qwen-code/docs/users
Shaojin Wen a8a855914b
fix(review): run verifier probes in a private scratch worktree (#9207) (#9221)
* fix(review): run verifier probes in a private scratch worktree (#9207)

Step 4's verifier is the review's one writing agent: it writes a probe, runs
it, applies the one-line fix its flip-check needs, and restores. All of that
landed in the shared review worktree — the tree `working_dir` pins every other
agent to — and the pipelined loop launches a round's verifiers alongside the
NEXT round's reverse auditors, so those writes are live exactly while the
auditors read. "Leave the tree as you found it", which the brief has always
said and verifiers do obey, cannot close that window: the exposure is *during*
the probe. Measured on a live run, a round-5 auditor read a probe's mutant plus
a leftover probe test and came within a step of filing a Critical against code
no commit contains; it recovered only by improvising `git show HEAD:`, a
fallback no brief mentions.

Three parts, because isolation alone is a guarantee one regression away from
being false:

- `qwen review scratch-tree` gives each verifier shard a throwaway sibling
  worktree at the commit under review, with the review worktree's node_modules
  linked in so a unit harness starts without an install. Every call hands back
  a pristine tree (a previous finding's mutant surviving into the next probe
  would be a wrong verdict carrying a deterministic source tag); the label is
  the shard's record key, because the shards of one round run concurrently; and
  a tree it cannot create makes the probe inconclusive rather than falling back
  to the shared worktree. This is the isolation the test-efficacy probe has had
  since #6832 and the A/B's base tree has, extended to the last step that
  writes.
- Every code-reading brief — dimension agents, chunk agents, reverse auditors
  and the verifier itself — now carries the rule that auditor had to invent:
  the worktree is shared, code that is not in the diff and not in the commit is
  not a finding, and anything surprising is judged against `git show HEAD:`.
- `agent-prompt` reads the tree once per call, and every wave of agents is
  built by it immediately before launch: residue is named in each brief it
  builds and warned about on stderr, so a contaminated tree is announced to the
  agents about to read it instead of being discovered as a phantom Critical.

`exposeDependencies` moves to `lib/worktree.ts` beside the other disposable-tree
machinery, and now farms each workspace member's own node_modules as well as the
root's. Measured on this repo, a tree with 1560 root packages linked still could
not resolve `@testing-library/react` for a UI probe, because npm could not hoist
that copy out of `packages/cli` — which also silently cost the efficacy probe the
same class of test.

`cleanup` sweeps the scratch family by prefix; the label half is the shard's key
and cannot be reconstructed by the sweeper.

* fix(review): address the scratch-tree review — two criticals and the honesty gaps

Both Criticals were real, and both had the same shape: a claim the code made
that one machine class or one leftover state falsified.

- The welded `scratch-tree` command interpolated `--worktree` unquoted, so on
  any checkout under a path with a space or an apostrophe every shard's
  isolation was silently unavailable and every probe fell back to a reading.
  Quoted with `shellQuotePath`, like every other path this file prints into a
  command.
- The reuse gate checked only that the scratch path EXISTS. A bare directory
  there — the leftover of a crashed `worktree add`, or of a cleanup whose
  `rmSync` failed — has no `.git`, so git walked up and ran
  `checkout --force --detach` against the user's own checkout: their
  uncommitted work discarded, their HEAD detached onto the PR's commit, and
  `rev-parse HEAD` then returning the sha that made the reset report success.
  Gated on the tree being a registered worktree, with the regression pinned by
  a test that fails on the un-gated code.

The rest are the same defect class at lower stakes — something stated more
broadly than it holds:

- The residue probe hand-parsed porcelain's rendered form, so a path with a
  space, a non-ASCII byte, or a literal ` -> ` came back as a name matching
  nothing on disk, `--untracked-files=normal` collapsed a whole probe directory
  to one unactionable `dir/` entry, the 1 MB `maxBuffer` default answered the
  dirtiest trees with "clean", and the cap truncated silently while both
  renderers presented the list as complete. Now `-z --untracked-files=all` with
  a 64 MB buffer, and a `{paths, total}` result both renderers disclose.
- `git checkout -- <path>` restores from the INDEX, so the advised recovery
  left staged residue in the tree; it now says `git checkout HEAD --`.
- `git show HEAD:<path>` cannot produce an untracked path — the prototypical
  residue — so the rule now says what that answer means instead of handing the
  reader a command that exits 128.
- Agent 8's `--whole-diff` block reads the same shared worktree and got neither
  the rule nor the residue paths; it is built outside `buildLaunch`, which is
  exactly how it was missed.
- The stderr warning claimed every agent had been told; the block is gated on
  `reviewsCode`, and Agent 7 — which builds and tests that tree — is not.
- A label that flattens to no path-safe character fell back to a shared
  `agent` tree, `git clean -fd` left a nested repo standing while the report
  said the tree was pristine, `dependencies: null` said "no node_modules"
  about a farm that had failed to link, `{0,0}` read as "already in place" for
  a `node_modules` holding nothing linkable, and `--out` was validated after
  the tree and its farm already existed.
- The docs stated the isolation unconditionally: local-diff and file-path
  reviews have no worktree and no scratch tree, and SKILL.md/DESIGN.md and the
  user page now say so.

Tests moved with the code (`exposeDependencies` and `worktreeCreateFailureDetail`
now live beside `lib/worktree.ts`), and the plumbing that was pinned at both
ends but not in the middle — that a verify shard's recorded brief carries ITS
record key as the scratch label — is pinned by a test that fails when the key
is dropped.

* fix(review): close the round-2 review — Windows guard, Agent 7's blind spot, unpinned wording

The Critical is a test that would only fail where this PR's CI does not look:
the new chmod-based case guards on `process.getuid`, which is undefined on
Windows, and `chmodSync` on a directory there sets a read-only attribute that
does not stop `git worktree add` from creating a subdirectory — so the
merge_group-only Windows leg would go red for every PR carrying the file.
Sixteen of the seventeen chmod-permission tests in this repo already skip
win32; this one now does too.

