@chrono-meta/fh-gate 1.4.42 → 1.4.43

package/AGENTS.md

@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ Agents in this registry belong to the **Automation layer**. Skills (in `plugins/
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 > When unsure, treat raw / observational / operator-specific material as **private-first** and promote only the polished result to public. (Concrete per-operator bindings — exact companion-store path, sync mechanism — live in the operator's local config, not here.)
 
-> **Multi-model sidecar (validated)**: Any FH user can delegate to other models via sidecar — Gemini CLI, OpenAI/Codex CLI, or Copilot CLI's model catalog — invoked with `Bash` from within the Claude Code session. FH is the orchestrating harness; the sidecar is a routing/access layer (not a second harness — different layer entirely). Validated empirically: `echo "prompt" | gemini` works inside a CC session and produces usable output. Sidecar calls are Bash invocations, not agent dispatches — they bypass this registry and are coordinated inline by the skill. Capability routing matters too: Gemini/Antigravity is the natural multimodal sidecar, while a Codex app/runtime session with Browser/Chrome connectors is the preferred handoff for live web-flow automation. In a local FH workspace that pairs the public methodology mirror with a private companion store (the `*-be` pattern), route by workspace capability while preserving each repository's ownership boundary. See `knowledge/shared/harness-core/multi_model_sidecar_strategy.md` for the full pattern.
+> **Multi-model sidecar (validated)**: Any FH user can delegate to other models via sidecar — Gemini CLI, OpenAI/Codex CLI, or Copilot CLI's model catalog — invoked with `Bash` from within the Claude Code session. FH is the orchestrating harness; the sidecar is a routing/access layer (not a second harness — different layer entirely). Validated empirically: `echo "prompt" | gemini` works inside a CC session and produces usable output. Sidecar calls are Bash invocations, not agent dispatches — they bypass this registry and are coordinated inline by the skill. Capability routing matters too: Gemini/Antigravity is the natural breadth/multimodal sidecar, while Codex's primary cast is the **repo-grounded audit** sidecar (file reads · grep/source-close · diff & patch · gate execution · phantom/backtrace) — **not** discovery/design-depth; a Codex session with Browser/Chrome connectors mounted can additionally take live web-flow automation as a capability-routed handoff. In a local FH workspace that pairs the public methodology mirror with a private companion store (the `*-be` pattern), route by workspace capability while preserving each repository's ownership boundary. See `knowledge/shared/harness-core/multi_model_sidecar_strategy.md §Runtime Authority` for the authority model and the full pattern.
+
+> **Runtime authority — hard stop line (Codex / non-Claude runtimes):** your findings are **evidence candidates, not terminal verdicts**. They are not final until the governor source-closes them against a **mechanical anchor** (a local file hit · a literal source span · a passing check) — **never governor agreement alone**. You are a capability-routed **sidecar**, not a co-governor: there is one explicit governor per context. Full doctrine: `knowledge/shared/harness-core/multi_model_sidecar_strategy.md §Runtime Authority`.
 
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package/CATALOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ AI reads this file first when searching past work. Open individual files for det
 
