feat(overlay): install anti-slop through a git-excluded root entry config

[norvalbv]

Makes devkit's antiSlop component installable in overlay mode. It was hard-disabled there in five places, refusing with "requires the tracked Oxc capability".

Why the refusal was wrong

Both halves of that premise fail:

• The runtime never needed the consumer. resolveOxcRuntime resolves oxlint and @oxlint/plugins through createRequire(import.meta.url) from devkit's own exact dependencies, so a global overlay install already carries them. The consumer needs no oxlint dependency.
• The config chain needs a root-located file, not a tracked one. Overlay already ships that idiom twice — eslint -c eslint.config.devkit.mjs and biome check --config-path biome.devkit.jsonc (husky-block.mts:261,267).

The cost was concrete. owners-web has no oxlint, no biome, and eslint 8 via .eslintrc.cjs, so writeEslintOverlay skips and the overlay eslint leg is permanently inert. Anti-slop is the only devkit lint layer that would actually run there.

The measurement that shaped the design

The obvious approach — pass -c .devkit/oxc/oxlint.base.json, which already extends the anti-slop config — is broken. oxlint resolves extends and jsPlugins[].specifier from the declaring file, but resolves overrides[].files globs from the entry config's directory. Measured on oxlint 1.78.0:

config passed	probe.ts	anti-slop findings inside vendored plugin/
discovery (root .oxlintrc.json)	clean	0
-c .devkit/oxc/oxlint.base.json	eslint(no-undef)	30
-c <root sibling>	clean	0

So the entry config must sit at the package root. The runtime sentinel cannot catch a regression here — probeIntegration's own override glob is **/-prefixed and therefore base-insensitive, so it stays green while the policy silently widens. A test pins the placement instead.

No upstream fix is pending: maintainer leaysgur on oxc#24276 names --config-root/basePath as the right approach and says "we won't implement this immediately"; PR #18448 (--cwd, motivated verbatim by a tool caching its config outside cwd) and #18564 are closed unmerged; 1.79–1.81 touch no config-discovery surface.

What this does

Overlay writes a git-excluded root oxlint.devkit.json extending ./.devkit/oxc/oxlint.base.json, and every anti-slop oxlint spawn passes -c that file.

The mode signal is split by site. Readers resolve it from a new optional, non-validating overlayEntryConfig stamp in the Oxc manifest — a reader's cwd may be a mkdtemp extraction of the Git index with no repository marker, and the manifest travels there with the capability. The writer resolves explicit flag → repository marker → stamp, and additionally refuses to create any discovery-named root config while a repo is overlaid. That ordering is load-bearing: readManifest collapses missing, corrupt and wrong-version into null, which is exactly the state doctor --fix repairs, so a stamp-only writer would lose the mode precisely when asked to repair and plant a visible root config.

Also:

• the staged gate injects the git-excluded capability and baseline into its snapshot on an explicit overlay branch, never unconditionally — in package mode the extraction already carries the capability from the index, and overwriting it leaves bytesOk passing while activation evidence still reads the index tree
• .devkit/oxc, .devkit/anti-slop, oxlint.devkit.json and .anti-slop-baseline.json join GATE_PROJECTION_FIXED_CANDIDATES, so ship and review reproduce the commit gate through the mechanism that already exists for git-ignored overlay inputs (gate_projection_source_is_ignored)
• the baseline is created once at install, create-if-absent, never --force, plus a new scoped devkit anti-slop adopt-activation verb. devkit upgrade's overlay branch now captures activation evidence like the self-host and package branches — without that the verb was a permanent no-op, and a release activating a rule blocked every commit with create --force (the laundering overlay-self-heal forbids) as the only escape
• --base and adopt-renames are refused in overlay: the baseline is per-clone and git-ignored, so no committed tree carries one to compare against
• install refuses when git already tracks an owned path, or when the repo owns its own Oxlint config — under -c theirs would silently stop being read, and installing over it is not devkit's call in a repo it does not own
• every run names the weaker contract, green runs included, and doctor grows advisory rows for it
• clean removes both root files — leaving the baseline behind would make a multi-thousand-entry JSON newly visible once the exclude block is pruned

