@bongos/core 1.19.273 → 1.19.274

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package/modules/lifecycle/est-advisory.js

@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+// modules/lifecycle/est-advisory.js — the ESTIMATE-SCALE advisory (task 1003148).
+//
+// THE HOLE. Nothing tells a task author that their estimate is on the wrong SCALE.
+// Across 1,173 shipped tasks carrying both est_minutes and actual_minutes, the
+// median actual/est ratio is 0.100 — and it is uniform across every kind with a
+// real sample (feature 0.078/n=489, bug 0.150/n=214, infra 0.097/n=144,
+// cleanup 0.133/n=89, decision 0.100/n=76, refactor 0.120/n=62, spike 0.142/n=36).
+// That is not per-task noise. Authors write HUMAN-HOURS-shaped numbers for work an
+// agent does in minutes.
+//
+// pms_calibrated_minutes (migration 015) already divides by that median so
+// /builder-start and the optimizer show a sane figure. But the STORED number stays
+// wrong, nobody is ever told, and every newly-filed task re-adds the same error —
+// so the calibration is a permanent correction for a mistake with no feedback
+// loop. It also misleads humans directly: GET /tasks/:id leads with the raw field,
+// and a session quoted task 1002572 to the owner as "60 min" when its calibrated
+// value is 9.
+//
+// This module closes the loop WITHOUT blocking anything: POST /tasks attaches the
+// verdict to its 201 body as `est_advisory`, and an in-scale estimate gets `null` —
+// silence. Deliberately NOT an auto-correction: silently rewriting the author's
+// number is worse than the current silence, because then nobody learns the scale
+// either. Show the figure, name the evidence, let the author decide.
+//
+// PURE core + FAIL-OPEN wrapper, exported so every branch is pinned by a DB-free
+// unit test. A module sibling, like ./goal-advisory.js — same contract.
+
+// WHY THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DELTA AND NOT A RATIO — a design flaw my own test
+// caught, worth recording so it is not reintroduced. The calibration is a pure
+// scalar multiply, so submitted / (submitted x ratio) === 1 / ratio for EVERY
+// input. A ratio-based "how inflated is this?" test therefore returns the same
+// answer for a correct 9-minute estimate as for a wrong 600-minute one — it fires
+// on everything, which is the noise failure this advisory must avoid. (It did:
+// est=9 for a bug floored to calibrated=1 and read as "9x over".)
+//
+// So the trigger is whether the TRANSLATION IS MATERIAL: how many minutes the
+// author's number and the calibrated equivalent actually differ by. A 9-minute
+// estimate translates to ~1 (delta 8 — not worth a word); a 300-minute estimate
+// translates to 45 (delta 255 — worth saying out loud).
+//
+// AND BE PRECISE ABOUT THE FEEDBACK LOOP, because the tempting claim is false:
+// adopting the suggested value does NOT silence this for that task. The
+// calibration is a constant multiply, so the new number gets translated too. The
+// loop closes at the POPULATION level — pms_calibration_summary recomputes the
+// median from shipped rows, so as authors write agent-minutes the ratio itself
+// climbs toward 1.0 and the delta collapses for everyone at once. That is the
+// only mechanism that can actually retire this advisory, and it is why the
+// advisory reports the ratio and its sample size rather than a verdict.
+const MIN_MATERIAL_DELTA = 15;
+
+// TWO conditions, because the delta alone is partly a "large estimate" detector:
+// with a mostly-corrected population (ratio 0.9) a 300-minute estimate still
+// differs by 30. This advisory is about SCALE, so it also requires the scale to
+// actually be off. Above this ratio, estimates and actuals broadly agree and there
+// is nothing to translate no matter how big the number is — which is what lets the
+// population feedback loop retire the advisory outright.
+const SCALE_OK_RATIO = 0.5;
+
+// Below this many samples for a kind, that kind's median is not worth quoting and
+// the overall median is used instead — mirroring pms_calibrated_minutes' own
+// thresholds (>=5 per kind, else >=10 overall) so the advisory and the calibration
+// can never disagree about which number applies.
+const MIN_KIND_SAMPLES = 5;
+const MIN_OVERALL_SAMPLES = 10;
+
+// PURE. Pick the median ratio that governs this kind, and say which population it
+// came from — the author should be able to tell "your kind, 214 samples" from
+// "everything, 1173 samples".
+function pickRatio({ kind, summary }) {
+  const rows = Array.isArray(summary) ? summary : [];
+  const forKind = rows.find((r) => r && r.kind === kind);
+  if (forKind && Number(forKind.sample_size) >= MIN_KIND_SAMPLES) {
+    const ratio = Number(forKind.median_ratio);
+    if (Number.isFinite(ratio) && ratio > 0) {
