fix: scope the builder Pre-Execution Protocol to task shape - #1215
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`## Pre-Execution Protocol` sat statically in `builder.txt`. `builder` is a PRIMARY agent, so the section governed every builder surface at once: dbt authoring, interactive chat, and headless question-answering runs. A pre-registered paired ablation (540 trials on a public data-question benchmark, one binary across both arms) measured it on the question-answering surface: macro Pass@1 0.6667 -> 0.6807, delta +0.0140, query-blocked permutation p = 0.7358, cluster-bootstrap 95% CI [-0.0400, +0.0674]. That is a null on score. Wall clock fell 27.6%, model turns 27.7%, generation time 32.2%, and all 2,805 `altimate_core_validate` + `sql_analyze` calls went to zero while `sql_execute` rose 49%. The 2,805 -> 0 is directly attributable to this text; the latency win is not, because that treatment arm bundled five coupled changes. And the measurement covers data questions only. So this scopes rather than deletes. - move the section out of `builder.txt` into `session/pre-execution.ts`, byte-identical, following the `SessionTermination.completionInstruction` precedent that scoped a run-mode instruction the same way - inject it from the same site in `session/prompt.ts`, dropping it ONLY when all of: run mode, the `builder` agent, and a workspace confidently classified as having no dbt project - classification reuses `findDbtProjectRoot` and reports a tri-state, so "could not read the directory" is `unknown` and keeps the protocol rather than collapsing into "no dbt project" - `## Finish Protocol` is deliberately untouched: it is a second mandatory ritual in the same family, no measurement covers it Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pre-execution SQL protocol moved from the static builder prompt into session-time gating. The gate classifies workspace shape and omits the protocol only for headless builder runs in non-dbt workspaces. Tests cover classification, gating, text fidelity, and prompt integration. ChangesPre-execution protocol scoping
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| if (!(await Filesystem.isDir(dir))) continue | ||
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| if (await findDbtProjectRoot(dir)) return "dbt" |
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In a monorepo such as repo/platform/analytics/dbt_project.yml when the run starts at repo, both candidates resolve to the repository root, while findDbtProjectRoot checks only that root and its immediate children. This therefore returns non-dbt and removes the mandatory SQL safety protocol from an actual headless dbt task, contrary to the gate's stated invariant; classification needs to cover deeper project layouts or avoid treating this limited scan as a confident negative.
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When a user overrides agent.builder.prompt or supplies .altimate-code/agents/builder.md, the agent loader replaces the built-in prompt (src/agent/agent.ts:508-534), so previously the protocol was absent or user-authored. Keying this injection only on the agent name now unconditionally appends the stock protocol in interactive and dbt sessions, potentially duplicating a custom protocol or overriding an intentional customization; inject it only when the applicable prompt previously contained the moved section.
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Every call to this helper creates a directory under the system temp folder, but none of the new tests removes it, so repeated local and CI runs accumulate many pre-exec-scope-* directories. Use the shared disposable tmpdir fixture with await using, as required by the package test guide, so cleanup occurs even when assertions fail.
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| log.info("pre-execution protocol scoped out", { agent: input.agent, shape }) | ||
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A non-dbt workspace does not imply a question-answering task: for example, run can start in an empty directory with a builder request to modify production tables or author a standalone SQL pipeline. This branch removes the analyze-and-validate protocol for every such headless builder run even though the cited measurement covered only question answering, so unmeasured and potentially destructive SQL workflows lose the safety checks; the dropping condition needs an actual task-intent signal rather than treating non-dbt as equivalent to the benchmark workload.
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On Unix, stat can confirm that a directory exists even when the process lacks permission to read it, so Filesystem.isDir(dir) returns true and sets sawReadableDir; findDbtProjectRoot then swallows the failed readdir and returns null. A permission-protected workspace is consequently classified as non-dbt and loses the safety protocol instead of taking the documented unknown path, so readability must be established with an operation that distinguishes a successful scan from an access error.
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In `@packages/opencode/src/session/pre-execution.ts`:
- Line 94: Update the workspace scan in findDbtProjectRoot so directory
enumeration failures remain observable as unknown rather than being converted to
null/non-dbt. Do not rely only on Filesystem.isDir; handle or probe the
directory-read operation and propagate scan failure so inaccessible dbt
workspaces are not treated as non-dbt.
