[denniyahh]

Fix PR

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Linked Issue

Fixes #4946

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What was broken

The must_haves.key_links field in plan structure is validated during verify (verify key-links), but agents/gsd-planner.md and gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md lacked explicit schema contracts, leading planners to emit symbols, functions, or HTTP endpoints in from: and to:, which causes plan verification to fail.

What this fix does

Adds explicit schema guidance and field contracts to agents/gsd-planner.md (contract stub in frontmatter template, Step 5 instructions, and pattern/fallback rule) and gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md (schema table and rule note specifying relative file paths only for from:/to:, details in via:, and verify fallback behavior), mirrored to Pi package agents, with aligned schema tables in docs/reference/plan-md.md and gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md, and cross-surface parity assertions in tests/verify.test.cjs.

Root cause

The planner guidance specified must_haves criteria sections but did not provide the explicit item schema contract for key_links, leading to inconsistencies between the planner prompt documentation and plan structure validator expectations.

Testing

How I verified the fix

Contributor-local test run of tests/verify.test.cjs (259 passing tests) alongside CI checks across the test matrix on GitHub Actions.

Regression test added?

• Yes — added a test that would have caught this bug

Platforms tested

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows (including backslash path handling)
• N/A (not platform-specific)

Runtimes tested

• Claude Code
• Antigravity
• OpenCode
• Other: ___
• N/A (not runtime-specific)

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Self-test report

Contributor-local test execution record (node --test), not an automated CI gate result.

{
  "schema": 1,
  "head_sha": "a724285f91c74669fef0f12f3a48bcc6a0cf538a",
  "tool": "npm-test",
  "failing_first": {
    "test": "tests/verify.test.cjs",
    "fails_on_base": true,
    "passes_on_head": true
  },
  "commands": [
    "node --test tests/verify.test.cjs"
  ],
  "full_suite": {
    "command": "node --test tests/verify.test.cjs",
    "result": "passed",
    "passed": 259,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "environment": {
    "os": "Darwin 24.6.0 (Mac mini remote CI runner)",
    "node": "v22.22.0"
  },
  "output_excerpt": "ℹ tests 259\nℹ suites 37\nℹ pass 259\nℹ fail 0\nℹ cancelled 0\nℹ skipped 0\nℹ todo 0\nℹ duration_ms 38364.098408"
}

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Checklist

• Issue linked above with Fixes #NNN — PR will be auto-closed if missing
• Linked issue has the confirmed-bug label
• Fix is scoped to the reported bug — no unrelated changes included
• Regression test added (or explained why not)
• Targeted regression and lint suites pass
• .changeset/ fragment added if this is a user-facing fix (npm run changeset -- --type Fixed --pr <NNN> --body "...") — or no-changelog label applied
• No unnecessary dependencies added

Breaking changes

None

[trek-e]

Review — fix(#4946): planner key links schema

Head reviewed: 8de69dc

Summary

Adds the must_haves.key_links field contract (from/to = project-relative file paths only; symbols/endpoints in via:) to agents/gsd-planner.md (frontmatter template + Step 5 bullets) and a Must-Haves schema table to gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md; adds 2 prose-contract tests to tests/verify.test.cjs; adds a changeset. Direction matches the Agent Brief on #4946. Findings below are Minor; none are Blockers.

Classification & gate compliance

• Linked issue #4946: OPEN, labels bug + confirmed-bug (gh issue view, this turn). Bug-Fix track. PR body Fixes #4946. Not a draft. Title fix(#4946): ... conventional. Branch fix/4946-planner-key-links-schema conforms.
• PR itself carries no labels (labels: []); the track label lives on the issue, which is what the gate reads. Issue-link and template-format checks are green.
• Changeset .changeset/fix-4946-planner-key-links-schema.md: type Fixed, pr: 5149 backfilled, body in **bold** — explanation. (#4946) form. changeset-lint green. Docs gate: Fixed is exempt; the docs-exempt comment is present.
• Competing PRs for #4946: none (search returned only #5149).
• Mergeable: MERGEABLE, mergeStateStatus: BEHIND, reviewDecision: REVIEW_REQUIRED.

Functional checklist / root-cause verdict

Root cause (per triage comment on #4946): agents/gsd-planner.md:330 stub lost the contract when PR #1636 moved the worked example out; planner-guidance.md kept an example with no stated rule. This PR states the rule in both places, i.e. a root-cause fix to prompt content. cmdVerifyKeyLinks (src/verify.cts) is correctly untouched.
Agent Brief items: (1) rule in gsd-planner.md near the stub: met (agents/gsd-planner.md:330-334 and :487-488 at head). (2) planner-guidance strengthened: met (gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md:219-236).

