@opengsd/gsd-core 1.15.0 → 1.16.0

package/gsd-core/bin/lib/verify.cjs

@@ -22,27 +22,18 @@ const frontmatterMod = require("./frontmatter.cjs");
 const stateMod = require("./state.cjs");
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- model-profiles.cjs is an export= CommonJS module
 const modelProfilesMod = require("./model-profiles.cjs");
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- plan-scan.cjs is an export= CommonJS module
-const planScanMod = require("./plan-scan.cjs");
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- verification.cjs is an export= CommonJS module
-const verificationMod = require("./verification.cjs");
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- core-utils.cjs is an export= CommonJS module
 const coreUtilsMod = require("./core-utils.cjs");
 const { findOrphanSummaries, findUnsummarizedPlans } = coreUtilsMod;
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- planning-scope.cjs is an export= CommonJS module
-const planningScopeMod = require("./planning-scope.cjs");
-const { SCOPE } = planningScopeMod;
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- worktree-safety.cjs is an export= CommonJS module
-const worktreeSafetyMod = require("./worktree-safety.cjs");
-// Single owner of git C-quoted-path decoding (see #4081 note at the
-// codebase-drift --name-status parse loop).
-const { decodeGitQuotedPath } = worktreeSafetyMod;
 const shell_command_projection_cjs_1 = require("./shell-command-projection.cjs");
 const security_cjs_2 = require("./security.cjs");
 const runtime_slash_cjs_1 = require("./runtime-slash.cjs");
 const schema_detect_cjs_1 = require("./schema-detect.cjs");
 const markdown_sectionizer_cjs_1 = require("./markdown-sectionizer.cjs");
 const pattern_cjs_1 = require("./pattern.cjs");
+const gate_exit_cjs_1 = require("./gate-exit.cjs");
+const gate_evidence_cjs_1 = require("./gate-evidence.cjs");
+const gate_verdict_cjs_1 = require("./gate-verdict.cjs");
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- agent-install-check.cjs is an export= CommonJS module
 const agentInstallCheck = require("./agent-install-check.cjs");
 const { checkAgentsInstalled, checkCodexModelPosture, checkCodexSandboxPosture } = agentInstallCheck;
@@ -50,9 +41,6 @@ const { checkAgentsInstalled, checkCodexModelPosture, checkCodexSandboxPosture }
 const ioMod = require("./io.cjs");
 const { output, error } = ioMod;
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports
-const phaseIdMod = require("./phase-id.cjs");
-const { normalizePhaseName, matchPhaseDirs } = phaseIdMod;
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports
 const phaseLocatorMod = require("./phase-locator.cjs");
 const { findPhaseInternal } = phaseLocatorMod;
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports
@@ -68,8 +56,7 @@ const { buildPlanningSnapshot } = planningSnapshotMod;
 const onboardProjectionMod = require("./onboard-projection.cjs");
 const { REQUIRED_CODEBASE_MAP_FILES } = onboardProjectionMod;
 const clock_cjs_1 = require("./clock.cjs");
-const { planningDir, planningRoot, withPlanningLock } = planningWorkspace;
-const { defaultPhaseCleanCommitTimesMs } = verificationMod;
+const { planningDir, withPlanningLock } = planningWorkspace;
 const { extractFrontmatter, parseMustHavesBlock } = frontmatterMod;
 const { readStateHeadFreshness } = stateMod;
 /**
@@ -273,8 +260,8 @@ function cmdVerifySummary(cwd, summaryPath, checkFileCount, raw) {
 }
 /**
  * Issue #429 — negative-grep comment-text echo gate.
- * A literal that an acceptance criterion negative-greps for (grep -c 'LIT' file == 0)
- * must not also appear verbatim inside an <action> body, or the executor's commit-time
+ * A literal that an acceptance criterion negative-greps for (grep -c 'LIT' file == 0, or the
+ * negated spellings `! grep -q 'LIT' file` / `if ! grep ...`, #4541) must not also appear verbatim inside an <action> body, or the executor's commit-time
  * verify gate fails on the comment echo rather than a real regression. Conservative:
  * errors only on a confidently-extracted QUOTED literal; ambiguous (bareword) → warning.
  */
@@ -339,6 +326,12 @@ function splitShellSegments(line) {
     segments.push(current.trim());
     return segments.filter((s) => s !== '');
 }
+/**
+ * The status-test alternation of a negated grep gate (`grep -q 'LIT' f; test $? -ne 0`): the one
+ * definition `statusNegatedTest` (the segment test) and `statusNegatedSpanRe` (the span removal)
+ * share, so the two cannot drift apart.
+ */
+const STATUS_NEGATED_ALTERNATION = String.raw `(?:-ne\s+0|-eq\s+1|!=\s*0|==\s*1)`;
 function scanNegativeGrepCommentEcho(content) {
     const errors = [];
     const warnings = [];
@@ -376,6 +369,18 @@ function scanNegativeGrepCommentEcho(content) {
     //    command, not the whole line) so a pasted verify command does not self-flag
     //    while a prose echo on the same line is still caught.
     const cmdSpanRe = /grep(?:\s+-{1,2}[A-Za-z][A-Za-z-]*)+\s+(?:'[^']*'|"[^"]*"|[^\s'"|>&;]+)[^\n]*?(?:==|-eq|=)\s*0\b/g;
+    // #4541: the other spellings of a negative gate — `! grep ...` / `if ! grep ...` (the shell
+    // negates the exit status) and `grep ...; test $? -ne 0`. A pasted command in an <action> is
+    // likewise not an echo, so these spans are removed from the scanned action text too.
+    // The `!` is a command word: it follows a line start, whitespace, `;`, `(` or the `>` closing the
+    // `<automated>` tag, and is itself followed by whitespace (so `!=` and `!==` never match).
+    const negatedGrepRe = /(?:^|[\s;(>])!\s+grep((?:\s+-{1,2}[A-Za-z][A-Za-z-]*)*)\s+(?:'([^']*)'|"([^"]*)"|([^\s'"|>&;]+))/g;
+    const negatedSpanRe = /(?:^|[\s;(>])!\s+grep(?:\s+-{1,2}[A-Za-z][A-Za-z-]*)*\s+(?:'[^']*'|"[^"]*"|[^\s'"|>&;]+)[^\n;&|<]*/g;
+    const statusNegatedTest = new RegExp(String.raw `\$\?\s*${STATUS_NEGATED_ALTERNATION}(?![\w.])`);
+    // The span between the grep literal and the status test is bounded (`{0,1000}`), like the other
+    // scans in this file, rather than a lazy unanchored run to the end of the line.
+    const statusNegatedSpanRe = new RegExp(String.raw `grep(?:\s+-{1,2}[A-Za-z][A-Za-z-]*)*\s+(?:'[^']*'|"[^"]*"|[^\s'"|>&;]+)[^\n]{0,1000}?\$\?\s*${STATUS_NEGATED_ALTERNATION}(?![\w.])`, 'g');
+    const anyGrepRe = /grep((?:\s+-{1,2}[A-Za-z][A-Za-z-]*)*)\s+(?:'([^']*)'|"([^"]*)"|([^\s'"|>&;]+))/g;
     // Security scan: must see the FULL text up to the first </action> — including a
     // malformed inner <action> — so a grep-echo-0 trick cannot hide behind a
     // deliberately-unclosed tag. Use a bounded to-first-close scan (ReDoS-safe via
@@ -386,7 +391,9 @@ function scanNegativeGrepCommentEcho(content) {
     let acm;
     while ((acm = actionRe.exec(text)) !== null)
         actionZones.push(acm[1]);
-    const scannableActionText = actionZones.map((zone) => zone.replace(cmdSpanRe, ' ')).join('\n');
+    const scannableActionText = actionZones
+        .map((zone) => zone.replace(cmdSpanRe, ' ').replace(negatedSpanRe, ' ').replace(statusNegatedSpanRe, ' '))
+        .join('\n');
     // 3. Per shell SEGMENT (split lines on && / ||) extract count-grep literals and
     //    check echoes. Per-segment splitting keeps a positive gate (`== 1`) from
     //    poisoning a negative gate (`== 0`) sharing the same physical line.
