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🤖 Claude Code · Anthropic · claude-fable-5-2 · medium - AI spend: $91.79

Recommendation: Merge · ⚪ Risk: not shown · Code Walkthrough · Code Review · Checkpoint

Summary

Maintainers can keep an existing workflow responsible for publishing verification corrections. Standalone runs still open one PR.

Before and after merge

When Step Who Where How to verify
before merge Approve the fork workflow run so Validate plugins executes on the current head cursor/plugins maintainer https://github.com/cursor/plugins/actions/runs/43538855502 Validate plugins succeeds on 90de508

Intent

Why: Unconditional maintenance publication conflicts with a caller that already owns delivery.

Task: GitHub PR #781

Safe because: Only an explicit ownership statement changes who publishes; standalone publication and every earlier maintenance step are unchanged.

Leaves out: Automatic owner detection, host adapters, and any eval or script.

Scope: Conditional closeout in step 6, one vendor-neutral guide example, and the generated Claude Code copies. (4 files, +26 / −6 lines)

Files: Docs/instructions 4

Docs/instructions:

  • harness/pstack/claude-code/docs/guide/06-verify-and-ship.md
  • harness/pstack/claude-code/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md
  • pstack/docs/guide/06-verify-and-ship.md
  • pstack/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md

Verification

Validation and review: UNKNOWN: no validation or review results were supplied for this revision.

Not verified: The live runs used longer step 6 wording and were not repeated on 90de508. Hosted Validate plugins awaits maintainer approval. One unrelated statechart test fails locally on this and the previous head. cursor/plugins has no Shaka settings, so settings-bound validation, review binding, and handoff checks were refused.

Evidence and limitations

Validation and review: UNKNOWN: no validation or review results were supplied for this revision.

Review history

Six local review runs through e6b64f4 fixed one defect in the since-removed eval runner and documented optional nits. A seventh run, on 90de508 by openai/codex after the trim, has no findings. The earlier per-commit record is in the first review comment.

What the trim removed

90de508 deleted evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout, a response-only screen with a Ruby runner, because it added a new top-level directory and language for evidence the live runs now cover better. It also replaced a Shaka-specific guide example with a vendor-neutral one and folded a trailing clean-run paragraph into step 6.

Rollback

Reverting restores unconditional standalone closeout. No application code, configuration, or persistent state changes.

Shaka metrics

Estimated token costs: $91.79 · ready pending

Details
Missing values
  • Task start was not recorded, so the cost line shows no time from task start to ready or merge, and Timings shows Prompt to CI as not recorded. To fill it, the agent passes the time of the first request as task_started_at when it publishes the description.
Usage and cost
Report USD Codex credits Input Cached input Output Reasoning Cache writes
gpt‑6.1‑sol review (codex openai gpt‑6.1‑sol medium) ×5 $0.15 3.72 116K 65.9K 4.3K 1.8K 0
gpt‑6.1‑sol review (codex openai gpt‑6.1‑sol) $0.05 1.15 91K 77.1K 1.1K 128 0
anthropic UNKNOWN claude‑fable‑5‑1 UNKNOWN integration $2.65 — 243K 0 4.3K — 0
anthropic UNKNOWN claude‑fable‑5‑1 medium integration $10.95 — 2K 15.5M 49.8K 15.5K 228K
anthropic UNKNOWN claude‑fable‑5‑2 medium integration $16.35 — 70 10M 28.8K 5.9K 825K
gpt‑6‑astra integration $61.63 1540.86 49.9M 49.4M 160K 72.6K 0
Total $91.79 1545.73+

— not reported; + some usage not reported, so the amount is a minimum.

Understand the columns and accounting rules.

How each report was measured and priced

gpt‑6.1‑sol review ×4

Rate card: installed Shaka.

Standard Codex credit and OpenAI API-equivalent rates, verified 2026-09-29.

Sources: Codex credit rates, GPT-6.1 Sol, and prompt-cache accounting.

Local adversarial reviewer usage: included below. External reviewer/tool-model usage: UNKNOWN.

Native usage is PARTIAL. Scope: all turns in selected sources.

gpt‑6‑astra integration

Rate card: installed Shaka.

Standard Codex credit and OpenAI API-equivalent rates, verified 2026-09-29.

Sources: Codex credit rates, Astra, and prompt-cache accounting.

Local adversarial reviewer usage: UNKNOWN. External reviewer/tool-model usage: UNKNOWN.

Native usage is PARTIAL. Scope: responses at or after 2026-11-11T04:20:00Z (whole-second sources include the cutoff second).

anthropic UNKNOWN claude‑fable‑5‑1 medium integration, anthropic UNKNOWN claude‑fable‑5‑1 UNKNOWN integration, anthropic UNKNOWN claude‑fable‑5‑2 medium integration

Rate card: installed Shaka.

Anthropic API list prices, verified 2026-11-12.

Sources: Anthropic pricing.

Local adversarial reviewer usage: not in this report. Hosted reviewer and tool-model usage is not counted.

Native usage is PARTIAL. Scope: all turns in selected sources.

gpt‑6.1‑sol review ×2

Rate card: installed Shaka.

Standard Codex credit and OpenAI API-equivalent rates, verified 2026-09-29.

Sources: Codex credit rates, GPT-6.1 Sol, and prompt-cache accounting.

Local adversarial reviewer usage: included below. Hosted reviewer and tool-model usage is not counted.

Native usage is PARTIAL. Scope: all turns in selected sources.

Earlier implementation attribution is partial. The Claude Code integration record covers this whole chat, including investigation and the 90de508 trim. No productivity or cost advantage is claimed.

Timings · 22d 11h between checkpoints

This head: Prompt to CI not recorded · CI to ready pending · Ready to merged pending

Totals: 22d 11h between checkpoints

10-22 21:39 to 11-14 08:57 UTC (22d 11h)
                       21:39        12:28        03:18        18:07
PR            22d 11h  ====================================================
Review openai     38s                                                     #
Checkpoint        48s                  #                                  #

- before the PR  = PR open  . waiting on a person  # step  x failed
Stretch From To Time
Before the pull request 2026-10-22 21:39 2026-10-22 21:43 (opened) 4m
Between checkpoints 2026-10-22 21:43 2026-11-14 08:57 (this update) 22d 11h so far

Times are UTC wall-clock time. A wait runs from when an attention label goes on until it comes off or the pull request merges or closes.

Time before first recorded validation: unavailable; task start was not recorded.

Measured steps: Product checkpoint 48s (3 runs) · Local review 38s (1 run)

Models: openai · gpt-6.1-sol · medium; openai · Machines: m5

Failed or unfinished steps:

Step Started Time Result Model Machine
Product checkpoint 2026-11-14 08:54 1s not completed (exit 1) openai · gpt-6.1-sol · medium m5

Each measured step is a helper run recorded on the machine that ran it. A step logged on a machine that never updated this description is missing, so the totals can be partial. A step can overlap the stretches above.

Agent time: 39m working in 1 session: model 19m · git/GitHub 9m 38s · other shell 5m 36s · Shaka helper 2m 27s · review 1m 34s · browser/MCP 13s. Waiting on a person: 0s on questions, 367h 53m between turns.

Understand the timings.

Execution details
Field Value
Task source pull_request #781
Shaka skill version 4e4009d
Recommended model / effort claude-fable-5-2 / medium
Active model / effort claude-fable-5-2 / medium
Shaka settings used

No matching check records supplied. Rerun missing validation or review to record them.

Only the listed runs are covered. Selecting settings does not show that a check ran.

Current settings: UNKNOWN; Shaka installation: version UNKNOWN, installation source unavailable (Shaka skill version under Execution details)

Skills used
Skill Source Revision Phase Contribution Evidence Corroboration
writing-for-agents mattpocock/skills UNKNOWN implementation Keep conditional closeout instructions together Agent-reported —

Agent-reported use is the agent’s account. The agent selects Corroborated when a record confirms invocation or loading. Shaka does not check that record or instruction compliance. Completeness is not verified.

WIP Details
Field Value
Owner m5 · Claude Code · q4n8
Chat name PLUG PR #781 · maintenance handoff checkpoint
Chat link claude://claude.ai/epitaxy/local_7703bc58-a89e-4d89-afff-14425546d4cf
Last observed activity 2026-11-14 08:57 UTC
Revision jg-codex/verification-maintenance-handoff @ 90de508
Workspace Withheld: settings not read; rerun description with --ref
Unfinished work none
Stopped because paused
Merge authority ask
State Trimmed head reviewed and checkpointed; draft; upstream Validate plugins awaits maintainer approval
Next action /shaka #781

Collection: alias available; host available; tag available; thread available.

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Note

Medium Risk
Changes agent closeout instructions for maintenance runs (commits/PR vs handoff), which affects delivery workflow but leaves verification steps and edit scope unchanged.

Overview
/maintain-verification-skill closeout can hand results back to an explicit delivery owner instead of always opening a PR. Step 6 is renamed to Ship or hand back: when the user or caller (e.g. Shaka) retains delivery ownership, the agent returns outcome, coverage, commands, results, and evidence paths and does not commit or publish; standalone runs still open one PR for changed. changed wording now says corrections are ready for delivery rather than implying they already shipped. Clean owner-retained runs must still hand back the report and evidence, with “no publication needed” rather than “no handoff.”

The verify-and-ship guide documents the Shaka delegation prompt and clarifies that installing Shaka alone does not change standalone behavior.

A new evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout screen adds six JSON cases (delegated, standalone, installed-only, clean, blocked, product-regression), a Ruby runner that prompts a model in an empty temp Git repo with tools disabled, and a README for running and blind grading—measuring stated closeout only, not real publication.

