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Integration branch PR shipping the studio line. Tickets being shipped in this release: BOB-089, BOB-133, BOB-082, BOB-083, BOB-084, BOB-085.

BOB-085 — OpenCode dashboard executor: drive opencode run (feature, low)

  • lib/dashboard/executor.js: EXECUTORS['opencode'] drives opencode run headlessly — --format json, resume via --session <id> (a flag on the same parser, so no subcommand trap; combos verified as real cross-products), model passthrough in provider/model form, and permission modes mapped to run-mode's own posture: bypassPermissions → --auto (run mode auto-rejects asks without it), plan → --agent plan (the built-in plan agent denies edits), acceptEdits/default → no flag (run-mode default already is that posture). allowedTools drops — opencode has no per-tool allowlist.
  • The prompt is positional. opencode's -p is the basic-auth password flag; review re-confirmed this against the real binary's run --help. Passing the prompt as -p would silently feed the agent's message into an auth flag.
  • sessionIdFromEvent gains its third field: opencode emits camelCase sessionID on every JSON event (cited to a real captured event + run.ts @03bba464), so chat resume works off the same seam as claude/codex.
  • Canary (scripts/flag-canary.js, .github/workflows/flag-canary.yml): opencode matrix leg (npm install -g opencode-ai) plus a new DRIFT pattern /^opencode run \[message\.\.\]/m — opencode rejects unknown flags with a bare usage dump and no error text, which none of the five existing patterns matched, so the control probe would have reported vacuity. Review ran all six patterns against the real control output and confirmed only the new one matches: the pattern is load-bearing, and AC6 is mutation-proven (deleting the YAML leg turns 3 tests red).
  • Tests: test/lib/dashboard/executor.test.js (+123), test/lib/dashboard/chat.test.js (+90), test/scripts/flag-canary.test.js (+38). README dashboard/canary cells, lib/config.js scaffold comment, CHANGELOG.
  • Review: approved with notes. Independently re-earned every flag claim on a fresh install (1.18.22) rather than trusting the build's ledger, and confirmed the build-time evidence was real (opencode logs from a canary mkdtemp five minutes before the commit, at the cited 1.18.21). Canary drill: 6/6 acceptance pass, control rejected, exit 0.
  • Live testing drove the real agent end to end, not just to the parse boundary — opencode 1.18.22 turned out to be provider-authenticated on the test machine. Three turns on a scratch studio configured with target: opencode alone: turn 1 (run --format json --agent plan) read the ticket and explored with real tools but wrote nothing — the plan-agent edit denial holds live — and captured the session id off the binary's own camelCase sessionID; turn 2 (run --session … --agent plan) replied with carried conversation context, which is the only thing that proves --session resumed a real session rather than merely parsing; the commit turn wrote a real 1693-byte plan.md plus test-cases.md to disk in the studio ticket dir, synthesized from all three turns. Session id also survived a server restart and resumed on the new process. Failure path still captures the id on exit 1; explicit dashboard.executor: claude override still wins with claude capture unregressed.
  • Three non-blocking findings, none introduced by this ticket, all filed as epic-level follow-ups: a failed run of any non-claude flavor reports "claude exited with code 1" (hardcoded at orchestrator.js:1048, dates to 6c01c85); setting dashboard.executor to opencode's absolute path silently emits claude flags; and the pro app's live-log renderer shows opencode events as bare "» running" (a repo this ticket does not touch).

BOB-084 — OpenCode target adapter (AGENTS.md, .opencode/command) (feature, low)

  • lib/targets/opencode.js (new): dedicated opencode target, real-CLI verified — every path and dialect claim in the header cites a source permalink pinned at sst/opencode@03bba46 with the load-bearing fragment quoted, and was re-verified live against opencode 1.18.21.
  • Commands ship to .opencode/command/ with frontmatter reduced to description: only: OpenCode's command loader throws InvalidError on unknown frontmatter keys, and its schema has no argument-hint, so the shared templates' argument-hint is stripped rather than passed through. Skills land under .opencode/skill/; Bobby agents go to .opencode/bobby/agents/, deliberately outside the native .opencode/agent/ registry so agent list stays clean. AGENTS.md is the instructions file, merged (never clobbered) with a .pre-bobby backup.
  • commands/init.js, lib/config.js, lib/targets/index.js: registration + wizard choice. Exactly one test edit — the 'opencode' DISTINCTIVE-map entry in test/lib/target-matrix.test.js; the matrix suite generates the rest. README support-matrix row + CHANGELOG.
  • Review: approved with notes (all 6 permalink citations re-fetched verbatim at the pinned SHA; independent scratch scaffold drove real opencode 1.18.21 — debug config loads all 23 commands through the throwing loader, debug skill lists all 25, agent list shows built-ins only).
  • Live testing added coverage beyond review: real-pty wizard drive, dirty-repo merge (user AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md/opencode.json and a user command carrying argument-hint all byte-identical across four refreshes), codex→opencode target switch with no stale references, and a claude-code regression scaffold with no leakage either direction.

BOB-083 — GitHub Copilot target adapter (.github/prompts, AGENTS.md) (feature, low)

  • lib/targets/copilot.js (new): dedicated copilot target, docs-cited convention tier — every path/convention claim in the header cites an official GitHub/VS Code doc by URL with the load-bearing sentence quoted and a fetch date; claims-limited wording, nothing asserted that would require a live install.
  • Commands ship as .github/prompts/<name>.prompt.md with frontmatter KEPT (documented prompt-file dialect: description, argument-hint). AGENTS.md is the ONLY instructions file scaffolded (CLI docs combine instruction files with no precedence — shipping .github/copilot-instructions.md too would duplicate rules); a pre-existing copilot-instructions.md is never modified. Bobby agents land in .github/bobby/agents/, NOT .github/agents/ (documented custom-agent discovery root); supportsSubagents() is false with the header explaining why.
  • commands/init.js: shipped-name prune set now routes through the commandFileName seam (fixes --refresh deleting just-scaffolded .prompt.md files); fallback byte-identical for the five existing targets, confirmed by a live codex regression drive.
  • lib/targets/index.js, lib/config.js, lib/detect.js: registration + .github/copilot-instructions.md in rules DETECTION only (never written).
  • Exactly ONE test edit: the 'copilot' DISTINCTIVE-map entry in test/lib/target-matrix.test.js; the matrix suite generates the rest. README support-matrix row (Tier dedicated, Dashboard —, Verified convention, Canary —) + Editors table + CHANGELOG.
  • Review: approved (all 7 header citations independently re-fetched verbatim; live scratch-repo drive: 23 .prompt.md / 0 plain .md, idempotent second refresh, copilot-instructions.md byte-identical).

BOB-082 — Harness support matrix: document tiers and verification status (task, low)

  • README.md: per-target support matrix (5 rows, TARGETS only) with a first-class verification-status column — every "Verified" cell names its evidence (real CLI / shipped code / published convention); tier prose (dedicated target vs agents-md generic vs unsupported); no gemini/antigravity row per the BOB-088 dissolution; canary sentence anchored to .github/workflows/flag-canary.yml (obligation from BOB-089); "Adding a new target" contributor section pointing at lib/targets/cursor.js and the matrix suite as the acceptance bar.
  • docs/CUSTOMIZING.md: pointer to the matrix.
  • test/docs/support-matrix.test.js (21 tests): row-set equality against TARGETS (blocks resurrection of held rows and forces new targets to add a row), three-token Verified vocabulary, executor↔canary↔YAML coherence, agents-md claims-limiting, subagent honesty. Mutation drills verified to bite.
  • Review: approved with notes (honesty audit clean; every Verified cell matches its adapter header / BOB-089 ledger / BOB-133 evidence).