@@ -394,28 +401,52 @@ function scanNegativeGrepCommentEcho(content) {
     const seenWarn = new Set();
     const segments = text.split('\n').flatMap(splitShellSegments);
     for (const seg of segments) {
-        if (!/grep(?:\s+-{1,2}[A-Za-z])/.test(seg) || !zeroCmp(seg))
+        if (!/grep\b/.test(seg))
             continue;
-        countGrepRe.lastIndex = 0;
+        const countForm = /grep(?:\s+-{1,2}[A-Za-z])/.test(seg) && zeroCmp(seg);
+        const statusForm = statusNegatedTest.test(seg);
         const quotedLits = [];
         const bareLits = [];
-        let m;
-        while ((m = countGrepRe.exec(seg)) !== null) {
-            if (!optsHaveCount(m[1]) || optsHaveInvert(m[1]))
-                continue; // need count, not invert (-cv is positive)
+        const harvest = (m) => {
             if (m[2] !== undefined)
                 quotedLits.push(m[2]);
             else if (m[3] !== undefined)
                 quotedLits.push(m[3]);
             else if (m[4] !== undefined && plausibleBare(m[4]))
                 bareLits.push(m[4]);
+        };
+        let m;
+        if (countForm) {
+            countGrepRe.lastIndex = 0;
+            while ((m = countGrepRe.exec(seg)) !== null) {
+                if (!optsHaveCount(m[1]) || optsHaveInvert(m[1]))
+                    continue; // need count, not invert (-cv is positive)
+                harvest(m);
+            }
+        }
+        // `! grep -q 'LIT' f` / `if ! grep ...`: the negation is the shell's own, so any grep it
+        // negates is a negative gate whether or not it counts (an inverted grep is the positive one).
+        negatedGrepRe.lastIndex = 0;
+        while ((m = negatedGrepRe.exec(seg)) !== null) {
+            if (!optsHaveInvert(m[1]))
+                harvest(m);
+        }
+        // `grep -q 'LIT' f; test $? -ne 0`: the same gate with the status tested on the next command.
+        if (statusForm) {
+            anyGrepRe.lastIndex = 0;
+            while ((m = anyGrepRe.exec(seg)) !== null) {
+                if (!optsHaveInvert(m[1]))
+                    harvest(m);
+            }
         }
+        if (quotedLits.length === 0 && bareLits.length === 0)
+            continue;
         for (const quoted of quotedLits) {
             if (!quoted || allow.has(quoted) || seenErr.has(quoted))
                 continue;
             if (scannableActionText.includes(quoted)) {
                 seenErr.add(quoted);
-                errors.push(`Plan body contains forbidden literal "${quoted}" in an <action> block, but an acceptance criterion negative-greps for it (grep -c ... == 0). Rephrase the literal by concept, remove it from the plan body, or add <!-- planner-discipline-allow: ${quoted} --> if it must legitimately appear.`);
+                errors.push(`Plan body contains forbidden literal "${quoted}" in an <action> block, but an acceptance criterion negative-greps for it (grep -c ... == 0, or a negated gate such as ! grep -q ...). Rephrase the literal by concept, remove it from the plan body, or add <!-- planner-discipline-allow: ${quoted} --> if it must legitimately appear.`);
             }
         }
         if (quotedLits.length === 0) {
@@ -1077,6 +1108,45 @@ function validatePlanTaskStructure(task) {
     }
     return { errors, warnings };
 }
+// ─── Gate verb exit status (#5170, ADR-5057 §4) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+//
+// A verb that returns a verdict is evaluated by callers that branch on the exit status: exit 0 and
+// exit 1 are verdicts (the JSON on stdout is authoritative), any other status means the verb could
+// not look. Each verb builds a real GateVerdict and declares its exit from `gateExitOutcome` — no
+// verb picks its own code.
+/**
+ * A verb's target file as evidence. An absent file is `none`; an EMPTY file is `found ''` (a plan
+ * that exists but is empty is not "File not found"); any other failure is `unreadable`.
+ */
+function readVerbFile(fullPath) {
+    try {
+        const content = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(fullPath);
+        return content === null ? (0, gate_evidence_cjs_1.evidenceNone)() : (0, gate_evidence_cjs_1.evidenceFound)(content);
+    }
+    catch (err) {
+        return (0, gate_evidence_cjs_1.evidenceFromError)(err, fullPath);
+    }
+}
+/** Print a verb's verdict payload, then declare its exit. Declared after output(), which rewrites the pending-outcome cell. */
+function emitVerbVerdict(verdict, mode, raw, rawLabel) {
+    output(verdict.payload, raw, rawLabel);
+    (0, gate_exit_cjs_1.declareGateExit)(verdict, mode);
+}
+/** A verb whose result is valid/invalid: invalid is a negative verdict (exit 1 in status mode). */
+function validityVerdict(valid, payload) {
+    return (0, gate_verdict_cjs_1.gateVerdict)(valid ? 'pass' : 'block', !valid, payload);
+}
+/**
+ * The "could not evaluate" verdict for a verb's target file that is not `found` (outcome `unreadable`,
+ * exit UNAVAILABLE — an absent file and an unreadable one alike). The caller emits it through
+ * `emitVerbVerdict` on its own return path, so every path out of a verb visibly declares its exit.
+ */
+function unreadableFileVerdict(evidence, displayPath) {
+    const payload = evidence.kind === 'none'
+        ? { error: 'File not found', path: displayPath }
+        : { error: 'File unreadable', path: displayPath, read_error: evidence.reason };
+    return (0, gate_verdict_cjs_1.gateUnreadable)(false, payload);
+}
 function cmdVerifyPlanStructure(cwd, filePath, raw) {
     if (!filePath) {
         error('file path required');
@@ -1085,17 +1155,18 @@ function cmdVerifyPlanStructure(cwd, filePath, raw) {
         error('file path contains null bytes');
     }
     const fullPath = node_path_1.default.isAbsolute(filePath) ? filePath : node_path_1.default.join(cwd, filePath);
-    const content = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(fullPath);
-    if (!content) {
-        output({ error: 'File not found', path: filePath }, raw);
+    const read = readVerbFile(fullPath);
+    if (read.kind !== 'found') {
+        emitVerbVerdict(unreadableFileVerdict(read, filePath), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
+    const content = read.value;
     // #2701: fail loud on NUL/binary corruption before structure checks. A
     // structurally intact-but-NUL-corrupted plan otherwise passes as valid and is
     // silently skipped by recursive/binary-skipping searchers downstream.
     const encErr = (0, validate_cjs_1.textEncodingError)(content, filePath);
     if (encErr) {
-        output({ valid: false, errors: [encErr] }, raw);
+        emitVerbVerdict(validityVerdict(false, { valid: false, errors: [encErr] }), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
     const fm = extractFrontmatter(content, fullPath);
@@ -1163,14 +1234,14 @@ function cmdVerifyPlanStructure(cwd, filePath, raw) {
     const quantScan = scanQuantitativeCriteria(content);
     errors.push(...quantScan.errors);
     warnings.push(...quantScan.warnings);
-    output({
+    emitVerbVerdict(validityVerdict(errors.length === 0, {
         valid: errors.length === 0,
         errors,
         warnings,
         task_count: tasks.length,
         tasks,
         frontmatter_fields: Object.keys(fm),
-    }, raw, errors.length === 0 ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
+    }), 'status', raw, errors.length === 0 ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
 }
 function cmdVerifyPhaseCompleteness(cwd, phase, raw) {
     if (!phase) {
@@ -1178,7 +1249,8 @@ function cmdVerifyPhaseCompleteness(cwd, phase, raw) {
     }
     const phaseInfoRaw = findPhaseInternal(cwd, phase);
     if (!phaseInfoRaw || !phaseInfoRaw['found']) {
-        output({ error: 'Phase not found', phase }, raw);
+        // An unresolvable phase is "could not look" (#5170): there is no phase to evaluate.
