID_OUTPUT_DIMS, throws AIConfigError with a paste-ready gbrain config set embedding_dimensions <256|512|1024|2048> hint at the embed boundary — fail-loud instead of opaque Voyage HTTP 400. Most common trigger: embedding_model: voyage:voyage-4-large configured without embedding_dimensions (falls back to DEFAULT_EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS=1536, an OpenAI default not a Voyage one). Eva (@100yenadmin) shipped the wire-key fix in #866; Codex P3 follow-up landed the validator + valid-dims allowlist in #962.
• src/core/ai/types.ts — provider/recipe types. v0.28.7 (#680): EmbeddingTouchpoint extended with optional chars_per_token (default 4 chars/token, matching OpenAI tiktoken on English) and safety_factor (default 0.8, budget-utilization ceiling). Both consulted only when max_batch_tokens is also set. Voyage declares chars_per_token=1 + safety_factor=0.5 to handle dense payloads (CJK/JSON/base64) that overshoot tiktoken. The pre-split budget is max_batch_tokens × safety_factor / chars_per_token. v0.28.11 (#719): EmbeddingTouchpoint.multimodal_models?: string[] model-level allow-list for recipes that mix text-only + multimodal models under one touchpoint (Voyage's 12 models share supports_multimodal: true but only voyage-multimodal-3 accepts /multimodalembeddings). When omitted, recipe-level supports_multimodal is sufficient. AIGatewayConfig.embedding_multimodal_model?: string lets embedMultimodal() route to a different model than embedding_model — brains using OpenAI for text can use Voyage for images without flipping the primary embedding pipeline.
• src/core/ai/gateway.ts — unified seam for every AI call. v0.28.7 (#680): module-scoped _embedTransport defaulting to AI SDK embedMany, with __setEmbedTransportForTests(fn) test seam so tests drive the public embed() function with a stubbed transport instead of probing private helpers. splitByTokenBudget and isTokenLimitError are now exported @internal — pure functions reused directly by the test file. Module-level _shrinkState: Map<recipeId, {factor, consecutiveSuccesses}> halves the recipe's effective safety_factor on token-limit miss (floor 0.05) and heals back ×1.5 toward the ceiling after SHRINK_HEAL_AFTER=10 consecutive successes. configureGateway() walks every registered recipe at construction time and emits a once-per-process stderr warning for any embedding touchpoint missing max_batch_tokens (excluding the canonical OpenAI fast-path recipe). resetGateway() clears _shrinkState, the warned-set, and restores the real transport. ASCII flow diagram embedded in the embed() JSDoc covers the routing decision, recursion + halving, and shrinkState lifecycle. v0.28.11 (#719): embedMultimodal() reads cfg.embedding_multimodal_model first (falls back to cfg.embedding_model for single-model setups). After the existing recipe-level supports_multimodal fast-fail, validates the resolved model against touchpoint.multimodal_models when declared — closes the Voyage-text-only-model-into-multimodal-endpoint footgun before any HTTP call (Codex F1 from PR review). New getMultimodalModel() accessor mirrors getEmbeddingModel / getChatModel so doctor and integration tests can read the gateway state. v0.33.1.1 (#962, Codex P3 follow-up): new exported VoyageResponseTooLargeError tagged class at the top of the file. voyageCompatFetch's two OOM-defense caps (Layer 1 Content-Length check at :595, Layer 2 per-embedding base64 cap at :619) now throw VoyageResponseTooLargeError instead of a generic Error. The inbound response-rewriter's surrounding try/catch (which intentionally swallows parse failures so misshaped Voyage responses fall through to the SDK's JSON parser) checks instanceof VoyageResponseTooLargeError and rethrows. Pre-fix, the Layer 2 throw was silently swallowed and the oversized response returned to the AI SDK anyway — Layer 2 was theatrical. Source-shape regression assertion in test/voyage-response-cap.test.ts pins the instanceof ⇒ throw err line. v0.34.1.0 (#875): new embedMultimodalOpenAICompat() routes recipes with implementation: 'openai-compatible' (LiteLLM, Anyscale, vLLM, Gemini multimodal via proxy) through the standard /embeddings endpoint with content arrays carrying image_url entries. The pre-existing Voyage /multimodalembeddings path is unchanged; the gateway selects by recipe implementation tag. Runtime dimension validation throws AIConfigError (with model id + observed + expected) before the vector reaches storage when the provider returns a width that doesn't match the recipe's default_dims or the brain's embedding_dimensions config — no more cryptic vector dimension mismatch at INSERT time. Pinned by 11 cases in test/openai-compat-multimodal.test.ts.
• src/core/ai/recipes/voyage.ts — Voyage AI openai-compatible recipe. v0.28.7 (#680): declares chars_per_token=1 + safety_factor=0.5 so the gateway pre-splits Voyage batches at a 60K-character budget (50% of 120K-token cap with the dense-tokenizer ratio). Closes the v0.27 backfill loop where ~26% of the corpus stayed un-embedded because tiktoken-grounded budgeting silently undercounted Voyage's actual token usage. v0.28.11 (#719): declares multimodal_models: ['voyage-multimodal-3'] so the gateway rejects text-only Voyage models pointed at the multimodal endpoint with a clear AIConfigError instead of waiting for Voyage's HTTP 400. v0.33.1.1 (#962, fixup): recipe docstring at :7-16 tightened to name the seven hosted flexible-dim models that accept output_dimension explicitly (voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-3-large, voyage-3.5, voyage-3.5-lite, voyage-code-3) and call out that voyage-4-nano is the open-weight variant listed separately by Voyage as fixed 1024-dim — does NOT accept the parameter. The "all v4 variants are flexible" misread is what caused the original PR to include nano in VOYAGE_OUTPUT_DIMENSION_MODELS; the negative regression assertion in test/ai/gateway.test.ts (dimsProviderOptions returns undefined for voyage-4-nano) pins the contract.
• src/core/ai/recipes/anthropic.ts — Anthropic recipe (chat + expansion touchpoints). v0.31.12: chat and expansion models: lists drop the v0.31.6 phantom claude-sonnet-4-6-20250929 date suffix — canonical id is claude-sonnet-4-6. The wrong-direction alias claude-sonnet-4-6 → claude-sonnet-4-6-20250929 is removed; a reverse alias claude-sonnet-4-6-20250929 → claude-sonnet-4-6 keeps stale user configs working (rescues facts.extraction_model and models.dream.synthesize set by v0.31.6 installs). Recipe-shape regression pinned by test/anthropic-model-ids.test.ts (6 cases, verbatim cherry-pick of PR #830 plus the reverse-alias rescue case).
• src/core/anthropic-pricing.ts — Single source of truth for Anthropic model pricing (per-MTok input/output). v0.31.12: Opus 4.7 corrected from $15/$75 to $5/$25 (the old number was from Opus 4 generation, never refreshed when 4.7 shipped); Opus 4.6 also corrected. Consumed by src/core/budget-meter.ts and src/core/cross-modal-eval/runner.ts — the cross-modal estimator now reads ANTHROPIC_PRICING for Anthropic models instead of duplicating the table, killing the v0.31.6 drift bug class.
• src/core/model-config.ts — Model-string resolution (the seam every internal LLM call walks through). v0.31.12: four-tier system (ModelTier = 'utility' | 'reasoning' | 'deep' | 'subagent') with TIER_DEFAULTS (utility→haiku-4-5, reasoning→sonnet-4-6, deep→opus-4-7, subagent→sonnet-4-6) and tier?: ModelTier on ResolveModelOpts. Resolution chain is now 8 steps: cliFlag → deprecated key → config key → models.default → models.tier.<tier> → env var → TIER_DEFAULTS[tier] → caller fallback. Two new exports — isAnthropicProvider(modelString) checks provider:model prefix OR claude- bare-id pattern, and enforceSubagentAnthropic() is the layer-2 runtime guard: when tier === 'subagent' resolves to a non-Anthropic provider, it emits a once-per-(source, model) stderr warn AND falls back to TIER_DEFAULTS.subagent instead of letting the Anthropic Messages API tool-loop attempt to run on OpenAI/Gemini. _resetDeprecationWarningsForTest() now also clears _subagentTierWarningsEmitted so tests re-emit.
• src/core/ai/model-resolver.ts — Recipe-touchpoint validator. v0.31.12: assertTouchpoint(recipe, touchpoint, modelId, extendedModels?) gains an optional 4th extendedModels: ReadonlySet<string> argument. When the modelId is in that set, the native-recipe allowlist throw is bypassed — the user explicitly opted into this model via config so we let provider rejection surface as model_not_found at HTTP call time (and gbrain models doctor catches it earlier). Default code paths with hardcoded model strings MUST NOT pass extendedModels — typos in source code still fail fast. Replaces the earlier plan to soften the validator wholesale (Codex F4/F5 in plan review flagged that as too broad — it would have removed the fail-fast contract for chat + expand + embed all three).
• src/core/ai/gateway.ts extension (v0.31.12) — new module-scoped _extendedModels: Map<providerId, Set<modelId>> registry feeds assertTouchpoint's 4th-arg path. New reconfigureGatewayWithEngine(engine) async function is called from cli.ts after engine.connect() (and before every command except CLI_ONLY no-DB commands) — re-resolves expansion + chat defaults through resolveModel() so models.tier.* and models.default overrides apply to expansion + chat both. DEFAULT_CHAT_MODEL corrected to anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-6 (was the v0.31.6 phantom -20250929). New __setChatTransportForTests seam mirrors __setEmbedTransportForTests so tests drive chat() with a stubbed transport.
• src/core/minions/queue.ts extension (v0.31.12) — MinionQueue.add() now rejects subagent jobs whose data.model resolves through isAnthropicProvider() to a non-Anthropic provider. Lazy-imports model-config.ts to avoid pulling engine types into queue's eager-load surface. Layer 1 of the three-layer subagent provider enforcement (Codex F1+F2 in plan review). Layers 2 + 3 live in src/core/model-config.ts (enforceSubagentAnthropic runtime fallback) and src/commands/doctor.ts (subagent_provider check). Pinned by 3 cases in test/agent-cli.test.ts.
• src/commands/models.ts (v0.31.12) — gbrain models [--json] read-only routing dashboard: prints tier defaults (utility/reasoning/deep/subagent), the resolved value for each (re-walking the resolution chain to attribute properly), every per-task override (11 PER_TASK_KEYS entries — models.dream.synthesize, models.dream.patterns, models.drift, models.auto_think, models.think, models.subagent, facts.extraction_model, models.eval.longmemeval, models.expansion, models.chat, models.dream.synthesize_verdict), the alias map (defaults + user overrides), and a source-of-truth column showing default / config: <key> / env: <VAR>. gbrain models doctor [--skip=<provider>] [--json] fires a 1-token gateway.chat() probe against each configured chat + expansion model and classifies failures into {model_not_found, auth, rate_limit, network, unknown} — the structural fix for the v0.31.6 silent-no-op bug class. Wired into cli.ts dispatch table + CLI_ONLY set. v0.33.1.1 (#962, Codex P3 follow-up): doctor gains a zero-token embedding_config probe that runs FIRST, before any chat/expansion probes spend money. probeEmbeddingConfig() reads getEmbeddingModel() + getEmbeddingDimensions() from the gateway, parses the model id, and (for Voyage flexible-dim models) checks isValidVoyageOutputDim(dims) against VOYAGE_VALID_OUTPUT_DIMS. New ProbeStatus variant 'config' and optional fix?: string field on ProbeResult — surfaced in both human output (paste-ready gbrain config set ... line under the bad probe) and JSON output. New touchpoint label 'embedding_config' joins 'chat' and 'expansion' in the probe-row taxonomy. Closes the Voyage flexible-dim bug class at config time, not first-embed.
• src/commands/doctor.ts extension (v0.31.12) — new subagent_provider check (layer 3 of 3 — Codex F13). Warns when models.tier.subagent is explicitly set to a non-Anthropic provider (fail-loud since the user clearly meant it — message names the bad value and prints the paste-ready fix command gbrain config set models.tier.subagent anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-6); also warns when models.default would sneak subagent into a non-Anthropic provider via tier inheritance. OK status when subagent tier resolves to Anthropic. Tests cover all three paths in test/doctor.test.ts.
• src/core/check-resolvable.ts — Resolver validation: reachability, MECE overlap, DRY checks, structured fix objects. v0.14.1: CROSS_CUTTING_PATTERNS.conventions is an array (notability gate accepts both conventions/quality.md and _brain-filing-rules.md). New extractDelegationTargets() parses > **Convention:**, > **Filing rule:**, and inline backtick references. DRY suppression is proximity-based via DRY_PROXIMITY_LINES = 40.
• src/core/repo-root.ts — Shared findRepoRoot(startDir?) (v0.16.4): walks up from startDir (default process.cwd()) looking for skills/RESOLVER.md. Zero-dependency module imported by both doctor.ts and check-resolvable.ts. Parameterized startDir makes tests hermetic. v0.31.7: read-path / write-path split. autoDetectSkillsDir (shared, read+write-safe) gains tier-0 $GBRAIN_SKILLS_DIR explicit operator override (Docker mounts, CI, monorepo subdirs) ahead of the existing 4-tier chain. New autoDetectSkillsDirReadOnly wraps it with a tier-5 install-path fallback that walks up from fileURLToPath(import.meta.url) and gates on isGbrainRepoRoot so unrelated repos can't false-positive. Read-path callers (doctor, check-resolvable, routing-eval) use the read-only variant; write-path callers (skillpack install, skillify scaffold, post-install-advisory) deliberately stay on the shared function so gbrain skillpack install from ~ cannot silently retarget the bundled gbrain repo's skills/ instead of the user's actual workspace. Two new SkillsDirSource variants: 'env_explicit', 'install_path'. New AUTO_DETECT_HINT_READ_ONLY documents the extra tier. The D6 --fix safety gate in doctor.ts + check-resolvable.ts refuses auto-repair when detected.source === 'install_path' so gbrain doctor --fix from ~ cannot silently rewrite the bundled install tree.
• src/commands/check-resolvable.ts — Standalone CLI wrapper (v0.16.4) over checkResolvable(). Exports parseFlags, resolveSkillsDir, DEFERRED, runCheckResolvable. Exit rule: 1 on any issue (warnings OR errors), stricter than doctor's ok flag — honors README:259. Stable JSON envelope {ok, skillsDir, report, autoFix, deferred, error, message} — same shape on success and error paths. --fix path runs autoFixDryViolations BEFORE checkResolvable (same ordering as doctor). scripts/skillify-check.ts subprocess-calls gbrain check-resolvable --json (cached per process) and fails loud on binary-missing — no silent false-pass. v0.19: AGENTS.md workspaces now resolve natively (see src/core/resolver-filenames.ts) — gbrain inspects the 107-skill OpenClaw deployment whether the routing file is RESOLVER.md or AGENTS.md. DEFERRED[] is empty — Checks 5 + 6 shipped as real code, not issue URLs. v0.31.7: the resolver lookup switched from first-match-wins to the multi-file merge in src/core/check-resolvable.ts — entries collected from every RESOLVER.md / AGENTS.md across the skills dir AND its parent, deduped by skillPath (first occurrence wins). Lifted reachable skills on the reference OpenClaw layout from 37/224 to 200/224 — the deployment ships a thin skills/RESOLVER.md (~40 entries from skillpack) plus a fat ../AGENTS.md (200+ entries, the real dispatcher), and the previous code only saw the first one. The CLI also switched to autoDetectSkillsDirReadOnly so cd ~ && gbrain check-resolvable finds the bundled skills via the install-path fallback. --fix carries the same D6 safety gate as gbrain doctor --fix: refuses to write when detected.source === 'install_path'.
• src/core/resolver-filenames.ts (v0.19) — central list of accepted routing filenames (RESOLVER.md, AGENTS.md). Shared by findRepoRoot, check-resolvable, and skillpack install so every code path walks the same fallback chain.
• src/commands/skillify.ts + src/core/skillify/{generator,templates}.ts (v0.19) — gbrain skillify scaffold <name> creates all stubs for a new skill in one command: SKILL.md, script, tests, routing-eval.jsonl, resolver entry, filing-rules pointer. gbrain skillify check <script> runs the 10-step checklist (LLM evals, routing evals, check-resolvable gate, filing audit) against a candidate skill before it lands.
• src/commands/skillify-check.ts (v0.19) — gbrain skillpack-check agent-readable health report. Exit 0/1/2 for CI pipeline gating; JSON for debugging. Wraps check-resolvable --json, doctor --json, and migration ledger into one payload so agents can decide whether a human action is required.
• src/commands/book-mirror.ts (v0.25.1) — gbrain book-mirror --chapters-dir <path> --slug <slug> [flags]. Flagship of the v0.25.1 skills wave. Submits N read-only subagent jobs (one per chapter; allowed_tools: ['get_page', 'search']), waits for all via waitForCompletion, reads each child's job.result, assembles two-column markdown CLI-side, writes a single operator-trust put_page to media/books/<slug>-personalized.md. Codex HIGH-1 fix applied: trust narrowing happens at the tool-allowlist layer (subagents can't call put_page) instead of allowedSlugPrefixes — untrusted EPUB content cannot prompt-inject any people page. Cost-estimate prompt before launching; refuses to spend in non-TTY without --yes. Per-chapter idempotency keys (book-mirror:<slug>:ch-<N>) for retry-friendly re-runs. Partial-failure handling: assembles with completed chapters and a ## Failed chapters section listing retries. Test surface: test/book-mirror.test.ts (9 cases — CLI registration + source invariants).
• src/commands/skillpack.ts + src/core/skillpack/{bundle,installer}.ts (v0.19) — gbrain skillpack install drops gbrain's curated 25-skill bundle into a host workspace, managed-block style. Never clobbers local edits; tracks a skill manifest so subsequent install --update diffs cleanly. Bundle builder (skillpack/bundle.ts) packages the set from skills/ into a versioned payload. v0.24.0: managed block embeds a <!-- gbrain:skillpack:manifest cumulative-slugs="..." version="..." --> receipt inside the fence. Per-skill installs accumulate via union(prior_receipt, this_call); install --all is the only path that prunes (drops slugs no longer in the bundle). Rows inside the fence whose slug is in neither the new cumulative set nor the bundle survive as user-added with a stderr [skillpack] unknown row in managed block: "<slug>" — Investigate: ... warning. Pre-v0.24 fences upgrade silently on first install (extracted slugs become the prior cumulative set). v0.25.1: gbrain skillpack uninstall <name> lands as a real CLI subcommand. Inverse of install with symmetric data-loss posture: D8 refuses if the slug isn't in the cumulative-slugs receipt (won't nuke a hand-added row); D11 content-hash guard refuses if any installed file diverges from the bundle (you've edited it locally) unless --overwrite-local is passed. applyUninstall enforces an atomic-refusal contract: pre-scans ALL files for divergence; refuses BEFORE any unlink fires if anything is blocked. The bug fix landed via test/skillpack-uninstall.test.ts's D11 case — the test was written with the contract in mind, the original implementation interleaved hash-check + unlink, and the lie surfaced immediately.
• src/core/archive-crawler-config.ts (v0.25.1) — D12 + codex HIGH-4 safety gate for the archive-crawler skill. Refuses to run unless archive-crawler.scan_paths: is explicitly set in the brain repo's gbrain.yml. Mirrors the storage-config.ts parsing pattern (sibling file; separate concern from storage tiering). loadArchiveCrawlerConfig(repoPath) throws ArchiveCrawlerConfigError(missing_section | empty_scan_paths | invalid_path | parse_error). normalizeAndValidateArchiveCrawlerConfig rejects relative paths and .. traversal; ~ is expanded; trailing-slash normalized for unambiguous prefix matching. isPathAllowed(candidate, config) is the runtime per-file gate (scan_paths prefix-match with directory-boundary correctness; deny_paths overrides). Tests in test/archive-crawler-config.test.ts (19 cases).
• test/helpers/cli-pty-runner.ts (v0.25.1) — generic real-PTY harness ported from gstack and trimmed to ~470 lines. Uses pure Bun.spawn({terminal:}) (Bun 1.3.10+; engines.bun pin in package.json). Generic primitives only — no plan-mode orchestrators. Exports: launchPty, resolveBinary, stripAnsi, parseNumberedOptions, optionsSignature, isNumberedOptionListVisible, isTrustDialogVisible. Self-tests in test/cli-pty-runner.test.ts (24 cases).
• src/core/skill-manifest.ts (v0.19) — parser for skill-manifest.json records. Used by skillpack installer to detect drift between the shipped bundle and the user's local edits, so updates merge instead of overwriting.
• src/commands/routing-eval.ts + src/core/routing-eval.ts (v0.19) — gbrain routing-eval catches user phrasings that route to the wrong skill. Reads skills/<name>/routing-eval.jsonl fixtures ({intent, expected_skill, ambiguous_with?}). Structural layer runs in check-resolvable by default (zero API cost). The --llm flag is accepted as a placeholder for a future LLM tie-break layer; in v0.24.0 it emits a stderr notice and runs structural only. False positives surface before users hit them. v0.31.7: switched to autoDetectSkillsDirReadOnly and the same multi-file resolver merge as check-resolvable, so on OpenClaw layouts (skills/RESOLVER.md + ../AGENTS.md) all three commands see the same trigger index — previously routing-eval read only the first resolver file it found. The v0.25.1 wave skills' RESOLVER.md rows were also synced to include the full frontmatter triggers: arrays (was only the first trigger), so the structural matcher actually sees the realistic phrasings; ambiguous-fixture annotations cover deliberate skill chains like enrich → article-enrichment.
• src/core/filing-audit.ts + skills/_brain-filing-rules.json (v0.19) — Check 6 of check-resolvable. Parses new writes_pages: / writes_to: frontmatter on skills and audits their filing claims against the filing-rules JSON. Warning-only in v0.19, upgrades to error in v0.20.
• src/core/dry-fix.ts — gbrain doctor --fix engine. autoFixDryViolations(fixes, {dryRun}) rewrites inlined rules to > **Convention:** see [path](path). callouts via three shape-aware expanders (bullet / blockquote / paragraph). Five guards: working-tree-dirty (getWorkingTreeStatus() returns 3-state 'clean' | 'dirty' | 'not_a_repo'), no-git-backup, inside-code-fence, already-delegated (40-line proximity, consistent with detector), ambiguous-multi-match, block-is-callout. execFileSync array args (no shell — no injection surface). EOF newline preserved.
• src/core/backoff.ts — Adaptive load-aware throttling: CPU/memory checks, exponential backoff, active hours multiplier
• src/core/fail-improve.ts — Deterministic-first, LLM-fallback loop with JSONL failure logging and auto-test generation
• src/core/transcription.ts — Audio transcription: Groq Whisper (default), OpenAI fallback, ffmpeg segmentation for >25MB
• src/core/enrichment-service.ts — Global enrichment service: entity slug generation, tier auto-escalation, batch throttling
• src/core/data-research.ts — Recipe validation, field extraction (MRR/ARR regex), dedup, tracker parsing, HTML stripping
• src/commands/embed.ts — gbrain embed [--stale|--all] [--slugs ...]. v0.22.1 (#409, contributed by @atrevino47): --stale path now starts with engine.countStaleChunks() (single SELECT count(*) WHERE embedding IS NULL, ~50 bytes wire). On a fully-embedded brain that's a 1-line short-circuit — no further reads. When stale chunks exist, engine.listStaleChunks() returns just the chunks needing embeddings (slug + chunk_index + chunk_text + metadata, no vector(1536) payload). Caller groups by slug, embeds via OpenAI, re-upserts via upsertChunks. Replaces the prior page-walk that pulled every chunk's embedding column over the wire and discarded most.
• src/commands/extract.ts — gbrain extract links|timeline|all [--source fs|db]: batch link/timeline extraction. fs walks markdown files, db walks pages from the engine (mutation-immune snapshot iteration; use this for live brains with no local checkout). As of v0.12.1 there is no in-memory dedup pre-load — candidates are buffered 100 at a time and flushed via addLinksBatch / addTimelineEntriesBatch; ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING enforces uniqueness at the DB layer, and the created counter returns real rows inserted (truthful on re-runs). v0.22.1 (#417): ExtractOpts.slugs?: string[] enables incremental extract — when set, extractForSlugs() reads ONLY those slugs' files (single combined links+timeline pass) instead of the full directory walk. CLI gbrain extract keeps full-walk behavior; the cycle path threads sync's pagesAffected through. walkMarkdownFiles(brainDir) still runs at line 455 to build allSlugs for link resolution — see TODOS.md for replacing it with engine.getAllSlugs().
• src/commands/graph-query.ts — gbrain graph-query <slug> [--type T] [--depth N] [--direction in|out|both]: typed-edge relationship traversal (renders indented tree)
• src/core/link-extraction.ts — shared library for the v0.12.0 graph layer. extractEntityRefs (canonical, replaces backlinks.ts duplicate) matches both [Name](people/slug) markdown links and Obsidian [[people/slug|Name]] wikilinks as of v0.12.3. extractPageLinks, inferLinkType heuristics (attended/works_at/invested_in/founded/advises/source/mentions), parseTimelineEntries, isAutoLinkEnabled config helper. DIR_PATTERN covers people, companies, deals, topics, concepts, projects, entities, tech, finance, personal, openclaw. Used by extract.ts, operations.ts auto-link post-hook, and backlinks.ts.