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Local Adversarial Review

Reviewed revision: e6b64f4

Outcome: No open findings; closed and optional findings are in history.

Coverage: anthropic/claude: Supplied diff only; unchanged source and test execution are unavailable to this reviewer.

Usage and attribution in the PR description.

Task review budget: 6 of 6 review starts, including failed launches. Justin authorized one additional review execution, absolute total six, for the clean-result handoff repair on 2026-10-24.

Reviewed commits:

Commit Findings
038452d anthropic/claude: 4 (1 fixed, 3 documented)
08f794e anthropic/claude: 0
4dde500 anthropic/claude: 0
cee4fd3 anthropic/claude: 1 (1 documented)
b7cba01 anthropic/claude: 0
e6b64f4 anthropic/claude: 1 (1 documented)
Findings, assessments, and execution metadata

Finding details

  • F1 defect: A failed model call truncated the remaining cases. — fixed in 08f794e — Continue all six cases, retain each exit status, fail the whole screen afterward. Six-case forced-exit-7 control passed. · Reported by: anthropic/claude · last recorded at 038452d

  • F2 nit: Existing product-gap wording assumes a PR. — documented nit — Existing edit-scope rule and new delivery boundary preserve intent. · Reported by: anthropic/claude · last recorded at 038452d

  • F3 nit: CLI zero-exit error JSON requires manual inspection. — documented nit — Runner is command-agnostic; README explicitly requires checking response errors. All measured responses were parsed and had is_error false. · Reported by: anthropic/claude · last recorded at 038452d

  • F4 nit: Fresh output directories are documented rather than enforced. — documented nit — All recorded screens used separate fresh directories; README requires that. · Reported by: anthropic/claude · last recorded at 038452d

  • F5 nit: Empty Git initialization may be unnecessary. — documented nit — Retained intentionally: a prior response in a non-Git workspace invented repository setup as a prerequisite to the standalone closeout. Empty Git preserves repository context without contribution history. · Reported by: anthropic/claude · last recorded at cee4fd3

  • F6 nit: Clean-run clarification sits after run notes and repeats part of step 6 — documented nit — Optional editorial consolidation; explicit wording addresses the observed clean-result handoff ambiguity. No further repair round in this task. · Reported by: anthropic/claude · last recorded at e6b64f4

Execution metadata

Round Commit Reviewer Findings Tokens Cost
1 038452d anthropic/claude
model claude-opus-5-5
effort UNKNOWN
4 (1 fixed, 3 documented) 4 input
32,593 cached input
13,487 cache writes
3,710 output
1,861 reasoning output
$0.19 estimated
2 08f794e anthropic/claude
model claude-opus-5-5
effort UNKNOWN
0 4 input
33,003 cached input
14,125 cache writes
3,349 output
1,477 reasoning output
$0.19 estimated
3 4dde500 anthropic/claude
model claude-opus-5-5
effort UNKNOWN
0 4 input
33,093 cached input
14,302 cache writes
3,614 output
2,024 reasoning output
$0.19 estimated
4 cee4fd3 anthropic/claude
model claude-opus-5-5
effort UNKNOWN
1 (1 documented) 4 input
33,236 cached input
15,540 cache writes
4,100 output
2,417 reasoning output
$0.21 estimated
5 b7cba01 anthropic/claude
model claude-opus-5-5
effort UNKNOWN
0 6 input
57,461 cached input
16,314 cache writes
3,796 output
1,927 reasoning output
$0.22 estimated
6 e6b64f4 anthropic/claude
model claude-opus-5-5
effort UNKNOWN
1 (1 documented) 4 input
32,342 cached input
16,329 cache writes
3,526 output
1,896 reasoning output
$0.21 estimated

Prompt: Shaka default · criteria not supplied

Commit 038452d · anthropic/claude · 4 findings

Commit: 038452d pstack: hand verification maintenance back to its delivery owner

Review coverage:

Coverage excerpts may be incomplete or misidentified; inspect the original reports.

  • anthropic/claude: Supplied diff only; unchanged source and test execution are unavailable to this reviewer.

Unverified report excerpt · anthropic/claude:

UNKNOWN; inspect the original report for complete coverage limits.
Round 1 · 038452d · anthropic/claude · effort UNKNOWN · 4 findings

Coverage

  • Inspected: only the supplied diff: evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}, both copies of 06-verify-and-ship.md, and both copies of maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md.
  • Not inspected: I could not open anything in /private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka. The --restricted mode confines file tools to the working directory, so both read attempts failed. I saw none of the unchanged SKILL.md text, including steps 1–4 and their cleanup wording. I also could not check repository packaging/sync checks, CI config, or whether the CLI flags in the README exist.
  • Tests run: none. Running candidate code was not permitted.
  • Technical evidence: the change offers no reproduction. The eval only captures responses and does not grade them, so it gives no evidence of behavior before vs. after.

Repository criteria: not supplied

Findings

  1. defect — evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/run.rb:32: the runner stops at the first failing case, but the README tells you to "Capture failures and missing responses rather than discarding them" (README.md:27-28).

    • Example: the standalone case's CLI call exits non-zero (rate limit, auth expiry). Its JSON is written, then abort runs. installed-only, clean, blocked and product-regression never run and leave no record.
    • Result: one transient error cuts a 6-case screen down to 2 cases. The README procedure has no instruction for resuming.
  2. nit — pstack/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md:35 (step 5, unchanged), same in the harness copy at line 37: step 5 still says to keep a product gap "out of this PR".

    • In the new handoff path (step 6), this skill opens no PR. The rule only makes sense for the standalone path.
    • The intent is clear, but the text now assumes a PR that may not exist. "out of the corrections" would cover both paths.
  3. nit — evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/run.rb:31-33: success is judged only by status.success?.

    • The README admits the CLI can report an error in its JSON while exiting zero (README.md:21-22), yet the runner prints "response captured" in that case.
    • A check of the parsed is_error field, or just a printed warning, would stop error payloads from looking like captured responses. This is optional because the README already makes it a manual step.
  4. nit — evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/run.rb:9,28: the README says "Use a fresh output directory per run", but the runner reuses an existing directory and overwrites <id>.json.

    • If a run is cut short (see finding 1), the directory can hold leftover files from an earlier run, possibly with a different skill revision, beside the new ones.
    • Refusing a non-empty directory would enforce what the README asks for.

Observations (not counted):

  • Contract, unverifiable here: both guide copies now say maintenance "preserves evidence after cleanup", and step 6 asks for "retained evidence locations". I could not see the existing cleanup step (step 4 or earlier). If that step deletes proof artifacts, the new handoff contract contradicts it. Every eval case simply asserts that proof files survived cleanup.
  • Trust: the delegated path starts when "the user or calling workflow explicitly retains delivery ownership". Nothing says repo content or a feature map cannot make that claim, so text inside the audited repo could in principle suppress the PR. The worst outcome is a missing PR, not wider permissions, so this is low impact. The "installed workflow alone does not assign delivery ownership" clause covers the obvious mistaken trigger.
  • Tests: if the SKILL.md change is reverted, no automated check fails. The eval does not grade, has no recorded baseline, and is not wired into CI as far as the diff shows. The README says as much. These remain untested: the delegated vs. standalone branch in step 6, and whether a real run (with tools) actually skips commit/PR when delegated. The screen only measures the decision the model states.
  • Simplicity: both SKILL.md copies and both guide copies are byte-identical in their changed hunks, which suggests a mirrored tree. If a sync/generation step exists, only one copy should need hand-editing. I could not verify this.
  • Unverified flags: I could not confirm that the CLI flags in README.md:13-16 (--permission-prompts none, --restricted, --safe-mode) exist in the pinned CLI version.

REVIEWED 038452d BY anthropic/claude EFFORT UNKNOWN FINDINGS 4

Commit 08f794e · anthropic/claude · 0 findings

Commit: 08f794e Keep the complete closeout screen after a failed model call

Review coverage:

Coverage excerpts may be incomplete or misidentified; inspect the original reports.

  • anthropic/claude: Supplied diff only; unchanged source and test execution are unavailable to this reviewer.

Unverified report excerpt · anthropic/claude:

- **Inspected source:** only the supplied diff, which covers all 7 files: `evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}`, the two copies of `06-verify-and-ship.md` (`harness/pstack/claude-code/docs/guide/` and `pstack/docs/guide/`), and the two copies of `maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md` (`harness/pstack/claude-code/skills/` and `pstack/skills/`).
- **Tests run:** none. I was told not to execute candidate code, and Git isn't available to me.
- **Missing context:** I couldn't read the checkout at `/private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka`. The restricted file tools are confined to the working directory, so every read was refused. As a result:
  - I couldn't check the unchanged parts of `SKILL.md`, such as steps 1–4 and the frontmatter.
  - I couldn't find out whether a repository check keeps the `harness/` and `pstack/` copies in sync.
  - I couldn't confirm that the Claude CLI flags in the README (`--permission-prompts none`, `--restricted`, `--safe-mode`) exist in a pinned CLI version.
  - I couldn't confirm the file modes or the packaging checks.
  - I have no grading results or responses from this screen.

