spexcode 0.5.8 → 0.6.0

package/spec-cli/src/issues-cli.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,276 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { closeIssue, createIssue, findIssue, isRemark, mergedIssues, promote, type ForgeSlice, type Issue } from './issues.js'
+import { FORGE_DRIVERS, forgeDriverFor, resolveForgeHost } from '../../spec-forge/src/drivers.js'
+import { currentSession, issuesEnabled, reply, resolveRemark, retractRemark } from './localIssues.js'
+import { summarizeLoopIn } from './mentions.js'
+import { loadSpecsLite } from './specs.js'
+
+// @@@ issues-cli - the `spex issue` / `spex remark` CLI surface: argv parsing, console output, exit codes.
+// It lives ABOVE the eval layer, which is the whole point. These handlers used to sit in `issues.ts` and
+// `localIssues.ts` — modules the eval package imports — and a CLI surface is by definition the topmost layer,
+// so hosting one down there gave those files two altitudes at once. That is what held the spec/eval package
+// cycle: the loop-in's candidate resolution needs eval knowledge, its only callers were these handlers, and
+// they could not reach eval from below it. Nothing here is new logic; it is the same surface at its own height.
+//
+// It is NOT merged into `cli.ts`: that file is the thin dispatch hub ([[cli-surface]]) whose eighty lazy
+// `await import(...)` sites keep one invocation from loading every verb's module. Moving 265 lines of verb
+// implementation there would have traded one two-altitude module for another. The hub gains one lazy line
+// pointing here instead.
+
+const fl = (args: string[], name: string): string | undefined => {
+  const i = args.indexOf(`--${name}`)
+  return i >= 0 ? args[i + 1] : undefined
+}
+const hasFlag = (args: string[], name: string) => args.includes(`--${name}`)
+
+// the CLI's live forge pull — `ls` and `show` own their freshness (a live driver read), degrading LOUDLY
+// to local-only (one stderr note) when the forge is unreachable: local reading never hostages on a network.
+async function liveForgeSlice(verb: string): Promise<ForgeSlice | null> {
+  try {
+    const host = resolveForgeHost()
+    const driver = forgeDriverFor(host)
+    if (!driver) throw new Error(`no driver for this repo's forge host '${host}' (known: ${FORGE_DRIVERS.map((d) => d.host).join(', ')})`)
+    const [issues, prs] = await Promise.all([driver.listIssues(), driver.listPRs()])
+    return { host: driver.host, state: { issues, prs } }
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(`spex issue ${verb}: forge unreachable — local only (${e instanceof Error ? e.message.split('\n')[0] : e})`)
+    return null
+  }
+}
+
+// the single-issue read behind `spex issue show` AND `GET /api/issues/:id` — find the thread in the SAME
+// merged, eval-remark-free read every issue surface consumes (never a second lookup path: an eval-remark
+// thread is not an issue, so `show` can't see one either). A local id needs no forge slice; a forge id
+// (`<host>#<n>`) reads from the caller-supplied slice (live pull on the CLI, resident cache on the server).
+
+function renderIssue(t: Issue): string {
+  const L: string[] = []
+  L.push(`${t.concern}  [${t.id}]`)
+  L.push(`  ${[t.store, t.status, t.nodes.length ? `re: ${t.nodes.join(', ')}` : '', t.by ? `by ${t.by}` : '', t.created].filter(Boolean).join('  ·  ')}`)
+  if (t.url) L.push(`  ${t.url}`)
+  if (t.evidence.length) L.push(`  evidence: ${t.evidence.join(', ')}`)
+  L.push('', t.body)
+  for (const r of t.replies) {
+    L.push('', `── ${isRemark(r) ? `remark ${t.id}#${r.rid}${r.resolved ? ` (resolved by ${r.resolvedBy})` : ' (unresolved)'}` : 'reply'}: ${r.by} @ ${r.at} ──`)
+    L.push(r.body)
+  }
+  return L.join('\n')
+}
+
+// `spex issue <verb>` — the ONE issue surface, a noun drawer ([[cli-surface]]). `ls` is THE read over
+// every store: the drain view a supervisor/human works from, `[--node id] [--store local|<host>] [--all]
+// [--json]`; `show <id>` is the single-thread detail (the same read GET /api/issues/:id serves). The
+// write verbs (open|reply — localIssues.ts) are store-routed (`open --store <host>` / a `<host>#<n>` id
+// go through the driver); `close` is the store-routed lifecycle verb (the SAME closeIssue the dashboard's
+// Close button calls); `promote` is the one cross-store verb; `links` is the read-only forge→spec trace
+// (spec-forge). The list imposes NO salience ranking — replies are a signal the drain WEIGHS by judgment,
+// never an automatic priority order. The forge slice is a LIVE pull that degrades loudly to local-only.
+// (`nudge` left this drawer for `spex internal nudge` — only the post-merge hook calls it; the old
+// on|off|status toggle verbs are gone — the switch is the `issues.enabled` settings key.)
+export async function runIssues(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
+  // the drawer's READ verbs (ls/show) surface a store failure exactly as the writes do
+  // ([[issues-store-rename]]'s both-exist teeth): one clean `spex issue: <message>` line + exit 1, never a
+  // raw stack — the message carries the repair, the stack is internals. The verbs that already catch with
+  // a more specific prefix (open/reply/close/promote) return before this guard ever sees their errors.
+  try { return await issueVerbs(args) }
+  catch (e) { console.error(`spex issue: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`); return 1 }
+}
+async function issueVerbs(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