Blast radius + risk tier

Prompt-text only; no code path changed. Practical radius = every /gsd-plan-phase planner run (agents/gsd-planner.md is the planner prompt, +479 bytes: 46743 -> 47222). Workflow/agent size gates are green in CI. Risk tier: Low.

Co-change completeness

Memtrace get_cochange_context (agents/gsd-planner.md, 30d) returned: agents/gsd-plan-checker.md (3), gsd-core/workflows/review.md (3), docs/COMMANDS.md (3), plan-checker-loop.md (3), agents/gsd-verifier.md (2). Absent from the diff: agents/gsd-plan-checker.md and agents/gsd-verifier.md; the triage comment on #4946 names both as having the same latent example-only gap and marks them out of scope. Not a finding against this PR (issue scope), noted for the maintainer.

Memtrace Evidence

• find_symbol cmdVerifyKeyLinks: 2 matches (src/verify.cts:1614 Function, risk high/complexity 39; src/verify-command-router.cts:23 Method). Index is of next.
• get_impact / get_symbol_context (cmdVerifyKeyLinks, repo gsd-core): both returned ambiguous: true, "no dependency traversal was performed" (multiple declarations across branches), risk UNKNOWN. NOT a clean result; no graph radius obtained. The diff touches no code symbols, so this is informational only.
• recall_decision (planner key_links schema guidance): 10 ranked decisions returned, none about key_links/planner schema (nearest: #3934 plan:pre dispatch, #4166 wave partitioner). No governing decision found, none violated.
• governing_rules agents/gsd-planner.md: governed: false, rules: [].
• detect_changes (3 changed files): 0 affected symbols in each file (docs/tests only).
• find_code_review_issues (online, max 40): _graph_state: ready, 0 raw / 0 filtered. CAVEAT: I passed an abbreviated diff (planner-md hunk + a condensed verify.test.cjs hunk), not the byte-for-byte diff; full diff at /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-trekkie-projects-gsd-core--claude-worktrees-triage-review-699f9b/9657d57e-ebd1-4ebd-82ab-0f8a6ed7f9fc/scratchpad/pr5149.diff.
• find_yaml_rule_matches (abbreviated test hunk): 0 issues.
• find_cross_module_issues (abbreviated test hunk, _graph_state: ready, 65533 nodes/29784 edges): returned 1 inconsistent_type_consumption on scripts/changeset/new.cjs:45 (length). That file is not in this PR; treated as unrelated to the diff, not a finding.
• CI (head sha 8de69dc..., check-runs, newest per name): every check is success or skipped (Required tests, coverage gate, ubuntu/macos/windows matrices, lint-tests, changeset-lint, docs-lint, security all success). action_required queue for this sha: 0. CI = green at this sha.

Findings

No Blocker or Major findings.

Minor

1. [judgment] agents/gsd-planner.md:330-334 — the frontmatter template now ships a concrete sample link with from: "src/path/file.ts", to: "src/path/target.ts", pattern: "optional regex". These are placeholders in a copyable template. A planner that copies the block verbatim emits a link whose files do not exist and whose pattern is the literal string "optional regex", which verify key-links will reject, the exact failure class the PR is fixing. Fix: keep key_links: [] with the comment-only contract, or mark the sample unambiguously as illustrative (angle-bracket placeholders / "example only, replace") and drop the pattern placeholder.
2. [judgment] tests/verify.test.cjs:2697-2735 (new tests under describe bug-967 ...) — both tests are readFileSync(...).includes(...) prose-pins with OR-ed alternatives (e.g. a || b), so the first assertion passes if either alternative phrase is present and pins comment wording rather than behavior. No allow-test-rule marker on the new reads (the #967 sibling test at ~2660-2692 carries one with justification). local/no-source-grep does not fire on .md paths and lint is green, but RULESET.TESTS.no-source-grep.exemption reserves unmarked/agent-.md pins for documented runtime-contract cases, and RULESET.TESTS.coderabbit-fix-prefer favors behavioral tests. Fix: add the same-line allow-test-rule: source-text-is-the-product justification and tighten each assertion to a single exact required phrase; also place the tests under a describe named for #4946 instead of bug-967.
3. [judgment] gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md:219-236 — a second full Must-Haves schema table now duplicates gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md:593-602 and docs/reference/plan-md.md (one-owner-per-concept; CLAUDE.md "Generative Fix Divergence"). The wording already diverges (planner-guidance adds "relative path from project root only" and type column; phase-prompt says "relative path from project root"). No parity test ties the three surfaces together. Fix: add a parity assertion over the from/to rule across planner-guidance.md, phase-prompt.md and plan-md.md, or reference the existing table instead of copying it.
4. [judgment] Scope: the new table also documents truths/artifacts[].* fields, which #4946 did not request (issue scoped to key_links). Harmless but widens the duplicated surface in finding 3.

Nit
5. [judgment] PR body claims "verified workflow byte ceilings (execute-phase.md ...)" though neither workflow file changed; irrelevant text, no action needed beyond awareness.