In `@packages/opencode/test/session/pre-execution.test.ts`:
- Around line 7-9: Update the tmpdir test fixture and its callers so every
pre-exec-scope-* directory created by tmpdir is removed after use, including
success, failure, and cancellation paths. Prefer wrapping each test’s
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| async function tmpdir(): Promise<string> { | ||
| return await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "pre-exec-scope-")) | ||
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Release each temporary directory after the test.
tmpdir creates an OS directory but no caller removes it. Each test leaves a pre-exec-scope-* directory after success or failure. Repeated local and CI runs consume temporary storage. Return a disposable fixture, or use try/finally with fs.rm.
As per coding guidelines, ensure cleanup runs on success, error, and cancellation paths, preferably with finally.
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In `@packages/opencode/test/session/pre-execution.test.ts` around lines 7 - 9,
Update the tmpdir test fixture and its callers so every pre-exec-scope-*
directory created by tmpdir is removed after use, including success, failure,
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| const dirs = [...new Set(candidates.filter((d): d is string => !!d && d !== path.parse(d).root))] | ||
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WARNING: Filesystem.isDir is an existence check, not a readability check, so an unreadable directory can be misclassified as non-dbt
Filesystem.isDir returns statSync(p).isDirectory(), which succeeds for any directory you can stat — it does not require read permission. A directory that exists but whose contents cannot be listed (e.g. readdir returns EACCES on a permission boundary or a flaky mount) passes this check, so sawReadableDir becomes true. findDbtProjectRoot then swallows the failed readdir (.catch(() => [])) and returns null, so classifyWorkspace returns "non-dbt" and the mandatory protocol is dropped. This is the opposite of the stated invariant ("If no candidate directory could be read, the answer is unknown, never non-dbt"). The gate should verify actual readability (e.g. attempt a readdir, or fs.access(dir, R_OK)), not just stat.
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| if (await findDbtProjectRoot(dir)) return "dbt" |
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SUGGESTION: dbt projects nested more than one level below a candidate are silently classified as non-dbt
findDbtProjectRoot only checks the candidate directory and one level of subdirectories. A dbt project two or more levels deep (e.g. repo/analytics/warehouse/dbt_project.yml with altimate run invoked from repo/) is not found, so the workspace is classified "non-dbt" and the pre-execution protocol is dropped for real dbt work — undercutting the "confidently classified as having no dbt project" claim. This is an inherited limitation of the reused helper, but the residual risk is worth documenting at this call site (or extending the scan depth) since the failure mode is dropping the safety protocol.
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| // overhead on headless question-answering (2,805 ritual tool calls → 0, no | ||
| // score effect) but says nothing about dbt work or interactive chat, so | ||
| // those keep it. See session/pre-execution.ts for the gate and the numbers. | ||
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SUGGESTION: The dbt classification re-runs on every loop() step
system is rebuilt each iteration of the while (true) loop, and this call is not guarded by step === 1, so every step in a headless builder run re-executes classifyWorkspace — a readdir of the worktree root plus one stat per top-level subdirectory. The result is deterministic within a single loop() invocation (same agent, same directories), so it could be computed once and reused, mirroring the step === 1 guard already applied to the trace span just below.