+        emitVerbVerdict((0, gate_verdict_cjs_1.gateUnreadable)(false, { error: 'Phase not found', phase }), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
     const phaseInfo = phaseInfoRaw;
@@ -1194,12 +1266,14 @@ function cmdVerifyPhaseCompleteness(cwd, phase, raw) {
     // recognized naming forms — producing false "Plans without summaries" /
     // "Summaries without plans" for names it could not recognize as paired
     // (the same failure class #1988/#2648 fixed for the owner's own callers).
-    const scan = planScanMod.scanPhasePlans(phaseDir);
-    if (scan.scope === SCOPE.UNREADABLE) {
-        output({ error: 'Cannot read phase directory' }, raw);
+    // Only SCOPE.COMPLETE is a real answer: an existing nested plans/ that could not be read (TRUNCATED)
+    // would hand the check a short plan set and report the unseen plans as nothing (#5170).
+    const scan = (0, gate_evidence_cjs_1.readPlanScanEvidence)(phaseDir);
+    if (scan.kind === 'unreadable') {
+        emitVerbVerdict((0, gate_verdict_cjs_1.gateUnreadable)(false, { error: 'Cannot read phase directory' }), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
-    const { planFiles, summaryFiles } = scan;
+    const { planFiles, summaryFiles } = scan.value;
     const incompletePlans = findUnsummarizedPlans(planFiles, summaryFiles);
     if (incompletePlans.length > 0) {
         errors.push(`Plans without summaries: ${incompletePlans.join(', ')}`);
@@ -1208,7 +1282,7 @@ function cmdVerifyPhaseCompleteness(cwd, phase, raw) {
     if (orphanSummaries.length > 0) {
         warnings.push(`Summaries without plans: ${orphanSummaries.join(', ')}`);
     }
-    output({
+    emitVerbVerdict(validityVerdict(errors.length === 0, {
         complete: errors.length === 0,
         phase: phaseInfo['phase_number'],
         plan_count: planFiles.length,
@@ -1217,7 +1291,7 @@ function cmdVerifyPhaseCompleteness(cwd, phase, raw) {
         orphan_summaries: orphanSummaries,
         errors,
         warnings,
-    }, raw, errors.length === 0 ? 'complete' : 'incomplete');
+    }), 'status', raw, errors.length === 0 ? 'complete' : 'incomplete');
 }
 // #4678: citations may carry a trailing line suffix (":42", ":1-20") that
 // describes a location inside the file, not part of the path itself.
@@ -1229,13 +1303,25 @@ function cmdVerifyReferences(cwd, filePath, raw) {
         error('file path required');
     }
     const fullPath = node_path_1.default.isAbsolute(filePath) ? filePath : node_path_1.default.join(cwd, filePath);
-    const content = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(fullPath);
-    if (!content) {
-        output({ error: 'File not found', path: filePath }, raw);
+    const read = readVerbFile(fullPath);
+    if (read.kind !== 'found') {
+        emitVerbVerdict(unreadableFileVerdict(read, filePath), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
+    const content = read.value;
     const found = [];
     const missing = [];
+    // A reference whose path could not be examined (EACCES on a parent ...) is neither found nor missing.
+    const unexaminable = [];
+    const probeRef = (cleanRef, resolved) => {
+        const probe = (0, gate_evidence_cjs_1.statEvidence)(resolved);
+        if (probe.kind === 'found')
+            found.push(cleanRef);
+        else if (probe.kind === 'none')
+            missing.push(cleanRef);
+        else
+            unexaminable.push({ ref: cleanRef, reason: probe.reason });
+    };
     const atRefs = content.match(/@([^\s\n,)]+\/[^\s\n,)]+)/g) || [];
     for (const ref of atRefs) {
         const cleanRef = ref.slice(1);
@@ -1243,39 +1329,40 @@ function cmdVerifyReferences(cwd, filePath, raw) {
         const resolved = fsRef.startsWith('~/')
             ? node_path_1.default.join(process.env['HOME'] || '', fsRef.slice(2))
             : node_path_1.default.join(cwd, fsRef);
-        if (node_fs_1.default.existsSync(resolved)) {
-            found.push(cleanRef);
-        }
-        else {
-            missing.push(cleanRef);
-        }
+        probeRef(cleanRef, resolved);
     }
     const backtickRefs = content.match(/`([^`]+\/[^`]+\.[a-zA-Z]{1,10}(?::\d+(?:-\d+)?)?)`/g) || [];
     for (const ref of backtickRefs) {
         const cleanRef = ref.slice(1, -1);
         if (cleanRef.startsWith('http') || cleanRef.includes('${') || cleanRef.includes('{{'))
             continue;
-        if (found.includes(cleanRef) || missing.includes(cleanRef))
+        if (found.includes(cleanRef) || missing.includes(cleanRef) || unexaminable.some((u) => u.ref === cleanRef))
             continue;
-        const resolved = node_path_1.default.join(cwd, stripLineSuffix(cleanRef));
-        if (node_fs_1.default.existsSync(resolved)) {
-            found.push(cleanRef);
-        }
-        else {
-            missing.push(cleanRef);
-        }
+        probeRef(cleanRef, node_path_1.default.join(cwd, stripLineSuffix(cleanRef)));
     }
-    output({
+    // Unexaminable references only matter when they could flip the verdict: with a reference already
+    // missing the verdict is negative whatever they are; with none missing, "valid" cannot be claimed.
+    if (missing.length === 0 && unexaminable.length > 0) {
+        emitVerbVerdict((0, gate_verdict_cjs_1.gateUnreadable)(false, { error: 'Could not examine references', path: filePath, unreadable: unexaminable }), 'status', raw);
+        return;
+    }
+    emitVerbVerdict(validityVerdict(missing.length === 0, {
         valid: missing.length === 0,
         found: found.length,
         missing,
         total: found.length + missing.length,
-    }, raw, missing.length === 0 ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
+    }), 'status', raw, missing.length === 0 ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
 }
 function cmdVerifyCommits(cwd, hashes, raw) {
     if (!hashes || hashes.length === 0) {
         error('At least one commit hash required');
     }
+    // A directory that is not a git work tree cannot answer "is this a commit": could not look, not "invalid".