• src/core/zombie-reap.ts (v0.28.1) — idempotent installSigchldHandler() so JS-spawned children get reaped via Bun's internal waitpid(). Bun (like Node) only auto-reaps when a SIGCHLD listener is registered; without it, every child the worker spawns (shell jobs, embed batches, sub-agents) becomes a zombie on exit and holds connection slots. Called once at module load from src/cli.ts (with Windows platform guard — SIGCHLD doesn't exist on Windows). Cross-file leak guard via _uninstallSigchldHandlerForTests() for tests. Layer 1 of the three-layer zombie defense; Layer 2 is tini-as-PID-1 wrapping the worker subtree (via src/core/minions/spawn-helpers.ts); Layer 3 is the container's own tini for hard Bun crashes.
• src/core/minions/ — Minions job queue: BullMQ-inspired, Postgres-native (queue, worker, backoff, types, protected-names, quiet-hours, stagger, handlers/shell).
• src/core/minions/queue.ts — MinionQueue class (submit, claim, complete, fail, stall detection, parent-child, depth/child-cap, per-job timeouts, cascade-kill, attachments, idempotency keys, child_done inbox, removeOnComplete/Fail). add() takes a 4th trusted arg (separate from opts to prevent spread leakage); protected names in PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES require {allowProtectedSubmit: true} and the check runs trim-normalized (whitespace-bypass safe). v0.14.1 #219: add() plumbs max_stalled through with a [1, 100] clamp; omitted values let the schema DEFAULT (5) kick in. v0.19.0: handleWallClockTimeouts(lockDurationMs) is Layer 3 kill shot for jobs where FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED stall detection and the timeout sweep both fail to evict (wedged worker holding a row lock via a pending transaction). v0.19.1: maxWaiting coalesce path now uses pg_advisory_xact_lock keyed on (name, queue) to serialize concurrent submits for the same key, and filters on queue in addition to name so cross-queue same-name jobs don't suppress each other.
• src/core/minions/worker.ts — MinionWorker class (handler registry, lock renewal, graceful shutdown, timeout safety net). v0.14.0 abort-path fix: aborted jobs now call failJob with reason (timeout/cancel/lock-lost/shutdown) instead of returning silently. shutdownAbort (instance field) fires on process SIGTERM/SIGINT and propagates to ctx.shutdownSignal — shell handler listens to it; non-shell handlers don't. v0.22.1 (#403): per-job timeout fires abort.abort(new Error('timeout')) then a 30-second grace-then-evict safety net force-evicts the job from inFlight and marks it dead in DB if the handler ignores the abort signal — frees the slot even when a handler wedges (the 98-waiting-0-active prod incident driver). v0.28.1 engine-ownership invariant: start() no longer calls engine.disconnect() on shutdown — that was a leaky abstraction (the worker disconnected an engine it didn't own). The CLI handler in src/commands/jobs.ts case 'work' now owns engine lifecycle via try/finally with loud error logging on disconnect failure. Pinned by test/worker-shutdown-disconnect.test.ts asserting the inverse (disconnectSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled()).
• src/core/minions/supervisor.ts — MinionSupervisor process manager. Spawns gbrain jobs work as a child, restarts on crash with exponential backoff, periodic health check. v0.22.1 (#406): consecutiveHealthFailures counter; on 3 consecutive failures emits health_warn with reason: 'db_connection_degraded' and calls engine.reconnect() to swap in a fresh pool, then resets the counter. Worker exit classifier emits likely_cause field on worker_exited events: oom_or_external_kill (SIGKILL), graceful_shutdown (SIGTERM), runtime_error (code 1), clean_exit (code 0), unknown. v0.28.1: consumes detectTini() + buildSpawnInvocation() from src/core/minions/spawn-helpers.ts to wrap the worker subtree in tini-as-PID-1 when tini is on PATH (handles native-addon zombie reaping that the in-process SIGCHLD reaper can't reach). Exposes isTiniDetected read-only accessor for tests.
• src/core/minions/spawn-helpers.ts (v0.28.1) — pure detectTini() + buildSpawnInvocation() helpers consumed by both supervisor.ts and autopilot.ts. Resolves the DRY violation between the two spawn sites and makes the tini wrapping testable without mock.module() (rule R2 of scripts/check-test-isolation.sh). detectTini() calls execFileSync('which', ['tini']) with explicit env: process.env so Bun sees runtime PATH mutations (the env-snapshot bug fix). buildSpawnInvocation(tiniPath, cmd, args) returns {cmd, args} with tini prepended when present, or the bare invocation otherwise. Pinned by test/spawn-helpers.test.ts (5 cases) and test/supervisor-tini.test.ts (4 cases).
• src/core/minions/types.ts — MinionJobInput + MinionJobStatus + handler context types. MinionJobInput.max_stalled (new in v0.14.1) is optional; omitted values let the schema DEFAULT (5) kick in, provided values are clamped to [1, 100].
• src/core/minions/protected-names.ts — side-effect-free constant module exporting PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES + isProtectedJobName(). Kept pure so queue core can import without loading handler modules.
• src/core/minions/handlers/shell.ts — shell job handler. Spawns /bin/sh -c cmd (absolute path, PATH-override-safe) or argv[0] argv[1..] (no shell). Env allowlist: PATH, HOME, USER, LANG, TZ, NODE_ENV + caller env: overrides. UTF-8-safe stdout/stderr tail via string_decoder.StringDecoder. Abort (either ctx.signal or ctx.shutdownSignal) fires SIGTERM → 5s grace → SIGKILL on child. Requires GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1 on worker (gated by registerBuiltinHandlers).
• src/core/minions/handlers/shell-audit.ts — per-submission JSONL audit trail at ~/.gbrain/audit/shell-jobs-YYYY-Www.jsonl (ISO-week rotation; override via GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR). Best-effort: mkdirSync(recursive) + appendFileSync; failures logged to stderr, submission not blocked. Logs cmd (first 80 chars) or argv (JSON array). Never logs env values.
• src/core/minions/backpressure-audit.ts (v0.19.1) — sibling of shell-audit.ts for maxWaiting coalesce events. JSONL at ~/.gbrain/audit/backpressure-YYYY-Www.jsonl. Fires one line per coalesce with (queue, name, waiting_count, max_waiting, returned_job_id, ts). Closes the silent-drop vector the v0.19.0 maxWaiting guard introduced.
• src/core/minions/handlers/subagent.ts (v0.15) — LLM-loop handler. Two-phase tool persistence (pending → complete/failed), replay reconciliation for mid-dispatch crashes, dual-signal abort (ctx.signal + ctx.shutdownSignal), Anthropic prompt caching on system + tool defs. makeSubagentHandler({engine, client?, ...}) factory; MessagesClient is an injectable interface the real SDK implements structurally. Throws RateLeaseUnavailableError (renewable) when rate-lease capacity is full. v0.30.2: Anthropic 400 prompt is too long responses (status 400 + body matches /prompt is too long|prompt_too_long|context.*length/i) classify as UnrecoverableError so the job goes straight to dead on first attempt instead of stalling three times before dead-lettering. Catches both initial-prompt overflow and turn-N tool-loop accumulation that the chunker in synthesize.ts can't bound ahead of time.
• src/core/minions/handlers/subagent-aggregator.ts (v0.15) — subagent_aggregator handler. Claims AFTER all children resolve (queue changes guarantee every terminal child posts a child_done inbox message with outcome). Reads inbox via ctx.readInbox(), builds deterministic mixed-outcome markdown summary. No LLM call in v0.15.
• src/core/minions/handlers/subagent-audit.ts (v0.15) — JSONL audit + heartbeat writer at ~/.gbrain/audit/subagent-jobs-YYYY-Www.jsonl. Events: submission (one line per submit) + heartbeat (per turn boundary: llm_call_started | llm_call_completed | tool_called | tool_result | tool_failed). Never logs prompts or tool inputs. readSubagentAuditForJob(jobId, {sinceIso}) is the readback path for gbrain agent logs.
• src/core/minions/rate-leases.ts (v0.15) — lease-based concurrency cap for outbound providers (default key anthropic:messages, max via GBRAIN_ANTHROPIC_MAX_INFLIGHT). Owner-tagged rows with expires_at auto-prune on acquire; pg_advisory_xact_lock guards check-then-insert; CASCADE on owning job deletion. renewLeaseWithBackoff retries 3x (250/500/1000ms).
• src/core/minions/wait-for-completion.ts (v0.15) — poll-until-terminal helper for CLI callers. TimeoutError does NOT cancel the job; AbortSignal exits without throwing. Default pollMs: 1000 on Postgres, 250 on PGLite inline.
• src/core/minions/transcript.ts (v0.15) — renders subagent_messages + subagent_tool_executions to markdown. Tool rows splice under their owning assistant tool_use by tool_use_id. UTF-8-safe truncation; unknown block types fall through to fenced JSON.
• src/core/minions/plugin-loader.ts (v0.15) — GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH discovery. Absolute paths only, left-wins collision, gbrain.plugin.json with plugin_version: "gbrain-plugin-v1", plugins ship DEFS only (no new tools), allowed_tools: validated at load time against the derived registry.
• src/core/minions/tools/brain-allowlist.ts (v0.15, extended v0.23, v0.29) — derives subagent tool registry from src/core/operations.ts. 13-name allow-list as of v0.29 (was 11). By default put_page schema is namespace-wrapped per subagent (^wiki/agents/<subagentId>/.+). v0.23 trusted-workspace path: when BuildBrainToolsOpts.allowedSlugPrefixes is set, the put_page schema instead describes the prefix list to the model and the OperationContext is threaded with allowedSlugPrefixes. Trust comes from PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES gating subagent submission — MCP cannot reach this field. Only cycle.ts (synthesize/patterns) and direct CLI submitters set it. v0.29: get_recent_salience + find_anomalies added to the allow-list. get_recent_transcripts deliberately NOT added — all subagent calls run with ctx.remote === true, and the v0.29 trust gate rejects remote callers, so adding it would always reject (footgun). The cycle synthesize phase already calls discoverTranscripts directly.
• src/mcp/tool-defs.ts (v0.15) — extracted buildToolDefs(ops) helper. MCP server + subagent tool registry both call it; byte-for-byte equivalence pinned by test/mcp-tool-defs.test.ts.
• src/core/minions/attachments.ts — Attachment validation (path traversal, null byte, oversize, base64, duplicate detection)
• src/commands/agent.ts (v0.16) — gbrain agent run <prompt> [flags] CLI. Submits subagent (or N children + 1 aggregator) under {allowProtectedSubmit: true}. Single-entry --fanout-manifest short-circuits. Children get on_child_fail: 'continue' + max_stalled: 3. --follow is the default on TTY; streams logs + polls waitForCompletion in parallel. Ctrl-C detaches, does not cancel.
• src/commands/agent-logs.ts (v0.16) — gbrain agent logs <job> [--follow] [--since]. Merges JSONL heartbeat audit + subagent_messages into a chronological timeline. parseSince accepts ISO-8601 or relative (5m, 1h, 2d). Transcript tail renders only for terminal jobs.
• src/commands/jobs.ts — gbrain jobs CLI subcommands + gbrain jobs work daemon. v0.28.1: case 'work' now wraps worker.start() in try/finally and owns engine lifecycle — calls engine.disconnect() on shutdown with loud error logging on failure. Replaces the prior call inside MinionWorker.start() (which violated engine ownership: the worker disconnected an engine it didn't own, and clobbered the module-level singleton on PostgresEngine via the now-fixed idempotency bug). Pool slots now free immediately on shutdown instead of waiting for TCP keepalive (~minutes). v0.13.1 surfaces the full MinionJobInput retry/backoff/timeout/idempotency surface as first-class CLI flags on jobs submit: --max-stalled, --backoff-type fixed|exponential, --backoff-delay, --backoff-jitter, --timeout-ms, --idempotency-key. jobs smoke --sigkill-rescue is the opt-in regression guard for #219. v0.16 wires registerBuiltinHandlers to always register subagent + subagent_aggregator (no env flag — ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is the natural cost gate, trust is via PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES) and loads GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH plugins at worker startup with a loud startup-line per plugin. shell handler still gated by GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1 (RCE surface, separate concern). v0.22.10 (#521): the autopilot-cycle handler now forwards job.data.phases to runCycle (was previously discarded — caller-supplied phase selection silently became a full cycle). Phases are validated against ALL_PHASES from src/core/cycle.ts; invalid names are filtered out and an empty/missing array falls back to the default 6-phase cycle. v0.22.13 (PR #490 CODEX-1+CODEX-4): sync handler now resolves sourceId at entry by looking up sources.local_path (mirrors cycle.ts:480's autopilot fix from PR #475) so multi-source brains read the per-source last_commit anchor instead of the global config key. Concurrency routed through the shared autoConcurrency() policy in src/core/sync-concurrency.ts instead of the prior hardcoded 4; PGLite stays serial. noEmbed default is true (embed is a separate job — submit gbrain embed --stale after sync, or rely on the autopilot cycle's embed phase).
• src/commands/features.ts — gbrain features --json --auto-fix: usage scan + feature adoption salesman
• src/commands/autopilot.ts — gbrain autopilot --install: self-maintaining brain daemon (sync+extract+embed). v0.28.1: consumes detectTini() from src/core/minions/spawn-helpers.ts and resolves it once at startup instead of per worker respawn (was paying an execFileSync cost on every restart).
• src/mcp/server.ts — MCP stdio server (generated from operations). v0.22.7: tool-call handler delegates to dispatchToolCall from src/mcp/dispatch.ts so stdio + HTTP transports share one validation, context-build, and error-format path. v0.34.1.0 (#870): stdin 'end' / 'close' shutdown hooks are skipped when process.env.MCP_STDIO === '1'. Gateway-piped stdio MCP wrappers (OpenClaw's bundle-mcp, similar) pipe the JSON-RPC handshake then close their stdin half; pre-fix this killed the server before the first tool call landed. Signal handlers (SIGTERM / SIGINT / SIGHUP) and the parent-process watchdog still cover legitimate disconnects. src/commands/serve.ts exposes ServeOptions.mcpStdio?: boolean as a test seam so the runtime guard is exercisable without process.env mutation. Pinned by test/serve-stdio-lifecycle.test.ts.
• src/mcp/dispatch.ts (v0.22.7) — Shared tool-call dispatch consumed by both stdio (server.ts) and HTTP transports. Exports dispatchToolCall(engine, name, params, opts), buildOperationContext(engine, params, opts), and validateParams(op, params). Single source of truth for (ctx, params) handler arg order and the 5-field OperationContext shape (engine + config + logger + dryRun + remote). Defaults to remote: true (untrusted); local CLI callers pass remote: false. Closed F1/F2/F3 drift bugs in the original v0.22.5 HTTP transport. v0.26.9 (F8): adds summarizeMcpParams(opName, params) — privacy-preserving redactor for mcp_request_log and the admin SSE feed. Returns {redacted, kind, declared_keys, unknown_key_count, approx_bytes}. Intersects submitted top-level keys against the operation's declared params allow-list (declared keys preserved as a sorted array for debug visibility; unknown keys counted but never named, closing the attacker-controlled-key-name leak). Byte counts bucketed up to nearest 1KB so an attacker can't binary-search secret-content sizes via repeated probes. Operators on a personal laptop who want raw payload visibility opt back in with gbrain serve --http --log-full-params (loud stderr warning at startup). Canonical helper — new logging code paths route through it rather than JSON.stringify(params).
• src/mcp/rate-limit.ts (v0.22.7) — Bounded-LRU token-bucket limiter. buildDefaultLimiters() returns the two-bucket pipeline: pre-auth IP (30/60s, fires BEFORE the DB lookup so brute-force load against access_tokens is actually capped) + post-auth token-id (60/60s). Tracks lastTouchedMs separately from lastRefillMs so an exhausted key can't be reset by hammering past the TTL. LRU cap bounds memory under attacker-controlled key growth.
• src/commands/serve-http.ts (v0.26.0) — Express 5 HTTP MCP server with OAuth 2.1, admin dashboard, and SSE live activity feed. Started via gbrain serve --http [--port N] [--token-ttl N] [--enable-dcr] [--public-url URL] [--log-full-params]. Supersedes the v0.22.7 src/mcp/http-transport.ts simple bearer-auth path. Combines MCP SDK's mcpAuthRouter (authorize / token / register / revoke endpoints), a custom client_credentials handler (SDK's token endpoint throws UnsupportedGrantTypeError for CC; the custom handler runs BEFORE the router and falls through for auth_code / refresh_token), requireBearerAuth middleware for /mcp with scope enforcement before op dispatch, localOnly rejection, and express-rate-limit at 50 req / 15 min on /token. Serves the built admin SPA from admin/dist/ with SPA fallback. /admin/events SSE endpoint broadcasts every MCP request to connected admin browsers. cookie-parser middleware wired (Express 5 has no built-in). Startup logging prints port, engine, configured issuer URL (honors --public-url), registered-client count, DCR status, and admin bootstrap token. v0.26.9 hardening pass: F7 sets remote: true explicitly on the /mcp request handler's OperationContext literal (closes the HTTP shell-job RCE — without this, submit_job's protected-name guard at operations.ts:1391 saw a falsy undefined and skipped, letting a read+write-scoped OAuth token submit shell jobs). F8 wires summarizeMcpParams from src/mcp/dispatch.ts into both mcp_request_log writes and the admin SSE feed by default (raw payloads opt-in via --log-full-params with stderr warning). F9 sets cookie Secure flag when behind HTTPS or a public-URL proxy. F10 caps the magic-link nonce store with an LRU bound. F12 routes DCR disable through the GBrainOAuthProvider constructor's dcrDisabled option instead of the prior monkey-patch on the express router. F14 wraps transport.handleRequest in try/catch so SDK throws return a JSON-RPC 500 envelope instead of express's default HTML error page. F15 unifies OperationError + unexpected exceptions through buildError / serializeError so /mcp always returns the same envelope shape. v0.28.1: /health endpoint extracted into pure probeHealth(engine) async function with HEALTH_TIMEOUT_MS = 3000 exported constant — drops the timeout from 5s to 3s so Fly.io's 5s health-check deadline gets 2s of headroom for TCP, response framing, and clock skew. Races engine.getStats() against the timeout via Promise.race; saturated pool returns 503 with Health check timed out (database pool may be saturated) instead of hanging. clearTimeout in finally block prevents pending-timer pile-up under high probe rates (race-leak fix from adversarial review). v0.28.10: /health is now liveness-only via the new probeLiveness(sql, engineName, version, timeoutMs) helper that races sql\SELECT 1`againstHEALTH_TIMEOUT_MSand returns the sameProbeHealthResulttagged-union asprobeHealth(single timer-cleanup site, single 503 envelope). Body shape:{status, version, engine}only — engine stats are no longer spread on the public route. Full stats moved to a new admin endpoint/admin/api/full-stats(sibling to/admin/api/statsand/admin/api/health-indicators) gated by the existing requireAdminmiddleware; that route callsprobeHealth(engine, ...)and returns the original spread-stats body.?full=truequery param removed entirely. Closes the original DoS surface wheregetStats()'s 6× count(*) on 96K-page brains through PgBouncer exceeded HEALTH_TIMEOUT_MSand triggered orchestrator restart cascades (Fly.io / k8s seeing 503 → restart loop → advisory-lock pile-up on the migration lock). Outside-voice review (Codex) caught that/admin/api/health-indicatorsis NOT a full-stats endpoint (returns only{expiring_soon, error_rate}), and that an alternative loopback-IP gate would have depended on app.set('trust proxy', 'loopback')semantics holding under proxy/XFF misconfiguration; the shipped admin-cookie design avoids both. **v0.31.3 (#681):** every OAuth/admin/audit SQL call routes throughsqlQueryForEngine(engine)fromsrc/core/sql-query.tssogbrain serve --httpworks against PGLite brains. The fourmcp_request_log.paramsINSERT sites (success path, auth_failed path, scope_denied path, server-error path) all go throughexecuteRawJsonb(engine, ...)so the JSONB column stores real objects, not JSON-encoded strings — closes the bug whereparams->>'op'returned the encoded string"search"(with quotes) instead ofsearch. Migration v46 normalizes any pre-v0.31.3 string-shaped backlog rows on first start. **v0.34.1.0 (#864):** new --bind HOSTCLI flag with default127.0.0.1. Personal-laptop installs no longer publish the brain to the LAN by accident. Self-hosted operators pass --bind 0.0.0.0(or a specific interface IP) once to accept remote connections. A stderr WARN fires when--public-urlis set without--bindso the operator sees the binding before the first request (common cause of "ngrok forwards to me but the agent can't reach the upstream" misconfigurations). The startup banner prints aBind:line. **v0.34.1.0 (#861):** drops the(authInfo as AuthInfo & {sourceId?: string}).sourceId ?? env ?? 'default'cast chain —AuthInfo.sourceIdandAuthInfo.allowedSourcesare now the typed source of truth, populated byoauth-provider.ts:verifyAccessTokenfrom theoauth_clients` row.
• src/core/sql-query.ts (v0.31.3) — Engine-aware tagged-template SQL adapter for OAuth/admin/auth infrastructure. sqlQueryForEngine(engine) returns a SqlQuery ((strings, ...values) => Promise<rows[]>) that walks the template, builds $N positional SQL, asserts every value is a SqlValue (string | number | bigint | boolean | Date | null), and routes through engine.executeRaw(sql, params) so Postgres goes via postgres.js's unsafe(sql, params) path and PGLite via its embedded db.query(sql, params). Deliberately narrower than postgres.js's sql tag: no nested fragments, no sql.json(), no sql.unsafe(), no sql.begin(), no array binding. The narrow surface is the feature — codex finding #7 from the v0.31 plan review argued the adapter should stay scalar-only or it drifts into a partial postgres.js clone. JSONB writes go through the separate executeRawJsonb(engine, sql, scalarParams, jsonbParams) helper that composes positional $N::jsonb casts and passes JS objects through; the v0.12.0 double-encode bug class doesn't apply because positional binding through unsafe() reaches the wire protocol with the correct type oid (verified by test/sql-query.test.ts on PGLite and test/e2e/auth-permissions.test.ts:67 on Postgres). scripts/check-jsonb-pattern.sh doesn't fire because executeRawJsonb(...) is a method call, not the banned literal-template-tag interpolation pattern. Consumed by src/commands/auth.ts, src/commands/serve-http.ts, src/core/oauth-provider.ts, src/commands/files.ts, and src/mcp/http-transport.ts so all five sites work against PGLite and Postgres uniformly. Closes the bug where gbrain auth + gbrain serve --http were silently Postgres-only because they routed every SQL through the postgres.js singleton (community PR #681).
• src/commands/serve.ts (v0.31.3) — gbrain serve stdio MCP entrypoint with idempotent shutdown across every parent-disconnect signal. Stdio EOF, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGHUP, and parent-process death (every reparent case — PID 1, launchd subreaper, systemd, tmux, or a parent shell with PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER) all funnel into one cleanup(reason) path that releases the engine and the PGLite write-lock dir within 5 seconds. Pre-v0.31.3 the stdio MCP server held the lock indefinitely after Claude Desktop / Cursor / launchd-managed gateways disconnected, forcing a 5-minute stale-lock wait on the next start. Watchdog reparent check is getParentPid() !== initialParentPid (capturing the initial ppid once at install time and firing on any change); the previous === 1 check missed the subreaper case under launchd / systemd. Bun's process.ppid cache is stale across reparenting (see oven-sh/bun#30305) so getParentPid() runs spawnSync('ps', ['-o', 'ppid=', '-p', PID]) per tick to read the live kernel PPID. Startup probe verifies ps is on PATH; if not (stripped containers, busybox without procps), the watchdog skips installing AND emits a loud [gbrain serve] watchdog disabled: ps unavailable, parent-death detection unavailable — child will rely on stdin EOF / signals only stderr line so operators see the degraded mode at boot. Pinned by test/serve-stdio-lifecycle.test.ts (22 cases). Closes #413, #446. Credit @Aragorn2046 (origin features in #591) and @seungsu-kr (rebased submitter, Bun ppid workaround).
