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Closes #549.

The bug

Both measurement specs hardcoded the pre-archive change directory:

const EVIDENCE_PATH = "openspec/changes/verify-subagent-pull-under-load/measurements.json";

and record() opened it with mkdirSync(dirname(EVIDENCE_PATH), { recursive: true }). Once the change was archived in #548, that combination created the pre-archive directory instead of failing:

  1. a phantom active-change directory reappeared on every re-measure, and
  2. — the part that actually matters — the write silently landed somewhere other than the archived heap-evidence.md's source of truth. A re-run therefore looked like it left the archived numbers unchanged while recording different ones elsewhere. That is exactly the staleness the evidence file exists to prevent, and it already happened once during test(verify-subagent-pull-under-load): verify the four scenarios the payload change shipped unverified #548.

Fix

New tests/e2e/helpers/evidence-path.ts:

  • resolveEvidencePath(name, root?) — active openspec/changes/<name>/ → else the newest openspec/changes/archive/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<name>/ → else throws. It never creates a directory, because a misdirected evidence write must be loud rather than silent.
  • The archive matcher is anchored at both ends, so verify-x cannot match verify-x-followup; a non-directory entry matching the pattern is ignored.
  • Repo root comes from the module's own URL, not cwd — specs run from varying working directories.
  • recordMeasurement() absorbs the byte-identical record() both specs carried, so the path rule has one home instead of two.

Why a new vitest project

tests/ was collected by no vitest project, and both consuming specs are opt-in (PI_SYNTH_AGENT_TICKS=1) — so this logic could never execute in CI. This repo's own config comments say it best: "a gate no CI job runs is not a gate."

The new tests project is deliberately narrow: its include glob is e2e/helpers/__tests__/ only. Playwright specs are not collected — they need a docker harness and a browser, and remain driven by npm run test:e2e.

Tests

10 cases: active-dir preference, active-over-archive precedence, the newest-archive pick for a change archived twice, prefix-collision rejection, a matching non-directory, and the fail-loud path — including an assertion that no directory appears as a side effect of the failure, which is the specific regression.

Non-vacuity verified: restoring the old create-anyway behaviour turns 6 of the 10 red; all 10 pass on the fix.

tsc -p tests/tsconfig.json --noEmit clean, check-e2e-fixture-import.mjs clean, no new Biome warnings (the 6 on these specs are pre-existing on develop).

… it (#549)

Both measurement specs hardcoded the PRE-ARCHIVE change directory:

    const EVIDENCE_PATH =
      "openspec/changes/verify-subagent-pull-under-load/measurements.json";

and `record()` opened it with `mkdirSync(dirname(EVIDENCE_PATH), { recursive:
true })`. Once the change was archived (#548) that combination CREATED the
pre-archive directory rather than failing, with two consequences:

1. A phantom active-change directory reappeared on every re-measure — tooling
   that enumerates `openspec/changes/*` sees an active change that is really a
   leftover of an archived one.
2. Worse for evidence integrity: the write silently landed somewhere OTHER than
   the archived `heap-evidence.md`'s source of truth, so a re-run looked like it
   left the archived numbers unchanged while actually recording different ones
   elsewhere. That happened during #548 — the final post-fix run's numbers went
   to the stray path and were never transcribed. Exactly the staleness the
   evidence file exists to prevent.

New `tests/e2e/helpers/evidence-path.ts`:

- `resolveEvidencePath(name, root?)` prefers the active
  `openspec/changes/<name>/`, falls back to the NEWEST
  `openspec/changes/archive/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<name>/`, and THROWS when the change
  is in neither place. It never creates a directory — a misdirected write must
  be loud, not silent.
- The archive matcher is anchored at both ends, so `verify-x` cannot match
  `verify-x-followup`, and a non-directory entry that matches the name pattern
  is ignored.
- Repo root is derived from the module's own URL, not cwd, since specs run from
  varying working directories.
- `recordMeasurement()` absorbs the byte-identical `record()` that both specs
  carried, so the path rule has ONE home.

Coverage: `tests/` was collected by no vitest project, and both consuming specs
are opt-in (`PI_SYNTH_AGENT_TICKS=1`), so this logic could never run in CI. Adds
a deliberately narrow `tests` project whose include glob is
`e2e/helpers/__tests__/` only — Playwright specs still belong to
`npm run test:e2e`, which needs a docker harness and a browser.