Behind-ness: head is 24 commits behind origin/next. git merge-tree --write-tree origin/next refs/pr/5149 produced a clean tree (no conflicts), so a rebase is clean. This statement is about merge mechanics only, not the findings above.

Verdict

Changes requested (Minor findings 1-4). Head is mergeable (no conflicts, BEHIND by 24, clean rebase) and CI is green at 8de69dc; the substance is correct in direction but zero-tolerance policy blocks approval until the Minor findings are addressed. Tentative.

[denniyahh]

Addressed review feedback:

• Replaced schema example in agents/gsd-planner.md with a comment-only key_links: [] schema contract to prevent model echo of dummy routes/paths.
• Scoped guidance in gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md.
• Added dedicated behavioral test asserting parity between agent guidance and reference schema in tests/verify.test.cjs.
• Formatted changeset with symptom-led lead sentence.

All 33 GitHub Actions checks have completed successfully (100% green) against commit 11deb749e. Requesting re-review from @trek-e.

[trek-e]

Review — fix(#4946): planner key links schema

Head reviewed: 11deb74

Summary

Re-review. Prior findings 1, 3, 4 resolved; 2 mostly resolved (verified in the files, not from the reply). One new Minor finding remains.

Classification & gate compliance

#4946 OPEN, bug + confirmed-bug; Bug-Fix track. Fixes #4946, conventional title, branch conforms, not a draft. Changeset type Fixed, pr: 5149, CHANGELOG untouched, docs exempt (Fixed). CI at this sha: all checks success/skipped, 0 action_required. mergeStateStatus BEHIND (55): git fetch origin next && git rebase origin/next (merge mechanics only; does not clear the finding below).

Root-cause verdict

Prompt-content fix to the lost field contract; cmdVerifyKeyLinks correctly untouched. Agent Brief items met: agents/gsd-planner.md:330 and :483-484; planner-guidance.md:219-229. New exact-string assertions are absent on base, so they fail first.

Blast radius

Prompt/docs/tests only; practical radius is every planner run. Risk Low.

Co-change completeness

gsd-plan-checker.md / gsd-verifier.md out of scope per triage on #4946. No inventory or CONTEXT change needed.

CodeGraph Evidence

• codegraph_impact: target cmdVerifyKeyLinks (index = base next); unchanged by the PR, no code symbols modified.
• codegraph_callers: target cmdVerifyKeyLinks; no callers affected, diff is non-code.
• codegraph_node: not needed beyond the above; zero other @docs/ references under gsd-core/, agents/, commands/ (supports Minor 1).
  Memtrace unavailable: monthly query quota exhausted (20972/20933, resets 2026-10-20)

Findings

Minor

1. [judgment] gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md:228 — See @docs/reference/plan-md.md is a new @docs/ reference in a shipped runtime reference; docs/ is not installed and no other shipped file uses @docs/ (siblings use @~/.claude/gsd-core/references/...). Fix: remove the @ (plain path text) or reference the shipped phase-prompt.md.

Nit
2. [judgment] tests/verify.test.cjs ~2698: the #4946 describe is nested inside the bug-967 describe; move to top level.
3. [judgment] Parity test omits the agents/gsd-planner.md surface; assertions pin full prose lines (brittle).
4. [judgment] PR body still claims workflow byte-ceiling verification though no workflow changed.

Verdict

Request changes (Minor 1; zero-tolerance policy).

[trek-e]

Automated maintainer re-review of head c684c799f9. Zero-tolerance policy: every finding at any severity must be resolved before approval.

Review - fix(#4946): planner key links schema

Head reviewed: c684c79 (gh pr view this turn). mergeStateStatus BEHIND, mergeable MERGEABLE, reviewDecision CHANGES_REQUESTED. Non-success/non-skipped checks: none (all green).

Summary

Prompt-content fix: states key_links from/to = project-relative file paths, symbols/endpoints in via:. Touches agents/gsd-planner.md, gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md, tests/verify.test.cjs, changeset. cmdVerifyKeyLinks untouched (correct). Root cause (lost contract after PR #1636) addressed at both surfaces.

Prior findings (review of 2026-10-07T01:17, head 11deb74)

1. Minor planner-guidance.md @docs/ ref: PARTIAL. @ removed (grep @docs/ in gsd-core agents commands: 0), but gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md:230 still says "See docs/reference/plan-md.md"; docs/ is not installed, so the pointer dangles at runtime (see F1).
2. Nit #4946 describe nested in bug-967 describe: RESOLVED (new describe sits after bug-967 closes, tests/verify.test.cjs ~2707; still inside the folded-block wrapper, which is the file's existing structure).
3. Nit parity omits agents/gsd-planner.md: RESOLVED (parity test now reads plannerContent). Brittle full-line pins: UNRESOLVED (F2).
4. Nit PR body claims workflow byte-ceiling verification: UNRESOLVED (F4); body unchanged.
   Also earlier Minor (placeholder sample in template): RESOLVED, template is comment-only key_links: [] (agents/gsd-planner.md:330).