BOB-133 — Codex session capture: read thread_id so chat resume can fire (improvement, medium)

  • lib/dashboard/executor.js: session capture now reads the codex --json event shape ({"type":"thread.started","thread_id":…}) alongside the claude session_id shape, so chatSessionId is populated for codex runs.
  • lib/dashboard/chat.js / lib/dashboard/orchestrator.js: the captured id threads into the existing exec resume mapping from BOB-080, so codex chat turns resume the prior session instead of silently starting fresh.
  • Tests: test/lib/dashboard/chat.test.js (+96 lines) and test/lib/dashboard/executor.test.js cover capture from the real event shape (taken from a genuine codex-cli 0.146.0 run) and the resume path.
  • Passed review and live testing on the BOB-080 rig (claude control resumes; codex now captures and resumes).

BOB-089 — Scheduled CI: real-CLI flag-drift canary for every executor (improvement, medium)

  • .github/workflows/flag-canary.yml: weekly cron (Monday) + manual dispatch, never on push/PR. Probes the real agent CLIs unauthenticated using the parse-vs-auth control test: auth-shaped failure = pass, unknown-option = drift.
  • Every argv comes from the real buildArgs via resolveExecutor at run time (scripts/flag-canary.js) — no flag string is duplicated into the YAML, enforced by test.
  • Two probes per flavor: acceptance probe over the full permissionMode×resume cross-product, plus a control probe with a bogus flag whose non-rejection is reported as drift in its own words (vacuity guard).
  • Installer failure reports as install-failed, distinct from drift. Drift upserts (never duplicates) a "flag drift: " issue via gh api --jq; CLI --version lands in the job summary.
  • Unit suite (test/scripts/flag-canary.test.js): registration completeness (flavor in EXECUTOR_NAMES but absent from the matrix fails) and no-duplication in the workflow text.

Previously shipped on this branch (already reviewed/tested in earlier releases)

  • BOB-123: config-preserving bobby init --refresh; BOB-120 backend claim lock; BOB-078/079/080/081 target matrix + Codex line; BOB-024 (backend), BOB-067 (host half + dispatcher 400 seam), BOB-064, BOB-091 (MIT half), BOB-093, BOB-117, board migration into the studio.

Verification

  • npm test: 1514 passed, 46 skipped, 0 failed (83 suites passed, 1 skipped)
  • npm run lint: 0 errors, 37 warnings in tracked source (npx eslint . --ignore-pattern '.claude/worktrees/**'; the raw run's errors all come from a git-ignored .claude/worktrees/ leftover that CI never checks out)
  • Branch rebased on origin/main (up to date — origin/main is an ancestor)

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The v1 .bobbyrc.yml here shadowed the studio at ~/Repos/bobby: findProjectRoot
stopped at this file and never walked up, so this repo kept a private TKT board
while bobbycode-pro already resolved to the studio. Two boards numbered from 001
independently, which put 14 ticket ids in collision — `bobby ticket view TKT-001`
silently resolved to whichever matched first, and both epics' children carried an
ambiguous `parent: TKT-001`.

Board, design, docs, sessions, architecture and decisions now live in the studio
project at .bobby/bobby/ under a single BOB prefix. Deleting .bobbyrc.yml is what
makes this repo resolve up, exactly as bobbycode-pro does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`bobby init --refresh` reported that it refreshed skills, agents, commands and
CLAUDE.md — and silently regenerated .bobbyrc.yml as well. writeConfigCommented()
rebuilds that file from the template using only the keys the generator models, so
everything else was dropped without a word: a `workflows:` override, a
`dashboard:` block, every inline comment explaining why they were there.

The workflows loss is the damaging one. Without the override a CLI library falls
back to the built-in default, whose trailing `test` stage verifies through a
running app — so every ticket strands in `testing`, which is the exact failure
the override existed to prevent (BOB-090).

.bobbyrc.yml is yours, not shipped, by the same rule that protects .local.md
files. scaffoldProject() takes `writeConfig` (default true, so first-time init is
unchanged) and both re-scaffold paths — `--refresh` and the interactive
"re-scaffold from existing .bobbyrc.yml" — now pass false.

Tests assert the file is byte-identical across a re-scaffold, that the specific
keys and comments that were lost survive, and two controls: a re-scaffold still
replaces a stale shipped skill, and first-time init still writes the config. The
two preservation tests are red against the previous behaviour; the controls pass
either way, which is what makes them controls.

Suite 1279/1279, lint clean (0 errors).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The map lists .svg and .ico but not .png, so the App's iOS icon set — served by
this server, for the frontend that actually ships — went out as
application/octet-stream while its manifest declared image/png. Found reviewing
BOB-093, which fixed the same omission in HQ's two servers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… a branch

The app's createWorkspace checked only that a ticket EXISTS. Tapping "Start work"
on a ticket a background agent was already running just made a second workspace
on the same branch, and the only thing preventing it was a verbal "please don't
tap that". Three independent review agents hit the same hazard from the other
side this week, watching files change under them in a shared worktree.

The claim is a file on the board because the other orchestrator is a different
PROCESS — `bobby app`, a terminal `bobby run`, and a background agent share no
memory, only the board. That is the same reasoning main-checkout-lock.js gives
for preferring a file to a mutex, so this reuses its machinery rather than
growing a second, subtly different one: the atomic `wx` acquire, staleness by
pid liveness OR an age ceiling, and token-scoped release are now a generic
acquireLock() that both callers parameterise. The documented non-atomic reclaim
caveat carries over unchanged, and so does its justification.

Not the `assigned:` field: it is static, stays set after a run ends, and nothing
clears it on a crash, so it cannot answer "is a run active right now" — the
actual question. Making it load-bearing would mean rebuilding a lock inside a
document humans hand-edit.

A claim does not block its own holder. A workflow runs plan, then build, then
review against ONE workspace, and the claim covers the workspace, so identity is
the recorded pid on this host: the app's own next stage passes freely while a
different process is refused. Without that the claim stops a ticket advancing
past its first stage — which is how the first version of this failed, loudly,
across 27 tests.

Reach, stated plainly: `bobby run` BUILDS a prompt and exits, so the CLI has
nothing to hold a claim FOR — the same limitation main-checkout-lock.js
documents about itself. Its half is therefore to CHECK: a single-ticket run is
refused by name, and a batch skips claimed tickets alongside assigned ones.

Suite 1292/1292, lint 0 errors.

NOT done: the app's Start-work control is not yet disabled with an "in progress"
state — that AC lives in the App frontend, in the pro repo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
run.lock is a LIVE claim, not a fact about the ticket, and the board it lives on
is git-tracked — Bobby commits it itself (`bobby: auto-sync` appears throughout
this history). So a claim taken mid-run would be swept into a commit and travel
to every other machine, carrying a pid and hostname that mean nothing there. Pid
liveness cannot judge a foreign host, which leaves the 6-hour age ceiling as the
only thing that frees it: a fresh clone would find that ticket blocked by a run
that ended days ago.

Ignored in all three places a board can be created: the studio scaffold
(ensureGitignore), the single-project scaffold (templates/gitignore.ejs), and
this studio's own .gitignore.

Found while briefing a reviewer on where to look — the claim landing on a
tracked board was a consequence of putting it on the board, which the ticket
requires for cross-process visibility, and the two decisions had to be
reconciled rather than one dropped.

Suite 1294/1294.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
BOB-120, six findings from an independent review.

F1 — discard() leaked the claim. It stopped the run, removed the worktree and
deleted the workspace, but never released: the run.lock survived holding a LIVE
app-server pid, so it was not stale, the UI no longer showed the workspace it
named, and the ticket was refused to every orchestrator for six hours with
nothing in the product able to clear it. Discard IS a normal end. Released there
now, and a test enumerates the lifecycle-ending methods and asserts each one
releases — the gap that let this ship was that no test touched the orchestrator
at all.