The rest are the same class as round 1 — a claim wider than the code:

- **Agent 7 had no protection for residue that PREDATES the round.** The
  exclusion's justification ("its own commands are the writes it sees") is only
  true for residue a round creates. A tree that starts dirty reaches Agent 7's
  compile and test run, where a `[build]`/`[test]` finding is pre-confirmed and
  skips verification — a merge-blocking phantom Critical of exactly the class
  this machinery exists to prevent. The residue paragraph now goes to EVERY
  brief (with "a defect confined to these paths is not a finding"); only the
  reader rule stays scoped to the roles that review code. The stderr warning
  says to restore before launching the wave, not before the next round.
- **Residue paths reached two sinks unflattened.** `inertPath` moved to
  `lib/paths.ts` and now covers the scratch-tree note and the orchestrator's
  stderr line as well as the briefs — the `-z` format this PR introduced is
  precisely what lets a control byte in a filename arrive intact.
- **The recovery wording could not clear two shapes the probe reports.** A path
  staged as NEW and a rename destination are in the index but not in HEAD, so
  `git checkout HEAD --` cannot match either; both renderers now name `git rm
  --cached` for those and `rm -rf` for untracked residue (including the nested-
  repo directory entry `--untracked-files=all` still cannot expand).
- **The "full set" command was the one this PR calls unusable.** Both notes now
  say `git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all`, since the default
  collapses the probe directory whose files the count came from.
- **`alreadyPresent` believed an empty farm dir.** The dir a previous call
  creates when the source holds nothing linkable is gitignored, so the reset
  spares it, and the second call flipped "no harness will start here" into
  "already in place" with nothing changed. It now requires a non-empty farm.
- Doc corrections: `resetScratchTree`'s header still said `clean -fd`, and the
  residue probe's comment claimed `--untracked-files=all` ends directory-shaped
  entries — it does not for a directory holding its own `.git`. The invalid-
  UTF-8 limit (`encoding: 'utf8'` maps a bad byte to U+FFFD, and no string form
  of that name resolves) is documented rather than papered over.

Pinned, each verified by reverting the fix and watching the test go red: the
apostrophe ESCAPE in the welded command (the fixture had no apostrophe, so a
naive `'…'` wrap passed), the `git checkout HEAD --` wording in both places,
the capped-note arithmetic, the farm-failure note, stdout-before-side-file
ordering and the exit-1 arm it also covers, and `sharedTreeResidueTotal` on the
creation-failure return.

* fix(review): close the round-3 review — hooks, hidden mutants, planted farms, suppression after restore

Four of the seven Criticals are the same discovery from four directions: a
scratch tree is a LINKED worktree and a `clean`/`checkout` reset is not the
guarantee it reads as.

- **Hooks resolve to the user's repository.** `git worktree add` and
  `checkout --force` both fire `post-checkout` from the common dir — the user's
  own `.git/hooks` — so creating or resetting a scratch tree executed whatever
  that repository holds. Every git call this command makes now runs with
  `core.hooksPath` pointed at a path holding no hooks, and the report says
  plainly that hooks, config and refs are shared rather than isolated.
- **skip-worktree hid a mutant through the reset.** `checkout --force` silently
  skips a file carrying the bit and `clean` never touches tracked files, so a
  probe that set it (directly or via `sparse-checkout`) left a mutant that
  survived with `git status` reading empty and the sha still matching. The reset
  now refuses when `ls-files -v` still shows a hidden entry, which routes the
  caller to discard-and-rebuild.
- **The farm was certified by existence.** `clean -ffd` spares ignored paths to
  keep the dependency farm — and equally spares whatever a probe installed or
  planted there. `node_modules` is now the one ignored path a reuse does not
  inherit: it is cleared and re-linked, and `exposeDependencies` marks the farms
  it builds so a directory it did not build is never certified as one.
- **A broken leftover could not be rebuilt over.** A `.git` gitfile whose admin
  entry survives makes `worktree remove` fail and the next `worktree add`
  refuse "missing but already registered"; `discardWorktree` now prunes.

The fifth is about the instruction rather than the tree: the residue paragraph
is baked into every brief at build time, so restoring the paths and then
launching the already-built wave tells every agent to drop findings in a file
that is by then exactly the PR's code. Both the stderr warning and SKILL.md now
say to rebuild the wave after restoring. The remaining two are the three new
real-git fixtures missing `isolateHostGitConfig()`, which a polluted host
gitconfig (`commit.gpgsign` with no key, a `core.hooksPath` hook) turns into
suites that fail for reasons the branch never touched.

The suggestions, in one line each: a rename now reports BOTH of its names (the
restore needs the one that is gone); a `git status` that dies is reported as
UNMEASURED rather than clean, in both renderers; `inertPath` covers `\p{Cf}`
and `\p{Zl}`/`\p{Zp}` — bidi overrides and zero-width characters passed
through the sanitizer that exists to defuse hostile filenames; residue paths
and tree paths are shell-quoted where the notes prescribe commands over them
(`rm -rf my probe.ts` deleted `probe.ts`); the verifier brief no longer says
"then move on" after applying a candidate fix, because one tree serves every
finding in a shard; `scratchLabel` strips a leading dash, which yargs read as a
flag; the member-farm loop guards per member rather than around the loop; the
unguarded `mkdirSync`/`readdirSync` in the farm now count as failures instead of
throwing out of a best-effort contract; cleanup discloses a `readdir` failure
instead of reporting "nothing to clean", and sweeps a dangling symlink
`releaseWorktree` cannot see; the briefs' restore recipe gained the staged-only
branch the scratch-tree note already had; and both "pristine" claims now say
that gitignored paths survive.

Also corrected: "the one agent whose job requires writing" — Agent 7's
efficacy probe writes too, and has had its own tree since #6832.

New tests, each verified by reverting its fix: the hooks suppression, the
skip-worktree refusal, the planted-farm replacement, the prune, staged-residue
detection, the unmeasured state, `inertPath`'s character class, and the
residue reaching every launch class rather than the one role the earlier test
inspected.

* fix(review): close the round-4 review — untrusted workspace paths, member farms, locked leftovers

The sharpest two are about treating the reviewed PR's own manifest as data
rather than as input, in code that DELETES:

- `exposeDependencies` fed workspace dirs from the root manifest of the code
  under review straight into `join()` and then into the farm's opening
  `rmSync`. A PR setting `"workspaces": [".."]` — or a committed SYMLINK at a
  workspace path, which `readWorkspacePackages` follows deliberately because
  npm does — pointed that delete at a directory outside both trees; in this
  pipeline's layout, at the reviewer's own checkout. Every member is now
  resolved through `realpathSync` and required to be contained in the tree it
  belongs to, which closes the string and the symlink vector together, and a
  member that escapes is counted as failed rather than silently skipped.
- The reuse path wiped only the ROOT farm, so `<tree>/packages/<member>/
  node_modules` survived with its marker and was certified as-is — the same
  hole round 3 closed at the root, one level down, where Node resolves a
  member's imports FIRST. `exposeDependencies` now takes `rebuild`, and the
  reuse path distrusts every farm rather than the top one.

Two more that would have wedged a review:

- `git worktree prune` never drops a LOCKED admin entry, and probe code has a
  shell inside these trees: one `touch` in the admin dir the tree's own gitfile
  names, and every later `worktree add` for that PR fatals "missing but locked"
  — permanently, since cleanup prunes too. `discardWorktree` now unlocks and
  retries with the second `--force`.
- `ls-files -v` and `clean` ran under `spawnSync`'s default 1 MiB buffer, which
  a large repo passes; Node kills the child, the reset reads that as failure,
  and every reuse rebuilds forever.