+  if (ISSUE_WRITE_SUBS.has(args[0])) return runIssueWrite(args)
+  if (args[0] === 'on' || args[0] === 'off' || args[0] === 'status') {
+    // v0.3.0 signpost — report the new home, never run ([[cli-surface]]: a removed spelling only points).
+    console.error(`spex: \`spex issue ${args[0]}\` was removed in v0.3.0 — the switch is the \`issues.enabled\` key in spexcode.json (edit the JSON; \`spex guide settings\` documents it, \`spex doctor\` reports its state)`)
+    return 2
+  }
+  if (args[0] === 'show') {
+    const id = args[1]
+    if (!id || id.startsWith('--')) { console.error('usage: spex issue show <issue-id> [--json]   (a local id, or a forge id like github#12)'); return 2 }
+    const nodeIds = loadSpecsLite().map((s) => s.id)
+    const t = findIssue(id, id.includes('#') ? await liveForgeSlice('show') : null, nodeIds)
+    if (!t) { console.error(`spex issue show: no issue '${id}' (see \`spex issue ls --all\`)`); return 1 }
+    console.log(hasFlag(args, 'json') ? JSON.stringify(t, null, 2) : renderIssue(t))
+    return 0
+  }
+  if (args[0] === 'links') {
+    const { runIssueLinks } = await import('../../spec-forge/src/cli.js')
+    return runIssueLinks(args.slice(1))
+  }
+  if (args[0] === 'close') {
+    // the CLI leg of the ONE close verb ([[issues]] closeIssue — the same routing POST /api/issues/:id/close
+    // runs): a local id resolves the thread `landed`, a forge id (`<host>#<n>`) closes the remote issue
+    // through the driver. Lifecycle on the issue object, never node state.
+    const id = args[1]
+    if (!id || id.startsWith('--')) { console.error('usage: spex issue close <issue-id>   (a local id, or a forge id like github#12)'); return 2 }
+    try {
+      const r = await closeIssue(id)
+      console.log(r.store === 'local'
+        ? `closed '${id}' — local thread landed`
+        : `closed '${id}' on ${r.store}${r.url ? `  ${r.url}` : ''}`)
+      return 0
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error(`spex issue close: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`)
+      return 1
+    }
+  }
+  if (args[0] === 'promote') {
+    const id = args[1]
+    if (!id || id.startsWith('--')) { console.error('usage: spex issue promote <local-issue-id>'); return 2 }
+    try {
+      const r = await promote(id)
+      console.log(`promoted '${id}' → ${r.host}#${r.number}  ${r.url}\n  local thread closed landed (permalink recorded in its reply trail)`)
+      return 0
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error(`spex issue promote: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`)
+      return 1
+    }
+  }
+  if (args[0] !== 'ls') {
+    console.error(`spex issue: unknown verb '${args[0]}' — ls | show | open | reply | close | promote | links  (spex help issue)`)
+    return 2
+  }
+  args = args.slice(1)
+  const nodeIds = loadSpecsLite().map((s) => s.id)
+  const forge = await liveForgeSlice('ls')
+  let issues = mergedIssues(forge, nodeIds)
+  const node = fl(args, 'node')
+  const store = fl(args, 'store')
+  if (node) issues = issues.filter((p) => p.nodes.includes(node))
+  if (store) issues = issues.filter((p) => p.store === store)
+  if (!hasFlag(args, 'all')) issues = issues.filter((p) => p.status === 'open')
+  if (hasFlag(args, 'json')) { console.log(JSON.stringify(issues, null, 2)); return 0 }
+  if (!issues.length) { console.log(node ? `no issues for node '${node}'` : 'no open issues'); return 0 }
+  console.log(`issues — ${issues.length} ${hasFlag(args, 'all') ? 'total' : 'open'}${store ? ` in '${store}'` : ''}${node ? ` for '${node}'` : ''}\n`)
+  for (const p of issues) {
+    const tags = [p.store, p.status !== 'open' ? `[${p.status}]` : '', p.nodes.length ? `re: ${p.nodes.join(', ')}` : '', p.by ? `by ${p.by}` : ''].filter(Boolean).join('  ·  ')
+    console.log(`• ${p.concern}  [${p.id}]`)
+    console.log(`    ${tags}`)
+    if (p.replies.length) console.log(`    ${p.replies.length} reply(ies) in thread`)
+    if (p.url) console.log(`    ${p.url}`)
+  }
+  if (!issuesEnabled()) console.log('\n(the issues workflow is OFF — set `"issues": { "enabled": true }` in spexcode.json to re-enable writes/nudges)')
+  return 0
+}
+
+const VALUE_FLAGS = new Set(['--node', '--body', '--evidence', '--scenario', '--code-sha', '--store'])
+// bare positionals, skipping flags + their values.
+function bare(args: string[]): string[] {
+  const out: string[] = []
+  for (let i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
+    const t = args[i]
+    if (t.startsWith('--')) { if (VALUE_FLAGS.has(t)) i++; continue }
+    out.push(t)
+  }
+  return out
+}
+// `--body -` reads stdin; `--body "text"` is literal; absent → undefined.
+function readBody(args: string[]): string | undefined {
+  const v = fl(args, 'body')
+  if (v === undefined) return undefined
+  return v === '-' ? readFileSync(0, 'utf8') : v
+}
+// a repeatable value flag: every `--<name> <value>` pair, in order.
+const repeated = (args: string[], name: string): string[] =>
+  args.flatMap((a, i) => (a === `--${name}` ? [args[i + 1]] : [])).filter(Boolean) as string[]
+
+// the local-issue WRITE verbs of the issue drawer (`spex issue <verb>`): open "<concern>" [--store local|<host>] [--node id…]
+// [--evidence hash…] [--body -|text], and the id-based reply. Store is a property of the issue,
+// never a second command — open and reply route by it (issues.ts createIssue/replyIssue).
+export async function runIssueWrite(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
+  const sub = args[0]
+  try {
+    if (sub === 'reply') {