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<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/test/session/pre-execution.test.ts:7">
P3: The hand-rolled `tmpdir()` helper creates a directory with `fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "pre-exec-scope-"))` and never removes it, so every test run leaks permanent temp dirs on the OS. The repo ships an auto-cleaning fixture (`tmpdir` in `test/fixture/fixture.ts`, used with `await using`) that this file ignores, diverging from the documented convention in `test/AGENTS.md`. Use that fixture (or dispose the dirs at the end of each test) to avoid accumulating junk in the temp directory across repeated runs.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="packages/opencode/test/session/pre-execution.test.ts:68">
P2: This test claims to cover the load-bearing case "an unreadable candidate does not license a non-dbt verdict from its partner," but it never creates an unreadable directory: `path.join(dir, "nope")` simply does not exist. A nonexistent path is a different category — `Filesystem.isDir` returns false for it and it never sets `sawReadableDir` — so the test does not exercise the scenario its comment describes. Worse, the partner candidate `dir` carries a `dbt_project.yml`, so the assertion (`toBe("dbt")`) passes regardless of how unreadable candidates are handled, giving false confidence. The real behavior contradicts the module's documented contract: `classifyWorkspace` uses `Filesystem.isDir` (a `stat` probe in src/util/filesystem.ts:22-29) as the readability proxy, and `findDbtProjectRoot` (validator-utils.ts:52-77) swallows the `readdir` EACCES and returns null, so a genuinely unreadable directory (no read permission) is reported as `non-dbt` — silently dropping the pre-execution protocol for a workspace the PR intends to preserve. Anchor the comment's coverage by testing an actually unreadable directory (chmod 000) and assert `unknown`/keep-protocol, and change the readability check to verify read access rather than `stat` success.</violation>
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<file name="packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts:1483">
P3: The gate runs on the hot path: `preExecutionInstruction` is awaited on every prompt build (every model turn in `loop()`). For run-mode builder sessions in a non-dbt workspace — the exact workload this PR is trying to make faster — each turn now performs a fresh `findDbtProjectRoot`, i.e. synchronous `statSync` (via Filesystem.isDir) plus `fs.readdir`/`fs.stat` on the candidate directories, with no caching across steps. The classification is constant for a session, so it is computed repeatedly on every step, adding per-turn filesystem I/O that partially offsets the latency the change targets.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts:1485">
P3: The claim that every kept case leaves 'the resolved prompt unchanged from before' holds only for the text content, not its position. Previously the protocol was a static section inside builder.txt, which becomes `agent.prompt` and is emitted as the leading system part in llm/request.ts / llm.ts. Now the same text is pushed at the end of the session `system` array (after hoistedReminders, alongside the completion instruction). Instruction ordering in a system prompt is behaviorally relevant for LLM adherence, so every builder surface that 'keeps' it—interactive chat and run-mode dbt workspaces—actually sees the protocol repositioned relative to the rest of the prompt, not an unchanged prompt. Worth confirming the intended order and, if unchanged behavior is required, inserting at the corresponding position.</violation>
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<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/session/pre-execution.ts:133">
P2: Only inject `PRE_EXECUTION_PROTOCOL` when the resolved builder prompt is the built-in prompt; this branch adds it to custom builder prompts and can duplicate intentional instructions.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="packages/opencode/src/session/pre-execution.ts:137">
P1: Gate protocol removal on task intent, not `non-dbt` alone; this return drops the analyze/validate sequence for every headless builder request in a non-dbt workspace.</violation>
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| const shape = await classifyWorkspace(input.directories) | ||
| if (shape !== "non-dbt") return PRE_EXECUTION_PROTOCOL | ||
| log.info("pre-execution protocol scoped out", { agent: input.agent, shape }) | ||
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P1: Gate protocol removal on task intent, not non-dbt alone; this return drops the analyze/validate sequence for every headless builder request in a non-dbt workspace.
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+ const shape = await classifyWorkspace(input.directories)
+ if (shape !== "non-dbt") return PRE_EXECUTION_PROTOCOL
+ log.info("pre-execution protocol scoped out", { agent: input.agent, shape })
+ return undefined
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| test("an unreadable candidate does not license a non-dbt verdict from its partner", async () => { | ||
| const dir = await tmpdir() | ||
| await fs.writeFile(path.join(dir, "dbt_project.yml"), "name: demo\n") | ||
| expect(await SessionPreExecution.classifyWorkspace([path.join(dir, "nope"), dir])).toBe("dbt") |
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P2: This test claims to cover the load-bearing case "an unreadable candidate does not license a non-dbt verdict from its partner," but it never creates an unreadable directory: path.join(dir, "nope") simply does not exist. A nonexistent path is a different category — Filesystem.isDir returns false for it and it never sets sawReadableDir — so the test does not exercise the scenario its comment describes. Worse, the partner candidate dir carries a dbt_project.yml, so the assertion (toBe("dbt")) passes regardless of how unreadable candidates are handled, giving false confidence. The real behavior contradicts the module's documented contract: classifyWorkspace uses Filesystem.isDir (a stat probe in src/util/filesystem.ts:22-29) as the readability proxy, and findDbtProjectRoot (validator-utils.ts:52-77) swallows the readdir EACCES and returns null, so a genuinely unreadable directory (no read permission) is reported as non-dbt — silently dropping the pre-execution protocol for a workspace the PR intends to preserve. Anchor the comment's coverage by testing an actually unreadable directory (chmod 000) and assert unknown/keep-protocol, and change the readability check to verify read access rather than stat success.