And a Windows one of the same class as round 2's: the new fixture wrote a file
named `a -> b.ts`, and `>` is reserved on NTFS — the merge-queue-only Windows
leg would have failed at fixture setup. Split, with the arrow half skipped
there (the shape it pins cannot exist on NTFS).

The rest: the residue restore recipe was WRONG for a staged rename's original
name (`git rm --cached` stages a deletion there; `git checkout HEAD --` is
what clears it) and the test that certified it never staged anything — both
fixed, and the test now builds all four real shapes; the reader rule was gated
on `reviewsCode`, which left Agent 0 and the test matrix reading worktree
source without it (the gate is now "every role that judges code", i.e. all but
Agent 7); the stderr warning did not actually carry the rebuild-after-restore
instruction SKILL.md attributes to it; `ScratchTreeReport` dropped the
`unmeasured` state, so a failed `git status` read as clean to a script; the
scoped-package branch linked non-directory entries the top-level branch skips;
`farmDependencies`' catch and its note branch were unreachable once round 3
guarded the fs calls, so they are gone rather than pretending to be a net;
cleanup's family-read failure now fails the run instead of letting it announce
"Nothing to clean", and its dangling-symlink branch no longer swallows a
throwing `rmSync`; the residue note says the names are flattened for display
and where the exact bytes are.

Disclosed rather than enforced, with the reason in the code: the farm's links
are read-write and point into the shared worktree, so a probe that writes
THROUGH one (an `npm rebuild`, a package that writes into its own directory)
lands outside its tree where the residue check cannot see it. Copying the farm
would cost the minutes it exists to save; the verifier's block now says to
replace a link with a copy before modifying a dependency.

New coverage: workspace escape and symlinked-member containment, the self-farm
guard, rebuild-on-reuse at member level, assume-unchanged beside skip-worktree,
the unmeasured state through its renderers, the dangling-symlink sweep, the
family-read failure, and the cleanup mock gaps that made two of those branches
unreachable by construction.

* fix(review): close the round-5 review — scoped prune, real pristine, submodules, symlink gadgets

The findings that hold without assuming an attacker already has a shell:

- **The prune added in round 4 was repo-wide.** `git worktree prune` drops any
  admin entry whose directory is momentarily absent — another shard's
  `worktree add` mid-flight (this pipeline runs discards and adds concurrently
  against one common dir), or the user's own worktree on a volume that happens
  to be unmounted. It now removes the one entry whose `gitdir` file names this
  path, and nothing else.
- **"Pristine" spared ignored paths, and a probe's state lives there.** Its own
  `node_modules` at any depth, a `.tsbuildinfo`, a `dist/` it built and then
  mutated — all survived a reset the report called pristine, and the farm-level
  wipe could not reach them (a member farm whose source has none was skipped
  before the target was touched; the root rebuild was skipped entirely when the
  review worktree had no `node_modules`). The reset is now `clean -ffdx` and the
  farm is re-linked, so pristine means pristine.
- **An initialized submodule was untouched by all of it**: `checkout --force`
  without `--recurse-submodules` leaves its working tree, `clean` never touches
  a tracked gitlink, and `rev-parse HEAD` is the superproject's. A tree holding
  one is now rebuilt rather than reset — a fresh `worktree add` leaves
  submodules uninitialized, so the rebuild is both correct and cheap.
- **test-efficacy reuses one probe tree across every suite run**, and the code
  running in it is the PR's own test code. Round 4 answered this with the
  positive control; the control only covers the green-forcing direction, so the
  farm is now re-linked before each run instead — about a second against a
  540-second budget.

The remaining Criticals all presuppose code execution that this pipeline grants
before any of this code runs (Agent 7 installs and tests the PR; a verifier's
probe is arbitrary code by design), so they do not change what an attacker can
do — but three of them describe gadgets that cost nothing to remove, and they
are removed:

- `cleanup` no longer hands ANY symlink at a family path to
  `git worktree remove`, which would follow it and delete whichever registered
  worktree it points at. It unlinks the link and reports that.
- `resetScratchTree` validates that the tree IS the tree — not a symlink, and
  `rev-parse --show-toplevel` resolving to itself — before running a reset that
  would otherwise land wherever the path resolves.
- `farmNodeModules` lstats its SOURCE root, so a symlink at the review
  worktree's `node_modules` cannot redirect every probe tree's dependencies.

Also: the `dependencies: null` contract now says what it means (no
`node_modules` to link from; a link failure arrives counted, not as null), the
`alreadyPresent` branch of the note is gone with the reuse path that could
reach it, and the residue note carries the flattened-names disclosure its
sibling renderer already had.

New tests: the symlinked scratch path, ignored-state clearing, the submodule
rebuild, and the unmeasured pass-through through the command's own report.

* fix(review): close the round-6 review — committed farms, foreign repos, deinit'd submodules

One finding crosses the line the round-5 reply drew, and it is the important
one: `node_modules` is gitignored by convention, not by rule, so a pull request
can force-add `node_modules/.qwen-review-farm` beside its own module stubs and
`git worktree add` checks both out. The fresh-create path then found a marker
and certified the PR's own modules as the farm this code built — reachable from
PR CONTENT, with nothing executed. Two changes: the marker records the
dependency root it was built from and is only believed when it names this one,
and both scratch-tree paths (fresh and reuse) now rebuild rather than trust
anything found at that path.

The other three that hold on their own:

- **The identity check added in round 5 was incomplete.** `rev-parse
  --show-toplevel` prints the directory the `.git` file sits in, whatever that
  file points at — so a gitfile naming another repository, or a whole repo
  planted at the predictable scratch path, passed it while every command below
  would have run against someone else's objects, refs, hooks and config. The
  tree must now share a common dir with the review worktree.
- **`git submodule deinit` walked through the round-5 submodule gate**: the
  status line goes back to `-` while the submodule's gitdir — its hooks, its
  config, its objects — survives under the common dir and is resurrected by the
  next `update --init`. The gate now reads the commit's gitlinks instead of the
  submodule's state, so a repo with submodules rebuilds rather than resets.
- **The round-5 anti-planting rebuild never reached the positive control or the
  hunk probes.** They defaulted `dependencyRoot` to the probe tree, where
  `exposeDependencies` returns before clearing anything — so the control, the
  run that decides whether ANY mutant verdict is trusted, resolved through
  whatever the baseline's test code had planted.

Smaller, from the same review: a dangling symlink at the target skipped the
rebuild wipe (`existsSync` follows links); a dangling top-level link in the
source was dropped without counting; a stray file under a scope directory was
linked as a package where the top-level branch skips one.