+      const id = bare(args.slice(1))[0]
+      const body = readBody(args)
+      if (!id || !body) { console.error('usage: spex issue reply <issue-id> --body -|<text> [--evidence <hash>…]'); return 2 }
+      // the ONE store-routed reply verb ([[issues]]): a forge id posts a real comment through the driver,
+      // a local id commits to the store — the same command either way (dynamic import: no static cycle).
+      const r = await (await import('./loop-in.js')).replyIssueWithLoopIn(id, body, { evidence: repeated(args, 'evidence') })
+      console.log(r.store === 'local'
+        ? `replied to '${id}' — ${r.replies?.length} post(s) in thread`
+        : `commented on '${id}' — ${r.url}`)
+      const s = summarizeLoopIn(r.loopIn)
+      if (s) console.log(`  ${s}`)
+      return 0
+    }
+    // `open`: start a new issue — STORE-ROUTED through the one creation port ([[issues]] createIssue, the
+    // same routine POST /api/issues runs): default local commits to the trunk store; `--store <host>`
+    // creates the real forge issue through that store's driver (no promote round-trip when the concern is
+    // born forge-visible). The concern is the bare positional(s) after the sub.
+    const concern = sub === 'open' ? bare(args.slice(1)).join(' ').trim() : ''
+    if (!concern) {
+      console.error('usage: spex issue open "<concern>" [--store local|<host>] [--node <id>…] [--evidence <hash>…] [--body -|<text>]\n       spex issue reply|close|promote <issue-id> …')
+      return 2
+    }
+    const r = await (await import('./issues.js')).createIssue(concern, {
+      store: fl(args, 'store'),
+      nodes: repeated(args, 'node'),
+      body: readBody(args),
+      evidence: repeated(args, 'evidence'),
+    })
+    const re = r.nodes.length ? ` (re: ${r.nodes.join(', ')})` : ''
+    console.log(r.store === 'local'
+      ? `opened '${r.id}'${re} — committed to the local issue store; read it with \`spex issue ls\``
+      : `opened '${r.id}' on ${r.store}${re} — ${r.url}`)
+    return 0
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(`spex issue: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`)
+    return 1
+  }
+}
+
+// the first positionals runIssueWrite handles — the issue drawer routes these to it. Exported so the
+// router and the runner can never drift. (`nudge` is not here: it is machine plumbing, called only by the
+// post-merge hook as `spex internal nudge`; the on|off|status toggle verbs died in v0.3.0 — the switch is
+// the `issues.enabled` settings key.)
+export const ISSUE_WRITE_SUBS = new Set(['open', 'reply'])
+
+// ── remark CLI ([[remark-substrate]]) — CLI-first: the whole author→resolve→retract loop, no server needed ──
+// `spex remark add <issue-id | <node> --scenario <name>> --body -|<text> [--code-sha <sha>] [--evidence <hash>…]`
+// host = a local issue id, OR a <node> with --scenario <name>. Records targetCodeSha (default: worktree HEAD).
+export async function runRemark(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
+  try {
+    const scenario = fl(args, 'scenario')
+    const positional = bare(args)[0]
+    const body = readBody(args)
+    if (!positional || !body) {
+      console.error('usage: spex remark add <issue-id | node --scenario name> --body -|<text> [--code-sha <sha>] [--evidence <hash>…]')
+      return 2
+    }
+    // THE FLAG DECIDES THE PARSE ([[cli-surface]] §1): `--scenario` present ⇒ the positional is a NODE id
+    // (the remark pins to that node's scenario track); absent ⇒ it is an ISSUE id. Never type-sniffed —
+    // a node id and an issue id are both bare slugs, so any "looks like" guess would misroute; the flag
+    // is the one unambiguous discriminator, and a wrong host fails loud downstream (unknown issue/node).
+    const host = scenario ? { node: positional, scenario } : { issue: positional }
+    const r = await (await import('./loop-in.js')).remarkWithLoopIn(host, body, { codeSha: fl(args, 'code-sha'), evidence: repeated(args, 'evidence') })
+    console.log(`remark ${r.ref}  (against ${r.codeSha.slice(0, 7) || 'HEAD'}) — read it with \`spex issue ls --all\``)
+    const s = summarizeLoopIn(r.loopIn)
+    if (s) console.log(`  ${s}`)
+    return 0
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(`spex remark add: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`)
+    return 1
+  }
+}
+
+// `spex remark resolve <remark-ref>` — flip resolved=true (agent-only, never the author, monotonic — see resolveRemark).
+export async function runResolve(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
+  const ref = bare(args)[0]
+  if (!ref) { console.error('usage: spex remark resolve <remark-ref>   (the <thread-id>#<rid> `spex remark add` printed)'); return 2 }
+  try {
+    const by = currentSession()
+    resolveRemark(ref, by)
+    console.log(`resolved remark ${ref} — by ${by}`)
+    return 0
+  } catch (e) { console.error(`spex remark resolve: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`); return 1 }
+}
+
+// `spex remark retract <remark-ref>` — the author withdraws their OWN remark, removing it (author-only — see retractRemark).
+export async function runRetract(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
+  const ref = bare(args)[0]
+  if (!ref) { console.error('usage: spex remark retract <remark-ref>'); return 2 }
+  try {
+    retractRemark(ref, currentSession())
+    console.log(`retracted remark ${ref}`)
+    return 0
+  } catch (e) { console.error(`spex remark retract: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`); return 1 }
+}