Known limits, stated deliberately

Overlay anti-slop is materially weaker than package mode and says so. baselineAtTree is always null there, so checkBaselineEnvelope short-circuits: no shrink-only ratchet, no rename receipts, no CI monotonicity. It blocks new findings against a per-clone, git-ignored, unshareable baseline its holder can regenerate. requiresFullScan also never fires on the untracked capability. Composing with a consumer's own Oxlint config is refused rather than guessed — inter-extends precedence is not provable via --print-config.

Package mode is unchanged.

Sizing on the target consumer

owners-web: 2,537 files scanned, 1,416 findings, 1.07s, 572 files (22.5%) carrying at least one. That 22.5% is why overlay's existing staged-only-no-baseline idiom does not transfer — the eslint/biome overlay configs extend the repo's own, so the code already passes them, whereas anti-slop introduces 1,416 violations from zero and would block on roughly one file in four touched.

Evidence

• bun run typecheck, bun run lint, bun run lint:structure
• devkit's own anti-slop check: PASS, 0 new findings
• 6106 passing tests, 16 new
• end to end on a throwaway overlay fixture: install leaves git status --porcelain empty; a staged violation blocks via guard-anti-slop while the grandfathered one stays forgiven; --base refuses with exit 2; a zeroed baseline survives a re-init; a corrupt manifest + doctor --fix creates no .oxlintrc.json
• reviewed by correctness-reviewer and conventions-reviewer; three findings fixed (details below)

Review findings fixed before opening

1. devkit upgrade overlay branch never captured activation evidence — made adopt-activation a permanent no-op in the one mode it exists for, and would have blocked every commit after any rule-activating release. This release activates 2 rules, so it would have bitten immediately.
2. A stale overlay: true marker could flip a package install into overlay geometry — init syncs Oxc before rewriting .devkit/config.json. The mode is now asserted, turning silent hybrid state into a loud refusal naming devkit clean.
3. The weaker-contract line printed only on PASS — my own decision record ruled "every run, green runs included". Now also on FAIL and the staged-skip path.

Decision record

New ## Target · on docs/decisions/oxc-toolchain-migration.md, superseding the 2026-08-23 sc-1964 note ("overlay remains runtime-only so its local-only contract never writes tracked root configs"). The supersession is clean rather than a reversal: sc-1964's stated reason is preserved — overlay still writes no tracked root config, now enforced by a writer-level refusal and a trackedPathPredicate preflight that declines rather than dirties. What changed is the inference that this forces overlay to be runtime-only.

Not in this PR

• dist/ is untouched: it is gitignored-but-force-tracked here and only lands in release: commits.

Four test failures are pre-existing on main, all four reproduced at clean HEAD 303424fd in a throwaway worktree with none of this change present:

• ship-branch-resume-scope.test.mts (2) — ship-branch.sh's resume path calls devkit_json_escape and reads DEVKIT_TELEMETRY_VERSION without sourcing cli/lib/ship/telemetry.sh. Under set -u that trips the exact /unbound variable/ assertion those tests make. A real bug in main, worth its own ticket.
• review.test.mts (2) — environmental. The tests copyFileSync(process.execPath, …) into a temp dir, and on a machine whose node is dynamically linked the copy cannot resolve @rpath/libnode.147.dylib. Fails at :657 before any devkit logic runs.

The suite went 6105 → 6106 passing across this change, with the same 4 failures before and after.

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Post-review fixes (c5649f06)

Post-review pass over the overlay anti-slop surface: the four CodeRabbit findings, the review's
nitpick, and four defects a prior-art and a feature-critique pass turned up that neither reviewer
saw. Two of the four review fixes landed differently than asked, for reasons given per thread.