Disclosed rather than fixed, with the count now in the report: the farm mirrors
npm workspace SELF-links, so an import that goes through a package NAME
resolves back into the review worktree's copy and a mutation made in the
disposable tree is invisible to it. Re-pointing them would break resolution
outright for any package whose entry point is a build artifact a fresh checkout
does not have, so `DependencyFarm.selfLinked` carries the number instead of the
layout carrying it silently.

Not fixed, and this is the third round of stating it: the remaining findings
need a prior arbitrary-code-execution foothold (a background process racing the
containment check between resolve and use). The pipeline grants that capability
several steps earlier and by other code — Agent 7 runs `npm ci` and the PR's
test suite — so hardening this command changes which line appears in the trace,
not what is possible. The place to change it is sandboxing the review's command
execution, which is its own design.

Tests: the locked-leftover recovery, the scoped registration drop (a sibling
worktree whose directory is absent survives it), the foreign-repository gitfile,
the deinit-proof submodule gate, and the scope-directory stray file. The
foreign-repo fixture is a CLONE on purpose — with an unrelated repo the reset
fails for the wrong reason and the test passes without the guard it pins.

* fix(review): close the round-7 review — walk-up escapes, identity gates, farm wipe

Five Criticals, each probe-verified on real git before the fix and
mutation-checked after:

- worktreeResidue verifies the path IS a worktree before measuring: with
  the .git file gone, git discovery walks up into the user's checkout and
  answers with the user's own dirty state — fail closed instead (R7-4).
- runScratchTree applies the same --show-toplevel check to the trusted
  --worktree argument before resolving HEAD (R7-3).
- The reuse identity gate rejects a tree whose gitdir equals the common
  dir: a .git symlinked or hand-edited to name it passed every prior
  check while checkout --force detached the user's main HEAD onto the
  PR sha and rewrote the main index (R7-2).
- farmNodeModules detects the rebuild target with lstatSync: a dangling
  symlink a PR committed as node_modules read as absent, skipped the
  wipe, and died EEXIST on every rebuild (R7-1).
- The residue probe's node_modules/dist exclusion is enforced by a
  pipeline-controlled excludes file rather than borrowed from the
  commit's .gitignore (R7-5).

Plus the production-shaped UNMEASURED fixture (R7-19) and the three
remaining stale contract texts on the reuse reset (R6-7).

* fix(review): close the round-8 review — tripwire identity, GIT_DIR redirects, symlink writes

Round-8 Criticals, each probe-confirmed and pinned by a test that goes
red when the fix is reverted:

- The residue tripwire certified a CLEAN status for a repository planted
  over the contamination (`rm .git && git init && commit`): no local
  check can tell a planted repo from the tree it replaced. It now fails
  closed unless `.git` is a gitfile, and reports unmeasured for what
  `git status` cannot see inside committed gitlinks (a non-empty
  submodule directory) instead of clean.
- An inherited GIT_DIR (or GIT_WORK_TREE/GIT_INDEX_FILE/...) redirected
  every identity check at once — both sides of each comparison see the
  same override, so none could detect it. Every git call in the
  scratch-tree lifecycle and the tripwire now drops the redirect
  variables.
- The scratch-tree reuse gate accepted a planted gitfile naming a
  SIBLING worktree's admin entry and reset the sibling: the gate now
  requires the admin entry's gitdir backpointer to resolve to this tree.
- Probe writes followed PR-committed leaf symlinks (mode 120000) into
  the shared review worktree — the positive-control injection, every
  mutant and every hunk restore. Each write site refuses a symlinked
  target as inconclusive.
- discardWorktree handed a symlink at the tree path to
  `git worktree remove --force`, which resolved it and force-deleted the
  registered victim it pointed at; a symlink is unlinked instead.

Plus the record-key comments (chunk id separates --all-chunks shards)
and the orphaned marksOurFarm doc block.

* fix(review): close the round-9 review — gitlink residue, env redirects, probe escapes

Round-9 Criticals, each probe-confirmed on real git before the fix and
pinned by a test that goes red when the fix is reverted:

- worktreeResidue's gitlink blind set was parsed from RENDERED
  `ls-files -s`: default core.quotepath quotes a non-ASCII gitlink
  name into a spelling that never resolves on disk, the entry dropped
  from `blind`, and a contaminated gitlink was certified CLEAN. It now
  reads `-z` (R9-1).
- An exported GIT_DIR redirected every inheriting git call at once:
  test-efficacy's head-sha read, probe resets and revert checkout, and
  base-tree's add and reuse check. Every git spawn in both files now
  drops the redirect variables (R9-16).
- cleanup's symlink guard covered only the scratch family; the three
  named family paths still reached releaseWorktree, whose existsSync
  follows a LIVE link and whose `worktree remove --force` resolves it
  — deleting the registered victim while reporting success, and
  silently skipping a dangling link. The guard moved into the shared
  report path all four families go through (R9-18).
- exposeDependencies' rebuild wiped only the farm-owned node_modules;
  anything planted at another path — packages/node_modules resolves
  before the root farm in a packages/* workspace — survived between
  probe runs and decided their verdicts. Rebuild now wipes every
  node_modules the farm does not recreate, following no links (R9-37).
- NO_HOOKS covered hooks only, not config-driven content FILTERS: a
  planted `filter.<name>.smudge|clean` plus one attributes line — both
  writable into the common dir — executed on every reset and rebuild
  checkout. runScratchTree detects repo-local filter config and
  refuses rather than run it (R9-38).
- The harness never WRITES probe test files, so no write guard ever
  saw one committed as mode 120000 — vitest collected it through the
  link and scored mutants against code the tree never mutated. Probe
  files are checked against the committed index and dropped as
  not-run before any suite collects them (R9-40).
- The probe write guards lstat-checked the LEAF only; lstat resolves
  intermediate components, so a relinked ancestor in a reused tree
  read ordinary and every later write followed it out of the tree.
  The guard walks every component (as safeRmWithin does for deletes),
  and each restore write re-validates immediately before writing —
  a mid-run relink stops the phase instead of writing through the
  link (R9-17).

* fix(review): close the round-10 Criticals — env config injection, sweep scope, probe-set holds

Taken back from the autofix loop, and scoped to Criticals from here: the
findings that hold without assuming a foothold, plus the ones whose fix is a
few lines and removes a step from a chain.