+      return { ratio, sample_size: Number(forKind.sample_size), basis: kind };
+    }
+  }
+  // Overall: a sample-weighted median is not reconstructible from per-kind medians,
+  // so use the median OF the per-kind medians weighted by nothing — an honest
+  // approximation, labelled as such. Callers that need the exact overall figure
+  // should read pms_calibration_summary() directly.
+  const usable = rows
+    .map((r) => ({ ratio: Number(r && r.median_ratio), n: Number(r && r.sample_size) }))
+    .filter((r) => Number.isFinite(r.ratio) && r.ratio > 0 && Number.isFinite(r.n) && r.n > 0);
+  const total = usable.reduce((s, r) => s + r.n, 0);
+  if (total < MIN_OVERALL_SAMPLES || usable.length === 0) return null;
+  const sorted = usable.map((r) => r.ratio).sort((a, b) => a - b);
+  const mid = Math.floor(sorted.length / 2);
+  const ratio = sorted.length % 2 ? sorted[mid] : (sorted[mid - 1] + sorted[mid]) / 2;
+  return { ratio, sample_size: total, basis: 'all kinds' };
+}
+
+// PURE, FAIL-OPEN. Returns null when there is nothing to say: no estimate given,
+// no usable history, or an estimate already in the right scale.
+function adviseEstimate({ estMinutes, kind, summary, taskId = null }) {
+  const est = Number(estMinutes);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(est) || est <= 0) return null; // nothing to judge
+  const picked = pickRatio({ kind, summary });
+  if (!picked) return null; // not enough history to make a claim
+  if (picked.ratio >= SCALE_OK_RATIO) return null; // the scale is fine — nothing to say
+  const calibrated = Math.max(1, Math.round(est * picked.ratio));
+  if (est - calibrated < MIN_MATERIAL_DELTA) return null; // translation immaterial — say nothing
+  const ratio = Math.round(picked.ratio * 1000) / 1000;
+  // The historical factor is a property of the KIND, not of this estimate — see
+  // the note on MIN_MATERIAL_DELTA. Report it as such rather than implying we
+  // measured this particular guess.
+  const kindFactor = Math.round((1 / picked.ratio) * 10) / 10;
+  return {
+    submitted_minutes: est,
+    calibrated_minutes: calibrated,
+    kind_factor: kindFactor,
+    median_ratio: ratio,
+    sample_size: picked.sample_size,
+    basis: picked.basis,
+    message: `est_minutes=${est} translates to ~${calibrated} min of real time. Across `
+      + `${picked.sample_size} shipped task(s) (${picked.basis}) the median actual/est ratio is `
+      + `${ratio}, i.e. estimates of this kind have run ~${kindFactor}x long — est_minutes is `
+      + 'AGENT-minutes, not human-hours. The calibration corrects the board, but the STORED number '
+      + 'is what a reader sees.',
+    next_step: taskId
+      ? `If ${calibrated} is closer, correct it: PATCH /tasks/${taskId} {"est_minutes": ${calibrated}}`
+      : `Consider est_minutes: ${calibrated}.`,
+  };
+}
+
+// The calibration population. Reads pms_calibration_summary() — the transparency
+// companion migration 015 shipped for exactly this — rather than recomputing the
+// medians, so this and pms_calibrated_minutes can never disagree about the ratio.
+// Lives HERE rather than in db.js: db.js is over the size ratchet's cap and this
+// is the only caller. The pool comes through the published module doorway.
+// Deliberately not fail-open — buildEstAdvisory below is the single failure site.
+async function calibrationSummary({ pool } = {}) {
+  const p = pool || require('../../src/module-api').getPool();
+  const { rows } = await p.query('SELECT kind, median_ratio, sample_size FROM pms_calibration_summary()');
+  return rows || [];
+}
+
+// The DB-touching wrapper. NON-BLOCKING BY CONSTRUCTION — any failure yields null
+// and the create still returns 201. Same contract as buildGoalAdvisory. `db` is
+// accepted for symmetry with that function and to let a test inject a summary.
+async function buildEstAdvisory({ db, task } = {}) {
+  try {
+    if (!task || task.est_minutes == null) return null;
+    const summary = (db && db.calibrationSummary) ? await db.calibrationSummary() : await calibrationSummary();
+    return adviseEstimate({
+      estMinutes: task.est_minutes,
+      kind: task.kind,
+      summary,
+      taskId: task.id,
+    });
+  } catch (e) {
+    // Through the published logger seam (api.logger), not a raw console call: a
+    // module logs via the doorway, and the console_call_count ratchet
+    // (config/fitness-baselines.json) holds at its recorded floor. Lazy-required
+    // so the DB-free unit test that exercises THIS branch stays hermetic.
+    require('../../src/module-api').logger('lifecycle')
+      .error('est-advisory (non-blocking)', e && e.message);
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = { adviseEstimate, pickRatio, buildEstAdvisory, calibrationSummary, MIN_MATERIAL_DELTA, SCALE_OK_RATIO, MIN_KIND_SAMPLES, MIN_OVERALL_SAMPLES };