+    const inWorkTree = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.execGit)(['rev-parse', '--is-inside-work-tree'], { cwd });
+    if (inWorkTree.exitCode !== 0) {
+        emitVerbVerdict((0, gate_verdict_cjs_1.gateUnreadable)(false, { error: 'Not a git repository' }), 'status', raw);
+        return;
+    }
     const valid = [];
     const invalid = [];
     for (const hash of hashes) {
@@ -1287,26 +1374,30 @@ function cmdVerifyCommits(cwd, hashes, raw) {
             invalid.push(hash);
         }
     }
-    output({
+    emitVerbVerdict(validityVerdict(invalid.length === 0, {
         all_valid: invalid.length === 0,
         valid,
         invalid,
         total: hashes.length,
-    }, raw, invalid.length === 0 ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
+    }), 'status', raw, invalid.length === 0 ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
 }
 function cmdVerifyArtifacts(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
     if (!planFilePath) {
         error('plan file path required');
     }
     const fullPath = node_path_1.default.isAbsolute(planFilePath) ? planFilePath : node_path_1.default.join(cwd, planFilePath);
-    const content = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(fullPath);
-    if (!content) {
-        output({ error: 'File not found', path: planFilePath }, raw);
+    // #5170: no plan to read is "could not look" (UNAVAILABLE), never a pass. A plan that exists but is
+    // empty WAS read: it has no artifacts block, which is a genuinely empty scope (below).
+    const read = readVerbFile(fullPath);
+    if (read.kind !== 'found') {
+        emitVerbVerdict(unreadableFileVerdict(read, planFilePath), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
+    const content = read.value;
     const artifacts = parseMustHavesBlock(content, 'artifacts');
     if (artifacts.length === 0) {
-        output({ error: 'No must_haves.artifacts found in frontmatter', path: planFilePath }, raw);
+        // The plan was read and declares nothing to verify: NO_INPUT (ran, zero units in scope, genuinely).
+        emitVerbVerdict((0, gate_verdict_cjs_1.gateVerdict)('empty', false, { error: 'No must_haves.artifacts found in frontmatter', path: planFilePath }), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
     const results = [];
@@ -1317,7 +1408,10 @@ function cmdVerifyArtifacts(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
         if (!artPath)
             continue;
         const artFullPath = node_path_1.default.join(cwd, artPath);
-        const exists = node_fs_1.default.existsSync(artFullPath);
+        // Typed evidence, not `fs.existsSync`: a path that cannot be examined (EACCES on a parent) is an
+        // unreadable entry, not a missing one.
+        const artStat = (0, gate_evidence_cjs_1.statEvidence)(artFullPath);
+        const exists = artStat.kind === 'found';
         const check = { path: artPath, exists, issues: [], passed: false };
         // #4685: one artifact's I/O problem is that artifact's failure, never the
         // whole plan's. `safeReadFile` rethrows every errno except ENOENT, so before
@@ -1327,67 +1421,56 @@ function cmdVerifyArtifacts(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
         // artifacts either. A check that disappears is worse than a check that fails,
         // because a failure is visible.
         //
-        // Scope of this guard, stated precisely (review nit): the `try` encloses the
-        // whole per-artifact body, but the only statements in it that can throw are the
-        // `statSync` and the read — the `min_lines`/`contains`/`exports` checks below
-        // are pure string operations. So this catches I/O, and nothing here is a
-        // deliberate guard around those criteria checks. A path `fs.existsSync` already
-        // rejected never reaches here either (that is the `File not found` branch), so
-        // this is not a claim to catch every way a path can be unusable.
-        try {
-            if (exists) {
-                // A directory is reported as its own kind of failure, distinct from
-                // `File not found`: the path resolved, it simply is not the thing an
-                // artifact entry can be checked against. Verifying a directory (matching
-                // `contains:`/`min_lines:`/`exports:` across the files inside it) is a
-                // feature decision, deliberately not made here.
-                if (node_fs_1.default.statSync(artFullPath).isDirectory()) {
-                    check['issues'].push('Not a file: path is a directory');
+        // #5170: the stat and the read are typed evidence (`statEvidence` / `readVerbFile`), so no `try`
+        // is needed: an artifact that could not be examined or read is that artifact's failure, recorded
+        // with its errno (an operator seeing EACCES acts differently from one seeing EIO) and left
+        // `passed: false` — never a pass, so the verdict is negative (exit 1).
+        if (exists) {
+            // A directory is reported as its own kind of failure, distinct from
+            // `File not found`: the path resolved, it simply is not the thing an
+            // artifact entry can be checked against. Verifying a directory (matching
+            // `contains:`/`min_lines:`/`exports:` across the files inside it) is a
+            // feature decision, deliberately not made here.
+            if (artStat.kind === 'found' && artStat.value.isDirectory()) {
+                check['issues'].push('Not a file: path is a directory');
+            }
+            else {
+                // `safeReadFile` returns null on ENOENT, and `|| ''` would turn that
+                // into an empty file — which an entry carrying only `path`/`provides`
+                // would then PASS, having checked nothing. `statSync` just succeeded, so
+                // `none` here means the artifact went away mid-check. Report that rather
+                // than inheriting a pass from it.
+                const artRead = readVerbFile(artFullPath);
+                if (artRead.kind !== 'found') {
+                    check['issues'].push(artRead.kind === 'none' ? 'Unreadable: disappeared during check' : `Unreadable: ${artRead.reason}`);
+                    results.push(check);
+                    continue;
                 }
-                else {
-                    // `safeReadFile` returns null on ENOENT, and `|| ''` would turn that
-                    // into an empty file — which an entry carrying only `path`/`provides`
-                    // would then PASS, having checked nothing. `statSync` just succeeded, so
-                    // a null here means the artifact went away mid-check. Report that rather
-                    // than inheriting a pass from it. (Pre-existing above this fix, reachable
-                    // through the same race after `existsSync`; found in review.)
-                    const rawContent = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(artFullPath);
-                    if (rawContent === null) {
-                        check['issues'].push('Unreadable: disappeared during check');
-                        results.push(check);
-                        continue;
-                    }
-                    const fileContent = rawContent;
-                    const lineCount = fileContent.split('\n').length;
-                    if (artifact['min_lines'] && lineCount < artifact['min_lines']) {
-                        check['issues'].push(`Only ${lineCount} lines, need ${artifact['min_lines']}`);
-                    }
-                    if (artifact['contains'] && !fileContent.includes(artifact['contains'])) {
-                        check['issues'].push(`Missing pattern: ${artifact['contains']}`);
-                    }
-                    if (artifact['exports']) {
-                        const exports = Array.isArray(artifact['exports'])
-                            ? artifact['exports']
-                            : [artifact['exports']];
-                        for (const exp of exports) {
-                            if (!fileContent.includes(exp))
-                                check['issues'].push(`Missing export: ${exp}`);
-                        }
+                const fileContent = artRead.value;
+                const lineCount = fileContent.split('\n').length;
+                if (artifact['min_lines'] && lineCount < artifact['min_lines']) {
+                    check['issues'].push(`Only ${lineCount} lines, need ${artifact['min_lines']}`);
+                }
+                if (artifact['contains'] && !fileContent.includes(artifact['contains'])) {
+                    check['issues'].push(`Missing pattern: ${artifact['contains']}`);
+                }
+                if (artifact['exports']) {
+                    const exports = Array.isArray(artifact['exports'])
+                        ? artifact['exports']
+                        : [artifact['exports']];
+                    for (const exp of exports) {
+                        if (!fileContent.includes(exp))
+                            check['issues'].push(`Missing export: ${exp}`);
                     }
-                    check['passed'] = check['issues'].length === 0;
                 }
-            }
-            else {
-                check['issues'].push('File not found');
+                check['passed'] = check['issues'].length === 0;
             }
         }
-        catch (err) {
-            // Unreadable for some other reason. Record the errno rather than a generic
-            // message — an operator seeing EACCES acts differently from one seeing EIO —
-            // and leave `passed` false.