10 unit tests cover active-dir preference, the newest-archive pick for a change
archived twice, prefix-collision rejection, a matching non-directory, and the
fail-loud path (including that no directory appears as a side effect of the
failure). Verified non-vacuous: restoring the old create-anyway behaviour turns
6 of the 10 red.

Closes #549
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Walkthrough

The change adds shared evidence-path resolution for active and archived OpenSpec changes. Measurement specs use the shared writer. Vitest now runs focused helper tests, with documentation describing the configuration and helper behavior.

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Evidence path handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Evidence path resolution and persistence
tests/e2e/helpers/evidence-path.ts
Validates change names, selects active or newest archived directories, fails when no directory exists, and safely reads and writes evidence.
Measurement spec integration
tests/e2e/subagent-pull-measurements.spec.ts, tests/e2e/subagent-pull-under-load.spec.ts
Replaces hardcoded measurement paths and local file operations with recordMeasurement.
Vitest validation and documentation
tests/vitest.config.ts, vitest.config.ts, tests/e2e/helpers/__tests__/evidence-path.test.ts, tests/AGENTS.md, tests/e2e/AGENTS.md, docs/AGENTS.md, docs/vitest.config.ts.AGENTS.md
Registers focused helper tests and documents their scope, exclusions, and evidence-path behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3fa4f

This change resolves measurement evidence paths without creating phantom directories and adds focused coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Poem

A rabbit checks the active trail
Then finds the archive without fail
No phantom folder takes its place
Safe measurements keep their space
Small tests guard each path with care

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 61.54% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: runtime resolution of the measurement evidence path instead of hardcoded path usage.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the phantom-directory bug, the runtime path-resolution fix, the test strategy, and the related issue.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #549 by preferring active paths, selecting the newest exact-name archive, ignoring invalid matches, failing when no location exists, and preventing phantom directories and ev…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The documentation, helper implementation, regression tests, Vitest configuration, and spec refactoring all support the linked issue objectives. No unrelated code changes are identified.
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The changes satisfy issue #549 by preferring active paths, selecting the newest exact-name archive, ignoring invalid matches, failing when no location exists, and preventing phantom directories and evidence divergence.

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In `@docs/AGENTS.md`:
- Line 64: Rewrite the vitest.config.ts entry at docs/AGENTS.md lines 64-64 and
the companion purpose record at docs/vitest.config.ts.AGENTS.md lines 3-3 as
short declarative fragments, using concrete tokens and one fact per line. Keep
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In `@tests/e2e/helpers/evidence-path.ts`:
- Around line 51-55: Validate changeName at the start of findChangeDir before
constructing or checking any joined paths: reject empty names and names
containing either path separator, returning null. Preserve normal active and
archive directory lookup behavior for valid single-component names, and add
regression tests covering empty, slash, and traversal-style inputs.
- Around line 103-108: Update recordMeasurement’s measurements.json loading
logic to initialize an empty object only when readFileSync reports ENOENT;
rethrow other read errors and JSON.parse failures. After parsing, accept only
non-array objects, reject primitives and arrays before assigning the new
measurement key, and preserve existing valid evidence.
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Apply the docs authoring rule to both changed records.

Both records use long compound prose. Rewrite them as short declarative fragments and route both writes through DocScribe.

  • docs/AGENTS.md#L64-L64: Rewrite the vitest.config.ts index entry as short factual fragments.
  • docs/vitest.config.ts.AGENTS.md#L3-L3: Rewrite the companion purpose record as short factual fragments.

As per coding guidelines, every write under docs/ must be delegated to DocScribe and use caveman style: short declarative fragments, concrete tokens, and one fact per line.

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Fixed in 0cc2ce2. Valid — the earlier pass did route through DocScribe, but what came back was compound prose, so the rule was followed in process and missed in output.

Both records rewritten through DocScribe: one fact per line, no sentence chaining, concrete tokens. Every fact retained (Vitest 4 / test.projects / new tests project / tests/e2e/helpers/__tests__/ only / Playwright exclusion + npm run test:e2e / the opt-in-spec rationale / See issue #549).

One constraint applied that is not obvious from the guideline: no backticked glob tokens. kb dox lint resolves backticked path-like tokens as real paths, so **/*.test.ts is reported as broken-ref. Both records cite the real directory instead. Lint is clean on both files.