Reachable from the environment or from PR content, with nothing executed:

- **`sanitizedGitEnv` dropped only the discovery redirects.** `GIT_CONFIG_COUNT`
  with `GIT_CONFIG_KEY_<n>`/`GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_<n>` sets any config key for the
  run — `core.fsmonitor` and the `filter.*` pair are command execution — and
  `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL`/`GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM`/`GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS` reach the same
  place by other routes. A gate on the front door with the window open.
- **`lib/git.ts` never had the gate at all**: `gitOpts()` spread `process.env`
  into every shared helper, `releaseWorktree`'s `worktree remove --force`
  included — the commands that run against the user's own repository, so they
  need it more than the disposable-tree ones that got it first.
- **The residue probe could be steered by the tree it measures**: `core.fsmonitor`
  runs a command on `status`, so the tripwire was an executor. Emptied for that
  invocation, the same discipline the checkouts' `core.hooksPath` already had.
- **`probeTargetEscapes` treated a backslash as a separator on POSIX**, where it
  is an ordinary name character: `x\y.test.ts` split into phantom components,
  the first `lstat` died ENOENT, and the catch reported "no escape" for a leaf
  nobody looked at. It also never checked the tree ROOT, which defeats every
  per-component check at once.
- **The symlink drop reassigned the probe list before the collocated-test hold
  ran**, so a mutant whose own test was dropped answered "there is no such test"
  and was scored `survived` on the strength of the other probes passing — the
  hold exists to refuse exactly that.
- **The rebuild sweep matched `node_modules` case-sensitively** on the two
  filesystems this file already special-cases: `Node_Modules` resolves like the
  real one on APFS and NTFS and survived every rebuild.
- **A tracked path in the residue list suppressed real findings.** The brief
  said "none of it is the PR's code, so a defect confined to those paths is not
  a finding" — false for a file the commit contains and this PR changes: only
  the uncommitted DIFFERENCE is foreign. It now separates the two, and a defect
  present in the committed version stays a finding.

Cheap chain removal, though each needs a prior foothold:

- The excludes file moved from a constant name in the shared temp dir to a
  `mkdtemp` directory written `wx` — git re-reads its CONTENTS on every later
  `status`, so a writable fixed path could blind the tripwire.
- `discardWorktree` now clears the registration named by the TREE's own `.git`
  pointer, read before anything is removed, instead of scanning
  `<common>/worktrees/<id>/gitdir` files — which any same-user process can
  rewrite to aim this cleanup at a live sibling. The scan remains only as the
  fallback for a tree whose pointer is unreadable, which is the case the step
  exists for, and it now refuses entries whose tree still stands.
- The scratch sweep refuses to run at all when its parent is not a directory: a
  symlinked `.qwen/tmp` redirects every delete below it, and no per-leaf check
  can see an ancestor.
- `removeUnownedNodeModules` counts a wipe it could not perform, instead of
  letting a planted directory survive every rebuild undisclosed.

Left as recorded decisions, not re-litigated: R4-5, R6-2 and the R6-5/R9-14/
R9-38/R9-40/R10-25/R10-27 class, which need probe code already running as the
user — a capability Agent 7's install and test step grants several steps
earlier. The remaining Suggestions stay on the deferred queue for a follow-up,
per the triage gate's own call that seven rounds was the moment to land this.

* fix(review): close the round-11 Criticals — the half-fixes from round 10

Five of the eight are residue from the previous round's own fixes, which is the
honest reason to take them:

- **The fsmonitor neutralization covered one spawn of two.** `git status` got
  `-c core.fsmonitor=`; the sibling `git ls-files -s -z` that builds the gitlink
  blind set did not, so the same planted command still fired during the
  measurement.
- **The gitlink blind-set filter failed OPEN.** An absent directory is the clean
  shape `worktree add` leaves; an UNREADABLE one is a place neither `git status`
  nor this probe can see, and both answered "nothing to hide there". Only ENOENT
  is clean now.
- **The wipe walk skipped symlinked directories entirely**, so a `node_modules`
  behind a PR-COMMITTED symlink directory survived every rebuild with nothing
  said. The walk still refuses to follow a link — the farm's own entries point
  out of the tree — but a link resolving back INSIDE the tree that hides
  dependencies is now counted as a failure the caller reports.
- **The sweep's ancestor check stopped at its own argument.** `lstat` refuses to
  dereference only the last component, so a symlink one hop above (`.qwen` over
  `.qwen/tmp`) resolved silently and redirected the same deletes. Every ancestor
  up to the filesystem root is checked.
- **Detection was followed by the damage it detected.** When the mutation phase
  aborts because the probe tree was relinked mid-run, the revert phase ran
  anyway — `git checkout base -- …` and `safeRmWithin` with a cwd resolving
  through the link into the shared review worktree. The phase now re-validates
  the tree first, and `safeRmWithin` lstats its own ROOT, which its docstring
  always promised and its loop never did (a root link resolves the whole prefix
  in the kernel, so every component below it looks ordinary).

Left as recorded decisions: R11-1 (`refs/replace` in the shared common dir),
R11-2's residual fallback path, and R11-3 (content filters during `status`) —
each needs probe code already running as the user, the capability Agent 7's
install and test step grants several steps earlier, and the scan fallback exists
precisely for the corrupt-pointer recovery the earlier rounds pinned.

* fix(review): close the round-12 Criticals — sanitizer gaps, sweep scope, false farm failures

Nine of the twenty-four hold without a foothold, or are defects in the previous
rounds' own fixes:

- **`residue.unmeasured` rode raw into two sinks** while the paths beside it went
  through `inertPath` — and that string is built from `ls-files -z` gitlink
  names, so a PR that commits a gitlink with ESC bytes puts a control sequence
  on the orchestrator's terminal and in the verifier's note.
- **The branch delete never got the env the check did.** `refExists` resolves the
  real repository through the sanitized helpers, while `git branch -D` in
  cleanup and fetch-pr still inherited `process.env`: with `GIT_DIR` exported
  the pipeline verified a branch in one repository and deleted it in another.
- **The ancestor refusal guarded one sweep of three.** It announced that
  `.qwen/tmp` hangs off a symlink and the same function went on to delete the
  base-tree lock and every side file underneath it. The check moved to the top
  of `runCleanup` and now refuses the whole clean.
- **A family symlink that would not unlink released the lease**, unlike the three
  sibling failures that hold it, leaving the next `fetch-pr` to pass a gate over
  an occupied path.
- **The symlink disclosure added last round produced FALSE failures**: it never
  consulted the `owned` set, so a PR-committed `alias → .` counted a failure for
  the farm this very call had just re-linked, and it judged before the walk had
  wiped the target it was complaining about. It now runs after the walk and
  skips owned farms.
- **Probe names were passed to `git ls-files` as raw pathspecs**, so a probe
  committed as `:(literal)x.test.ts` — a legal filename — was parsed as magic
  and its symlink never found. Every pathspec is `:(literal)`-prefixed now, and
  a refused pathspec drops every probe rather than answering "no symlinks".
- **The residue oracle could be blinded by index bits.** `skip-worktree` and
  `assume-unchanged` make `status` answer clean for an edited tracked file — the
  hazard the scratch tree's reset already refuses to certify around, missing
  from the reader-side probe that tells auditors the tree is pristine.
- The excludes file is created 0600 rather than 0644.