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<comment>This test claims to cover the load-bearing case "an unreadable candidate does not license a non-dbt verdict from its partner," but it never creates an unreadable directory: `path.join(dir, "nope")` simply does not exist. A nonexistent path is a different category — `Filesystem.isDir` returns false for it and it never sets `sawReadableDir` — so the test does not exercise the scenario its comment describes. Worse, the partner candidate `dir` carries a `dbt_project.yml`, so the assertion (`toBe("dbt")`) passes regardless of how unreadable candidates are handled, giving false confidence. The real behavior contradicts the module's documented contract: `classifyWorkspace` uses `Filesystem.isDir` (a `stat` probe in src/util/filesystem.ts:22-29) as the readability proxy, and `findDbtProjectRoot` (validator-utils.ts:52-77) swallows the `readdir` EACCES and returns null, so a genuinely unreadable directory (no read permission) is reported as `non-dbt` — silently dropping the pre-execution protocol for a workspace the PR intends to preserve. Anchor the comment's coverage by testing an actually unreadable directory (chmod 000) and assert `unknown`/keep-protocol, and change the readability check to verify read access rather than `stat` success.</comment>
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+ test("an unreadable candidate does not license a non-dbt verdict from its partner", async () => {
+ const dir = await tmpdir()
+ await fs.writeFile(path.join(dir, "dbt_project.yml"), "name: demo\n")
+ expect(await SessionPreExecution.classifyWorkspace([path.join(dir, "nope"), dir])).toBe("dbt")
+ })
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| // Only builder ever carried this section; analyst and reviewer never did. | ||
| if (input.agent !== "builder") return undefined | ||
| if (!input.runMode) return PRE_EXECUTION_PROTOCOL |
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P2: Only inject PRE_EXECUTION_PROTOCOL when the resolved builder prompt is the built-in prompt; this branch adds it to custom builder prompts and can duplicate intentional instructions.
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+ // Only builder ever carried this section; analyst and reviewer never did.
+ if (input.agent !== "builder") return undefined
+ if (!input.runMode) return PRE_EXECUTION_PROTOCOL
+ const shape = await classifyWorkspace(input.directories)
+ if (shape !== "non-dbt") return PRE_EXECUTION_PROTOCOL
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| import { SessionPreExecution } from "../../src/session/pre-execution" | ||
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P3: The hand-rolled tmpdir() helper creates a directory with fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "pre-exec-scope-")) and never removes it, so every test run leaks permanent temp dirs on the OS. The repo ships an auto-cleaning fixture (tmpdir in test/fixture/fixture.ts, used with await using) that this file ignores, diverging from the documented convention in test/AGENTS.md. Use that fixture (or dispose the dirs at the end of each test) to avoid accumulating junk in the temp directory across repeated runs.
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<comment>The hand-rolled `tmpdir()` helper creates a directory with `fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "pre-exec-scope-"))` and never removes it, so every test run leaks permanent temp dirs on the OS. The repo ships an auto-cleaning fixture (`tmpdir` in `test/fixture/fixture.ts`, used with `await using`) that this file ignores, diverging from the documented convention in `test/AGENTS.md`. Use that fixture (or dispose the dirs at the end of each test) to avoid accumulating junk in the temp directory across repeated runs.</comment>
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+async function tmpdir(): Promise<string> {
+ return await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "pre-exec-scope-"))
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| agent: agent.name, | ||
| directories: [Instance.directory, Instance.worktree], | ||
| }) | ||
| if (preExecutionInstruction) system.push(preExecutionInstruction) |
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P3: The claim that every kept case leaves 'the resolved prompt unchanged from before' holds only for the text content, not its position. Previously the protocol was a static section inside builder.txt, which becomes agent.prompt and is emitted as the leading system part in llm/request.ts / llm.ts. Now the same text is pushed at the end of the session system array (after hoistedReminders, alongside the completion instruction). Instruction ordering in a system prompt is behaviorally relevant for LLM adherence, so every builder surface that 'keeps' it—interactive chat and run-mode dbt workspaces—actually sees the protocol repositioned relative to the rest of the prompt, not an unchanged prompt. Worth confirming the intended order and, if unchanged behavior is required, inserting at the corresponding position.