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+### 2026-06-24 | forge-harness | #sister-asset, #cross-audit, #ponytail, #measurement-integrity, #mechanical-anchor, #agent-portability, #growth-lessons
+**File:** tracks/_audit/session_2026_06_24_ponytail-lazy-senior-dev.md (+ cross-ref links: multi_model_sidecar_strategy.md, measurement-integrity-checklist.md)
+Full sister-asset cross-audit of `ponytail` (DietrichGebert/ponytail@dedc97c, ~50k★ reviewer-claimed/unverified, "lazy senior dev" minimal-code field skill) vs FH, run with 3 sidecars (Codex repo-grounded gpt-5.5 + Gemini 3.1 Pro breadth, identity-probe verified + CC FH-doctrine extraction); governor source-closed every load-bearing claim to repo file:line (phantom-quench: 10 GROUNDED/0 PHANTOM). Convergence on 4 axes (strongest = axis C verify-instrument, where independence is clearest; A/D may be shared-ecosystem-standard): portable-AGENTS.md+thin-adapter distribution · safety-guard-never-cut + *measured* (20/20 adversarial tier vs bare prompt 95%) · verify-instrument-before-measuring (twice — #126 baseline artifact + hook-bleed) · residual-as-tracked-debt (un-named gap = the only failure signal). FH increment = the safety guard is prose at every host (hooks only inject ruleset; check-rule-copies.js guards text-drift not runtime), so FH's mechanical-anchor + adversarial-regression layer is the gap to fill.
+- Decision: import 3 (platform-native table, --selftest dogfood example, behavior-grader sharpening for prompt-regression); propagate 3 to ponytail (mechanical-anchor option, adversarial regression on minimized diffs, reps≥3 on safety) via humble issue after persona audit; growth = a **field-skill spin-out that feeds the hub**, NOT re-pointing the meta-harness toward virality (reference-asset identity held; missing lever = a visible before/after).
+- Open: external #3 delivery gated on 3+ persona × 4-axis audit + operator GO.
+
 ### 2026-06-14 | forge-harness | #crucible-mode, #total-immersion-absorption, #design-decision-lens, #completion-claim-discipline, #self-forge, #sister-asset
 **File:** knowledge/shared/harness-core/crucible_mode.md + harness_design_decision_lens.md + harness_6axis_framework.md (Completion-claim discipline) + tracks/_audit/session_2026_06_14_wikidocs-deep-sweep.md
 Content-level deep cross-audit of two wikidocs sister books (19689 백과사전 / 19736 Allen 멀티에이전트) via live-surface Playwright ingest + Gemini/Codex debate-loop + governor source-close, then **absorbed every candidate that passed the identity gate** (FH-identity-preserving + positively-expandable). Three assets: (1) `harness_design_decision_lens.md` — the 7 architectural-bet decisions as an orthogonal companion to the 6-axis lifecycle (only net-new = the framing; rest ALREADY-HAVE, honestly marked); (2) 6-axis **Completion-claim discipline** — a "done" claim must carry evidence + failure-checks-run + residual risk, non-vacuous; (3) **`crucible_mode.md`** — names the total-immersion absorption *stance* (throw the whole corpus in, melt under adversarial heat, keep only what bonds to an **unmeltable adamantium core**; rejections are boundary-defining). Each absorption was itself put through the crucible (quench-challenger + persona-auditor + Sonnet blind sim) — the crucible doc's own quench caught 3 of its defects (incl. a phantom worked-instance claim) before commit.

package/knowledge/shared/harness-core/measurement-integrity-checklist.md

@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ mechanical assertion**: the measurement harness records the *verified* model ide
 the requested slug. Prose discipline is sufficient for internal dogfooding; a published claim earns the
 mechanical log.
 
+> **External dogfood (a second, field-layer instance — n=1 external, a signal not a settled frontier):**
+> the sister skill `ponytail` ships a runnable instance of the precondition behind all three modes —
+> a `--selftest` that proves each instrument (`good===true && bad===false`) before any API spend, and
+> two caught instrument contaminations. Detail + pinned citations: `tracks/_audit/session_2026_06_24_ponytail-lazy-senior-dev.md` §2-C (single source).
+
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 **Origin** (2026-06-22 harvest-loop): three failure modes observed across the-bible L2 model panel

package/knowledge/shared/harness-core/multi_model_sidecar_strategy.md

@@ -648,3 +648,4 @@ Missing any layer = compression risk. (Path conventions adapt per project — se
 - A sister-harness `sidecar-orchestrator` SKILL.md (2026-06-01) — gh copilot + corporate endpoint + 3-tier fallback + 3-layer persistence
 - arXiv:2605.26302 AgingBench — compression aging defense rationale
 - `hybrid_orchestration_architecture_roadmap.md` — proposed (not-yet-implemented) architecture direction that would generalize this sidecar strategy into a hybrid orchestration engine
+- **Sister asset** — `ponytail` (github DietrichGebert/ponytail@dedc97c; "lazy senior dev" minimal-code field skill, 14-host portable `AGENTS.md` + thin adapters) converges on the portable-`AGENTS.md`-as-entrypoint + thin-adapter distribution this doc codifies (portable-AGENTS.md is itself a recognized 2026 standard — convergence, not provably independent derivation). Cross-audit: `tracks/_audit/session_2026_06_24_ponytail-lazy-senior-dev.md`

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@chrono-meta/fh-gate",
-  "version": "1.4.42",
+  "version": "1.4.43",
   "description": "FH runtime adapters — run FH governance, skills, and agents via Claude or Codex with machine-parseable gates.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "keywords": [