Left on the recorded boundary: the filter-gate coverage findings (R12-6,
R12-24), the hardlink and runtime-relink shapes (R12-31, R12-32, R12-72). Each
needs the PR's own test code running as the user — the capability Agent 7's
install and test step grants several steps earlier — and the last three are
properties of executing untrusted tests at all, not of this command.

* fix(review): close the round-13 Criticals — spelling, empty probe sets, raw error text

Five hold without a foothold, and four of them are defects in the previous
round's own fixes:

- **`owned` mixes path spellings by construction** — the tree root as the caller
  spelled it, each member as `containedIn` resolved it — and last round's
  disclosure compared only one of them, so a farm reached through a link
  counted a failure for a directory that same call had just re-linked. Both
  spellings are asked now, through one helper the wipe and the disclosure share.
- **A suite run with an EMPTY probe list runs vitest with no filter**, which
  collects whatever the repository holds and scores it as this probe's evidence.
  After the committed-symlink drop empties the set, the mutation and revert
  gates now skip rather than run.
- **Git's own stderr rode raw into the verifier-facing note** through
  `Error.message`, as did the filter KEY NAMES in the refusal (a git subsection
  name carries any byte but newline and NUL). Same sink class as last round's
  `unmeasured`, flattened the same way.
- **Every refusal that fires before the residue is measured answered with the
  empty list a measured-clean tree produces.** A consumer could not tell "the
  tree is clean" from "this call never looked"; the refusals now carry the
  unmeasured reason.

Left on the recorded boundary, re-checked and unchanged: R12-6, R12-22, R12-24
(config planting), and the R13-9/R13-10/R13-13 family, which need probe code
already running as the user.

* fix(review): close the round-14 Criticals — farm containment, residue blinds, release guard

Five hold without a foothold, and three of them are channels a pull request
controls outright — no same-user foothold anywhere:

- **Farm entries were mirrored link-or-not.** A committed symlink under
  `node_modules` (force-add defeats gitignore) pointing out of it became a
  write channel from the disposable tree to wherever it points — into the
  shared worktree's tracked files — recreated on every rebuild. Entries now
  resolve through realpath before linking; only a borrowed `node_modules`
  or an npm workspace self-link passes, everything else is counted and
  disclosed. (R10-18)
- **The residue probe's untracked view came from `status` alone**, which
  honors ignore rules the contaminator controls: a committed whitelist-form
  `.gitignore` (`*` with `!`-negations) blinded it to contamination. The
  probe now merges `ls-files --others` without `--exclude-standard` and
  filters the pipeline's build artifacts in code. (R10-19)
- **A gitlink named in bytes UTF-8 cannot decode dropped from the blind
  set**: the mangled spelling never resolves on disk, the readdir read
  absent, and a contaminated gitlink certified clean. Such names now fail
  closed into unmeasured. (R11-4, second entrance)
- **The `owned` set the rebuild disclosure asks held one spelling** while
  the disclosure loop presented another — on a host whose tree path carries
  a symlinked ancestor (macOS's `/var` vs `/private/var`) every rebuild
  counted a phantom failure for the farm the same call had just re-linked.
  The set is normalized once, at build time. (R13-1 remainder)
- **`releaseWorktree` followed a symlink standing at the path**:
  `existsSync` resolved it and `git worktree remove --force` deleted
  whichever registered worktree it named — and a dangling one wedged the
  next `worktree add` while invisible. The lstat-first guard cleanup's
  family sweep applies to every path now lives at this choke point, which
  is where fetch-pr's `cleanStale` releases. (R13-3)

Pinned against real git and real filesystems; all seven new tests fail on
the pre-round sources.

* fix(review): skip the invalid-UTF-8 gitlink fixture off Linux

APFS and NTFS both refuse a filename that is not valid UTF-8, so the fixture
cannot be created there — `mkdir` fails ENOENT on macOS, and the round-14 test
reddened for every maintainer on a Mac while the repo's `pull_request` CI, which
runs the unit legs on Linux only, stayed green. The shape it pins cannot exist
on those filesystems either, so the skip loses no coverage.

Same class as the round-2 and round-6 guards (`chmod` semantics, NTFS reserved
characters): a fixture that cannot exist on a platform is skipped there rather
than left to fail in a leg nobody watches.

* fix(review): close the round-15 Criticals — a tripwire that was firing on every healthy run

The important one is a regression this PR introduced two rounds ago, and it is
measurable rather than hypothetical. Round 14 answered "a `.gitignore` can hide
a probe's leftovers from `status`" by merging the ignore-INDEPENDENT untracked
listing into the residue set. Measured on a healthy review worktree of this
repo, after the `npm ci` and build the pipeline itself runs there: `git status`
reported NOTHING and the tripwire reported 3 957 paths — coverage HTML,
`.tsbuildinfo`, husky's installed hooks. Every one of them reached every
verifier and every reverse auditor as contamination, with `rm` and `git
checkout` recipes attached, and real residue would have been three lines inside
that. A tripwire that fires on every healthy run is not read.

What separates the two sets is not the pattern, which is unbounded, but WHO
WROTE THE RULE. An ignore file the commit under review carries is ordinary repo
hygiene that every reader of that tree sees identically; a rule from anywhere
else — `info/exclude`, a `.gitignore` written after the checkout — is the
plant. `check-ignore -v` names the source file per path, so the reconciliation
asks git that question instead of inferring it from the name. One exception,
because it is the whitelist form's whole trick: a rule from the commit that
hides EVERYTHING (`*` with `!`-negations) vouches for nothing and is not
believed. Measured again through the real function afterwards: 3 957 → 0, with
the two files that were genuinely modified at that moment still named.

Also:

- **The index-bit oracle failed OPEN.** Its guard asked for `status === 0`, and
  a spawn that dies leaves `status` null — so the one tree it could not read
  the skip-worktree/assume-unchanged bits of was certified clean, which is
  precisely the tree that can be carrying a mutant `status` cannot see. It now
  fails closed like its three siblings, and takes `-z` so `core.quotepath`
  cannot octal-expand a non-ASCII name past the buffer.
- **The efficacy probe tree carried tracked writes between runs.** Re-linking
  `node_modules` before each run (round 5) covers half of what a run leaves
  behind; tracked files are the other half and the more direct one — a suite
  that rewrites a probe file after vitest has collected it stays green for its
  own run and hands every later run a file of its choosing, and the verdict
  that buys is `killed`: "a test catches this", asserted for statements no test
  covers. Every run now opens by putting the tree back to its commit, guarded
  by the same identity gate the residue probe uses so a directory that is not a
  checkout is skipped rather than having the enclosing repository checked out
  into it.