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<comment>The claim that every kept case leaves 'the resolved prompt unchanged from before' holds only for the text content, not its position. Previously the protocol was a static section inside builder.txt, which becomes `agent.prompt` and is emitted as the leading system part in llm/request.ts / llm.ts. Now the same text is pushed at the end of the session `system` array (after hoistedReminders, alongside the completion instruction). Instruction ordering in a system prompt is behaviorally relevant for LLM adherence, so every builder surface that 'keeps' it—interactive chat and run-mode dbt workspaces—actually sees the protocol repositioned relative to the rest of the prompt, not an unchanged prompt. Worth confirming the intended order and, if unchanged behavior is required, inserting at the corresponding position.</comment>
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P3: The gate runs on the hot path: preExecutionInstruction is awaited on every prompt build (every model turn in loop()). For run-mode builder sessions in a non-dbt workspace — the exact workload this PR is trying to make faster — each turn now performs a fresh findDbtProjectRoot, i.e. synchronous statSync (via Filesystem.isDir) plus fs.readdir/fs.stat on the candidate directories, with no caching across steps. The classification is constant for a session, so it is computed repeatedly on every step, adding per-turn filesystem I/O that partially offsets the latency the change targets.
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<comment>The gate runs on the hot path: `preExecutionInstruction` is awaited on every prompt build (every model turn in `loop()`). For run-mode builder sessions in a non-dbt workspace — the exact workload this PR is trying to make faster — each turn now performs a fresh `findDbtProjectRoot`, i.e. synchronous `statSync` (via Filesystem.isDir) plus `fs.readdir`/`fs.stat` on the candidate directories, with no caching across steps. The classification is constant for a session, so it is computed repeatedly on every step, adding per-turn filesystem I/O that partially offsets the latency the change targets.</comment>
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+ const preExecutionInstruction = await SessionPreExecution.preExecutionInstruction({
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+ directories: [Instance.directory, Instance.worktree],
+ })
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…ution gate Review found three ways the first cut got the gate wrong, two of them in the direction that matters — dropping the protocol on a workspace that should have kept it. - **An unreadable directory classified as `non-dbt`.** `Filesystem.isDir` only proves `stat` succeeds, and `findDbtProjectRoot` swallows `readdir` and `stat` failures as `null`, so a directory that stats fine but cannot be enumerated (EACCES, EIO, a flaky mount) read as "no dbt project here". The scan now does its own probing and distinguishes ENOENT/ENOTDIR — real answers — from every other failure, which is `unknown`. - **A session started inside `models/` lost the protocol.** The old scan looked at the candidate and one level below it. On a git repo the worktree candidate usually rescued that; on a non-git project it does not, and a deeper cwd is missed either way. The scan now also walks up to 8 ancestors. An unrelated ancestor project is a false positive that KEEPS the protocol, which is the safe direction. - **The protocol was pushed after the completion instruction**, which tells the model to signal `DONE` only once "every requirement above" is satisfied. A mandatory protocol below that line is not one of those requirements. It is now injected before it, and a test asserts the order. `non-dbt` now requires at least one candidate the scan examined completely — every ancestor probe answered and the candidate's own children enumerated. The filesystem root never qualifies on its own, since its children are deliberately not scanned. Everything else is `unknown`, which keeps the protocol. Six new tests: `.yaml` as well as `.yml`, a project above the candidate, the ancestor bound, a directory that stats but cannot be enumerated (skipped when running as root, where the permission bit does not bite), and the injection order. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ
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WARNING: A filesystem-root candidate forces unknown, so headless non-dbt runs in non-git workspaces never drop the protocol
classifyWorkspace no longer filters the filesystem root out of dirs (the previous version excluded it via d !== path.parse(d).root). A non-git project sets Instance.worktree to / (see packages/opencode/src/storage/storage.ts:94), so directories is [cwd, "/"]. For the / candidate this branch marks complete = false, which sets sawIncomplete = true, and the final return sawCompleteAnswer && !sawIncomplete ? "non-dbt" : "unknown" then returns "unknown" even though the real cwd candidate was examined completely. Result: the protocol is always kept for non-git headless runs — the exact surface this PR targets — contradicting the docstring, which says root should force unknown only when it is the only candidate. Skip the root candidate rather than marking it incomplete.
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When agent.builder.name is customized, the loader retains the agent under the builder registry key but replaces Info.name (src/agent/agent.ts:541), and prompt.ts passes that mutable name here. The renamed native builder therefore fails this check in every run mode, so the protocol removed from builder.txt is never restored even for interactive or dbt sessions; conversely, a custom agent named builder receives instructions it never previously had. Pass the selected registry key or another stable native-agent identity to the gate instead of using the configurable display name.