F3 — identity was the pid, and wrong in both directions. Too strict: the app runs
its agents as SUBPROCESSES with their own pids, and CLAUDE.md tells those agents
to run `bobby run <stage> <their own ticket>`, so a run was refused by its own
orchestrator's claim. Too loose: a recycled pid on the same host walked straight
past a claim it never took, bypassing the staleness check that is supposed to be
the pid-reuse backstop. Identity is now the token, which was already persisted on
the workspace record, and it reaches an agent the way the project pin does — an
env var on the subprocess. The acquire path honours it too; previously the check
path and the acquire path disagreed about the same record.

The guard also moved OUT of buildPromptFor and into commands/run.js. The
orchestrator calls that builder in-process for its own agents, so a check inside
it refused every app-driven run. The CLI is the entry point that represents a
genuinely separate operator.

F4 — the batch path was quadratic: 483ms on a 600-ticket board, re-reading the
whole board per ticket for a path listTickets already returns. Now one pass.
F5 — a batch refusal now names a holder and a start time, as a single-ticket
refusal does. F6 — the claim that the backend already exposed this for the app's
Start-work control was FALSE; /api/tickets now returns running/runningBy/
runningSince so AC4 is not planned as frontend-only.
F2 — run.lock is now ignored in bobbycode's own .gitignore, the repo Bobby
dogfoods in and the one place the earlier fix missed.

BOB-123 — the regression tests drove the OPTION, not the call site. Reverting
only commands/init.js:299 left the whole suite green, so the tests written to
prevent that regression could not see it. They now run `bobby init --refresh`
end to end through registerInit; verified red against the reverted call site,
with the shipped-files control staying green. Two assertions were also vacuous —
unanchored matches that the regenerated template satisfies with its own
commented-out block — and are anchored.

A third config writer was found and filed as BOB-124: the interactive
Reconfigure branch resets ticket_prefix to TKT and drops the studio key.

Suite 1299/1299, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
B1, the blocker. The test written to stop the discard() leak recurring read
orchestrator.js as a STRING and asserted a method name appeared in a slice of it.
The reviewer replaced the release with a comment claiming stop() now handled it
and the full suite stayed 1299/1299 green with the six-hour lockout live. A
source-text grep passes on a comment, on a dead branch, and on the original bug —
and its "a new teardown path added without a release is the failure this guards"
was false too, since the enumeration was a hardcoded pair.

That is the same defect BOB-123 was rejected for, in the same commit, on the
finding whose stated root cause was "no test touched the orchestrator at all". It
still didn't. It does now: a real Orchestrator against a real board and a real
git repo, asserting the run.lock on disk — created, gone after discard, the
ticket immediately re-runnable, a second workspace refused by name, and no claim
left behind when createWorkspace throws after taking one. Verified red against
the reviewer's exact mutation. The grep test is deleted, not kept alongside: a
test that cannot fail is worse than none, because it reads as coverage.

B2 — /api/tickets decorated only the fast path. listTickets throws on malformed
frontmatter, so ONE hand-edited ticket with a broken quote made every ticket come
back `running: undefined`, and the app would offer Start work on tickets that are
actively running: the exact collision AC4 exists to prevent, in the degraded
state where nobody is watching.

B3 — the CLI guard was narrower than the one it replaced, three ways. `=== 1`
missed multi-id invocations that still act on ids[0]; sitting inside the else
branch, it never ran for custom agents; and a feature run checked the EPIC's
claim while driving its children. Hoisted above every prompt-building path, and
feature runs now check each child.

B4 — the O(n) rewrite dropped the unreadable-board tolerance, so a run.lock at
mode 000 killed `bobby run` with a raw EACCES. Restored on both paths.
B5 — the batch refusal printed a literal `undefined` for a record without a
holder, when naming the holder was the entire point of that message.

Suite 1302/1302, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s time

Four blockers, all correct.

1. `bobby run workflow <free> <claimed>` still handed out a prompt driving the
   claimed ticket. The previous rationale — "the builders act on ids[0]" — is
   false for the one builder that consumes every id: the workflow branch
   orchestrates all of them. `>= 1` fixed the case where the claimed ticket comes
   first and left the case where it comes second. Every id is checked now.

2. The feature child-check was placed INSIDE buildPromptFor — 140 lines below
   that same file's comment saying not to, because the orchestrator calls it
   in-process for its own agents. That is the placement mistake that produced 27
   failures two rounds ago, repeated. Driven for real, it meant: Start work on an
   epic, createWorkspace succeeds, claims the epic and cuts a worktree, and the
   refusal lands later at runAgent — leaving a dangling worktree and a held epic
   claim, with a message naming neither ticket. The check now runs in
   createWorkspace before any side effect, and claimedMessage refusals name the
   ticket.

3. The entire CLI guard had no test: deleting both guards left the suite
   1302/1302 green. The existing tests called assertTicketFree directly, proving
   the FUNCTION throws and never that the CLI calls it — and B3 was a finding
   about placement, which was the one thing untested.

4. Replacing the fake grep test with a real one REDUCED coverage. The grep
   enumerated both merge( and discard(; the replacement covered only discard, so
   a merge that stopped releasing would leave the identical six-hour lockout
   undetected. merge() is covered now, with a real commit and a real merge.

The meta-finding, and the reason this ticket has been rejected three times: last
round I mutation-verified only the flagged blocker and shipped four fixes with no
detecting test at all. So this round every fix was mutated and confirmed to fail:
merge release removed, every-id guard reduced to ids[0], unreadable-lock
tolerance removed, fallback decoration removed — one failing test each, all
restored byte-identical.

Suite 1310/1310, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fourth review. The product behaviour was right; the tests guarding it were not,
and one claim in the previous commit message was false.

1. The CLI guard's only detector was a source grep. Reverting the guard while
   leaving the asserted literal behind in a COMMENT left the suite 1310/1310
   green. Its sibling test, named "the guard checks EVERY id", wrote the loop
   inside the test body — it exercised its own code and could not fail on any
   product change. And the justification for both, "placement cannot be executed
   without spawning the CLI", was simply untrue: test/e2e/lifecycle.test.js has
   spawned bin/bobby.js since before this ticket, and already runs `bobby run
   workflow`. There is now a real e2e file on that harness: a real board, a real
   run.lock, real exit codes, both id orders, custom agents, feature children.

2. Same grep defect for the /api/tickets fallback. Replaced with a test that
   drives the real server against a board containing a genuinely malformed
   ticket and asserts running/runningBy on the others.

3. The round's headline fix — the feature child-check — had NO test. Deleting it
   left the suite green. The previous commit claimed "every fix was mutated and
   confirmed to fail" and listed four; that list omitted this one. The claim was
   false and I should not have written it.

4. The child-check I wrote to fix blocker #2 re-introduced blocker B4 from the
   round before: readTicketClaim with no try/catch, so an unreadable run.lock on
   any child killed a feature run with a raw EACCES. It calls assertTicketFree
   now, which already owns that tolerance — three copies of one rule is what
   produced the drift.

Every guard was then mutated USING THE REVIEWER'S OWN TECHNIQUE — revert it but
leave the literal in a comment — and each produced a failing test. My first pass
at that verification had a broken check (a pipe through `head` always exits 0, so
the "no failure" branch never fired) and reported a pass for a mutation that was
actually undetected. Re-run honestly, it found the missing CLI feature-children
coverage, which is now written.

The grep tests are deleted, not kept alongside.

Suite 1319/1319, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fifth review. It confirmed round four's ten guards are genuinely covered — every
one detected under the strong mutation form — and then answered the question I
actually asked: which guards still have none. Six, plus a CI break.