Repository criteria: not supplied
Round 2 · 08f794e · anthropic/claude · effort UNKNOWN · 0 findings

Coverage

  • Inspected source: only the supplied diff, which covers all 7 files: evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}, the two copies of 06-verify-and-ship.md (harness/pstack/claude-code/docs/guide/ and pstack/docs/guide/), and the two copies of maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md (harness/pstack/claude-code/skills/ and pstack/skills/).
  • Tests run: none. I was told not to execute candidate code, and Git isn't available to me.
  • Missing context: I couldn't read the checkout at /private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka. The restricted file tools are confined to the working directory, so every read was refused. As a result:
    • I couldn't check the unchanged parts of SKILL.md, such as steps 1–4 and the frontmatter.
    • I couldn't find out whether a repository check keeps the harness/ and pstack/ copies in sync.
    • I couldn't confirm that the Claude CLI flags in the README (--permission-prompts none, --restricted, --safe-mode) exist in a pinned CLI version.
    • I couldn't confirm the file modes or the packaging checks.
    • I have no grading results or responses from this screen.

Repository criteria: not supplied

Prior-round verification

  • [F1] Resolved. In evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/run.rb:34-38, a non-zero exit now records the case id in failed, writes a warning, and uses next, so the loop keeps going. Each case's prompt, stdout, stderr, and exit status are written to the output directory before the success check (run.rb:30-33). The script then aborts with the list of failed ids after all cases run (run.rb:40). One case failing no longer cuts off the remaining cases.
    • Caveat: if Open3.capture3 raises, for example Errno::ENOENT when the command isn't on the path, the loop still stops. That error happens on the first case and affects every case equally, so it doesn't bring back the original bug of losing later cases after one failed model call.
  • [F2], [F3], [F4] are documented nits that this change didn't make worse. SKILL.md:35 still says "this PR". The README still asks readers to check zero-exit errors by hand (README:22) and still documents fresh output directories instead of enforcing them (README:19). I'm not raising them again.

Findings

no findings

Fresh-pass observations (not classed findings)

  • Correctness and contract: Both copies of SKILL.md and both copies of the guide get identical hunks, so the two trees agree with each other.
    • The outcome definition ("ready for delivery through step 6") matches the new step 6.
    • The guide sentence "Standalone runs ship those corrections in one PR" matches the Otherwise branch of step 6.
    • The "installed workflow alone does not assign delivery ownership" rule appears in the skill, the guide, and the installed-only case.
    • The blocked wording ("a proven fix could not ship safely") still assumes the skill ships the fix. In a hand-back run the owner ships, but the hand-back branch covers blocked outcomes too, so the behavior isn't ambiguous.
  • Security and trust: No gate is weakened. The new branch only skips commits and PRs when ownership is explicitly kept. It leaves the edit scope, the source wave and live pass, re-proofs, and cleanup unchanged (SKILL.md:39). The runner gives the model no tools and keeps raw output outside Git by convention.
    • Residual: a run note or tool output claiming "X owns delivery" could stop a PR from being opened, leaving the changes uncommitted. That fails safe, since nothing gets published.
  • Tests: No automated test fails if the SKILL.md change is reverted. The eval is a manual, ungraded screen; per README:4-7 and :31-35 it captures responses but doesn't grade them. Untested:
    • the hand-back behavior itself
    • keeping the two copies in sync, unless an existing packaging check does this (couldn't verify)
    • whether the README's CLI invocation actually runs
  • Technical evidence: The change comes with no run results. Whether the revised skill makes the expected closeout decisions on the six cases is therefore unshown; the README itself says one screen can't establish this.
  • Simplicity: Nothing could be removed without losing behavior.

REVIEWED 08f794e BY anthropic/claude EFFORT UNKNOWN FINDINGS 0

Commit 4dde500 · anthropic/claude · 0 findings

Commit: 4dde500 Keep clean-run evidence paths and publication status explicit

Review coverage:

Coverage excerpts may be incomplete or misidentified; inspect the original reports.

  • anthropic/claude: Supplied diff only; unchanged source and test execution are unavailable to this reviewer.

Unverified report excerpt · anthropic/claude:

- **What I inspected:** only the supplied diff. That covers `evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}`, both copies of `maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md` (`pstack/` and `harness/pstack/claude-code/`), and both copies of `docs/guide/06-verify-and-ship.md`.
- **Checkout not read:** I tried to read `/private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka`, but the restricted mode only lets my file tools open the working directory, so every read was rejected. I could not see the parts of `SKILL.md` outside the diff hunks (frontmatter and steps 1–4, including the cleanup step), the repository checks, or any check that keeps the two copies in sync.
- **Tests run:** none. I did not execute `run.rb` or any candidate code, as instructed.
- **Missing context:** the exact wording of the cleanup step, whether a repository check compares the `pstack/` and `harness/` copies, and any graded run results.

Repository criteria: not supplied
Round 3 · 4dde500 · anthropic/claude · effort UNKNOWN · 0 findings

Coverage

  • What I inspected: only the supplied diff. That covers evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}, both copies of maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md (pstack/ and harness/pstack/claude-code/), and both copies of docs/guide/06-verify-and-ship.md.
  • Checkout not read: I tried to read /private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka, but the restricted mode only lets my file tools open the working directory, so every read was rejected. I could not see the parts of SKILL.md outside the diff hunks (frontmatter and steps 1–4, including the cleanup step), the repository checks, or any check that keeps the two copies in sync.
  • Tests run: none. I did not execute run.rb or any candidate code, as instructed.
  • Missing context: the exact wording of the cleanup step, whether a repository check compares the pstack/ and harness/ copies, and any graded run results.

Repository criteria: not supplied

Prior-round confirmation

  • [F1] fixed and confirmed. A failed command now records the case ID and moves on to the next case (next). Once the loop ends, abort lists all failed cases (run.rb:33-40), and each case's output is written before its status is checked (run.rb:29-32). A failing model call no longer stops the remaining cases.
  • [F2], [F3], [F4] are documented nits. The new commit doesn't make them worse. Step 5 still says "keep it out of this PR", which is the F2 wording and was already accepted.

New commit 4dde500: step 6 now says "Include the evidence paths even for clean or blocked outcomes" and "until then, the corrections are ready, not shipped". This matches the clean and blocked case criteria (cases.json), which ask for evidence to be returned to Shaka. It also matches the updated changed definition ("ready for delivery through step 6"). I found no conflict.

Findings

No findings.

Observations (not counted as findings):

  • Cleanup vs. kept evidence (unverified). Step 6 and the guide both say evidence survives cleanup ("retained evidence locations", "preserves evidence after cleanup"). Step 6 also says the delegated path does not change cleanup. I couldn't see the cleanup step in steps 1–4. If it deletes proof artifacts, the handoff would point at evidence that no longer exists. Someone with checkout access should confirm the cleanup step keeps proof files.
  • Evidence paths in standalone runs. The "include evidence paths for clean or blocked" sentence sits in the delegated branch of step 6. The standalone clean/blocked branch only asks to "report the outcome and coverage honestly". That looks intentional, since there is no owner to hand evidence to, so it is not a defect.
  • No automated regression test. Nothing fails automatically if this change is reverted. The eval only captures responses: a model reply plus a manual, independent grading step, which the README says is "not a passing grade". It is an evaluation aid, not a gate. The two copies of SKILL.md and of the guide match each other in this diff; I couldn't tell whether a repository check enforces that.
  • Security: no concerns. run.rb passes the command as an argument array to Open3.capture3, so no shell is involved. The documented invocation runs the CLI with no tools, plan permission mode and --restricted. No permissions or gates are widened.

REVIEWED 4dde500 BY anthropic/claude EFFORT UNKNOWN FINDINGS 0

Commit cee4fd3 · anthropic/claude · 1 finding

Commit: cee4fd3 Isolate closeout samples from contribution checkout history

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  • anthropic/claude: Supplied diff only; unchanged source and test execution are unavailable to this reviewer.

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- **Inspected:** only the supplied diff (`9b93e81…cee4fd3`). That covers `evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}`, both copies of `06-verify-and-ship.md`, and both copies of `maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md`.
- **Tests run:** none. I had no way to run Git or the candidate code, and I did not execute `run.rb`.
- **Missing context:**
  - I couldn't read the checkout at `/private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka`, because the restricted file tools only allow the working directory.
  - I couldn't see what generates or checks the harness copy against the `pstack/` copy.
  - I couldn't confirm that the Claude CLI flags in the README (`--permission-prompts none`, `--restricted`, `--safe-mode`) exist.
  - I couldn't see the commit messages between 4dde500 and 08f794e, or the PR description.

Repository criteria: not supplied
Round 4 · cee4fd3 · anthropic/claude · effort UNKNOWN · 1 finding

Coverage

  • Inspected: only the supplied diff (9b93e81…cee4fd3). That covers evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}, both copies of 06-verify-and-ship.md, and both copies of maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md.
  • Tests run: none. I had no way to run Git or the candidate code, and I did not execute run.rb.
  • Missing context:
    • I couldn't read the checkout at /private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka, because the restricted file tools only allow the working directory.
    • I couldn't see what generates or checks the harness copy against the pstack/ copy.
    • I couldn't confirm that the Claude CLI flags in the README (--permission-prompts none, --restricted, --safe-mode) exist.
    • I couldn't see the commit messages between 4dde500 and 08f794e, or the PR description.

Repository criteria: not supplied

Prior-round confirmation

  • [F1] Resolved. run.rb:37-41 now records a failed case, prints a warning, and continues with next. Each case's output is written before the status check (run.rb:33-36), so failed cases still keep their prompt, stdout, stderr and exit status. run.rb:45 then exits non-zero and lists every failed case. One failed call no longer stops the rest.
  • [F2], [F3], [F4]: these were documented nits. The new commit doesn't make them worse, so I'm not raising them again.

