task-pipeline-skill 1.50.0 → 1.51.0

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package/CHANGELOG.md CHANGED
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  # Changelog
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+ ## v1.51.0 — the gate stopped being keyed to a number, and stopped believing the agent
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+
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+ ### Fixed
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+
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+ - **v1.50.0's release gate blocked every release forever in any project whose flow
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+ has no stage 6.** It matched `stage: 6` literally. A six-stage project with tests
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+ green at stage 4 could never tag anything again — and this file's own
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+ `progress.md` says the rail "is computed, never eleven" for exactly this reason:
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+ a host project replaces the flow. A wrong rail misinforms; a wrong gate stops the
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+ work. Reproduced against a six-stage project before it was fixed.
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+
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+ The tests stage is now resolved from `pipeline.json` — a stage whose `state` is
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+ `tests`, or one declaring `gate.command` — and failing that from the ledger by
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+ name. When it cannot be resolved the gate still refuses, because a run is in
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+ flight and nothing in it reports a suite passing, but the reason now says how to
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+ make the flow readable.
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+
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+ ### Added
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+
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+ - **`hooks/gate-observer.sh` — the observation the gate rests on.**
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+ `stage: … verdict pass` is typed by the agent the release gate constrains, so on
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+ its own the gate confirmed an assertion with the same assertion. The observer
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+ records the **observed** exit code of the command the project declared, as a new
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+ ledger line:
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+
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+ ```
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+ gate: <stage id> — command "<cmd>" — exit <N> — <ISO-8601>
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+ ```
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+
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+ and the release gate requires the claim and the observation to agree. It records
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+ a red run as a red run — a hook that hid one would read as "the suite was never
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+ run", which is the opposite of what happened. Only the declared command is
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+ observed, compared on the normalised command line: `echo "npm test"` and
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+ `npm test --watch` are not the project's gate, and treating them as one puts a
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+ fabricated observation in the file the gate trusts.
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+
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+ **No `gate.command` declared → the gate degrades to the claim alone.** Stated
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+ here rather than discovered.
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+
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+ **The LAST observation, not any of them.** "Some run of the suite was green" is
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+ true of almost every repository that has ever been red, and a gate satisfied by
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+ history rather than by current state is satisfied permanently. Found by running
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+ the observer against this pipeline's own ledger, where an earlier green sat
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+ above a later red and the gate waved it through.
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+
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+ Guards: 310 → **311**. Property checks: 9 → 9. The new guard disarms the
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+ corroboration — it makes the gate accept the claim alone — and requires the suite
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+ to notice; `test/negatives.py`'s floor moved with it in the same change. The
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+ release-gate suite is 16 → 29 fixtures, all run as processes.
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  ## v1.50.0 — the stage-7 gate stops being a sentence somebody reads
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  ### Added
package/SKILL-CARD.md CHANGED
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  |---|---|
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  | **Purpose** | Runs a substantial task through ten gated delivery stages — intake grill, docs study, brainstorm, spec, plan, subagent build, tests, lint/deploy, post-deploy, docs+registers, acceptance — refusing to advance until each gate passes |
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  | **Owner** | ssheleg ([github.com/ssheleg/task-pipeline](https://github.com/ssheleg/task-pipeline)) |
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- | **Version** | 1.50.0 |
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+ | **Version** | 1.51.0 |
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  | **Surface** | Claude Code (filesystem skill + plugin) and the vercel `skills` CLI. **Not** uploaded to the Skills API; custom Skills do not sync across surfaces |
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  | **Dependencies** | None required. Optional: `context7` (MCP), `figma` (MCP), super-ux, agent-sync, graphify, obsidian-wiki. Every stage's doctrine ships in-repo; the one conditional requirement is super-ux for the stage-3 UX track on a user-facing task |
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  | **Evaluation status** | Suite authored, 5 categories. One recorded run, **self-observed by the author**; **zero blind runs on zero of three models** — the split, and the numbers, live in [`evals/RESULTS.md`](evals/RESULTS.md) and are computed by `evals/run.py` |
package/package.json CHANGED
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  {
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  "name": "task-pipeline-skill",
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- "version": "1.50.0",
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+ "version": "1.51.0",
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  "description": "Full-cycle delivery pipeline for coding agents: a mandatory built-in intake grill, then 10 gated stages (docs, brainstorm+decompose, spec, plan, build, tests, lint/deploy, post-deploy, docs/wiki, acceptance). Every stage's doctrine ships inside the skill — no companion plugin required. This package is the installer CLI.",
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  "bin": {
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  "task-pipeline": "bin/task-pipeline.js"
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  "name": "task-pipeline",
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  "displayName": "Task Pipeline",
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  "description": "Runs a substantial task through a mandatory built-in intake grill, then 10 gated stages (docs, brainstorm+decompose, spec, plan, subagent build, tests, lint/deploy, post-deploy, docs/wiki, acceptance). Every stage's doctrine is built into the skill — no companion plugin required — with typed auto/manual gates, a frozen requirement spine that closes with evidence, a work board and a verification ledger that outlive a run, an exposure line naming what shipped unconfirmed, a progress rail computed from the project's own config, a loop guard whose review ceiling measures rather than stops, and stage-3 tracks for what a product does, how it sounds and how it looks. Two modes need no task: `checkup` (what is unverified) and `setup` (audit existing docs). Retro insights can publish upstream as issues, opt-in and redacted.",
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- "version": "1.50.0",
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+ "version": "1.51.0",
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  "author": {
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  "name": "ssheleg",
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  "url": "https://x.com/sshlg93"
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+ #!/usr/bin/env bash
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+ # PostToolUse — record what the gate command actually did.