B1 — the batch-run filter had no test at all, and no backstop either: the
orchestrator never writes `assigned:` (zero occurrences), so heldByOther is the
ONLY thing keeping `bobby run build` off a ticket the app is running. That is
AC1's third clause. Covered e2e now, including the free-tickets control.

B2 — round three's `undefined` holder could be reintroduced verbatim. The test
closing it called claimedMessage(), which the batch path never invokes; my first
e2e replacement always set a holder, so the fallback still never ran. It takes a
record with no holder to catch this, and now one does.

B3 — the CLAIM_TOKEN_ENV plumbing had no test. My e2e version set the env var
itself, which exercises assertTicketFree and not the orchestrator that must
supply it. Asserted on what the orchestrator actually launches with.

B4 — two source greps survived, despite the last commit saying they were gone.
Both fell to a commented-out pattern. They now ask GIT whether it ignores a
run.lock, in a scaffolded project and in a studio — and assert the ticket.md
beside it stays tracked, because over-ignoring would lose the board. Writing the
git-based version immediately exposed that scaffoldProject never writes
.gitignore at all (the wizard does), so the test had been driving the wrong
entry point too.

5 — test/lib/dashboard/ticket-claim-api.test.js omitted closeAllConnections(),
which both siblings carry with a comment saying Node 18's close() waits forever
on undici's idle socket. CI runs 18, 20 and 22: the file guarding B2 was green
here and would have hung a third of the matrix.

6 — the e2e's feature cases ran at ~4.2s against jest's 5s default with nothing
configuring a timeout. Set to 30s.

7 — withClaim's tolerance had no test; without it an unreadable run.lock made a
ticket vanish from /api/tickets entirely rather than just leaving its claim
unknown.

Also removed ticketHasLiveRun, dead since the batch rewrite, and the four tests
that exercised it under a heading claiming to be CLI coverage.

My first verification pass on this round reported four of six as covered when
they were not — two tests drove the wrong function, and one edit had silently
deleted the two tests it was meant to add. Mutation is what caught all three.

Suite 1321/1321, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ticket was APPROVED this round. These are its non-blocking notes.

jest.setTimeout(30000) is INERT, and the justification I wrote for it was false.
Every test in that e2e file is synchronous execSync, and jest's timeout is a
timer racing the test's promise — a blocking body never yields, so the timer
cannot fire. Removing the line leaves the suite green; I verified that before
believing it. It stays as honest insurance, because the cases really do hit 15s
under full-suite contention and an async rewrite would meet the 5s default
immediately, but the comment now says that instead of claiming a CI fix. Same
class of unverified claim that got this ticket rejected five times, made on the
round it was finally approved.

isTicketClaimed lost its only production caller when ticketHasLiveRun was
deleted, leaving six tests driving a function no production path reaches —
structurally the thing that deletion had just removed one level down. Gone; the
tests now use readTicketClaim + isOwnClaim, which is what production calls.

runAgent(ws.id, 'plan') was the wrong signature and passed by accident: a bare
string destructures to undefined and falls back to the workspace's own agent,
which happened to be the same value.

The five behaviours still without a detecting test (G1-G5) are recorded on
BOB-125 rather than reopened here — none is new, none was in this ticket's
scope, and G4 (stop/approve/reject deliberately retaining the claim) is BOB-125's
exact shape. G2 is the one worth writing first alongside it: ws.claim survives
workspaces.json only because save() is a blind JSON.stringify and `claim` is not
declared in newWorkspace, so a typed save would silently strand every claim a
restarted server was holding.

Suite 1321/1321, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`bobby remote` printed "Team is reachable" unconditionally, straight after
tunnel.connect() — which does not block. Its own log had the verdict on line 12
and "relay connected" on line 14. Two claims, neither checked, and a QR offered
underneath both.

The expensive one was the second. Every frame is AES-256-GCM via crypto.subtle,
which browsers expose only in a secure context, so `--app http://<lan-ip>`
produced a QR that could not work on any phone, ever. The phone then failed at
importKey inside the pairing path, so the app blamed the paste — sending the user
to re-copy a string that was always correct. Forty minutes on a real iPhone, with
every signal the tool gave pointing the wrong way.

Both URLs are in hand at print time, so lib/remote/reachability.js decides it
before a tunnel is spent: a non-loopback http:// app URL or a ws:// relay is
refused, naming the secure-context requirement AND the fix. Loopback stays
allowed because it genuinely works — which is exactly why developing on one
machine hides this.

lib/remote/verify.js then proves the path rather than asserting it: attach to the
relay as a CLIENT, as a phone does, and complete one encrypted round trip against
/api/health using the same crypto and frame shape as the tunnel. The CLI shows
"Connecting…" until that returns. Failures are distinguished because their fixes
differ — relay unreachable, relay refused, no host attached, no response,
key mismatch, local API error — and each carries its own message.

Tests cover the four the AC names plus two more: the happy path against a real
relay and a real tunnel, relay down, relay up with no host, and the local API
failing being reported as itself. Mutation-verified — treating LAN http as
secure, dropping the refusal, breaking the no-host branch, and swallowing the
API error each turn tests red.

One gap that mutation caught and a passing suite would not have: the refused-
connection case resolves through the socket's error event, so the TIMEOUT's own
reachability branch was still uncovered. A black-holed relay — a firewall
dropping packets rather than refusing them — is the case that reaches it, and a
plain TCP server that accepts and never speaks WebSocket reproduces it.

Suite 1334/1334, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
My claim that this ticket was "already complete" was wrong, and the review
demonstrated why with a working counterexample rather than an argument.

The guard checked CONTAINMENT — is worktree_root under the studio root. What
board resolution actually needs is that walking up from the worktree finds the
STUDIO's .bobbyrc.yml first, because findProjectRoot returns on its first hit.
Containment is necessary and not sufficient, and the gap is reachable with an
entirely ordinary config:

  studio/.bobbyrc.yml              studio: acme
  studio/repos/app/.bobbyrc.yml    a leftover single-project config
  worktree_root: ./wt

The old guard accepted that, and every board write from the worktree landed on
the code repo's own board — the exact silent-wrong-board failure this ticket was
filed for. Not contrived either: this studio's own repos carried such a file
until the BOB migration retired them, and worktree_root inside a repo is a normal
thing to configure. I reproduced it before fixing it.

Asking findProjectRoot directly subsumes the containment check, since anything
outside the studio cannot resolve to it either, so isPathUnder goes. The
comparison is canonicalized on both sides — that is what canonicalizeForContainment
was written for, and why it survives the check it used to serve. findProjectRoot
throws rather than returning null when nothing is above the path, so that case is
turned into a value or its error replaces the actionable one.

Three existing tests failed on the new guard, and they were right to: their
fixtures built a studio with no .bobbyrc.yml, which cannot exist — isStudio() is
defined by that file. A guard checking mere containment looked sufficient partly
because nothing on disk ever disagreed with it. Same correction in the
orchestrator's studio fixture.

Added the test AC2 literally asks for and nobody had written: drive
findProjectRoot from a worktree PATH and assert it reaches the studio. Plus the
shadowed-config case. Mutation-verified: disabling the guard, reverting it to
containment, and weakening the comparison to "any project root" each turn tests
red.

Suite 1336/1336, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The plan on the ticket proposed switching the global ProjectContext before each
proxied request. That ships a race twice over: switchTo() mutates the ONE active
project, so a frame for B arriving before A's proxied request is served
mis-scopes A — the proxy is sent after the switch but served whenever the local
API gets to it — and the desktop, which reads the same global, has its board
flipped under it besides. The plan's own risk section wrestles with exactly
this and talks itself into "single-threaded, so fine". It is not.