package/modules/lifecycle/routes/tasks.js

@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ module.exports = function buildTasksRouter() {
       description: { type: 'string', maxLength: LIMITS.DESCRIPTION },
       status: { type: 'string', maxLength: 32 },
       touches: { type: 'array', maxItems: 500, itemsType: 'string' },
-      est_minutes: { type: 'integer', min: 0, max: 100000 },
+      est_minutes: { type: 'integer', min: 0, max: 100000 }, // AGENT-minutes — see est-advisory.js (task 1003148)
       est_cost_usd: { type: 'number', min: 0 },
       manual_degree: { type: 'integer', min: TASK_FIELD_BOUNDS.manual_degree.min, max: TASK_FIELD_BOUNDS.manual_degree.max },
       priority: { type: 'integer', min: TASK_FIELD_BOUNDS.priority.min, max: TASK_FIELD_BOUNDS.priority.max },
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ module.exports = function buildTasksRouter() {
         needs_migration: needsMigration,
         criteria,
         suggested_criteria,
-        goal_advisory,
+        goal_advisory, est_advisory: await require('../est-advisory').buildEstAdvisory({ db, task }), // task 1003148
       });
     } catch (err) {
       console.error('[gds] POST /tasks', err);

package/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.19.273",
+  "version": "1.19.274",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@bongos/core",
-      "version": "1.19.273",
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package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.19.273",
+  "version": "1.19.274",
   "description": "Cloud Bongos — the AI-first build platform core (GDS + platform surfaces + module system), installed as a versioned dependency (ADR 0108).",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "main": "src/platform-server.js",

package/src/module-api.js

@@ -973,8 +973,10 @@ const { validateOrRespond, LIMITS, parseId, asyncHandler, corsPublicGet, parsePa
 //         landed since 1.19.271 with no explicit bump. run 32438140524. (task 1002620)
 //   1.19.273 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
 //         landed since 1.19.272 with no explicit bump. run 32441024959. (task 1002620)
+//   1.19.274 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
+//         landed since 1.19.273 with no explicit bump. run 32490024209. (task 1002620)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-const CORE_VERSION = '1.19.273'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); see changelog above
+const CORE_VERSION = '1.19.274'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); see changelog above
 