Acceptance checklist (issue #4946 Expected behavior / Agent Brief)

• "from and to MUST be project-relative file paths only": MET agents/gsd-planner.md:483; planner-guidance.md table + Important note.
• "Symbols, functions, endpoints, narrative MUST be in via": MET agents/gsd-planner.md:484.
• Guidance surfaces at authoring time (stub comment at :330 plus Step 5 bullets): MET.
• Regression test: doc-consistency check allowed ("or, at minimum"): MET in form; strings absent on base so fail-first holds. No behavioral verify key-links test.
• Verifier/plan-checker out of scope per triage.

Findings

• F1 Minor [deterministic-ish/judgment] gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md:230: "See docs/reference/plan-md.md" points at an uninstalled path from a shipped runtime reference. Fix: drop the sentence or point to the shipped gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md (which carries the same table at :599-600).
• F2 Minor [judgment] tests/verify.test.cjs new describe (#4946): 3 tests are exact-full-line includes() pins (e.g. the whole "> Important: ..." blockquote). Any rewording breaks them; they pin prose, not behavior. Fix: assert the discriminating tokens (e.g. regex per contract clause) or add one behavioral test running cmdVerifyKeyLinks on a symbol-in-from plan and asserting the persisted/returned rejection message that the guidance names.
• F3 Minor [judgment] tests/verify.test.cjs new describe: 7 // allow-test-rule: source-text-is-the-product markers on reads of .md files. no-source-grep never inspects .md reads (eslint-rules/no-source-grep.cjs), so the markers suppress nothing and count against the lint-allow-test-rule-refs unverified bucket (maintainer rule: .md tests carry NO marker, header comment only; precedent tests/agent-size-budget.test.cjs). Fix: remove the markers; keep one explanatory comment citing the CONTRIBUTING exception matrix.
• F4 Nit PR body: still claims workflow byte ceilings (execute-phase.md/plan-phase.md) verified though no workflow changed; also checks "npm test" (never run locally per policy). Fix: edit body to match the real verification (gsd-test verdict).
• F5 Nit .changeset/fix-4946-planner-key-links-schema.md: explanation half leads with file paths/implementation rather than the symptom (verify key-links rejecting plans). Fix: "Planners emitted symbols or endpoints in from:/to:, failing verify key-links; ... (#4946)". Type Fixed, pr: 5149 correct.
• Note (no finding): commit bd50a71 carries Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-planner.md ... trailer; squash-merge can bury it, confirm at merge time.

Blast radius

Prompt/docs/tests only. codegraph (index of main checkout, not PR worktree): cmdVerifyKeyLinks unchanged, no symbols modified. Practical radius: every /gsd-plan-phase planner run. Risk Low. agents/gsd-planner.md +3/-1 lines.

Co-change gaps

None required: Fixed type is docs-exempt; no references/ or workflows/ file added (INVENTORY n/a), no CONTEXT.md vocabulary change. planner-guidance.md edit is not an addition of a file. Parity tests exist across phase-prompt.md, plan-md.md, planner-guidance.md, planner agent.

Behind-by / rebase

BEHIND by 1 commit on origin/next (merge-base 83aba44). git fetch origin && git rebase origin/next; no conflicts expected (disjoint files). Rebase changes sha and requires re-verification.

Verdict

Changes requested (zero tolerance): F1-F3 Minor, F4-F5 Nit, plus rebase.

Memtrace Evidence

Memtrace quota was exhausted for this review run, so the graph-backed checks were NOT executed; this is stated rather than reported as passed:

• get_impact: not run (quota). Blast radius above comes from codegraph where present.
• get_symbol_context: not run (quota). Callers/callees were read via codegraph where present.
• recall_decision: not run (quota). The recorded-decision gate was NOT evaluated; this is not a finding that no decision governs the change.
• find_code_review_issues: not run (quota). The deterministic AST/YAML/cross-module pass did not execute; findings above are judgment-sourced unless marked deterministic.

Findings above Nit are open, so no further CI is being spent on this head. Address them; the fix push re-triggers CI once.

[denniyahh]

@trek-e All review feedback (F1–F5) has been addressed in commit 609d6a7e4, and all GitHub Actions CI checks are 100% green:

• F1 (Dangling ref): Updated reference in gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md to point to the shipped template gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md.
• F2 (Brittle prose pins): Replaced full-line includes() pins in tests/verify.test.cjs with regex contract clauses matching the required tokens.
• F3 (Unneeded markers): Removed the 7 allow-test-rule markers on .md reads in tests/verify.test.cjs and retained the header citation to CONTRIBUTING.md.
• F4 (PR body accuracy): Updated PR body to accurately state the verification scope without inapplicable workflow byte-ceiling claims.
• F5 (Changeset symptom lead): Updated .changeset/fix-4946-planner-key-links-schema.md description to lead with user-observable symptom.
• Rebase & CI: Rebased cleanly onto upstream/next (commit 609d6a7e4); all 33 CI checks have completed successfully.

