chore: drop expired release-notes banner; complete the autohands registry - #254
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Two hygiene leftovers from the 2026-08-19 release-board census (#239). The time-boxed ANNOUNCEMENT banner in generate_release_notes.py expired 2026-07-24, so announcement_banner() had returned "" on every call since. Delete the mechanism rather than document it; the datetime.date import goes with it. The banner markdown also appears as a literal fixture string in test_slack_release_notes.py, which imports nothing from the deleted code — kept as the file's only blockquote -> mrkdwn case, with its comment corrected. `bin/autohands help` claimed to be "the registry of what is a CLI verb", but eleven modules in autohands/ had grown __main__ blocks without ever appearing in it. Nine become real verbs (generate_markdown, regenerate_navigator, the four workspace guards, slack_release_notes, tombstone, clone_seed), each with help text stating its actual input contract — they differ: cwd, --root, or a positional path. The rest are declared in a new INTERNAL_MODULES array with a one-line reason each, and printed by `autohands help`, so the registry describes the whole package rather than a subset. tests/test_autohands_registry.py makes that an enforced invariant: every executable module is a verb or allowlisted, the allowlist has no ghosts, every verb carries its SHORT_DESC + cmd_* + help_* trio, and the two lists are disjoint. Each assertion was negative-tested to confirm it fires. Refs #249 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ntexts (#255) `autohands check_dataset_allowlist`, newly registered as a CLI verb in #254, crashed with ModuleNotFoundError when run from a workspace root. The two merges combined to expose it: #253 added `from autohands.env_config import ...` to this module, and #254 made it reachable from the dispatcher. `bin/autohands` (`_python_in_autohands`) runs these tools as scripts with `autohands/` ITSELF on PYTHONPATH, so siblings are top-level modules — the flat `from env_config import ...` idiom the other guards here already use. As a library import (pytest, or anything importing `autohands.check_dataset_allowlist`) the package's PARENT is on the path and the flat name does not resolve. Supporting only one form breaks the other, so `_env_config()` tries flat first and falls back to package-qualified. Also fixes a quieter instance of the same bug. `_releasing_tokens` wrapped its import in `except Exception` and returned the hardcoded `{full_datasets, real_output}` fallback, so under the CLI it swallowed the ImportError and never consulted ENV_DECLARATION_TOKENS at all — a silent degradation that still produced a green run, and would have stopped honouring any future releasing token without failing. The fallback is now a genuine last resort. Verified in both contexts: the CLI verb runs clean from a workspace root and still reports the originating defect (exact file, line, resolved path) when that workspace is reverted to its pre-fix state. Suite 375 passed; firewall gate OK. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F11sMzmaVWfU6NCz1PKVVb Co-authored-by: Jammy2211 <JNightingale2211@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #249. Both in-scope bullets from the 2026-08-19 release-board census (#239).
The work was committed on 2026-08-20 and has been sitting unshipped since; rebased today onto
90f108fand opened.1. Expired ANNOUNCEMENT banner → deleted
autohands/generate_release_notes.pycarried a banner mechanism that expired 2026-07-24. It has been dead code for a month. Deleted rather than documented — delete the trap.2.
bin/autohands helpis now the complete registrySeven modules existed but were unreachable from the dispatcher:
navigator,check_navigator,regenerate_navigator,generate_markdown,validate_env_profiles,check_search_memory,check_dataset_allowlist. #239 fixed the prose in AGENTS.md to call them "workflow-invoked"; this fixes the actual gap.Each module was decided per-module — CLI verb or deliberately internal — and the outcome is enforced by tests rather than asserted in prose (
tests/test_autohands_registry.py):INTERNAL_MODULESentry with a reason;So the registry cannot silently drift back out of date, which is how it got here. AGENTS.md now points at
bin/autohands helpinstead of re-listing verbs — one source of truth.Timely side effect:
check_dataset_allowlistbecomes a directly invokable verb, so the capped-deletion guard added in #253 is runnable locally rather than only reachable throughpre_build.Out of scope, deliberately
The census's third bullet — ~30 stale remote branches including
origin/masterandorigin/release— is not here. It belongs in a separate/repo_cleanupsweep so a destructive branch delete never rides a code diff.Verification
bin/autohands helprenders the full grouped registry. Suite: 374 passed (main's 370 plus this branch's 4 new registry tests). Tenant-firewall gate OK. Rebase preserved the branch diff byte-for-byte.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01F11sMzmaVWfU6NCz1PKVVb