package/spec-cli/src/issues.ts

@@ -1,17 +1,8 @@
-// @@@ issues - ONE Issue object over every store ([[issues]]). An Issue is a recorded concern bound to
-// spec node(s), carrying its OWN lifecycle, living beside the graph and never as node state. WHERE it is
-// stored — the local git store ([[local-issues]]) or a remote forge (spec-forge) — is a per-issue property
-// (`store`), not a project mode: a project holds both at once, mixed. This module owns the core type, the
-// forge→Issue translation (the ONLY place a host's node-naming conventions become `nodes[]` — platform
-// differences stay at the adapter boundary), the merged read every surface consumes (CLI `spex issue ls`,
-// GET /api/issues, the board fold), the STORE-ROUTED reply/close verbs, and the CLI itself. Content writes are
-// owned per store: local ones live in localIssues.ts; a forge write goes through the driver's write verbs
-// (createIssue/createComment/closeIssue — the driver stays the only network toucher; the tracer stays read-only).
 import type { ForgeIssue, ForgePR } from '../../spec-forge/src/port.js'
 import { resolveLinks } from '../../spec-forge/src/links.js'
 import { FORGE_DRIVERS, forgeDriverFor, forgeIssueStores, resolveForgeHost } from '../../spec-forge/src/drivers.js'
-import { closeLocalIssue, loadLocalIssues, loadOne, postLocalIssue, reply, issuesEnabled, replyLocalIssue, runIssueWrite, ISSUE_WRITE_SUBS } from './localIssues.js'
-import { dispatchMentions, parseMentions, type DispatchOutcome, type LoopIn } from './mentions.js'
+import { closeLocalIssue, loadLocalIssues, loadOne, postLocalIssue, reply, issuesEnabled, replyLocalIssue, parseEvalConcern } from './localIssues.js'
+import { parseMentions, type LoopIn } from './mentions.js'
 import { envSessionId } from './layout.js'
 import { loadSpecsLite } from './specs.js'
 
@@ -79,14 +70,13 @@ export type RemarkTrack = { threadId: string; node: string; scenario: string; th
 