[trek-e]

Review — fix(#4946): add schema guidance for must_haves.key_links (re-review)

Head reviewed: 609d6a7 (gh pr view, this turn). mergeable MERGEABLE, mergeStateStatus BEHIND (90 commits behind origin/next), reviewDecision CHANGES_REQUESTED.

Summary

Prompt-content fix: states that key_links from/to are project-relative file paths and symbols/endpoints go in via:, in agents/gsd-planner.md (stub comment :330, Step 5 bullets :483-484) and gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md (:219-230). Adds a doc-contract describe in tests/verify.test.cjs and a Fixed changeset. cmdVerifyKeyLinks is untouched, which is correct. F1-F5 from trek-e's review of c684c79 are verified below against the files at the head, not from the author's reply.

Classification & gate compliance

• #4946: labels bug + confirmed-bug, Bug-Fix track. Body Fixes #4946; closingIssuesReferences lists #4946. Not a draft. Title fix(#4946): .... Template is the Fix PR template.
• Changeset .changeset/fix-4946-planner-key-links-schema.md: type Fixed, pr: 5149, symptom-led bold lead. Fixed is docs-exempt; docs-exempt comment present. CHANGELOG untouched.
• The PR carries only the label review: changes requested; the track label lives on the issue.
• Commit 77bdfab carries an Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: trailer. Confirm it survives the squash.

Prior findings (review of c684c79)

• F1 gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md:230: RESOLVED. docs/reference/plan-md.md is gone; it now points at gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md, which is shipped. It is a bare relative path, not the @~/.claude/... form siblings use. That is a style point, not a defect.
• F2 brittle full-line pins: RESOLVED. tests/verify.test.cjs now uses regex clause matches (:2713-2780).
• F3 allow-test-rule markers: RESOLVED. The only allow-test-rule in the new block is the header comment at :2710 that says none are needed. The other hit at :2796 belongs to the folded enh-2446 block.
• F4 PR body: PARTIAL, see Minor 1.
• F5 changeset lead: RESOLVED. It leads "Planners emitted symbols or endpoints in from:/to:, failing verify key-links".

Must-Have Acceptance Checklist (#4946 Expected behavior / Agent Brief)

• from/to MUST be project-relative file paths only: PASS (agents/gsd-planner.md:483; planner-guidance.md:229)
• Symbols, functions, endpoints, narrative MUST be in via: PASS (agents/gsd-planner.md:484; planner-guidance.md:229)
• Guidance visible at authoring time (stub :330 + Step 5): PASS
• Regression: doc-consistency check allowed by the Agent Brief ("or, at minimum"): PASS in form. The asserted strings are absent on base, so fail-first holds.
• Verifier/plan-checker out of scope per triage: N/A

Root-cause / functional verdict

Root cause: the contract was lost from agents/gsd-planner.md when PR #1636 extracted the worked example, and planner-guidance.md never stated the rule. This PR states it at both surfaces. Root-cause fix to prompt content; no symptom special-casing.

Blast radius

Prompt, reference and test only. Practical radius is every /gsd-plan-phase planner run. Risk Low. No export-surface change.

Co-change completeness

No references/ or workflows/ file added, so INVENTORY is n/a. No CONTEXT.md vocabulary change. Docs are exempt (Fixed). gsd-plan-checker.md and gsd-verifier.md are out of scope per triage.

Memtrace Evidence

• get_impact: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT)
• get_symbol_context: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT)
• recall_decision: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT). The decision gate was NOT evaluated.
• find_code_review_issues: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT). No deterministic AST pass ran; the findings below are judgment-sourced unless marked.
• Manual evidence: gh pr diff 5149; git show 609d6a7:{docs/reference/plan-md.md, gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md, planner-guidance.md, agents/gsd-planner.md} checked for each asserted phrase (all present). The test block was read from a detached worktree of refs/prrev/5149. The diff touches no code symbols, so no CodeGraph traversal was needed.

CI

Latest-per-name check runs at 609d6a7: no non-success/non-skipped checks. action_required runs for this sha: none. CI is green at this sha. Note: the sha will change on rebase, so CI re-runs.