 // A namespaced logger so a module's log lines are attributable + consistent.
 // Usage: const log = api.logger('dev-box'); log.info('mounted');

package/tests/est_advisory.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+// tests/est_advisory.mjs — the estimate-SCALE advisory (task 1003148).
+//
+// THE HOLE. Nothing tells a task author their estimate is on the wrong SCALE.
+// Across 1,173 shipped tasks carrying both est_minutes and actual_minutes the
+// median actual/est ratio is 0.100, uniform across every kind with a real sample
+// (feature 0.078/n=489, bug 0.150/n=214, infra 0.097/n=144, cleanup 0.133/n=89).
+// Authors write human-hours-shaped numbers for work an agent does in minutes.
+//
+// pms_calibrated_minutes (migration 015) already divides by that median, so the
+// board looks sane while the STORED number stays wrong and every new task re-adds
+// the error — a permanent correction with no feedback loop. It misleads humans
+// directly too: GET /tasks/:id leads with the raw field, and a session quoted task
+// 1002572 to the owner as "60 min" when its calibrated value is 9.
+//
+// What we prove (PURE — no DB, no network):
+//   1. An out-of-scale estimate is flagged, with the calibrated equivalent, the
+//      ratio, and the SAMPLE SIZE it rests on — evidence, not an assertion.
+//   2. An in-scale estimate returns null. Silence is the common case; an advisory
+//      that fires on every create is noise and gets ignored.
+//   3. It never AUTO-CORRECTS. The submitted value is reported, not replaced —
+//      silently rewriting the author's number is worse than the current silence,
+//      because then nobody learns the scale either.
+//   4. The ratio source mirrors pms_calibrated_minutes' own thresholds (>=5 for a
+//      kind, else the overall population), so advisory and calibration can never
+//      disagree about which number applies — and it says WHICH basis it used.
+//   5. Missing / hostile / thin-sample input yields null, never a guess.
+//
+// Run:  node tests/est_advisory.mjs
+
+import { strict as assert } from 'node:assert';
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
+
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
+const { adviseEstimate, pickRatio, buildEstAdvisory, MIN_MATERIAL_DELTA, SCALE_OK_RATIO } =
+  require('../modules/lifecycle/est-advisory.js');
+
+let passed = 0;
+let failed = 0;
+function t(name, fn) {
+  try { const r = fn(); if (r && r.then) return r.then(
+    () => { passed++; console.log(`  ok  ${name}`); },
+    (e) => { failed++; console.log(`  FAIL ${name}`); console.log(`     ${e.message}`); });
+    passed++; console.log(`  ok  ${name}`);
+  } catch (e) { failed++; console.log(`  FAIL ${name}`); console.log(`     ${e.message}`); }
+  return Promise.resolve();
+}
+
+// The real shape pms_calibration_summary() returns, with the real medians.
+const SUMMARY = [
+  { kind: 'feature', median_ratio: '0.0780', sample_size: 489 },
+  { kind: 'bug', median_ratio: '0.1500', sample_size: 214 },
+  { kind: 'infra', median_ratio: '0.0970', sample_size: 144 },
+  { kind: 'cleanup', median_ratio: '0.1330', sample_size: 89 },
+  { kind: 'blocker-resolution', median_ratio: '0.1280', sample_size: 2 }, // below the kind floor
+];
+
+// ---- 1. the flag, with its evidence ----
+
+await t('an out-of-scale bug estimate is flagged with the calibrated equivalent', () => {
+  const a = adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 60, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY, taskId: 1002572 });
+  assert.ok(a, 'must advise');
+  assert.equal(a.submitted_minutes, 60);
+  assert.equal(a.calibrated_minutes, 9, '60 * 0.15 = 9 — the real number for task 1002572');
+  assert.equal(a.basis, 'bug');
+  assert.equal(a.sample_size, 214, 'quotes the sample the claim rests on');
+  assert.equal(a.median_ratio, 0.15);
+  assert.equal(a.kind_factor, 6.7, 'the historical factor is a property of the KIND');
+  assert.match(a.message, /AGENT-minutes/, 'names the unit, which is the actual defect');