 // `eval: <node> · <scenario>` — node first (never contains ' · '), then the scenario (may). One thread per
 // pair (EventDetail.jsx evalConcern / localIssues.ts resolveRemarkHost mint it), so the last write wins is fine.
-const EVAL_CONCERN_RE = /^eval: (.+?) · (.+)$/
 export const trackKey = (node: string, scenario: string): string => `${node} · ${scenario}`
 
 // an eval-remark thread is the eval scoreboard's data, NOT a drain-worthy issue (I1: a scenario-scoped
 // concern is a remark, never an issue). Its `eval: <node> · <scenario>` concern is the tell — the SAME key
 // loadEvalRemarkTracks isolates them by. The two reads are complementary over one store: mergedIssues (the
 // ISSUE surfaces) excludes these; loadEvalRemarkTracks (the EVAL surfaces) keeps only these.
-export const isEvalConcern = (concern: string): boolean => EVAL_CONCERN_RE.test(concern)
+export const isEvalConcern = (concern: string): boolean => !!parseEvalConcern(concern)
 
 // read the whole local store ONCE and split the eval-concern threads out (directive 3): trunk-scoped,
 // read-time, no branch write. A remark whose scenario no longer exists still LOADS here (it just keys a pair
@@ -94,9 +84,9 @@ export const isEvalConcern = (concern: string): boolean => EVAL_CONCERN_RE.test(
 export function loadEvalRemarkTracks(): Map<string, RemarkTrack> {
   const out = new Map<string, RemarkTrack>()
   for (const t of loadLocalIssues()) {
-    const m = EVAL_CONCERN_RE.exec(t.concern)
-    if (!m) continue
-    const node = m[1].trim(), scenario = m[2].trim()
+    const parsed = parseEvalConcern(t.concern)
+    if (!parsed) continue
+    const { node, scenario } = parsed
     out.set(trackKey(node, scenario), { threadId: t.id, node, scenario, thread: t, remarks: t.replies.filter(isRemark) })
   }
   return out
@@ -152,24 +142,11 @@ function allThreads(forge: ForgeSlice | null, nodeIds: string[]): Issue[] {
   return [...loadLocalIssues(), ...remote].sort((a, b) => b.created.localeCompare(a.created))
 }
 
-// @@@ boardThreads - the board's ONE store read ([[graph-lean]]'s fold and [[remark-substrate]]'s carrier
-// from one walk). It hands back the SPLIT issue population every issue surface consumes and the freshness
-// stamp folded over the WHOLE store, together, because the two answer different questions and must not be
-// derived from each other: the split is a SURFACE question (which page renders this thread), the stamp is a
-// STORE question (was anything written at all). Folding the stamp from whatever the surface read returned
-// is exactly the confusion that left an open reading blind to every remark on it — a scenario-hosted remark
-// moved no board byte, so no push ever fired. Pairing them here means no caller can pick the wrong set.
 export function boardThreads(forge: ForgeSlice | null, nodeIds: string[]): { issues: Issue[]; stamp: string } {
   const threads = allThreads(forge, nodeIds)
   return { issues: threads.filter((i) => !isEvalConcern(i.concern)), stamp: threadStamp(threads) }
 }
 
-// @@@ threadStamp - the board's freshness carrier over a thread set ([[remark-substrate]] write-visibility):
-// open-count : thread-count : reply-count : latest-activity. Every thread write — open, reply, remark,
-// resolve, retract, close — moves at least one component, so a store write ALWAYS moves board bytes and
-// [[graph-delta]]'s no-change suppression can never swallow the push. Pure over the set it is handed, which
-// is what makes "does THIS write move it" a test rather than a claim; the caller owes it the WHOLE store
-// (allThreads), because a set missing a half is a carrier blind to that half.
 export function threadStamp(threads: Issue[]): string {
   return [
     threads.filter((i) => i.status === 'open').length,
@@ -179,25 +156,20 @@ export function threadStamp(threads: Issue[]): string {
   ].join(':')
 }
 
-// @@@ createIssue - the ONE creation port, store-routed ([[issues]]): the dashboard's New form
-// (POST /api/issues) and `spex issue open [--store <store>]` run this SAME routine. Default local commits
-// to the trunk store; a forge store creates the REAL forge issue through that store's driver, its body
-// carrying the `Spec: <nodes>` marker so the existing tracer read links it straight back — no promote
-// round-trip needed when the concern is born forge-visible.
 export async function createIssue(
   concern: string,
   opts: { store?: string; nodes?: string[]; body?: string; evidence?: string[]; author?: string } = {},
-): Promise<{ store: string; id: string; nodes: string[]; url?: string; outcomes: DispatchOutcome[] }> {
+): Promise<{ store: string; id: string; nodes: string[]; url?: string }> {
   const store = opts.store || 'local'
   const author = opts.author || envSessionId() || 'unknown'
   if (store === 'local') {
-    const { thread, outcomes } = await postLocalIssue(concern, {
+    const { thread } = await postLocalIssue(concern, {
       nodes: opts.nodes,
       body: opts.body,
       evidence: opts.evidence,
       author,
     })
-    return { store: 'local', id: thread.id, nodes: thread.nodes, outcomes }
+    return { store: 'local', id: thread.id, nodes: thread.nodes }
   }
 