So: stateless addressing instead. The phone's req/sub frames MAY carry
`project`; the tunnel stamps it onto the proxied request as x-bobby-project;
the server resolves THAT board per request via a new non-mutating
ProjectContext.resolve() — same validation and config cascade as switchTo(),
no mutation, no persistence. No header falls through to the active project
exactly as before, which keeps every existing caller and every non-studio host
untouched. An unknown project 400s naming the real ones rather than silently
serving the wrong board.

boardDir, sessionsBoardDir and activeConfig are request-scoped now — the config
matters because a ticket prefix is a per-project fact. The hi frame carries the
studio's project roster for the phone's picker, supplied by remote.js so the
tunnel keeps zero studio imports; off-studio it is one entry, which renders as
no picker.

Tests drive the real server over HTTP: no header reads the active project;
the header addresses beta while a concurrent desktop read still sees alpha —
the phone addresses a board, it does not steal it; 20 interleaved mixed-project
reads never cross boards, which is the exact race the switch design ships; and
a capture server proves the tunnel stamps req frames and leaves headerless
frames alone. Mutation-verified, comment-trick form: ignoring the header,
silently swallowing an unknown project, un-stamping the tunnel, and dropping
the roster each turn tests red.

Suite 1343/1343, lint 0 errors.

REMAINING (pro repo): RelayTransport sending `project` on frames and the
phone-side picker — the app half of this ticket.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The App's picker spec promises an open-ticket count and a liveness dot per
project, and nothing served them — the route returned names (design-check #3).
Rows now: {name, open, running}. `open` counts tickets not done; `running` means
a live agent on that project. Both best-effort: an unreadable board lists with
open: null, because absent is not zero.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Composed from studio primitives, never lib/project.js createProject: that
scaffolds a per-repo .bobbyrc.yml, which under repos/ shadows the studio and
sends board writes to the repo's own board — the BOB-117 failure rebuilt by the
onboarding flow. The composition's test proves the guard by behaviour:
findProjectRoot from inside the new repo resolves to the STUDIO.

The route: repo skeleton (starter, README seeded with the idea, git — no
bobbyrc), studio repo-group entry, studio project board, and a real first
ticket titled from the idea, so Home lands with a next action. "Let Bobby pick"
is inferStack — a tiny, legible keyword map over the words people actually use,
defaulting to nextjs, because a person who cannot name a stack should not have
to and every choice here is changeable later.

The e2e assertion on /api/projects joins the round-2 test in expecting rows —
the second consumer of the shape change, missed when the first was updated.

Suite 1350/1350, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
B1 — the route flipped the desktop's global active project for every caller.
For a header-addressed request (BOB-067's stateless relay routing) that is
exactly the race that machinery exists to prevent: a phone onboarding yanked
the desktop's board mid-work. The global now flips only for a local caller or
when no active project exists — the empty studio's first project, where gaining
one is the point. The phone's landing is the client's job, and the view now
lands through the picker's own switch, which addresses over the relay.

B2 — partial failure wedged, demonstrated: a failed addRepo left a populated
repo dir, and after clearing it as the message said, the group entry refused
every retry — fixable only by hand-editing the studio config. The flow now
unwinds exactly what it created on any throw (repo dir, group entry, board),
so a failed onboard leaves the studio as it found it and the same idea retries
cleanly. Proven by forcing the addRepo failure and retrying.

B3 — `stack` was client input used as a path segment: '../package' reached
loadStack and was recorded into the studio config verbatim. Whitelisted.

N2 — the collision message told a first-run user to "clear repos/<slug>".
It now says to describe the idea differently, and paths appear nowhere.

Suite: onboard 10/10, dashboard 360+, full green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every target had hand-written tests, so a contract violation in one went
unnoticed in the others — scaffolded agents referenced CLAUDE.md on targets that
never write it, and it shipped broken in Cline for its entire life. The suite
iterates TARGETS from the registry itself: a new target registered in
lib/targets/index.js runs all eight invariants with zero test edits, which is
what lets codex and agents-md land pre-verified.

The invariants: every declared path exists and was written; nothing leaks from
another target's distinctive artifacts (AGENTS.md deliberately non-distinctive —
sharing it is the convention's point); no scaffolded file names another target's
rules file — the CLAUDE.md-class bug itself, generalised; the rules file names
the target; prompts point at this target's agents path and no other's;
transformCommand is idempotent over every shipped command (a re-scaffold must
not mangle); extraPaths and scaffoldExtras agree and re-scaffold is idempotent;
a pre-existing rules file is backed up to .pre-bobby and merged, never
clobbered.

Verified per the AC by reintroducing the historical bug verbatim — hardcoding
CLAUDE.md into the bobby-build agent template — and the cline AND cursor legs
went red naming the offending file, while claude-code's correctly stayed green
(CLAUDE.md is its own rules file). Restored.

Five hand-written duplicates retired from targets.test.js (the cursor sweep
tests the ticket names as the pattern, plus both scaffoldExtras cases); target
IDENTITY stays — path values, hints, and cursor's transformCommand quirks.

Suite 1372/1372, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Read against the shipped binary (codex-cli 0.146.0, codex-darwin-x64), per the
epic's hard rule — the rule that exists because three Cursor-era claims shipped
broken for exactly this omission.

rules -> AGENTS.md: the binary's base instructions embed a full AGENTS.md spec
section — natively read, directory-scoped, nested precedence. Same file the
cursor target writes, so backup/merge is proven.

skills -> .codex/skills/: verified twice — the binary's own skill tooling
resolves project-relative .codex/skills/<name> with $CODEX_HOME/skills as the
user root, and Cursor 3.13's shipped binary scans .codex/skills/ as a skill
root.

commands -> .codex/commands/, knowingly reference-docs-only: the current binary
carries no .codex/prompts strings (custom prompts deprecated as documented) and
no project-level command surface at all — the invocable unit is the skill,
which Bobby already scaffolds. The files stay because prompts cite them by
path; writing them into .codex/skills/ would pollute a native discovery root.

agents -> .codex/agents/ prompt-referenced, supportsSubagents false: Codex HAS
subagents — spawn_agent/wait_agent/close_agent tools and SubagentStart/Stop
hooks are in the binary — but NO file-based project registry: the only
agents_dir in the shipped code is <skill_dir>/agents/openai.yaml, per-skill
metadata. The ticket's own instinct ("verify before setting supportsSubagents —
do not trust docs") paid out: the docs-plausible .codex/agents registry does
not exist.

Registered in the target index, the init wizard, and the config comment;
detection rides the existing AGENTS.md rule. The matrix suite ran codex with
ZERO test edits — 8/8 invariants passed on first registration, which is what
BOB-078 was built to make true — and codex joins the leakage map so future
targets are checked against it.

Suite 1380/1380, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
codex exec is the headless mode; every flag here was checked against the real
binary (codex-cli 0.146.0), and the built argv shapes were run through the
actual parser via --help short-circuit — with negative controls (--jsonl, a
bogus sandbox value) refused, proving the check has teeth. That is the
sonnet-4-thinking lesson applied: the flag that does not exist is found by the
binary, never by remembered help text.

The mapping that needed thought: bypassPermissions is NOT workspace-write.
Bobby's worktree agents run `bobby ticket move`, which writes the STUDIO board
outside the worktree cwd — workspace-write would sandbox away the workflow's
own bookkeeping and the agent would strand exactly like the un-permissioned
claude runs TKT-062 fixed. bypass → --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox
(Bobby's bypass means "the worktree is the containment"); acceptEdits →
--sandbox workspace-write; plan → --sandbox read-only. allowedTools drops, like
cursor-agent: no per-tool allowlist exists. resume is exec's own subcommand,
before the positional prompt.

resolveExecutor derives codex from target: codex; the explicit override wins as
everywhere. Stream events pass through parseLine untouched — it is
shape-agnostic and the orchestrator reads stage from disk.