The one that was not in any review

wireOverlayAntiSlop called addToGitExclude itself with a two-element desired set.
addToGitExclude is an exact reconcile, not an append: it drops every post-header line matching
isManagedAgentPath that the caller did not name. On a re-init the header already exists, so that
call deleted every .claude/skills/…, .claude/agents/…, .codex/…, .cursor/… and
.claude/settings.local.json line from disk, 22 lines before installOverlay's authoritative
call put them back. A throw or an interrupt inside that window leaves a consumer's agent assets
newly visible to git — the one contract overlay exists to hold.

The call is deleted. wireOverlayAntiSlop has exactly one caller, which already folds
antiSlop.excludes into the authoritative set; git consults .git/info/exclude at status time,
so pre-writing bought nothing. addToGitExclude now has a single production caller that always
passes the complete set, making the reconcile correct by construction. Locked by a seam-level test —
the damage was a window, so an end-state assertion would have passed on the broken code.

The four review findings

• Exclude vocabulary — DEVKIT_EXCLUDE_LINE learns both root paths, built from the constants
  clean.mts already imports and anchored at $ (the pattern has no trailing anchor, so an
  unanchored alternative would swallow a user's !oxlint.devkit.json negation). isManagedAgentPath
  is deliberately left alone: it drives an exact reconcile against a pfx-scoped desired set, so a
  prefix-tolerant entry would delete a sibling package's live lines in a monorepo — and it is not
  needed, since deselect keeps both files on disk.
• Tracked-file removal — rmUntracked is hoisted to module scope and applied to all five
  cwd-relative overlay configs in cleanOverlay, not just the two new ones; guarding only the pair
  would leave one function holding both conventions. Every skip is printed with the
  git rm --cached remedy, and resolveOverlayAntiSlop's refusal no longer offers devkit clean
  for the tracked case — a silent skip would have left devkit naming a remedy it cannot perform.
• Collision preflight — assertOxcCapabilityReady takes one options object
  ({ publish?, pinRoot?, overlay? }, publish now an explicit field so nothing reaches a flag by
  arity) and mirrors the writer's if (!overlay). Mode stays explicit: on a first
  devkit init --overlay neither marker nor stamp exists yet, so inference would resolve false
  exactly when the caller knows otherwise.
• Phantom .oxfmtrc.json — fixed at the reader via a shared isOverlayManifest predicate, not
  by making configs.oxfmt optional (a schemaVersion: 1 change overlay-self-heal already rules
  against). Never reddened the exit code, but it satisfied fixable && status !== 'OK' on every
  doctor --fix, re-syncing the whole capability forever.

Three more the agents found

• The staged gate read the wrong mode signal. anti-slop.mts derived overlay from
  overlayInstall(cwd) — the repository marker. The governing Target's own rule is that readers
  resolve mode from the manifest stamp, because .devkit/config.json is absent from
  GATE_PROJECTION_FIXED_CANDIDATES and therefore from every review projection. It now uses
  resolveOxlintEntryConfig. Getting this wrong silently drops the git-excluded capability and
  baseline from the snapshot, and the gate judges a tree that cannot lint itself.
• No post-install guard for a consumer Oxlint config. The install-time refusal had no
  counterpart, and configCheck is handed a list excluding oxlint.devkit.json — so a
  .oxlintrc.json created later yields one candidate, no DRIFT, doctor green, while -c silently
  never reads it. Now a named, non-fixable DRIFT row.
• The last write path that inferred overlay mode. removeAntiSlopCapability re-syncs the root
  geometry through resolveOverlayMode; it now takes the mode from the callers that know it.

Also

The nitpick: the snapshot test asserted existsSync on a baseline repository() had already
committed, so it passed whether or not the cpSync ran. It now writes distinct working-tree bytes
and asserts those.