-            const e = err;
-            check['issues'].push(`Unreadable: ${e.code || (e.message ?? String(err))}`);
-            check['passed'] = false;
+        else if (artStat.kind === 'unreadable') {
+            check['issues'].push(`Unreadable: ${artStat.reason}`);
+        }
+        else {
+            check['issues'].push('File not found');
         }
         results.push(check);
     }
@@ -1399,12 +1482,13 @@ function cmdVerifyArtifacts(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
     // no-vacuous-pass rule at src/uat-predicate.cts. The fully-empty block is still
     // caught earlier by the `artifacts.length === 0` guard and returns its error.
     const allPassed = results.length > 0 && passed === results.length;
-    output({
+    // #5170: the exit status follows the verdict — a negative verdict is exit 1 (JSON unchanged).
+    emitVerbVerdict(validityVerdict(allPassed, {
         all_passed: allPassed,
         passed,
         total: results.length,
         artifacts: results,
-    }, raw, allPassed ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
+    }), 'status', raw, allPassed ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
 }
 /**
  * Returns a Set of file paths (relative to cwd) that are promised by plans in
@@ -1415,12 +1499,23 @@ function cmdVerifyArtifacts(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
  */
 function collectPromisedFilesAtOrAfterWave(phaseDir, minWave) {
     const promised = new Set();
-    const { planFiles } = planScanMod.scanPhasePlans(phaseDir);
-    for (const planFile of planFiles) {
+    // #5170: a plan set the scan did not fully see (an existing nested plans/ that could not be read), or
+    // a plan that cannot be read, is "could not look" — it may be the plan that promises the file — and
+    // is reported to the caller, never treated as "no plan promises it".
+    let unreadable = null;
+    const planSet = (0, gate_evidence_cjs_1.readPlanSetEvidence)(phaseDir);
+    if (planSet.kind === 'unreadable')
+        return { files: promised, unreadable: planSet.reason };
+    for (const planFile of planSet.value) {
         const planFullPath = node_path_1.default.join(phaseDir, planFile);
-        const planContent = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(planFullPath);
-        if (!planContent)
+        const planRead = readVerbFile(planFullPath);
+        if (planRead.kind === 'unreadable') {
+            unreadable = unreadable ?? planRead.reason;
             continue;
+        }
+        if (planRead.kind === 'none' || !planRead.value)
+            continue;
+        const planContent = planRead.value;
         const fm = extractFrontmatter(planContent, planFullPath);
         const waveRaw = fm['wave'];
         const wave = typeof waveRaw === 'string' ? parseInt(waveRaw, 10) : (typeof waveRaw === 'number' ? waveRaw : NaN);
@@ -1437,21 +1532,23 @@ function collectPromisedFilesAtOrAfterWave(phaseDir, minWave) {
                 promised.add(f.trim());
         }
     }
-    return promised;
+    return { files: promised, unreadable };
 }
 function cmdVerifyKeyLinks(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
     if (!planFilePath) {
         error('plan file path required');
     }
     const fullPath = node_path_1.default.isAbsolute(planFilePath) ? planFilePath : node_path_1.default.join(cwd, planFilePath);
-    const content = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(fullPath);
-    if (!content) {
-        output({ error: 'File not found', path: planFilePath }, raw);
+    const read = readVerbFile(fullPath);
+    if (read.kind !== 'found') {
+        emitVerbVerdict(unreadableFileVerdict(read, planFilePath), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
+    const content = read.value;
     const keyLinks = parseMustHavesBlock(content, 'key_links');
     if (keyLinks.length === 0) {
-        output({ error: 'No must_haves.key_links found in frontmatter', path: planFilePath }, raw);
+        // The plan was read and declares no key links: NO_INPUT, the same genuinely-empty scope as `verify artifacts`.
+        emitVerbVerdict((0, gate_verdict_cjs_1.gateVerdict)('empty', false, { error: 'No must_haves.key_links found in frontmatter', path: planFilePath }), 'status', raw);
         return;
     }
     // Derive the current plan's wave number and phase directory for wave-aware
@@ -1504,28 +1601,30 @@ function cmdVerifyKeyLinks(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
                 results.push(check);
                 continue;
             }
-            try {
-                sourceContent = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(fromContained);
-            }
-            catch (err) {
-                // Report the errno only — never the message or path (untrusted `from:`
-                // can trigger EISDIR/EACCES, which platformReadSync re-throws for any
-                // non-ENOENT errno). A single bad link must not abort the whole command.
-                const code = err?.code ?? 'unknown';
-                check['detail'] = `Source read failed: ${code}`;
+            // Report the errno only — never the message or path (untrusted `from:` can trigger
+            // EISDIR/EACCES). A single bad link must not abort the whole command.
+            const sourceRead = readVerbFile(fromContained);
+            if (sourceRead.kind === 'unreadable') {
+                check['detail'] = `Source read failed: ${sourceRead.reason}`;
                 results.push(check);
                 continue;
             }
+            sourceContent = sourceRead.kind === 'found' ? sourceRead.value : null;
         }
         if (!sourceContent) {
             // Check if the missing file is promised by a plan at the same or later wave.
             const promised = getPromisedFiles();
-            const isPromised = fromPath.trim() !== '' && promised.has(fromPath.trim());
+            const isPromised = fromPath.trim() !== '' && promised.files.has(fromPath.trim());
             if (isPromised) {
                 check['pending'] = true;
                 check['detail'] = 'Source file not yet created — declared in files_modified of a same-or-later-wave plan';
                 pendingCount++;
             }
+            else if (promised.unreadable !== null) {
+                // The plans that could declare this file could not all be read: it is not known to be missing,
+                // and the link is not verified — a failed link, never a pending or passing one.
+                check['detail'] = `Source file not found, and the plans that could declare it could not be read: ${promised.unreadable}`;
+            }
             else {
                 check['detail'] = 'Source file not found (from: must be a relative file path; describe components/endpoints in via:)';
             }
@@ -1560,46 +1659,47 @@ function cmdVerifyKeyLinks(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
                 check['detail'] = `Pattern not verified (${reason})`;
             }
             else {
-                try {
-                    if (pat.test(sourceContent)) {
-                        check['verified'] = true;
-                        check['detail'] = 'Pattern found in source';
-                    }
-                    else {
-                        const toRaw = link['to'];
-                        const toPath = typeof toRaw === 'string' ? toRaw : '';
-                        let targetContent = null;
-                        if (toPath !== '') {
-                            // An empty/missing `to:` is a malformed plan, not a
-                            // path-confinement violation — only a non-empty path that
-                            // actually resolves outside the project is path_rejected.
-                            const toContained = (0, security_cjs_2.tryWithinRoot)(toPath, cwd);
-                            if (toContained === null) {
-                                // Do not read a rejected `to:` — treat as no target content
-                                // and do not echo result.error, which embeds absolute host
-                                // paths.
-                                check['path_rejected'] = 'to';
-                                check['detail'] = `Pattern "${link['pattern']}" not found in source; target path rejected — resolves outside the project directory`;
-                            }
-                            else {
-                                targetContent = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.platformReadSync)(toContained);
-                            }
-                        }
-                        if (targetContent && pat.test(targetContent)) {
-                            check['verified'] = true;
-                            check['detail'] = 'Pattern found in target';
+                if (pat.test(sourceContent)) {
+                    check['verified'] = true;
+                    check['detail'] = 'Pattern found in source';
+                }
+                else {
+                    const toRaw = link['to'];
+                    const toPath = typeof toRaw === 'string' ? toRaw : '';
+                    let targetContent = null;
+                    let targetUnreadable = null;
+                    if (toPath !== '') {
+                        // An empty/missing `to:` is a malformed plan, not a
+                        // path-confinement violation — only a non-empty path that
+                        // actually resolves outside the project is path_rejected.