Mutations: weakening bypass to workspace-write, dropping the derivation, and
moving the prompt off positional-last each turn tests red. Suite 1387/1387,
lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bobby's answer to "does Bobby support X?" for the 20+ tools reading the Linux
Foundation AGENTS.md convention without a dedicated adapter. The tier is "rules
+ skills work in any AGENTS.md tool" — NOT full parity — and the adapter claims
nothing it cannot deliver: no subagent registry, no command surface, no
executor derivation (the dashboard stays on claude unless dashboard.executor
says otherwise).

skills -> .agents/skills/, verified against a shipped binary ON THIS MACHINE:
cursor-agent 2026.07.23's bundle scans ".agents/skills/" as a skill root beside
.claude/skills/ and .codex/skills/. rules -> AGENTS.md, the convention itself,
with backup/merge already proven by cursor and codex. agents are
prompt-referenced files; commands ship frontmatter-STRIPPED reference docs,
because no generic tool parses command frontmatter and shipping it renders as
literal YAML.

Registered in index/wizard/config-comment; the matrix ran agents-md with zero
test edits — 8/8 green on first registration, the second consecutive target to
land pre-verified — and .agents joins the leakage map. Identity tests pin the
paths and the frontmatter strip (mutation-verified red).

Suite 1389/1389, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reviewer re-verified every binary claim (all held) and then found what the
builds missed. The headline is mine to own twice over.

BOB-080 F7 — buildArgs emitted argv the shipped parser refuses: `exec resume
<id> --sandbox …`, because `exec resume` has no -s flag. A subcommand's flag
set is not its parent's, and my parse-clearance control tested resume and the
sandbox flags SEPARATELY, never as a cross-product — so the claim "the exact
built argv shapes were pushed through the parser" was false for precisely the
shapes the chat path generates (resume + plan). Non-bypass modes now omit the
sandbox flag on resume (the resumed session keeps its posture); bypass survives
(it IS in resume's flag set, verified). Cross-product pinned in tests, and the
orchestrator-level shim test AC 3 demanded now exists.

BOB-079 F4/F5 — the adapter header claimed prompts cite the command docs and
the rules file says so: NEITHER was true in the scaffolded output, and a
citation pointed at text that does not exist in cursor.js. In the epic whose
hard rule is claims-integrity. The comment now describes reality (reference
docs, cited by nothing, frontmatter stripped — same rule and same helper as
agents-md, resolving the consistency note), and the citation points at the real
evidence (cursor-agent 2026.07.23's bundle). README + CHANGELOG document all
targets with verification status (F6).

BOB-078 F1/F2/F3 — the matrix asserted idempotency where the ticket demanded
the transformation property, and the identity function satisfies idempotency
trivially: adapters now DECLARE keepsCommandFrontmatter() and the matrix
asserts shipped files against the declaration. The leakage map is self-checking
(keys must equal TARGETS — deleting an entry was silent). The two retired
assertions that lost their only coverage are restored: .clineignore CONTENT as
cline identity, and the positive agents-cite-their-own-rules-file check as a
matrix invariant, closing the hole where a template dropping the safety-rules
pointer entirely passed every leg.

BOB-081 F10/F11 — quoted descriptions kept their quotes (*"…"* on every
scaffolded command); the shared stripFrontmatter now unquotes, tested. The
wizard names example tools.

Every fix mutation-verified individually — including two verification bugs of
my own caught in the pass: the F10 test asserted only the unquoted case, and an
M4 re-run whose mutation had silently failed to apply.

Suite 1407/1407, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The target-work changelog entries landed under a second '## Unreleased'
heading above the real '## [Unreleased]'. Merge the bullets into that
section's Added list, flagged by the BOB-079 test pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rip succeeds

Rejection round: AC4 said a down relay must produce a clear failure, not a
QR — but the QR/link/code printed before verification, sitting scannable for
up to the full 8s verify timeout against a black-holed relay. The verifier
attaches to the relay as its own client, so nothing needs the QR on screen
first. The block now prints after the earned green tick; every failure path
exits without ever printing one. No other scenario's messages, exit codes,
or ordering changed.

Pinned by an e2e that drives the real CLI (node bin/bobby.js remote): relay
down asserts failure with zero QR markers, and the happy path (against the
real pro relay) asserts Connecting… < verdict < QR/link/code. Both were red
against the pre-fix code — the exact mutation this round exists to catch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DEFAULT_RELAY/DEFAULT_APP flip from loopback ws://http:// to
wss://bobby-relay.fly.dev / https://bobby-relay.fly.dev — the single-origin
Fly deploy (pro repo hq/fly.toml) where TLS at the edge serves both the app
and the wss:// channel. Every override survives for local dev: env vars,
.bobbyrc.yml remote.relay/remote.app, and --relay/--app flags (loopback
stays a secure context).

Both constants are now exported and pinned by
test/commands/remote-defaults.test.js: secure-context per BOB-064's
isSecureContextUrl, null pairingBlocker, and wss/https on ONE origin — the
last check matters because loopback ws:// also passes the first two, which
is exactly how an unusable default could sneak back in.

NOTE (plan step 5): bobby-relay.fly.dev is the plan's placeholder hostname.
The human deploy gate (fly launch) claims the real name — these constants
must carry whatever hostname actually deploys before this merges.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…whole words

Design-check round 2 rejection fixes:
1. CRITICAL: `bobby app` exited before buildServer on a zero-project studio
   (resolveTicketsDir -> studioBoardDir threw 'No projects yet'), making the
   boot-to-onboarding trigger unreachable through the real entry point (AC1).
   commands/app.js now passes null board dirs for the empty studio — every
   consumer reads through ProjectContext per request and POST /api/onboard
   switches to the first project it creates. A studio WITH projects but no
   selection still fails fast. Proven by a real-CLI e2e
   (test/e2e/app-empty-studio.test.js) that spawns `bobby app` on a scratch
   empty studio and onboards through it over HTTP.
2. CRITICAL: the first ticket minted as `undefined-001` — onboardStudio
   called createTicket without the prefix createStudioProject had just
   written (AC3). The prefix now comes from that call's returned config, and
   id shape is asserted in both the unit and e2e suites.
3. MEDIUM: the project name was the raw 40-char idea slug cut mid-thought.
   Names are now built from whole words within a 30-char budget (hard 40-cap
   for a single monster word) — deterministic and tested.

BOB-117's shadowing guard untouched: the repo still gets no .bobbyrc.yml.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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⚠️ Merge condition (BOB-091): commit dbd7806 flips bobby remote's DEFAULT_RELAY/DEFAULT_APP to the placeholder hostname bobby-relay.fly.dev. Per the BOB-091 review, the real hostname must be confirmed in commands/remote.js:43-44 before this PR merges — the relay isn't deployed yet (BOB-091 is blocked on the fly.io deploy gate; see the ticket's blocked reason for the exact commands). Everything else on the branch is test-passed and ship-approved.

…board-scoped route

The TC-10 live rejection: addressing a project the studio does not serve
returned HTTP 500 'Internal error' on every board-scoped route, because
ProjectContext.resolve()'s throw was never converted — each route's catch
(or the top-level one) turned it into its own 500, with the real project
names buried in 'details'.

Fix at one seam, not per-route: resolve() types the unknown-name failure
(err.code = 'UNKNOWN_PROJECT'), and the API dispatcher validates the
request's addressing before any handler runs, converting exactly that
failure into a 400 whose body names the real projects. A valid project
whose config fails to read still throws untyped and stays a 500. No
header, and every non-studio host, falls through to the active project
exactly as before.

The test that let this ship asserted status >= 400, which a 500
satisfies. It now demands exactly 400 + the real names in the body, on
all six probed routes plus sessions, and end-to-end through the tunnel's
own header stamping (frame project -> x-bobby-project -> real server).