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Comment thread tests/e2e/helpers/evidence-path.ts Outdated
#549)

Three CodeRabbit findings on PR #553, all valid.

1. (Major) `recordMeasurement()` wrapped BOTH `readFileSync` and `JSON.parse`
   in one blanket `catch`, so an unreadable or half-written `measurements.json`
   was silently replaced by an object holding only the newest key — every
   measurement recorded before it dropped without a word. That is the same
   silent-evidence-loss failure this module exists to prevent, just one layer
   in. Extracted `readEvidence(path)`: ENOENT yields `{}` (genuine first
   write), every other read error is rethrown, a parse failure throws naming
   the file, and a parsed array/primitive/null is rejected instead of being
   cast to `Record` and mutated. A damaged evidence file now stops the run
   rather than being overwritten by it.

2. (Minor) `changeName` was joined into a path unvalidated. `join(changesDir,
   "../..")` resolves to the repo root — a real directory — so a traversal name
   resolved successfully and would have written `measurements.json` outside
   `openspec/` entirely. `assertSingleComponent()` now rejects empty, `.`,
   `..`, and any name containing `/` or `\`.

3. (Minor) Both `docs/` records were compound prose, violating the repo's
   caveman-style rule. Rewritten through DocScribe: one fact per line, no
   sentence chaining. No backticked glob tokens, since `kb dox lint` resolves
   those as real paths and reports broken-ref.

Tests 10 → 25. New cases: five traversal/separator forms rejected, a traversal
name proven not to resolve to the repo root, existing keys read back,
malformed JSON left ON DISK rather than clobbered, four non-object JSON shapes
rejected, and a non-ENOENT read error (mode 000) rethrown rather than
swallowed.

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restoring the blanket catch turns the rethrow case red.

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- Line 125: Update the evidence assignment in recordMeasurement so the
"__proto__" key is persisted as an own enumerable evidence property rather than
altering the object prototype; use Object.defineProperty for evidence keys or
reject reserved keys, and add a regression test covering recordMeasurement with
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Comment thread tests/e2e/helpers/evidence-path.ts Outdated
CodeRabbit follow-up on PR #553. `current[key] = value` with key `"__proto__"`
mutates the object's prototype instead of adding a property, so that
measurement never reaches the JSON — a recorded number silently absent from
the evidence file, which is the failure class this module exists to prevent.

`Object.defineProperty` with an enumerable descriptor records every key as an
own property.

`recordMeasurement()` gains an optional `repoRoot` (defaulting to `REPO_ROOT`,
matching the other exports) so the behaviour is assertable against a temp
fixture instead of the real tree.

Five regression tests assert through the ROUND TRIP TO DISK — reading the file
back and checking `Object.hasOwn` — rather than inspecting the in-memory
object, which would pass on the broken code.

Reachability, stated plainly: every `key` at both call sites is a string
literal (`"F1"`, `"P1-harness-ceiling"`, ...), so this was not reachable. Fixed
because the descriptor costs one line, not because it was exploitable.

Non-vacuity: restoring `current[key] = value` turns the two `__proto__` cases
red. The `constructor`/`prototype`/`toString` cases pass either way — plain
assignment creates own properties that shadow the prototype — and are kept as
boundary documentation, not as teeth.
Commit d4e9952 swept `openspec/changes/archive/2026-08-24-verify-subagent-
pull-under-load/measurements.json` into the diff, replacing the real recorded
measurements (X1, F1, P1-P5) with test fixtures.

Cause, and it is worth naming precisely: the new reserved-key tests called
`recordMeasurement(CHANGE, key, value, root)` BEFORE `recordMeasurement` had a
`repoRoot` parameter. The fourth argument was silently ignored, the helper fell
back to `REPO_ROOT`, and the red test run wrote fixture data into the real
archived evidence file. `git add -A` then committed it.

That is precisely the failure this change exists to prevent — a measurement
write landing in the authoritative evidence file unnoticed — reproduced by the
test suite meant to prevent it.

Restored from origin/develop. The parameter now exists, and every test passes
its temp `root` explicitly, so the suite writes only inside its fixture dir.
Picks up bc45afa (regenerated pnpm-lock.yaml), without which
`pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` — ci.yml's first step — fails for every PR
built against develop.
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