Evidence

bun run typecheck, bun run lint, bun run lint:structure, bun run format:check — all clean.
devkit's own anti-slop check: PASS. Every new test was run against the pre-fix commit first and
observed to fail. Two dated notes added under the existing 2026-09-03 Target on
docs/decisions/oxc-toolchain-migration.md, one recording this convergence and one recording that
upstream was re-verified at oxlint 1.81.0 — still no --config-root/--cwd/basePath, and oxc
PR #24339 shipped in 1.74.0, below devkit's 1.78.0 pin, so the measured glob-base behaviour is the
post-#24339 behaviour and the Revisit-when condition is not met.

Not done, deliberately: the single OVERLAY_OWNED_PATHS registry both agents pointed at. Six
sites enumerate these paths, one of them a shell array that cannot import TypeScript. That is a real
axis and the durable form of two of these fixes, but it is its own PR with its own Target.

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Follow-up fix (58a63973)

CodeRabbit's follow-up on c5649f06, and it is right: the tracked-file guard added in that commit
was defeated one line above itself.

cleanOverlay removed .devkit/ with a blunt recursive rm before any of the tracked-safe
removals ran. Overlay writes .devkit/anti-slop/manifest.json, and
resolveOverlayAntiSlop refuses to install when git tracks it — so a user who force-adds it after
install hits the refusal, runs the devkit clean the refusal used to name, and has committed
content deleted by the very command that was supposed to respect it.

The fix reuses what was already there rather than adding a mechanism: cleanUntrackedDevkitState
is the tracked-aware recursive walk cleanOverlayStrays has always used for .devkit/.
cleanOverlay now calls it too, plus a second time for the monorepo package .devkit/, which the
old pair of rm calls covered and a single-rooted walk would have missed.

Two smaller things fall out:

• The walk's silent branch — a tracked FILE under a tracked directory — now announces itself.
  announceTracked is shared with rmUntrackedIn, so every survivor names the same
  git rm --cached remedy. Without it the user cannot connect devkit clean succeeding to
  devkit init --overlay still refusing, which is the failure overlay-self-heal rules against.
• Untracked siblings under the same tree still go. The walk is per-path, not all-or-nothing, so a
  tracked manifest does not strand .devkit/oxc/ or .devkit/config.json.

Regression test added: force-add .devkit/anti-slop/manifest.json after an overlay install, run
devkit clean, and assert the file survives, the remedy is printed, and the untracked siblings are
gone. It fails against c5649f06 and passes here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Overlay installations can now opt into anti-slop rules, with guided setup and status reporting.
  • Added devkit anti-slop adopt-activation to address findings from newly enabled rules without changing unrelated baseline data.
  • Overlay checks and staged evaluations now use the appropriate Devkit configuration and baseline.

• Bug Fixes

  • Cleanup preserves tracked files while removing only untracked overlay artifacts.
  • Overlay upgrades now retain anti-slop selections and adopt newly activated findings.
  • Overlay diagnostics can detect and repair fixable Oxc and anti-slop issues.

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Walkthrough

Overlay mode now supports anti-slop installation, git-excluded Oxc configuration, per-clone baselines, staged checks, activation adoption, upgrade handling, doctor repair, cleanup, and gate projection.