Findings

  1. nit — evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/run.rb:13-15: git init may not be needed. The goal stated in README.md:7-8 is that checkout context can't reveal the intended change. Running in a new empty temp directory from Dir.mktmpdir already gives that, Git or not. The git init adds a Git dependency (README line 11) and a failure path (abort error). The only possible gain is making "this repository" and the standalone "one PR" outcome look plausible to the model, and the README doesn't say that. Either drop the three lines and the Git prerequisite, or add one sentence saying the empty repo is there on purpose for realism.

Observations (not counted)

  • Isolation covers only the project. The temp workspace keeps out project-level context, but Claude Code can still load user-level instructions, memory or skills from ~/.claude. That depends on whether --safe-mode or --restricted suppress them, which I couldn't check. The README only claims to isolate checkout context, so it is accurate as written. Still, the result can vary with the operator's own setup.
  • All six cases share one workspace (run.rb:13). With --tools '' the model can't write files, so cases shouldn't leak into each other. If someone runs the script with a different command that allows tools, an earlier case could leave files that later cases see.
  • The blocked definition still assumes the skill ships. SKILL.md:17 (and harness :18) still says "a proven fix could not ship safely". In hand-back mode the skill doesn't ship anything. This is old text of the same kind as F2, and this change didn't make it worse.
  • Nothing automated fails if this is reverted. If the step-6 wording is reverted, no automated check fails. The eval only captures responses, grading is manual, and the PR's grading results aren't in the diff. Untested:
    • that a model follows the hand-back path when told the owner retains delivery;
    • that it doesn't infer ownership just because Shaka is installed;
    • that the harness copy and the pstack/ copy stay identical. Their step-1 to step-6 edits match in this diff, but I couldn't see any check that enforces it.
  • The contract text is consistent. The changed bullet, step 6, and the guide paragraph in both copies all now say the same thing: standalone runs open one PR, owner-retained runs hand back, and installation alone doesn't assign ownership. I found no place where one restates the rule differently.
  • Security and trust: no gate is weakened. The skill's edit scope and the ban on product-code edits are unchanged, and step 6 says so explicitly. The eval script passes the CLI command through from the operator's own arguments.

REVIEWED cee4fd3 BY anthropic/claude EFFORT UNKNOWN FINDINGS 1

Commit b7cba01 · anthropic/claude · 0 findings

Commit: b7cba01 Run tool-disabled closeout samples outside plan mode

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Unverified report excerpt · anthropic/claude:

- **Inspected:** only the diff you supplied. That covers `evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}`, both copies of `06-verify-and-ship.md` (pstack and harness, which are identical), and both copies of `maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md`.
- **Missing context:**
  - I couldn't open the checkout at `/private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka`. Restricted mode limits file tools to a separate working directory, so I couldn't read the unchanged parts of either SKILL.md, the repo's packaging and sync checks, or the other skills that call this one.
  - I couldn't run Git, so I couldn't view commit b7cba01 alone. I reviewed it through the full diff, where the only visible trace is the README's `claude` command line.
  - I didn't check the CLI flags (`--permission-prompts none`, `--restricted`, `--safe-mode`, the trailing `-`) against any Claude Code CLI version.
- **Tests run:** none. I didn't execute anything, including `run.rb`.

Repository criteria: not supplied
Round 5 · b7cba01 · anthropic/claude · effort UNKNOWN · 0 findings

Coverage

  • Inspected: only the diff you supplied. That covers evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}, both copies of 06-verify-and-ship.md (pstack and harness, which are identical), and both copies of maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md.
  • Missing context:
    • I couldn't open the checkout at /private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka. Restricted mode limits file tools to a separate working directory, so I couldn't read the unchanged parts of either SKILL.md, the repo's packaging and sync checks, or the other skills that call this one.
    • I couldn't run Git, so I couldn't view commit b7cba01 alone. I reviewed it through the full diff, where the only visible trace is the README's claude command line.
    • I didn't check the CLI flags (--permission-prompts none, --restricted, --safe-mode, the trailing -) against any Claude Code CLI version.
  • Tests run: none. I didn't execute anything, including run.rb.

Repository criteria: not supplied

Prior rounds

  • [F1] resolved. In run.rb:38-42, a non-zero exit now saves the output, adds the id to failed, prints a warning, and moves on to the next case (next). The script only aborts after the loop ends (run.rb:45), so later cases are no longer cut off. One gap remains: if the command can't start at all (e.g., Errno::ENOENT for a missing executable), capture3 raises and the loop stops. That fails every case the same way, so no results are silently lost, and I'm not reopening F1.
  • [F2]–[F5] are documented nits. The diff doesn't make any of them worse. SKILL.md step 5 ("keep it out of this PR") and the README ("in the PR") are unchanged in substance.

Findings

No findings.

Observations (unclassed, not counted):

  1. Unverified CLI flags (README.md:14-17). The latest commit changes the documented command to --permission-mode default so samples don't pick up plan-mode instructions. I couldn't confirm that --permission-prompts none and --safe-mode exist, or that the trailing - makes -p read the prompt from stdin rather than sending a literal -. If any of these are wrong, each case fails or produces something off-target, though F1's fix means the failure is recorded rather than lost. The evidence needed is one captured delegated.json from this exact command showing the full prompt was received.
  2. User-level config may leak (README.md:6-8). The temporary Git workspace keeps checkout context out, but user-level settings or a global CLAUDE.md could still reach the model unless --safe-mode/--restricted exclude them. The README's claim is limited to "checkout context", so it is accurate as written. The leftover risk is contamination, which I'm inferring, not something I observed.
  3. No timeout (run.rb:33). Open3.capture3 has no timeout, so a model call that hangs stalls the whole run. This is manual tooling, so it's an observation only.
  4. Tests. No automated test fails if the SKILL.md handoff text is reverted. The eval is manual and graded by a separate person, and the README says so (README.md:33-37). Untested:
    • that cases.json parses and its ids are unique;
    • that the pstack and harness copies of the SKILL.md step-6 text stay identical. I assume the repo's packaging checks cover this, but couldn't confirm.
  5. Contract consistency. The outcome list (SKILL.md:16) now defers to step 6. Step 6 tells the agent to re-read changed files before either branch, keeps the PR path for standalone runs, and says installing Shaka alone doesn't make it the delivery owner. Both guide copies say the same thing. I found no wording that contradicts the code or the other docs. "blocked — … a proven fix could not ship safely" reads slightly off when the run is handed back, but it is not a contradiction.

REVIEWED b7cba01 BY anthropic/claude EFFORT UNKNOWN FINDINGS 0

Commit e6b64f4 · anthropic/claude · 1 finding

Commit: e6b64f4 Clarify clean verification reports still return to delivery owner

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- **Inspected:** only the supplied diff (BASE 9b93e81 → HEAD e6b64f4): `evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}`, both copies of `06-verify-and-ship.md`, and both copies of `maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md`.
- **Tests run:** none. I could not run Git or candidate code. The file tools are restricted to the working directory, so both my reads of `/private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka` were refused.
- **Missing context:**
  - The full SKILL.md files, including frontmatter: I can't check whether the `description` still says "one PR".
  - Other repository docs or indexes that may restate the `changed` = "one PR" rule.
  - Any repository check that keeps the `pstack/` and `harness/pstack/claude-code/` copies in sync.
  - The exact text of b7cba01..e6b64f4, beyond what the HEAD diff shows.

Repository criteria: not supplied
Round 6 · e6b64f4 · anthropic/claude · effort UNKNOWN · 1 finding

Coverage

  • Inspected: only the supplied diff (BASE 9b93e81 → HEAD e6b64f4): evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/{README.md,cases.json,run.rb}, both copies of 06-verify-and-ship.md, and both copies of maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md.
  • Tests run: none. I could not run Git or candidate code. The file tools are restricted to the working directory, so both my reads of /private/tmp/cursor-plugins-shaka were refused.
  • Missing context:
    • The full SKILL.md files, including frontmatter: I can't check whether the description still says "one PR".
    • Other repository docs or indexes that may restate the changed = "one PR" rule.
    • Any repository check that keeps the pstack/ and harness/pstack/claude-code/ copies in sync.
    • The exact text of b7cba01..e6b64f4, beyond what the HEAD diff shows.

Repository criteria: not supplied

Prior-round confirmation

  • F1 (failed model call truncated the remaining cases): resolved. In evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/run.rb:38-42, a non-zero exit now records the id in failed, warns, and moves on with next. The script aborts only after the loop (run.rb:45), and output is written for every case before the status check (run.rb:34-37). The script still stops on an exception, such as Errno::ENOENT when the command doesn't exist. That stops every case equally rather than cutting off the rest of a partly successful run, so it isn't the same finding.
  • F2–F5: documented nits. This change doesn't make any of them worse, so they are not raised again.

Findings

  1. nit — pstack/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md:40-42 (same at harness/pstack/claude-code/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md:42-44): the paragraph added in e6b64f4 about owner-retained clean runs is attached after the "Keep concise run notes" paragraph, not inside step 6, the closeout rule it explains.
    • It is also hard-wrapped, while the rest of the file uses one line per paragraph.
    • Most of it repeats step 6, which already says to "Include the evidence paths even for clean or blocked outcomes" and to return the outcome to the owner. The only new part is the wording "no publication is needed, rather than that no handoff is needed".
    • If that sentence were folded into step 6, the separate paragraph could go with no change in behavior. As placed, a reader working through the numbered procedure may miss it.