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+ #
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+ # `stage: 6 tests — gate manual — verdict pass` is typed by the agent. The stage-7
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+ # release gate reads that line, so on its own it corroborates a claim with the same
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+ # claim, made by the party it constrains. Nothing in the pipeline observed the
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+ # suite; it observed a sentence about the suite.
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+ #
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+ # This appends the observation:
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+ #
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+ # gate: <stage id> — command "<cmd>" — exit <N> — <ISO-8601>
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+ #
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+ # and `release-gate.sh` then requires the claim and the observation to agree.
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+ #
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+ # **Only a command the project declared.** `pipeline.json` → the stage whose
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+ # `gate.command` is set. Nothing is guessed from the shape of a command line: a
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+ # heuristic over strings the environment also produces is `learned.md` rule 15,
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+ # and a gate built on one would record `npm test` from a `README` example.
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+ #
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+ # **It records, it never judges.** A failing run is written down as a failing run.
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+ # A hook that quietly declined to record a red result would be worse than no hook,
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+ # because the absence would read as "the suite was never run".
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+ #
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+ # Silent everywhere else: no ledger, no declaration, no match — exit 0 having done
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+ # nothing, so enabling this plugin changes nothing in a repository that is not
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+ # running a pipeline.
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+ set -uo pipefail
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+
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+ input=$(cat 2>/dev/null || true)
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+ project="${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-$PWD}"
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+ ledger="$project/.task-pipeline/run.md"
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+ [ -f "$ledger" ] || exit 0
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+
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+ HOOK_INPUT="$input" python3 - "$ledger" "$project" <<'PY' 2>/dev/null || true
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+ import json, os, re, sys, datetime
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+
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+ ledger, project = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
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+ try:
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+ data = json.loads(os.environ.get("HOOK_INPUT", ""))
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+ except Exception:
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+ raise SystemExit(0)
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+
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+ cmd = ((data.get("tool_input") or {}).get("command") or "").strip()
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+ if not cmd:
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+ raise SystemExit(0)
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+
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+ try:
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+ cfg = json.load(open(os.path.join(project, "pipeline.json"), encoding="utf-8"))
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+ except Exception:
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+ raise SystemExit(0)
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+
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+ target = None
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+ for s in cfg.get("stages") or []:
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+ if isinstance(s, dict) and (s.get("gate") or {}).get("command"):
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+ target = (str(s.get("id")), (s.get("gate") or {})["command"].strip())
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+ break
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+ if not target:
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+ raise SystemExit(0)
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+
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+ stage_id, declared = target
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+
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+ # Compared on the normalised command line, not on a substring: `echo "npm test"`
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+ # and `npm test --watch` are not the project's gate, and treating them as one puts
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+ # a fabricated observation in the ledger the release gate trusts.
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+ def norm(s):
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+ return " ".join(s.split())
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+
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+ if norm(cmd) != norm(declared):
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+ raise SystemExit(0)
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+
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+ # PostToolUse fires on success; PostToolUseFailure carries the error. Both are
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+ # wired to this script, and `error` present means the command did not exit 0.