+  assert.match(a.next_step, /PATCH \/tasks\/1002572 \{"est_minutes": 9\}/, 'gives the exact fix');
+});
+
+await t('the advisory reports, never auto-corrects', () => {
+  const a = adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 300, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY, taskId: 5 });
+  assert.equal(a.submitted_minutes, 300, 'the submitted value is preserved verbatim');
+  assert.equal(a.calibrated_minutes, 45);
+  // Nothing in the advisory mutates anything — it is a pure verdict object.
+  assert.equal(typeof a, 'object');
+  assert.ok(!('task' in a), 'no task payload — it cannot rewrite the row');
+});
+
+// ---- 2. silence is the common case ----
+
+await t('an already-agent-scale estimate returns null (no noise on a good create)', () => {
+  // The trigger is a MATERIAL translation, not a ratio — a ratio is constant by
+  // construction (see MIN_MATERIAL_DELTA) and would fire on correct estimates too.
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 9, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY }), null,
+    '9 min for a bug is already agent-scale — translating it says nothing useful');
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 2, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY }), null);
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 4, kind: 'feature', summary: SUMMARY }), null);
+});
+
+await t('the loop closes at the POPULATION level, not per task', () => {
+  // The tempting claim — "adopt the suggestion and it goes quiet" — is FALSE, and
+  // asserting it is how a wrong comment would have shipped. The calibration is a
+  // constant multiply, so the adopted value gets translated too:
+  const loud = adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 300, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY });
+  assert.ok(loud, 'a human-hours estimate is flagged');
+  assert.ok(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: loud.calibrated_minutes, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY }),
+    'adopting the value does NOT silence it — the multiplier re-applies');
+
+  // What DOES retire the advisory: the population correcting, which raises the
+  // median ratio toward 1.0 (pms_calibration_summary recomputes from shipped
+  // rows). Then even a large estimate translates to nearly itself.
+  const corrected = [{ kind: 'bug', median_ratio: '0.9500', sample_size: 400 }];
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 300, kind: 'bug', summary: corrected }), null,
+    'once estimates and actuals agree, the advisory has nothing to say — at ANY size');
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 5000, kind: 'bug', summary: corrected }), null,
+    'and size alone must never trigger it — this is a SCALE advisory, not a big-number one');
+  assert.ok(MIN_MATERIAL_DELTA > 0 && SCALE_OK_RATIO > 0 && SCALE_OK_RATIO < 1);
+});
+
+// ---- 3/4. which ratio, and why ----
+
+await t('pickRatio uses the KIND when it has enough samples, and says so', () => {
+  const p = pickRatio({ kind: 'feature', summary: SUMMARY });
+  assert.equal(p.basis, 'feature');
+  assert.equal(p.sample_size, 489);
+  assert.equal(p.ratio, 0.078);
+});
+
+await t('pickRatio falls back off a THIN kind rather than quoting 2 samples', () => {
+  // blocker-resolution has n=2, below the >=5 floor pms_calibrated_minutes uses.
+  const p = pickRatio({ kind: 'blocker-resolution', summary: SUMMARY });
+  assert.notEqual(p.basis, 'blocker-resolution', 'must not quote a 2-sample median as authority');
+  assert.equal(p.basis, 'all kinds');
+  assert.ok(p.sample_size > 900, 'the overall basis carries the whole population');
+});
+
+await t('an unknown kind still gets the overall basis', () => {
+  const p = pickRatio({ kind: 'nonexistent-kind', summary: SUMMARY });
+  assert.equal(p.basis, 'all kinds');
+});
+
+// ---- 5. fail closed ----
+
+await t('no estimate, no history, or hostile input ⇒ null, never a guess', () => {
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: null, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY }), null);