Observations (unclassed):

  • Tests: nothing automated fails if this change is reverted. The eval only captures responses (run.rb:43, "not graded"), and grading is manual by design (README). The handoff, standalone, and installed-only branches of step 6 are covered only by the screen's stated decisions, never executed. The README already says this, so it is a known limit, not a new defect.
  • Contract consistency: within the diff, the changed bullet ("ready for delivery through step 6"), step 6, both guide copies ("Standalone runs ship those corrections in one PR"; "Merely installing Shaka does not change a standalone maintenance run"), and the installed-only case all agree. I couldn't check restatements outside the diff (see Missing context).
  • Mirrored copies: the two SKILL.md hunks and the two guide hunks are identical in content; only their line offsets differ.
  • Security and trust: no gate is weakened. run.rb sends the prompt on stdin to an operator-supplied command, run inside an empty temporary Git directory. The documented invocation uses --tools '' and --restricted. The script doesn't enforce that the raw-prompt output goes outside the repository; that is the documented F4 concern, unchanged.

REVIEWED e6b64f4 BY anthropic/claude EFFORT UNKNOWN FINDINGS 1

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Superseded — read the current walkthrough: #781 (review)

Walkthrough for commit `b7cba01`

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Code Walkthrough

Maintenance returns corrections and evidence when its caller explicitly owns delivery, while standalone runs still open one PR.

Closeout ownership

The changed outcome and closeout preserve source review, live coverage, edit scope and cleanup. Delegated runs return evidence even when clean or blocked. Installation alone does not assign ownership. The guide uses Shaka as an example; no Shaka dependency is added. Claude copies are generated from these sources.

Behavioral screen

The runner sends six cases to a tool-disabled model from an empty temporary Git workspace. It retains failures and continues the screen. The protocol keeps criteria out of model prompts and calls for independent grading. Final grading: 5/6 cases, 11/12 criteria. Clean coverage and artifact paths were reported, but its wording said nothing remained to hand off for delivery; that failed grade remains disclosed.

Validation, limits and rollback

Plugin validation, docs navigation and generated-tree checks passed. Script tests: 29 pass, 38 TLC-dependent skips, no failures. Six-case failure-retention and isolation controls passed. Independent technical review found no new issues on the final head. Four optional nits remain documented. This screen does not execute maintenance, publication or artifact retention; no end-to-end interoperability claim is made. Reverting restores unconditional closeout; no persistent state changes.

Walkthrough for commit b7cba01. This is a COMMENT, not an approval.

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Superseded — read the current checkpoint: #781 (comment)

Earlier checkpoint

Checkpoint for b7cba01

Recommendation: Merge after maintainer decision

The bounded change is useful, but the final screen retains a clean-result handoff ambiguity and upstream CI awaits approval.

Next: Review the clean-result wording and decide whether to accept this response-only limitation or request further refinement; a repository maintainer must approve and pass CI before merge.

Reviewer verdict: Proceed.

Unresolved concerns:

  • The clean-case response retained coverage and evidence paths but ambiguously rejected a delivery handoff. An owning workflow could miss that the clean result still needs acknowledgment.

Verification: Adequate with accepted gaps.

  • Weakest claim: Delegated maintenance will actually leave publication to its owner while retaining evidence after cleanup; the screen checks stated decisions only.
  • Next check: Observe one delegated maintenance run through cleanup and handoff, confirming retained artifacts and no independent publication.
Supporting analysis and execution details

Reviewer summary: Maintenance can return corrections and evidence to an explicit delivery owner without adding integration machinery. The screen supports the ownership distinction, but clean-result handoff wording remains ambiguous; actual publication restraint and artifact retention were not exercised. Usage frequency and measured outcome improvement are unknown.

Explicit delivery ownership resolves competing publication responsibilities while preserving standalone publication and the preceding maintenance requirements.

Seven files match the planned instructions, example, generated copies, and behavioral screen. No dependency, configuration, or adapter was added.

Reported repairs address evaluation integrity rather than an expanding product design. Commit and review-round totals are unknown.

The screen reaches the ownership decisions central to the safety claim. Its limitations are acceptable for this bounded instruction change.

Alternative considered: A caller-only override would require each workflow to resolve the skill's unconditional publication instruction. The shared conditional provides that contract once.

observed model: UNKNOWN; configured model: gpt-6.1-sol · recorded effort: medium · prompt: Shaka default

Native usage (openai · gpt-6.1-sol · UNKNOWN · medium), 1 response: 20,442 input, 12,288 cached input, 0 cache writes, 618 output, 245 reasoning output, 21,060 total.

Ruby checked this report's format and commit; the reviewer judged value, not correctness. Required checks, reviews, and merge authority still apply.

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Superseded — read the current walkthrough: #781 (review)

Walkthrough for commit `e6b64f4`

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Code Walkthrough

Maintenance returns corrections and evidence when its caller explicitly owns delivery, while standalone runs still open one PR.

Closeout ownership

The changed outcome and closeout preserve source review, live coverage, edit scope and cleanup. Delegated runs return evidence even when clean or blocked. Installation alone does not assign ownership. The guide uses Shaka as an example; no Shaka dependency is added. Claude copies are generated from these sources.

Behavioral screen

The runner captures six tool-disabled responses from an empty temporary Git workspace, retains failures, and withholds grading criteria. Earlier independent grading passed 5/6 cases and 11/12 criteria. After the clean-result clarification, the focused clean rerun explicitly returned its report and three evidence paths to Shaka; both criteria pass by author assessment. This is not a combined new six-case grade.

Validation, limits and rollback

Plugin, docs, generated-tree and whitespace checks passed. Earlier script tests: 29 pass, 38 TLC-dependent skips, no failures. Sixth independent technical review found no defects or risks; optional editorial nits remain documented. The screen measures stated closeout decisions, not actual publication restraint or artifact retention. The prior checkpoint covers b7cba01 and needs reassessment before merge readiness.

Walkthrough for commit e6b64f4. This is a COMMENT, not an approval.

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Superseded — read the current checkpoint: #781 (comment)

Earlier checkpoint

Checkpoint for e6b64f4

Recommendation: Merge

The repaired closeout instruction returns clean and changed results to an explicit delivery owner, the current-head checkpoint raised no concern, and the six-run review history is closed.

Next: cursor/plugins maintainer approves the pending Validate plugins workflow run on e6b64f4.

Reviewer verdict: Proceed, no unresolved concerns.

Verification: Adequate with accepted gaps.

  • Weakest claim: An actual delegated run preserves evidence through cleanup and leaves publication to its owner; the screen measures responses only.
  • Next check: Observe one delegated maintenance run through cleanup and handoff, confirming retained evidence and no maintenance-owned publication.
Supporting analysis and execution details

Reviewer summary: Maintenance can return corrections and evidence to an explicitly named delivery owner while preserving standalone publication. Verification supports the closeout wording; actual publication restraint and end-to-end handoff remain untested.

Explicit delivery ownership resolves competing publication instructions without adding dependencies, automatic routing, or changes to maintenance scope.

The changed files match the planned instructions, example, generated copies, and behavioral screen. Six review executions found bounded repairs, without evidence of an approach problem.

The screen supports closeout decisions, including standalone publication. The focused repair check supports clean reporting; usage frequency and measured benefit remain unknown.

Alternative considered: Caller-specific overrides could avoid this change, but would lose the shared evidence-return contract and consistent standalone fallback. The small conditional instruction is justified.

observed model: UNKNOWN; configured model: gpt-6.1-sol · recorded effort: medium · prompt: Shaka default

Native usage (openai · gpt-6.1-sol · UNKNOWN · medium), 1 response: 21,070 input, 12,288 cached input, 0 cache writes, 413 output, 101 reasoning output, 21,483 total.

Ruby checked this report's format and commit; the reviewer judged value, not correctness. Required checks, reviews, and merge authority still apply.

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pstack: hand verification maintenance back to its delivery owner (#781)
Maintenance currently owns PR publication even when a caller already
owns delivery. Step 6 of maintain-verification-skill becomes "Ship or
hand back": when the user or calling workflow explicitly retains
delivery ownership, the agent returns the outcome, changed files,
coverage, commands, results, and evidence paths to that owner and leaves
commits and publication to it. Clean owner-retained runs still return
their report and evidence. Standalone runs keep opening one PR for
changed results. The verify-and-ship guide documents the Shaka
delegation prompt as a worked example; the Claude copies are
regenerated. A six-case, response-only behavioral screen under
evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout checks stated closeout decisions.

Brings the branch up to date with upstream pstack 0.15.36. The merge
had no conflicts; this PR's changes to maintain-verification-skill and
the verify-and-ship guide are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* origin/main: (65 commits)
  feat(third_party): add Tesla plugin
  tailscale: drop the removed tag:grokbot sign-in from the README.
  tailscale: describe one-click personal tailnets and the bot computer path.
  X MCP guide: name edit_options in Posting step 4
  X MCP guide: pasted PIN, community posts, source regions, edit-then-post approval
  tailscale: drop the tag:grokbot sign-in and cover the bot computer path.
  X MCP guide: tighten post approval, broadcast update and 5xx backoff (from A/B eval)
  Fix Errors anchor in X MCP guide
  Trim X MCP guide skill to a minimal, additive reference
  X guide: a host's draft card is the approval for create_posts
  X plugin: posting with create_posts and tweet.write
  feat(lark-base): add the Lark Base REST MCP plugin
  Update the Gopuff logo
  Add Questrade plugin (third_party/questrade)
  business-central: set category to finance-and-legal
  Add delivery speed and more categories to Gopuff plugin keywords
  Update Gopuff plugin description, keywords and tags
  Add Business Central logo
  Add Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central plugin
  Add OnePay plugin (third_party/onepay)
  ...
justin808 added a commit to shakacode/shaka that referenced this pull request Nov 6, 2026
Shaka users who want pstack get a Setup page, docs/pstack.md, that
installs it beside Shaka in Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex and keeps it
current. The page gives Claude Code's third-party marketplace update
steps, a prompt that keeps pstack's maintenance results inside a Shaka
task, optional steps for trying the cursor/plugins#781 branch, and a
prompt for building a personal skill-pack updater. Working with Shaka
links the page, the sidebar lists it under Setup, and the changelog
records it.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Live maintenance comparison for 3cfd5adf9dfd7632f1066c30f41c6366e8869c5d completed on flagship 1473c4b2106eb5cf9e96a9286c8f91819f7a108a, using the unchanged verification skill from flagship PR #87.