   const driver = forgeDriverFor(store)
@@ -207,19 +179,9 @@ export async function createIssue(
     title: concern,
     body: forgeIssueBody(concern, opts.body, nodes, opts.evidence),
   })
-  const id = `${driver.host}#${number}`
-  const outcomes = await dispatchMentions(opts.body || concern, { threadId: id, node: nodes[0] || null, author, status: 'open' })
-  return { store: driver.host, id, nodes, url, outcomes }
+  return { store: driver.host, id: `${driver.host}#${number}`, nodes, url }
 }
 
-// @@@ promote - the ONE cross-store verb ([[issues]]): a local concern that outgrew the repo moves to the
-// forge as one recorded action. The forge issue is composed from the thread itself — concern → title;
-// body + the `Spec: <nodes>` marker (the round-trip: the existing tracer read links it straight back to
-// the same nodes, no new linking code) + the evidence hashes + a provenance footer — and created through
-// the driver (the only network toucher). ORDER makes failure safe: create the forge issue FIRST; only
-// then close the local thread out (a reply carrying the permalink, then status `landed`) — an
-// unreachable forge throws with the local thread untouched, and only an `open` thread promotes.
-// `author` mirrors the other write verbs: the effective session id by default, `'human'` from the dashboard.
 export async function promote(id: string, opts: { author?: string } = {}): Promise<{ url: string; number: number; host: string }> {
   const author = opts.author || envSessionId() || 'unknown'
   const t = loadOne(id)
@@ -239,38 +201,26 @@ export async function promote(id: string, opts: { author?: string } = {}): Promi
   return { url, number, host: driver.host }
 }
 
-// @@@ replyIssue - ONE reply verb, store-routed ([[issues]]): store is a property of the issue, so
-// replying doesn't fork by surface — a local id goes through the store's committed write (localIssues.ts,
-// unchanged), a forge id (`<host>#<n>`) posts a REAL comment through the driver's createComment (the same
-// seam discipline as promotion — no second network call-site). Either way the reply TEXT then dispatches
-// its @-mentions (mentions.ts is store-agnostic: the mention fires on the words, and the mention IS the
-// assign — no separate assign machinery). Callers own freshness: the server refreshes its resident forge
-// slice after a forge write; the CLI's next read is a live pull anyway.
 export async function replyIssue(
   id: string,
   body: string,
   opts: { author?: string; node?: string | null; evidence?: string[] } = {},
-): Promise<{ store: string; replies?: Reply[]; url?: string; outcomes: DispatchOutcome[]; loopIn: LoopIn | null }> {
+): Promise<{ store: string; replies?: Reply[]; url?: string; thread?: Issue; author: string }> {
   const author = opts.author || envSessionId() || 'unknown'
   const forge = /^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)#(\d+)$/.exec(id)
   if (!forge) {
     // evidence hashes accrue onto the local thread's typed evidence[] (a forge thread has no such field —
     // an annotation's frame rides its comment body's image link there, the driver the only network toucher);
-    // replyLocalIssue also loops in the thread's originator ([[mentions]]) after the @-dispatch.
-    const { thread, outcomes, loopIn } = await replyLocalIssue(id, body, author, opts.evidence)
-    return { store: 'local', replies: thread.replies, outcomes, loopIn }
+    const { thread } = await replyLocalIssue(id, body, author, opts.evidence)
+    // the thread rides along so [[loop-in]] can resolve this reply's originator chain without a second read.
+    return { store: 'local', replies: thread.replies, thread, author }
   }
   const driver = forgeDriverFor(forge[1])
   if (!driver) throw new Error(`unknown forge host '${forge[1]}' — known: ${FORGE_DRIVERS.map((d) => d.host).join(', ')}`)
   const { url } = await driver.createComment({ number: parseInt(forge[2], 10), body })
-  const outcomes = await dispatchMentions(body, { threadId: id, node: opts.node ?? null, author })
-  // a forge issue's author is a github login, not a live session → no reachable originator to loop in (silent).
-  return { store: forge[1], url, outcomes, loopIn: null }
+  return { store: forge[1], url, author }
 }
 