+                        const toContained = (0, security_cjs_2.tryWithinRoot)(toPath, cwd);
+                        if (toContained === null) {
+                            // Do not read a rejected `to:` — treat as no target content
+                            // and do not echo result.error, which embeds absolute host
+                            // paths.
+                            check['path_rejected'] = 'to';
+                            check['detail'] = `Pattern "${link['pattern']}" not found in source; target path rejected — resolves outside the project directory`;
                         }
-                        else if (!check['path_rejected']) {
-                            check['detail'] = `Pattern "${link['pattern']}" not found in source or target`;
+                        else {
+                            // Report the errno only — never the message, which for an untrusted `to:` like "../.."
+                            // (EISDIR) would embed an absolute filesystem path.
+                            const targetRead = readVerbFile(toContained);
+                            if (targetRead.kind === 'unreadable')
+                                targetUnreadable = targetRead.reason;
+                            else if (targetRead.kind === 'found')
+                                targetContent = targetRead.value;
                         }
                     }
-                }
-                catch (err) {
-                    // Report the errno only — never the full error/message, which for a
-                    // re-thrown non-ENOENT platformReadSync failure (e.g. EISDIR from an
-                    // untrusted `to:` like "../..") embeds an absolute filesystem path.
-                    const code = err?.code ?? 'unknown';
-                    check['detail'] = `Pattern check failed: ${code}`;
+                    if (targetUnreadable !== null) {
+                        check['detail'] = `Pattern check failed: ${targetUnreadable}`;
+                    }
+                    else if (targetContent && pat.test(targetContent)) {
+                        check['verified'] = true;
+                        check['detail'] = 'Pattern found in target';
+                    }
+                    else if (!check['path_rejected']) {
+                        check['detail'] = `Pattern "${link['pattern']}" not found in source or target`;
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -1629,13 +1729,13 @@ function cmdVerifyKeyLinks(cwd, planFilePath, raw) {
     // block still satisfies results.length > 0 and its #1202 non-hard-failing
     // semantics are unchanged — the floor only rejects the zero-result case.
     const allVerified = results.length > 0 && hardFailed === 0;
-    output({
+    emitVerbVerdict(validityVerdict(allVerified, {
         all_verified: allVerified,
         verified,
         pending: pendingCount,
         total: results.length,
         links: results,
-    }, raw, allVerified ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
+    }), 'status', raw, allVerified ? 'valid' : 'invalid');
 }
 /**
  * Wrapper-level fix-text table for `cmdValidateHealth`'s migrated
@@ -1799,6 +1899,9 @@ function cmdValidateHealth(cwd, options, raw) {
     // Diagnostic -> IssueEntry mapping contract this reproduces.
     const snapshot = buildPlanningSnapshot(cwd);
     const diagnostics = evaluateRules(snapshot);
+    // #5118: an out-of-set verification report status is carried by the
+    // snapshot (`verificationStatusError`) and reported as the W030 finding — a
+    // diagnostics surface survives the defect it diagnoses, so this run exits 0.
     const errors = [];
     const warnings = [];
     const info = [];
@@ -1922,192 +2025,13 @@ function cmdValidateAgents(cwd, raw) {
         sandbox_posture: sandboxPosture,
     }, raw);
 }
-// ─── Context drift (#3348) ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
-/**
- * Resolve a phase directory under `phasesDir` from a user-supplied `phaseArg`,
- * via the canonical phase-directory matcher (phase-id.cjs::matchPhaseDirs) rather
- * than a naive substring test — a bare `.includes(phaseArg)` lets a non-existent
- * phase silently match a different phase whose directory name merely contains the
- * requested token (e.g. "1" matching "11-expansion"). Falls back to an exact
- * directory-name match. Returns null if neither resolves. (#1571, #2528)
- */
-function resolvePhaseDirByToken(phasesDir, phaseArg) {
-    const normalizedPhase = normalizePhaseName(phaseArg);
-    const dirEntries = node_fs_1.default.readdirSync(phasesDir, { withFileTypes: true });
-    const dirNames = dirEntries.filter((e) => e.isDirectory()).map((e) => e.name);
-    const matched = matchPhaseDirs(dirNames, normalizedPhase).matches[0];
-    if (matched)
-        return node_path_1.default.join(phasesDir, matched);
-    const contained = (0, security_cjs_2.tryWithinRoot)(phaseArg, phasesDir);
-    if (contained !== null && node_fs_1.default.existsSync(contained))
-        return contained;
-    return null;
-}
-/**
- * Pure comparator: which of `entries` have an effective last-changed time
- * STRICTLY BEFORE `contextEffectiveMs` (CONTEXT.md's own effective time)? Strict
- * `<` is "stale" (matches findStaleVerificationSummary's own strict `>` convention
- * for "newer than" elsewhere in this codebase — an artifact committed in the SAME
- * commit/second as CONTEXT.md is in sync, not stale).
- */
-function computeContextDrift(contextEffectiveMs, entries) {
-    return entries.filter((e) => e.effectiveMs < contextEffectiveMs).map((e) => e.file);
-}
-function buildContextDriftMessage(staleArtifacts, phaseArg) {
-    const parts = [`CONTEXT.md decisions are newer than: ${staleArtifacts.join(', ')}.`];
-    if (staleArtifacts.some((f) => f.endsWith('-RESEARCH.md'))) {
-        parts.push(`Regenerate research: /gsd:plan-phase ${phaseArg} --research.`);
-    }
-    if (staleArtifacts.some((f) => f.endsWith('-PATTERNS.md'))) {
-        parts.push('Regenerate patterns: delete the PATTERNS.md file, then re-run /gsd:plan-phase.');
-    }
-    if (staleArtifacts.some((f) => f.endsWith('-VALIDATION.md') || (f.endsWith('-SPEC.md') && !f.endsWith('-AI-SPEC.md') && !f.endsWith('-UI-SPEC.md')))) {
-        parts.push('Regenerate or manually reconcile VALIDATION.md / SPEC.md against the current decisions.');
-    }
-    parts.push('Do not hand-inject the newer decisions into a prompt as a substitute for regenerating — that carries the staleness forward.');
-    return parts.join(' ');
-}
-function cmdVerifyContextDrift(cwd, phaseArg, raw) {
-    if (!phaseArg) {
-        error('Usage: verify context-drift <phase>');
-        return;
-    }
-    const pDir = planningDir(cwd);
-    const phasesDir = node_path_1.default.join(pDir, 'phases');
-    const emitSkip = (reason, message = '') => {
-        output({ block: false, skipped: true, reason, stale_artifacts: [], message }, raw);
-    };
-    if (!node_fs_1.default.existsSync(phasesDir)) {
-        emitSkip('phase-not-found', `Phase directory not found: ${phaseArg}`);
-        return;
-    }
-    // Same phase-directory resolution rule cmdVerifySchemaDrift uses (#1571, #2528):
-    // matchPhaseDirs, never a naive substring test.