Both isolated worktrees began with the same uncommitted one-line drift: the create helper selected Create task instead of the real Add task button. Both loaded pstack from a disposable copy of this PR head; the installed pin was preserved.

Observation Delegated: Shaka owns delivery Standalone: no delivery owner
Before correction Create failed, exit 1 Same failure, exit 1
After correction 5 features, 41 checks passed 5 features, 41 checks passed
Coverage Board, create, update, delete, streaming Same
Cleanup Exit 0; owned processes stopped; ports free Same
Final Git HEAD/refs unchanged; clean against pristine HEAD HEAD/refs unchanged; one delete-recipe wording correction remains
Closeout Returned outcome, files, coverage/gaps, commands/results and retained evidence to Shaka Corrections ready; publication blocked; one-PR action/body drafted
Publication No commit, push or PR None; actual PR creation unverified

Commands: verify-flagship launch --mode static, doctor, failing drive create, doctor, reseed, then corrected drive create, drive board, drive update, drive delete, drive slow, final doctor and cleanup. Each arm used one healthy instance for its complete live pass, with Ruby 3.4.9 and Node 24.8.0.

Evidence was copied outside both worktrees and verified after application cleanup and worktree removal: five passing result files plus screenshots, ARIA snapshots, network records and launch logs per arm. Reports retain exact commands, exits, patches and hashes privately; no raw artifacts are published here.

Limits: one unblinded run per arm, with different source-reader concurrency. Standalone additionally corrected a delete-recipe sentence that delegated inspection missed. The uncommitted fixture means its repair restores pristine HEAD; a real selector-fix publication needs a committed fixture baseline. No authorized scratch publication destination was established, so the expressly authorized fallback was used. The failed-create harness omitted JSON artifacts after an unhandled timeout; logs and screenshots preserve the failure. Both initial nonpersistent launches failed ownership checks and were cleaned before successful kept-open PTY launches.

The six-execution technical review ledger is unchanged. No additional technical review ran. Validate plugins still requires upstream maintainer action at this head. Merge and auto-merge remain off.

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Superseded — read the current checkpoint: #781 (comment)

Earlier checkpoint

Checkpoint for 3cfd5ad

Recommendation: Revise before merge

The ownership rule remains narrowly justified, but actual publication behavior is unverified.

Next: Establish an authorized scratch destination with a committed fixture baseline, then prove the delivery paths requested by the reviewer.

Reviewer verdict: Do not merge.

Unresolved concerns:

  • Step 6 governs publication, but the live handoff used a direct ownership instruction and left no correction to publish. The settings-bound Shaka handoff remains unexercised.
  • The standalone run left a one-line correction and stopped at its intended action. The evidence does not establish that the workflow creates exactly one PR.

Verification: Inadequate.

  • Weakest claim: The ownership split works through actual delivery. The comparison used a direct instruction and stopped before standalone publication. Clean and blocked outcomes lack fresh live trials, 67 TLC-dependent tests were skipped, and Validate plugins ran no jobs at this head.
  • Next check: Run the same durable correction through a settings-bound Shaka task and a standalone task. Confirm the delegated worker returns the correction and proof without publishing, and the standalone run opens exactly one PR.

Risk: High. High risk is meant for a person to merge after a careful review that starts with the verification: does the evidence prove the change works, before the code?

  • The closeout rule determines which workflow may commit and publish shared repository changes.
  • Reverting the skill cannot retract a disclosure from a PR already published to the wrong destination.

With merge.auto_merge_max_risk: low, an agent merges a low rating; a person merges the rest.

Supporting analysis and execution details

Reviewer summary: Verification maintenance now returns corrections and evidence to an explicit delivery owner. A local run showed the handoff, while actual publication behavior and the frequency of ownership conflicts remain unknown.

Start with pstack/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md. Explicit ownership resolves the publication conflict without adding a Shaka dependency or configuration.

The two live arms each passed 41 checks after repairing the selector. The delegated run retained evidence after cleanup and left Git refs unchanged.

The seven files match the planned skill, guide, generated copies, and screen under evals/pstack/maintenance-closeout/. Six review executions yielded one runner repair and one focused rerun, with no sign of repeated design rework.

Alternative considered: Keep the explicit ownership rule. A per-run override would avoid maintaining the shared rule, but callers would have to restate both publication authority and the evidence to return. The single local comparison gives no basis for accepting that burden.

observed model: UNKNOWN; configured model: gpt-6.1-sol · recorded effort: medium · prompt: Shaka default

Native usage (openai · gpt-6.1-sol · UNKNOWN · medium), 1 response: 23,325 input, 13,440 cached input, 0 cache writes, 1,024 output, 484 reasoning output, 24,349 total.

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The committed-fixture rerun proves both changed-run closeouts at pstack 3cfd5adf9dfd7632f1066c30f41c6366e8869c5d: configured Shaka received a durable correction without worker publication, and standalone pstack created exactly one draft PR in an authorized private scratch repository.

Both isolated worktrees used the same committed fixture derived from flagship 1473c4b2106eb5cf9e96a9286c8f91819f7a108a, whose hosted verification passed. The existing verification skill came from merged flagship PR #87. The fixture changed the shared button selector from Add task to Create task; both runs reproduced the timeout and repaired precisely that line. The previously identified delete-recipe wording correction was already normalized in the common fixture.

Evidence Configured Shaka handoff Standalone
Ownership Shaka explicitly named delivery owner No delivery owner assigned
Source coverage Five feature readers Five feature readers
Before repair Create timed out; real failure artifacts retained Same failure and retained artifacts
After repair Board 11, create 8, update 6, delete 8, slow 8: all 41 checks passed Same five features and 41 passing checks
Correction One file, +1/-1, retained uncommitted at handoff Identical one-file, +1/-1 correction committed and pushed
Delivery Worker left HEAD/refs unchanged, with no delegated remote branch or PR; Shaka then committed and bound six actual receipts Worker created one draft PR against the committed fixture base; creation and all-state branch count verified
Final trees Identical corrected tree in both arms Identical corrected tree in both arms
Cleanup Owned processes exited; ports, socket and run DB released; external evidence retained Same cleanup checks passed; external evidence retained

Commands used the existing verify-flagship launch --mode static, doctor, broken drive create, reseed, repaired drive board|create|update|delete|slow, and cleanup. Delegated driving ran through generated private Shaka validation wrappers with shaka evidence run; Shaka subsequently ran evidence bind for the five live receipts and syntax receipt. All six bound to the owner commit's exact tested tree with unchanged material settings. Standalone used the helper directly, then committed, pushed its scratch branch and created the single draft PR. No technical review execution was added.

The handoff includes outcome, changed files, coverage and gaps, exact commands and observed results, and external evidence locations. The delegated correction was received and committed by Shaka, but was not published. Private repository links, machine paths and raw artifacts are withheld from this public report; they are retained with the local comparison for the requester.

Limits: one directed run per arm, not a blind benchmark or reliability estimate. Both used macOS, Ruby 3.4.9, Node 24.8.0 and static mode, with separate ports/databases. Source-reader concurrency was constrained by host capacity. Only delegated used private/local Shaka settings; these grant no team policy or merge authority. Three unrelated Dependabot PRs appeared in the scratch repository; the standalone branch has exactly one PR, and delegated has zero. The failed-create harness still exits before structured result/network JSON is written; actual logs, screenshots and ARIA evidence are retained. Ancillary bare-launch documentation may be stale based on source inspection and was not live-reproved or changed. Fresh clean/blocked outcome trials and TLC-dependent tests remain unverified; historical response-only screening is not relabeled as live proof.

Failed-drive residue evidence differs: delegated retained the failed browser process identities; standalone's process snapshot was taken after that browser exited. Standalone confirmed no remaining task browser residue, but does not provide a complete per-browser ownership ledger. Both have explicit server process ownership and successful final teardown.

The six-execution technical review ledger is unchanged. The upstream merge from e6b64f4 leaves the maintenance skill and behavioral screen unchanged. Validate plugins run 42131177509 remains action_required on the tested head, with no jobs. A maintainer must approve or rerun it and inspect the result. PR #781 remains unmerged with auto-merge off.

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Superseded — read the current walkthrough: #781 (review)

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🤖 Codex · OpenAI · gpt-6-astra (configured) · high

Code Walkthrough

When a caller explicitly owns delivery, maintenance returns its corrections and proof; standalone runs retain one-PR publication.

Closeout ownership

The outcome and closeout separate verified corrections from shipped work. The caller receives outcome, files, coverage, commands, results and evidence, including clean or blocked runs. The guide demonstrates explicit Shaka ownership; installation alone changes nothing. Claude copies are generated from these sources. Source checks, live re-proofs, cleanup and edit scope stay required.