Two fixtures had to change with it, and both were relying on the hole. The
control-setup test made its point by having the fake runner DELETE the probe
file; a deleted probe file now comes straight back, so it relinks it instead
(the read-failure path itself is pinned directly in the unit suite). The
wrong-line-mutant test wrote its mismatched content without committing it,
which is not a state a probe tree can be in — a probe tree is a detached
checkout — so it commits it.

Each fix was verified by reverting it and watching the new test go red: the
provenance filter, its trust direction, the catch-all exception, the
`.husky/_` footprint entry, the fail-closed oracle, and the tracked-file
restore.

* chore: keep main's package-lock.json

A local `npm install` during the merge dropped six `"peer": true` markers
from the lock. Unrelated to this branch, so it goes back to main's copy.

* fix(review): close the round-16 Criticals — catch-alls, the exec env family, untracked plants

Two of these are holes in last round's own fix, which is the right way round
for them to be found:

- **`hidesEverything` recognised only the `*`/`**` spellings.** `?` matches any
  single character, so `?*` is `*` with extra steps — a committed `.gitignore`
  whitelist written that way vouched for everything it hid, with no execution
  anywhere: it is committed content. The check is now shape-based rather than a
  list of spellings: every segment wildcard-only, at least one `*`. Enumerating
  the spellings one at a time is how the hole got made.
- **The probe tree's pre-run restore failed OPEN on an unresolvable `.git`.**
  The gate skips a directory with no `.git` because there is no commit to
  restore FROM — but `.git` is untracked, so nothing ever restores IT, and a
  guest that overwrites it once bought "proceed, nothing to put back" from
  every later phase. Present-but-unresolvable is now a failure, which is the
  same discipline round 15 applied to the residue probe's index-bit oracle.

And three that stand on their own:

- **`safeRmWithin` split the PR-controlled path on backslashes unconditionally.**
  On POSIX a backslash is an ordinary filename character, so ONE committed name
  — `\..\review-pr-42\package.json`, legal on POSIX — became three components,
  two of them `..`, which `join` normalises away silently. The revert phase's
  delete then reached the sibling shared review worktree. `probeTargetEscapes`
  already split platform-dependently with a comment naming this hazard: the
  write side had the fix, the delete side did not. Both now, and a `..`
  component is refused outright rather than resolved.
- **`sanitizedGitEnv` closed redirection and config injection and left
  execution open.** `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` and `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` are a command,
  `GIT_EXEC_PATH` moves git's own subcommand and remote-helper lookup,
  `GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR` plants hooks for the next `init`. Not a new judgement
  call: `config/shared-env-keys.ts` blocks exactly this family for session
  subprocesses, with the rationale written out there. The setter need not be an
  attacker — a reviewer's shell profile exporting `GIT_EXEC_PATH` silently
  changes which `git-remote-https` every fetch in this pipeline runs.
- **Nothing removed UNTRACKED files between probe runs.** Round 15 restored the
  tracked half; a `vitest.config.ts` — untracked, because no zero-config
  project commits one — is what a suite reaches for to decide the next run's
  collection. `clean -fd` and not `-fdx`, so the borrowed farm and the ignored
  build output the probes need survive.

Also, the live-symlink test in `git.integration.test.ts` compared git's
CANONICAL worktree path against an un-canonicalized `mkdtemp` path. It passes
on macOS by accident — `/private/var/…` contains `/var/…` as a substring, so
`toContain` succeeds — and would not on a fixture reached through a symlinked
ancestor. It now realpaths, so it passes on purpose.

Each fix was verified by reverting it alone and watching its test go red.

* fix(review): close the round-17 Criticals — provenance, absent .git, ignored plants, ancestor links

Three are holes in the two previous rounds' own fixes:

- **"Tracked" is not "unchanged".** The round-15 provenance test asked
  `ls-files` whether the ignore file's PATH is in the index, so a `.gitignore`
  the commit carries went on vouching for rules appended to it after the
  checkout. The status set the same function already computed answers this: a
  source that appears there has been edited away from the commit, and its rules
  are the writer's.
- **An ABSENT `.git` was read as "nothing to restore".** Round 16 made the
  probe tree's restore fail closed on a `.git` it cannot resolve and left the
  cheaper state open — `.git` is an untracked pointer file inside the tree the
  PR's own suite runs in, so one `rm` bought "proceed" from every later phase.
  Running the restore anyway is not the alternative: with no `.git`, discovery
  walks UP and checks the enclosing repository out into the tree. Refusing is
  the only answer that is neither.
- **The between-run sweep honored the ignore rules.** `clean -fd` skips what
  the commit's own `.gitignore` names, and those rules are the PR's to write,
  so a plant named to match one survived every restore. It is `-ffdx` now, with
  `-e node_modules`: the borrowed farm is the one ignored thing in that tree
  the probes cannot run without, and everything else ignored goes. The two
  restore spawns also empty `core.fsmonitor`, which both of them execute.

And four that stand on their own:

- **`releaseWorktree`'s symlink guard was leaf-only.** `lstatSync`
  dereferences every component except the last, so a link at `.qwen/tmp` left
  every path under it looking ordinary while `git worktree remove --force`
  landed in whatever checkout it named. `runCleanup` refuses its whole sweep
  for this; `cleanStale` releases with no guard of its own, so the refusal now
  lives at the choke point every caller inherits.
- **`runCleanup`'s own ancestor guard ran before a network-bound audit** and
  nothing re-checked it afterwards, though the lease condition beside it gets
  exactly that re-check for exactly that window.
- **The scratch tree's filter screen read the wrong tree's config.** It runs
  against the review worktree, while the checkout it authorises runs in the
  SCRATCH tree, whose own `config.worktree` is honored once
  `extensions.worktreeConfig` is on. The screen now reads every entry under the
  common dir's `worktrees/`.
- **`runOneMutant` and `runControlMutant` had no pre-write escape re-check**,
  while `runOneHunkProbe` — in this same diff — carries one with a comment
  explaining the threat.

`redirectedAncestor` is now one shared function rather than two, and its walk
STOPS at the checkout instead of climbing to `/`: `/var` is a symlink on every
macOS box, so the unbounded version refused every sweep there while reporting
that it had found a redirect.

Two fixtures became real checkouts, because a probe tree is one in production
and a bare `mkdtemp` no longer reaches the behaviour they pin.

Each fix with a behavioural test was verified by reverting it alone and
watching that test go red. The pre-mutation re-checks are window-narrowing on a
check-then-use race and are not pinned by one.

* docs(review): drop the JSDoc left stranded when redirectedAncestor moved

Round 17 moved `redirectedAncestor` into `lib/worktree.ts` and deleted the copy
here, but not the block above it — which then sat on `scratchWorktreesOf`,
describing a function this file no longer has and, worse, describing the OLD
behaviour: "the walk stops at the filesystem root" is exactly what round 17
changed, because `/var` is a symlink on macOS and an unbounded walk refuses
every sweep there.