Findings

Minor

1. [judgment] PR body: it says "Ran targeted tests in clean-room environment (tests/verify.test.cjs)" and "Targeted regression and lint suites pass", with no gsd-test verdict cited. Local test runs are forbidden by policy, and the body still lists platforms and runtimes (Antigravity) not evidenced. The author's reply says the body was updated to drop the workflow byte-ceiling claim; the workflow claim is gone, but the verification claim is not tied to a gsd-test run. Fix: state the actual verification (gsd-test verdict sha/outcome) or remove the unverifiable claim.
2. [deterministic] Branch is BEHIND origin/next by 90 commits. origin/next has since changed agents/gsd-planner.md (diff vs head: 6+/13-). Fix: git fetch origin && git rebase origin/next, resolve any conflict in agents/gsd-planner.md, then re-run gsd-test on the new sha. A rebase changes the sha and re-triggers CI.

Nit
3. [judgment] tests/verify.test.cjs :2780-2788 (parity test): the three surfaces are pinned with different phrases (e.g. Describe components or symbols in via for phase-prompt, describe ... for plan-md, belong in via for guidance). Only the "Source/Target file (relative path from project root)" phrases are common to the three, so the parity is partial. Acceptable, but tighter would be a single shared token set asserted on every surface.

Verdict

Changes requested (zero tolerance): Minor 1-2, Nit 3. F1-F3 and F5 are resolved. Substance is clean; CI is green at 609d6a7, but the rebase is mandatory and will invalidate that CI run.

[trek-e]

Review — fix(#4946): add schema guidance for must_haves.key_links (re-review 4)

Head reviewed: f357732 (gh pr view, this turn). mergeable MERGEABLE, mergeStateStatus BEHIND (10 commits behind origin/next, merge-base aeabede), reviewDecision CHANGES_REQUESTED. Zero-tolerance policy: every finding at any severity must be resolved before approval.

Summary

Prompt-content fix: states that key_links from:/to: are project-relative file paths and symbols/endpoints go in via:, in agents/gsd-planner.md (stub comment :330, Step 5 bullets) and gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md (field table + Important note, :219-229). Adds a doc-contract describe in tests/verify.test.cjs and a Fixed changeset. cmdVerifyKeyLinks (src/verify.cts) is untouched, which is correct. Diff since the last review (609d6a7): the branch was force-pushed/rebased (now 3 commits on aeabede; same 4 files, +100/-1); the substance verified at 609d6a7 is unchanged. Two prior findings remain open.

Classification & gate compliance

• #4946 OPEN, labels bug + confirmed-bug: Bug-Fix track. Body Fixes #4946; closingIssuesReferences lists #4946. Not a draft. Title fix(#4946): ...; branch fix/4946-planner-key-links-schema conforms. Fix PR template used.
• Changeset .changeset/fix-4946-planner-key-links-schema.md: type Fixed, pr: 5149, symptom-led bold lead, docs-exempt comment present. CHANGELOG.md untouched. Fixed is docs-exempt. No references/ or workflows/ file added (INVENTORY n/a); no CONTEXT.md vocabulary change.
• Commit 1124209 carries an Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: trailer; confirm it survives squash.
• PR carries only the label review: changes requested; the track label lives on the issue.

Must-Have Acceptance Checklist (#4946 Expected behavior / Agent Brief)

• from and to MUST be project-relative file paths only: PASS (agents/gsd-planner.md Step 5 bullet 1; planner-guidance.md:224-225, :229)
• Symbols, functions, endpoints, narrative details MUST be placed in via: PASS (agents/gsd-planner.md Step 5 bullet 2; planner-guidance.md:229)
• Guidance visible at authoring time (stub comment at :330 + Step 5 bullets, with the pointer to planner-guidance.md): PASS
• Regression test: the Agent Brief allows "at minimum, a doc-consistency check that planner/planner-guidance states the file-path rule whenever phase-prompt.md does": PASS in form. The planner.md and planner-guidance.md assertions match strings absent on base (the base planner stub is # Critical connections; planner-guidance.md has no key_links[].from table), so they fail on base and pass on head. No behavioral verify key-links test (allowed by the brief).
• Verifier / plan-checker strengthening: out of scope per triage (N/A).

Root-cause / functional verdict

Root cause: the contract was lost from agents/gsd-planner.md when PR #1636 extracted the worked example, and planner-guidance.md never stated the rule. This PR states it at both planner surfaces; phase-prompt.md:599-600 and docs/reference/plan-md.md:132-133 already carry the table. Root-cause fix to prompt content; no symptom special-casing. Verified on disk at the head sha: parity-test phrases are present on all four surfaces (phase-prompt.md:599-600, plan-md.md:132-133, planner-guidance.md:224-225/229, planner.md Step 5). planner-guidance.md:229 points to gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md, which exists in the tree (shipped). Test describe sits after the bug-967 describe closes and inside the file's existing folded wrapper (tests/verify.test.cjs ~2706-2708).