-    const phaseDir = resolvePhaseDirByToken(phasesDir, phaseArg);
-    if (!phaseDir) {
-        emitSkip('phase-not-found', `Phase directory not found: ${phaseArg}`);
-        return;
-    }
-    let phaseFiles;
-    try {
-        phaseFiles = node_fs_1.default.readdirSync(phaseDir).slice().sort();
-    }
-    catch {
-        emitSkip('phase-not-found', `Phase directory not found: ${phaseArg}`);
-        return;
-    }
-    const contextFile = phaseFiles.find((f) => f.endsWith('-CONTEXT.md'));
-    if (!contextFile) {
-        emitSkip('no-context-md');
-        return;
-    }
-    const researchFile = phaseFiles.find((f) => f.endsWith('-RESEARCH.md'));
-    const patternsFile = phaseFiles.find((f) => f.endsWith('-PATTERNS.md'));
-    const validationFile = phaseFiles.find((f) => f.endsWith('-VALIDATION.md'));
-    const specFile = phaseFiles.find((f) => f.endsWith('-SPEC.md') && !f.endsWith('-AI-SPEC.md') && !f.endsWith('-UI-SPEC.md'));
-    const upstreamFiles = [researchFile, patternsFile, validationFile, specFile].filter((f) => !!f);
-    if (upstreamFiles.length === 0) {
-        emitSkip('no-upstream-artifacts');
-        return;
-    }
-    const allFiles = [contextFile, ...upstreamFiles];
-    const cleanCommitMs = defaultPhaseCleanCommitTimesMs(phaseDir, allFiles);
-    const effectiveTimeMs = (file) => cleanCommitMs.has(file)
-        ? cleanCommitMs.get(file)
-        : node_fs_1.default.statSync(node_path_1.default.join(phaseDir, file)).mtimeMs;
-    const contextMs = effectiveTimeMs(contextFile);
-    const driftEntries = upstreamFiles.map((f) => ({ file: f, effectiveMs: effectiveTimeMs(f) }));
-    const staleArtifacts = computeContextDrift(contextMs, driftEntries);
-    let wf;
-    try {
-        const rawCfg = JSON.parse(node_fs_1.default.readFileSync(node_path_1.default.join(pDir, 'config.json'), 'utf-8'));
-        wf = rawCfg['workflow'];
-    }
-    catch {
-        wf = undefined;
-    }
-    const action = wf?.context_drift_action === 'block' ? 'block' : 'warn';
-    const block = staleArtifacts.length > 0 && action === 'block';
-    const message = staleArtifacts.length > 0 ? buildContextDriftMessage(staleArtifacts, phaseArg) : '';
-    output({
-        block,
-        skipped: false,
-        stale_artifacts: staleArtifacts,
-        action,
-        message,
-    }, raw);
-}
-function cmdVerifySchemaDrift(cwd, phaseArg, skipFlag, raw) {
-    if (!phaseArg) {
-        error('Usage: verify schema-drift <phase> [--skip]');
-        return;
-    }
-    const pDir = planningDir(cwd);
-    const phasesDir = node_path_1.default.join(pDir, 'phases');
-    if (!node_fs_1.default.existsSync(phasesDir)) {
-        output({ block: false, drift_detected: false, blocking: false, message: 'No phases directory' }, raw);
-        return;
-    }
-    // Resolve the phase directory with the canonical phase-directory matcher
-    // (phase-id.cjs::matchPhaseDirs), not a naive substring test. A bare
-    // `.includes(phaseArg)` lets a non-existent phase silently match a different
-    // phase whose directory name merely contains the requested token (e.g. "1"
-    // matching "11-expansion"), making the drift gate inspect the wrong phase.
-    // This shares the one selection rule with find-phase / verify
-    // phase-completeness rather than restating it. (#1571, #2528)
-    const phaseDir = resolvePhaseDirByToken(phasesDir, phaseArg);
-    if (!phaseDir) {
-        output({ block: false, drift_detected: false, blocking: false, message: `Phase directory not found: ${phaseArg}` }, raw);
-        return;
-    }
-    // #3183: canonical LIVE plan/summary sets (root+nested,
-    // status: superseded EXCLUDED) from the single owner, rather than a
-    // root-only readdirSync filter — a superseded plan's claimed
-    // files_modified is no longer treated as an expected drift target, and
-    // nested (#3139 layout) plans/summaries are no longer invisible to the
-    // drift check.
-    const { planFiles, summaryFiles } = planScanMod.scanPhasePlans(phaseDir);
-    const allFiles = [];
-    for (const pf of planFiles) {
-        const content = node_fs_1.default.readFileSync(node_path_1.default.join(phaseDir, pf), 'utf-8');
-        const fmMatch = content.match(/files_modified:\s*\[([^\]]{0,8000})\]/);
-        if (fmMatch) {
-            const files = fmMatch[1].split(',').map((f) => f.trim()).filter(Boolean);
-            allFiles.push(...files);
-        }
-    }
-    let executionLog = '';
-    for (const sf of summaryFiles) {
-        executionLog += node_fs_1.default.readFileSync(node_path_1.default.join(phaseDir, sf), 'utf-8') + '\n';
-    }
-    const gitLog = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.execGit)(['log', '--oneline', '--all', '-50'], { cwd });
-    if (gitLog.exitCode === 0) {
-        executionLog += '\n' + gitLog.stdout;
-    }
-    const result = (0, schema_detect_cjs_1.checkSchemaDrift)(allFiles, executionLog, { skipCheck: !!skipFlag });
-    const isSkipped = !!result['skipped'];
-    output({
-        // Uniform gate contract: `block` = true means "this gate's bad condition is met".
-        // When skipCheck is true (GSD_SKIP_SCHEMA_CHECK=true), the gate is bypassed —
-        // block must be false regardless of whether drift was detected.
-        // drift_detected and blocking are kept for compatibility.
-        block: isSkipped ? false : !!result['driftDetected'],
-        drift_detected: result['driftDetected'],
-        blocking: result['blocking'],
-        schema_files: result['schemaFiles'],
-        orms: result['orms'],
-        unpushed_orms: result['unpushedOrms'],
-        message: result['message'],
-        skipped: isSkipped,
-    }, raw);
-}
 /**
  * Stamp `last_mapped_commit` (plus `last_mapped_at`) into the frontmatter of
  * every codebase-map document that exists on disk, using the current HEAD sha.
  *
  * #3418: `drift.cjs` shipped a correct `writeMappedCommit` with no production
  * caller, so no full `/gsd:map-codebase` run ever wrote the machine-readable
- * baseline that `cmdVerifyCodebaseDrift` reads. The stamp lives in CODE rather
+ * baseline that the codebase-drift gate (`gate-codebase-drift.cts`) reads. The stamp lives in CODE rather
  * than in a prose instruction to the mapper agent on purpose: an agent that
  * decides its work is already done skips a prose step silently, which is the
  * exact class of failure the stamp exists to detect.
@@ -2205,207 +2129,6 @@ function cmdStampCodebaseMap(cwd, raw, only) {
         emit(skip('exception: ' + (err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err))));
     }
 }
-function cmdVerifyCodebaseDrift(cwd, raw) {
-    // Non-hoisted: load-order matters for circular dep guard
-    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- drift.cjs is an export= CommonJS module
-    const drift = require('./drift.cjs');
-    const emit = (payload) => output(payload, raw);
-    try {
-        const codebaseDir = node_path_1.default.join(planningDir(cwd), 'codebase');
-        const structurePath = node_path_1.default.join(codebaseDir, 'STRUCTURE.md');
-        if (!node_fs_1.default.existsSync(structurePath)) {
-            emit({
-                // Uniform gate contract: block = action_required (false when skipped).
-                block: false,
-                skipped: true,
-                reason: 'no-structure-md',
-                action_required: false,
-                directive: 'none',
-                elements: [],
-            });
-            return;
-        }
-        let structureMd;
-        try {
-            structureMd = node_fs_1.default.readFileSync(structurePath, 'utf-8');
-        }
-        catch (err) {
-            emit({
-                block: false,
-                skipped: true,
-                reason: 'cannot-read-structure-md: ' + (err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)),
-                action_required: false,
-                directive: 'none',
-                elements: [],
-            });
-            return;
-        }
-        const lastMapped = drift['readMappedCommit'](structurePath);
-        const revProbe = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.execGit)(['rev-parse', 'HEAD'], { cwd });
-        if (revProbe.exitCode !== 0) {
-            emit({
-                block: false,
-                skipped: true,
-                reason: 'not-a-git-repo',
-                action_required: false,
-                directive: 'none',
-                elements: [],
-            });
-            return;
-        }
-        // #3418: an absent or unresolvable baseline means NO COMPARISON IS POSSIBLE.