• src/core/oauth-provider.ts (v0.26.0) — GBrainOAuthProvider implementing the MCP SDK's OAuthServerProvider + OAuthRegisteredClientsStore interfaces. Backed by raw SQL (works on both PGLite and Postgres — OAuth is infrastructure, not a BrainEngine concern). Full OAuth 2.1 spec: authorize + exchangeAuthorizationCode with PKCE (for ChatGPT), client_credentials (for Perplexity / Claude), refresh_token with rotation, revokeToken, registerClient (DCR path validates redirect_uri must be https:// or loopback per RFC 6749 §3.1.2.1). All tokens + client secrets SHA-256 hashed before storage. Auth codes single-use with 10-minute TTL via atomic DELETE...RETURNING (closes RFC 6749 §10.5 TOCTOU race). Refresh rotation also DELETE...RETURNING (closes §10.4 stolen-token detection bypass). pgArray() escapes commas/quotes/braces in elements so a comma-bearing redirect_uri can't smuggle a second array element. Legacy access_tokens fallback in verifyAccessToken grandfathers pre-v0.26 bearer tokens as read+write+admin. sweepExpiredTokens() runs on startup wrapped in try/catch. v0.26.9 RFC 6749/7009 hardening pass: F1+F2 fold client_id atomically into the DELETE WHERE clauses for both auth-code exchange and refresh rotation — pre-fix the post-hoc client compare burned the row on wrong-client paths so the legitimate client couldn't retry. F3 enforces refresh-scope-subset against the original grant on the row (RFC 6749 §6), not the client's currently-allowed scopes — fixes the case where revoking a scope from a client wouldn't shrink the agent's existing refresh tokens. F4 binds client_id on revokeToken so a client can only revoke its own tokens (RFC 7009 §2.1). F7c validates the /token request's redirect_uri against the value stored at /authorize (RFC 6749 §4.1.3) — empty-string treated as missing rather than wildcard match (adversarial-review fix). F5 swaps bare catch {} blocks in verifyAccessToken and getClient for isUndefinedColumnError from src/core/utils.ts — only SQLSTATE 42703 falls through to legacy fallback; lock timeouts and network blips throw and surface. F6 makes sweepExpiredTokens() actually return the count via RETURNING 1 + array length, not a fire-and-forget zero. F12 adds dcrDisabled constructor option so serve-http.ts can disable the /register endpoint without monkey-patching the router. v0.26.2: module-private coerceTimestamp() boundary helper at the top of the file normalizes postgres-driver-as-string BIGINT columns to JS numbers at every read site (5 call sites: getClient L112+L113 for DCR /register RFC 7591 §3.2.1 numeric timestamps, exchangeRefreshToken L274 + verifyAccessToken L296+L303 for the SDK's typeof === 'number' bearerAuth check). Throws on non-finite input (NaN/Infinity) so corrupt rows fail loud at the boundary instead of riding through as expiresAt: NaN; returns undefined for SQL NULL so callers decide NULL semantics explicitly (refresh + access token paths treat NULL as expired). Helper intentionally NOT promoted to src/core/utils.ts — codex review flagged repo-wide BIGINT precision-loss risk for a generic helper. v0.34.1.0 (#909): registerClient honors token_endpoint_auth_method: "none" (RFC 7591 §3.2.1) — public PKCE clients (Claude Code, Cursor, every other PKCE-first MCP client) store client_secret_hash = NULL and the response payload omits client_secret entirely. Confidential clients (default client_secret_post and explicit client_secret_basic) keep their one-time-reveal shape. getClient correctly normalizes a NULL client_secret_hash to JS undefined so the SDK's clientAuth path accepts the public client at /token. v0.34.1.0 (#861 + #876): verifyAccessToken JOINs oauth_clients.source_id (write scope, scalar) + oauth_clients.federated_read (read scope, TEXT[]) and surfaces both on the returned AuthInfo. Pre-v60 / pre-v61 brains degrade gracefully via isUndefinedColumnError fallback so the upgrade chain is non-blocking on legacy DBs.
• admin/ (v0.26.0) — React 19 + Vite + TypeScript admin SPA embedded in the binary via admin/dist/ served by serve-http.ts. 7 screens: Login (bootstrap token → session cookie), Dashboard (metrics + SSE feed + token health), Agents (sortable table + sparklines + Register button), Register (modal with scope checkboxes + grant type selector), Credentials reveal (full-screen modal with Copy + Download JSON + yellow one-time-only warning), Request Log (filterable paginated), Agent Detail drawer (Details / Activity / Config Export tabs + Revoke). Design tokens: #0a0a0f bg, Inter for UI, JetBrains Mono for data, 4-32px spacing scale, rounded pill badges. HTTP-only SameSite=Strict cookie auth. 65KB gzip. Build: cd admin && bun install && bun run build; output at admin/dist/ is committed for self-contained binaries.
• src/commands/auth.ts — Token management. gbrain auth create/list/revoke/test for legacy bearer tokens (v0.22.7 wired as a first-class CLI subcommand) plus gbrain auth register-client (v0.26.0) and gbrain auth revoke-client <client_id> (v0.26.2) for OAuth 2.1 client lifecycle. revoke-client runs an atomic DELETE...RETURNING on oauth_clients; FK ON DELETE CASCADE on oauth_tokens.client_id and oauth_codes.client_id purges every active token + authorization code in a single transaction. process.exit(1) on no-such-client (idempotent — re-running on the same id produces the same exit-1 message). Legacy tokens stored as SHA-256 hashes in access_tokens; OAuth clients in oauth_clients. As of v0.26.0, legacy tokens grandfather to read+write+admin scopes on the OAuth HTTP server, so pre-v0.26 deployments keep working with no migration. v0.31.3 (#681): every SQL site routes through sqlQueryForEngine(engine) from src/core/sql-query.ts (and executeRawJsonb for the takes-holders permissions JSONB column) so gbrain auth works against PGLite brains. Pre-fix, every call hit the postgres.js singleton via getConn() and silently failed (or wrote to the wrong DB) when the active engine was PGLite. The takes-holders write goes through executeRawJsonb(engine, sql, [name, hash], [{takes_holders:[...]}]) which round-trips with jsonb_typeof = 'object' instead of the pre-v0.31.3 quoted-string shape. v0.34.1.0 (#876): register-client accepts --source <id> (write authority, scalar) and --federated-read <S1,S2,...> (read scope, array). The output prints the resolved Write source and Federated reads for the registered client. Pre-v0.34 clients backfill to source_id='default' via migration v60 so existing deployments keep their v0.33 effective behavior verbatim.
• src/commands/upgrade.ts — Self-update CLI. runPostUpgrade() enumerates migrations from the TS registry (src/commands/migrations/index.ts) and tail-calls runApplyMigrations(['--yes', '--non-interactive']) so the mechanical side of every outstanding migration runs unconditionally.
• src/commands/migrations/ — TS migration registry (compiled into the binary; no filesystem walk of skills/migrations/*.md needed at runtime). index.ts lists migrations in semver order. v0_11_0.ts = Minions adoption orchestrator (8 phases). v0_12_0.ts = Knowledge Graph auto-wire orchestrator (5 phases: schema → config check → backfill links → backfill timeline → verify). phaseASchema has a 600s timeout (bumped from 60s in v0.12.1 for duplicate-heavy brains). v0_12_2.ts = JSONB double-encode repair orchestrator (4 phases: schema → repair-jsonb → verify → record). v0_14_0.ts = shell-jobs + autopilot cooperative (2 phases: schema ALTER minion_jobs.max_stalled SET DEFAULT 3 — superseded by v0.14.3's schema-level DEFAULT 5 + UPDATE backfill; pending-host-work ping for skills/migrations/v0.14.0.md). All orchestrators are idempotent and resumable from partial status. As of v0.14.2 (Bug 3), the RUNNER owns all ledger writes — orchestrators return OrchestratorResult and apply-migrations.ts persists a canonical {version, status, phases} shape after return. Orchestrators no longer call appendCompletedMigration directly. statusForVersion prefers complete over partial (never regresses). 3 consecutive partials → wedged → --force-retry <version> writes a 'retry' reset marker. v0.14.3 (fix wave) ships schema-only migrations v14 (pages_updated_at_index) + v15 (minion_jobs_max_stalled_default_5 with UPDATE backfill) via the MIGRATIONS array in src/core/migrate.ts — no orchestrator phases needed.
• src/commands/repair-jsonb.ts — gbrain repair-jsonb [--dry-run] [--json]: rewrites jsonb_typeof='string' rows in place across 5 affected columns (pages.frontmatter, raw_data.data, ingest_log.pages_updated, files.metadata, page_versions.frontmatter). Fixes v0.12.0 double-encode bug on Postgres; PGLite no-ops. Idempotent.
• src/commands/orphans.ts — gbrain orphans [--json] [--count] [--include-pseudo]: surfaces pages with zero inbound wikilinks, grouped by domain. Auto-generated/raw/pseudo pages filtered by default. Also exposed as find_orphans MCP operation. Shipped in v0.12.3 (contributed by @knee5).
• src/commands/salience.ts (v0.29) — gbrain salience [--days N] [--limit N] [--kind PREFIX] [--json]: pages ranked by emotional + activity salience over a recency window. Mirrors orphans.ts shape (pure data fn + JSON formatter + human formatter). Calls engine.getRecentSalience(opts). Score formula: (emotional_weight × 5) + ln(1 + active_take_count) + 1/(1 + days_since_update).
• src/commands/anomalies.ts (v0.29) — gbrain anomalies [--since YYYY-MM-DD] [--lookback-days N] [--sigma N] [--json]: cohort-level activity outliers. Calls engine.findAnomalies(opts). Two cohort kinds in v1: tag, type. Year cohort deferred to v0.30.
• src/commands/whoknows.ts (v0.33) — gbrain whoknows <topic> [--explain] [--limit N] [--json]: expertise + relationship-proximity routing. Mirrors v0.29 salience/anomalies shape (pure rankCandidates() + findExperts() orchestrator + runWhoknows() CLI dispatch + thin-client routing). MCP op = find_experts (scope: read, localOnly: false) per ENG-D5. Ranking formula (ENG-D1 locked): score = log(1 + raw_match) × max(0.1, exp(-days/180)) × (0.5 + 0.5 × salience) where raw_match is hybridSearch's RRF+source-boost score. Filters at SQL via the new SearchOpts.types: ['person', 'company'] (no post-filter waste). hybridSearch's internal salience+recency boosts are intentionally disabled — the locked formula applies on a clean signal. Floors prevent multiplicative-zero edge cases (cold-start people stay visible); ties break alphabetically by slug for determinism. 16 unit tests in test/whoknows.test.ts pin the math.
• src/commands/eval-whoknows.ts (v0.33, v0.33.1.3 thin-client wiring) — gbrain eval whoknows <fixture.jsonl> [--json] [--skip-replay]: two-layer eval gate (ENG-D2). Layer 1 quality (hand-labeled fixture, top-3 hit rate ≥ 0.8). Layer 2 regression (eval_candidates replay set-Jaccard@3 ≥ 0.4). Sparseness fallback: < 20 replay-eligible rows → Layer 2 auto-skips with stderr warning. Stable JSON envelope with schema_version: 1. Exit 0/1/2 for pass/fail/usage so CI can gate. Mirrors v0.27.x cross-modal + v0.28.1 longmemeval dispatch shape under src/commands/eval.ts. v0.33.1.3: WhoknowsFn callable abstraction lets the gates be impl-agnostic. runEvalWhoknows(engine: BrainEngine | null, args) picks the impl at entry — thin-client mode (isThinClient(cfg)) routes per-query through callRemoteTool(cfg, 'find_experts', {topic, limit}) via the v0.31.1 seam; local mode calls findExperts(engine, ...) directly. cli.ts adds a thin-client bypass before connectEngine for gbrain eval whoknows, matching the longmemeval/cross-modal no-DB pattern. Regression gate auto-skips in thin-client mode (no DB access to eval_candidates). Public exports jaccardAtK, topKHit, readFixture, WhoknowsFn, threshold constants are pinned by test/eval-whoknows.test.ts (25 cases, +2 for the null-engine signature contract).
• test/fixtures/whoknows-eval.jsonl (v0.33) — 10-row synthetic placeholder demonstrating the eval-fixture schema ({query, expected_top_3_slugs, notes?} JSONL). End users replace with their own real queries before shipping; the placeholder uses obviously-example slugs (wiki/people/example-alice) so production data isn't conflated with the test fixture. Drives test/e2e/whoknows.test.ts (which seeds a matching synthetic brain and asserts the >=80% gate) and the whoknows_health doctor check.
• src/commands/transcripts.ts (v0.29) — gbrain transcripts recent [--days N] [--full] [--json]: recent raw .txt transcripts from the dream-cycle corpus dirs. Imports listRecentTranscripts from src/core/transcripts.ts (the same library the gated get_recent_transcripts MCP op uses). Local-only by construction — the CLI always runs with ctx.remote=false.
• src/commands/integrity.ts — gbrain integrity check|auto|review|extract: bare-tweet detection, dead-link detection, three-bucket repair (auto-repair / review-queue / skip). scanIntegrity() is the shared library function called from gbrain doctor (sampled at limit=500) and cmdCheck (full scan). v0.22.8: batch-load fast path on Postgres uses a single SQL query to fix the PgBouncer round-trip timeout (60s → ~6s). Gated by engine.kind === 'postgres' at the call site so PGLite never enters batch; fallback catch logs at GBRAIN_DEBUG=1 so real Postgres errors are diagnosable. v0.32.8 (PR #860): batch projection switched from SELECT DISTINCT ON (slug) to SELECT ... ORDER BY source_id, slug so multi-source brains scan each (source, slug) row independently (pre-fix the DISTINCT collapsed same-slug-different-source pages into one scan, the same bug class this PR fixes). Sequential and auto-repair loops use listAllPageRefs() to enumerate (slug, source_id) pairs and thread sourceId to getPage. Batch + sequential paths now report the same page count on multi-source brains.
• src/commands/doctor.ts — gbrain doctor [--json] [--fast] [--fix] [--dry-run] [--index-audit]: health checks. v0.12.3 added jsonb_integrity + markdown_body_completeness reliability checks. v0.14.1: --fix delegates inlined cross-cutting rules to > **Convention:** see [path](path). callouts (pipes DRY violations into src/core/dry-fix.ts); --fix --dry-run previews without writing. v0.14.2: schema_version check fails loudly when version=0 (migrations never ran — the #218 bun install -g signature) and routes users to gbrain apply-migrations --yes; new opt-in --index-audit flag (Postgres-only) reports zero-scan indexes from pg_stat_user_indexes (informational only, no auto-drop). v0.15.2: every DB check is wrapped in a progress phase; markdown_body_completeness runs under a 1s heartbeat timer so 10+ min scans are observable on 50K-page brains. v0.19.1 added queue_health (Postgres-only) with two subchecks: stalled-forever active jobs (started_at > 1h) and waiting-depth-per-name > threshold (default 10, override via GBRAIN_QUEUE_WAITING_THRESHOLD). Worker-heartbeat subcheck intentionally deferred to follow-up B7 because it needs a minion_workers table to produce ground-truth signal. Fix hints point at gbrain repair-jsonb, gbrain sync --force, gbrain apply-migrations, and gbrain jobs get/cancel <id>. v0.22.12 (#500): sync_failures check shows [CODE=N, ...] breakdown for both unacked entries (warn) and acked-historical entries (ok), surfacing systemic failure modes (SLUG_MISMATCH=2685) instead of a bare count. v0.26.7 (#612): rls_event_trigger check (post-install drift detector for migration v35's auto-RLS event trigger). Lives outside the // 5. RLS slice that the structural doctor.test.ts guards anchor on, so the existing test guards stay intact. Healthy evtenabled set is ('O','A') only — R is replica-only and would not fire in normal sessions; D is disabled. Fix hint is gbrain apply-migrations --force-retry 35. v0.30.2: queue_health gains a fourth subcheck — surfaces dead-lettered subagent jobs with last_error matching the prompt_too_long classifier within the last 24h. Fix hint points at gbrain dream --phase synthesize --dry-run --json to identify the offending transcript and gbrain jobs prune --status dead --queue default to clean up. Postgres-only. v0.31.7: runDoctor switches to autoDetectSkillsDirReadOnly (from src/core/repo-root.ts) so bun install -g github:garrytan/gbrain && cd ~ && gbrain doctor finds the bundled skills/ via the install-path fallback instead of warning "Could not find skills directory" + docking the health score. --fix carries a D6 safety gate: when detected.source === 'install_path', the command refuses auto-repair with a stderr message pointing at $GBRAIN_SKILLS_DIR / $OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE / --skills-dir, because autoFixDryViolations writes to SKILL.md files and would otherwise silently rewrite the install tree. The graph_coverage check now short-circuits to ok: 'No entity pages — graph_coverage not applicable (markdown-only brain)' when SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pages WHERE type IN ('entity','person','company','organization') returns 0 (closes #530); the entity count is woven into the warn message and the WARN hint switches from the long-deprecated gbrain link-extract && gbrain timeline-extract (gone since v0.16) to the canonical gbrain extract all. Pinned by an IRON-RULE regression assertion in test/doctor.test.ts that bans the stale verb names from the source string. v0.32.4: new sync_freshness check (exported checkSyncFreshness at the same file) added to both runDoctor (local) and doctorReportRemote (thin-client). Pure staleness probe — queries sources.last_sync_at only, no filesystem access. Warns at 24h, fails at 72h (or never-synced). Future-last_sync_at warns ("clock skew or corrupted timestamp") instead of silently falling through as ok — codex outside-voice caught the negative-ageMs bug pre-merge. Env-var overrides GBRAIN_SYNC_FRESHNESS_WARN_HOURS / GBRAIN_SYNC_FRESHNESS_FAIL_HOURS; invalid values fall back to defaults with a once-per-process stderr warn (_resolveSyncFreshnessHours). Failure messages embed source.id (not source.name) so the printed fix command gbrain sync --source <id> matches what the user copy-pastes. Filesystem-vs-DB page drift detection was deliberately stripped from the v0.32.4 scope — doctorReportRemote runs in the HTTP MCP server (src/commands/serve-http.ts), and walking DB-supplied local_path from a remote-callable endpoint crosses a trust boundary (OAuth write scope could mutate sources.local_path). Drift detection will resurface in a separate PR routed through multi_source_drift's existing guard infrastructure (GBRAIN_DRIFT_LIMIT / GBRAIN_DRIFT_TIMEOUT_MS) with slug normalization tests and a meta-file allow-list. Pinned by 12 cases in test/doctor.test.ts ("v0.32.4 — sync_freshness check" describe block): empty sources, never-synced fail, >72h fail, exact 72h boundary, 24h-72h warn, exact 24h boundary, <24h ok, future-timestamp warn, mixed sources (highest severity wins), executeRaw throws → outer-catch warn, GBRAIN_SYNC_FRESHNESS_FAIL_HOURS=6 override fires at 7h, source.id-in-message regression.
• src/core/migrate.ts — schema-migration runner. Owns the MIGRATIONS array (source of truth for schema DDL). v40 (v0.29): pages_emotional_weight adds pages.emotional_weight REAL NOT NULL DEFAULT 0.0. Column-only (no index). On Postgres 11+ and PGLite, ADD COLUMN with a constant DEFAULT is metadata-only — instant on tables of any size. v0.14.2 extended the Migration interface with sqlFor?: { postgres?, pglite? } (engine-specific SQL overrides sql) and transaction?: boolean (set to false for CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, which Postgres refuses inside a transaction; ignored on PGLite since it has no concurrent writers). Migration v14 (fix wave) uses a handler branching on engine.kind to run CONCURRENTLY on Postgres (with a pre-drop of any invalid remnant via pg_index.indisvalid) and plain CREATE INDEX on PGLite. v15 bumps minion_jobs.max_stalled default 1→5 and backfills existing non-terminal rows. v0.22.6.1: migration v24 (rls_backfill_missing_tables) uses sqlFor: { pglite: '' } to no-op on PGLite — PGLite has no RLS engine and is single-tenant by definition, and the v24 ALTERs target subagent tables that don't exist in pglite-schema.ts. Closes #395 (contributed by @jdcastro2). v30 (v0.23): creates dream_verdicts (file_path TEXT, content_hash TEXT, worth_processing BOOL, reasons JSONB, judged_at TIMESTAMPTZ, PK(file_path, content_hash)). RLS-enabled when running as a BYPASSRLS role. The synthesize phase reads/writes this table to avoid re-judging on backfill re-runs. v35 (v0.26.7): auto-RLS event trigger + one-time backfill. auto_rls_on_create_table fires on ddl_command_end for WHEN TAG IN ('CREATE TABLE','CREATE TABLE AS','SELECT INTO') and runs ALTER TABLE … ENABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY on every new public.* table — no FORCE (matches v24/v29/schema.sql posture so non-BYPASSRLS apps can still read their own tables). The same migration backfills RLS on every existing public.* base table whose comment doesn't match the doctor regex (^GBRAIN:RLS_EXEMPT\s+reason=\S.{3,}). Per-table failure aborts the offending CREATE TABLE (event triggers fire inside the DDL transaction); no EXCEPTION wrap — that would convert loud rollback into silent permissive default. PGLite no-op via sqlFor.pglite: ''. Breaking change: operators with intentionally-RLS-off public tables must add the GBRAIN:RLS_EXEMPT comment BEFORE upgrade or the backfill will flip them on. v46 (v0.31.3): mcp_request_log_params_jsonb_normalize rewrites pre-v0.31.3 rows where mcp_request_log.params was stored as a JSON-encoded string (jsonb_typeof = 'string') up to a real JSONB object via UPDATE ... SET params = params::text::jsonb WHERE jsonb_typeof(params) = 'string'. Single statement, idempotent — second-run finds no string-shaped rows and is a no-op. Closes the bug where /admin/api/requests returned a quoted string instead of the parsed object. v0.34.1.0 (#861 + #876, v60-v65): six-migration chain wires source-scoping into the OAuth client table. v60 (oauth_clients_source_id_fk) adds oauth_clients.source_id TEXT with NULL→'default' backfill and an FK to sources(id) ON DELETE SET NULL. v61 (oauth_clients_federated_read_column) adds federated_read TEXT[] NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}'. v62 (oauth_clients_federated_read_backfill) explicit-CASE backfills so source_id IS NULL produces '{}' not an array-containing-NULL. v63 (oauth_clients_federated_read_validate) is the fail-loud check that every row's source_id is in its federated_read array post-backfill. v64 (oauth_clients_source_id_fk_restrict) flips the FK to ON DELETE RESTRICT now that federated_read provides the alternative scope-loss path — source delete is refused if any client references it. v65 (oauth_clients_federated_read_gin_index) is the GIN index for the array-containment queries the read paths run. PGLite parity via sqlFor.pglite where needed.
• src/core/progress.ts — Shared bulk-action progress reporter. Writes to stderr. Modes: auto (TTY: \r-rewriting; non-TTY: plain lines), human, json (JSONL), quiet. Rate-gated by minIntervalMs and minItems. startHeartbeat(reporter, note) helper for single long queries. child() composes phase paths. Singleton SIGINT/SIGTERM coordinator emits abort events for every live phase. EPIPE defense on both sync throws and stream 'error' events. Zero dependencies. Introduced in v0.15.2.
• src/core/cli-options.ts — Global CLI flag parser. parseGlobalFlags(argv) returns {cliOpts, rest} with --quiet / --progress-json / --progress-interval=<ms> stripped. getCliOptions() / setCliOptions() expose a module-level singleton so commands reach the resolved flags without parameter threading. cliOptsToProgressOptions() maps to reporter options. childGlobalFlags() returns the flag suffix to append to execSync('gbrain ...') calls in migration orchestrators. OperationContext.cliOpts extends shared-op dispatch for MCP callers.
• src/core/db-lock.ts (v0.22.13) — generic tryAcquireDbLock(engine, lockId, ttlMinutes) over the existing gbrain_cycle_locks table. Parameterized lock id so different scopes can nest cleanly: gbrain-cycle for the broad cycle (held by cycle.ts) and gbrain-sync (SYNC_LOCK_ID constant) for performSync's narrower writer window. Same UPSERT-with-TTL semantics as the prior cycle-only helper, just generalized. Survives PgBouncer transaction pooling (unlike session-scoped pg_try_advisory_lock); crashed holders auto-release once their TTL expires.
• src/core/sync-concurrency.ts (v0.22.13) — single source of truth for the parallel-sync policy. Exports autoConcurrency(engine, fileCount, override?) (PGLite always serial; explicit override clamped to >=1; auto path returns DEFAULT_PARALLEL_WORKERS=4 when fileCount > AUTO_CONCURRENCY_FILE_THRESHOLD=100), shouldRunParallel(workers, fileCount, explicit) (Q1: explicit --workers bypasses the >50-file floor), and parseWorkers(s) (rejects '0', '-3', 'foo', '1.5', trailing chars — replaces the prior parseInt-with-no-validation in both sync.ts and import.ts). Used by performSync, performFullSync, runImport, and the Minion sync handler so the three sites can no longer drift.
• src/commands/sync.ts — gbrain sync CLI + the performSync / performFullSync library entrypoints (consumed by the autopilot cycle and the Minion sync handler). v0.22.13 (PR #490): performSync wraps its body in a gbrain-sync writer lock so two concurrent syncs (manual + autopilot, two terminals, two Conductor workspaces) cannot both write last_commit and let the last writer win. Head-drift gate after the import phase re-checks git rev-parse HEAD; if HEAD moved (someone ran git checkout / git pull mid-sync), the bookmark refuses to advance. Vanished files now record a failedFiles entry instead of silent-skip — the silent-skip-then-advance pathology that survived prior hardening passes is dead. Worker engines wrap in try/finally so disconnect always fires (panic-path leak fix). Both PGLite-detection sites use engine.kind === 'pglite'. CLI accepts --workers N (alias --concurrency N), validated via parseWorkers. Explicit --workers bypasses the auto-path file-count floor; auto path defers to autoConcurrency(). Banner moved to stderr. v0.34.2.0: the inline .sort() over add/mod paths is replaced with sortNewestFirst(addsAndMods) from src/core/sort-newest-first.ts, so the newest-first descending-lex policy lives in one helper shared with gbrain import instead of drifting across two files.
• src/commands/import.ts — gbrain import CLI + runImport library entrypoint. v0.34.2.0 replaces the prior positional-index checkpoint (processedIndex: N into a sorted file list) with a path-set checkpoint via src/core/import-checkpoint.ts. The walk still applies sortNewestFirst() for embed-cost ordering, but checkpoint correctness no longer depends on sort order. A file enters completed: Set<relativePath> only when its processFile returns success (including content-hash short-circuit no-ops); failed files never enter the set, so the next run retries them automatically with no manual ~/.gbrain/import-checkpoint.json delete. Three bug classes died: parallel-import-with-slow-worker drops the slow file on crash-resume (closed — the slow file isn't in completed until its own processFile resolves), failed-file-bumps-counter-past-itself (closed — failures don't add to completed), and v0.33.x sort-flip-drops-newest-N-on-cross-version-resume (closed — order is no longer part of the checkpoint). Old positional checkpoints are detected and discarded with a stderr line on first resume; re-walking is cheap because content_hash short-circuits unchanged files. Checkpoint persists every 100 successful adds, not every 100 processed files, so a long failure tail doesn't churn the JSON. Pinned by test/import-checkpoint.test.ts (18 unit cases over the helpers) + test/import-resume.test.ts (5 integration cases under PGLite, including the SLUG_MISMATCH retry regression codex caught during plan-eng-review).