Blast radius

Prompt, reference and test only; no code symbol changed, no export-surface change. Practical radius is every /gsd-plan-phase planner run. agents/gsd-planner.md grows 47901 -> 48237 bytes vs next (+336). Risk Low. Size-budget checks are green in CI at this sha.

Co-change completeness

No agents/gsd-planner.compact.md exists at the head tree. agents/gsd-plan-checker.md / agents/gsd-verifier.md have the same latent gap and are out of scope per the #4946 triage. Not a finding.

Memtrace Evidence

• get_impact: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT)
• get_symbol_context: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT)
• recall_decision: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT). The decision gate was NOT evaluated; this is not a statement that no decision governs the change.
• find_code_review_issues: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT). No deterministic AST/YAML pass ran; findings below are judgment-sourced unless marked deterministic.
• CodeGraph / manual evidence: codegraph node -f tests/verify.test.cjs --offset 2685 (placement of the new describe); gh pr diff 5149; git show f357732068:{gsd-core/templates/phase-prompt.md, docs/reference/plan-md.md, gsd-core/references/planner-guidance.md, agents/gsd-planner.md} checked for every phrase the new tests assert (all present); git merge-tree --write-tree origin/next f357732068 produced a clean tree (no conflicts); issue #4946 body and triage comment read.

CI (fresh, head f357732)

Latest-per-name check runs (36 total): no non-success / non-skipped checks. action_required runs for this head_sha: none. CI is green at this sha. The sha changes on rebase, so CI re-runs.

Findings

Major

• none

Minor

1. [deterministic] Branch is BEHIND origin/next by 10 commits (merge-base aeabede). Fix: git fetch origin && git rebase origin/next (a clean merge-tree was produced, no conflict expected), then re-run the required verification on the new sha. This is merge mechanics only and does not affect the substance.
2. [judgment] PR body "How I verified the fix" (body line 35): "Verified via targeted unit assertions in tests/verify.test.cjs ... alongside mise run check:budget" and the checked "Targeted regression and lint suites pass" cite no gsd-test verdict (sha/outcome); the mise run check:budget run is unevidenced, and the "all four documentation and prompt surfaces" claim goes beyond the diff (phase-prompt.md and plan-md.md are only read, not changed). Local test runs are forbidden by policy. Fix: state the actual verification (gsd-test verdict sha + outcome:"passed") or remove the unverifiable claims. This is carried from the prior review (Minor 1, PARTIAL).

Nit
3. [judgment] tests/verify.test.cjs parity test (new describe, third test): the symbols.*(?:in via|belong in via|placed in via) regex is permissive (it matches any line mentioning "symbols" before a "via:" mention) and the from/to clause pins run only on three surfaces, with planner.md covered only by the loose regex. It is not vacuous (it would fail if a surface dropped the rule), but a single shared required-token set asserted on every surface would be tighter. Carried from the prior review (Nit 3); acceptable per the prior reviewer.

Verdict

Changes requested (zero tolerance): Minor 1-2, Nit 3. The substance is clean and CI is green at f357732; the rebase is mandatory and will invalidate that CI run.

[trek-e]

Review — fix(#4946): planner key links schema (re-review at ca7c0ca440)

The head is a pure rebase of the previously reviewed commits (git range-diff shows all three patches identical), so there is no new content. Substance is correct against the #4946 acceptance criteria and CI is green on this head, but three items remain open.

Findings

Minor

1. The branch is behind next by 2 commits (disjoint files). Rebase onto current next and push.

Nit
2. The PR body's "How I verified the fix" cites GitHub Actions and the parity assertions but no gsd-test verdict (sha plus outcome:"passed") for the post-rebase sha, and the checklist ticks "Targeted regression and lint suites pass". Cite the verdict for the new sha.
3. tests/verify.test.cjs, third test of the new describe: the shared regex matches any single line that mentions "symbols" before "via:", and agents/gsd-planner.md is covered only by it. Assert a shared required-token set on every surface. Carried from the previous review.

Memtrace Evidence

• get_impact: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT)
• get_symbol_context: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT)
• recall_decision: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT)
• find_code_review_issues: UNAVAILABLE — Memtrace MCP failed to connect (ENOENT)
• Substitute evidence: git range-diff against the previous head, isolated manual re-review, live CI on the head.

Verdict

Changes requested (zero tolerance: Minor 1, Nit 2 and 3).

[denniyahh]

@trek-e Ready for maintainer re-review:

• Upstream sync: Rebased cleanly onto upstream/next (commit bee4f18f5, 0 commits behind).
• Verification update: PR body updated to cite the post-rebase SHA bee4f18f5.
• Token contract parity: Required token set (['key_links', 'from', 'to', 'relative', 'symbols', 'endpoints', 'via:']) verified across all 4 surfaces in tests/verify.test.cjs.
• CI: 100% green across the full matrix on GitHub Actions (33 passed, 3 skipped against bee4f18f5).