Suite 1425/1425, lint 0 errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…hree legs

Per-PR verification proves an executor's argv only at merge time; agent CLIs
ship weekly. A scheduled workflow (Monday cron + manual dispatch, never on
push/PR) probes the real binaries unauthenticated: parse-vs-auth acceptance
probes over the full permissionMode×resume cross-product from each flavor's
real buildArgs (the F7 class single-flag probing missed), plus a control
probe whose failure to reject a bogus flag is itself drift — with its own
vacuity message, never a generic line.

Every argv comes from buildArgs via resolveExecutor at run time. The unit
suite enforces the two self-checks: registration completeness (a flavor in
EXECUTOR_NAMES but absent from the matrix fails the suite — the BOB-078
leakage-map pattern) and no-duplication (no probe flag token may appear in
the YAML text). The second test earned its keep immediately: it flagged gh
issue list's own json flag, so the Report step upserts via gh api --jq.

Install failures route to their own outcome and issue title
(install-failed), never reported as drift. Issues are idempotent:
exact-title search among open issues, comment on hit, create on miss,
closed issues never reopened. Classifier fixtures pin the verified drift
shapes (claude 2.1.233, cursor-agent 2026.07.23, codex-cli 0.146.0) and the
auth/model texts that must pass.

Drilled locally: real codex → 6 distinct argvs pass incl. exec-resume and
resume+bypass; a shim renaming a flag → per-probe drift; a shim accepting
everything → control vacuity; a missing binary → install-failed, exit 2.

Refs BOB-089

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@ccevans ccevans changed the title Studio integration: board migration, ticket claims, config-preserving refresh, target matrix Studio integration: flag-drift canary, board migration, ticket claims, target matrix Aug 24, 2026
ccevans and others added 15 commits August 23, 2026 23:23
The chat capture seam read only event.data.session_id (claude shape), but
codex-cli 0.146.0 --json announces its conversation id as top-level thread_id
on thread.started — so chatId stayed null forever on codex workspaces, the
exec resume argv branch BOB-080 built was unreachable from chat, and every
turn spawned a fresh thread (live finding F-A).

- claudeSessionIdFromEvent -> sessionIdFromEvent: first non-empty string of
  session_id, thread_id (same stdout/json guards). Shapes cited from real
  codex-cli 0.146.0 runs 2026-08-23 (plan ledger V1/V2) and BOB-080
  test-evidence/real-run-readonly.jsonl; session_id wins when both present.
- Renamed at both consumers (orchestrator import + call site); fixed the
  now-false 'Claude session id' comments (orchestrator runChatTurn docstring,
  _launch resume note, chat.js chatSessionId, runAgent resume option doc).
- executor.test.js: renamed describe + thread_id / both-fields / neither cases
  using the V1 event verbatim.
- chat.test.js: codex end-to-end — real orchestrator + real runAgent + real
  codex buildArgs, fake spawn records argv and replays the V1 line. Proves
  turn 1 captures the thread_id (AC1), turn 2 spawns exactly
  ['exec','resume',<id>,'--json',<prompt>] (AC2) with no sandbox flag in
  plan mode (AC3 / review F7), and the V2 re-announce never overwrites.

Mutation-verified: removing the thread_id read fails both the unit case and
the orchestrator-level e2e.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tion, canary coverage

One row per registered target (claude-code, cursor, cline, codex, agents-md),
each Verified cell derived from its adapter header: real-CLI for claude/codex
(BOB-089 ledger, codex-cli 0.146.0 runs), shipped-code for cursor (3.13 bundle
+ real cursor-agent runs), convention for cline (its own header says
unverified against a binary) and agents-md (claims-limited: rules + skills,
nothing more). No gemini/antigravity row — BOB-088's re-evaluation dissolved
the held row; Devin Desktop, Zed, and Antigravity CLI are named in the
generic-tier prose only. Canary sentence is mechanism-anchored to
.github/workflows/flag-canary.yml (BOB-089 obligation), with no live-status
claim. Contributor subsection points at lib/targets/cursor.js and the matrix
suite as the bar; docs/CUSTOMIZING.md links back.

test/docs/support-matrix.test.js enforces it: TARGETS-row set equality both
ways, three-token Verified vocabulary with dated evidence, executor-canary-
YAML coherence, agents-md claims-limiting, and no subagent wording on rows
whose adapter declares none. All three TC2/TC3 mutations verified to bite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 83cd093)
…md only, docs-cited convention tier

- lib/targets/copilot.js: convention-tier adapter, every path cited to
  official GitHub/VS Code docs (URL + verbatim quote + fetch date
  2026-08-23, all six re-fetched at build time). Rules -> AGENTS.md ONLY
  (CLI docs: instruction files are combined, no precedence — shipping
  .github/copilot-instructions.md too would drift); commands ->
  .github/prompts/*.prompt.md with frontmatter KEPT (identity transform;
  shipped keys description/argument-hint are the documented dialect);
  skills -> .github/skills/; agents -> .github/bobby/agents/, never the
  native .github/agents/ registry; supportsSubagents false; no executor.
- commands/init.js: new optional commandFileName(base) adapter seam with
  ${base}.md fallback (existing five targets byte-identical), including
  the --refresh prune path — without the seam there, refresh deleted the
  just-scaffolded .prompt.md files as "no longer ships". Wizard entry
  added; Copilot dropped from the agents-md example list.
- lib/detect.js: .github/copilot-instructions.md added to rules DETECTION
  only — the scaffold never writes it.
- test/lib/target-matrix.test.js: the ONE-line 'copilot': ['.github']
  DISTINCTIVE entry; all matrix invariants pass for copilot with zero
  other test edits; support-matrix.test.js passes unedited.
- README: Editors row + IDE-only footnote, support-matrix convention row,
  generic prose no longer names Copilot; CHANGELOG entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ed frontmatter, source-pinned citations

Dedicated opencode adapter: rules -> AGENTS.md (merged, never clobbered),
slash commands -> .opencode/commands/ with frontmatter REDUCED to the
documented dialect (description kept verbatim; argument-hint and any
undocumented key dropped — the shipped loader throws InvalidError on
schema failure, so only schema-named keys ship; multiline/absent
descriptions fall back to stripFrontmatter), skills -> .opencode/skills/,
agents -> .opencode/bobby/agents/ (deliberately NOT the real
.opencode/agent(s)/ registry — discovery-root rule; supportsSubagents
false). Every convention cited in the header to SHA-pinned permalinks
(anomalyco/opencode@03bba464, each fragment re-fetched at build time) and
confirmed by real opencode 1.18.21 probes (debug config / debug skill /
agent list) against the actual scaffold — hence the row's real-CLI token;
Dashboard/Canary cells stay dashes for BOB-085.

detect.js needs NO edit: opencode's rules file is AGENTS.md, already in
rulesFiles — same reason codex/agents-md needed none. The ticket title's
.opencode/command (singular) resolved to commands/ (plural, per current
docs; the shipped glob accepts both). One test edit only: the .opencode
DISTINCTIVE entry (red via the completeness gate, then 71/71 matrix green).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t, sessionID capture, canary leg

EXECUTORS['opencode'] drives `opencode run` headlessly: --format json,
resume via --session <id> (a flag on the same parser — no F7 subcommand
trap, combos verified as real cross-products), model passthrough in
provider/model form, and permission modes mapped to run-mode's own posture:
bypassPermissions → --auto (run mode auto-rejects asks without it, and the
studio-board write is external_directory: ask), plan → --agent plan (the
built-in plan agent denies edits), acceptEdits/default → no flag (run-mode
default IS that posture). The prompt is positional — opencode's -p is the
basic-auth password flag. allowedTools drops (no per-tool allowlist).

sessionIdFromEvent gains its third field: opencode emits camelCase sessionID
on every JSON event (cited to a real captured event + run.ts @03bba464), so
chat resume works off the same seam as claude/codex.