• src/core/import-checkpoint.ts (v0.34.2.0) — loadCheckpoint(brainDir), saveCheckpoint(brainDir, completed), resumeFilter(files, completed, brainDir), clearCheckpoint(), plus the ImportCheckpoint type. Path-set checkpoint format ({schema_version, brainDir, completed: string[]}) replaces the v0.33.x positional {processedIndex: N} format. Atomic write via .tmp + rename() so a mid-write crash never leaves a partial JSON. loadCheckpoint returns null on: missing file, malformed JSON, brainDir mismatch (you ran import against a different brain), and the old positional format (logged to stderr before being discarded). resumeFilter returns {toProcess, skippedCount} — pure, no I/O, deterministic. clearCheckpoint is no-op-on-missing for clean-exit cleanup. Honors GBRAIN_HOME via gbrainPath() so test isolation via withEnv({GBRAIN_HOME: tmpdir}) works without monkey-patching the fs layer. Best-effort persistence — saveCheckpoint logs warnings on write errors but never throws, so import keeps making progress even if disk is full.
• src/core/sort-newest-first.ts (v0.34.2.0) — single source of truth for the descending-lex sort that gbrain import and gbrain sync both apply. Mutates in place (Array.prototype.sort semantics), returns the same array reference for fluent chaining. Empty/single-element inputs short-circuit. Future ordering changes flip one line in this helper instead of touching two CLI commands. Pinned by test/sort-newest-first.test.ts (5 hermetic cases: descending order, mixed prefixes, empty input, single-element input, in-place-mutation contract).
• src/core/cycle.ts — v0.17 brain maintenance cycle primitive (extended to 9 phases in v0.29). runCycle(engine: BrainEngine | null, opts: CycleOpts): Promise<CycleReport> composes phases in semantically-driven order: lint → backlinks → sync → synthesize → extract → patterns → recompute_emotional_weight → embed → orphans. v0.29 adds the recompute_emotional_weight phase between patterns and embed; it sees the union of syncPagesAffected + synthesizeWrittenSlugs for incremental mode, or all pages when neither anchor is set (full backfill via gbrain dream --phase recompute_emotional_weight). v0.29 also extends CycleReport.totals with pages_emotional_weight_recomputed (additive, schema_version stays "1"). v0.23's synthesize phase runs after sync (cross-references see fresh brain) and before extract (auto-link materializes its writes); patterns runs after extract so it reads a fresh graph (codex finding #7 — subagent put_page sets ctx.remote=true and skips auto-link/timeline by default; extract is the canonical materialization). Three callers: gbrain dream CLI, gbrain autopilot daemon's inline path, and the Minions autopilot-cycle handler. Coordination via gbrain_cycle_locks DB table + ~/.gbrain/cycle.lock file lock with PID-liveness for PGLite. CycleReport.schema_version: "1" is stable; totals additively grew in v0.23 (transcripts_processed, synth_pages_written, patterns_written). yieldBetweenPhases runs between phases. v0.23 added yieldDuringPhase for in-phase keepalive — synthesize/patterns call it during long waits to renew the cycle-lock TTL. Engine nullable; lock-skip on read-only phase selections. v0.22.1 (#403): CycleOpts.signal?: AbortSignal propagates the worker's abort signal; checkAborted() fires between every phase. v0.22.1 (#417): runPhaseSync returns pagesAffected via SyncPhaseResult; runCycle captures it and threads to runPhaseExtract as the 4th arg. v0.22.1 (Codex F2): runPhaseSync takes willRunExtractPhase: boolean and sets noExtract: phases.includes('extract') so gbrain dream --phase sync doesn't silently lose extraction. v0.22.5 (#475): resolveSourceForDir(engine, brainDir) threads sourceId to performSync() so sync reads the per-source sources.last_commit anchor instead of the drift-prone global config.sync.last_commit key.
• src/core/cycle/synthesize.ts (v0.23) — Synthesize phase: conversation-transcript-to-brain pipeline. Reads from dream.synthesize.session_corpus_dir, runs cheap Haiku verdict (cached in dream_verdicts), then fans out one Sonnet subagent per worth-processing transcript with allowed_slug_prefixes (sourced from skills/_brain-filing-rules.json dream_synthesize_paths.globs). Orchestrator collects slugs from subagent_tool_executions (NOT pages.updated_at — codex finding #2) and reverse-renders DB → markdown via serializeMarkdown. Cooldown via dream.synthesize.last_completion_ts, written ONLY on success. Idempotency key dream:synth:<file_path>:<content_hash>. Auto-commit deferred to v1.1 (codex #5). --dry-run runs Haiku, skips Sonnet (codex #8). Subagent never gets fs-write access. v0.23.2: renderPageToMarkdown (now exported) stamps dream_generated: true and dream_cycle_date into every reverse-write's frontmatter; writeSummaryPage does the same on the dream-cycle summary index. The marker is the explicit identity surface checked by isDreamOutput in transcript-discovery.ts — replaces the v0.23.1 content-prefix heuristic that could miss real output (serializeMarkdown doesn't embed slugs in body) and false-positive on user transcripts citing brain pages. judgeSignificance and JudgeClient are exported; judgeSignificance accepts a verdictModel parameter (default claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) loaded from dream.synthesize.verdict_model via loadSynthConfig. v0.30.2: model-aware chunker splitTranscriptByBudget(content, contentHash, maxChars) splits oversized transcripts at paragraph boundaries (## Topic: → --- → \n ladder) using a deterministic offset seeded from the first 32 bits of contentHash so retries chunk identically. Per-chunk char budget computed from MODEL_CONTEXT_TOKENS[resolvedModel] × 0.9 × 3.5 chars/token; non-Anthropic ids fall back to a 180K-token safe default with a once-per-process stderr warning. Operator overrides: dream.synthesize.max_prompt_tokens (floor 100K, wins when set) and dream.synthesize.max_chunks_per_transcript (default 24). Per-chunk idempotency keys dream:synth:<filePath>:<hash16>:c<i>of<n>; single-chunk transcripts preserve the legacy dream:synth:<filePath>:<hash16> key byte-for-byte (D8 lookup), so existing brains skip with already_synthesized_legacy_single_chunk instead of re-spending Sonnet on upgrade. collectChildPutPageSlugs raw-fetches every (job_id, slug) pair (not SELECT DISTINCT) and rewrites bare-hash6 slugs to <hash6>-c<idx> for chunked children (D6 — orchestrator-side, zero Sonnet trust). Cap-hit skips don't write to dream_verdicts, so raising the cap on next run re-attempts cleanly. D7 scope: bounds INITIAL prompt size only; tool-loop turn-N accumulation is caught by the v0.30.2 terminal-error classification in subagent.ts, not bounded ahead of time.
• src/core/cycle/patterns.ts (v0.23) — Patterns phase: cross-session theme detection over reflections within dream.patterns.lookback_days (default 30). Names a pattern only when ≥dream.patterns.min_evidence (default 3) reflections support it. Single Sonnet subagent; same allow-list path as synthesize. Runs AFTER extract so the graph is fresh.
• src/core/cycle/emotional-weight.ts (v0.29) — Pure function computeEmotionalWeight({tags, takes}, {highEmotionTags?, userHolder?}). Deterministic 0..1 score: tag-emotion boost (max 0.5, case-insensitive match against HIGH_EMOTION_TAGS seed list), take density (0.1/take, capped at 0.3), take avg weight (0..0.1), user-holder ratio (0..0.1 over active takes; default holder = 'garry'). Total clamped to [0..1]. Anglocentric / personal-life-biased seed list intentional; users override via config key emotional_weight.high_tags (JSON array). userHolder overridable via emotional_weight.user_holder.
• src/core/cycle/anomaly.ts (v0.29) — Pure stats helpers for find_anomalies. meanStddev returns sample stddev (n-1 denominator) and (0,0) for empty input. computeAnomaliesFromBuckets(baseline, today, sigma, limit) takes densified daily-count buckets + today's counts per cohort, returns AnomalyResult[]. Zero-stddev fallback: cohort fires when count > mean + 1, with sigma_observed = count - mean as a finite sort proxy (no NaN). Brand-new cohorts (no baseline) have mean=0, stddev=0 so the fallback fires at count >= 2. Sorted by sigma_observed desc, top limit (default 20). page_slugs capped at 50 per cohort.
• src/core/cycle/recompute-emotional-weight.ts (v0.29) — Cycle phase orchestrator. Two SQL round-trips total: engine.batchLoadEmotionalInputs(slugs?) → computeEmotionalWeight (per-row pure function) → engine.setEmotionalWeightBatch(rows). Reads config keys emotional_weight.high_tags (JSON array, falls back to default seed list on parse error) and emotional_weight.user_holder. Empty affectedSlugs array short-circuits with zero-work success. dry-run mode reports the would-write count without touching the DB. Engine throw bubbles into status: 'fail' with code RECOMPUTE_EMOTIONAL_WEIGHT_FAIL so the cycle continues.
• src/core/transcripts.ts (v0.29) — listRecentTranscripts(engine, opts) library reused by both the gbrain transcripts recent CLI and the get_recent_transcripts MCP op. Reads dream.synthesize.session_corpus_dir + dream.synthesize.meeting_transcripts_dir config keys (same as discoverTranscripts); walks for .txt files within days; applies isDreamOutput guard from transcript-discovery.ts (skips dream-generated files); returns {path, date, mtime, length, summary}[] sorted newest-first. Summary mode (default true) returns first non-empty line + ~250 trailing chars. Full mode caps at 100KB/file. Missing/non-existent corpus dirs return [], not error. Trust gate lives in the op handler, not here: the op throws permission_denied for ctx.remote === true; this library is a trusted library function used by both the gated op and the local CLI.
• src/core/operations-descriptions.ts (v0.29) — Constants module for tool descriptions. Pinned via test/operations-descriptions.test.ts. Houses GET_RECENT_SALIENCE_DESCRIPTION, FIND_ANOMALIES_DESCRIPTION, GET_RECENT_TRANSCRIPTS_DESCRIPTION plus the redirect-edited LIST_PAGES_DESCRIPTION, QUERY_DESCRIPTION, SEARCH_DESCRIPTION. Stable surface for the Tier-2 LLM routing eval — extracting them keeps the test from binding to whatever was in operations.ts at test-run time.
• src/core/cycle/transcript-discovery.ts (v0.23) — Pure filesystem walk for synthesize. discoverTranscripts(opts) filters .txt files by date range, min_chars, and word-boundary regex excludePatterns (Q-3: medical matches "medical advice" but NOT "comedical"; power users may pass full regex). readSingleTranscript(path) is the gbrain dream --input <file> ad-hoc path. v0.23.2 self-consumption guard: DREAM_OUTPUT_MARKER_RE (anchored at frontmatter open ---\n, optional BOM + CRLF tolerance, scans first 2000 chars for dream_generated: true with case-insensitive value and word boundary on true) drives isDreamOutput(content, bypass=false). Both discoverTranscripts and readSingleTranscript skip matching files and emit a [dream] skipped <basename>: dream_generated marker stderr log (no more silent skips). bypassGuard?: boolean on DiscoverOpts and readSingleTranscript's opts disables the guard for the explicit --unsafe-bypass-dream-guard escape hatch only — never auto-applied for --input. Replaces v0.23.1's DREAM_OUTPUT_SLUGS content-prefix list.
• src/commands/dream.ts — v0.17 gbrain dream CLI; ~80-line thin alias over runCycle. brainDir resolution requires explicit --dir OR sync.repo_path config. Flags: --dry-run, --json, --phase <name>, --pull, --dir <path>. v0.23 added --input <file> (ad-hoc transcript, implies --phase synthesize), --date YYYY-MM-DD, --from <d> --to <d> (backfill range). Conflict detection: --input + --date exits 2. ISO date validation. --dry-run runs Haiku significance verdict but skips Sonnet synthesis (codex finding #8 — NOT zero LLM calls). Exit code 1 on status=failed. v0.23.2 added --unsafe-bypass-dream-guard (long-form intentional, plumbed through runCycle.synthBypassDreamGuard → SynthesizePhaseOpts.bypassDreamGuard → discoverTranscripts({bypassGuard}) and readSingleTranscript({bypassGuard})). Loud stderr warning fires at synthesize-phase entry when set. Never auto-applied for --input so any caller can't silently re-trigger the loop bug.
• src/commands/friction.ts + src/core/friction.ts (v0.23) — gbrain friction {log,render,list,summary} reporter. Append-only JSONL under $GBRAIN_HOME/friction/<run-id>.jsonl. Schema is a flat extension of StructuredAgentError (D20). Render groups by severity → phase, defaults to --redact for md output (strips $HOME/$CWD to placeholders so reports paste safely in PRs). Run-id resolves from --run-id > $GBRAIN_FRICTION_RUN_ID > standalone.jsonl. Skills the claw-test exercises gain a _friction-protocol.md callout so agents know when to log friction.
• src/commands/claw-test.ts + src/core/claw-test/ (v0.23) — gbrain claw-test [--scenario <name>] [--live --agent openclaw]. End-to-end "fresh user" friction harness. Two modes: scripted (CI gate, agent-free) and live (real openclaw subprocess, $1–2 in tokens). Sets GBRAIN_HOME=<tempdir> for hermeticity and captures gbrain's --progress-json events from each child's stderr to verify expected phases ran (import.files, extract.links_fs, doctor.db_checks). Phases for scripted mode: setup → install_brain (gbrain init --pglite) → import (--no-embed) → query → extract → verify (gbrain doctor --json, asserts status: 'ok') → render. Live mode hands BRIEF.md from test/fixtures/claw-test-scenarios/<name>/ to the agent runner. v1 ships with the OpenClaw runner only (src/core/claw-test/runners/openclaw.ts, invokes openclaw agent --local --agent <name> --message <brief>); hermes runner deferred to v1.1. Transcript capture (transcript-capture.ts) uses fs.createWriteStream with 'drain'-event backpressure — D17 fix for the 256KB-burst child-stall scenario. v0.18 upgrade scenario seeded via seed-pglite.ts SQL replay.
• skills/_friction-protocol.md (v0.23) — shared cross-cutting convention skill (like _brain-filing-rules.md). Tells agents when to call gbrain friction log and how to choose a severity. Routes to friction CLI from any skill the claw-test exercises.
• scripts/check-progress-to-stdout.sh — CI guard against regressing to \r-on-stdout progress. Wired into bun run test via scripts/check-progress-to-stdout.sh && bun test in package.json.
• docs/progress-events.md — Canonical JSON event schema reference. Stable from v0.15.2, additive only.
• src/core/markdown.ts — Frontmatter parsing + body splitter. splitBody requires an explicit timeline sentinel (<!-- timeline -->, --- timeline ---, or --- immediately before ## Timeline/## History). Plain --- in body text is a markdown horizontal rule, not a separator. inferType auto-types /wiki/analysis/ → analysis, /wiki/guides/ → guide, /wiki/hardware/ → hardware, /wiki/architecture/ → architecture, /writing/ → writing (plus the existing people/companies/deals/etc heuristics).
• scripts/check-jsonb-pattern.sh — CI grep guard. Fails the build if anyone reintroduces (a) the ${JSON.stringify(x)}::jsonb interpolation pattern (postgres.js v3 double-encodes it), or (b) max_stalled INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 in any schema source file (v0.15.1 #219 regression guard — must be DEFAULT 5 to preserve SIGKILL-rescue). Wired into bun test.
• scripts/check-source-id-projection.sh (v0.32.8, PR #860) — CI grep guard for the multi-source bug class. Greps src/core/postgres-engine.ts + src/core/pglite-engine.ts for SELECT.*FROM pages projections matching the rowToPage feeder shape (id + slug + type + title) and fails if source_id is missing. After v0.32.8 Page.source_id is required at the type level; a projection that drops the column produces Page rows with source_id: undefined while TypeScript's : string lies about it. Codex's outside-voice review caught two pre-existing projections (getPage, putPage RETURNING) that lacked the column. Wired into bun run verify + bun run check:all.
• docker-compose.ci.yml + scripts/ci-local.sh (v0.23.1) — Local CI gate. bun run ci:local spins up pgvector/pgvector:pg16 + oven/bun:1 with named volumes (gbrain-ci-pg-data, gbrain-ci-node-modules, gbrain-ci-bun-cache), runs gitleaks on host, smoke-tests scripts/run-e2e.sh argv handling, runs unit tests with DATABASE_URL unset (matches GH Actions structure), then runs all 29 E2E files sequentially. --diff swaps in the diff-aware selector; --no-pull skips upstream pulls; --clean nukes named volumes. Postgres host port defaults to 5434 (avoids 5432 manual gbrain-test-pg and 5433 sibling-project conflict); override with GBRAIN_CI_PG_PORT=NNNN. Stronger gate than current PR CI's 2-file Tier 1 set — closes the "push-and-wait" feedback loop pre-push.
• scripts/select-e2e.ts + scripts/e2e-test-map.ts (v0.23.1) — Diff-aware E2E test selector. Reads three git sources (committed origin/master...HEAD, working-tree HEAD, and git ls-files --others --exclude-standard for untracked, NOT-gitignored files), classifies as EMPTY / DOC_ONLY / SRC. Fail-closed by design: EMPTY → all 29 files (clean branch shouldn't run nothing), DOC_ONLY (every path matches the README/CLAUDE/AGENTS/CHANGELOG/TODOS allowlist) → empty stdout, SRC → escape-hatch paths (schema, package.json, skills/) trigger all; otherwise the hand-tuned E2E_TEST_MAP glob → tests narrows; an unmapped src/ change still emits ALL files, never silently nothing. Pure-function exports (selectTests, classify, matchGlob) so it's trivial to test and fork. bun run ci:select-e2e prints the current selection on stdout, pipe-friendly. test/select-e2e.test.ts covers all 4 branches plus 3 codex regression guards (skills/, untracked files, unmapped src/) — 24 cases.
• scripts/run-e2e.sh (v0.23.1 update) — Sequential E2E runner. Now accepts an optional argv-driven file list (used by ci:local:diff to pipe in selector output) and a --dry-run-list flag that prints the resolved file list and exits (used by ci-local.sh's startup smoke-test). Falls back to test/e2e/*.test.ts when invoked with no args.
• scripts/llms-config.ts + scripts/build-llms.ts — Generator for llms.txt (llmstxt.org-spec web index) + llms-full.txt (inlined single-fetch bundle). Curated config drives both. Run bun run build:llms after adding a new doc. LLMS_REPO_BASE env var lets forks regenerate with their own URL base. FULL_SIZE_BUDGET (600KB) caps the inline bundle; generator WARNs if exceeded. Committed output is not analogous to schema-embedded.ts (no runtime consumer); we commit for GitHub browsing and fork-safe fetching.
• AGENTS.md — Local-clone entry point for non-Claude agents (Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Aider). Mirrors CLAUDE.md intent via relative links. Claude Code keeps using CLAUDE.md.
• docs/UPGRADING_DOWNSTREAM_AGENTS.md — Patches for downstream agent skill forks to apply when upgrading. Each release appends a new section. v0.10.3 includes diffs for brain-ops, meeting-ingestion, signal-detector, enrich.
• src/core/schema-embedded.ts — AUTO-GENERATED from schema.sql (run bun run build:schema)
• src/schema.sql — Full Postgres + pgvector DDL (source of truth, generates schema-embedded.ts)
• src/commands/integrations.ts — Standalone integration recipe management (no DB needed). Exports getRecipeDirs() (trust-tagged recipe sources), SSRF helpers (isInternalUrl, parseOctet, hostnameToOctets, isPrivateIpv4). Only package-bundled recipes are embedded=true; $GBRAIN_RECIPES_DIR and cwd ./recipes/ are untrusted and cannot run command/http/string health checks.
• src/core/search/expansion.ts — Multi-query expansion via Haiku. Exports sanitizeQueryForPrompt + sanitizeExpansionOutput (prompt-injection defense-in-depth). Sanitized query is only used for the LLM channel; original query still drives search.
• recipes/ — Integration recipe files (YAML frontmatter + markdown setup instructions)
• docs/guides/ — Individual SKILLPACK guides (broken out from monolith)
• docs/integrations/ — "Getting Data In" guides and integration docs
• docs/architecture/infra-layer.md — Shared infrastructure documentation
• docs/ethos/THIN_HARNESS_FAT_SKILLS.md — Architecture philosophy essay
• docs/ethos/MARKDOWN_SKILLS_AS_RECIPES.md — "Homebrew for Personal AI" essay
• docs/guides/repo-architecture.md — Two-repo pattern (agent vs brain)
• docs/guides/sub-agent-routing.md — Model routing table for sub-agents
• docs/guides/skill-development.md — 5-step skill development cycle + MECE
• docs/guides/idea-capture.md — Originality distribution, depth test, cross-linking
• docs/guides/quiet-hours.md — Notification hold + timezone-aware delivery
• docs/guides/diligence-ingestion.md — Data room to brain pages pipeline
• docs/designs/HOMEBREW_FOR_PERSONAL_AI.md — 10-star vision for integration system
• docs/mcp/ — Per-client setup guides (Claude Desktop, Code, Cowork, Perplexity)
• BrainBench (benchmark suite + corpus): lives in the separate gbrain-evals repo. Not installed alongside gbrain.
• skills/_brain-filing-rules.md — Cross-cutting brain filing rules (referenced by all brain-writing skills)
• skills/RESOLVER.md — Skill routing table (based on the agent-fork AGENTS.md pattern)
• skills/conventions/ — Cross-cutting rules (quality, brain-first, model-routing, test-before-bulk, cross-modal)
• skills/_output-rules.md — Output quality standards (deterministic links, no slop, exact phrasing)
• skills/signal-detector/SKILL.md — Always-on idea+entity capture on every message
• skills/brain-ops/SKILL.md — Brain-first lookup, read-enrich-write loop, source attribution
• skills/idea-ingest/SKILL.md — Links/articles/tweets with author people page mandatory
• skills/media-ingest/SKILL.md — Video/audio/PDF/book with entity extraction
• skills/meeting-ingestion/SKILL.md — Transcripts with attendee enrichment chaining
• skills/citation-fixer/SKILL.md — Citation format auditing and fixing
• skills/repo-architecture/SKILL.md — Filing rules by primary subject
• skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md — Create conforming skills with MECE check
• skills/daily-task-manager/SKILL.md — Task lifecycle with priority levels
• skills/daily-task-prep/SKILL.md — Morning prep with calendar context
• skills/cross-modal-review/SKILL.md — Quality gate via second model
• skills/cron-scheduler/SKILL.md — Schedule staggering, quiet hours, idempotency
• skills/reports/SKILL.md — Timestamped reports with keyword routing
• skills/testing/SKILL.md — Skill validation framework
• skills/soul-audit/SKILL.md — 6-phase interview for SOUL.md, USER.md, ACCESS_POLICY.md, HEARTBEAT.md
• skills/webhook-transforms/SKILL.md — External events to brain signals
• skills/data-research/SKILL.md — Structured data research: email-to-tracker pipeline with parameterized YAML recipes
• skills/minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md — Unified background-work skill (v0.20.4 consolidation of the former minion-orchestrator + gbrain-jobs split). Two lanes: shell jobs via gbrain jobs submit shell --params '{"cmd":"..."}' (operator/CLI only; MCP throws permission_denied for protected names) and LLM subagents via gbrain agent run (user-facing entrypoint). Shared Preconditions block, parent-child DAGs with depth/cap/timeouts, child_done inbox for fan-in, PGLite --follow inline path for dev. Triggers narrowed from bare "gbrain jobs" to "gbrain jobs submit" + "submit a gbrain job" so stats/prune/retry questions fall through to gbrain --help.
• templates/ — SOUL.md, USER.md, ACCESS_POLICY.md, HEARTBEAT.md templates
• skills/migrations/ — Version migration files with feature_pitch YAML frontmatter
• src/commands/publish.ts — Deterministic brain page publisher (code+skill pair, zero LLM calls)
• src/commands/backlinks.ts — Back-link checker and fixer (enforces Iron Law)
• src/commands/lint.ts — Page quality linter (catches LLM artifacts, placeholder dates)
• src/commands/report.ts — Structured report saver (audit trail for maintenance/enrichment)
• src/core/destructive-guard.ts (v0.26.5) — three-layer protection against accidental data loss in gbrain. assessDestructiveImpact(engine, sourceId) counts pages/chunks/embeddings/files for a source. checkDestructiveConfirmation(impact, opts) is the fail-closed gate (--confirm-destructive required when data is present; --yes alone is rejected). softDeleteSource / restoreSource / listArchivedSources / purgeExpiredSources drive the source-level archive lifecycle via the column shape introduced in migration v34 (sources.archived BOOLEAN, archived_at TIMESTAMPTZ, archive_expires_at TIMESTAMPTZ). v0.26.5 added the page-level analog through BrainEngine.softDeletePage / restorePage / purgeDeletedPages plus pages.deleted_at TIMESTAMPTZ and a partial purge index. The MCP delete_page op rewires to softDeletePage; new ops restore_page (scope: write) and purge_deleted_pages (scope: admin, localOnly: true) round out the surface. Search visibility (buildVisibilityClause in src/core/search/sql-ranking.ts) hides soft-deleted pages and archived sources from searchKeyword / searchKeywordChunks / searchVector in both engines. The autopilot cycle's new 9th purge phase calls purgeExpiredSources + engine.purgeDeletedPages(72) so the 72h TTL is real, not honor-system.
• src/commands/pages.ts (v0.26.5) — gbrain pages purge-deleted [--older-than HOURS|Nd] [--dry-run] [--json] operator escape hatch. Mirror of gbrain sources purge for the page-level lifecycle. Hard-deletes pages whose deleted_at is older than the cutoff; cascades to content_chunks/page_links/chunk_relations.
• openclaw.plugin.json — ClawHub bundle plugin manifest