Changes

Overlay anti-slop lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Oxc overlay geometry gate-engine/overlay-mode.mts, cli/lib/install/oxc/*, cli/lib/install/anti-slop/base-capability.mts, gate-engine/ratchets/baseline-paths.mts, guard.config.json	Overlay mode resolves through markers and manifest state. Oxc writes oxlint.devkit.json, records its manifest entry, and reports overlay-specific capability status.
Anti-slop execution and snapshots cli/lib/install/anti-slop/{lifecycle,runner,git-snapshot}.mts, cli/lib/install/anti-slop/{base-capability,git-snapshot.test}.mts	Anti-slop uses the overlay entry config. Overlay snapshots receive excluded capabilities and the working-tree baseline.
Anti-slop CLI contract and adoption cli/commands/oxc/anti-slop.mts, cli/lib/install/anti-slop/overlay/contract.mts	The CLI adds adopt-activation, overlay refusals, staged overlay context, and contract reporting.
Overlay installation flow cli/lib/install/anti-slop/overlay/*, cli/lib/install/install-fallow.mts, cli/lib/overlay.mts, cli/commands/{init,upgrade}.mts, cli/lib/{components,wizard}.mts, cli/__tests__/overlay.test.mts	Installation wires anti-slop and fallow, records actual outcomes, and supports overlay selection, refusal paths, and upgrade adoption.
Overlay repair and cleanup cli/lib/doctor/overlay-doctor.mts, cli/commands/clean.mts, cli/lib/ship/link-gate-configs.sh, cli/__tests__/{clean,ship-branch}.test.mts	Doctor repairs and reports anti-slop state. Cleanup preserves tracked files and removes overlay exclusions. Gate projection includes excluded Oxc and anti-slop paths.
Decision records and guardrails docs/decisions/*, .devkit/baselines/size-lines.json, guard.config.json, gate-engine/ratchets/baseline-paths.mts	Decision records document the overlay implementation. Baseline and entry-point metadata reflect the changed code.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c5649

Overlay cleanup can delete a committed anti-slop manifest under .devkit/, risking loss of tracked repository content. This requires correction before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Wizard
  participant installOverlay
  participant wireOverlayAntiSlop
  participant OxcLifecycle
  Wizard->>installOverlay: submit antiSlop selection
  installOverlay->>wireOverlayAntiSlop: wire overlay capability
  wireOverlayAntiSlop->>OxcLifecycle: sync overlay capability
  OxcLifecycle-->>installOverlay: return wiring result

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Claude review record

Two reviewers were run against this diff before it was opened: correctness-reviewer (state transitions, concurrency, writer/reader contracts, classifier edges) and conventions-reviewer (this repo's governing CLAUDE.md plus its decision records). Three findings, all fixed in 3660f8d8.

1. devkit upgrade's overlay branch never captured activation evidence — CRITICAL

upgrade.mts called captureAntiSlopBaselineActivation in its self-host (:132) and package (:384) branches but not overlay. That made the new adopt-activation verb a permanent no-op in the one mode it exists for, because the pending record it reads was never produced.

Worse than a dead verb: the re-sync bumped the manifest's rule registry with no grandfathering recorded, so a release that activated a rule made every pre-existing violation of it read as new debt and block every commit — leaving create --force (the whole-repo re-snapshot this axis forbids) as the only escape. This release activates 2 rules, so it would have bitten the first overlay adopter to upgrade.

Fixed: the overlay branch now captures before applyInit and runs adoptActivatedAntiSlopFindings after, gating its exit code, like the other two branches. Overlay needs that capture more than they do — its activation evidence can never come from Git, since activationEvidenceAtTree reads a tree that never carries the git-excluded capability.

2. A stale overlay: true marker could flip a package install into overlay geometry — CRITICAL

init.mts syncs Oxc before step 9 rewrites .devkit/config.json, so a repo previously init'd as an overlay still reads overlay: true at that moment. The writer's marker fallback would then take the overlay branch for an install the user explicitly asked to be package mode, stamp overlayEntryConfig, and leave the repo presenting overlay geometry under a package config with no way back.

Fixed: the mode is now asserted (overlay: false) at that call site rather than inferred, which converts silent hybrid state into a loud refusal naming devkit clean. Regression test added in oxc/lifecycle.test.mts.

3. The weaker-contract line printed only on PASS — conventions FAIL

The decision record added in this PR rules "Every run prints the weaker overlay contract, green runs included", but reportOverlayContract was wired only to the PASS path. The reviewer held the record against the code and caught the gap.