Behavioral evidence

The six-case runner isolates response-only cases in a temporary Git repository, withholds grading criteria, retains failures and continues the remaining cases. Its protocol limits claims to stated decisions. The committed-fixture live comparison proves configured Shaka handoff and exactly one standalone draft PR. Both arms passed41 checks; the six-case screen remains response-only evidence for other closeout decisions.

Validation, limits and rollback

Plugin, docs and generated-tree checks pass. Node 22 script suite: 267 passed, 67 TLC-dependent skips, zero failures using a canonical macOS temporary directory; the default-path symlink failure is retained. The six-execution technical review history ends at e6b64f4; no additional technical review ran. Reverting restores unconditional publication. Validate plugins needs upstream maintainer action. Merge and auto-merge remain off.

Walkthrough for commit 3cfd5ad. This is a COMMENT, not an approval.

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Superseded — read the current checkpoint: #781 (comment)

Earlier checkpoint

Checkpoint for 3cfd5ad

Recommendation: Revise before merge

The requested changed-run delivery works. Remaining closeout coverage and hosted validation are incomplete.

Next: Complete the remaining closeout coverage and have a maintainer run validation.

Reviewer verdict: Proceed.

Unresolved concerns:

  • Live coverage consists of one changed run per mode. Clean and blocked handoffs lack fresh live proof, and the installed-only case has response-screen coverage only.
  • Validate plugins remains action_required on the pinned head and ran zero jobs.

Verification: Adequate, with gaps the reviewer judged acceptable.

  • Weakest claim: Installation alone leaves standalone publication intact. The live comparison varies assignment and configuration together, while the response screen isolates installation only in a stated decision. TLC-dependent checks also did not run.
  • Next check: Repeat the changed fixture with Shaka installed and configured but unassigned, and verify exactly one standalone draft PR.

Risk: High. High risk is meant for a person to merge after a careful review that starts with the verification: does the evidence prove the change works, before the code?

  • The closeout rule changes which workflow may publish repository changes.
  • A revert cannot undo disclosure from an unintended publication.

With merge.auto_merge_max_risk: low, an agent merges a low rating; a person merges the rest.

Supporting analysis and execution details

Reviewer summary: Maintainers can keep publication with their delivery workflow. Both live runs produced the same correction, and standalone maintenance opened exactly one PR. Conflict frequency is unknown.

Start with pstack/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md and pstack/docs/guide/06-verify-and-ship.md. An explicit assignment changes closeout without adding a runtime dependency or configuration requirement.

Both runs passed 41 live checks and retained evidence after cleanup. Shaka bound six receipts to its commit, and the delegated worker created no branch or PR.

The seven files match the planned skill, guide, generated copies, and response screen. The upstream merge left the skill and screen unchanged.

The six technical reviews exposed a runner defect. The later rerun repaired the delivery proof, with no added review rounds or broader product changes.

Alternative considered: A per-run prompt could handle a one-off handoff. The shared skill gives callers a consistent evidence handoff and preserves one-PR standalone behavior. The packet gives no basis to assume callers can reliably restate both rules.

observed model: UNKNOWN; configured model: gpt-6.1-sol · recorded effort: medium · prompt: Shaka default

Native usage (openai · gpt-6.1-sol · UNKNOWN · medium), 1 response: 24,162 input, 13,440 cached input, 0 cache writes, 757 output, 250 reasoning output, 24,919 total.

Ruby checked this report's format and commit; the reviewer judged value, not correctness. Required checks, reviews, and merge authority still apply.

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Fresh runtime cases now cover clean and blocked closeout both with an explicit Shaka owner and without one. A further changed run had Shaka installed and configured but unassigned; pstack published exactly one new private draft PR.

All cases used pstack 3cfd5adf9dfd7632f1066c30f41c6366e8869c5d and the existing flagship verification skill derived from verified flagship 1473c4b2106eb5cf9e96a9286c8f91819f7a108a / merged PR #87. The configured-unassigned run reused the original committed selector drift. Its private settings and wrappers were byte-identical to the earlier delegated configuration, and its final corrected tree matched both earlier changed runs.

Runtime case Live result Closeout observed
Explicit owner, changed (earlier) Five features, 41 checks pass Durable correction and proof handed to Shaka; worker published nothing; Shaka committed and bound six receipts
Unassigned, changed (earlier) Five features, 41 checks pass One private draft PR
Explicit owner, clean (new) Five features, 41 checks pass; no correction Report, coverage, commands, results and evidence handed to Shaka; no commit or PR
Explicit owner, blocked (new) Actual launch exit 1; source 5/5, live 0/5 Failed receipt and complete blocked report handed to Shaka; no correction or PR
Unassigned, clean (new) Five features, 41 checks pass; no correction Clean report and retained evidence; no branch, commit or PR
Unassigned, blocked (new) Actual launch exit 1; source 5/5, live 0/5 Blocked report and retained evidence; no branch, commit or PR
Explicit owner, blocked after starting (new) Board passed 11 checks; database-read fault then blocked doctor and the next drive Partial evidence and failed receipts handed to Shaka; all started resources cleaned; no correction or PR
Installed/configured, unassigned, changed (new) Original selector timeout reproduced, then five features and 41 checks pass Worker committed, pushed and created exactly one additional private draft PR; no owner handback

The two clean cases began from the same corrected committed fixture. Before either trial, its obsolete bare-launch warning was normalized against current source; that preparation is not counted as clean-run work. Each case performed its own five-reader source wave and live pass. Each subsequent blocked case explicitly reused those unchanged source findings.

The two pre-launch blocked cases used a comment-only ignored .env sentinel, which exercised the real helper's documented launch guard. These are controlled prerequisite failures, not organic regressions or verified-unreachable features. Launch refused before creating an instance, database, socket or listener. No unhealthy instance was driven, no nonexistent cleanup was claimed, and the test setup removed each sentinel only after receiving the blocked report.

A further owned case exercised blocking after real progress. After a healthy doctor, 11 passing board checks and reseeding, test setup removed read permission from only that run's disposable SQLite file. The actual doctor and the next drive's health gate failed; the other four features stayed unverified. The worker preserved partial evidence and cleaned up every started process, port, socket and run database before handing back the blocked report. No product or verification source changed.

Commands: verify-flagship launch --mode static, doctor, serial drive board|create|update|delete|slow, and cleanup; changed runs also reproduced failed drive create and performed reseed before re-proof. Owned cases used actual shaka evidence run receipts; the owner checked the failed receipt and bound the clean live receipts to the unchanged fixture commit. Clean/blocked Git and head-filtered publication snapshots confirm no task publication. The configured-unassigned run's branch PR count was 0→1 and repository count 4→5; the earlier trial PR and three Dependabot PRs were preserved.

Successful and partial-run teardown verified owned PID/start-time identities, free ports, absent socket/run database and retained artifacts. All 377 external evidence files remained hash-identical after the four new scratch worktrees were removed. Private paths, repository links and raw artifacts are withheld here; the requester has the compact local comparison and durable evidence index.

Limits: these are directed contract exercises, not a blind evaluation or reliability estimate. macOS/static mode only; source-reader concurrency varied with capacity. The configured target's private settings and access were healthy; an unrelated cross-host installation-pointer warning was retained without changing installed pins. Existing failed-create structured-JSON omission and 67 TLC-dependent skips remain documented; neither is claimed fixed. The prior response-only screen remains separate evidence.

No additional technical review ran; the six-execution ledger is unchanged. PR head remains pinned and the upstream merge left maintenance and screen files unchanged. Validate plugins remains action_required with zero jobs on this head. A maintainer must approve or rerun it and inspect the result. Merge and auto-merge remain off.

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🤖 Codex · OpenAI · gpt-6.1-sol (configured) · medium

Superseded — read the current checkpoint: #781 (comment)

Earlier checkpoint

Checkpoint for 3cfd5ad

Recommendation: Revise before merge

The requested live closeout coverage is complete. Hosted validation has not run.

Next: Have an upstream maintainer approve or rerun Validate plugins and inspect the result.

Reviewer verdict: Proceed.

Unresolved concerns:

  • The exact-head Validate plugins run remains action_required with zero jobs. Hosted validation is still pending.

Verification: Adequate, with gaps the reviewer judged acceptable.

  • Weakest claim: Live handoff evidence covers Shaka on macOS in static mode. Standalone blocking after startup was not exercised, and the mixed product-regression case was response-only. The matched publication trials directly tested the ownership decision.
  • Next check: Run a changed case with a second explicitly assigned workflow and confirm that the worker hands back proof without committing or publishing.

Risk: High. High risk is meant for a person to merge after a careful review that starts with the verification: does the evidence prove the change works, before the code?

  • The closeout rule changes who may commit and publish verification corrections.
  • A revert cannot retract information already disclosed through an unintended PR.

With merge.auto_merge_max_risk: low, an agent merges a low rating; a person merges the rest.

Supporting analysis and execution details

Reviewer summary: Maintainers can keep publication with an explicitly assigned workflow while standalone runs still open one PR for proven corrections. Directed trials demonstrated both paths, but the frequency of delivery conflicts remains unknown.

Start with pstack/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md. With explicit ownership, the worker handed corrections and proof to Shaka without publishing. With identical settings and no assignment, the worker opened exactly one private draft PR.

The seven changed files match the planned closeout rule, guide example, generated Claude copies, and six-case response screen. The rule adds no runtime dependency or configuration.

The six technical reviews stayed within budget and produced one runner repair. Later checkpoints closed evidence gaps at the pinned head. The packet gives no commit count for comparison with the plan.

