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60125ee626 feat(dream): --once for one-shot phase runs without toggling config gates (takeover of #2983) (#3031)
* feat(dream): --once for one-shot phase runs without toggling config gates

Fixes the "toggle enabled true, run, toggle back to false" workaround
that gbrain doctor's extract_atoms_backlog message implicitly
recommends and that #2860's reporter had to script around: with an
external orchestrator running `gbrain dream --phase patterns` on a
cadence outside the autopilot, the only way to run patterns once was
`config set dream.patterns.enabled true` -> run -> `config set ...
false`. A crash between steps left the flag stuck true, and the
autopilot (which polls the same flag) re-enqueued patterns every
cycle -- 119 LLM jobs / ~$400 over 24h before it was caught.

Root cause: `--phase X` only controls which phase FUNCTION cycle.ts
calls; it does not bypass that phase's own `dream.<phase>.enabled` /
`cycle.<phase>.enabled` config read. Each gated phase (patterns,
synthesize, conversation_facts_backfill, enrich_thin, skillopt) reads
its enabled flag internally and skips regardless of how the phase was
selected -- confirmed by reading each phase module, not assumed.
extract_atoms/synthesize_concepts are a DIFFERENT mechanism entirely
(pack-declaration via packDeclaresPhase, not a config .enabled read)
and already have a working one-shot escape hatch: `--drain`. The
existing doctor message for extract_atoms already says `--phase
extract_atoms --drain --window 120`, so no doctor text needed
updating there -- verified by reading src/commands/doctor.ts directly
rather than assuming the paraphrase in the issue was literal.

Design: `gbrain dream --phase <name> --once`. Requires an explicit
--phase (bare --once is a usage error, exit 2) so it can never
force-enable every disabled phase at once in a full/default cycle --
that would recreate the same unbounded-spend risk the flag exists to
prevent. Threaded through CycleOpts as `onceForPhase?: CyclePhase`
(the literal phase name, not a boolean) so the bypass can never leak
to a phase other than the one named, even if a future programmatic
caller passes a wider `phases` array than the CLI does. Never reads
or writes config -- the phase still evaluates its .enabled gate every
call; --once only overrides the boolean OUTCOME for that one
invocation, mirroring the existing --unsafe-bypass-dream-guard /
--input precedents (stderr warning at the bypass point, no new
config-touching code path).

Rejected alternatives (documented per task instructions):
- Making explicit --phase X always bypass .enabled: breaking change
  for existing crons that rely on the disabled flag as a cheap no-op;
  an upgrade would silently start running LLM/write phases.
- A new subcommand: adds a whole dispatch/help/arg surface that
  internally routes through the same override anyway.
- Extending --once to also bypass packDeclaresPhase for
  extract_atoms/synthesize_concepts: conflates two different gating
  mechanisms (config toggle vs. pack membership) under one flag;
  extract_atoms already has --drain, which is purpose-built for its
  batched/windowed execution model.

Design was cross-validated by an independent second-model review
(external design consultation) before implementation; its
recommendation to also update the extract_atoms doctor message to
`--once` was NOT adopted because that phase has no .enabled gate to
bypass -- doing so would be a documented no-op, contradicted by
reading src/commands/doctor.ts:3264 directly.

Tests: 9 new (structural CLI-flag wiring in dream-cli-flags.test.ts;
a real PGLite E2E test in dream-patterns-pglite.test.ts proving the
bypass fires AND that dream.patterns.enabled is never written; 4
runCycle-level tests in cycle.serial.test.ts proving onceForPhase
does not leak across phases). Verified 6 of 9 fail against the
pre-fix source (via git stash of source-only changes) to confirm
they're meaningful regressions, not tautologies.

Closes #2860

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(dream): --help short-circuits before --once usage validation

Codex review finding (P2): `gbrain dream --help --once` (no --phase)
called process.exit(2) from the new --once usage-error check inside
parseArgs before runDream's documented IRON RULE ("--help
short-circuits BEFORE any engine-bearing work") ever got a chance to
run -- parseArgs computes ALL its validations unconditionally before
runDream checks opts.help. Repo precedent for this ordering already
exists as a pinned regression test (test/dream.test.ts's "--help
--source whatever prints help and exits 0").

Fix: compute wantsHelp once in parseArgs and exempt the --once
validation when it's set, mirroring that precedent. Added the same
class of pinned tests here: bare `--once` still exits 2 with the
usage hint, `--help --once` prints help and exits 0, and a real
--phase patterns --once run against a PGLite engine proves the
bypass actually fires (falls through to insufficient_evidence
instead of disabled) without writing dream.patterns.enabled. Also
fixed the structural test in dream-cli-flags.test.ts that asserted
the exact pre-fix guard-condition source text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(dream): --once must require an EXPLICIT --phase, not a derived one

Codex review finding (P3): the --once validation checked the derived
`phase` value, but `phase` gets defaulted implicitly by --input
(implies --phase synthesize) and --drain (implies --phase
extract_atoms) BEFORE that check ran. So `gbrain dream --input <f>
--once` and `gbrain dream --drain --once` both slipped past the
"explicit --phase required" contract silently -- and --once became a
true no-op in both cases: --drain returns from runDream before
onceForPhase is ever read (the drain path doesn't call runCycle at
all), and --input already bypasses the synthesize enabled-gate on its
own via the existing opts.inputFile check, so onceForPhase would
never even be consulted.

Fix: capture `phaseWasExplicit = phaseIdx !== -1` at the very top of
parseArgs, before the --input/--drain defaulting blocks run, and
validate --once against that instead of the derived `phase`. Updated
the usage-error message and --help text to say "an explicit --phase"
so a user hitting this understands why `--input ... --once` doesn't
count.

Tests: 2 new pins in test/dream.test.ts exercising runDream directly
(--input <file> --once exits 2; --drain --once exits 2), plus a
structural test in dream-cli-flags.test.ts pinning that
phaseWasExplicit is captured before both implicit-defaulting blocks.
Updated the two existing structural/behavioral tests whose literal
guard-condition / error-message assertions changed shape.

Verified: dream-cli-flags.test.ts 27/27, dream.test.ts 31/31,
typecheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: masashiono0611 <masashi.ono.0611@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Garry Tan <garrytan@gmail.com>
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