BrainBench — in a sibling repo (v0.20+)

BrainBench — the public benchmark for personal-knowledge agent stacks — lives in github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals. It depends on gbrain as a consumer; gbrain never pulls in the ~5MB eval corpus or the pdf-parse dev dep at install time.

gbrain's public API surface (the exports map in package.json) is what gbrain-evals consumes: gbrain/engine, gbrain/types, gbrain/operations, gbrain/pglite-engine, gbrain/link-extraction, gbrain/import-file, gbrain/transcription, gbrain/embedding, gbrain/config, gbrain/markdown, gbrain/backoff, gbrain/search/hybrid, gbrain/search/expansion, gbrain/extract. Removing any of these is a breaking change for the gbrain-evals consumer.

Thin-client routing (v0.31.1, Issue #734)

gbrain init --mcp-only (v0.29.2) sets up a thin-client install: no local brain content, just an OAuth client pointing at a remote gbrain serve --http. v0.29.2/v0.30.0 only refused 9 obvious local-only commands; the other ~25 silently fell through to connectEngine() and opened the empty local PGLite, returning "No results." against a populated remote brain. v0.31.1 fixes the silent-empty-results bug class for every operation surface.

Key files:

• src/cli.ts — Routing seam INSIDE the existing op-dispatch path (CDX-1: no parallel src/core/thin-client/ module; routing is a ~80-line conditional in runThinClientRouted). Detects isThinClient(cfg) BEFORE connectEngine so thin-client installs never open the empty PGLite. localOnly ops on thin-client refuse via refuseThinClient (with pinpoint hint table THIN_CLIENT_REFUSE_HINTS). Banner via printIdentityBannerBestEffort before each routed call (suppressed by --quiet, GBRAIN_NO_BANNER=1, non-TTY default). Exhaustive TS never switch on RemoteMcpError.reason for canned, actionable error messages. ENG-2 renderer parity: local-engine path runs JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(result)) so renderers see the same shape on both paths (kills Date/bigint/Buffer drift class).
• src/core/mcp-client.ts — callRemoteTool(config, toolName, args, opts). Hardened in v0.31.1 (CDX-4): all transport errors normalized to RemoteMcpError via the toRemoteMcpError funnel. New CallRemoteToolOptions {timeoutMs, signal}; buildAbortController composes external signal with timeout. New RemoteMcpErrorReason stable union, RemoteMcpErrorDetail.kind ('timeout' | 'aborted' | 'unreachable') sub-tag, RemoteMcpErrorDetail.code field carrying server-supplied error codes (e.g. missing_scope). extractToolErrorCode parses JSON envelopes first, falls back to substring detection for legacy server messages. unpackToolResult<T>(res) unchanged (parses tool-call JSON content). _clearMcpClientTokenCache() test escape.
• src/core/cli-options.ts — parseGlobalFlags adds --timeout=Ns (accepts 30s, 2m, 500ms, plain ms). Default null = per-command default (30s for most ops, 180s for think). parseTimeout(s) exported helper.
• src/core/doctor-remote.ts — gbrain remote doctor adds the oauth_client_scopes_probe check (CDX-5). Probes the read tier via get_brain_identity and admin tier via get_health; reports per-tier status with pinpoint remediation when admin is missing. buildScopeCheck
  • ScopeProbeResult exported for test access. Skippable via GBRAIN_DOCTOR_SKIP_SCOPE_PROBE=1 for fixtures that mock /mcp at JSON-RPC initialize level only (MCP SDK Client hangs on shape mismatch).
• src/core/operations.ts — get_brain_identity op (read scope, no params, banner-only): cheap counter packet {version, engine, page_count, chunk_count, last_sync_iso} for the thin-client identity banner. Reuses engine.getStats(); banner's 60s client-side TTL bounds frequency to ≤1/60s per CLI process (well below the Fly.io health-check cadence that motivated the original getStats cost warning).
• src/commands/{salience,anomalies,graph-query,think}.ts — Per-command thin-client routing branches. These commands bypass the operation-layer dispatch in cli.ts (call engine.foo() directly), so each gets its own if (isThinClient(cfg)) { callRemoteTool(...) } branch that maps CLI flags to op params. think is a special case: the server's think op intentionally disables --save/--take for remote callers (operations.ts:1103-1135 trust-boundary gate); thin-client think warns loudly when those flags are set.

Commands

Run gbrain --help or gbrain --tools-json for full command reference.

Key commands added in v0.7:

• gbrain init — defaults to PGLite (no Supabase needed), scans repo size, suggests Supabase for 1000+ files
• gbrain migrate --to supabase / gbrain migrate --to pglite — bidirectional engine migration

Key commands added for Minions (job queue):

• gbrain jobs submit <name> [--params JSON] [--follow] [--dry-run] — submit a background job. v0.13.1 adds first-class flags for every MinionJobInput tuning knob: --max-stalled N, --backoff-type fixed|exponential, --backoff-delay Nms, --backoff-jitter 0..1, --timeout-ms N, --idempotency-key K.
• gbrain jobs list [--status S] [--queue Q] — list jobs with filters
• gbrain jobs get <id> — job details with attempt history
• gbrain jobs cancel/retry/delete <id> — manage job lifecycle
• gbrain jobs prune [--older-than 30d] — clean old completed/dead jobs
• gbrain jobs stats — job health dashboard
• gbrain jobs smoke [--sigkill-rescue] — health smoke test. --sigkill-rescue is the v0.13.1 regression guard for #219: simulates a killed worker and asserts the stalled job is requeued instead of dead-lettered on first stall.
• gbrain jobs work [--queue Q] [--concurrency N] — start worker daemon (Postgres only)

Key commands added in v0.32.7 (CJK fix wave):

• gbrain reindex --markdown [--limit N] [--dry-run] [--json] [--no-embed] [--repo PATH] — operator-facing markdown re-chunk sweep. Walks pages with chunker_version < MARKDOWN_CHUNKER_VERSION (currently 2) and re-imports each with forceRechunk: true so the new chunker shape actually applies. Run automatically by gbrain upgrade's post-upgrade hook; available manually for triage.
• gbrain doctor learns a new slug_fallback_audit check: surfaces info-severity entries from ~/.gbrain/audit/slug-fallback-YYYY-Www.jsonl (last 7 days) as an ok count when CJK / emoji / exotic-script filenames imported via the frontmatter-slug fallback path.
• gbrain search "<CJK substring>" on PGLite brains now uses an ILIKE-based fallback with bigram-frequency-count ranking when the query contains Han / Hiragana / Katakana / Hangul Syllables. ASCII queries continue through websearch_to_tsquery('english') unchanged. Postgres-side CJK FTS still requires an extension (pgroonga / zhparser) — see v0.33+ TODO.
• gbrain upgrade post-upgrade flow now prints a cost estimate before re-embedding: [chunker-bump] Will re-embed ~N markdown pages via <provider:model>, est. ~$X.XX, ~Ymin. Press Ctrl-C within 10s to abort. Sourced from real SQL counts + char totals; TTY-only wait (non-TTY auto-proceeds for CI / cron). Env overrides: GBRAIN_NO_REEMBED=1 bails out entirely with a doctor-warning marker; GBRAIN_REEMBED_GRACE_SECONDS=0 skips the wait.

Key commands added in v0.33.1.1 (Voyage 2048-dim correctness wave):

• gbrain models doctor learns a new zero-token embedding_config probe that runs FIRST, before any chat/expansion probes spend money. Catches Voyage flexible-dim misconfigs at config time, not first-embed: embedding_model: voyage:voyage-4-large with embedding_dimensions outside {256, 512, 1024, 2048} (most commonly: embedding_dimensions left unset, falling back to the OpenAI default 1536 which Voyage rejects with an opaque HTTP 400). Surfaces a paste-ready gbrain config set embedding_dimensions <256|512|1024|2048> fix in both human and JSON output. New probe status 'config' joins {ok, model_not_found, auth, rate_limit, network, unknown}; new touchpoint label 'embedding_config' joins 'chat' and 'expansion'.
• Voyage 2048-dim brains now actually embed at 2048 dims. embedding_model: voyage:voyage-4-large + embedding_dimensions: 2048 routes through the SDK-supported dimensions field, which voyageCompatFetch translates to Voyage's output_dimension on the wire. Same fix covers voyage-3-large, voyage-3.5, voyage-3.5-lite, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-code-3. voyage-4-nano (open-weight, fixed 1024-dim) intentionally NOT in the flexible-dim allowlist — sending output_dimension to nano's endpoint produces an error.
• Runtime validator: dimsProviderOptions() throws AIConfigError at the embed boundary with a paste-ready fix hint when a Voyage flexible-dim model is configured with an invalid dim — fail-loud even if you skipped gbrain models doctor.
• VoyageResponseTooLargeError (new tagged class exported from src/core/ai/gateway.ts): the 256 MB per-response cap inside voyageCompatFetch was previously throwing a generic Error that the surrounding parse-error try/catch silently swallowed, returning the oversized response to the AI SDK anyway. Now thrown at both cap sites (Content-Length Layer 1, per-embedding base64 Layer 2) and rethrown from the catch via instanceof check — the cap is now actually effective.

Key commands added in v0.31.12 (model tier system + routing CLI):

• gbrain models [--json] — read-only routing dashboard. Prints the four tier defaults (utility/reasoning/deep/subagent), the resolved value for each (after re-walking models.default → models.tier.<tier> → env → TIER_DEFAULTS), every per-task override (models.dream.synthesize, models.dream.patterns, models.drift, models.auto_think, models.think, models.subagent, facts.extraction_model, models.eval.longmemeval, models.expansion, models.chat, models.dream.synthesize_verdict), the alias map (defaults + user overrides), and a source-of-truth column (default / config: <key> / env: <VAR>).
• gbrain models doctor [--skip=<provider>] [--json] — 1-token reachability probe against each configured chat + expansion model. Classifies failures into {model_not_found, auth, rate_limit, network, unknown}. The structural fix for the bug class that motivated v0.31.12 (v0.31.6's claude-sonnet-4-6-20250929 chat default 404'd silently on every install).
• Power-user model routing via config keys:
  • gbrain config set models.default opus — route every internal call (chat, expansion, synthesis, classification) through Opus 4.7. Subagent loop still falls back to claude-sonnet-4-6 automatically (Anthropic-only by construction).
  • gbrain config set models.tier.<tier> <model> — override one tier independently (utility / reasoning / deep / subagent).
  • gbrain config set models.aliases.frontier anthropic:claude-opus-4-7 — define an alias, then gbrain config set models.default frontier.
  • Per-task keys (e.g. gbrain config set models.dream.synthesize <model>) still beat tier overrides because they are more specific.
• New subagent_provider check in gbrain doctor surfaces config drift if models.tier.subagent or models.default would route the Anthropic Messages API tool-loop to a non-Anthropic provider.
• The skill at skills/conventions/model-routing.md was rewritten to cover both the new tier system AND the existing subagent spawn routing in one canonical doc (power-user recipes, three-layer enforcement explanation, override priority chain).

Key commands added in v0.28.1 (LongMemEval in the box):

• gbrain eval longmemeval <dataset.jsonl> — run the public LongMemEval benchmark against gbrain hybrid retrieval. Flags: --limit N, --model M, --retrieval-only, --keyword-only, --expansion, --top-k K, --output FILE. One in-memory PGLite per benchmark run; TRUNCATE between questions over runtime-enumerated pg_tables (schema-migration-safe); ~/.gbrain never opened. --expansion defaults OFF (deterministic, no per-query Haiku). Default model resolves through resolveModel() 6-tier chain with new models.eval.longmemeval config key. gbrain eval longmemeval --help works without a configured brain (hermeticity gate).
• Sanitization parity with takes: INJECTION_PATTERNS exported from src/core/think/sanitize.ts. The benchmark harness re-uses the same pattern set so adding a new injection pattern automatically covers takes AND benchmarks.
• Hand the resulting JSONL to LongMemEval's published evaluate_qa.py to score (not bundled — needs OpenAI gpt-4o per their spec). Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/xiaowu0162/longmemeval.

Key commands added in v0.26.5 (destructive-guard, end-to-end):

• gbrain sources archive <id> — soft-delete a source. Hides from search via the new sources.archived column + cascading visibility filter. Preserves data for 72h. (PR #595 cherry-pick.)
• gbrain sources restore <id> [--no-federate] — un-archive a soft-deleted source. Re-federates by default.
• gbrain sources archived [--json] — list soft-deleted sources with their TTL.
• gbrain sources purge [<id>] [--confirm-destructive] — permanent delete; with no id, purges all sources whose TTL expired.
• gbrain sources remove <id> [--confirm-destructive] [--dry-run] — --yes alone no longer enough on populated sources. Boxed impact preview before destruction.
• gbrain pages purge-deleted [--older-than HOURS|Nd] [--dry-run] [--json] — operator escape hatch for page-level soft-delete cleanup. Mirror of gbrain sources purge. The autopilot cycle's new purge phase calls the same library function automatically every run.
• MCP delete_page op semantically shifts from hard-delete to soft-delete. New ops: restore_page (scope: write), purge_deleted_pages (scope: admin, localOnly: true).
• get_page and list_pages extended with include_deleted: boolean (default false).
• New autopilot cycle phase purge (9th, runs after orphans). gbrain dream --phase purge runs only the purge sweep.
• Index strategy note: the partial index pages_deleted_at_purge_idx ON pages (deleted_at) WHERE deleted_at IS NOT NULL supports the autopilot purge query. Search filters (WHERE deleted_at IS NULL) do NOT need their own index — soft-deleted cardinality stays low and Postgres won't use the partial index for the negative predicate. Don't add a regular (deleted_at) index without measuring.
• Schema migration v34 (destructive_guard_columns) adds pages.deleted_at + the partial purge index; promotes archived from sources.config JSONB to real columns; backfills any pre-v0.26.5 JSONB shape.

Key commands added in v0.25.0:

• gbrain eval export [--since DUR] [--limit N] [--tool query|search] — stream captured eval_candidates rows as NDJSON to stdout. Every line starts with "schema_version": 1 per the stable contract in docs/eval-capture.md. EPIPE-safe, progress heartbeats on stderr, deterministic ordering. Primary consumer is the sibling gbrain-evals repo for BrainBench-Real replay.
• gbrain eval prune --older-than DUR [--dry-run] — explicit retention cleanup for eval_candidates. Requires --older-than (never deletes without a window). Duration strings: 30d, 7d, 1h, 90m, 3600s.
• gbrain eval replay --against FILE.ndjson [--limit N] [--top-regressions K] [--json] [--verbose] — contributor-facing dev loop. Reads a captured NDJSON snapshot, re-runs each query / search op against the current brain, computes mean set-Jaccard@k between captured + current retrieved_slugs, top-1 stability rate, and latency Δ. JSON mode (schema_version: 1) for CI gating; human mode prints a regression table sorted worst-first. Closes the gap between "data captured" and "data used to gate a PR." See docs/eval-bench.md for the workflow.
• gbrain eval cross-modal --task "..." --output <path> [--cycles N] [--slot-a-model ID] [--slot-b-model ID] [--slot-c-model ID] [--receipt-dir DIR] [--json] (v0.27.x) — multi-model quality gate. Three different-provider frontier models score the OUTPUT against the TASK on 5 documented dimensions. Pass criterion: every dim mean >=7 AND no model scored any dim <5. Exit codes: 0 PASS, 1 FAIL, 2 INCONCLUSIVE (<2/3 models returned parseable scores). Default cycles=3 in TTY, cycles=1 in non-TTY (limits accidental scripted bulk spend). Default slots: openai:gpt-4o / anthropic:claude-opus-4-7 / google:gemini-1.5-pro — refresh alongside model-family bumps. Receipts land at ~/.gbrain/.gbrain/eval-receipts/<slug>-<sha8-of-output>.json (gbrainPath honors GBRAIN_HOME). Bypasses connectEngine() via the cli.ts no-DB branch — runs cleanly before gbrain init. Reuses src/core/ai/gateway.ts:chat() for config/auth (no parallel provider stack). Cost-estimate prints to stderr before each cycle (T11=B partial cost guardrail; full --budget-usd N is a follow-up TODO).
• gbrain doctor gains an eval_capture check: reads eval_capture_failures for the last 24h, groups by reason, warns when non-zero. Cross-process visibility (doctor runs in a separate process from MCP). Pre-v31 brains get Skipped (table unavailable) — non-fatal.
• Config addition: eval: { capture?: boolean, scrub_pii?: boolean } in ~/.gbrain/config.json. File-plane only — gbrain config set writes the DB plane and does NOT control capture.
• GBRAIN_CONTRIBUTOR_MODE=1 env var is the contributor-facing toggle. Capture is off by default as of v0.25.0; production users get a quiet brain. Resolution order: explicit eval.capture config wins both directions, then env var, then off. Documented in README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and docs/eval-bench.md.

Key commands added in v0.12.2:

• gbrain repair-jsonb [--dry-run] [--json] — repair double-encoded JSONB rows left over from v0.12.0-and-earlier Postgres writes. Idempotent; PGLite no-ops. The v0_12_2 migration runs this automatically on gbrain upgrade.

Key commands added in v0.12.3:

• gbrain orphans [--json] [--count] [--include-pseudo] — surface pages with zero inbound wikilinks, grouped by domain. Auto-generated/raw/pseudo pages filtered by default. Also exposed as find_orphans MCP operation. The natural consumer of the v0.12.0 knowledge graph layer: once edges are captured, find the gaps.
• gbrain doctor gains two new reliability detection checks: jsonb_integrity (v0.12.0 Postgres double-encode damage) and markdown_body_completeness (pages truncated by the old splitBody bug). Detection only; fix hints point at gbrain repair-jsonb and gbrain sync --force.

Key commands added in v0.14.2:

• gbrain sync --skip-failed — acknowledge the current set of failed-parse files recorded in ~/.gbrain/sync-failures.jsonl so the sync bookmark advances past them. Doctor's sync_failures check shows previously-skipped as "all acknowledged" instead of warning.
• gbrain sync --retry-failed — re-walk the unacknowledged failures and re-attempt parsing. If the files now succeed, they clear from the set and the bookmark advances naturally.
• gbrain apply-migrations --force-retry <version> — reset a wedged migration (3 consecutive partials with no completion) by appending a 'retry' marker. Next apply-migrations --yes treats the version as fresh. complete status never regresses to partial either before or after a retry marker.
• GBRAIN_POOL_SIZE env var — honored by both the singleton pool (src/core/db.ts) and the parallel-import worker pool (src/commands/import.ts). Default is 10; lower to 2 for Supabase transaction pooler to avoid MaxClients crashes during gbrain upgrade subprocess spawns. Read at call time via resolvePoolSize().
• gbrain doctor gains two new checks: sync_failures (surfaces unacknowledged parse failures with exact paths + fix hints) and brain_score (renders the 5-component breakdown when score < 100: embed coverage / 35, link density / 25, timeline coverage / 15, orphans / 15, dead links / 10 — sum equals total).

Key commands added in v0.26.0 (OAuth 2.1 + HTTP server + admin dashboard):

• gbrain serve --http [--port 3131] [--token-ttl 3600] [--enable-dcr] [--log-full-params] — HTTP MCP server with OAuth 2.1, admin dashboard at /admin, SSE activity feed at /admin/events, health check at /health. Prints admin bootstrap token on first start. Alongside (not replacing) stdio gbrain serve. As of v0.26.9, mcp_request_log.params and the SSE feed default to a redacted summary ({redacted, kind, declared_keys, unknown_key_count, approx_bytes}); pass --log-full-params to log raw payloads on a personal laptop with a startup warning.
• OAuth client registration — three paths:
  1. CLI: gbrain auth register-client <name> --grant-types <types> --scopes <scopes> (wired into src/commands/auth.ts as a thin wrapper over GBrainOAuthProvider.registerClientManual). Default grant types: client_credentials. Default scopes: read.
  2. Admin dashboard: Register client modal → credential reveal with Copy + Download JSON.
  3. SDK: oauthProvider.registerClientManual(name, grantTypes, scopes, redirectUris) for programmatic wrappers. --enable-dcr on serve --http opens the /register endpoint for RFC 7591 self-service registration (off by default).
• gbrain auth create|list|revoke|test — legacy bearer tokens still work and grandfather to read+write+admin scopes on the OAuth server. auth is wired as a first-class gbrain subcommand in v0.26.0 (previously only invokable via bun run src/commands/auth.ts). No migration required to keep pre-v0.26 clients working.

Key commands added in v0.14.3 (fix wave):

• gbrain doctor --index-audit — opt-in Postgres-only check reporting zero-scan indexes from pg_stat_user_indexes. Informational only; never auto-drops.
• gbrain doctor schema_version check fails loudly when version=0 — catches bun install -g github:... postinstall failures (#218) and routes users to gbrain apply-migrations --yes.
• gbrain jobs submit gains --max-stalled, --backoff-type, --backoff-delay, --backoff-jitter, --timeout-ms, --idempotency-key — exposing existing MinionJobInput fields as first-class CLI flags.
• gbrain jobs smoke --sigkill-rescue — opt-in regression smoke case simulating a killed worker; asserts the v0.14.3 schema default (max_stalled=5) actually rescues on first stall.

Key commands added in v0.22.13 (PR #490):

• gbrain sync --workers N (alias --concurrency N) — parallelize the import phase using per-worker Postgres engines (small pool of 2 each) with an atomic queue index. Auto-concurrency: defaults to 4 workers when the diff exceeds 100 files. Smaller diffs stay serial. Explicit --workers always wins (even on a 30-file diff). PGLite forces serial regardless. Validation rejects 0, negatives, non-integers loud (replaces the prior silent fall-through to auto-concurrency).
• gbrain import --workers N — same parseWorkers() validation as sync; same try/finally worker-engine cleanup. Behavior surface unchanged.

Key commands added in v0.22.16 (claw-test friction loop):

• gbrain claw-test [--scenario fresh-install|upgrade-from-v0.18] [--keep-tempdir] — scripted-mode CI gate that runs the full canonical first-day flow against a fresh tempdir. Asserts every expected --progress-json phase fired and doctor's status === 'ok'. ~30s, no API keys.
• gbrain claw-test --live --agent openclaw — friction-discovery mode. Spawns real openclaw, hands it BRIEF.md, captures stdin/stdout/stderr to <run>/transcript.jsonl, lets the agent log friction via the friction CLI. Run on demand; ~5–10 min and ~$1–2 in tokens.
• gbrain claw-test --list-agents — reports which agent runners are registered + their detection state (binary path or unavailable reason).
• gbrain friction log --severity {confused|error|blocker|nit} --phase <name> --message <text> [--hint ...] [--kind {friction|delight}] [--run-id ...] — append a friction or delight entry to the active run JSONL.
• gbrain friction render --run-id <id> [--json] [--transcripts] [--no-redact] — markdown report grouped by severity + phase; --redact is the default for md output (strips $HOME/$CWD placeholders so reports paste safely in PRs/issues).
• gbrain friction list [--json] — recent run-ids with friction/delight counts; interrupted runs marked (interrupted).
• gbrain friction summary --run-id <id> [--json] — two-column friction + delight summary.
• GBRAIN_HOME env override is now honored uniformly across every gbrain write site (config, audit, friction, sync-failures, import checkpoint, integrity log, integrations heartbeat, migration rollback, etc.) — gbrainPath(...) from src/core/config.ts is the canonical helper. Read-side host-fingerprint detection (~/.claude/~/.openclaw etc.) intentionally NOT confined in v1; that's a v1.1 follow-up.

Testing

Test command tiers (v0.26.4 — parallel fast loop)

Five tiers of test commands, each with a clear scope:

Command	What it runs	Wallclock	When to use
bun run test	Parallel unit-test fast loop. 8-shard fan-out via scripts/run-unit-parallel.sh, then a serial pass over *.serial.test.ts. Excludes *.slow.test.ts and test/e2e/*. No pre-checks, no typecheck.	~85s on a Mac dev box (3650+ tests)	Inner edit loop. Default.
bun run verify	CI's authoritative pre-test gate set: check:privacy && check:jsonb && check:progress && check:wasm && bun run typecheck. The 4 checks .github/workflows/test.yml runs on shard 1 + typecheck. Single source of truth — CI literally calls bun run verify.	~12s (wasm-compile dominates)	Before pushing; before /ship.
bun run test:full	verify && bun run test && bun run test:slow && [smart e2e]. The local equivalent of "everything CI runs." Smart e2e: runs e2e only when DATABASE_URL is set; else loud skip notice to stderr.	~3-5min depending on slow + e2e	Pre-merge sanity, before opening a PR.
bun run test:slow	Just the *.slow.test.ts set (intentional cold-path correctness checks).	seconds-to-minutes	When touching slow-path code.
bun run test:serial	Just the *.serial.test.ts set (cross-file-contention quarantine; runs at --max-concurrency=1).	~1s per quarantined file	Debugging a specific quarantined file.
bun run test:e2e	Real Postgres E2E. Requires Docker + DATABASE_URL. Sequential (template-DB parallelization is a v0.27+ TODO).	~5-10min	Pre-ship; nightly.
bun run check:all	All 7 historical pre-checks (privacy + jsonb + progress + no-legacy-getconnection + trailing-newline + wasm + exports-count). Superset of verify.	~10s	Local-only sweep. The 4 not in verify are nice-to-haves.