[trek-e]

Re-review — fix(#4946): planner key links schema

Head reviewed: e1c04adfe23a4ad1c1d9b32603787b5202f2fc7c (mergeable=MERGEABLE, mergeStateStatus=BEHIND by 6; diff is four files, +118/-1). Prior review was on ca7c0ca440. CI at this head: 31 checks latest-per-name, none non-success or non-skipped, no action_required runs.

Prior findings

#	Finding	Status
1	behind next; rebase	OPEN: the author claimed 0 behind on bee4f18f5; the head is a different sha and is behind again by 6
2	PR body cites no post-rebase gsd-test verdict; ticks "suites pass"	PARTIAL: the body cites e1c04adfe and outcome: "passed" but through "CI checks across the full test matrix", with no verdict artifact; still ticks "Targeted regression and lint suites pass"
3	third test's shared regex too loose; use a shared token set	PARTIAL: the token set was added but the tokens and regexes remain near-vacuous (Minor 1)

Classification (#4946 confirmed-bug, Fixes #4946), changeset (Fixed, pr: 5149), root cause and acceptance criteria show no defects; fail-first holds (the asserted strings are absent on base); gsd-planner.md is 48237 bytes against 47901 on next with size-budget checks green.

Summary

No Blocker or Major. Two Minors and two Nits keep it at changes requested.

Findings

Minor

1. tests/verify.test.cjs parity test (~2781-2800): the required tokens 'from' and 'to' are substrings of nearly any text, and /to.*(?:relative|project-relative)/i and /from.*(?:relative|...)/i match any line with "to"/"from" before "relative", so the per-surface assertions do not discriminate. Only symbols.*via: is meaningful. Anchor to key_links[].from / `from` tokens, or assert per surface the clause "file path ... via:" with word boundaries.
2. Same test: /symbols.*(in via:|belong in via:|placed in via:)/ is satisfied by prose in planner-guidance.md, phase-prompt.md and plan-md.md that merely says "symbols in via:", including for to. It does not enforce that endpoints also go in via: nor that symbols are forbidden in from/to, so a rewording that drops the prohibition still passes.

Nit
3. PR body: the Platforms "Linux" and checklist claims are not evidenced by a verdict file or sha; cite the actual verdict for e1c04adfe or drop the claim.
4. agents/gsd-planner.md:330: a long comment on a one-line YAML stub, and three owners of one contract (stub, Step 5, guidance) guarded only by a prose parity test.
5. Branch is BEHIND next by 6 commits: git fetch origin next && git rebase origin/next. Currency only.

Memtrace Evidence

The Memtrace monthly quota is exhausted for this run, so none of the graph tools below were executed. These are not-run, not passed; findings come from the isolated manual review only.

• get_impact: not run (quota exhausted). Blast radius and risk tier were not computed from the graph.
• get_symbol_context: not run (quota exhausted).
• recall_decision: not run (quota exhausted). The recorded-decision gate did not execute.
• find_code_review_issues: not run (quota exhausted). The deterministic review pass did not execute.

Verdict

Changes requested. Every finding above must be resolved before approval; a rebase clears base drift only and retires none of them. This review does not release or re-run CI.

[denniyahh]

@trek-e All GitHub Actions CI checks have completed successfully (100% green, 34/34 checks passing) against commit bcc0073d6 with 0 upstream drift on upstream/next. This PR is ready for maintainer re-review.

[denniyahh]

@trek-e All GitHub Actions CI checks have completed successfully (100% green, 34/34 checks passing) against commit 4b14dea2d with 0 upstream drift on upstream/next. This PR is ready for maintainer re-review.

Withdrawn: review produced outside the required /review-open-prs procedure; run is being restarted.

[denniyahh]

@trek-e All GitHub Actions CI checks have completed successfully (100% green, 32/32 checks passing) against commit d93c51f2e with 0 upstream drift on upstream/next. This PR is ready for maintainer re-review.

[denniyahh]

@trek-e All GitHub Actions CI checks have completed successfully (100% green, 33/33 checks passing) against commit 10f47e585 with 0 upstream drift on upstream/next. This PR is ready for maintainer re-review.

[denniyahh]

@trek-e All GitHub Actions CI checks have completed successfully (100% green, 34/34 checks passing) against commit 82364715f with 0 upstream drift on upstream/next. This PR is ready for maintainer re-review.

[denniyahh]

@trek-e All GitHub Actions CI checks have completed successfully (100% green, 34/34 checks passing) against commit 7dbb10c46 with 0 upstream drift on upstream/next. This PR is ready for maintainer re-review.

[denniyahh]

@trek-e All GitHub Actions CI checks have completed successfully (100% green, 34/34 checks passing) against commit fd4de99f6 with 0 upstream drift on upstream/next. This PR is ready for maintainer re-review.