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+ failed = bool(data.get("error")) or data.get("hook_event_name") == "PostToolUseFailure"
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+ out = data.get("tool_output") or {}
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+ if isinstance(out, dict) and out.get("exit_code") is not None:
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+ code = int(out["exit_code"])
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+ else:
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+ code = 1 if failed else 0
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+
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+ stamp = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).replace(microsecond=0).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
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+ line = 'gate: %s — command "%s" — exit %d — %s\n' % (stage_id, norm(declared), code, stamp)
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+
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+ # Append-only, like every other line in this file. A ledger that is rewritten is a
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+ # ledger whose history can be edited to say the suite passed.
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+ with open(ledger, "a", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
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+ fh.write(line)
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+ PY
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+ exit 0
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  {
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- "description": "task-pipeline — the stage-7 gate, enforced at agent time. Every hook exits 0 immediately when the project has no .task-pipeline/run.md, so installing the plugin globally changes nothing in a repository that is not running a pipeline.",
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+ "description": "task-pipeline — the stage-7 gate and the observation it rests on. Every hook exits 0 immediately when the project has no .task-pipeline/run.md, so installing the plugin globally changes nothing in a repository that is not running a pipeline.",
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  "hooks": {
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  "PreToolUse": [
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  {
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  "type": "command",
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  "shell": "bash",
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  "command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/release-gate.sh\"",
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- "statusMessage": "stage 7: has stage 6 passed?",
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+ "statusMessage": "has the tests gate passed?",
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+ "timeout": 20
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+ }
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+ ]
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+ }
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+ ],
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+ "PostToolUse": [
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+ {
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+ "matcher": "Bash",
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+ "hooks": [
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+ {
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+ "type": "command",
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+ "shell": "bash",
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+ "command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/gate-observer.sh\"",
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+ "timeout": 20
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+ }
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+ ]
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+ }
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+ ],
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+ "PostToolUseFailure": [
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+ {
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+ "matcher": "Bash",
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+ "hooks": [
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+ {
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+ "type": "command",
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+ "shell": "bash",
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+ "command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/gate-observer.sh\"",
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  "timeout": 20
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  }
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  ]
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  # PreToolUse — the stage-7 gate, made mechanical.
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  #
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  # `stages.md` already says a release does not leave stage 7 until the full suite
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- # is green at stage 6. Until now that was a sentence an agent reads and a person
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- # hopes was obeyed; the tag is public before anybody can check. This refuses the
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- # irreversible act while the run's own ledger records no passing stage 6.
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+ # is green at the tests stage. Until now that was a sentence an agent reads and a
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+ # person hopes was obeyed; the tag is public before anybody can check. This
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+ # refuses the irreversible act while the run's own ledger says otherwise.
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  #
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  # keep and a gate people rip out:
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  # 2. Only in a project that is running a pipeline. No `.task-pipeline/run.md`
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  # means exit 0 before anything else is read, so installing this plugin
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  # changes nothing anywhere else.
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- # 3. Only what the ledger SAYS. Nothing here reruns a suite or believes a
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- # claim; `progress.md` makes the ledger append-only, and this reads it.
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+ # 3. Only what the ledger SAYS, plus what a hook OBSERVED. Nothing here reruns a
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+ # suite.
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+ #
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+ # WHICH STAGE IS THE TESTS STAGE IS NOT A CONSTANT, and v1.50.0 shipped it as one.
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+ # It matched `stage: 6` literally, so a project whose flow has six stages — tests
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+ # at stage 4, everything green — could never tag anything again. The pipeline's own
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+ # `progress.md` says the rail "is computed, never eleven" because a host project
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+ # replaces the flow; a gate keyed to a stage number is the same error with worse
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+ # consequences, because a wrong rail misinforms and a wrong gate stops the work.
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+ # The stage is now resolved from `pipeline.json` (a stage whose `state` is `tests`,
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+ # or one declaring `gate.command`), and failing that from the ledger by name. When
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+ # it cannot be resolved at all the gate still REFUSES — a run is in flight and
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+ # nothing in it reports a suite passing, and "we could not tell, so we let it go"
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+ # is exactly what a release gate exists to refuse — but the reason says how to make
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+ # the flow readable, because a refusal with no next step is one that gets removed.
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+ #
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+ # AND THE CLAIM IS CORROBORATED. `stage: … verdict pass` is typed by the agent this
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+ # gate constrains, so on its own the gate confirms an assertion with itself. Where
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+ # the stage declares `gate.command`, `hooks/gate-observer.sh` records the OBSERVED
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+ # exit code of that command as a `gate:` line, and both must agree. Declare no
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+ # command and the gate degrades to the claim alone — stated here rather than
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+ # discovered.
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