Fixed: it now also reports on FAIL and on the staged-skip path. A committer reading a block needs the same standing about what the gate did not enforce — notably that a rename wasn't forgiven because there's no committed base.

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Areas explicitly cleared

• non-overlay staged-snapshot path is byte-identical to before (asserted negatively: package mode must not call adoptManagedCapability)
• the double addToGitExclude is idempotent — overlay-excludes.mts only prunes agent-asset-shaped lines
• deselection computes its excludes while the files still exist, so nothing goes newly visible
• package mode skips the new projection candidates via the pre-existing [ ! -e "$wt/$rel" ] guard
• overlay-doctor passes overlay: true explicitly, so the repair path never depends on the stamp fallback
• monorepo repo.prefix / pfx alignment between overlay.mts and the snapshot layout

Note on the two pre-existing failures

Both were reproduced at clean HEAD 303424fd in a throwaway worktree with none of this change present, and both are unrelated:

• ship-branch-resume-scope.test.mts (2) — ship-branch.sh's resume path used devkit_json_escape / DEVKIT_TELEMETRY_VERSION without sourcing telemetry.sh, tripping the /unbound variable/ assertion under set -u. A real bug in main; a one-line source fix is sitting uncommitted in the working tree for its own PR.
• review.test.mts (2) — environmental. The tests copyFileSync(process.execPath, …) into a temp dir; on a machine with a dynamically-linked node the copy can't resolve @rpath/libnode.147.dylib, so it fails at :657 before any devkit logic runs.

With those aside the suite is 320 files / 6110 tests / 0 failures.

Why the pre-push hook was skipped

--no-verify was used deliberately, at the author's request, after the hook's own checks had already passed independently. The hook died with exit 141 (SIGPIPE) after reporting a green suite: run_checks propagates bun run test:run's status, and that process takes SIGPIPE on git's hook-output pipe in a non-interactive shell. bun run test:run standalone exits 0. So nothing was bypassed on its merits — typecheck, lint, lint:structure, devkit's own anti-slop check (0 new findings) and the full suite were all run and green. Worth a separate look as a hook robustness issue.

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cli/lib/install/anti-slop/git-snapshot.test.mts (1)

130-130: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the working-tree baseline contents in the overlay snapshot.

repository() commits EMPTY_BASELINE, so the existence check passes even if cpSync(...) does not copy the working-tree baseline. Write different baseline bytes before staging and assert those exact bytes with readFileSync(...). A missing copy causes baselineOrExplain to block the gate.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@cli/lib/install/anti-slop/git-snapshot.test.mts` at line 130, Update the
overlay snapshot test around repository() and the .anti-slop-baseline.json
assertion to write baseline content different from EMPTY_BASELINE before
staging, then read the snapshot file with readFileSync and assert the exact
bytes. Preserve the existing existence check only if useful, but ensure the test
fails when cpSync does not copy the working-tree baseline.

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Inline comments:
In `@cli/commands/clean.mts`:
- Around line 245-248: Update the cleanup flow around the overlay removals to
check Git ownership with isTracked() before deleting either file, using the same
monorepo-relative path handling as cleanOverlayStrays(). Preserve removal for
untracked files while skipping tracked overlay files.
- Around line 173-174: Update DEVKIT_EXCLUDE_LINE to remove both root-path
exclusions during cleanup, matching the entries added for the files handled by
rmUntracked. Add or extend the cleanup test to recreate each removed file and
verify that git status reports it as untracked.

In `@cli/lib/install/anti-slop/lifecycle.mts`:
- Line 204: Update both calls to assertOxcCapabilityReady in the lifecycle flow
to pass the overlay mode explicitly, while keeping dryRun separate from publish
behavior. Ensure assertNoConfigCollisions is skipped when overlay is enabled so
the overlay writer can proceed without validating consumer Oxc configurations.