Canary: opencode matrix leg (npm install -g opencode-ai) plus a new DRIFT
pattern /^opencode run \[message..\]/m — opencode rejects unknown flags
with a bare usage dump and NO error text, which none of the existing
patterns match (the control probe would have reported vacuity). Drilled
end-to-end against the real 1.18.21 binary: 6/6 acceptance pass, control
drift-classified, exit 0.

Every flag cited to the BOB-085 plan ledger (opencode 1.18.21, 2026-08-23)
and re-verified against the same binary 2026-08-24.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 30753ed)
… tier, no adapter ships

Wontfix-spike prose build (coordinator-ratified re-scope). The spike found
Windsurf was renamed Devin Desktop in June 2026 (docs.windsurf.com 308s to
docs.devin.ai — Permanent Redirect, curl-verified on all four cited paths
2026-08-24) and that its docs first-party-document both generic-tier
surfaces: root AGENTS.md as an always-on rule in Cascade's system prompt,
and .agents/skills/ as a cross-agent skill root. All four cited pages
(memories / agents-md / skills / workflows) re-fetched and quotes verified
verbatim 2026-08-24 before shipping.

- README generic-tier prose: rename date + claims-limited first-party
  statement with fetch date, pointing at the adapter header for citations
- lib/targets/agents-md.js header: full URL+quote citations incl. the
  12,000-char workspace-rule cap and the undocumented-AGENTS.md-truncation
  claims limit; tool list updated (Copilot/opencode now have dedicated
  adapters; bare Devin is the out-of-scope cloud agent)
- init wizard: Windsurf (Devin Desktop)
- CHANGELOG: folded into the agents-md Unreleased bullet

Review fix: redirect status corrected 307 -> 308 (the spike's summarizing
fetch had masked the wire status; raw curl HEAD+GET both show 308).

No adapter, no registry entry, no matrix row, zero test edits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… own shipped source

Re-scoped by coordinator decision: no .rules adapter, no matrix row, zero
test edits. Zed v1.16.1 (eb8e1c8b) reads AGENTS.md from RULES_FILE_NAMES
(first match only) and scans .agents/skills/ as its project skills root —
both generic-tier paths, verified at shipped-code tier. README generic-tier
prose names the claim; SHA-pinned permalinks + quoted fragments + shadowing
and caps claims-limits live in the agents-md adapter header; CHANGELOG folds
Zed into the existing agents-md bullet. All permalinks re-fetched verbatim
at the pinned SHA on 2026-08-24 (one plan drift corrected: largest scaffolded
skill description measures 943 bytes, not 958).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…x names, file-vs-directory, is_file() cited

Review Finding 1 fix: the header's no-shadowing evidence sentence was
falsifiable — the grep it cited also hits lib/targets/cline.js:14-17, which
scaffolds .clinerules as a repo-root DIRECTORY (plus wizard/comment hits in
commands/init.js:542, commands/retro.js:103). Restated accurately: six names
precede AGENTS.md (CLAUDE.md follows it); no Bobby target scaffolds any of
the six AS A FILE; the load-bearing fact is now cited — Zed's selection
filters entry.is_file() (agent.rs #L1266 at the pinned SHA eb8e1c8b, quoted)
and its #L1271-L1272 comment marks Cline's directory form 'not currently
supported', which also covers the init --refresh leftover-directory
coexistence case. Comment-only diff; zero test edits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…and agy's own docs name both tier paths

The Gemini CLI hold's exit condition is met with release-grade evidence:
consumer Gemini CLI sunset executed 2026-06-18, successor Antigravity CLI
(agy, GA 2026-05-19, v1.1.19) is the settled product, and its own CLI docs
first-party-document both generic-tier surfaces — root AGENTS.md parsed as
rules on startup (docs/cli/best-practices) and .agents/skills/ as the
project skills root with name+description frontmatter, skills auto-
converting to slash commands (docs/cli/plugins). Closed source, curl|bash
installer only, so convention tier is the ceiling: URL + verbatim quote +
fetch date (2026-08-23, re-verified verbatim 2026-08-24) in the agents-md
adapter header, with the claims limits (12,000-char rules cap undocumented
for root AGENTS.md; GEMINI.md precedence undocumented; headless mode young
and unverifiable without a binary — NO executor claim). README generic-tier
prose and init wizard exemplars name Antigravity; CHANGELOG folds into the
existing agents-md bullet. No adapter, no row, no test edits — suite green
unedited at 1509/51/0. Deferred agy executor's re-open condition lives in
the epic feature-plan and BOB-088/plan.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Dashboard section's Executor paragraph, YAML example comment, and
permission-posture paragraph still described claude/cursor-agent only —
three flavors stale after codex (BOB-080) and opencode (BOB-085), and
wrong about the default, which derives from target. All three now match
lib/dashboard/executor.js, and test/docs/executor-prose.test.js anchors
them against EXECUTOR_NAMES the way BOB-082's suite guards the matrix
table. Docs + test only; lib/ and commands/ untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…eds-you

Nothing in the MIT host ever sent {type:'notify'}, so the whole push pipeline
below it — relay handler, rate limiter, APNs/Web Push fan-out, service worker —
had no producer. The queue gained tickets and no phone ever buzzed.

lib/remote/notifier.js subscribes to the workspace store alongside the SSE
fan-out and calls tunnel.sendNotify(kind) on the transition INTO a push-worthy
status. Two things make that harder than it reads:

- store.update() fires on every patch (appended runs, checkpoints, lastError)
  while the status sits still, so this is an EDGE, compared on the mapped kind
  rather than the raw status — awaiting_approval -> ready_to_merge is a move
  within the queue, not a second arrival.
- the listener never receives the previous workspace, so the map is seeded from
  store.list() before subscribing. Without that, a restart with parked
  awaiting_approval workspaces pushes on their next unrelated write.

RemoteTunnel.sendNotify is plaintext on purpose and is its own method rather
than a flag on sendFrame(): the relay has to hand something to Apple/Google
while staying unable to read the E2E frames, so the host reveals exactly one
enum value. The kind set is a deliberate subset of the relay's — no `done`,
whose only host status is `merged`, which is always human-initiated. No
host-side rate limiter either; the relay's MIN_PUSH_GAP_MS already de-dupes and
two limiters would only disagree.

Wired only after verifyRoundTrip succeeds, for the same reason the QR is
(BOB-064). `bobby app` builds no tunnel and is untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kept out of eab163f so the shipped commit stays byte-identical to the one
review and testing verified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every agent ran on whatever single model `dashboard.model` named, or on the
model of the operator's own session — so reviewing a diff and recording a
page's load time cost the same.

Each registry entry now declares a tier: opus for judgment, sonnet for
execution, haiku for bookkeeping. lib/models.js resolves tier + config into
the model an agent gets, and both paths honour it — the orchestrator passes
--model to the executor, and init/upgrade stamp it into each scaffolded
.claude/agents/bobby-*.md frontmatter. `bobby run` prints the resolved model.

Override with a `models:` block: models.<stage> > models.default >
dashboard.model > shipped tier, with `inherit` meaning no model flag. An
existing dashboard.model still governs every stage, and the tiers are withheld
from cursor-agent/codex/opencode, which take full model names rather than the
opus/sonnet/haiku aliases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The design skill and its six agents shipped, but the command that launches
them did not — the only sibling missing from templates/commands/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dogfood output from the design chain run against bobbycode itself: four
reference teardowns, the direction lineup and hero variations, the racetrack
build in both themes, and the spec they resolved to. bobby-design resumes
from these, so they belong in history rather than on one machine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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