CI vs local: intentionally divergent file sets

• CI matrix (.github/workflows/test.yml) runs scripts/test-shard.sh 4-way, which uses FNV-1a hash bucketing and INCLUDES *.slow.test.ts. As of v0.31.4.1, CI EXCLUDES *.serial.test.ts from the hash buckets and runs them on shard 1 via bun run test:serial at --max-concurrency=1. Before that, serial files were hashed in alongside parallel files, which broke the mock.module quarantine (top-level mocks in serial files leaked into the parallel files they shared a shard process with — most visibly, eval-takes-quality-runner.serial.test.ts stubbed gateway.ts and broke every gateway.embedMultimodal test in voyage-multimodal.test.ts on shard 2). CI is the ground truth for "did everything pass."
• Local fast loop (scripts/run-unit-shard.sh via the parallel wrapper) uses round-robin-by-index sharding and EXCLUDES *.slow.test.ts AND *.serial.test.ts. Local trades coverage for inner-loop speed; CI catches what local skips.

This divergence is intentional. Don't try to make them equal — the two scripts deliberately solve different problems. The regression test at test/scripts/run-unit-shard.test.ts pins what the local fast loop should and shouldn't include.

Failure-first logging

When bun run test finds any failure, the wrapper:

1. Writes failure blocks (each prefixed with --- shard N: <test name> ---) to .context/test-failures.log (workspace-local, gitignored). On systems without a writable .context/, falls back to /tmp/gbrain-test-failures.log.
2. Prints a loud stderr banner with the absolute log path, plus the last 30 lines of the failure log inlined. Banner survives | head / | tail / agent-side log truncation.
3. Writes a one-line-per-shard summary to .context/test-summary.txt (shard N/M: pass=X fail=Y skip=Z rc=W).
4. Exits non-zero. Empty failure log + non-zero exit = infrastructure problem (wedged shard, killed child); the banner says so.

If a shard wedges (per-shard GBRAIN_TEST_SHARD_TIMEOUT cap, default 600s), the wrapper writes --- shard N: WEDGED after ${SHARD_TIMEOUT}s --- to the failure log, includes the last 50 lines of the shard log, and proceeds with other shards' results.

File taxonomy

• *.test.ts → fast loop (parallel 8-shard fan-out).
• *.slow.test.ts → run via bun run test:slow only (intentional cold-path tests; would dominate the fast loop's wallclock).
• *.serial.test.ts → run via bun run test:serial after the parallel pass completes; uses --max-concurrency=1. Quarantine for tests that share file-wide state and race when run alongside other files in the same bun test process. Currently: test/brain-registry.serial.test.ts, test/reconcile-links.serial.test.ts, test/core/cycle.serial.test.ts, test/embed.serial.test.ts (the latter two added in v0.26.7 — they use mock.module(...) which leaks across files in the shard process). Do not put the parallelism back on a serial file unless you've fixed the contention root cause (it just re-introduces the flake).
• test/e2e/*.test.ts → real-Postgres E2E. Skipped when DATABASE_URL is unset.

The intra-file parallelism project (turn bun test into bun test --concurrent after sweeping shared-state contention sites) is sliced across v0.26.7 (foundation), v0.26.8 (env-mutation sweep), and v0.26.9 (PGLite sweep + codemod + measurement). v0.26.4 ships file-level parallelism only.

Test-isolation lint and helpers (v0.26.7)

The cross-file flake class is enforced statically by scripts/check-test-isolation.sh, wired into bun run verify and bun run check:all. Rules (non-serial unit files only; *.serial.test.ts and test/e2e/* are skipped):

Rule	What it bans	Fix
R1	process.env.X = ..., bracket assignment, delete process.env.X, Object.assign(process.env, ...), Reflect.set(process.env, ...)	Use withEnv() from test/helpers/with-env.ts, OR rename file to *.serial.test.ts
R2	mock.module(...) anywhere in the file	Rename file to *.serial.test.ts (no DI on production code for testability)
R3	new PGLiteEngine( outside ~50 lines after a beforeAll( line	Use the canonical block (below) inside beforeAll(
R4	Files creating new PGLiteEngine( without engine.disconnect( inside an afterAll( block	Add afterAll(() => engine.disconnect())

Files that violated these rules at the v0.26.7 baseline are listed in scripts/check-test-isolation.allowlist. The allow-list MUST shrink over time — never add new entries. v0.26.8 (env sweep) and v0.26.9 (PGLite sweep) remove entries as files get fixed.

Canonical PGLite block (R3 + R4 compliant)

Every test file that needs a PGLite engine should use this exact pattern:

import { PGLiteEngine } from '../src/core/pglite-engine.ts';
import { resetPgliteState } from './helpers/reset-pglite.ts';

let engine: PGLiteEngine;

beforeAll(async () => {
  engine = new PGLiteEngine();
  await engine.connect({});
  await engine.initSchema();
});

afterAll(async () => {
  await engine.disconnect();
});

beforeEach(async () => {
  await resetPgliteState(engine);
});

Why this exact shape: beforeAll creates a single engine per file (PGLite WASM cold-start + initSchema is ~20s); beforeEach truncates user data via resetPgliteState ("two orders of magnitude faster" than fresh-engine-per-test); afterAll disconnects so the engine doesn't leak across file boundaries within a shard process.

withEnv pattern (R1 fix)

import { withEnv } from './helpers/with-env.ts';

test('reads OPENAI_API_KEY', async () => {
  await withEnv({ OPENAI_API_KEY: 'sk-test' }, async () => {
    expect(loadConfig().openai_key).toBe('sk-test');
  });
});

// Delete a var (override is undefined):
await withEnv({ GBRAIN_HOME: undefined }, fn);

// Multiple keys:
await withEnv({ A: '1', B: '2', C: undefined }, fn);

withEnv saves the prior value of every key it touches and restores via try/finally — including when the callback throws. It is cross-test safe but NOT intra-file concurrent-safe. process.env is process-global; two test.concurrent() calls in the same file both touching the same key will race. Files using withEnv stay outside the future test.concurrent() codemod's eligibility filter.

When to quarantine instead of fix

Rename to *.serial.test.ts when:

• The file uses mock.module(...) (R2 — there's no clean fix without changing production code).
• The file is genuinely env-coupled (e.g. gbrain-home-isolation.test.ts, claw-test-cli.test.ts) — module-load env readers + ESM caching defeat dynamic-import-after-env tricks.
• The file's tests intentionally share state across it() boundaries.

Quarantine count cap: 10 (informational). Beyond that, push back on the design.

Inventory (legacy)

bun test runs all tests. After the v0.12.1 release: ~75 unit test files + 8 E2E test files (1412 unit pass, 119 E2E when DATABASE_URL is set — skip gracefully otherwise). Unit tests run without a database. E2E tests skip gracefully when DATABASE_URL is not set.

Unit tests: test/markdown.test.ts (frontmatter parsing), test/chunkers/recursive.test.ts (chunking), test/parity.test.ts (operations contract parity), test/cli.test.ts (CLI structure), test/config.test.ts (config redaction), test/files.test.ts (MIME/hash), test/import-file.test.ts (import pipeline), test/upgrade.test.ts (schema migrations), test/file-migration.test.ts (file migration), test/file-resolver.test.ts (file resolution), test/import-resume.test.ts (import checkpoints), test/migrate.test.ts (migration; v8/v9 helper-btree-index SQL structural assertions + 1000-row wall-clock fixtures that guard the O(n²)→O(n log n) fix + v0.13.1 assertions on v12/v13 SQL shape, sqlFor + transaction:false runner semantics, the max_stalled DEFAULT 1 regression guard, and v0.22.6.1 v24 sqlFor.pglite: '' no-op assertion), test/bootstrap.test.ts (v0.22.6.1 — bootstrap contract: no-op on fresh install, idempotent across two initSchema() calls, no-op on modern brain that already has every probed column, full bootstrap path on simulated pre-v0.18 brain, fresh-install regression guard, pre-v0.13 links shape coverage), test/schema-bootstrap-coverage.test.ts (v0.22.6.1 CI guard — REQUIRED_BOOTSTRAP_COVERAGE lists every forward reference in PGLITE_SCHEMA_SQL; the test fails loudly if applyForwardReferenceBootstrap skips one. When you add a column-with-index to the embedded schema blob, you extend both arrays or this guard fails. The pattern that broke gbrain ten times in two years is now structurally prevented.), test/helpers/schema-diff.ts + test/helpers/schema-diff.test.ts + test/e2e/schema-drift.test.ts (v0.26.6 #588 — cross-engine schema parity gate. Helper exports pure snapshotSchema(query) / diffSnapshots(pg, pglite, opts) / formatDiffForFailure(diff) / isCleanDiff(diff) over a four-tuple per column (data_type, udt_name, is_nullable, column_default). E2E test spins up fresh PGLite + Postgres, runs engine.initSchema() on each (bootstrap + schema replay + migrations), snapshots information_schema.columns, then diffs. 2-table allowlist (files, file_migration_ledger) — every other Postgres table must reach PGLite via PGLITE_SCHEMA_SQL or a migration's sqlFor.pglite branch. Sentinels for oauth_clients, mcp_request_log, access_tokens, eval_candidates give tighter blame messages. Skip-gracefully without DATABASE_URL. Wired into scripts/e2e-test-map.ts so changes to src/schema.sql, src/core/pglite-schema.ts, or src/core/migrate.ts trigger it. The failure message names every drift with a paste-ready hint pointing at src/core/pglite-schema.ts.), test/setup-branching.test.ts (setup flow), test/slug-validation.test.ts (slug validation), test/storage.test.ts (storage backends), test/supabase-admin.test.ts (Supabase admin), test/yaml-lite.test.ts (YAML parsing), test/check-update.test.ts (version check + update CLI), test/pglite-engine.test.ts (PGLite engine, all 40 BrainEngine methods including 11 cases for addLinksBatch / addTimelineEntriesBatch: empty batch, missing optionals, within-batch dedup via ON CONFLICT, missing-slug rows dropped by JOIN, half-existing batch, batch of 100 + v0.13.1 connect() error-wrap assertion (original error nested, #223 link in message, lock released)), test/engine-factory.test.ts (engine factory + dynamic imports), test/integrations.test.ts (recipe parsing, CLI routing, recipe validation), test/publish.test.ts (content stripping, encryption, password generation, HTML output), test/backlinks.test.ts (entity extraction, back-link detection, timeline entry generation), test/lint.test.ts (LLM artifact detection, code fence stripping, frontmatter validation), test/report.test.ts (report format, directory structure), test/skills-conformance.test.ts (skill frontmatter + required sections validation), test/resolver.test.ts (RESOLVER.md coverage, routing validation + v0.20.4 round-trip: every quoted RESOLVER.md trigger must match a frontmatter triggers: entry in the target skill, and every name="<word>" reference in any SKILL.md must resolve to a declared op in src/core/operations.ts or a Minions handler in PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES), test/search.test.ts (RRF normalization, compiled truth boost, cosine similarity, dedup key), test/sql-ranking.test.ts (v0.22.0 source-boost helpers: 39 cases covering longest-prefix-match in SQL CASE, detail=high temporal-bypass, three-meta-char LIKE escape (%, _, \), single-quote SQL-literal doubling, env override parsing for GBRAIN_SOURCE_BOOST + GBRAIN_SEARCH_EXCLUDE, resolveBoostMap / resolveHardExcludes merge semantics), test/dedup.test.ts (source-aware dedup, compiled truth guarantee, layer interactions), test/intent.test.ts (query intent classification: entity/temporal/event/general), test/eval.test.ts (retrieval metrics: precisionAtK, recallAtK, mrr, ndcgAtK, parseQrels), test/check-resolvable.test.ts (resolver reachability, MECE overlap, gap detection, DRY checks + v0.14.1 proximity-based DRY detection + extractDelegationTargets coverage — 13 DRY cases), test/dry-fix.test.ts (v0.14.1 auto-fix: three shape-aware expander pure-function tests, five guards — working-tree-dirty, no-git-backup, inside-code-fence, already-delegated within 40 lines, ambiguous-multi-match, block-is-callout — 28 cases), test/doctor-fix.test.ts (v0.14.1 gbrain doctor --fix CLI integration: dry-run preview, apply path, JSON output shape — 3 cases), test/backoff.test.ts (load-aware throttling, concurrency limits, active hours), test/fail-improve.test.ts (deterministic/LLM cascade, JSONL logging, test generation, rotation), test/transcription.test.ts (provider detection, format validation, API key errors), test/enrichment-service.test.ts (entity slugification, extraction, tier escalation), test/data-research.test.ts (recipe validation, MRR/ARR extraction, dedup, tracker parsing, HTML stripping), test/minions.test.ts (Minions job queue v7: CRUD, state machine, backoff, stall detection, dependencies, worker lifecycle, lock management, claim mechanics, depth/child-cap, timeouts, cascade kill, idempotency, child_done inbox, attachments, removeOnComplete/Fail + v0.13.1 max_stalled clamp/default/plumbing coverage), test/extract.test.ts (link extraction, timeline extraction, frontmatter parsing, directory type inference), test/extract-db.test.ts (gbrain extract --source db: typed link inference, idempotency, --type filter, --dry-run JSON output), test/extract-fs.test.ts (gbrain extract --source fs: first-run inserts + second-run reports zero, dry-run dedups candidates across files, second-run perf regression guard — the v0.12.1 N+1 dedup bug), test/link-extraction.test.ts (canonical extractEntityRefs both formats, extractPageLinks dedup, inferLinkType heuristics, parseTimelineEntries date variants, isAutoLinkEnabled config), test/graph-query.test.ts (direction in/out/both, type filter, indented tree output), test/features.test.ts (feature scanning, brain_score calculation, CLI routing, persistence), test/file-upload-security.test.ts (symlink traversal, cwd confinement, slug + filename allowlists, remote vs local trust), test/query-sanitization.test.ts (prompt-injection stripping, output sanitization, structural boundary), test/search-limit.test.ts (clampSearchLimit default/cap behavior across list_pages and get_ingest_log), test/repair-jsonb.test.ts (v0.12.2 JSONB repair: TARGETS list, idempotency, engine-awareness), test/migrations-v0_12_2.test.ts (v0.12.2 orchestrator phases: schema → repair → verify → record), test/markdown.test.ts (splitBody sentinel precedence, horizontal-rule preservation, inferType wiki subtypes), test/orphans.test.ts (v0.12.3 orphans command: detection, pseudo filtering, text/json/count outputs, MCP op), test/postgres-engine.test.ts (v0.12.3 statement_timeout scoping: sql.begin + SET LOCAL shape, source-level grep guardrail against reintroduced bare SET statement_timeout), test/sync.test.ts (sync logic + v0.12.3 regression guard asserting top-level engine.transaction is not called), test/sync-concurrency.test.ts (v0.22.13 PR #490: 17 cases covering autoConcurrency() thresholds + PGLite-forces-serial + explicit-override clamping, shouldRunParallel() Q1 explicit-bypasses-floor contract, and parseWorkers() validation that rejects '0'/'-3'/'foo'/'1.5'/trailing chars), test/sync-parallel.test.ts (v0.22.13 PR #490: PGLite-routed coverage of the bookmark gate under concurrency request, head-drift gate, vanished-file failure capture, PGLite-stays-serial, and the gbrain-sync writer-lock contract — 7 cases), test/sync-failures.test.ts (v0.22.12: 28 cases pinning classifyErrorCode regex coverage for all 12 codes against literal production message strings from markdown.ts:159-244 and import-file.ts:199, 347, 352, 401; summarizeFailuresByCode sort + pre-classified-honor; recordSyncFailures code-field persistence; acknowledgeSyncFailures AcknowledgeResult shape + backfill on pre-v0.22.12 entries), test/doctor.test.ts (doctor command + v0.12.3 assertions that jsonb_integrity scans the four v0.12.0 write sites and markdown_body_completeness is present), test/utils.test.ts (shared SQL utilities + tryParseEmbedding null-return and single-warn semantics), test/build-llms.test.ts (llms.txt/llms-full.txt generator: path resolution, idempotence, spec shape, regen-drift guard, content contract, AGENTS.md install-path mirror, size-budget enforcement — 7 cases), test/oauth.test.ts (v0.26.0 OAuth 2.1 provider — 27 cases: register, getClient, client_credentials grant exchange, authorization_code flow with PKCE challenge / verifier, refresh token rotation, verifyAccessToken with both OAuth + legacy access_tokens fallback, revokeToken, sweepExpiredTokens, and a contract test asserting scope + localOnly annotations are set correctly on all 30 operations; v0.26.2 adds 5 coerceTimestamp unit cases (null/undefined/string/number/throw-on-NaN), NULL-expires_at-as-expired contract tests for both refresh + access token paths, and a cascade-delete contract test asserting revoke-client purges oauth_tokens + oauth_codes rows via FK CASCADE; v0.26.9 adds 14 cases pinning the F1/F2/F3/F4/F5/F6/F7c/F12 invariants, including the F1/F4 cross-client isolation pattern (wrong-client attempt MUST reject AND rightful owner MUST still succeed atomically afterward) and the empty-string redirect_uri bypass guard surfaced during adversarial review), test/mcp-dispatch-summarize.test.ts (v0.26.9 — 7 cases pinning F8 summarizeMcpParams invariants: declared-keys allow-list intersection, attacker-key-name leak guard (unknown keys counted not named), 1KB byte bucketing for size-probe defense, missing op falls through to fully-redacted shape, declared-keys sorted for deterministic output), test/trust-boundary-contract.test.ts (v0.26.9 — 4 cases pinning F7b fail-closed semantics under cast bypass: ctx.remote === undefined treated as remote/untrusted at every flipped call site, as any and Partial<> spreads can't downgrade trust by accident), test/check-resolvable-cli.test.ts (v0.19 CLI wrapper: exit codes, JSON envelope shape, AGENTS.md fallback chain), test/regression-v0_16_4.test.ts (findRepoRoot regression guard — hermetic startDir parameterization), test/repo-root.test.ts (v0.16.4 / v0.19 / v0.31.7 — 20 cases: findRepoRoot walk semantics + default-arg parity, the 4-tier autoDetectSkillsDir fallback chain ($OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE → ~/.openclaw/workspace → repo-root → ./skills), W1 RESOLVER.md/AGENTS.md filename precedence, D-CX-4 explicit-env-wins-over-repo-root, and 8 new v0.31.7 D3+D5 cases pinning tier-0 $GBRAIN_SKILLS_DIR valid/invalid/precedence-over-OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE, the install-path walk in autoDetectSkillsDirReadOnly, no-drift on primary success, AUTO_DETECT_HINT + AUTO_DETECT_HINT_READ_ONLY content, and the D5 regression guard asserting the shared autoDetectSkillsDir MUST NEVER return 'install_path' source — that's how the read-path/write-path split stays safe), test/resolver-merge.test.ts (v0.31.7 — 8 cases pinning the multi-file resolver merge: findAllResolverFiles empty / RESOLVER.md-only / AGENTS.md-only / both-present (RESOLVER.md first), and checkResolvable merge semantics across skills/RESOLVER.md + ../AGENTS.md for the OpenClaw layout where the skillpack ships a thin RESOLVER.md and the real dispatcher lives at the workspace root — dedup by skillPath (first occurrence wins), AGENTS.md-at-workspace-root works alone, and the previously-unreachable 187/224 OpenClaw skills become reachable), test/filing-audit.test.ts (v0.19 Check 6: writes_pages / writes_to frontmatter, filing-rules JSON validation), test/routing-eval.test.ts (v0.19 Check 5: fixture parsing, structural routing, ambiguous_with, Haiku tie-break layer), test/skill-manifest.test.ts (v0.19 skill manifest parser: drift detection, managed-block markers), test/skillify-scaffold.test.ts (v0.19 gbrain skillify scaffold stubs: SKILL.md, script, tests, routing-eval fixtures), test/skillpack-install.test.ts (v0.19 gbrain skillpack install managed-block install / update / no-clobber semantics), test/skillpack-sync-guard.test.ts (v0.19 sync-guard: bundled skills stay byte-identical to skills/ source), test/http-transport.test.ts (v0.22.7 HTTP transport: 23 unit cases covering bearer auth + missing/no-Bearer/unknown/revoked + /health bypass, F1+F2 round-trip via dispatch.ts, F3 invalid_params, application/json response shape (not SSE), CORS default-deny + allowlist, body cap on Content-Length AND chunked, two-bucket rate limit (refill, exhaust+Retry-After, LRU eviction, TTL prune, pre-auth IP fires before DB), and mcp_request_log audit on success + auth_failed), test/restart-sweep.test.ts (v0.28.3 — 27 bun:test cases for the recipes/restart-sweep.md inlined script: sentinel-anchored fenced-block extraction with salted tmp filenames to bypass ESM cache; constructor-time env reads (proves no module-load snapshot); idempotency layer load/save/atomic-tmp-rename/corrupt-JSON-recovery/30-day-prune; (sessionKey, lastAlertedAt) cooldown gate with 6h threshold (the C1 fix that survives synthesized restartTime); AGGRESSIVE-gate two-state tests; execFile argv shape proving shell metachars in OPENCLAW_TELEGRAM_GROUP cannot reach /bin/sh; real-\n-not-literal alert formatting; GBRAIN_HOME state path override), test/eval-longmemeval.test.ts (v0.28.8 LongMemEval harness — 12 hermetic cases with no DATABASE_URL and no API keys: PGLite create + reset over runtime-enumerated pg_tables, infrastructure-table preservation across resets, JSONL question parsing, retrieval-only and answer-gen modes via stubbed ThinkLLMClient, --limit cutoff, --keyword-only vs hybrid, default --expansion=off behavior, perf gate (p50 < 30ms / p99 < 50ms warm reset+import+search on Apple Silicon), --help works without a configured brain, fixture round-trip via test/fixtures/longmemeval-mini.jsonl), test/longmemeval-sanitize.test.ts (v0.28.8 sanitization parity: 12 cases pinning that INJECTION_PATTERNS from src/core/think/sanitize.ts is the single source of truth — adding a pattern there must cover both <take> framing and <chat_session> framing, no per-surface regex drift).

E2E tests (test/e2e/): Run against real Postgres+pgvector. Require DATABASE_URL.