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When a monorepo exposes a dbt project as an immediate symlinked child, such as repo/analytics -> ../shared-analytics, readdir(..., { withFileTypes: true }) reports that entry as a symbolic link and isDirectory() returns false. The child is therefore omitted even when its target contains dbt_project.yml, and a run started at repo is classified as non-dbt, silently dropping the protocol from real dbt work. Resolve symbolic-link entries with stat before deciding whether they are directory candidates; the repository already follows this pattern for symlinked dbt model directories in src/altimate/validators/validator-utils.ts:116-119.
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For every non-git workspace, Project.fromDirectory sets Instance.worktree to / (src/project/project.ts:294), while the call site always supplies both [Instance.directory, Instance.worktree]. Even when the actual working directory is fully readable and confidently non-dbt, this branch marks the / candidate incomplete, setting sawIncomplete; the final sawCompleteAnswer && !sawIncomplete check then returns unknown. Consequently, the protocol is never scoped out for non-git headless workspaces—the common standalone data-question case this change targets. Exclude the root sentinel when a real directory candidate is present rather than letting it invalidate that candidate's complete answer.
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A second review round found four more defects in the classifier, one of which disabled the gate entirely in exactly the configuration the ablation measured. - **The sticky veto.** An incomplete candidate vetoed a complete one, so `[runDir, worktree]` returned `unknown` whenever the worktree was the filesystem root — which is what a non-git project sets it to, and what a headless benchmark run uses. The gate would have kept the protocol in every such session and shipped as a no-op. One completely examined candidate now settles it: its ancestor walk already covers the worktree above it, so a partner that could not be read has nothing left to contribute. - **Depth-limit exhaustion counted as a complete answer.** The 8-level bound stopped the walk without recording that it had stopped early, so a project at the ninth ancestor produced `non-dbt`. The bound is gone: the walk runs to the filesystem root. A limit would have to report "I stopped early" as `unknown` to stay honest, which on any deep tree switches the gate off — and two `stat` calls per level, in run mode only, is not worth that. - **The walk was lexical, not physical.** `path.resolve` does not follow symlinks, so a symlinked cwd (`/tmp/ws` -> `/repo/models`) walked `/tmp` and `/` and never saw the project it was inside. Candidates are `realpath`ed first. - **The child scan silently skipped symlinked directories** and any entry whose type the filesystem did not report, because it filtered on `isDirectory()`. A skipped entry is an unexamined one, and it did not mark the scan incomplete. It now probes everything that is not plainly a regular file; `stat` follows the link, and a non-directory just answers ENOTDIR. Four new tests: the unbounded walk, a symlinked candidate, a symlinked child project, and a complete candidate not vetoed by an unreadable partner or by the filesystem root. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ
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In Node.js, the fs.promises.symlink(target, path[, type]) function allows you to create symbolic links on Windows using three types: 'file', 'dir', and 'junction' [1][2][3]. Key requirements and behaviors for Windows include: 1. Privilege Levels: Creating standard symbolic links ('file' or 'dir' types) typically requires elevated privileges (running as Administrator) or having Windows Developer Mode enabled [4][5]. However, even with Developer Mode, you may still encounter EPERM errors depending on the specific Windows version and environment configuration [6]. 2. Junctions: The 'junction' type is a Windows-specific NTFS feature that does not require administrator privileges to create [5]. When using 'junction', the target path must be absolute, and Node.js will automatically normalize the target to an absolute path [1][2]. Junctions are limited to pointing to directories only [1][7]. 3. Autodetection: Since Node.js v19.0.0, if the type argument is omitted or set to null, Node.js will attempt to autodetect whether the target is a file or directory [1][7][8]. Bun Compatibility: Bun implements the node:fs module with high compatibility [9]. Its fs.symlink function follows the same contract as Node.js, including support for the 'file', 'dir', and 'junction' types on Windows [10][11]. A previous issue where Bun incorrectly rejected a null type argument was resolved in Bun v1.2.1 [12]. Summary of Implementation Tips: - If you need to avoid admin privileges on Windows, use type: 'junction' [4][5]. - Ensure target paths are absolute when using 'junction' [1][3]. - If you encounter EPERM despite Developer Mode, consider using child_process to invoke the mklink command directly, which is often more permissive than the Node.js API [4].
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In a headless builder session, this call runs inside SessionPrompt.loop's per-generation while loop, so every tool-call continuation repeats realpath, all ancestor probes, readdir, and sequential project-file stats for each child. On large monorepos or network-mounted workspaces, a multi-step run can therefore incur the full metadata-scan latency many times, undermining the latency reduction this gate targets; cache the classification for the turn or invalidate it only after relevant filesystem changes.