-// @@@ closeIssue - ONE lifecycle close over every store ([[issues]]): the issue owns its status, so the
-// dashboard Close button routes by id and never writes node state. Local closes mark the local thread
-// `landed`; forge closes call the driver's close verb and let the forced read-back reveal the closed state.
 export async function closeIssue(id: string): Promise<{ store: string; status: string; url?: string }> {
   const forge = /^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)#(\d+)$/.exec(id)
   if (!forge) return { store: 'local', status: closeLocalIssue(id).status }
@@ -281,139 +231,7 @@ export async function closeIssue(id: string): Promise<{ store: string; status: s
 }
 
 // ───────────────────────── CLI ─────────────────────────
-const fl = (args: string[], name: string): string | undefined => {
-  const i = args.indexOf(`--${name}`)
-  return i >= 0 ? args[i + 1] : undefined
-}
-const hasFlag = (args: string[], name: string) => args.includes(`--${name}`)
 
-// the CLI's live forge pull — `ls` and `show` own their freshness (a live driver read), degrading LOUDLY
-// to local-only (one stderr note) when the forge is unreachable: local reading never hostages on a network.
-async function liveForgeSlice(verb: string): Promise<ForgeSlice | null> {
-  try {
-    const host = resolveForgeHost()
-    const driver = forgeDriverFor(host)
-    if (!driver) throw new Error(`no driver for this repo's forge host '${host}' (known: ${FORGE_DRIVERS.map((d) => d.host).join(', ')})`)
-    const [issues, prs] = await Promise.all([driver.listIssues(), driver.listPRs()])
-    return { host: driver.host, state: { issues, prs } }
-  } catch (e) {
-    console.error(`spex issue ${verb}: forge unreachable — local only (${e instanceof Error ? e.message.split('\n')[0] : e})`)
-    return null
-  }
-}
-
-// the single-issue read behind `spex issue show` AND `GET /api/issues/:id` — find the thread in the SAME
-// merged, eval-remark-free read every issue surface consumes (never a second lookup path: an eval-remark
-// thread is not an issue, so `show` can't see one either). A local id needs no forge slice; a forge id
-// (`<host>#<n>`) reads from the caller-supplied slice (live pull on the CLI, resident cache on the server).
 export function findIssue(id: string, forge: ForgeSlice | null, nodeIds: string[]): Issue | undefined {
   return mergedIssues(id.includes('#') ? forge : null, nodeIds).find((i) => i.id === id)
 }
-
-function renderIssue(t: Issue): string {
-  const L: string[] = []
-  L.push(`${t.concern}  [${t.id}]`)
-  L.push(`  ${[t.store, t.status, t.nodes.length ? `re: ${t.nodes.join(', ')}` : '', t.by ? `by ${t.by}` : '', t.created].filter(Boolean).join('  ·  ')}`)
-  if (t.url) L.push(`  ${t.url}`)
-  if (t.evidence.length) L.push(`  evidence: ${t.evidence.join(', ')}`)
-  L.push('', t.body)
-  for (const r of t.replies) {
-    L.push('', `── ${isRemark(r) ? `remark ${t.id}#${r.rid}${r.resolved ? ` (resolved by ${r.resolvedBy})` : ' (unresolved)'}` : 'reply'}: ${r.by} @ ${r.at} ──`)
-    L.push(r.body)
-  }
-  return L.join('\n')
-}
-
-// `spex issue <verb>` — the ONE issue surface, a noun drawer ([[cli-surface]]). `ls` is THE read over
-// every store: the drain view a supervisor/human works from, `[--node id] [--store local|<host>] [--all]
-// [--json]`; `show <id>` is the single-thread detail (the same read GET /api/issues/:id serves). The
-// write verbs (open|reply — localIssues.ts) are store-routed (`open --store <host>` / a `<host>#<n>` id
-// go through the driver); `close` is the store-routed lifecycle verb (the SAME closeIssue the dashboard's
-// Close button calls); `promote` is the one cross-store verb; `links` is the read-only forge→spec trace
-// (spec-forge). The list imposes NO salience ranking — replies are a signal the drain WEIGHS by judgment,
-// never an automatic priority order. The forge slice is a LIVE pull that degrades loudly to local-only.
-// (`nudge` left this drawer for `spex internal nudge` — only the post-merge hook calls it; the old
-// on|off|status toggle verbs are gone — the switch is the `issues.enabled` settings key.)
-export async function runIssues(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
-  // the drawer's READ verbs (ls/show) surface a store failure exactly as the writes do
-  // ([[issues-store-rename]]'s both-exist teeth): one clean `spex issue: <message>` line + exit 1, never a
-  // raw stack — the message carries the repair, the stack is internals. The verbs that already catch with