• bun run test:e2e runs Tier 1 (mechanical, all operations, no API keys). Includes 9 dedicated cases for the postgres-engine addLinksBatch / addTimelineEntriesBatch bind path — postgres-js's unnest() binding is structurally different from PGLite's and gets its own coverage.
• test/e2e/search-quality.test.ts runs search quality E2E against PGLite (no API keys, in-memory)
• test/e2e/graph-quality.test.ts runs the v0.10.3 knowledge graph pipeline (auto-link via put_page, reconciliation, traversePaths) against PGLite in-memory
• test/e2e/postgres-jsonb.test.ts — v0.12.2 regression test. Round-trips all 5 JSONB write sites (pages.frontmatter, raw_data.data, ingest_log.pages_updated, files.metadata, page_versions.frontmatter) against real Postgres and asserts jsonb_typeof='object' plus ->>'key' returns the expected scalar. The test that should have caught the original double-encode bug.
• test/e2e/integrity-batch.test.ts (v0.22.8) — parity tests for scanIntegrity's batch-load fast path vs sequential. Four cases (dedup, hits, validate, topPages) seed a fixture and assert both paths return identical results. Dedup case uses raw SQL via getConn().unsafe() to seed a (test-source-2, people/alice) row alongside the default-source row, since engine.putPage doesn't take a source_id. Pins the codex-caught multi-source overcounting regression.
• test/e2e/jsonb-roundtrip.test.ts — v0.12.3 companion regression against the 4 doctor-scanned JSONB sites. Assertion-level overlap with postgres-jsonb.test.ts is intentional defense-in-depth: if doctor's scan surface ever drifts from the actual write surface, one of these tests catches it.
• test/e2e/sync.test.ts (v0.22.12 — --skip-failed failure-loop test, alongside the existing 13 happy-path tests): exercises the full chain — broken file → performSync returns blocked_by_failures with grouped breakdown → performSync({skipFailed: true}) advances bookmark and returns AcknowledgeResult with code summary → second broken file → second cycle. Saves and restores the user's real ~/.gbrain/sync-failures.jsonl so the test is hermetic on a developer machine. Asserts bookmark gating, JSONL state, dedup across paths, summary aggregation, and the literal doctor-rendering string format. This is the integration test that proves the v0.22.12 chain holds together — unit tests cover the pure functions in isolation, this covers the integration.
• test/e2e/upgrade.test.ts runs check-update E2E against real GitHub API (network required)
• test/e2e/minions-shell-pglite.test.ts (v0.20.4) exercises the PGLite --follow inline shell-job path (in-memory, no DATABASE_URL required) — the path the consolidated minion-orchestrator skill documents for dev use
• test/e2e/openclaw-reference-compat.test.ts (v0.19) — exercises check-resolvable + skillpack install against a minimal AGENTS.md workspace fixture (test/fixtures/openclaw-reference-minimal/), regression guard for the 107-skill OpenClaw deployment shape
• test/e2e/search-swamp.test.ts (v0.22.0) — reproduces the headline source-swamp case. Seeds a curated originals/talks/article-outline-fat-code page against two wintermute/chat/ pages stuffed with the same multi-word phrase. Asserts the article wins keyword AND vector ranking, that detail=high lets the chat swamp re-surface (temporal-query workflow preserved), and that source_id passes through the two-stage CTE intact. PGLite in-memory.
• test/e2e/search-exclude.test.ts (v0.22.0) — verifies test/ + archive/ pages are hidden by default, that include_slug_prefixes opts back in, and that caller-supplied exclude_slug_prefixes adds to defaults. Both keyword and vector search paths covered.
• test/e2e/engine-parity.test.ts (v0.22.0) — Postgres ↔ PGLite top-result and result-set parity for searchKeyword + searchVector. Codex flagged that Postgres ranks pages then picks best chunk while PGLite returns chunks directly — without parity coverage the source-boost fix could pass on PGLite and fail on Postgres. Skips gracefully when DATABASE_URL is unset.
• test/e2e/postgres-bootstrap.test.ts (v0.22.6.1) — exercises PostgresEngine.initSchema() directly against a fresh real Postgres database. Asserts the bootstrap path is no-op on fresh installs and that SCHEMA_SQL replays cleanly through the engine path (not via the standalone db.initSchema from src/core/db.ts, which would have produced false-positive coverage). Codex caught the E2E-shape gap during plan review.
• test/e2e/http-transport.test.ts (v0.22.7) — 8 cases against real Postgres covering gbrain serve --http end-to-end: bearer auth round-trip, last_used_at SQL-level debounce semantics, mcp_request_log row insertion on success and auth_failed paths, /health DB-down → 503 (DB-probing health check), and the F1+F2+F3 dispatch round-trip with a real operation. Skips gracefully when DATABASE_URL is unset.
• test/e2e/serve-http-oauth.test.ts (v0.26.0, expanded v0.26.2, expanded v0.26.9) — real-Postgres E2E against gbrain serve --http with full OAuth 2.1. Spawns a subprocess server, registers a client via the CLI, mints client_credentials tokens, exercises the /mcp JSON-RPC pipeline. v0.26.2 adds: real DCR /register HTTP-level response-shape test (asserts typeof body.client_id_issued_at === 'number' over the wire — RFC 7591 §3.2.1 spec compliance, not just internal-store shape); real CLI subprocess test for revoke-client (registers → mints token → revokes via execSync → asserts token rejected at /mcp → asserts re-run exits 1); server fixture flips on --enable-dcr so /register is reachable. bun execSync env-inheritance fix: bun's execSync does NOT inherit env mutations done via process.env.X = ..., only OS-level env from before bun started. helpers.ts loads .env.testing and sets DATABASE_URL via process.env mutation, which is invisible to subprocesses unless env: { ...process.env } is passed explicitly — every subprocess call in this file passes env: { ...process.env } for that reason. Reference fix for the next maintainer hitting the same failure mode in sibling sync/cycle/dream/claw-test E2Es. afterAll cleanup is guarded on clientId (won't throw if beforeAll failed before registration); cleanup errors surface to stderr without throwing so real test failures aren't masked. Tracks DCR-registered clients alongside the manual one. v0.26.9 adds 2 regressions for the F7 trust-boundary fix: an HTTP MCP submit_job for name: "shell" MUST reject with a permission error (proving the request handler now sets remote: true and submit_job's protected-name guard fires), and the same guard rejects subagent submission. Closes the OAuth-token-to-RCE escalation path. Skips gracefully when DATABASE_URL is unset.
• test/e2e/sync-parallel.test.ts (v0.22.13 PR #490) — DATABASE_URL-gated. T2: 60-file Postgres sync at concurrency=4 imports all + no connection leak (probes pg_stat_activity before/after to confirm worker engines disconnected). P4: 120-file serial-vs-parallel benchmark prints SYNC_PARALLEL_BENCH N files | serial=Xms | parallel(4)=Yms | speedup=Zx for CHANGELOG quoting. Asserts parallel ≤ serial × 1.5 (CI-noise tolerant; not a strict speedup gate).
• test/e2e/multi-source-bug-class.test.ts (v0.32.8, PR #860) — 7-case PGLite in-memory regression suite pinning every bug site fixed in this PR: listAllPageRefs ordering by (source_id, slug) (F11), getPage with sourceId picks the right (source, slug) row (F2), extract-takes processes both overlapping people/alice rows independently, listPages filters correctly with PageFilters.sourceId, addLinksBatch with from/to_source_id targets the right rows (F4), validateSourceId rejects path traversal (F6), reverse-write disk layout uses brainDir/.sources/<id>/<slug>.md for non-default sources (F6). No DATABASE_URL needed. Wired into scripts/e2e-test-map.ts so changes to extract-takes / patterns / synthesize / embed / extract / migrate-engine auto-trigger this test. Companion: test/e2e/integrity-batch.test.ts's "multi-source duplicate slugs scan once" case was pinning the pre-fix bug — assertion flipped in v0.32.8 to expect both batch + sequential paths report 2.
• test/e2e/source-isolation-pglite.test.ts (v0.34.1.0, #861) — 14-case PGLite in-memory regression suite pinning the source-isolation P0 seal at two layers. Engine layer: searchKeyword / searchVector / searchKeywordChunks / listPages / getPage / traverseGraph / traversePaths apply sourceId (scalar fast path) and sourceIds (array path) correctly across both engines. Op-handler layer: routes through sourceScopeOpts(ctx) so a read+write-scoped OAuth client bound to --source dept-x cannot see rows from neighboring sources via search, query, list_pages, get_page, or find_experts. Covers both ctx.sourceId (single-source clients) and ctx.auth.allowedSources (federated_read clients) precedence; federated array wins over scalar wins over nothing. No DATABASE_URL needed.
• test/openai-compat-multimodal.test.ts (v0.34.1.0, #875) — 11-case unit suite for the gateway's openai-compatible multimodal path: happy-path single + multi-input embedding, unauthenticated proxy mode, dimension-mismatch guard (D12; throws AIConfigError with model id + observed + expected pre-storage), default-dim fallback when recipe declares default_dims, HTTP 401 / 400 / malformed-JSON / non-array error paths, plus a regression test that the existing Voyage /multimodalembeddings recipe still routes through its dedicated path (not the openai-compatible one). Hermetic via the __setEmbedTransportForTests seam.
• test/serve-stdio-lifecycle.test.ts (extended v0.34.1.0, #870) — adds 3 new cases for the MCP_STDIO=1 env guard: stdin EOF does NOT trigger shutdown when the env is set, SIGTERM still does (guard scope is correct), unset env preserves the pre-v0.34 CLI lifecycle. Exercises the ServeOptions.mcpStdio?: boolean test seam directly so tests don't mutate process.env.
• test/oauth.test.ts (extended v0.34.1.0, #909) — 5 new cases for the PKCE DCR public-client gate: registerClient with token_endpoint_auth_method: "none" returns no client_secret field on the public client, default client_secret_post clients still get the one-time-reveal secret, getClient NULL→undefined normalization so the SDK's clientAuth path accepts public clients, full PKCE /authorize → /token round-trip against a public client (no client_secret presented), and a regression test that the public-vs-confidential branch doesn't break confidential client client_secret_post exchange.
• Tier 2 (skills.test.ts) requires OpenClaw + API keys, runs nightly in CI
• If .env.testing doesn't exist in this directory, check sibling worktrees for one: find ../ -maxdepth 2 -name .env.testing -print -quit and copy it here if found.
• Run E2E tests without asking permission. When you want to verify behavior, there's a relevant E2E test, or you're shipping touching anything covered by an E2E suite — just spin up the test DB, run the tests, and tear down. Don't ask, don't propose it, don't defer. The lifecycle is short (~2-30s startup, sub-minute tests, instant teardown) and the gate value is high. Skipping with "DATABASE_URL unset" is silent regression, not caution.

API keys and running ALL tests

ALWAYS source the user's shell profile before running tests:

source ~/.zshrc 2>/dev/null || true

This loads OPENAI_API_KEY and ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. Without these, Tier 2 tests skip silently. Do NOT skip Tier 2 tests just because they require API keys — load the keys and run them.

When asked to "run all E2E tests" or "run tests", that means ALL tiers:

• Tier 1: bun run test:e2e (mechanical, sync, upgrade — no API keys needed)
• Tier 2: test/e2e/skills.test.ts (requires OpenAI + Anthropic + openclaw CLI)
• Always spin up the test DB, source zshrc, run everything, tear down.

E2E test DB lifecycle (ALWAYS follow this)

You are responsible for spinning up and tearing down the test Postgres container. Do not leave containers running after tests. Do not skip E2E tests, do not ask permission to run them — see the "run without asking" rule above.

1. Check for .env.testing — if missing, copy from sibling worktree. Read it to get the DATABASE_URL (it has the port number).
2. Check if the port is free: docker ps --filter "publish=PORT" — if another container is on that port, pick a different port (try 5435, 5436, 5437) and start on that one instead.
3. Start the test DB:

   docker run -d --name gbrain-test-pg \
     -e POSTGRES_USER=postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres \
     -e POSTGRES_DB=gbrain_test \
     -p PORT:5432 pgvector/pgvector:pg16
   

   Wait for ready: docker exec gbrain-test-pg pg_isready -U postgres
4. Bootstrap the schema (required — fresh containers have no oauth_clients, mcp_request_log, pages etc.; tests like serve-http-oauth.test.ts will fail with relation "oauth_clients" does not exist if you skip this):

   DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:PORT/gbrain_test \
     bun run src/cli.ts doctor --json > /dev/null 2>&1
   

   gbrain doctor triggers initSchema() on first connect, which is the canonical way to bring a fresh DB to head. apply-migrations --yes alone does NOT seed the base schema — it runs ALTER-style migrations on top of initSchema. Tests that bypass the engine (raw execSync-spawned auth register-client) hit the schema directly and need this step to have run first.
5. Run E2E tests: DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:PORT/gbrain_test bun run test:e2e
6. Tear down immediately after tests finish (pass or fail): docker stop gbrain-test-pg && docker rm gbrain-test-pg

Never leave gbrain-test-pg running. If you find a stale one from a previous run, stop and remove it before starting a new one.

Search Mode (v0.32.3)

GBrain ships three named search modes that bundle the search-lite knobs from PR #897 into a single config key. Pick one at install time; the rest of the project resolves through src/core/search/mode.ts.

Knob	conservative	balanced	tokenmax
cache.enabled	true	true	true
cache.similarity_threshold	0.92	0.92	0.92
cache.ttl_seconds	3600	3600	3600
intentWeighting	true	true	true
tokenBudget	4000	12000	off
expansion (LLM multi-query)	false	false	true
searchLimit default	10	25	50

Cost anchors (downstream agent input cost — gbrain itself is rounding error). The corner-to-corner spread is 25x once you pair mode with downstream model. Chunks ~400 tokens avg. Per-query cost @ 10K queries/month (typical single-user volume), full search payload, no cache savings:

Mode \ Downstream	Haiku 4.5 ($1/M)	Sonnet 4.6 ($3/M)	Opus 4.7 ($5/M)
conservative (~4K)	$40/mo	$120/mo	$200/mo
balanced (~10K)	$100/mo	$300/mo	$500/mo
tokenmax (~20K)	$200/mo	$600/mo	$1,000/mo

Scales linearly: multiply by 10 for 100K/mo (heavy power user / multi-user fleet); divide by 10 for 1K/mo (light usage). Natural pairings span ~4x. Mismatches (tokenmax+Haiku, conservative+Opus) waste capacity differently — too-big payload overwhelms a cheap model; too-small payload starves an expensive one.

tokenmax adds ~$1.50 per 1K queries in Haiku expansion calls on top of the matrix ($15/mo @ 10K). Cache hits cut all numbers ~50%. The cost picker copy in gbrain init carries the same matrix verbatim — update both when refreshing.

Per-query math vs real-world spend. The matrix above is what an isolated benchmark would measure. Real agent loops with disciplined Anthropic prompt caching see 50-80% discount on top (cache hits skip downstream entirely). The realistic-scale anchor in docs/eval/SEARCH_MODE_METHODOLOGY.md walks the natural pairings at single-power-user volume (~860 turns/mo): tokenmax+Opus ~$700/mo, balanced+Sonnet ~$430/mo, conservative+Haiku ~$170/mo. Setups WITHOUT cache-aware prompt layout (frequent prefix churn) see the per-query matrix dominate — mode + model choice matters more there.

Resolution chain (matches the v0.31.12 model-tier pattern at src/core/model-config.ts:resolveModel):

per-call SearchOpts → per-key config (search.cache.enabled, …) →
  MODE_BUNDLES[search.mode] → MODE_BUNDLES.balanced (fallback)

Mode resolution lives in bare hybridSearch (NOT just the cached wrapper) per [CDX-5+6] in ~/.claude/plans/lets-take-a-look-validated-parrot.md — so gbrain eval replay and gbrain eval longmemeval test the same mode-affected behavior as the production query op.

Cache-key contamination hotfix [CDX-4]: migration v56 added a knobs_hash column to query_cache. The lookup filter is now WHERE source_id = $ AND knobs_hash = $ AND embedding similarity < $ so a tokenmax write (expansion=on, limit=50) can't be served to a conservative read.

Three CLI surfaces:

gbrain search modes              # what is running, with per-knob attribution
gbrain search modes --reset      # clear search.* overrides (mode bundle wins)
gbrain search stats [--days N]   # cache hit rate, intent mix, budget drops
gbrain search tune [--apply]     # data-driven recommendations

The install picker fires inside gbrain init AFTER engine.initSchema() (non-TTY auto-selects). The upgrade banner fires once via runPostUpgrade in src/commands/upgrade.ts, gated by search.mode_upgrade_notice_shown.

Eval discipline (v0.32.3)

Every metric printed by any gbrain eval * or gbrain search stats command resolves through src/core/eval/metric-glossary.ts so industry terms (P@k, nDCG@k, MRR, Jaccard@k) carry a plain-English line in human output and a _meta.metric_glossary block in JSON output (one block per response per [CDX-25], NOT sibling _gloss fields).

The full methodology — datasets, sample selection, pre-registered expectations, threats to validity, paired-bootstrap + Bonferroni p-value discipline [CDX-14] — lives in docs/eval/SEARCH_MODE_METHODOLOGY.md. Auto-regenerated docs/eval/METRIC_GLOSSARY.md is CI-guarded against drift (scripts/check-eval-glossary-fresh.sh).

Per-run records land at <repo>/.gbrain-evals/eval-results.jsonl per [CDX-23]. The user's personal ~/.gbrain brain is NEVER touched — audit trail lives in the source repo's git history.

Skills

Read the skill files in skills/ before doing brain operations. GBrain ships 29 skills organized by skills/RESOLVER.md (AGENTS.md is also accepted as of v0.19):

Original 8 (conformance-migrated): ingest (thin router), query, maintain, enrich, briefing, migrate, setup, publish.

Brain skills (ported from an upstream agent fork): signal-detector, brain-ops, idea-ingest, media-ingest, meeting-ingestion, citation-fixer, repo-architecture, skill-creator, daily-task-manager.

Operational + identity: daily-task-prep, cross-modal-review, cron-scheduler, reports, testing, soul-audit, webhook-transforms, data-research, minion-orchestrator. As of v0.20.4, minion-orchestrator is the single unified skill for both lanes of background work (shell jobs via gbrain jobs submit shell, LLM subagents via gbrain agent run) ... the prior gbrain-jobs skill was merged in, Preconditions are shared, and trigger routing is narrowed to what the skill actually covers.

Skillify loop (v0.19): skillify (the markdown orchestration), skillpack-check (agent-readable health report).

Routing-table compression (v0.32.3.0): skills/functional-area-resolver/ — two-layer dispatch pattern for shrinking large AGENTS.md / RESOLVER.md files (>=12KB) without losing routing accuracy. Replaces one row per skill with one entry per functional area, where each area declares its sub-skills in a (dispatcher for: ...) clause. The static-prompt analog of hierarchical agent routing (AnyTool arXiv:2402.04253, RAG-MCP arXiv:2505.03275, Anthropic Agent Skills progressive disclosure). Empirically validated across Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 4.6 / Haiku 4.5: +13 to +17pp over the verbose baseline at 48% the size (25KB → 13KB on a real fork). The (dispatcher for: ...) clause is the load-bearing signal — strip it and lenient accuracy collapses to 41.7% on Sonnet (the resolver-of-resolvers ablation case). A/B eval surface lives at evals/functional-area-resolver/ (outside skills/ deliberately so the skillpack bundler doesn't ship eval infrastructure to downstream installs): gateway-routed TypeScript harness, 20 training + 5 held-out fixtures, strict + lenient scoring, three committed cross-model receipts in baseline-runs/. Receipt header binds (model, prompt_template_hash, fixtures_hash, harness_sha, ts) so future contributors can verify reproduction. Companion rescore.mjs re-scores existing JSONL with lenient tolerance for zero API cost. Reproduce with cd evals/functional-area-resolver && node harness.mjs --model {opus|sonnet|haiku} (~$0.30–1.70 per model). Nine v0.33.x follow-up TODOs filed for held-out corpus growth, cross-vendor verification, hierarchical area-of-areas, embedding-based pre-router, and the run-1 vs run-2 prompt-design ablation methodology.

Operational health (v0.19.1): smoke-test (8 post-restart health checks with auto-fix for Bun, CLI, DB, worker, Zod CJS, gateway, API key, brain repo; user-extensible via ~/.gbrain/smoke-tests.d/*.sh).

Conventions: skills/conventions/ has cross-cutting rules (quality, brain-first, model-routing, test-before-bulk, cross-modal). skills/_brain-filing-rules.md and skills/_output-rules.md are shared references.

Bulk-action progress reporting

All bulk commands (doctor, embed, import, export, sync, extract, migrate, repair-jsonb, orphans, check-backlinks, lint, integrity auto, eval, files sync, and apply-migrations) stream progress through the shared reporter at src/core/progress.ts. Agents get heartbeats within 1 second of every iteration regardless of how slow the underlying work is.

Rules:

• Progress always writes to stderr. Stdout stays clean for data output (--json payloads, final summaries, JSON action events from extract).
• Non-TTY default: plain one-line-per-event human text. JSON requires the explicit --progress-json flag.
• Global flags (--quiet, --progress-json, --progress-interval=<ms>) are parsed by src/core/cli-options.ts BEFORE command dispatch.
• Phase names are machine-stable snake_case.dot.path (e.g. doctor.db_checks, sync.imports). Documented in docs/progress-events.md; additive changes only.
• scripts/check-progress-to-stdout.sh is a CI guard that fails the build if any new code writes \r progress to stdout. Wired into bun run test.
• Minion handlers pass job.updateProgress as the onProgress callback to core functions (DB-backed primary progress channel); stderr from jobs work stays coarse for daemon liveness only.

When wiring a new bulk command: import { createProgress } from '../core/progress.ts' and import { getCliOptions, cliOptsToProgressOptions } from '../core/cli-options.ts'. Create a reporter with createProgress(cliOptsToProgressOptions(getCliOptions())), start(phase, total?) before the loop, tick() inside it, finish() after. For single long-running queries, use startHeartbeat(reporter, note) with a try/finally to guarantee cleanup. Never call process.stdout.write('\r...') in bulk paths, the CI guard will fail the build.

Capturing test output (NEVER pipe through tail / head)

Iron rule: when running bun test, bun run test:e2e, bun run typecheck, or any other test/check command, redirect to a file FIRST, then tail the file separately:

# RIGHT — full output preserved, real exit code visible
bun test > /tmp/ship_units.txt 2>&1
echo "EXIT=$?"
tail -50 /tmp/ship_units.txt
grep -E '(fail\)|✗|error:' /tmp/ship_units.txt | head -30

# WRONG — exit code is `tail`'s (always 0), failures truncated, ship gates fail open
bun test 2>&1 | tail -10

The pipe form silently breaks /ship Step T1 (test failure ownership triage) and the test verification gate (Step 16) because:

• $? after a pipe is the LAST command's exit code (tail → 0), not bun's
• bun prints failure details before the summary line, so tail -N drops them
• Step T1 needs the full failure list to classify in-branch vs pre-existing

This bit us during v0.26.2 ship: bun test 2>&1 | tail -10 reported "3911 pass / 23 fail" but no failure details survived, forcing a 23-minute re-run to triage.

Apply the same pattern to any long-running command whose exit code matters: bun run typecheck, bun run ci:local, migration runs, eval suites, etc. For background tasks (run_in_background: true), the harness captures the exit file separately — use it via the bg task's <id>.exit file, not the streamed output.

Build

bun build --compile --outfile bin/gbrain src/cli.ts

Version locations (single source of truth: VERSION file)

Every release advances the version in five files at once. Keep these in sync. /ship enforces this via Step 12's idempotency check (VERSION vs package.json drift), but the canonical list lives here so future runs and the auto-update agent know where to look.

Version format is mandatory: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.MICRO (four numeric segments, dot-separated, no leading v). Every new release MUST use the 4-segment form. The .MICRO slot is the dot-suffix follow-up channel: when a release ships its commit subject ahead of its VERSION bump (e.g. PR #795 landing as v0.31.4 without bumping the file), the corrective ship lands as 0.31.4.1 rather than churning the patch number to 0.31.5. Suffixes like -fixwave are still allowed as needed (0.31.1.1-fixwave), but the four numeric segments are required first. Historical 3-segment versions (0.31.3, 0.22.1) remain valid in git log and migration filenames (skills/migrations/v0.21.0.md); do NOT rewrite them. Going forward only.

Required (every release must update all five):

File	What lives there	Format
VERSION	The single source of truth. Read first by /ship, the binary, and CI version-gate.	Bare 4-segment string MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.MICRO (e.g. 0.31.4.1), no leading v.
package.json	Bun/npm package version. gbrain --version reads it via the compiled binary's bundled package metadata. CI version-gate cross-checks this against VERSION and fails if they drift.	"version": "0.31.4.1"
CHANGELOG.md	Top entry header ## [0.31.4.1] - YYYY-MM-DD plus the "To take advantage of v0.31.4.1" block.	Standard Keep-a-Changelog header.
TODOS.md	Any TODO entries that mention "follow-up from vX.Y.Z.W" use the version of the release that filed them. Update only when filing NEW follow-up TODOs.	Inline vX.Y.Z.W references in TODO bodies.
CLAUDE.md	The Key Files section's per-file annotations carry vX.Y.Z.W (#NNN) tags noting which release introduced a behavior. Update whenever a wave's annotations get folded in.	Inline vX.Y.Z.W (#NNN, contributed by @user) references.

Auto-derived (no manual edit; refreshed by their own commands):

• bun.lock — root-package version is auto-pinned from package.json. After bumping package.json, run bun install to refresh the lockfile.
• llms-full.txt / llms.txt — auto-generated documentation bundles. Any CLAUDE.md edit MUST be followed by bun run build:llms in the same commit (or a follow-up commit before push). The committed bundles are checked against fresh generator output by test/build-llms.test.ts, which runs in CI shard 1. If you edited CLAUDE.md and didn't regenerate, CI will fail. This has bitten the wave 3 times — every CLAUDE.md edit gets a bun run build:llms chaser, no exceptions. (The verify gate doesn't run this test; only the full unit suite does. So bun run typecheck clean is NOT enough to know you can push after a CLAUDE.md edit.)

Historical (DO NOT bump on release):

• skills/migrations/v0.21.0.md — migration files use the version they shipped FROM as their filename. v0.21.0's migration always says v0.21.0.
• src/commands/migrations/v0_21_0.ts — same: migration code references the schema version it migrates to.
• test/migrations-v0_21_0.test.ts, test/migration-orchestrator-v0_21_0.test.ts, test/migrate.test.ts — migration tests reference historical migration versions; these are correct as-is and should not move.
• src/core/db.ts, src/core/migrate.ts, src/core/import-file.ts, src/commands/reindex-code.ts — code comments cite the release that introduced a feature. Once written, these are historical record.
• README.md — references the latest published feature names by version (e.g. "v0.21.0 Code Cathedral"); update only when the README's marketing copy is intentionally being refreshed, NOT on every micro/patch bump.

The /ship workflow's version idempotency check: Step 12 reads VERSION and package.json, classifies as FRESH / ALREADY_BUMPED / DRIFT_STALE_PKG / DRIFT_UNEXPECTED, and refuses to proceed on DRIFT_UNEXPECTED. This is why the two must move together.

The CI version-gate rejects pushes where VERSION and package.json disagree, OR where VERSION is not strictly greater than master's VERSION. If a queue collision claims your version on master before yours lands, /ship's queue-aware allocator (Step 12) will detect drift and re-bump on the next run.