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 0, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY }), null);
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: -5, kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY }), null);
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 'sixty', kind: 'bug', summary: SUMMARY }), null);
+  // Thin overall population: nothing to claim.
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 600, kind: 'bug', summary: [{ kind: 'bug', median_ratio: '0.15', sample_size: 3 }] }), null);
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 600, kind: 'bug', summary: [] }), null);
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 600, kind: 'bug', summary: null }), null);
+  // Garbage rows must not crash or be trusted.
+  assert.equal(adviseEstimate({ estMinutes: 600, kind: 'bug', summary: [{ kind: 'bug', median_ratio: 'x', sample_size: 'y' }] }), null);
+});
+
+await t('buildEstAdvisory is NON-BLOCKING — a db failure yields null, not a throw', async () => {
+  const thrower = { calibrationSummary: async () => { throw new Error('pg down'); } };
+  assert.equal(await buildEstAdvisory({ db: thrower, task: { id: 1, kind: 'bug', est_minutes: 600 } }), null);
+  // No estimate on the task at all: nothing to judge, and no db call needed.
+  let called = false;
+  const spy = { calibrationSummary: async () => { called = true; return SUMMARY; } };
+  assert.equal(await buildEstAdvisory({ db: spy, task: { id: 1, kind: 'bug', est_minutes: null } }), null);
+  assert.equal(called, false, 'must not query when there is no estimate to judge');
+});
+
+await t('buildEstAdvisory returns the advisory on the happy path', async () => {
+  const db = { calibrationSummary: async () => SUMMARY };
+  const a = await buildEstAdvisory({ db, task: { id: 77, kind: 'feature', est_minutes: 90 } });
+  assert.ok(a);
+  assert.equal(a.calibrated_minutes, 7, '90 * 0.078 = 7');
+  assert.equal(a.basis, 'feature');
+  assert.match(a.next_step, /PATCH \/tasks\/77/);
+});
+
+await t('the route attaches est_advisory to the 201 body, non-blocking', () => {
+  // Mirrors the goal_advisory contract test. The call is folded into the response
+  // literal because modules/lifecycle/routes/tasks.js is over the size ratchet's
+  // cap and main sits exactly AT the baseline — so this feature had to land at
+  // net-zero lines in that file. Asserting the shape keeps the fold honest.
+  const src = fs.readFileSync(new URL('../modules/lifecycle/routes/tasks.js', import.meta.url), 'utf8');
+  const body201 = (src.match(/res\.status\(201\)\.json\(\{[\s\S]*?\}\);/) || [''])[0];
+  assert.ok(body201, 'found the 201 response body');
+  assert.match(body201, /est_advisory:/, 'est_advisory rides the create response');
+  assert.match(body201, /buildEstAdvisory\(\{ db, task \}\)/, 'and delegates rather than inlining logic');
+});
+
+console.log('');
+console.log(`est_advisory: ${passed} passed, ${failed} failed`);
+process.exit(failed === 0 ? 0 : 1);

package/tests/goal_advisory.mjs

@@ -117,7 +117,12 @@ await test('db.js resolves the catch-all through generalGoalTitle — no second
 
 await test('the route delegates to buildGoalAdvisory in one line — no inline logic to drift', () => {
   assert.match(tasksSrc, /const goal_advisory = await buildGoalAdvisory\(\{ db, versionId: body\.version_id, task \}\);/);
-  assert.match(tasksSrc, /goal_advisory,\s*\}\);/, 'included in the 201 body');
+  // task 1003148: was /goal_advisory,\s*\}\);/ — it required goal_advisory to be
+  // the LAST key, which the sibling est_advisory broke. The assertion's intent is
+  // "present in the 201 body", so assert that, not the key order.
+  const body201 = (tasksSrc.match(/res\.status\(201\)\.json\(\{[\s\S]*?\}\);/) || [''])[0];
+  assert.ok(body201, 'found the 201 response body');
+  assert.match(body201, /goal_advisory,/, 'included in the 201 body');
 });
 
 // ---- buildGoalAdvisory: the real function, driven with a stub db ----