-        // It is neither zero drift nor total drift, and reporting it as either is a
-        // lie the consumer cannot detect. The former fallback diffed HEAD against
-        // the empty tree, so every tracked file read as newly added and the gate
-        // reported maximum drift identically on every run -- which made a genuinely
-        // stale map indistinguishable from a fresh one, and let `spawn_mapper` fire
-        // a whole-repo remap while presenting itself as an incremental one.
-        if (!lastMapped) {
-            emit({
-                block: false,
-                skipped: true,
-                reason: 'no-mapped-commit',
-                action_required: false,
-                directive: 'none',
-                elements: [],
-                last_mapped_commit: null,
-            });
-            return;
-        }
-        const baseProbe = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.execGit)(['cat-file', '-t', lastMapped], { cwd });
-        if (baseProbe.exitCode !== 0 || baseProbe.stdout.trim() !== 'commit') {
-            // A stamp git cannot resolve: history rewrite, GC, or a shallow clone.
-            // Distinct reason from 'no-mapped-commit' -- the map claims a baseline,
-            // this repository just cannot see it, which is an operator-actionable
-            // difference (re-map vs. unshallow). A resolvable non-commit (a tree or
-            // blob sha, a ref name) is the same class of bad baseline: git would
-            // happily diff against it and report drift against the wrong object.
-            emit({
-                block: false,
-                skipped: true,
-                reason: 'unresolvable-mapped-commit',
-                action_required: false,
-                directive: 'none',
-                elements: [],
-                last_mapped_commit: lastMapped,
-            });
-            return;
-        }
-        const base = lastMapped;
-        const diff = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.execGit)(['diff', '--name-status', base, 'HEAD'], { cwd });
-        if (diff.exitCode !== 0) {
-            emit({
-                block: false,
-                skipped: true,
-                reason: 'git-diff-failed',
-                action_required: false,
-                directive: 'none',
-                elements: [],
-            });
-            return;
-        }
-        // #3418: GSD's own planning artifacts are not codebase structure. A
-        // map-codebase run commits `.planning/codebase/*.md`, so a correctly
-        // stamped baseline would be re-poisoned by the very commit that carries
-        // the stamp -- the next gate invocation would report the map's own seven
-        // documents as seven new directories, back over the default threshold of
-        // three. Derived from planningRoot() rather than a hardcoded literal so a
-        // repoint of the planning root cannot leave this filter behind.
-        //
-        // `git diff --name-status` always prints repo-root-relative paths, so a cwd
-        // below the root needs the `sub/` prefix or the filter matches nothing.
-        // That prefix comes from git (`--show-prefix`: root-relative, forward
-        // slashes, trailing slash, empty at the root). The rejected alternative was
-        // path.relative(`--show-toplevel`, cwd), which mixes two path producers: on
-        // Windows os.tmpdir() hands back the 8.3 short form while git resolves the
-        // long one, so relative() between them yields a `../..` chain that matches
-        // nothing. The `.planning` half below is safe to compute with relative()
-        // because both of its sides are the same cwd string.
-        const prefixProbe = (0, shell_command_projection_cjs_1.execGit)(['rev-parse', '--show-prefix'], { cwd });
-        const repoPrefix = prefixProbe.exitCode === 0 ? prefixProbe.stdout.trim() : '';
-        const planningPrefix = repoPrefix + node_path_1.default.relative(cwd, planningRoot(cwd)).split(node_path_1.default.sep).join('/') + '/';
-        const isPlanningArtifact = (file) => file.split('\\').join('/').startsWith(planningPrefix);
-        const added = [];
-        const modified = [];
-        const deleted = [];
-        for (const line of diff.stdout.split(/\r?\n/)) {
-            if (!line.trim())
-                continue;
-            const m = line.match(/^([A-Z])\d*\t(.+?)(?:\t(.+))?$/);
-            if (!m)
-                continue;
-            const status = m[1];
-            // execGit sets no core.quotepath config, so git's default `true` applies:
-            // any path containing non-ASCII bytes (or `"`, `\`, control bytes) is
-            // C-quoted — `"docs/\350\256\276…/overview.md"`. Capturing that verbatim
-            // garbles affected_paths/elements and makes isPathMapped compare the
-            // quoted prefix (`"docs`) against STRUCTURE.md, misclassifying DOCUMENTED
-            // directories as new_dir (#4081). Decode with the single owner of the
-            // git C-quote seam (worktree-safety.cjs); a non-quoted value — the plain
-            // ASCII common case — passes through untouched. Both capture groups are
-            // decoded: R/C lines carry old AND new paths, either may be quoted.
-            const file = decodeGitQuotedPath(m[3] || m[2]);
-            if (isPlanningArtifact(file))
-                continue;
-            if (status === 'A' || status === 'R' || status === 'C')
-                added.push(file);
-            else if (status === 'M')
-                modified.push(file);
-            else if (status === 'D')
-                deleted.push(file);
-        }
-        // loadConfig() returns a flattened object — there is no nested `workflow`
-        // key. Read the raw config.json directly to access workflow-scoped keys,
-        // matching the pattern used in check-command-router.cts:readWorkflowConfig.
-        let wf;
-        try {
-            const rawCfg = JSON.parse(node_fs_1.default.readFileSync(node_path_1.default.join(planningDir(cwd), 'config.json'), 'utf-8'));
-            wf = rawCfg['workflow'];
-        }
-        catch {
-            wf = undefined;
-        }
-        const threshold = Number.isInteger(wf?.drift_threshold) && wf?.drift_threshold >= 1
-            ? wf?.drift_threshold
-            : 3;
-        const action = wf?.drift_action === 'auto-remap' ? 'auto-remap' : 'warn';
-        const driftResult = drift['detectDrift']({
-            addedFiles: added,
-            modifiedFiles: modified,
-            deletedFiles: deleted,
-            structureMd,
-            threshold,
-            action,
-            runtime: (0, runtime_slash_cjs_1.resolveRuntime)(cwd),
-        });
-        const actionRequired = !!driftResult['actionRequired'];
-        emit({
-            // Uniform gate contract: block = action_required.
-            block: actionRequired,
-            skipped: !!driftResult['skipped'],
-            reason: driftResult['reason'] || null,
-            action_required: actionRequired,
-            directive: driftResult['directive'],
-            spawn_mapper: !!driftResult['spawnMapper'],
-            affected_paths: driftResult['affectedPaths'] || [],
-            elements: driftResult['elements'] || [],
-            threshold,
-            action,
-            last_mapped_commit: lastMapped,
-            message: driftResult['message'] || '',
-        });
-    }
-    catch (err) {
-        emit({
-            block: false,
-            skipped: true,
-            reason: 'exception: ' + (err && err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)),
-            action_required: false,
-            directive: 'none',
-            elements: [],
-        });
-    }
-}
 module.exports = {
     scanNegativeGrepCommentEcho,
     scanFileWideNegativeGateConflict,
@@ -2421,10 +2144,6 @@ module.exports = {
     cmdValidateConsistency,
     cmdValidateHealth,
     cmdValidateAgents,
-    cmdVerifySchemaDrift,
-    cmdVerifyCodebaseDrift,
-    computeContextDrift,
-    cmdVerifyContextDrift,
     cmdStampCodebaseMap,
     STATE_HEAD_ADVISORY_COMMITS,
 };