Mandatory version-consistency audit (run after EVERY merge or commit that touches VERSION, package.json, or CHANGELOG)

The trio MUST agree. Every merge from master will hit conflicts on VERSION + package.json + CHANGELOG.md because master ships its own version bumps. Auto-merge sometimes resolves these silently in unexpected ways. After any merge, branch update, or version-related edit, run this audit. It's three lines and never lies:

echo "VERSION:     $(cat VERSION)"
echo "package.json: $(node -e 'process.stdout.write(require("./package.json").version)')"
grep -E "^## \[" CHANGELOG.md | head -1

All three MUST show the same MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.MICRO. If any one disagrees, you have not finished the merge. Fix it before pushing or shipping. There is no situation in which "I'll fix it next push" is OK, because:

• A green local test run with mismatched VERSION/package.json still fails the CI version-gate.
• A green CHANGELOG entry under the wrong version header silently lies to release-notes consumers.
• /ship's Step 12 idempotency check classifies a mismatch as DRIFT_UNEXPECTED and HALTS — but only if you remember to run /ship before pushing. Manual git push skips the check.

Merge-conflict recovery procedure (memorize this)

When git merge origin/master reports conflicts on VERSION, package.json, or CHANGELOG.md, resolve in this exact order:

1. VERSION — overwrite with the wave's version (`echo -n "X.Y.Z.W"

   VERSION`). Highest semver wins; do NOT take master's lower version.

2. package.json — strip the conflict markers, keep the wave's version line. Sed pattern: sed -i.bak '/^<<<<<<< HEAD$/d; /^=======$/,/^>>>>>>> /d' package.json && rm package.json.bak (assumes ours is above the =======).
3. CHANGELOG.md — strip ALL three conflict markers; both your entry and master's entry stay. Sed pattern: sed -i.bak '/^<<<<<<< HEAD$/d; /^=======$/d; /^>>>>>>> origin\/master$/d' CHANGELOG.md && rm CHANGELOG.md.bak Then verify your entry is the topmost ## [X.Y.Z.W] and master's newer-than-yours entries (if any) sit below.
4. Run the 3-line audit above. If it doesn't show your version on all three lines, you missed a marker.
5. Run bun install to refresh bun.lock against the resolved package.json. Stage and commit if it changed.
6. Run bun run typecheck before committing the merge.
7. Only THEN run git commit for the merge.

If the audit shows drift after step 4, do NOT proceed to step 5. Re-run steps 1-3 against the actual file content; you missed a marker or resolved one in the wrong direction.

Anti-pattern to avoid: Resolving via git checkout --ours package.json and git checkout --theirs scripts/test-shard.sh mixed in the same commit. The selective directional resolution is fine, but on VERSION/package.json/CHANGELOG specifically, ALWAYS use the explicit echo > VERSION + sed-strip-markers pattern above. The directional checkout flags have bitten us when the conflict shape was unexpected (e.g. master stripped a section we expected to keep).

Pre-push gate (manual; tighten when you remember to)

Before any git push of a merge commit, run the audit one more time:

echo "VERSION:     $(cat VERSION)"
echo "package.json: $(node -e 'process.stdout.write(require("./package.json").version)')"
grep -E "^## \[" CHANGELOG.md | head -1

If you've been editing the branch via /ship you can rely on Step 12's idempotency check. If you've been editing manually (merge resolution, conflict fix, version bump), the audit is the last line of defense before CI yells at you.

Pre-ship requirements

Before shipping (/ship) or reviewing (/review), always run the full test suite. Two equivalent paths:

Path A — local CI gate (recommended, v0.23.1+):

• bun run ci:local runs the entire stack inside Docker: gitleaks (host), unit tests with DATABASE_URL unset, and all 29 E2E files sequentially against a fresh pgvector container. Stronger than PR CI's 2-file Tier 1 set; closer to what nightly Tier 1 catches. Spins up + tears down postgres automatically via docker-compose.ci.yml. Override the host port with GBRAIN_CI_PG_PORT=5435 bun run ci:local if 5434 collides.
• bun run ci:local:diff runs only the E2E files matched by the diff selector (scripts/select-e2e.ts), falling back to all 29 on unmapped src/ paths or schema/skills/package.json changes. Fast iteration during a focused branch.

Path B — manual lifecycle (still supported):

• bun test — unit tests (no database required)
• Follow the "E2E test DB lifecycle" steps above to spin up the test DB, run bun run test:e2e, then tear it down.

Both must pass. Do not ship with failing E2E tests. Do not skip E2E tests.

Always run typecheck before pushing. bun test (the bun runner) skips TypeScript type checking — it only enforces runtime behavior. Three ways to actually gate on types:

1. bun run test (npm script in package.json) — includes bun run typecheck plus the four shell pre-checks (check-jsonb-pattern.sh, check-progress-to-stdout.sh, check-trailing-newline.sh, check-wasm-embedded.sh) before the runner. Use this mid-branch.
2. bun run typecheck — tsc --noEmit standalone. Fast (~5s on this repo).
3. bun run ci:local — the full local CI gate from Path A.

The trap is: writing a new test, running bun test test/foo.test.ts, seeing it pass, pushing — and CI's separate typecheck stage rejects an invalid type literal that the runner accepted. Caught one of these shipping the v0.23.2 round-trip E2E (type: 'reflection' is not a member of PageType). Run bun run typecheck once before push, even when only test files changed.

Post-ship requirements (MANDATORY)

After EVERY /ship, you MUST run /document-release. This is NOT optional. Do NOT skip it. Do NOT say "docs look fine" without running it. The skill reads every .md file in the project, cross-references the diff, and updates anything that drifted.

If /ship's Step 8.5 triggers document-release automatically, that counts. But if it gets skipped for ANY reason (timeout, error, oversight), you MUST run it manually before considering the ship complete.

Files that MUST be checked on every ship:

• README.md — does it reflect new features, commands, or setup steps?
• CLAUDE.md — does it reflect new files, test files, or architecture changes?
• CHANGELOG.md — does it cover every commit?
• TODOS.md — are completed items marked done?
• docs/ — do any guides need updating?

A ship without updated docs is an incomplete ship. Period.

CHANGELOG + VERSION are branch-scoped

VERSION and CHANGELOG describe what THIS branch adds vs master, not how we got here. Every feature branch that ships gets its own version bump and CHANGELOG entry. The entry is product release notes for users; it is not a log of internal decisions, review rounds, or codex findings.

Write the CHANGELOG entry at /ship time, not during development. Mid-branch iterations, review rounds (CEO/Eng/Codex/DX), and implementation detours belong in the plan file at ~/.claude/plans/, not in the CHANGELOG. One unified entry per branch, covering what the branch added vs the base branch.

Never edit a CHANGELOG entry that already landed on master. If master has v0.18.2 and your branch adds features, bump to the next version (v0.19.0, not editing master's v0.18.2). When merging master into your branch, master may bring new CHANGELOG entries above yours — push your entry above master's latest and verify:

• Does CHANGELOG have your branch's own entry separate from master's entries?
• Is VERSION higher than master's VERSION?
• Is your entry the topmost ## [X.Y.Z] entry?
• grep "^## \[" CHANGELOG.md shows a contiguous version sequence?

If any answer is no, fix it before continuing.

CHANGELOG is for users, not contributors. Write like product release notes:

• Lead with what the user can now do that they couldn't before. Sell the capability.
• Plain language, not implementation details. "You can now..." not "Refactored the..."
• Never mention internal artifacts: plan file IDs, decision tags (D-CX-#, F-ENG-#), review rounds, codex findings, subcontractor credits. These are invisible to users.
• Put contributor-facing changes in a separate ### For contributors section at the bottom.
• Every entry should make someone think "oh nice, I want to try that."

What to omit:

• "Codex caught X that the CEO review missed" — private process detail.
• "D-CX-3 split errors/warnings" — tag is meaningless to users; name the feature instead.
• "Fix-wave PR #N supersedes #M" — supersede chains belong in PR bodies, not release notes.
• "215 new cases, 3 decisions applied, 7 reviews cleared" — these are planning-mode metrics.

What to keep:

• The user-facing change: what commands exist now, what flag was added, what behavior fixed.
• Numbers that mean something to the user: TTHW, commands that timed out before, detection counts.
• Upgrade instructions: gbrain upgrade + any manual step if needed.
• Credit to external contributors when a community PR was incorporated.

CHANGELOG voice + release-summary format

Every version entry in CHANGELOG.md MUST start with a release-summary section in the GStack/Garry voice — one viewport's worth of prose + tables that lands like a verdict, not marketing. The itemized changelog (subsections, bullets, files) goes BELOW that summary, separated by a ### Itemized changes header.

The release-summary section gets read by humans, by the auto-update agent, and by anyone deciding whether to upgrade. The itemized list is for agents that need to know exactly what changed.

Release-summary template

Use this structure for the top of every ## [X.Y.Z] entry:

1. Two-line bold headline (10-14 words total) ... should land like a verdict, not marketing. Sound like someone who shipped today and cares whether it works.
2. Lead paragraph (3-5 sentences) ... what shipped, what changed for the user. Specific, concrete, no AI vocabulary, no em dashes, no hype.
3. A "The X numbers that matter" section with:
   • One short setup paragraph naming the source of the numbers (real production deployment OR a reproducible benchmark ... name the file/command to run).
   • A table of 3-6 key metrics with BEFORE / AFTER / Δ columns.
   • A second optional table for per-category breakdown if relevant.
   • 1-2 sentences interpreting the most striking number in concrete user terms.
4. A "What this means for [audience]" closing paragraph (2-4 sentences) tying the metrics to a real workflow shift. End with what to do.

Voice rules:

• No em dashes (use commas, periods, "...").
• No AI vocabulary (delve, robust, comprehensive, nuanced, fundamental, etc.) or banned phrases ("here's the kicker", "the bottom line", etc.).
• Real numbers, real file names, real commands. Not "fast" but "~30s on 30K pages."
• Short paragraphs, mix one-sentence punches with 2-3 sentence runs.
• Connect to user outcomes: "the agent does ~3x less reading" beats "improved precision."
• Be direct about quality. "Well-designed" or "this is a mess." No dancing.

Source material to pull from:

• CHANGELOG.md previous entry for prior context
• Latest gbrain-evals/docs/benchmarks/[latest].md for headline numbers (sibling repo)
• Recent commits (git log <prev-version>..HEAD --oneline) for what shipped
• Don't make up numbers. If a metric isn't in a benchmark or production data, don't include it. Say "no measurement yet" if asked.

Target length: ~250-350 words for the summary. Should render as one viewport.

"To take advantage of v[version]" block (required, v0.13+)

After the release-summary and BEFORE ### Itemized changes, every ## [X.Y.Z] entry MUST include a human-readable self-repair block under the heading ## To take advantage of v[version].

Why: gbrain upgrade runs gbrain post-upgrade which runs gbrain apply-migrations. This chain has a known weak link — upgrade.ts catches post-upgrade failures as best-effort (so the binary still works). When that chain silently fails, users end up with half-upgraded brains. The self-repair block gives them a paste-ready recovery path; the v0.13+ ~/.gbrain/upgrade-errors.jsonl trail + gbrain doctor integration close the loop.

Template (adapt the verify commands per release):

## To take advantage of v[version]

`gbrain upgrade` should do this automatically. If it didn't, or if `gbrain doctor`
warns about a partial migration:

1. **Run the orchestrator manually:**
   ```bash
   gbrain apply-migrations --yes

2. Your agent reads skills/migrations/v[version].md the next time you interact with it. [One sentence on whether headless agents need manual action, or whether the orchestrator already handled the mechanical side.]

3. Verify the outcome:

   [release-specific verify commands, e.g. `gbrain graph ... --depth 2`]
   gbrain stats
   

4. If any step fails or the numbers look wrong, please file an issue: https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain/issues with:

   • output of gbrain doctor
   • contents of ~/.gbrain/upgrade-errors.jsonl if it exists
   • which step broke

   This feedback loop is how the gbrain maintainers find fragile upgrade paths. Thank you.

**Skip this block** for patches that are pure bug fixes with zero user-facing action
(rare). If the release has a schema migration, data backfill, or new feature the
user needs to verify, the block is required.

The v0.13.0 entry in CHANGELOG.md is the canonical example.

### Itemized changes (the existing rules)

Below the release summary, write `### Itemized changes` and continue with the
detailed subsections (Knowledge Graph Layer, Schema migrations, Security hardening,
Tests, etc.). Same rules as before:

- Lead with what the user can now DO that they couldn't before
- Frame as benefits and capabilities, not files changed or code written
- Make the user think "hell yeah, I want that"
- Bad: "Added GBRAIN_VERIFY.md installation verification runbook"
- Good: "Your agent now verifies the entire GBrain installation end-to-end, catching
  silent sync failures and stale embeddings before they bite you"
- Bad: "Setup skill Phase H and Phase I added"
- Good: "New installs automatically set up live sync so your brain never falls behind"
- **Always credit community contributions.** When a CHANGELOG entry includes work from
  a community PR, name the contributor with `Contributed by @username`. Contributors
  did real work. Thank them publicly every time, no exceptions.

### Reference: v0.12.0 entry as canonical example

The v0.12.0 entry in CHANGELOG.md is the canonical example of the format. Match its
structure for every future version: bold headline, lead paragraph, "numbers that
matter" with BrainBench-style before/after table, "what this means" closer, then
`### Itemized changes` with the detailed sections below.

## Version migrations

Create a migration file at `skills/migrations/v[version].md` when a release
includes changes that existing users need to act on. The auto-update agent
reads these files post-upgrade (Section 17, Step 4) and executes them.

**You need a migration file when:**
- New setup step that existing installs don't have (e.g., v0.5.0 added live sync,
  existing users need to set it up, not just new installs)
- New SKILLPACK section with a MUST ADD setup requirement
- Schema changes that require `gbrain init` or manual SQL
- Changed defaults that affect existing behavior
- Deprecated commands or flags that need replacement
- New verification steps that should run on existing installs
- New cron jobs or background processes that should be registered

**You do NOT need a migration file when:**
- Bug fixes with no behavior changes
- Documentation-only improvements (the agent re-reads docs automatically)
- New optional features that don't affect existing setups
- Performance improvements that are transparent

**The key test:** if an existing user upgrades and does nothing else, will their
brain work worse than before? If yes, migration file. If no, skip it.

Write migration files as agent instructions, not technical notes. Tell the agent
what to do, step by step, with exact commands. See `skills/migrations/v0.5.0.md`
for the pattern.

## Migration is canonical, not advisory

GBrain's job is to deliver a canonical, working setup to every user on upgrade.
Anything that looks like a "host-repo change" — AGENTS.md, cron manifests,
launchctl units, config files outside `~/.gbrain/` — is a GBrain migration
step, not a nudge we leave for the host-repo maintainer. Migrations edit host
files (with backups) to make the canonical setup real. Exceptions: changes
that require human judgment (content edits, renames that break semantics,
host-specific handler registration where shell-exec would be an RCE surface).
Everything mechanical ships in the migration.

**Test:** if shipping a feature requires a sentence that starts with "in
your AGENTS.md, add…" or "in your cron/jobs.json, rewrite…", the migration
orchestrator should be doing that edit, not the user.

**The exception is host-specific code.** For custom Minion handlers
(host-specific integrations like inbox sweeps or third-party API scanners), shipping them as a
data file the worker would exec is an RCE surface. Those get registered in
the host's own repo via the plugin contract (`docs/guides/plugin-handlers.md`);
the migration orchestrator emits a structured TODO to
`~/.gbrain/migrations/pending-host-work.jsonl` + the host agent walks the
TODOs using `skills/migrations/v0.11.0.md` — stays host-agnostic, still
canonical.

## Privacy rule: scrub real names from public docs

**Never reference real people, companies, funds, or private agent names in any
public-facing artifact.** Public artifacts include: `CHANGELOG.md`, `README.md`,
`docs/`, `skills/`, PR titles + bodies, commit messages, and comments in checked-in
code. Query examples, benchmark stories, and migration guides MUST use generic
placeholders.

Why: gbrain runs a personal knowledge brain containing notes on real people and
real companies (YC founders, portfolio companies, funds, investors, meeting
attendees). When a doc copies a query like `gbrain graph diana-hu --depth 2` or
names a specific agent fork like `Wintermute`, that real name gets indexed by
search engines, surfaced in cross-references, and distributed with every release.

**Name mapping** to use in examples:
- Agent forks → `your agent fork`, `a downstream agent`, or `agent-fork`
- Example person → `alice-example`, `charlie-example`, or `a-founder`
- Example company → `acme-example`, `widget-co`, or `a-company`
- Example fund → `fund-a`, `fund-b`, `fund-c`
- Example deal → `acme-seed`, `widget-series-a`
- Example meeting → `meetings/2026-04-03` (generic date is fine)
- Example user → `you` or `the user`, never a proper name

**Specific rule: never say `Wintermute` in any CHANGELOG, README, doc, PR, or
commit message.** When the temptation is to illustrate with the real fork name:
- Reader-facing copy → `your OpenClaw` (covers Wintermute, Hermes, AlphaClaw,
  and any other downstream OpenClaw deployment in one term the reader already
  recognizes).
- First-person / origin-story copy → `Garry's OpenClaw` (honest that this is
  the production deployment driving the feature, without exposing the private
  agent's name).

`Wintermute` may appear in private artifacts (scratch plans under
`~/.gstack/projects/…`, memory files, conversation transcripts, CEO-review
plans) — those aren't distributed. Anything checked into this repo or shipped
in a release must use the OpenClaw phrasing above. Sweeping a stale reference
is a small clean-up PR, not a debate.

**When in doubt, ask yourself:** "Would this query reveal private information
about the user's contacts, investments, or portfolio if it were read by a
stranger?" If yes, replace with generic placeholders.

**Illustrative API examples with household-brand companies** (Stripe, Brex, OpenAI,
GitHub, etc.) are fine — they're public entities, not contacts in anyone's brain.
Do not confuse illustrative API examples with queries that reveal real
relationships.

## Responsible-disclosure rule: don't broadcast attack surface in release notes

**When a release fixes a security gap or a user-impacting bug, describe the fix
functionally. Do not enumerate the attack surface, quantify the exposure window,
or highlight the most sensitive records by name in public-facing artifacts.**

Public-facing artifacts include: `CHANGELOG.md`, `README.md`, `docs/`, PR titles
and bodies, commit messages, GitHub issue titles and comments, release pages,
tweets, blog posts.

**Don't write:**
- "10 tables were publicly readable by the anon key for months, including X, Y, Z"
- "X and Y are the most sensitive ones"
- "N tables exposed. Fix: enable RLS on these specific tables: ..."

**Do write:**
- "Security hardening pass. Fresh installs secure by default. Existing brains
  brought to the same bar automatically on upgrade."
- "If `gbrain doctor` still flags anything after upgrade, the message names each
  table and gives the exact fix."

Why: anyone reading the release page before they've upgraded now has a directed
probe list for unpatched installs. The source code ships the specifics anyway
(`src/schema.sql`, `src/core/migrate.ts`, test fixtures) — reverse engineers can
get them. But the release page is a broadcast channel. Don't hand attackers a
curated list with a banner.

**The test:** if a reader with no prior context could read the release note and
walk away knowing "gbrain at version X has table Y readable by anon key until
they patch," the note is too specific. Rewrite until that's no longer possible.

**What IS fine in public artifacts:**
- The mechanism of the fix ("the check now scans every public table instead of
  a hardcoded allowlist").
- User-facing operator ergonomics (the escape-hatch SQL template, the upgrade
  commands, the breaking-change flag).
- Credit to contributors.
- Generic framing of severity ("security posture tightening pass") without
  quantification.

**What stays in private artifacts (plan files, private memories, internal docs):**
- Specific table names, record counts, exposure duration.
- Which records stand out as highest-risk.
- Detailed before/after tables in the "numbers that matter" format.

If the CEO/Eng review of a plan produces a detailed exposure table, keep it in
the plan file under `~/.claude/plans/` or `~/.gstack/projects/`. Don't copy it
into the CHANGELOG or PR body.

Applies retroactively: if you see a prior CHANGELOG entry naming attack-surface
specifics, scrub it as a small cleanup commit, the same way a stale Wintermute
reference gets swept.

## Schema state tracking

`~/.gbrain/update-state.json` tracks which recommended schema directories the user
adopted, declined, or added custom. The auto-update agent (SKILLPACK Section 17)
reads this during upgrades to suggest new schema additions without re-suggesting
things the user already declined. The setup skill writes the initial state during
Phase C/E. Never modify a user's custom directories or re-suggest declined ones.

## GitHub Actions SHA maintenance

All GitHub Actions in `.github/workflows/` are pinned to commit SHAs. Before shipping
(`/ship`) or reviewing (`/review`), check for stale pins and update them:

```bash
for action in actions/checkout oven-sh/setup-bun actions/upload-artifact actions/download-artifact softprops/action-gh-release gitleaks/gitleaks-action; do
  tag=$(grep -r "$action@" .github/workflows/ | head -1 | grep -o '#.*' | tr -d '# ')
  [ -n "$tag" ] && echo "$action@$tag: $(gh api repos/$action/git/ref/tags/$tag --jq .object.sha 2>/dev/null)"
done

If any SHA differs from what's in the workflow files, update the pin and version comment.

PR descriptions cover the whole branch

Pull request titles and bodies must describe everything in the PR diff against the base branch, not just the most recent commit you made. When you open or update a PR, walk the full commit range with git log --oneline <base>..<head> and write the body to cover all of it. Group by feature area (schema, code, tests, docs) — not chronologically by commit.

This matters because reviewers read the PR body to understand what's shipping. If the body only covers your last commit, they miss everything else and can't review properly. A 7-commit PR with a body that describes commit 7 is worse than no body at all — it actively misleads.

When in doubt, run gh pr view <N> --json commits --jq '[.commits[].messageHeadline]' to see what's actually in the PR before writing the body.

Community PR wave process

Never merge external PRs directly into master. Instead, use the "fix wave" workflow:

1. Categorize — group PRs by theme (bug fixes, features, infra, docs)
2. Deduplicate — if two PRs fix the same thing, pick the one that changes fewer lines. Close the other with a note pointing to the winner.
3. Collector branch — create a feature branch (e.g. garrytan/fix-wave-N), cherry-pick or manually re-implement the best fixes from each PR. Do NOT merge PR branches directly — read the diff, understand the fix, and write it yourself if needed.
4. Test the wave — verify with bun test && bun run test:e2e (full E2E lifecycle). Every fix in the wave must have test coverage.
5. Close with context — every closed PR gets a comment explaining why and what (if anything) supersedes it. Contributors did real work; respect that with clear communication and thank them.
6. Ship as one PR — single PR to master with all attributions preserved via Co-Authored-By: trailers. Include a summary of what merged and what closed.

Community PR guardrails:

• Always AskUserQuestion before accepting commits that touch voice, tone, or promotional material (README intro, CHANGELOG voice, skill templates).
• Never auto-merge PRs that remove YC references or "neutralize" the founder perspective.
• Preserve contributor attribution in commit messages.

Checking out PRs from garrytan-agents

garrytan-agents is the AI-authored PR account and is NOT a collaborator on this repo. Its PRs live in a fork, so GitHub Actions triggered by pull_request events on those PRs do not receive base-repo secrets. Any CI job that needs ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, or similar will fail with empty-env auth errors, regardless of what's set on the base repo. This is a GitHub security default, not a config bug.

When the user says "check out " and the PR is from garrytan-agents (or any other non-collaborator fork), move the branch into the base repo before running CI:

1. gh pr checkout <N> — pull down the fork's branch. Note the PR number and head branch name (gh pr view <N> --json headRefName --jq .headRefName).
2. git push origin HEAD:<branch-name> — push the same branch to the base repo (origin points at garrytan/gbrain, not the fork). This is the move that gives CI access to secrets.
3. gh pr close <N> --comment "moving to base-repo branch for secret access" — close the fork PR so the queue stays clean.
4. gh pr create --base master --head <branch-name> — open the replacement PR from the base-repo branch. Preserve the original PR's title and body verbatim (gh pr view <N> --json title,body); contributor attribution moves to a Co-Authored-By: trailer if needed.

Why this over alternatives: adding garrytan-agents as a collaborator, or flipping the repo-wide "send secrets to fork PRs" toggle, both broaden secret distribution to every fork PR from that account or any fork. Moving the branch keeps secret scope tight to just the one PR being shipped.

Skill routing

When the user's request matches an available skill, ALWAYS invoke it using the Skill tool as your FIRST action. Do NOT answer directly, do NOT use other tools first. The skill has specialized workflows that produce better results than ad-hoc answers.

NEVER hand-roll ship operations. Do not manually run git commit + push + gh pr create when /ship is available. /ship handles VERSION bump, CHANGELOG, document-release, pre-landing review, test coverage audit, and adversarial review. Manually creating a PR skips all of these. If the user says "commit and ship", "push and ship", "bisect and ship", or any combination that ends with shipping — invoke /ship and let it handle everything including the commits. If the branch name contains a version (e.g. v0.5-live-sync), /ship should use that version for the bump.

Key routing rules:

• Product ideas, "is this worth building", brainstorming → invoke office-hours
• Bugs, errors, "why is this broken", 500 errors → invoke investigate
• Ship, deploy, push, create PR, "commit and ship", "push and ship" → invoke ship
• QA, test the site, find bugs → invoke qa
• Code review, check my diff → invoke review
• Update docs after shipping → invoke document-release
• Weekly retro → invoke retro
• Design system, brand → invoke design-consultation
• Visual audit, design polish → invoke design-review
• Architecture review → invoke plan-eng-review
• Save progress, checkpoint, resume → invoke checkpoint
• Code quality, health check → invoke health