-  // a more specific prefix (open/reply/close/promote) return before this guard ever sees their errors.
-  try { return await issueVerbs(args) }
-  catch (e) { console.error(`spex issue: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`); return 1 }
-}
-async function issueVerbs(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
-  if (ISSUE_WRITE_SUBS.has(args[0])) return runIssueWrite(args)
-  if (args[0] === 'on' || args[0] === 'off' || args[0] === 'status') {
-    // v0.3.0 signpost — report the new home, never run ([[cli-surface]]: a removed spelling only points).
-    console.error(`spex: \`spex issue ${args[0]}\` was removed in v0.3.0 — the switch is the \`issues.enabled\` key in spexcode.json (edit the JSON; \`spex guide settings\` documents it, \`spex doctor\` reports its state)`)
-    return 2
-  }
-  if (args[0] === 'show') {
-    const id = args[1]
-    if (!id || id.startsWith('--')) { console.error('usage: spex issue show <issue-id> [--json]   (a local id, or a forge id like github#12)'); return 2 }
-    const nodeIds = loadSpecsLite().map((s) => s.id)
-    const t = findIssue(id, id.includes('#') ? await liveForgeSlice('show') : null, nodeIds)
-    if (!t) { console.error(`spex issue show: no issue '${id}' (see \`spex issue ls --all\`)`); return 1 }
-    console.log(hasFlag(args, 'json') ? JSON.stringify(t, null, 2) : renderIssue(t))
-    return 0
-  }
-  if (args[0] === 'links') {
-    const { runIssueLinks } = await import('../../spec-forge/src/cli.js')
-    return runIssueLinks(args.slice(1))
-  }
-  if (args[0] === 'close') {
-    // the CLI leg of the ONE close verb ([[issues]] closeIssue — the same routing POST /api/issues/:id/close
-    // runs): a local id resolves the thread `landed`, a forge id (`<host>#<n>`) closes the remote issue
-    // through the driver. Lifecycle on the issue object, never node state.
-    const id = args[1]
-    if (!id || id.startsWith('--')) { console.error('usage: spex issue close <issue-id>   (a local id, or a forge id like github#12)'); return 2 }
-    try {
-      const r = await closeIssue(id)
-      console.log(r.store === 'local'
-        ? `closed '${id}' — local thread landed`
-        : `closed '${id}' on ${r.store}${r.url ? `  ${r.url}` : ''}`)
-      return 0
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.error(`spex issue close: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`)
-      return 1
-    }
-  }
-  if (args[0] === 'promote') {
-    const id = args[1]
-    if (!id || id.startsWith('--')) { console.error('usage: spex issue promote <local-issue-id>'); return 2 }
-    try {
-      const r = await promote(id)
-      console.log(`promoted '${id}' → ${r.host}#${r.number}  ${r.url}\n  local thread closed landed (permalink recorded in its reply trail)`)
-      return 0
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.error(`spex issue promote: ${e instanceof Error ? e.message : e}`)
-      return 1
-    }
-  }
-  if (args[0] !== 'ls') {
-    console.error(`spex issue: unknown verb '${args[0]}' — ls | show | open | reply | close | promote | links  (spex help issue)`)
-    return 2
-  }
-  args = args.slice(1)
-  const nodeIds = loadSpecsLite().map((s) => s.id)
-  const forge = await liveForgeSlice('ls')
-  let issues = mergedIssues(forge, nodeIds)
-  const node = fl(args, 'node')
-  const store = fl(args, 'store')
-  if (node) issues = issues.filter((p) => p.nodes.includes(node))
-  if (store) issues = issues.filter((p) => p.store === store)
-  if (!hasFlag(args, 'all')) issues = issues.filter((p) => p.status === 'open')
-  if (hasFlag(args, 'json')) { console.log(JSON.stringify(issues, null, 2)); return 0 }
-  if (!issues.length) { console.log(node ? `no issues for node '${node}'` : 'no open issues'); return 0 }
-  console.log(`issues — ${issues.length} ${hasFlag(args, 'all') ? 'total' : 'open'}${store ? ` in '${store}'` : ''}${node ? ` for '${node}'` : ''}\n`)
-  for (const p of issues) {
-    const tags = [p.store, p.status !== 'open' ? `[${p.status}]` : '', p.nodes.length ? `re: ${p.nodes.join(', ')}` : '', p.by ? `by ${p.by}` : ''].filter(Boolean).join('  ·  ')
-    console.log(`• ${p.concern}  [${p.id}]`)
-    console.log(`    ${tags}`)
-    if (p.replies.length) console.log(`    ${p.replies.length} reply(ies) in thread`)
-    if (p.url) console.log(`    ${p.url}`)
-  }
-  if (!issuesEnabled()) console.log('\n(the issues workflow is OFF — set `"issues": { "enabled": true }` in spexcode.json to re-enable writes/nudges)')
-  return 0
-}