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When a workspace's AGENTS.md or configured instructions relax or replace this SQL workflow (for example because the dialect is unsupported by altimate_core_validate), this append reverses the previous ordering: the protocol formerly lived in agent.prompt, which LLM.stream places before InstructionPrompt.system(), but it now follows those repository instructions and presents a later mandatory conflicting directive. This changes behavior even for the stock builder prompt; insert the protocol before the instruction-file entries so their established precedence is preserved.
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When this returns undefined for a headless non-dbt question, the builder still receives builder.txt:42-44, which says to always run sql_analyze when writing SQL and to run altimate_core_validate before warehouse execution. Those are the same two ritual calls this gate is intended to eliminate, so the stock prompt continues ordering them even though the named protocol section is absent and the claimed latency/tool-call reduction may not materialize; scope or rewrite these duplicate directives alongside the protocol.
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+ expect(await SessionPreExecution.classifyWorkspace([link])).toBe("dbt")
+ })
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## Pre-Execution Protocolsat statically inpackages/opencode/src/altimate/prompts/builder.txt, makingsql_analyze+altimate_core_validatemandatory before everysql_execute.builderis a PRIMARY agent, so that one section governed every builder surface at once — dbt authoring, interactive chat, and headless question-answering runs.The evidence. An internal pre-registered paired prompt ablation, 540 trials on a public data-question benchmark, one binary across both arms, every trial's resolved system prompt verified by sha256 against a pre-registered artifact:
The honest claim is "no score effect, materially cheaper." The +0.0140 is not distinguishable from zero and is not presented here as an improvement — the interval comfortably contains zero in both directions.
What did move:
altimate_core_validatecalls (arm total)sql_analyzecalls (arm total)sql_executecalls (arm total)The 2,805 ritual tool calls going to zero — not reduced, zero — is the one number directly attributable to this text. The ritual is prompt-ordered: remove the order and it stops completely. The freed budget went into the benchmark's actual work (
sql_execute+49%).Why this scopes rather than deletes, both taken from the experiment's own caveats:
The scoping mechanism
This follows the precedent already in the tree.
SessionTermination.completionInstructionmoved a run-mode-only instruction out ofbuilder.txtfor exactly the same reason (builder is a primary agent, so a static instruction leaked to interactive chat) and injects it only when headless AND the agent isbuilder. This PR adds a sibling:SessionPreExecution.preExecutionInstruction, injected at the same site insession/prompt.ts.How the condition is decided. The protocol is dropped only when all three hold:
Flag.ALTIMATE_RUN_MODE— therunCLI, CI, headless), andbuilder(the only agent prompt that ever carried the section —analyst.txtandreviewer.txtnever did), andThat is exactly the cell the ablation measured. Every other case keeps the protocol, and the injected text is byte-identical to the section that was removed, so a kept case resolves to the same prompt as before this PR.
Where it looks. A
dbt_project.yml(or.yaml) file at the candidate directory (realpathed first, so a symlinked cwd is followed), at any ancestor up to the filesystem root, or one level below — the last matchingfindDbtProjectRoot's existing rule and skip list, which is how benchmark and monorepo layouts nest a project. The ancestor walk matters because a session is routinely started insidemodels/, and on a non-git project the worktree candidate is the same directory, so nothing else would find the project. The walk is unbounded on purpose: a depth limit would have to report "I stopped early" asunknownto stay honest, which on any deep tree turns the gate off entirely, and twostatcalls per level in run mode is not worth that.The ambiguous case keeps the protocol. Classification returns a tri-state —
dbt/non-dbt/unknown— and onlynon-dbtdrops.non-dbtrequires at least one candidate the scan examined completely: symlinks resolved, every ancestor probe answered up to the root, and its own children enumerated and probed.ENOENT/ENOTDIRare real answers ("nothing there"); every other failure —EACCES,EIO, a flaky mount — isunknown. The filesystem root never qualifies on its own, because its children are deliberately not scanned. An unrelated ancestor project is a false positive that keeps the protocol, which is the safe direction. The asymmetry throughout is deliberate: the cost of wrongly keeping it is 27% latency on one workload, the cost of wrongly dropping it is unmeasured.One complete answer is enough — an incomplete partner candidate does not veto it. That matters:
worktreeis the filesystem root on a non-git project, so a veto rule returnedunknownfor every headless run in exactly the configuration the ablation measured, and the gate would have shipped as a no-op.Interactive chat is deliberately left alone. Run mode is not itself a task-shape signal — it is the surface the evidence covers, and widening the gate to interactive sessions needs its own measurement.