* fix(review): close the round-19 Criticals — PR-content channels, and the guards this PR wrote for itself

Two are reachable from a PR's committed content with nothing executed, which is
the line this branch draws everywhere else:

- **A committed `vendor -> ../stash` was never counted.** The rebuild walk
  discloses a `node_modules` symlink resolving back INSIDE the disposable tree
  and silently skipped one resolving OUT of it — so the farm reported
  `{linked: n, failed: 0}` while a `node_modules` under the link's target
  survived every rebuild. Node realpaths the importing file, so imports under
  the link resolve in the stash and decide later verdicts. Outside state cannot
  be wiped from here; it is COUNTED, which is what the contract promises.
- **`workspaces: ["."]` widened the self-link whitelist to the whole shared
  worktree.** npm accepts a root manifest declaring itself a workspace and
  creates the self-link itself, `containedIn(root, '.')` answers the root, and
  every `node_modules` link resolving anywhere inside the review worktree then
  passed the verdict and was mirrored into the disposable tree as a read-write
  channel back. A member that resolves to the dependency root is not a member.

Four more are this PR's own guards not being applied to the code beside them:

- **`resetScratchTree` lstat'd only the immediate parent**, on the stated
  premise that `.qwen/tmp` is the one component above the leaf anything here can
  replace. False one hop higher: a link at `.qwen` redirects the whole path, and
  then every check in that gate agrees with every other because they all resolve
  through it — toplevel self-equality, common-dir equality, gitdir ≠ commondir,
  and even the backpointer round-trip. It walks every ancestor now, bounded at
  the repository the common dir belongs to.
- **`restoreProbeTreeTracked` had none of the gates its sibling reset has.** A
  rewritten gitfile pointing at another repository passed `--show-toplevel`
  self-equality and the "restore" wrote that repository's content in; a
  skip-worktree bit made `checkout --force` skip a tampered file silently while
  the function answered "as the commit left it". Both are checks `scratch-tree`
  documents for the identical reset. The backpointer and ancestor checks apply
  to the linked-worktree shape a probe tree actually has — a standalone
  checkout has no admin entry to round-trip and IS the repository root.
- **The revert phase collected probes screened once, from the index, before the
  baseline.** Every run since executes the PR's own test code, which can replace
  a probe with a link; the mutation writers re-check immediately before they
  write and this collection had no equivalent, so a relinked probe was collected
  THROUGH the link and scored against code the revert never touched.
- **`runCleanup`'s symlink branch never pruned.** It returns before
  `releaseWorktree`, which is where the pipeline's only other prune lives — so
  the family paths were unlinked and reported swept while their registrations
  stayed behind to wedge the next `worktree add`.

And two cheap ones with no argument against them: `sanitizedGitEnv` deleted by
exact case, which removes nothing on Windows where env lookup is
case-insensitive (the `shared-env-keys.ts` list it is modelled on folds case for
this reason); and it now sets `GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS=1`, because one
`git replace <sha> <evil>` in the common dir makes every `checkout --detach
<sha>` here materialise someone else's tree while `rev-parse <sha>` still
answers the original.

Each fix is pinned by a test that goes red when that fix alone is reverted.

* fix(review): close the round-20 Criticals — an empty probe list, a dropped refusal, a symlinked root

The first one is a bug this branch shipped yesterday, and the worst kind: it
turns a screen into a wider run.

- **The revert phase could call `runProbeSuite` with an EMPTY list.** Round 19
  added a screen that drops probes relinked out of the tree after the baseline;
  the `probes.length > 0` gate the phase opens with was taken before that screen
  could empty the list, and `vitest run` with no file argument collects the
  WHOLE suite — so "every probe was tampered with" became "score everything",
  with the verdicts attributed to files the phase never selected. It now stops
  the phase and says which of the two happened, once rather than per file.
- **`cleanStale` discarded `releaseWorktree`'s refusal.** The guard added in
  round 17 declines to release through an ancestor symlink and reports why;
  `fetch-pr` called it as a bare statement, so the sweep looked successful and
  the next `worktree add` wedged at a path nobody was told about. The result is
  read and the reason printed, like every other failure on that path.
- **The probe tree's own root was never lstat'd.** The ancestor walk added in
  round 19 starts above the leaf, and every identity comparison realpaths both
  sides — so a probe tree that IS a symlink into the shared review worktree
  agrees with itself all the way down, and the restore's `checkout --force` and
  `clean -ffdx` would have run in the tree every other agent is reading.

The first is pinned end-to-end by the fixture that already relinks its probes
mid-run: before round 19 it scored that relinked probe `inert` — a fabricated
verdict read through the link — and the assertion now names the phase-level
refusal instead. Reverting the guard alone turns it red.

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Co-authored-by: qwen-code-dev-bot <qwen-code-dev@service.alibaba.com>
2026-08-20 07:50:44 +00:00
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features fix(review): run verifier probes in a private scratch worktree (#9207) (#9221) 2026-08-20 07:50:44 +00:00
ide-integration fix(cli): replace all emoji with Unicode text symbols in TUI rendering (#5999) 2026-06-30 15:18:01 +00:00
reference fix(cli): switch completion tabs with bare arrows (#8576) 2026-08-11 02:29:11 +00:00
support fix(cli): add ui.mouseTracking setting to restore right-click and URL clicks (#8198) 2026-08-01 14:15:42 +00:00
_meta.ts feat(daemon): merge daemon-mode feature batch into main (#4490) 2026-06-12 00:34:49 +08:00
common-workflow.md docs: fix stale defaults, CLI syntax, and tool naming drift (#5158) 2026-06-15 20:06:34 +08:00
integration-github-action.md feat(web-shell): show subagent sessions in detail panel (#7380) 2026-07-22 02:31:08 +00:00
integration-jetbrains.md feat(cli): expose reasoning effort through ACP (#8526) 2026-08-11 10:32:33 +00:00
integration-vscode.md fix(core): honor NO_PROXY for model requests (#6640) 2026-07-10 10:41:04 +00:00
integration-zed.md docs(integration): use CDN URLs for images and fix formatting 2026-03-16 14:12:48 +08:00
overview.md docs: fix config/command/auth drift and surface the model-providers page (#5735) 2026-06-24 06:06:01 +08:00
quickstart.md docs: fix config/command/auth drift and surface the model-providers page (#5735) 2026-06-24 06:06:01 +08:00
qwen-serve-deploy-local.md feat: consolidate Local Control into one daemon-owned implementation (#9106) 2026-08-17 16:44:48 +00:00
qwen-serve.md feat(daemon): add batch extension activation APIs (#8788) 2026-08-19 06:42:48 +00:00