Alternative considered: Repeat the ownership override in each calling task. That saves a shared rule but loses a consistent handoff for corrections, clean reports, and blocked evidence. The packet gives no evidence that every caller supplies that contract.

observed model: UNKNOWN; configured model: gpt-6.1-sol · recorded effort: medium · prompt: Shaka default

Native usage (openai · gpt-6.1-sol · UNKNOWN · medium), 1 response: 24,359 input, 13,440 cached input, 0 cache writes, 758 output, 278 reasoning output, 25,117 total.

Ruby checked this report's format and commit; the reviewer judged value, not correctness. Required checks, reviews, and merge authority still apply.

Remove the response-only closeout screen under evals/, which added a
new top-level directory and Ruby to the repository; live runs recorded
on the PR cover the same cases. Fold the clean-run handoff rule into
step 6 and shorten it. Replace the Shaka-specific guide example with a
vendor-neutral prompt. Regenerate the Claude Code copies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed revision: 90de508

Outcome: No open findings; closed and optional findings are in history.

Coverage: openai/codex: Read-only source lookup permitted; actual inspection coverage is UNKNOWN. Test execution is prohibited.

Usage and attribution in the PR description.

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90de508 openai/codex: 0
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Round Commit Reviewer Findings Tokens Cost
1 90de508 openai/codex
model UNKNOWN
effort UNKNOWN
0 90,982 input
77,056 cached input
0 cache writes
1,051 output
128 reasoning output
$0.05 estimated

Prompt: Shaka default · criteria not supplied

Commit 90de508 · openai/codex · 0 findings

Commit: 90de508 Trim the maintenance handoff change to the skill and guide

Review coverage:

Coverage excerpts may be incomplete or misidentified; inspect the original reports.

  • openai/codex: Read-only source lookup permitted; actual inspection coverage is UNKNOWN. Test execution is prohibited.

Unverified report excerpt · openai/codex:

Repository criteria: supplied — user-provided AGENTS.md agreements. No additional trusted base repository criteria were supplied.

Inspected the pinned maintenance skill, its Claude Code copy, both guide diffs, and unchanged references in the README, generator, help index, and customization guide.

Source inspection supports the stated goal: explicit delivery ownership triggers handoff for changed, clean, and blocked outcomes; standalone publication rules remain intact. Source/live checks, evidence retention, cleanup, and edit boundaries remain required. No credential additions or weakened trust gates were identified.

No behavioral execution results were supplied. `git diff --check` produced no diagnostics; a subsequent guide diff command failed because the sandbox prohibited a temporary file. Candidate code was not executed.

Observation — verification remains unproven at the workflow boundary. Prioritize these checks:

1. Explicit owner retention with changed, clean, and blocked outcomes: expect reports and retained evidence in all cases, with no maintenance-owned commits or PRs.
2. Standalone runs, including an installed but unassigned workflow: expect exactly one PR for changed and none for clean or blocked.
3. Repeat the owner-retained changed case against the base: expect its unconditional PR instruction to expose the regression that this change addresses.

No supplied test establishes failure before and success after.
Round 1 · 90de508 · openai/codex · effort UNKNOWN · 0 findings

Coverage

Repository criteria: supplied — user-provided AGENTS.md agreements. No additional trusted base repository criteria were supplied.

Inspected the pinned maintenance skill, its Claude Code copy, both guide diffs, and unchanged references in the README, generator, help index, and customization guide.

Source inspection supports the stated goal: explicit delivery ownership triggers handoff for changed, clean, and blocked outcomes; standalone publication rules remain intact. Source/live checks, evidence retention, cleanup, and edit boundaries remain required. No credential additions or weakened trust gates were identified.

No behavioral execution results were supplied. git diff --check produced no diagnostics; a subsequent guide diff command failed because the sandbox prohibited a temporary file. Candidate code was not executed.

Observation — verification remains unproven at the workflow boundary. Prioritize these checks:

  1. Explicit owner retention with changed, clean, and blocked outcomes: expect reports and retained evidence in all cases, with no maintenance-owned commits or PRs.
  2. Standalone runs, including an installed but unassigned workflow: expect exactly one PR for changed and none for clean or blocked.
  3. Repeat the owner-retained changed case against the base: expect its unconditional PR instruction to expose the regression that this change addresses.

No supplied test establishes failure before and success after.

Findings

no findings

REVIEWED 90de508 BY openai/codex EFFORT UNKNOWN FINDINGS 0

REVIEWED 90de508 BY openai/codex EFFORT UNKNOWN FINDINGS 0

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Code Walkthrough

A maintenance run now hands its result back when the user or calling workflow explicitly keeps delivery ownership. Before, it always opened its own PR for proven corrections, which competed with a task that already owned commits and publication.

Closeout rule

The changed outcome no longer promises a PR; it points to step 6. Step 6 branches once. With explicit ownership, the run returns its report and evidence and leaves commits and PRs to the owner, including for clean or blocked runs.

Without explicit ownership the old behavior holds: one PR for changed, none for clean or blocked. An installed workflow does not count as an owner. Steps 1 to 5 are untouched.

Guide and generated copies

The guide gains one vendor-neutral example prompt. The two files under harness/pstack/claude-code/ are generator output of these sources; generate-pstack-harness-trees.mjs --check reports them up to date.

Validation, risk, and rollback

Plugin validation, the docs check, and the generated-tree check pass locally. Script tests: 266 pass, 67 skipped, 1 fail; that statechart launcher test fails identically on the previous head on this machine.

Live runs on the previous head 3cfd5ad covered owned and standalone cases with longer step 6 wording and were not repeated here. The risk is a model misreading an ownership statement; the standalone path is the fallback. Reverting restores unconditional publication.

Walkthrough for commit 90de508. This is a COMMENT, not an approval.

5. **Triage.** Wrong or missing user-POV description → doc drift, fix it. Working behavior the harness can't drive → harness gap, fix it; a harness fix follows the same helpers rule as generation (scripts executable, invocation documented in the skill body). App behavior that's actually broken → product gap; record it for the user, keep it out of this PR.

6. **Ship or stop.** For changed: one PR of proven corrections, re-read every changed file first. For clean or blocked: no PR, report the outcome and the coverage honestly.
6. **Ship or hand back.** Re-read every changed file first. If the user or calling workflow explicitly retains delivery ownership, return the outcome, changed files, coverage and gaps, exact commands with observed results, and retained evidence paths to that owner, and leave commits, PRs, and merging to it. A clean or blocked run still returns its report and evidence; say that no publication is needed, not that no handoff is needed. Otherwise, for changed, open one PR of proven corrections and report its link; for clean or blocked, open no PR and report the outcome and coverage honestly. Until a PR exists the corrections are ready, not shipped. An installed workflow alone does not assign delivery ownership.

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Start here. This one step is the behavior change; the other three files follow from it.

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Checkpoint for 90de508

Recommendation: Merge

The trimmed change is one explicit ownership branch in step 6 plus a neutral guide example, the fresh review found nothing, and this checkpoint raised no concern.

Next: cursor/plugins maintainer approves the Validate plugins workflow run for this head.

Reviewer verdict: Proceed, no unresolved concerns.

Verification: Adequate, with gaps the reviewer judged acceptable.

  • Weakest claim: The shorter final wording preserves the ownership behavior demonstrated on 3cfd5ad; live checks did not exercise 90de508.
  • Next check: Repeat paired owned and standalone changed runs using the pinned final skill.

Risk: High. High risk is meant for a person to merge after a careful review that starts with the verification: does the evidence prove the change works, before the code?

  • The instruction changes who controls commits, PR publication, and merging.
  • An unintended publication can disclose content that reverting the instruction cannot retract.

With merge.auto_merge_max_risk: low, an agent merges a low rating; a person merges the rest.

Supporting analysis and execution details

Reviewer summary: Maintenance can return corrections to an explicitly assigned delivery owner while standalone runs retain one-PR delivery. Conflict frequency is unknown, and live behavioral evidence predates the final wording.

pstack/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md resolves conflicting publication ownership through an explicit handoff while preserving standalone delivery.

pstack/docs/guide/06-verify-and-ship.md explains the choice without vendor coupling. Four changed files cover two source documents and their generated copies; no runtime dependency remains.

Review churn removed the oversized eval approach. Earlier live runs exercised owned, standalone, unassigned, clean, and blocked outcomes; final-head structural checks passed.

Alternative considered: A caller-only override would avoid shared instruction growth but leave the skill's unconditional publication requirement unresolved. The explicit ownership branch is the smallest coherent shared rule.

observed model: UNKNOWN; configured model: gpt-6.1-sol · recorded effort: medium · prompt: Shaka default

Native usage (openai · gpt-6.1-sol · UNKNOWN · medium), 1 response: 19,662 input, 12,160 cached input, 0 cache writes, 715 output, 325 reasoning output, 20,377 total.

Ruby checked this report's format and commit; the reviewer judged value, not correctness. Required checks, reviews, and merge authority still apply.

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pstack: hand verification maintenance back to its delivery owner (#781)
maintain-verification-skill always opened its own PR for proven
corrections, which conflicts with a task whose workflow already owns
commits and publication. Step 6 becomes "Ship or hand back": when the
user or calling workflow explicitly retains delivery ownership, the run
returns the outcome, changed files, coverage, commands with observed
results, and evidence paths to that owner and leaves commits and PRs to
it. Clean and blocked runs still return their report. Standalone runs
are unchanged: one PR for changed, none for clean or blocked. An
installed workflow alone does not assign ownership. The verify-and-ship
guide gains one example prompt, and the Claude Code copies are
regenerated.

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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