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mainalso carries## Finish Protocol(shipped in #1171), a second mandatory ritual in the same family that was added after the binary the ablation measured was built. The shipping prompt is therefore heavier than what was measured, and the -27.6% understates the current cost. No measurement covers that section, so this PR leaves it alone; a test asserts it survives.How did you verify your code works?
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packages/opencode/test/session/pre-execution.test.ts(26 tests): each classification outcome against real temp directories (project at the candidate, one level down, above it,.yamlas well as.yml, no project, a missing directory, a directory that stats but cannot be enumerated, no candidates, the filesystem root,dbt_project.ymlas a directory rather than a file, the unbounded ancestor walk, a symlinked candidate, a symlinked child project, and a complete candidate not vetoed by an unreadable partner or by the filesystem root); every arm of the gate (headless+builder+non-dbt drops; headless+builder+dbt keeps; interactive keeps regardless; unknown keeps; no other agent ever receives it); and text fidelity — the injected protocol is verbatim,builder.txtno longer carries the section, the neighbouring## dbt Verification Workflowand## Finish Protocolsections survive,prompt.tswires the gate to the run-mode flag, and the protocol is pushed before the completion instruction.The unreadable-directory test skips itself when the permission bit does not bite (running as root), rather than passing vacuously.
Byte-identity of the moved text was checked directly against
git show's copy of the removed lines before committing (diffclean), not only by substring assertions.Updated
packages/opencode/test/altimate/sql-validation-e2e.test.ts, which asserted the section was present in the static builder prompt. It now asserts the builder prompt still names the three tools, plus a new case that an interactive builder still receives the full protocol. Whole file green (56 tests).bun installthenbun run typecheck— clean.bunx oxlinton the two new files — 0 warnings, 0 errors. (Repo-widebun run lintreports 1 pre-existing error inpackages/driversand ~6.2k pre-existing warnings, all untouched by this PR.)bun run script/upstream/analyze.ts --markers --base origin/main --strict— ok: 1 upstream-shared file checked (session/prompt.ts), all custom code properly marked.bun test test/session/termination.test.ts test/session/prompt.test.ts: 1-2 failures inprompt.test.ts, all 5s-timeout cases, and a different case on each run. Pre-existing and flaky locally, verified by stashing this branch's changes and reproducing onorigin/main; the CI TypeScript job (12,434 tests) is green on this branch.Reviewed by a second model across two rounds. Round one found three bugs — two silent-drop paths in the classifier and the injection-order issue described above. Round two found four more, including the veto rule that would have made the gate a no-op on every non-git workspace, a depth limit whose exhaustion was recorded as a complete answer, a lexical (symlink-blind) ancestor walk, and a child scan that silently skipped symlinked directories. All seven are fixed, each with a test.
Not verified: this change has not been run end to end against a live warehouse, and no benchmark re-run was performed on this build. The behavioural claim rests on the ablation cited above, which measured a pre-#1171 binary; the gate reproduces that binary's treatment only for the cell it measured.
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Changes when the builder must run SQL validation rituals in headless non-dbt runs; conservative
unknown→keep limits risk, but wrongly classifyingnon-dbtcould skip safeguards on real workloads.Overview
The builder Pre-Execution Protocol (
sql_analyze→altimate_core_validate→sql_execute) is removed from staticbuilder.txtand injected at session assembly time instead, mirroring the existing run-mode completion instruction gate.session/pre-execution.tsowns the verbatim protocol text andpreExecutionInstruction, which omits it only when all of: headless run mode, builder agent, and a workspace confidently classified as non-dbt (nodbt_project.yml/.yamlat, above, or one child below cwd/worktree).unknownfilesystem state (permissions, missing paths, unreadable dirs) keeps the protocol; interactive builder and dbt workspaces are unchanged. Classification runs only on the drop path so chat does not pay extra I/O.session/prompt.tspushes the result before the completion instruction so it counts as a requirement above DONE. Tests cover classification edge cases, gate arms, text fidelity, and updated e2e expectations that the section is no longer always in the static builder prompt.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit aefe4d0. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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