In `@cli/lib/install/oxc/lifecycle.mts`:
- Line 255: Update the overlay configuration handling near the `.oxfmtrc.json`
manifest entry so this path is not recorded as an overlay config when no file is
created. Either represent it explicitly as absent or exclude it from the
`checkOxcCapability`/`configCheck` validation path, ensuring overlay repair does
not continue reporting a fixable missing result.

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In `@cli/lib/install/anti-slop/git-snapshot.test.mts`:
- Line 130: Update the overlay snapshot test around repository() and the
.anti-slop-baseline.json assertion to write baseline content different from
EMPTY_BASELINE before staging, then read the snapshot file with readFileSync and
assert the exact bytes. Preserve the existing existence check only if useful,
but ensure the test fails when cpSync does not copy the working-tree baseline.

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• .devkit/baselines/size-lines.json
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• cli/__tests__/ship-branch.test.mts
• cli/commands/clean.mts
• cli/commands/init.mts
• cli/commands/oxc/anti-slop.mts
• cli/commands/upgrade.mts
• cli/lib/components.mts
• cli/lib/doctor/overlay-doctor.mts
• cli/lib/install/anti-slop/base-capability.mts
• cli/lib/install/anti-slop/git-snapshot.mts
• cli/lib/install/anti-slop/git-snapshot.test.mts
• cli/lib/install/anti-slop/lifecycle.mts
• cli/lib/install/anti-slop/overlay/contract.mts
• cli/lib/install/anti-slop/overlay/install.mts
• cli/lib/install/anti-slop/runner.mts
• cli/lib/install/install-fallow.mts
• cli/lib/install/oxc/lifecycle.mts
• cli/lib/install/oxc/lifecycle.test.mts
• cli/lib/overlay.mts
• cli/lib/ship/link-gate-configs.sh
• cli/lib/wizard.mts
• docs/decisions/INDEX.md
• docs/decisions/overlay-self-heal.md
• docs/decisions/oxc-toolchain-migration.md
• gate-engine/overlay-mode.mts
• gate-engine/ratchets/baseline-paths.mts
• guard.config.json

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[norvalbv]

On the red gate check

The four failures on this PR are pre-existing on main, not introduced here. Both runs were
compared directly:

	run	failures
this PR (3660f8d8, base 1f50a53f)	33784276508	4
main @ 1f50a53f — the same base	33755830636	~21

Every failure on this PR also appears on main:

• ship-branch-resume-scope.test.mts ×2 — ship-branch.sh reads devkit_json_escape and
  DEVKIT_TELEMETRY_VERSION without sourcing cli/lib/ship/telemetry.sh; under set -u that trips
  the exact /unbound variable/ assertion those tests make.
• judge-tamper.test.mts ×2 — one expected 2 to be 1, one git commit -m base failing on
  Author identity unknown because the fixture never sets a git identity.

main's run adds ~16 more that this PR does not hit (reship-rewrite, the pending-trap group, and
ten git commit -q --allow-empty -m root identity failures). The branch is strictly greener than
its base. mergeStateStatus is UNSTABLE rather than BLOCKED, so gate is not gating the merge.

Both main-side bugs are real and worth their own ticket; deliberately not fixed here, since neither
is in this PR's surface.

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Post-review commit c5649f06

Shipped through devkit ship --pr. Every deterministic gate passed (structure, size, semantic
duplication, clone, anti-slop, oxlint, hook parity, decision integrity, changed-comment firewall,
benchmark tracker) and all eight reviewers returned PASS, none skipped or bypassed.

One process note for the record: the codex judge is out of quota until Sep 8, so the reviewers ran
on the claude family (haiku / opus / sonnet, correctness chunking off) pinned for that one
run via GUARD_* envs — the override path judge-family.mts documents as authoritative. The
complete set was pinned rather than the trio, since chunk cap 400 is benched for gpt-5.6-sol only.
No gate was skipped to get there.

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• cli/lib/install/anti-slop/git-snapshot.test.mts
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